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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
Woman found guilty in beating death of 7-year-old daughter
The mother who claimed her 7-year-old daughter was abducted from a flea market and made tearful, televised pleas for her safe return was convicted yesterday of murder and child abuse in the girl's beating death.
Prosecuters said they would seek the death penalty for Pauline Zile in Christina Holt's Sept. 15 death. Pauline Zile was charged along with the girl's stepfather, John Zile, who is awaiting trial on murder charges.
As the verdicts were read, Pauline Zile, 24, lowered her head. Her body shook as she fought back tears. Her mother, Paula Yingling, sat behind her, her hands clasped in her lap. She showed no emotion.
Circuit Judge Stephen Rapp didn't set a date for the jury to return to hear testimony for her sentencing hearing.
To cover up the girl's death, the Ziles went on television in October with a concocted story about how the girl was kidnapped from a flea market bathroom.
ROME
ROME Ex-porn star wins custody rights
Former sex-film star Iona Staller won custody of her 2-year-old son yesterday after a trans-Atlantic court battle with her ex-husband, American pop artist Jeffrey Koons.
Judge Paolo Giuliani granted Staller custody of the boy, Ludwig Maximilian, and told Koons he could visit the child at any time as long as the visit took place in Rome and in the presence of Staller or anyone delegated by her.
Koons still has legal rights over the child in the United States.
"I'm super happy," said Staller, a former Parliament member better known by her stage name, Cicciolina.
Staller said the judge rejected her ex-husband's claims that she was an unfit mother because Koons knew she
was a porn star before they had a child. The court did not give details of the grounds for the judge's decision.
Koons had filed a motion asking the Italian court to enforce a New York judge's 'ruling in December that Staller turn over their son. Staller had refused to comply with the U.S. decision.
After yesterday's decision, Staller said she would not allow Ludwig to travel to the United States because it was crazy to risk losing her child forever.
When Ludwig turns 14 he can decide for himself which parent he wants to live with, said Staller, who served in Parliament from 1987 to 1991.
The judge also ordered Koons to pay Staller $2,900 a month in child support. Staller claims that for the past 10 months she has not seen any of the child support U.S. judges had told Koons to pay.
Koons, 40, and Staller, 43, were married in 1991 in Hungary, Staller's native country. They met when Koons hired her to pose with him in sexually explicit photos, paintings and sculptures that were widely exhibited in galleries.
OSLO, Norway Russians angry about seal killings
A Russian official ordered a Norwegian ship to stop killing seal pups because Moscow was not told about the hunt, a ship owner said yesterday.
The crew of the ship Harmoni had killed 200 baby seas in arctic waters north of Russia when a Russian fisheries inspector ordered them to stop, ship owner Sigfred Figneschou said. He spoke in an interview with NRK, the Norwegian state radio network.
Bernt Ellingsen of the Norwegian fisheries ministry would not comment on the claim that Norway failed to inform Russia of the hunt.
The government said that this year, it was allowing hunters to shoot slightly older pups as part of a research project. The pelts will be sold.
Last month, Norway allowed hunters to resume killing seal pups, setting a quota of 2,600 pups, including 750 north of Russia.
Norway stopped the hunt in 1989 after photographs of white seal pups being beaten to death sparked protests. Norwegian hunters continued killing adult seals.
Compiled from The Associated Press