A 67-year-old second generation Irish woman, accused of stealing over $1m (€750,300) from the Archdiocese of New York, says God has forgiven her but worries her victims will never do the same.

Lil' Wayne is to be handed a court summons in jail.

A man who allegedly beat his seven-year-old stepdaughter to death in New York described her as a handful and said he disciplined the girl for her “own good” by regularly hitting her and binding her to a chair in a locked room.