A former University of California San Diego doctoral student pleaded guilty to murdering her best friend’s 6-week-old baby and injuring his twin brother. The woman previously made a chilling admission that "from a very, very young age" she had a compulsion to "hurt kids."

Nicole Virzi, 32, initially had been charged with capital murder with the possibility of the death penalty.

'From a very, very young age, I don’t know what it is, but I always had this urge — almost like a compulsion I can’t control — to hurt kids.'

However, Virzi agreed to a plea deal last week, and she opted to plead guilty to charges of third-degree murder, aggravated assault, and two counts of endangering a child’s welfare, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Virzi now faces a minimum of 35 years and a maximum of 80 years in state prison.

Allegheny County (Pa.) Deputy District Attorney Emma Schoedel said the plea deal was made to honor the wishes of the victims' family, according to the New York Post.

"Although this office was committed to pursuing this case to trial and its ultimate conclusion, after continued and ongoing consultation with the family and considering the best interest of the community and its protection, we agreed to offer the above plea and sentence,” the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement, according to NBC News.

"This was a horrific case in which Virzi used her trusted relationship with the Roberts/Katz family to place herself in a situation where she could commit her horrendous acts," the district attorney's office said in a statement. "Throughout the criminal justice process, the Roberts/Katz family has continued to endure crushing emotional pain and grief."

Virzi did not speak during the plea hearing; however, her defense attorney Tina Miller said: "No words of apology would be sufficient."

Virzi, of San Diego, traveled to Pittsburgh in June 2024 to visit her then-best friend, Savannah Roberts.

According to the criminal complaint obtained by WTAE-TV, Virzi was babysitting Roberts' infant Leon Katz while the baby's parents took Leon's twin brother to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital.

The complaint said the twin, Ari Katz, suffered an injury to his genital area, which Virzi pointed out.

While she was babysitting Leon, the 6-week-old sustained head injuries, the complaint said.

Virzi told investigators she left Leon to get a baby bottle from the home's kitchen and then heard the infant screaming, according to the complaint.

"She told police that when she returned, the baby was on the floor and out of a bouncer seat," WTAE reported.

Leon was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Medical scans determined that Leon had "a severe skull fracture to the left side of the head, along with multiple brain bleeds," according to Virzi's arrest report.

"The injuries sustained by both [twins are] consistent with having been sustained as a result of child abuse, as these are inflicted injuries that are not natural and not accidental," a doctor told police, according to the complaint.

Leon’s death was ruled a homicide caused by "blunt force trauma to the head," NBC News reported, citing the criminal complaint.

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Virzi later made a harrowing admission during a 13-hour interrogation.

"So when I was alone with [Leon] I shook him a couple times — hard," Virzi said during the interrogation, according to the criminal complaint. "And I dropped him a couple times — hard."

WTAE reported, "Virzi continued to tell a detective that, at one point, she flipped the infant upside down on the bathroom tile floor."

Virzi told detectives, "Something just came over me. I couldn’t control. I'm telling you this because I can’t keep lying about it."

Virzi then made another chilling confession.

"From a very, very young age, I don’t know what it is, but I always had this urge — almost like a compulsion I can’t control — to hurt kids," Virzi stated.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Roberts said in a statement that she had "no intention of leaving [Virzi] alone with the boys," but she was forced to leave because of Ari's injuries.

"It is unfathomable to me how anyone, particularly someone I considered family, could see baby Leon, and shake, drop, and throw him to the ground, torturing him for their own pleasure," Roberts stated. "I never suspected Nicole would perpetrate child abuse for even a second."

Roberts continued, "Now, I struggle to make even basic decisions about Ari's care for fear that I could make a choice that inadvertently causes him harm."

NBC News reported that Roberts wrote a letter to Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jill E. Rangos that read:

Nicole's actions have fundamentally changed me as a person, and I feel unrecognizable from the Savannah I used to be. I could've never imagined that a person, let alone my best friend, was capable of the cruelty or violence Nicole displayed.

One of the most enduring impacts of Nicole’s crimes is that my own self-confidence is forever shattered, and I’ll never forgive myself for failing to protect my babies from this monster.

Roberts said being Ari's mother brings her "more joy and comfort than anything in my life ever has" but added: "Yet as Leon’s mom too, every milestone, accomplishment, and birthday that Ari reaches is shadowed by the realization that Leon should be experiencing just as much of life, by his brother’s side."

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European countries are facing another suspected cyberattack — this time affecting dozens of grocery stores in a hit to the EU's food supply.

Concerns have continued to grow as another cyberattack affected the cooling units in a number of grocery stores across multiple countries in Europe.

‘They are a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers’ confidence in it — a warning that we must take seriously.’

The attacks, which hit stores on Monday, affected a number of supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, and Ireland, according to multiple sources.

The affected stores include Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt in Belgium and Luxembourg and ICA and Coop in Sweden. IKEA also had one store affected in the attack, according to CNBC.

The attack caused temperatures to rise in refrigerator and freezer units, forcing some stores to dispose of spoiled food.

An ICA sales manager reportedly told Reuters that all of her store's freezers reached 50 degrees Celsius — over 120 degrees Fahrenheit — as a result of the attack.

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The European Commission has reportedly shown increased concern about the digital threats, which have proved to be extremely disruptive.

“They are a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers’ confidence in it — a warning that we must take seriously,” EU commissioner for agriculture Christophe Hansen told CNBC. “The repeated occurrence of these cyberattacks is deeply concerning.”

According to ABC News, a spokesperson for the Delhaize chain told reporters that an "IT incident" had affected a number of stores primarily in Belgium but also in Luxembourg.

“In the affected stores, the range of fresh and frozen products is temporarily somewhat limited. Our distribution centers are operating normally, and there has been no disruption to deliveries to our stores,” spokesperson Sarah De Meester told ABC.

The attack follows a similar cybersecurity incident in France last month in which around 700 of the country's roughly 10,000 supermarkets — including leading chains like Intermarché, Carrefour, Coopérative U, E.Leclerc, and Monoprix — were affected, according to Cyber Breaches.

The investigation into the nature of the attack and the suspected perpetrators is ongoing.

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A growing number of young conservative men are taking beloved pop-culture characters and reclaiming them on their own terms — and unsurprisingly liberals are not taking it well.

The first was Anakin Skywalker, the famous good guy turned super villain who young men on the right are beginning to align with based on the world's rejection of young white men in favor of third-world immigrants.

The latest example is “Malfoid,” a female reimagining of Draco Malfoy that was deliberately created to appeal to traditional masculinity rather than progressive identity politics.

“Over the last several months, we’ve seen this very strange kind of happening online where some of the biggest franchises in entertainment, whether it’s 'Star Wars,' 'Harry Potter,' other franchises,” BlazeTV host John Doyle explains.

“These are now being reimagined by young guys on the right who are taking characters once celebrated by liberals and turning them into symbols of something completely opposed to the values of just contemporary society,” he continues.

“Naturally, this has made a lot of people very angry because in their mind, only they get to reimagine what these characters were supposed to be for, what these franchises are supposed to be about, the new DEI sequels and revamps and so on,” he adds.

This, Doyle explains, begins with the artist who “spawned Malfoid,” a reimagined female version of Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy.

“People were asking this [artist] to make a version of Malfoy that was trans or lesbian, and the artist completely refused, and they were like, ‘I drew this to make guys yearn again,’” Doyle says.

This “Malfoid” is meant to appeal to “the sensitive young man.”

“And so, those who stand in opposition to the young men ... they absolutely despise all of this stuff,” Doyle says, noting that now young men are the ones who want a family and are embracing “traditional attitudes.”

“You can kind of see this with both the 'Harry Potter' and the Anakin stuff that, you know, even though on one side you have this guy who fights against the dark lord and then with Anakin, you know, he becomes the dark lord, central to both is literally just having a wife that loves and supports them and having a family,” he explains.

“And all of this is in the wake of literally decades of the young, straight, white male being demonized, being talked about as a threat, something to be dealt with,” he adds.

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