Story here. Excerpt:

'A HAIR and beauty student who falsely accused a man of raping her to gain sympathy was given a six- month community supervision order yesterday.

Because of her false accusation Jemma Knights wasted 37 hours of Lowestoft police’s time.

The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to wasting police time at Lowestoft Magistrates’ Court.

Magistrates heard Knights, who lives in support housing in Lorne Road, Lowestoft, told police in July she had been raped.

Mitzy Bond, prosecuting, said Knights had falsely claimed she was raped to try and make friends with someone at the college she was going to.

Knights had hoped to make friends by gaining the other’s person sympathy.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Rebecca Diamond, a former SDSU student, pleaded guilty to false reporting and was sentenced with a $500 fine.

In December, she reported to the SDSU Police Department that she was sexually assaulted, and then later repealed the report. She appeared in court Jan. 10 and was sentenced with a $500 dollar fine.

Along with the fine, Diamond was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 85 days suspended.

Clyde Calhoon, Brookings County states attorney, said Diamond has served her five days, and the conditions on which the days are suspended are that she must "remain law-abiding" and "contribute 50 hours of community service."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While at the same time, and this is the shame of it, we ourselves are fair game for women. While sexism from men is the outstanding social crime of the modern world, women can say absolutely whatever they like about us.

For make no mistake: sexism is alive and well in this country and applauded in all quarters — as long as it is practised by women. And they are allowed to say the most terrible, terrible things.

Only last week, for example, Jo Brand, the newly crowned Best Female TV Comic at the British Comedy Awards, was on Have I Got News For You and replied to the question ‘What’s your favourite kind of man, Jo?’ by saying: ‘A dead one.’ Oh, how the audience fell about. And the other contestants, all male, chortled away too.

I’m not saying it wasn’t funny. I’m just saying we live in a world where the thorough-going awfulness, uselessness and superfluity of the male sex is such a given, that a frontline television comic can get big laughs by saying she’d prefer it if we were all dead.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'(CNN) -- Police opened, and then dropped, an investigation of physical abuse involving a Florida mother against her teen daughter, closing the case weeks before the woman admitted killing the girl and her brother because they were "mouthy."

Julie K. Schenecker, 50, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her 13-year-old son, Beau Powers Schenecker, and her 16-year-old daughter, Calyx Powers Schenecker.

She was denied bond at a court appearance Monday, a court spokesman said.

"Our belief was that she didn't snap -- she planned this," Tampa, Florida, police spokesperson Laura McElroy told HLN's Vinnie Politan on Monday.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'MEDFORD (CBS) – A woman was ordered held without bail Monday charged with killing her husband in Medford.

Police found 34-year-old Troy Burston wounded outside a home on Exchange Avenue at 10:40 p.m. Sunday. He was not wearing a shirt and had been stabbed in the chest.

He was rushed to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he died.

Police arrested his wife, 39-year-old Shawntina Burston.

Investigators say the two had come home from a birthday party and began arguing and hitting each other. She allegedly found a hickey on his neck and stabbed him with a cooking knife.

“This is another troubling incident of domestic violence turned fatal,” Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said in a statement Monday.

“We allege that the victim was fatally stabbed by his wife during an argument, sadly leaving two young children behind.”'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Courtney Renee Bowles, 31, of Fort Collins also faces charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to the Larimer County arrest report.

She remained in custody at the Larimer County Detention Center on Saturday afternoon.

Bowles was arrested at North Lake Park, where a Loveland police officer contacted the vehicle at 10:40 p.m. for being in the park after it was closed.

"The initial investigation suggests this was an isolated incident with no indication of any other victims," according to the Loveland news release.'

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In contrast -- Capital teacher arrested on eight counts of 'rape', story here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some allege school administrators know about inappropriate relationships between teachers and student and don't do anything about it. Others blame the teenage victim, pointing out that someone had to drive that second car there. Some ask why are cops wasting their time shining lights in parked cars to begin with?

There is more than one person out there saying laws regulating sex between students and female teachers are too strict. Who wrote these laws, one wondered, the Taliban? One person commenting online, who sounds like a school girl, says she knows more than one friend who is having an affair with a male teacher.

Many writers laud the victim as the luckiest teenage boy on earth. At least the victim was a male, said another, implying, I assume, that an illegal heterosexual affair with a minor is at least better than a homosexual one.

Story here. Excerpt:

'BAY CITY, Mich. -- A substitute teacher at Bay City Central High School was arrested and charged with having sexual relationships with students at the high school.

According to a news release issued by Bay City police, the 41-year-old Midland woman met the students while working as a contracted substitute teacher for Central High School.

Police began an investigation after a female student reported to a school administrator on Friday that a male student was involved in a sexual relationship with a sub.

Detectives from the Bay City Police Department were called in, and as the investigation progressed, more victims were identified.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 27-year-old female teacher is under arrest in Illinois, accused of having sex with one of her students.

Police say they found Ashley Blumenshine and the 16-year-old boy in a car in a department store parking lot on Tuesday. Blumenshine was in the front seat, the teen in the back.

"The person in the back was partially unclothed," said Plainfield Police Chief William Doster.

Assistant Will County State's Attorney Mary Fillipitch said they admitted that they had just engaged in consensual sexual intercourse. It appears the alleged affair has been going on for about a month.

Blumenshine is charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a felony punishable by three to seven years in prison.'

Article here.

'BRITAIN'S Supreme Court has ruled that shouting constitutes as domestic violence and anyone who raises their voice at their partner could be thrown out of their home, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.

Leading a bench of five judges, Lady Brenda Hale made the ruling in the case of Mihret Yemshaw, 35, who had applied for free housing entitled to victims of domestic abuse.

Ms Yemshaw said her husband had yelled at her in front of their two children and did not give her money for housekeeping.

However, her request was rejected by officials in Hounslow, West London because her husband had never hit her or threatened physical violence.

Wednesday's judgment means Hounslow council will be required to reconsider Ms Yemshaw's case.

Under the landmark ruling, denying money to a partner or criticising them could also count as abusive behavior.'

In claiming false paternity is rare, Marlene Zuk ignores important data from the American Association of Blood Banks showing 30% of 300,000 annual DNA tests are negative. NCFM posted that data at http://www.ncfmla.org/pdf/na-fraud.pdf

Marlene only talks about false paternity overall, which is hard to measure because most men don't get tested. The 30% figure, on the other hand, is a solid and consistent figure every year. It's not randomized, so it can't be projected onto the general population. But it gives us a raw number. It tells us at least 100,000 men are misidentified as dads every year in the U.S. alone, especially because that's only from accredited labs (at unaccredited labs, the percentage of negative results is about 22%), and these figures only count the men who get tested - most do not.

The bottom line is that hundreds of thousands of men are misidentified as dads every year. That's not insignificant, Marlene.

This column tells a story with a happy ending, but it also illustrates the problems dads go through.

The child (Nina Marie) was placed in foster care but the father was not notified after mom lied and said he was out of the country. He found out where his daughter was and contacted Social Services. He was told to attend a hearing, where the judge told him he could be considered for custody under certain conditions. Basically, he spent a year attending parenting classes and visiting his daughter--proving himself worthy--before the judge awarded him custody.

The good news is he finally received custody. The bad news is all the time he lost with his daughter while she was in foster care.

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'The mother of a three-month-old boy who died malnourished and dehydrated has broken down in tears during a Perth inquest, forcing an adjournment so she could seek legal advice.
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The Legal Aid representative said Ms Hughes was "terribly upset" and felt she could not properly convey her thoughts and feelings to the coroner.

Ms Hughes gave evidence that her mother, Diane Kelly, introduced her to drugs at the age of 14 or 16.
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She said her father had encouraged her to reconcile with her mother, telling her: "You've only got one mum".

She said she had made bad business choices and became tens of thousands of dollars in debt and even considered filing for bankruptcy at one stage.

She also said she had been convicted of stealing as a servant.'

The first half of the article is written by Dominic Raab, here. Dominic Raab, a new Tory MP, was recently featured in an earlier post on his call to end "feminist bigotry". He has stuck his neck out, it's time for us to support him. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'Researchers from the University of Toronto studied 6,647 adults, including almost 700 who had been under the age of 18 when their parents divorced and found men from divorced families were three times more likely to have seriously considered suicide than adult males whose parents had not divorced.

The multiplier effect in boys whose parents had divorced is over 50% higher than in girls according to the research published in the journal Psychiatry Research.

The link between parental divorce and suicidal ideation is no longer significant among women who do not experience these childhood stressors. But even without these stressors, adult men who were children when their parents divorced still had a twofold increased risk of suicidal ideation compared to men from intact families.