Article here. Excerpt:

'DALLAS (AP) - A suburban Dallas woman accused of killing her two young children told a 911 operator that she first tried to poison them because they were autistic and she wanted "normal kids," then choked them with a wire until they stopped moving, according to the recorded call.

Irving police on Wednesday released recordings of the 911 call after Saiqa Akhter was charged with capital murder in the death of her 5-year-old son, Zain Akhter. Police said the children were attacked at the family's apartment Monday night.

Another capital murder charge is pending in the slaying of her 2-year-old daughter, Faryaal Akhter, who died Tuesday night, police spokesman David Tull said.'

From Abusegate Bob:

Yesterday 12 people gathered on Capitol Hill (in advance of the Family Preservation Festival) to meet with staffers to put the kabosh on President Obama request to INCREASE federal funding for DV programs in 2011 by an additional $130 MILLION.

By the end of the day, we held 20 face-to-face meetings in the House, and distributed this flyer to all 435 Representatives and 100 Senators.

So please spread the word – call your elected officials at 1-202-224-3121 to say NO to extra funding for DV programs until the false allegations stop!

Article here. Excerpt:

'(NewsCore) - The actor who played geek Steve Urkel on TV sitcom “Family Matters” has been cleared of charges related to allegations he punched his baby’s mother in the breast in front of the child in California, TMZ reported Thursday.

Jaleel White, 33, was accused of punching Bridget Hardy in one of her breast implants while they were driving with their daughter in the car on Pacific Coast Highway three weeks ago, sources told the entertainment website.
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However the LAPD said there was not enough evidence to pursue the case and White was cleared of charges.

A representative for White denied the allegations saying, "There was absolutely no battery ... no abuse ... and the incident never happened."

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Victorian County Court has heard a former primary school teacher molested two Grade 3 students in a backgarden tent while her family was at home.

After a three week trial, a jury found 59-year-old Josephine Greensill from Altona Meadows guilty of nine counts of indecent assault.

Yesterday, the Crown urged a judge to jail her for at least five years for the offences committed in the late 1970s.

She was a 29-year-old teacher at a school in Melbourne's outer east when she invited the 8-year-old boys to her home.

While her then husband and three children were inside the house, she had sex with the boys in a tent outside.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A recent 2008 Gallup poll in Great Britain finds that 33% of women "often or very often" feel resentful of men, compared to 14% of men who often feel resentful of women. So fully a third of women carry with them an ongoing resentment toward their opposites, as compared to about a sixth of men. By my own careful calculations, that is a truckload of anger.

A sixth representative has signed on as a co-sponsor of HR 2115, The Men and Families Health Care Act of 2009. Undoubtedly this bill will not be passed in 2010 given the few number of cosponsors it has, so it is very important that anyone who has signed on be thanked and supported in their courageous stand to cosponsor it. Bill summary is found here.

Rep. Baca's govtrack.us entry is here and he can be contacted here.

The DID web site is here. A special on the organization was aired July 19, 2010 on Dads On the Air. The show is available for downloading as an .mp3 file.

Congratulations to DID for its 10-year anniversary, and may there come a day when they are no longer needed!

Article here. Excerpt:

'This just in! A conservative man in Toronto has been convicted of rape after consensual sex with a liberal woman, who assumed he too was liberal because he was wearing Birkenstocks and carrying a backpack with a Greenpeace logo on it.

Even though the sex was fine, when she found out he was a card-carrying member of the Conservative Party and was using his nephew’s backpack as a ploy to arouse her lust (the sandals really were just for comfort), she accused him of rape. The courts found that indeed the man had committed “rape by deception.”

Via Jeremy S. who comments: "And please note in 5 of the 6 cases they were deemed insane. How many Fathers would have been so diagnosed had they been the murderers-rare though an incident such as that would be?" Article here. Excerpt:

'Darlie Lynn Routier, 40, of Rowlett is on death row for the June 1996 stabbing death of her 5-year-old son, Damon. She also was charged with killing his older brother, Devon, who was 6, but was not tried in that case. She has long contended that an unidentified intruder attacked them all, killing her boys and stabbing her, as well. Prosecutors say Routier killed her kids because they interfered with the lifestyle she wanted to live.

Andrea Yates, 46, of Houston drowned her five children in June 2001, believing she was protecting them from Satan. A jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity and she was ordered into a state mental hospital.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape ‘by deception’ after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew.

Sabbar Kashur, 30, who had introduced himself as Daniel, was only charged with the offence when she later realised he was an Arab.

A court in Jerusalem made international legal history by jailing the delivery driver for 18 months despite acknowledging it had not been ‘a ‘a classical rape by force’.

From Abusegate Bob:

SAVE’s Special Report that documents the massive civil rights abuses occurring under VAWA has just come out in the July issue of the Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research.

Be sure to share this article with your lawmakers, lawyers, and others who care about civil rights.

I caught the PBS News Hour tonight at 10:00 EST here in the US. In the second half of the show, Dr. Anthony Fauci was interviewed from the AIDS 2010 summit in Austria. Two things he said leapt out at me: first he mentioned that along with circumcision of the male (fast forward to time mark 6:10 in the video), HIV spread risk to women could be substantially cut along with consistent use of the gel. Is there definitive evidence to show that circumcision in men cuts HIV transmission risk? I have yet to see it. And even if it did, if the sexes were reversed, would people be advocating for the same treatment of women? All our sex organs are essentially made from the same type of skin and in both cases, there are lots of places germs and viruses can wait for their turn to go elsewhere.

"Los Angeles County’s launched a new program to make it easier for kids to visit their incarcerated mothers. It's intended to help mothers and children as incarceration rates rise."

and

"Through the program, social workers with the Department of Children and Family Services and the nonprofit Friends Outside facilitate visits between mothers and children. They hope to eventually extend the program to fathers."

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Chicago area father claims in a lawsuit that Southwest Airlines failed to protect his teenage son from an older female passenger who made sexual advances and offered him illegal drugs during a flight two years ago.

The incident occurred on a July 2008 flight from Chicago's Midway Airport to Orlando, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court.

The boy, who was 14 at the time, asked flight attendants to switch his seat multiple times but "was emphatically told no," the lawsuit said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"What a depressing week it has been to be female. A psychopathically violent woman-beater and murderer is lionised. A film director who drugs and then sodomises a 13-year-old girl is let off. A famous actor tells his ex-partner she deserves to be "raped by a pack of niggers". And the Catholic Church elevates women's ordination to the same level of offence as child abuse. Thanks, chaps.
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The real problem is that 21st-century Britain still undervalues women, and particularly older ones. Open any newspaper, look at any billboard, switch on the TV or read a magazine and you will search almost in vain for a picture of a woman over 50. Girls may be doing better than boys at school, but it is ridiculous to claim that men are being marginalised. They still have the best jobs, the most money and the preponderance of power. And when women make any progress, however small, that is exaggerated to suggest that they are somehow taking over from men.