Story here. Excerpt:

'LIDO ISLE – A Newport Beach woman was arrested today after her boyfriend's boat caught fire following a domestic dispute. According to police, Nicole MacDonald, 40, threatened her boyfriend Ian Prider, of Costa Mesa, with a knife while on his boat in Newport Beach Harbor. Prider was able to disarm her, but she is accused of setting fire to the boat while he left to call police, said Newport Beach Police Department Public Information Officer Evan Sailor.

MacDonald was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, arson, driving under the influence and child endangerment, Sailor said.

At about 2 p.m. police responded to a call about disturbing the peace involving a fight between a boyfriend and girlfriend, police Sgt. Steve Burdette said.

Shortly after, police contacted the boyfriend who told officials he'd argued with his girlfriend, officials said.

"And the next thing you know his boat is on fire," Burdette said.

Story here.

'OCEANA COUNTY — A 38-year-old Hesperia-area woman was arrested by Oceana County Sheriff’s deputies early Sunday after allegedly shooting at her husband during a domestic dispute. He was not injured.

Lt. Craig Mast said the incident occurred at the couple’s home in the 4300 block of S. 184th Avenue in Greenwood Township. He said deputies had previously responded to several domestic-related calls at the residence.

Mast said the woman fired two rounds from a .44-Magnum rifle. “We believe one round was fired into the air and the other at (the husband), who was in his vehicle,” Mast said. The 46-year-old man drove off and contacted police.

The wife was arrested and lodged in the Oceana County Jail. A warrant was pending Monday.'

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'The Florida Department of Children and Families is investigating the possibility that Tiger Woods and wife Elin Nordegren were involved in a domestic dispute with a weapon, RadarOnline.com is reporting.

According to police dispatch notes obtained exclusively by Radar, DCF attempted to make an in-home visit to the Woods’ residence last weekend, accompanied by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. The notes use police code, and reportedly detail a domestic incident that took place in front of their young children involving a weapon, which sources say is a golf club.

DCF asked the Sheriff’s office to assist Friday. Deputies arrived at Woods’ gated community shortly after 3 p.m. and the police involvement was over shortly after 4 p.m. The report noted “negative contact,” although police involvement in the case is closed.'

Ed. note: This is dated Dec. 14, 2009, three days prior to this post's date.

This is one to watch. Will the 'unidentified' woman face the same level of investigation as a man in a similar situation? Excerpt:

'CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry has died, one day after falling out of the back of a pickup truck in what authorities described as a domestic dispute with his fiancée.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Henry died at 6:36 a.m. ET Thursday. Henry was 26.

"We knew him in a different way than his public persona," Bengals owner Mike Brown said of the player who was suspended five times during his career. "He had worked through the troubles in his life and had finally seemingly reached the point where everything was going to blossom. And he was going to have the future we all wanted for him. It's painful to us. We feel it in our hearts, and we will miss him."

Police spokeswoman Rosalyn Harrington said homicide detectives have been assigned to the case but had no further information.'

Letter here.

'In the editorial "Work to end domestic violence must carry on 20 years later" (Dec. 8), the author writes "if young women are not aware of the prevalence of domestic violence, how do they prepare themselves for it?"

No young woman should have to "prepare" for abuse -- rather, the roots of violence against women need to be exposed through school curriculum for boys and girls that addresses sexism and healthy relationships.

The author wonders if the lessons from 20 years ago at L'Ecole Polytechnique have been learned -- if Harper's pending closure of most Status of Women Canada offices across the country is any indication, the answer is a resounding "no."

Any effective strategy to curb violence against women in our society would require that the government shift its focus from criminalizing offenders to funding feminist organizations to do research, public education and advocacy to address the systemic roots of women's inequality.

Article here. Excerpt:

'After New York state Supreme Court Justice William M. Erlbaum announced his decision on Dec. 4 to sentence a Queens' senator to three years probation for assaulting his girlfriend, women's rights groups say they are disappointed.

They are now awaiting the decision of the Senate's committee of special inquiry's investigation of the senator, hoping he will be forced from the legislature's upper house by Democratic colleagues.

Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens, was acquitted in October of felony charges which would have forced him to give up his seat in the Senate. Due to his misdemeanor conviction, he could have spent a year in prison, but received probation for assaulting his girlfriend — a move Marcia Pappas, the president of the National Organization for Women-New York state, did not agree with.

Article here. Excerpt:

'From an economic standpoint, will 2010 be the year of the woman? As part of the Roosevelt Institute's ongoing 'Feminomics' series, running on the New Deal 2.0 blog, I was asked to reflect on women's changing roles in the economy. Here's my take on how the New Deal advanced the cause of women's equality.

Earlier this year, the National Organization for Women reported that it was pleased with the way Congress and the Obama administration had approached the need to ensure that women workers benefited from the federal stimulus program. NOW played an important behind-the-scenes role in making sure that the federal dollars not only went to "shovel ready" infrastructure projects (like roads, bridges and other construction work), but also to our nation's "human infrastructure," especially those occupations -- such as nursing, teaching, and social work -- that are frequently held by women.
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'Millennia of male dominance in workplaces, governments, companies and countries could come to an end in the next few decades.

The resulting changes will reverberate through every aspect of our lives and society. And, as with all revolutions, it may not go smoothly.

This revolutionary power shift isn't due to social programs or social engineering. It's about economics. Some call it "womenomics" because women already account for 80 per cent of all purchasing decisions.

Article here.

'There are real victims in Biurny Peguero Gonzalez’s fake rape story.

In 2005, the Union City woman told authorities in New York that William McCaffrey, a construction worker from the Bronx, and two other men kidnapped and sexually assaulted her at knife point. She now admits it never happened.

McCaffrey was three years into a 20-year sentence when a judge ordered him freed, based on Gonzalez’s admission. She now faces seven years in prison herself.

The other victims in this case are the true victims of rape. Andrea Spencer-Linzie, executive director of N.J. Coalition Against Sexual Assault, estimates that 80 percent of sexual assaults go unreported, often because victims fear they won’t be believed.

"There’s a very prevalent myth that there are a lot of false allegations, so whenever there is one, it plays into the myth," she says.

That’s a real crime. And another reason Gonzalez deserves to be punished.'

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'LIBODE, South Africa — The lucky ones survive with mutilated penises and shameful scars for the rest of their lives, but that's the high price boys in rural South Africa pay to become a man.

In the Eastern Cape province, the ethnic Xhosa boys graduate to manhood through a sacrosanct ritual of circumcision.

But every year, the custom among the country's second-largest ethnic group sees young initiates die of complications from botched circumcisions by ill-trained traditional surgeons.

Boys still flock to traditional initiation schools in the bush, because the faster and less painful medical method can result in a lifetime of rejection.

"When you are uncircumcised regardless of your age, society will never regard you as a man, you will always be a boy. No one wants to live with that," said Athenkosi Mtirara, who is about to undergo the procedure.'

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'REGINA — A 28-year-old Regina woman has been charged with stabbing, assaulting and threatening to kill another woman over a 10-hour period last week.

Jodi Buckles made her first appearance in Regina provincial court on Monday.

Regina police spokeswoman Elizabeth Popowich said officers were sent to a hospital shortly after 4 a.m. on Friday, where a 24-year-old woman was being treated for stab wounds, numerous bruises and swelling.

Popowich said Buckles is accused of going to the victim's house at 6 p.m. Thursday. The victim was then assaulted, stabbed, robbed and confined in her house for several hours.

The woman was released at about 4 a.m. the next day, and was then taken to hospital by a friend.'

Story here.

'MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — A U.S. Congressman says a Brazilian court has ordered a 9-year-old who has lived there for the last five years to be handed over to his father and returned to New Jersey.

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith says a court meeting in a closed session Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro ruled 3-0 that the Sean Goldman should be handed over to his father, David, at a U.S. Embassy on Friday.

Goldman has been trying to have his son returned since his wife took the child to her native Brazil in 2004, saying she's be back in two weeks. She divorced him there, remarried, and then died in childbirth last year.

Her Brazilian husband argued that he should have custody.

A federal court on Wednesday agreed with Goldman that the boy belongs in New Jersey under an international treaty governing cross-border child abductions.'

Via Jeremy S., via DADD-SC:

Once again, The Battered Mothers Conference and PBS are distributing and showing the documentary, "BREAKING THE SILENCE, Children's Stories."

This film came out in 2005. It was produced by notorious feminazis, and filmed in a battered women's shelter. The numbers they quote (70% of custody decisions favor abusive fathers) are blatantly spurious. They want everyone to believe that judges and marital masters give preference to abusive men in custody decisions. That flies in the face of common sense and several hundred objective studies. Moreover, the main protagonist in the film was HERSELF convicted in three separate cases, of abusing her children. Note that several of the children featured in the film DENIED on camera, that their father had ever been abusive. It's not unexpected that the mothers in the film are obviously ALIENATING their children against their fathers, even as they try to deny the validity of Parental Alienation Syndrome.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Two years ago Millie Almore was admitted to the SafeSpace shelter in Stuart, Florida. Ten days later the 26-year-old woman lay dead, stabbed in the neck by Marilyn Hooks, another resident at the facility. An investigation into the incident found the homicide reflected an "egregious failure of the entire agency to satisfactorily assure the health, safety, and welfare of both its clientele and staff."

Millie Almore's tragic death spotlights the woes that vex our nation's 1,800 domestic violence shelters. These problems stem from non-existent accountability, poorly-trained staff, and most of all, a deeply-ingrained ideological agenda.

One former resident at the Hope House shelter in West Virginia attested, "I often felt unsafe. There were several physical and verbal altercations between the shelter residents." No wonder that so many opt to return to their batterer rather than continue to submit to harassment and threats by shelter residents.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Drunken men who demand sex from their wives or girlfriends should be treated as rapists and no longer allowed to claim their judgment was blurred by alcohol, according to the head of the government's review of the rape laws.

Lady Stern, who is leading the review into how rape complaints are handled, has said there must be "no grey area" and that drink should be regarded as an aggravating factor when the case comes to court.

Stern told London's Evening Standard newspaper that a drunken woman was not "fair game" and called for a much tougher line to be taken with men who failed to restrain themselves when they are drunk.

"Being drunk is voluntary and people who become drunk are responsible for their actions. It is not the alcohol that commits the rape. It is not an excuse. It used to be regarded as such, but it is not an excuse . It is an aggravating factor."

Stern said that clear consent had to be obtained for sex regardless of how well couples know each other. A man could not assume a woman's consent.'