Story here. Excerpt:

'BUENOS AIRES – A 42-year-old man spent 20 months in a maximum security prison accused of raping his daughter, but the girl repented and confessed that she lied when she accused him, the press said on Friday.

The prosecutor withdrew the charges and the court released the defendant, after his daughter, now 19, repeated that she had lied, something that she had already said during the initial investigation, but her statement was not admitted because of the possibility that she had been pressured by the family.

Defense attorney Claudia Mirele said in a statement published in the Buenos Aires daily Clarin that the girl lied as a reprisal against her father for being “too strait-laced.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Apparently, the writers at The New York Times don't read the front page of their own newspaper. Rather than delve into the hard hitting questions facing the nation such as what to do about the increasing instability in Afghanistan, the strategy to repair a still lackluster economy or how much debt we really are poised to pass onto future generations, one Times journo decided to explore the real hand-wringer of the day that's keeping Americans awake at night: is there too much testosterone in the White House??

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'ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Friends of an Albuquerque Public School teacher facing rape charges over her relationship with a 13-year-old student were divided in their emotions Thursday with some offering messages of support and others expressing disgust.

Kristy Sanchez-Trujillo, 33, was charged with three counts of rape after she allegedly admitted to police she had sex with the boy in her car in or near Petroglyph National Monument on Albuquerque's West Side.
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Sanchez-Trujillo was a teacher at Jimmy Carter Middle School in northwest Albuquerque and taught a hip-hop dance class after school.

Detectives said they don't think she was sexually involved with any other kids.'

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'NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Prosecutors in New York say a devoutly religious Muslim woman, Rabia Sarwar, slashed her husband's neck after he introduced her to booze, pork, and miniskirts.

Sarwar's defense lawyer says his client was "emotionally abused" and forced to violate her religious beliefs.

Sarwar is free on bail after appearing in a Staten Island court Thursday on attempted murder and other charges.

Her lawyer, Joe Licitra, said Sarwar's husband "got her to drink alcohol, eat pork" and wear clothing that violated her Muslim beliefs.

Sheikh "Eddie" Naseem, who has surface wounds on his neck, face and hands, said his wife needs psychological help. Licitra said Sarwar was previously treated for depression.
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Said Naseem: "There was no gun pointed to her head to do these things."'

From a Facebook announcement (all hyperlinks herein added):

Arcadia University's theater department is putting on a special performance of The Exonerated to benefit the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. This unique play delves into the lives of 6 men sentenced to death but later exonerated for crimes they did not commit. A light reception and talkback featuring David Rudovsky and exoneree Edward Baker are part of the evening. Tickets can be purchased exclusively online at www.innocenceprojectpa.org.

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'Mount Vernon, NY -- Police in Mount Vernon say a naked, and emotionally disturbed woman repeatedly slammed her baby's head into the sidewalk.

It happened around 1:40 Friday afternoon outside East Lincoln Avenue.
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The 6 month old baby was then rushed to Mount Vernon Hospital, and later transferred to the Westchester Medical Center trauma unit .

He is currently in critical condition.

The baby's mother was taken into custody.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Paul and Theresa Taylor were married for 17 years. He was an engineer for Boston's public-works department, while she worked in accounting at a publishing company. They had three children, a weekend cottage on the bay and a house in the suburbs, on a leafy street called Cranberry Lane. In 1982, when they got divorced, the split was amicable. She got the family home; he got the second home. Both agreed "to waive any right to past, present or future alimony."

But recently, more than two decades after the divorce, Ms. Taylor, 64, told a Massachusetts judge she had no job, retirement savings or health insurance. Earlier this year, the judge ordered Mr. Taylor, now 68 and remarried, to pay $400 per week to support his ex-wife.

Story here. Excerpt:

'TV newsman Dominic Carter was yanked off the air Thursday after he was accused of beating his wife while calling her a "dumb, stupid, project bitch."
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Paulus dropped the hammer on Carter the same day his wife, Marilyn, told a Rockland County judge she lied when she claimed her husband attacked her last October.

With his job on the line and his reputation in tatters, Carter pleaded with Justice Arnold Etelson to issue a ruling in his favor.

"In the court of public opinion, if I leave here without an opinion, my career is over," he said.
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Carter, 45, left the court with his wife by his side.

"I am sticking by him with this," said Marilyn Carter, 52.'

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'(CNN) -- A mother's plot to blame a stranger for killing her sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut his throat, then moved on to his younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday.

Police found the 7-year-old covered in dried blood in the family van the morning of October 27, 2008, in a secluded area near a pond east of Littleton. Beside the van, his 2-year-old brother lay dead, his throat also slashed.
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Kehoe, of Coralville, Iowa, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and child endangerment causing serious injury. Before the trial, her lawyers filed a notice of intent to present an insanity defense, according to court records.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'We asked Terry O'Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quietly complaining about a "boy's club" atmosphere at the White House, as exemplified by the president playing basketball earlier this month with 11 members of Congress and four Cabinet Secretaries -- all men.

"Relationships get built in those more informal settings," O'Neill told ABC News, "and the relationships have a huge impact on the influence an individual has. We know what happens when we segregated whether it by race or whether it by gender -- you end up with 1st class citizens and you end up with 2nd class citizens."

O'Neill told ABC News' Mike Callahan, "we need to see the White House leading the way for desegregating the work places all around the country and it is troubling."'

Article here. Should I be surprised nothing is mentioned about men portrayed as violent thugs? Excerpt:

'PTC analysts looked at 209 hours of television programming during the February and May 2004 and 2009 sweeps and found the following:

"Violence, irrespective of gender, on television increased during the study period only 2% from 2004 to 2009, while the incidence of violence against women increased 120% during that same period."

"Cumulatively, across all study periods and all networks, the most frequent type of violence was beating (29%), followed by credible threats of violence, (18%), shootings (11%), rape (8%), stabbing (6%), and torture (2%). Violence against women resulted in death 19% of the time."

"Violence against women or the graphic consequences of violence tends overwhelmingly to be depicted 92% of the time, rather than implied (5%) or described (3%)."

Article here. Excerpt:

"Women who cry rape were warned by the Court of Appeal today that prison was 'inevitable' for an offence which attacks the criminal justice system.

Rejecting a sentence challenge by a woman jailed for two years after making a false allegation against an innocent man, two senior judges emphasised the impact of such a crime on conviction rates.

Mr Justice Henriques, sitting in London with Mrs Justice Rafferty, said: 'Every time a defendant stands trial for rape, defence counsel necessarily point out to the jury that false allegations are made.

'Allegations such as this drive yet another nail into the conviction rate.'"

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'Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A young boy dressed in women's clothing, his face caked in make-up, dances the night away for a crowd of men.
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The boy is but one youth among many throughout the country forced into an age-old underground tradition known as "bacha bazi," or "boy play," in which young boys are taken from their families, made to dance and used as sex slaves by powerful men. The number of boys involved is unknown -- the practice has been going on for centuries, in a country where such practices are overshadowed by conflict and war.
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Farhad said that he was taken from a party by four police officers one night and almost gang raped at the station Before their commander walked in and stopped the assault. But then, "He said if I wanted to be set free I should give him my money and my mobile," Farhad said. "I had no real choice, so I gave him my money and mobile."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Still, the sad fact is, according to StatsCan numbers for 2006/7, one out of three boys doesn't graduate from high school while one out of four girls doesn't make it (with many female dropouts attributed to pregnancy, by the way).

But really, is the education system at fault – or is it a society that rewards macho-macho men, extreme athletes and action, and a blow-them-up culture of violence? And what about a system that makes it unattractive for men to take up teaching?

Fact is, if you pay attention to the cruel stories out of British upper- crust schools, it seems that girls' presence has a mitigating effect on that Lord of the Flies brutality – although females do better academically in the absence of boys.

Currently, there's conservative literature, including Christina Hoff Sommers' The War Against Boys and Kathleen Parker's Save the Males, which lays the blame for boys' failures on feminism.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'To that end, when a crime is reported in which the name of the accuser is not revealed, such as sexual assault, I believe it is only equitable that the accused also be allowed to remain anonymous until they are proven guilty.

It is certainly understandable why the names of alleged sex crime victims are not reported. After all, these victims may decide to forgo filing a police report — allowing their perverse perpetrators to escape justice — if they believe a result of informing authorities about the crime will be the surrendering of their privacy. However, it is sometimes the accused in these cases who turn out to be the real victims. Should these individuals not be allowed the same treatment in regard to an unproven crime as their accusers?

Take the story of the then-unnamed University of Hofstra student who accused five men of raping her last month. Four of the men were immediately arrested and jailed before the woman confessed that she’d lied.'