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'CLEVELAND, Texas - On Monday, investigators discovered a Cleveland ISD teacher allegedly had sex with a student. By Wednesday night, however, the teacher still wasn't in custody.
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On Monday night, she called district officials and resigned. Investigators say she admitted to having sex with a 15-year-old male student.

By Wednesday night, Sinclair had not been charged with a crime, but Cleveland police are considering charging her with having inappropriately relations with a student and possibly sexual assault.

A Houston sex offender counselor says society tends to underestimate the harm that can come to teenage boys seduced by a female teacher.

Judy O'Brien says boys are likely to have skewed relationships with women well into adulthood and some will commit sexual crimes.'

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'RENO, Nev. -- Ben Roethlisberger is seeking unspecified counter damages from a woman he says falsely accused him of rape in what his lawyer describes as a plan she hatched to seduce the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback in his Lake Tahoe casino-hotel room.

The woman alleged in a civil suit filed in Washoe District Court in July that Roethlisberger sexually assaulted her at Harrah's in July 2008 after he lured her there under the false pretense of needing his television repaired.

Roethlisberger's lawyer, John Echeverria, said in a response to the lawsuit filed this week that the woman made up the story because she knew it was against Harrah's policy for employees to visit a guest's room without a work-related purpose.

Her violation of the policy "was a deliberate step in her plan to seduce Mr. Roethlisberger," Echeverria wrote.'

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'SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - A Keithville woman is now behind bars after allegedly filing a false police report.

Shreveport Police arrested 22-year-old Olivia Green who now faces a charge of criminal mischief, after reporting back on October 8 that she had been abducted and sexually assaulted.

Police say Green originally told officers that she had been kidnapped from a convenience store on W. 70th St., back on October 5, by two males who then allegedly held her captive for four days, where she was also sexually assaulted.

Upon investigating, detectives soon learned that Green had lied and was never kidnapped or sexually assaulted.'

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'(AP) LOS ANGELES (AP) - A woman shot her two young sons Saturday, killing a 5-year-old boy and critically wounding his 1-year-old brother, police said.

The woman called 911 about 8:30 a.m. and told a dispatcher that she had killed her children, Los Angeles police Officer Norma Eisenman said.

When police arrived at the apartment complex in South Los Angeles, the woman, believed to be in her mid-20s, was standing on a second-floor balcony waving a handgun and telling officers to shoot her.
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The 5-year-old was declared dead at the scene. The younger boy was shot multiple times and was hospitalized in critical condition.'

Via Marc A. Op-ed here. This one is worth responding to. It actually admits the near 50/50 data but downplays male victims based on injury rates, misleadingly. I see no comment page but a letter to the editor can be sent to northnews-at-northumberlandnews.com. I sent them a letter which is below the article here. But it might be good to have more. Excerpt:

'Physically and emotionally abused women of Northumberland County are safer today than they were a few years ago.

Northumberland Services for Women's long fundraising campaign to expand its capacity and services culminated with the opening of the third phase of the project, the new administrative offices, on Thursday, Oct. 15.

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'Before I get constructive, I have to take a few paragraphs to cite a reasons why this article is insulting towards many men.

First, there’s the “you are a good guy” dialog. This is presented in such a way that suggests Starling has some sort of empathy towards men. Almost immediately, it becomes clear that these words are not written in empathy nearly so much as a failed attempt to placate. There’s also the student/teacher metaphor used in the writing. This sets a dominating and oppressive tone towards men. Feminist should know by now that being oppressive is not effective.

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'The Baltimore City Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team had good news and bad news for criminal justice leaders Wednesday during its annual report, trumpeting a significant drop in homicides but bemoaning slow progress on policy recommendations the team made in past years.

“The number of domestic violence homicides is plummeting,” declared Julie Drake, chief of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Felony Family Violence Division and vice chair of the team, which is a committee of the city’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.
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Baltimore City Clerk of Court Frank M. Conaway Sr., who often asks pointed questions of the police commissioner, echoed his concern of previous years that the presenters and their offices focused on battered women to the exclusion of male victims.

Via Marc A.: Article here. Excerpt:

'A new human rights issue was brought to light this past week at UNB: what about men’s rights?

On Thursday, Oct. 8 Dr. Anthony Synnott from Concordia University stood in front of a roomful of students and professors and spoke about his new book Re-Thinking Men: Heroes, Villains and Victims. Synnott sat in the hot seat as he discussed his theories on masculinity and equality for men. He believes that in the quest for women’s rights, men’s rights have been either forgotten or ignored.
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Synnott takes this further by saying, “Prejudice against ethnic groups is called ‘racism’; prejudice against women, ‘sexism’; and prejudice against men is considered really, really funny.”

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'A group of women who are suing a Swedish university for gender discrimination have also reported Sweden’s Equality Ombudsman ... to the Ombudsmen of Justice – JO), charging the agency failed to take up their case.

The women claim they were denied admission into the psychology programme at Lund University in southern Sweden on account of their gender.

They argue that they were passed over in favour of men, who received priority treatment for admission in order to increase the number of men in the programme.

In addition to filing a lawsuit alleging illegal discrimination against the university, the 31 women have also reported the Equality Ombudsman for failing to carry out its responsibilities as the arbiter of discrimination claims in Sweden.
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The two conclude that, “because in reality DO thinks it’s good to choose students based on gender – having equal numbers of each gender is a more important goal than equal rights and opportunities regardless of gender”.

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'TOKYO — Japanese police say they have released an American man nearly 20 days after his arrest for allegedly snatching his children from his ex-wife.

Police said Thursday that while prosecutors have not pressed charges, they haven't yet dropped the case either. They decided to release him on grounds that he was not a flight risk.

Christopher Savoie was arrested Sept. 28 after allegedly grabbing his two children, ages 8 and 6, from his Japanese ex-wife as they walked to school in southern Japan. The case is among a growing number of custody disputes involving a foreign parent in Japan.'

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'There has been a lot of good stuff written about the Goddess, Goddesses, and the Divine Feminine,. The Wiccan Goddess is first among equals in traditional Wiccan circles., and in my view, should be. Certainly She has been the most important influence in my own life. I have even recently completed a book manuscript dealing with some of these themes.

By comparison, there has been little attention paid to the Divine Masculine, the God, or male Gods as male. There are two good reasons for this lack, but while they are good reasons why the Goddess has received the most attention until now, I think it s time to give more attention to the Divine Masculine. The discussions over Robert Bly, the men's movement, sweat lodges and "muscular" spirituality in some comments appearing in the preceding post have tipped me into entering these perilous waters.'

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'"We found lots of surprising things," said Meston, director of the University of Texas at Austin's Sexual Psychophysiology Lab. "The overall biggest surprise is the huge diversity of reasons why women said they have sex. We certainly expected more than love, reproduction and because it feels good, but all the different ways women were having sex was incredible."

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'What's striking about the new trains - not counting the exclusively female passengers - is the bright colours. The front of the engine is painted blue and red and the carriages are bright yellow.

All eight coaches are interconnected and brightly lit. The cushioned seats are comfortable and ceiling fans make the journey pleasant on a humid evening.
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For many years, most suburban trains have had a couple of coaches reserved for women. But some men always forced their way into their compartments.

"Sometimes men board the ladies' compartment and when we ask them to leave or get aside, they start to argue. They say that if ladies can travel in gents' compartments they should be able to travel in ladies' compartments," Sangeeta says.
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Sangeeta, a shy young woman who commutes daily from Faridabad to college in Delhi, says men often harass women on other trains.

"They touch and pinch."

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'Earlier this week the national executive council (NEC) for the political party ruled that Warrington South would be under an all female shortlist for the seat.
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Rumours had been circulating that Labour figures in the area had wanted to drop the female only list to open up the possiblity of a person from the town standing in the seat.

A North West Labour Party spokesman said: “The NEC makes decisions on a case by case basis as to whether or not a parliamentary selection process should be an open shortlist or all-women shortlist.

“The NEC Organisational Subcommittee took the decision today that the selection processes for Warrington South should be based on an all women shortlist."'