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'SPRING VALLEY - A 42-year-old Nanuet woman has been charged with falsely accusing a village man of raping her and holding her captive, authorities said Monday.

Miriam Chambers' June accusations led Abraham Wilson to spend several months in the county jail as an accused parole violator, authorities said.

Chambers, who lived in Normandy Village, accused Wilson of approaching her on June 20 in Spring Valley and threatening to harm her unless she went with him to his Rose Avenue home, Spring Valley police said. She accused Wilson of beating her, breaking her hand and raping her, police said.

About a week later, however, Chambers recanted her accusations in a letter to Wilson's lawyer - at the Rockland Public Defender's Office.'

David Heleniak, a Morristown, NJ attorney, has filed a motion on behalf of his client, John Paulsen, to vacate a final restraining order (FRO) on the ground that it violates Paulsen's constitutional rights.

Heleniak gained recognition on the issue of domestic violence restraining orders with his 2005 law review article "The New Star Chamber: The New Jersey Family Court and the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act" (.pdf file). More recently, in Crespo vs. Crespo, Heleniak won a landmark decision in which the Honorable Francis Schultz of Hudson County ruled that the criteria for a FRO must be "clear and convincing evidence" rather than a "preponderance of the evidence." That verdict made Crespo vs. Crespo a glimmering hope to anyone who was ever hit with a frivolous restraining order – until it was recently overturned by the New Jersey Court of Appeals.

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'Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families.

During the 1970s, feminist organizations fought hard to make domestic violence a public issue, as opposed to a private one, and to gain governmental and societal support for policies aimed at protecting abused women. Current policies have largely been shaped and influenced by the DV establishment which arose from that movement.

However, today those policies are coming under increasing attack from dissident domestic violence experts, as well as civil libertarians and fathers' advocates.

Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald G. Dutton.'

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'WASHINGTON – First lady Michelle Obama says women should do what makes them happy, a lesson she says she learned after realizing her two children, her husband and her physical health feed off of her good moods.

In an interview appearing in the November issue of Prevention magazine, Mrs. Obama discusses the meaning of good health, aging and her exercise, diet and beauty routines. She sat for the interview at the White House in late July.
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"She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing. It's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list," Mrs. Obama said. She said Robinson put her own two children first, sometimes to the detriment of herself.

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'NEW YORK (CNN) -- Police in Connecticut say they have arrested a woman suspected of robbing at least six banks in the past week.

Detectives from the Major Crimes division of the Connecticut State Police took Heather Brown into custody at about 3:15 p.m. The 34-year-old resident of Norwich, Connecticut, will be formally charged with robbery in the first degree, police said.

Investigators believe Brown robbed the banks, often while claiming to have a bomb.

"When she goes into the banks, she gives the teller information through a note or verbally that she has a bomb," said Sgt. Jim Keeney of the Connecticut State Police. "However, there haven't been any reports of an actual bomb."

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'Many women gain access to their health insurance through their husbands. That means that male job losses as well as the possibility of divorce leave them vulnerable. A recent report by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress estimates that about 1.7 million women have lost health insurance benefits as a result of job losses since December 2007 — 71 percent of these as a result of their spouses’ job loss.

Although fewer adult women than men lack health insurance, they seem to be more affected by insurance-related problems, including inadequate coverage. A Commonwealth Fund study released last May found that about 52 percent of working-age women, compared to 39 percent of working-age men, reported in 2007 that they had to forgo filling a prescription, seeing a specialist, obtaining a recommended medical test or seeing a doctor at all as a result of medical costs.'

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'A woman who has maintained that she killed her husband out of self-defense is now suing his former employer for survivor's benefits through his retirement plan.

56-year-old Fayette Nale, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2007 stabbing death of her husband, is serving a 3-15 year prison sentence. Nale had testified that she suffered months of physical and sexual abuse before a fight when she accidentally stabbed him.

Now Nale, who suffers from lupus and uses a wheelchair after injuries from a 1988 car accident, is suing Ford Motor Co. for her late husband's pension.

Nale has filed federal suit, claiming that her conviction "is not considered an intentional causing of death such that she should be denied survivor benefits," Courthouse News Service reports. She was acquitted of homicide when her original charge of second-degree murder was reduced to voluntary manslaughter.'

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'NEWARK — A Licking County Municipal Court judge set bail at $2,500 for a woman who allegedly kicked a Newark police officer in the face Tuesday night.

Deanna R. Sherrard, 25, last known address 388 S. Executive Drive, was charged with one count of assault on a police officer, a fourth-degree felony, for kicking Newark Police Sgt. John Brnjic during her arrest.

Newark police officers arrived at a Circle K at South Fifth Street and National Drive at about 9:10 p.m. Tuesday where they tried to calm Sherrard, who was allegedly screaming profanities at the top of her lungs, according to a Newark police report.

Police reported she allegedly smelled of alcohol and threatened to kill her husband. After her alleged threats, police arrested her for menacing.'

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'Men: 99 percent of gender violence and domestic abuse incidents are perpetrated by men. Therefore, this is a man's issue, not an issue where women put themselves into harm's way. Men need to change their attitude toward women so that violence and abuse is not ever seen as an alternative action.

Clearly, the vast majority of men are not perpetrators of violence but we are part of a culture that accepts violence as inevitable and that some men abuse women. In violence prevention the focus must be on men because it is men that teach other men and boys how to be men in ways that do not involve abusing and degrading women.'

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'Companies should rather employ more women and make them progress in the company. It is what asserts a research work led by Michel Ferrary, professor in Ceram (College of business to Nice-Sophia Antipolis), from a sample of forty two big companies. This study demonstrates that those who employ more than 35 % of women see their turnover progressing more than the others (of upper 28,5 %). These companies are also more profitable (with an upper rate of 116,1 %), have a better productivity (48,6 %) and create more jobs(uses) (72,9 %). It's the same for those whose supervisory staff is more than feminine 35 %.

Previous studies on the influence of the rate of feminization on the economic performances of companies had ended in contradictory results, recognizes the author. Doubtless because - a social group has to reach a critical size to really influence the functioning of an organization, change the nature of the interactions and modify the dynamics of the group, - explains the sociologist.'

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'Last September, if you had asked Nehemiah Wimbish what he thought of reading, chances are he would have rated it down there with doing math and eating tomatoes. Yuck, yuck, and nasty.

So how could it be that the same boy and several sixth-grade pals were making the rounds at their Glassboro middle school last week, touting the joys of the written word to other boys like themselves?

"We got inspired by seeing people read," Nehemiah, 11, told one fourth-grade class. "We want to encourage young men like y'all to do well."'

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'It has, of course, been touted by the likes of John Waters that the Irish man has become so dominated by women, and his role so eroded, that he is suffering from some sort of post-feminism depression. But factually young males in the western world are probably the least oppressed human beings on the planet, and indeed man is instinctively a competitive animal, so it's ludicrous to think that some small advances by women in the workplace and on the domestic front are likely to unhinge the average male. It is, however, true to say that men tend to define themselves more by their role while women tend to define themselves more by their relationships, so some men may be very sensitive to any challenge to their position.

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'Des Moines County Sheriff's detectives on Wednesday have arrested a Yarmouth teen on accusations she had sexual contact with two Mediapolis boys.

Kourtney Joy Babcock, 19, is in jail charged with three counts of third-degree sexual abuse. Each of the counts carry a potential penalty of 10 years in prison upon conviction along with other special sentencing guidelines such as lifetime supervision and sex offender registry requirements.

Authorities said the arrest stemmed from an investigation that started in July. Detectives said their office received a report that Babcock had sexual contact with two 12-year-old boys inside a home in Mediapolis.

Detectives allege Babcock "had performed multiple sex acts" with the two boys.'

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'A San Tan Valley woman has been charged with child abuse after deputies found her 14-month-old son so malnourished he couldn't hold up his head.

The mother, Rhandi Brown, 22, is free on bail after her Sept. 14 arrest.

According to Lt. Tamatha Villar, Pinal County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman, deputies discovered the baby when they responded on a domestic violence call to the home the woman shares with the child's father.

Brown allegedly stabbed the child's father Dec. 18, and she is charged with aggravated assault in that case.
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Villar said the boy weighed only 13 pounds. Deputies at the scene described his arms and legs as "stick skinny," and he couldn't hold up his head.

His diaper was so soiled that the smell of urine was overwhelming.'

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'COMPTON, Calif.—Two Los Angeles women accused of burning, starving and beating the 5-year-old son of one of the women have pleaded no contest to causing corporal injury to a child.

The boy's mother, Starkeisha Brown, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after entering the plea on Friday. Her live-in girlfriend Krystal Matthews received a 14-year term.

The two would have faced 25 years to life in prison if convicted. They avoided trial by pleading no contest, and prosecutors said the boy won't have to testify.

The boy was found ill and in the care of a homeless stranger outside a county child services office in Compton in 2008.'