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'A grandmother and an aunt pleaded guilty on Tuesday to starving to death a four-year-old boy who weighed less than nine kilograms when he was found last year at his home in central Mississippi.

Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon accepted capital murder pleas from Austin Watkins' grandmother, Janice Mowdy, 43, and aunt, 22-year-old Stephanie Bell.

In exchange for the guilty pleas, the judge sentenced the women to life in prison. They could have faced the death penalty if a jury had convicted them.'

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Ed. note: Reported in an Australian paper, but the crime referred to herein occurred in the US.

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'ORLANDO, Fla. — Attorneys for a Florida woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter want to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty and said Wednesday that charges against her should be dropped.
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Anthony's attorneys said that prosecutors can't prove first-degree murder was committed or that Anthony ever abused her daughter, Caylee.

"Specifically, the state cannot establish whether Caylee Anthony's death was accidental, natural, or the result of an intentional or negligent homicide," they said.'

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'In Australia as in many another place, it has become so familiar a news item we can call it hackneyed. It croaks from the radio as we grump through our Monday breakfast: the missing dad found this weekend in his car at some abandoned spot, his children dead in their seatbelts beside him — shot or poisoned by fumes from the exhaust. There is no sympathy for such a father; perhaps there should not be. Our feelings go out conventionally to the innocent lives the dad has taken with him, and perhaps, as we sip our coffee, we catch mention of a distraught mother — who’s released her darlings on an ‘access’ or ‘contact’ visit, for Father’s Day perhaps or for one of the children’s birthdays — only to see the lives most precious to her snuffed out by an oaf who is now exposed for all to see as the brutal, ‘abusive’, self-obsessed pig that she’d always said he was.

That’s what is reported, and it’s what we see.

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'The Government announced that mothers who decide to return to work after six months can hand over, in effect, the remainder of their maternity leave to fathers.

The change means either party can receive the statutory rate of £123 a week if they chose to take the time off work when the child is aged between six and nine months old. After that, whichever partner has the 'maternal' role, they can take the following three months of leave unpaid.
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The Federation of Small Businesses also cautioned the new law was wide open to abuse and fraud because it could be easy for a man to take time off and be paid at the same time as his wife was taking time off work and also being paid.'

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'ATLANTA, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In 2003, The American Association of Blood Banks found that in almost 30 percent of the paternity tests conducted the man being tested is not the biological father.

"This means millions of fathers may unknowingly be raising children who are not theirs biologically. When a man discovers the truth about the child's parentage, this can have a far-reaching emotional impact upon him, the child, and the families involved like John Edwards' situation," said Carnell Smith PfV, renowned paternity fraud expert and director of U.S. Citizens Against Paternity Fraud ( http://www.PaternityFraud.com ).

Smith said, "Surprisingly there has been no formal study of this - until now."

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'IRVING, Texas, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- To help break the cycle of domestic violence, men must get more involved in speaking out against the problem and become advocates for change.

That was one of the primary messages of the 4th Annual Verizon Foundation Domestic Violence Prevention Summit held Thursday (Sept. 24) at the Omni Mandalay Hotel.

"Domestic violence is not just a women's issue," said actor and Verizon Foundation Community Champion Victor Rivers. "As a child, I was a victim of abuse and saw my father belittle and attack my mother. To break the cycle of violence, I'm calling on men to become more involved in the issue and make it a point to teach their children that domestic violence is never acceptable."

According to a U.S. Department of Justice study on intimate partner violence, 1 out of every 4 women will experience domestic violence.'

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'Many states are deliberating whether or not it would be worth-while for them to use GPS tracking systems to monitor the whereabouts of domestic violence offenders who have orders of protection against them. It has been argued by many state governments that often these orders of protection are violated thus resulting in the deaths of many victims.

On the other hand, some lawmakers argue that the GPS systems are likely to help in some cases, but not all. They also argue that the GPS systems would come at a significant cost to tax payers. Furthermore, some states argue that because of these high costs, the thought of using this new technology is simply a delusion of grandeur. Meanwhile countless numbers of abused women have been relating stories of the protection orders being violated by their ex-partners. In one tragic case, a woman named Leigh Ann Olson told the story of how her ex-husband violated his protection order and fatally shot their five year old daughter Makayla, before shooting himself.'

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'Nearly 30 local men will step into women's fancy red heels next month to raise Domestic Violence awareness as they "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes."

These male volunteers will be showing off their footwear while emphasizing the importance of men being more involved in stopping violence against women at the Oct. 10 event.

"We wanted it very diverse because we know that violence affects everybody from all walks of life," Van Maanen said. "So we wanted men from all walks of life to participate."

"The guys were really excited about it," she said. "Then some of those guys got other men involved, which is exactly what we wanted to happen."

Historically, the domestic violence and sexual assault movement has been led mainly by women and it's time for men to get involved, Van Maanen said.'

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'Victims of domestic abuse can hide the truth from doctors, but they leave clues in their medical records that a computer program has now learned to follow.

The program could save lives by acting as an early warning system for domestic violence, flagging up possible cases of abuse to doctors months or even years before they would otherwise be detected.

The program produced a set of rules based on the differences it found. These were mainly based on patterns of injuries and bouts of mental illness – signs of abuse that doctors already look for.

But the program also found new clues, including some that pick out victims of one sex but not the other. Alcoholism, for instance, is a red flag for abuse in women, but not men, because it is less common among women in general. In contrast, depression and other mood disorders are a strong predictor of abuse in men, but less so for women.'

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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.

...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.
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On Thursday, police charged Chambers with a felony count of first-degree making an apparently sworn false statement. Her arrest is part of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Chambers' filing of the report, Spring Valley Detective Reginald Anderson said.'

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'New Delhi, Sep 29 (PTI) A young woman, who allegedly blackmailed men by threatening them to frame them in rape cases, was arrested in the national capital, police said today.

The 30-year-old woman was arrested following investigations into a complaint filed by Sanjay Dass, who runs a pest control company, that he was coerced to hand over his belongings to two women after being put under the fear of framing him in a false rape case.
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"One of them closed the door from inside while the other caught hold of him. She asked Dass to hand over all his belongings or else he will be framed in a case of rape.'

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'I know you don’t want to hear this, but newlyweds are cheating. The numbers are gnarly; 15 percent of women and 12 percent of men under the age of 35* reported cheating within their first year of marriage! The worst part: Since these stats came from people who admitted it, relationship therapist Dr. Bonnie Eaker said she suspects the real number is more than half. Don’t believe me? Check out this clip from CBS News.

Although Eaker’s estimate is interesting, I'm not sure I agree. I know a ton of couples who've made the long walk down the big white aisle, and while, sadly, many haven't made it past the three-year mark, I can only think of one where infidelity was a factor. I guess the real question is, why does anyone cheat within the so-called honeymoon phase? My guess is that these are people who just can't come to terms with what real marriage is. In short: not a perfect paradise full of roses and gumdrops and sexy-twinkly lighting 24/7.'

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'Growing up in Britain in the 1970s it was impossible not to be aware of Erin Pizzey. She was the iconic face of feminism, as she appeared on television seemingly every other night to expose what she saw as the oppression of women. She also founded of one of the first domestic violence shelters in the world. They were known as battered women’s homes in those days but the nomenclature, as well as the politics, has changed over the years. So, it seems, has Erin Pizzey.

“I would go so far as to say,” she wrote last week, “that the movement, which proclaimed that all men are potential rapists and batterers, was based on a lie that, if allowed to flourish, would result in the complete destruction of family life ... Feminism, I realized, was a lie. Women and men are both capable of extraordinary cruelty. Indeed, the only thing a child really needs — two biological parents under one roof — was being undermined by the very ideology which claimed to speak up for women’s rights.”