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'A 12-year-old Berkshire girl has been given a reprimand for wasting police time after falsely reporting a rape.

The girl, from Reading, told officers she had been raped by a 15-year-old boy on 11 July.

They arrested the teenager but further inquiries showed the rape accusation was false and he was later released without charge.

Police said the investigation cost thousands of pounds and caused distress to the innocent victim.
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"In this case a 15-year-old boy was arrested as part of the initial investigation, which was obviously very distressing for him.'

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'HOUGHTON COUNTY -- The decision to drop charges against a Michigan Tech Student accused of filing a false rape report was made after a lot of discussion.

Jennifer Stigers was facing a felony charge after she filed a false report earlier this year.
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If she had been found guilty of the charge, Stigers could have been facing up to four years in prison.'

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'AJAX -- For two years Ray Collingham felt like somebody was holding a gun to his head.

The reality was even worse.

"I was charged with seven counts of sexual assault, four counts of sexual interference, two counts of invitation to sexual touching and two sexual exploitation charges," Collingham said in an interview yesterday.
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Now Collingham wants his life, name and reputation back.

"I've had a gun to my head, so to speak, for two years and now I'm hoping slowly that I'm going to be able to get back on my feet," Collingham said.'

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'Ginsburg agreed to the assertio of unfairness, but laid it to ideology: "There are people in Congress who would criticize severely anyone President Obama nominated."

She then cited Sotomayor's 2001 remark about a "wise Latina" reaching "a better conclusion than a white male" and said, "I thought it was ridiculous for them to make a big deal out of that." Feminists are not concerned when the ox being gored is a white male, any more than a matador thinks twice about putting the blade between the shoulders of a charging bull.

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'We believe men are in charge and women are suppressed in relationships. But really, women dominate in personal arguments twice as often as men do. Furthermore, men get more stressed and stay stressed longer than women do following an argument. And two-thirds of divorces are filed by women.

Men's chivalrous tendencies to protect women against bullies are working against themselves. Being openly critical of men is gaining acceptance, but being openly critical of women is socially improper.

Women who can't get a man to commit to a relationship are seen as exploited. Men in the same boat aren't a real concern. "'Runaway Bride' was funny; 'Runaway Groom' would be anything but," Driscoll says.

Bottom line, Driscoll and Davis say, is men are being disenfranchised in their families. And unless we turn things around, it will be our children who suffer the most.'

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'LITCHFIELD - — In advance of its premiere on HBO, a new documentary about teen suicide will be shown July 25 at Bantam Cinema in Litchfield, with the directors in attendance.

"Boy Interrupted" is about Evan Scott Perry, who committed suicide at his home in New York City in 2005, at the age of 15, after a lifetime of battling bipolar disorder. His parents took years' worth of home-movie footage and edited together a chronicle of their troubled boy's life, which included treatment at Wellspring, a facility in Bethlehem.

Sheila Nevins, HBO executive producer, and Dana and Hart Perry will attend, as will representatives from Wellspring.'

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'A new organization based in the Lower Hudson Valley is hoping to influence the debate about infant circumcision, as the nation's most influential public health agency prepares to make recommendations on the procedure amid new evidence that it could help protect men from sexually transmitted diseases, including the HIV virus.

The group, Intact America [link added], is headed by Upper Nyack resident Georganne Chapin, who also leads the Tarrytown-based Hudson Health Plans, which provides health insurance to people on Medicaid.

The organization, backed by an anti-circumcision Texas millionaire, is circulating an online petition that it hopes will convince the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to recommend routine infant male circumcision as a matter of public health policy.

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'The Center for Abuse and Rape Emergencies, Inc. said even though there were two false reports in two days, it's rare for people to make up these kinds of stories.

Mary Baer, Director of Sexual Assault Services said, "Only two percent of rape reports are false, and that is about the same number of false reports of any other crime."

Mary Baer also said false reporting not only wastes time and money, but it could also keep real victims from coming forward - fearing no one will believe them.

"False reports just feed into the myth that women lie about rape, and it's not true," Baer said.'

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'A woman convicted last week of making a false claim of rape against two Minneapolis police officers filed a lawsuit Monday alleging a cover-up and seeking damages in excess of $50,000.

Lawyer Jill Clark filed the complaint on behalf of Trisha Farkarlun against the city, Police Chief Tim Dolan and several police officers, including the two she alleged participated in the rape and those who investigated it. The suit was filed in Hennepin County District Court.
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Last Tuesday, Clark successfully sought a delay in sentencing one day after Farkarlun, 23, was convicted of making a false report of police misconduct, a gross misdemeanor. She could be sentenced to up to one year and fined $3,000. Judge Tanya Bransford scheduled a hearing for 2 p.m. Thursday for sentencing and post-trial motions for acquittal, a new trial and juror misconduct.'

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'PISCATAWAY — The engineering class going on this summer on the third floor of the Allison Road classroom building on the Busch campus does not look like any other engineering class at Rutgers University.

In fact, it may not look like any other engineering class anywhere.

That is because everyone in the class is an adolescent girl.

This is not an actual college engineering class. The students are still in high school.

They are participating in a summerlong program called The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering and Technology, or TARGET, designed to introduce girls as early as the sixth grade to engineering.'

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'There is a growing fathers’ rights movement in the United States and especially Ohio where fathers are treated very unfairly. A little known fact about child support is that the county is allotted large sums of money for each case that is enforced. The money trickles down through the system via the County Commissioner’s Office. The court merely rubber stamps the child support recommendation and nine out of ten times the father has no say in the matter. There seems to be no incentive to grant visitation to unwed fathers and no incentive to enforce visitation rights or lower support when needed. Speaking to many politicians around the State was very disappointing since almost none of them want to touch the issue. One response was that there was legislation looming but the last election year killed it. The details were not explained.'

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'Kristin Ruggiero of East Kingston went to the media last year seeking help with an ongoing domestic violence case against her ex-husband.

Ruggiero told a television reporter she was so terrified of her ex-husband she couldn't sleep at night.

In an interview with the Exeter News-Letter, Ruggiero said he was posing as other people over the phone in an attempt to find out where she lived.

Now police allege that before she began her media campaign Ruggiero, 33, attempted to set up her ex-husband by sending a series of threatening text messages to herself from a cell phone she had falsely registered under his name.
According to the affidavit, police tracked where and when the phone was used. They discovered a call made in California was six-tenths of a mile from where Kristin Ruggiero was staying at the time.
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Another call, placed from Nashville, Tenn., lined up with the date and time Kristin Ruggiero had flown into the city, the affidavit states.

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'In what police describe as one of the most gruesome crimes against a child in recent memory, an infant boy was stabbed, decapitated and mutilated early Sunday.

His 33-year-old mother claimed responsibility, police said.

Otty Sanchez told police that she was “hearing voices” and that the devil made her kill Scott Wesley Buchholtz Sanchez, to whom she gave birth on June 30, San Antonio police spokesman Joe Rios said.

Sanchez used a steak knife to repeatedly stab the nearly 4-week-old baby, then decapitate and mutilate him, Rios said. A police source said the baby was skinned and gutted.

Sanchez then used the knife to stab herself in the chest and abdomen, police said.

Sanchez was detained and taken to University Hospital, where she remained in stable condition Sunday night. She was charged by proxy late Sunday with capital murder, which is punishable by the death penalty. Bond was set at $1 million.'

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'Ours is a world where female friendships are celebrated by Oprah and the Traveling Pants and bestsellers like "The Girls From Ames." ... But friendships between straight men and women wind up mangled by clichéd claptrap like "The Ugly Truth." Men are only interested in spreading their seed! Women are uptight prisses! And the only thing to do, of course, is to fall hopelessly in love.

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'Ebony S. Mack was found not guilty Friday of killing a mother of four in a street-corner slaying that helped launch Rochester's Zero Tolerance anti-crime initiative.