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'An Edmonton foster mother, convicted of manslaughter in the death of a child in her care, was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison, with two months' credit given for the time she spent in remand.

A jury convicted the woman, 34, in November. She cannot be named under Alberta child protection legislation in order to protect the identity of the child, who also cannot be named.

The toddler died in January 2007 of a massive brain injury sustained when his skull hit part of a toilet bowl.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Richard Marceau delivered his decision in a courtroom packed with the friends of the foster mother and relatives and friends of the dead child's family.

After going through all the medical evidence presented by both sides in the case, the judge said he had enough reasonable doubt about how the boy came to hit his head on the toilet bowl to give the benefit of doubt to the accused. He described the fatality as closer to being a "near-accident" than a "near-murder."

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'A quiet sexual revolution, brought about by the overwhelming success of bright young women applying to medical schools, is about to deliver the NHS into female hands. Within eight years, according to a report published today, most doctors will be women.

The old medical patriarchy has left, retired, gone underground or been forced to change its views.
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The review was triggered by remarks from the first female president of the Royal College of Physicians, Dame Carol Black, which sparked a furore. She warned that the domination of medicine by women would end with the profession losing power and influence.

"We are feminising medicine. It has been a profession dominated by white males. What are we going to have to do to ensure it retains its influence? she said in 2004.

"Years ago, teaching was a male-­dominated profession – and look what happened to teaching. I don't think they feel they are a powerful profession any more. Look at nursing, too."'

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'Judge Judith S. Kaye, who was the chief judge of New York State for 16 years until her recent retirement, said she had long avoided engaging others on the question. “I struggled with it for the 25 years I served as a judge,” Judge Kaye said.

But she said she had ultimately come to terms with defending the idea that women judges will, at times, see things differently. “To defend the idea that women come out different on some cases, I just feel it,” Judge Kaye said.

“I feel it to the depths of my soul,” she added, because a woman’s experiences are “just different.”
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The most prominent and recent academic study comparing male and female judges found that female judges were more likely than males to decide in favor of plaintiffs who alleged sex discrimination at the workplace. But the study, an unpublished paper by Christina L. Boyd, Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, found no difference in cases involving disability law, environmental issues and capital punishment.'

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'A NEW gym which caters solely for women has opened its doors in Pendle.

Owner Kate Turner said membership numbers were growing and many women had commented on the relaxed, friendly atmosphere as they were shaping up for summer with the help of experienced and supportive staff.

She explained that the gym provided a new concept in fitness, with members completing a 30-minute "circuit" comprising a three-minute warm-up, three-minute exercises on a selection of femnale-friendly resistance machines and then three minutes of stretches at the end - hence the name "In and Out"!'

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'Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor last year accepted an invitation the Belizean Grove, an elite but little-known women’s-only group.
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The group – which on its website describes itself as “a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, non-profit and social sectors; who build long term mutually beneficial relationships in order to both take charge of their own destinies and help others to do the same” – hosts periodic meetings around New York, as well as an annual off-the-record three-day retreat in Central or South America at which its members attend cocktail parties with U.S. diplomats and host-country officials and participate in panel discussions on public-policy and business affairs.'

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"And of course never forget that behind this great female mutiny is the fact that one person in the Labour Party likely to benefit from Brown's downfall is Harriet Harman - perhaps Labour's greatest busybody social engineer.

It was Harman who helped inspire New Labour's politically correct, pro-women agenda which resulted in a series of new laws of social engineering.

Her particular obsessions were women's rights, equality bills and campaign for a new 'social order'. However, her key triumph, the Equalities Bill, was condemned by many, not least because it harked back to many of the right-on, class and gender-war issues of the bad old days of the 1980s Labour wilderness.

Public-sector job applicants to be vetted on their class background; gender pay audits; freedom of breastfeeding. Business leaders, already facing a ruinous slump, threw up their hands in despair.

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'India's new Congress-led coalition government is to press for a radical new law to reserve a third of the elected seats in parliament and in state legislatures for women.

The government has also pledged to introduce a bill which will set aside half the seats in elected village councils and city municipalities for women. At present only a third of the seats in village councils are kept exclusively for women.

India's first woman president, Pratibha Patil, announced the ground-breaking steps at the opening session of the new parliament in Delhi today. She also promised on behalf of prime minister Manmohan Singh's re-elected government that more women would be employed by the central government.

A National Mission on Empowerment of Women will also be set up to implement "women-centred" welfare programmes.

"My government will initiate steps within the next hundred days on these measures," she said.'

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'One of these days, women really ought to make up their minds about what it is exactly they want. Then they could do us all a big favour by stating, unequivocally, what they have decided it is they want. And then they could cover themselves with glory by sticking to what they say.

In other words, it's about time women - especially their self-appointed mouthpieces - started behaving like fully grown-up adults and citizens. Or is that asking too much? Apparently, it is.

A survey published this week tells us that women today are far from happy with their lot and wish they could live more like their mothers and grandmothers - not having to work so much and free to spend more time with their children.
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Men don't go on about it, but the truth is that things aren't entirely wonderful for us, either. The difference is that we don't suppose we've got a God-given right to blame women for it.'

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'WASHINGTON – Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate on Thursday that the White House never questioned her about cases or issues she might have to decide as a Supreme Court justice, a disclosure gleaned from reams of documents that reveal she has spoken repeatedly about how her gender and Latina heritage affect her judging.

The federal appeals court judge divulged new details about her finances and provided three decades of writings, speeches and rulings that give both supporters and critics fresh fodder for the coming debate on her confirmation. They include more instances in which she said she hopes a "wise Latina" would reach a better decision than a man without that experience.

The comments in 2002 and 2003 echo a much-criticized remark she made in 2001 at the University of California-Berkeley law school that has prompted a furor among conservatives who say they suggest President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee brings a personal bias to her legal decisions.

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'Sadly, Democrats have become sold on the use of anti-male clichés as their short-sighted strategy to ballot-box success.

Here's Hillary Clinton in 2005: "Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption." Remember the quip she made about "evil and bad men" made at an Iowa campaign stop? And in New Hampshire, she commented, "I don't know about you, but I like seeing women in charge." (Just imagine the ruckus if candidate John McCain had proclaimed, "I don't know about you, but I like seeing white men in charge.")

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'A former Williston Middle School teacher already facing a criminal charge for alleged sexual contact with a 15-year-old boy was arrested again Thursday and charged with statutory rape and dissemination of harmful materials.

The new charges against Jessica Bailey Wishnask, 27, of Oak City in Martin County, stem from alleged conduct with the same boy on or before her initial arrest on May 23, said District Attorney Ben David.

Wishnask was re-arrested Thursday morning in Martin County, where she had been living, said Wilmington Police Chief Ralph Evangelous. After the arrest, Wishnask was transported to New Hanover County, where she made a first appearance in court Thursday on the new charges via teleconference from the county jail.'

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'An I.S. 8 teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student at the Jamaica middle school now waits in jail as she faces charges of statutory rape.

Melissa Weber, a social studies teacher, allegedly engaged in sexual intercourse in a second-floor classroom with the boy — the son of a PTA member — on seven separate occasions between April 13 and May 14. She was arraigned Friday on seven counts of second-degree rape, 14 counts of third-degree sexual abuse and one count of endangering the welfare of a child.
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Bail was set at $100,000, and the judge ordered Weber to stay away from the boy if bail were to be posted. If convicted, Weber could face up to seven years in prison.

“The charges are very disturbing,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement. “A teacher is accused of preying on a young student who she is entrusted to teach. A classroom should always be a safe place for a child. The defendant is alleged to have destroyed her students’ trust.”'

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'Charges were dropped Thursday against a Tinley Park teenager who allegedly lied about being raped after a St. Patrick's Day parade, authorities said.

Heather Krueger, 19, was accused of filing a false police report, which claimed she had been raped March 15 - the evening of the South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade - in the parking lot of the 80th Avenue Tinley Park Metra station.

But she later retracted the allegation, police say.

It was a story she made up so her parents wouldn't be angry she'd got drunk at the parade, police said.

Tinley Park Police Chief Michael O'Connell said the Cook County state's attorney's office contacted him earlier this week because the case against Krueger was "unwinnable," he said.

"I'm not happy that we couldn't win the case," O'Connell said.'

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'A woman has admitted falsely accusing three men of raping her after video footage on a mobile phone disproved her claims.

Victoria Salter pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday.

The 26-year-old's false allegations of rape led to three men being arrested. But one of the men filmed the incident and provided mobile phone evidence.
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She made false report in September, when she said she had been followed home by four men, three raped her while the fourth watched.

The court heard that Salter had been filmed by one of the men during the sexual encounter and she had been partaking "enthusiastically".'

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'HOUGHTON -- The Michigan Tech student accused of filing a false rape report appeared in court Wednesday for her arraignment. A not guilty plea was entered on her behalf.

Jennifer Renee Stigers, 19, is charged with one felony count of filing a false police report which carries a maximum four-year prison sentence.

Police say they can't find Stigers in surveillance video from the date she says she was attacked in March outside the library at Michigan Tech.'