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'Dunn, N.C. — A Harnett County woman charged with beating two of her children still has custody of a third child.

Delores Geddie, 57, of 801 S. Ellis Ave. in Dunn, was charged Monday with two counts of child abuse and was released after posting a $250,000 bond.

Harnett Primary School teachers and administrators reported suspected abuse to social service workers recently after a 7-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl showed up at school with deep bruises.

"They had belt marks on their back (and) on their arms, and the little boy had a belt mark on his face and nose," Dunn Police Chief B.P. Jones said.
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"She just lost it. That's what she told the investigator," Jones said.
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The two who were injured are staying with Geddie's mother; Geddie is prohibited from seeing them as a condition of her bond. But Geddie retains custody of their brother, who is in a wheelchair.'

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'GILBERT - A Gilbert woman who admitted that she beat her husband with a hammer while he slept could receive the death penalty.

Prosecutors say Marissa-Suzanne Devault killed her husband, Dale Harrell, for financial gain, which makes her eligible for the death penalty because the alleged murder meets three of the 14 standards listed under state law

Devault claims she killed her husband because he physically abused her; however, police have not found any evidence of abuse.'

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'With their masculinity set aside and high heels strapped tightly, local men and boys strutted their stuff Saturday morning to promote sexual abuse awareness in Acadiana.

More than 100 men and boys of all different ages and from all walks of life participated in Stuller Place's third annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event.
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Families and groups of men from UL, the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, University Medical Center and Best Buy showed up wearing boots, stilettos and even shoes with fur.
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And participants Chad Grow and David Reese didn't stop short of showing how dedicated and "fantabulous" they were for the event.

Both men came dressed in dresses, pink boas and wigs.'

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'The move toward single-sex classrooms is a growing trend around the nation and in Western North Carolina.

Eight public schools in North Carolina offer single-sex education, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.

Asheville is home to Hanger Hall, a private middle school for girls, as well as to some single-sex classes within coed private schools. Carolina Day School's middle school, for example, has single-sex classes for core subjects.

Yeiser hopes to use Hanger Hall as a model. The school was started by Howard Hanger 10 years ago because he wanted something different for his daughters' education. The school now has 63 students.'

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'04.20.2009 – One of the leading organizations of men in America has asked President Obama to create a White House Council on Men and Boys.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the world’s oldest collegiate Greek-lettered organization of African-Americans recently wrote the president a letter encouraging him to create the council after Mr. Obama formally established the White House Council on Women and Girls.

“Mr. President, we are keenly aware of the challenges that face women and girls. However, we believe a focus must also be placed on men and boys,” wrote the Rev. Herman “Skip” Mason, Jr., general president of Alpha. “As a father of a six-year old son and an eight-year old daughter, like you I want to make sure that there are well-educated, responsible and community-oriented men for them to look up to as they grow and develop.”'

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'PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 15, 2009 – Parental Alienation or Hostile Aggressive Parenting are a set of behaviors that adults exhibit which are harmful to children’s emotional and mental health. These behaviors are most often seen during divorce and separation, but can also be present in intact families. Children who suffer his form of abuse may exhibit symptoms of low self esteem, depression, anxiety, aggression, trust issues, and sometimes suicidal tendencies.

Parental Alienation can be as mild as speaking badly about a parent in front of or to a child, to showing the child court documents or discussing child support with a child, to extreme examples such as Parental Abduction and Parental Homicide.'

Via an ACFC e-mail news release:

Oregon Shared Parenting Bill Hearing

Just in...Tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee will be hearing HB 3402 for Shared Parenting in Oregon. The hearing is at the Oregon State Capitol Room 357 beginning at noon. Please attend and show your support. The proposed law defines joint legal and physical custody as presumptively in the best interest of the child. The bill declares relocation not in the child's best interest and penalizes parents for access interference. Click here to read the bill (pdf file).

Canadian Member of Parliament Conducts Equal Shared Parenting Poll

Congress currently spends approx. $1 billion (!) annually on domestic violence programs(1), and the recent economic stimulus bill just added another $325 million.(2) Yet, while the rest of the nation is forced to cut back during these difficult economic times, advocates are asking Congress for even more – over a quarter billion more dollars every year!(3) Although this analysis considers only Federal funding, be aware that these programs also receive sizeable private donations as well as state and local funding.

Congressonal spending this year works out to approximately $2,948 per female domestic violence victim. The demand for a funding increase amounts to an additional $623 per female domestic violence victim every year.(4) Since domestic violence service providers offer neglibible help to male victims, services for male victims are not included in these calcualtions.(5)

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'Kampala — ASK anyone if they have ever seen a condom and the answer will be 'yes'. Unfortunately, that answer only refers to a male condom. Few people, including women have seen a female condom despite its introduction as an alternative HIV/AIDS prevention method, 10 years ago.

The Government imported 1.5 million female condoms in 1999 but halted their distribution due to insufficient demand*.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) is re-introducing them. However, critics say the ministry has not learnt lessons from its past mistakes, as people still hardly know anything about these condoms.'

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'Q. I’m a 50-year-old man who works as a department director at a large international corporation. My supervisor is a vice president, and she oversees about 20 people, split evenly between men and women.

Last week she sent an e-mail to the women in the department, inviting them to an all-expenses-paid “extended lunch” that would include manicures. She advised them that if the men asked where they were going, to say they had an off-site meeting.

Some female co-workers forwarded me the e-mail. I was appalled by the exclusion of men. Since the department has both professional men and women, the supervisor should have offered everyone a free lunch in the conference room rather than pull such a biased stunt.'

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'A Meadville woman facing a maximum of two years in jail and a $5,000 fine was granted an immediate parole and ordered to pay a $150 fine Monday after pleading guilty to a charge of making a false report to law enforcement.

“I’m very sorry for what I did,” Jacqueline Owens, 21, of 473 Arch St., told Judge Anthony Vardaro before he handed down the sentence during an afternoon session in Crawford County Court of Common Pleas. “All I’m trying to do is make my life better.”
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“She had been raped,” Rowden explained to the judge before the sentencing took place. “When she reported it, she reported it as burglary-rape,” he continued. “It was more acquaintance rape. She had invited him in.”'

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'HOUGHTON -- Police say the alleged sexual assault that took place on the Michigan Tech campus last month was false.

After a three-week investigation, the woman who said she was sexually assaulted March 23 in the library parking lot has told police the assault did not take place.

The woman is a Michigan Tech student.

The Houghton County Prosecutor's Office is reviewing the case to determine if charges will be filed against the student.

This is the second false rape report in Houghton in the past three weeks.'

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'Women have been arrested this month in connection with two shocking child molestation incidents — one that ended in murder. The cases, which surfaced last week, are particularly notable because both are so unusual, experts say.

For one thing, only about 5% of adults who molest minors are women, says David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. A common scenario is the "Mrs. Robinson" variety — an older woman having sex with a teenage boy who often feels some mutual attraction, he says.

A woman who would kidnap, rape and kill a little girl is more likely a psychotic than a true pedophile, says Frederick Berlin, a psychiatrist and founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins University. He says the delusions of this kind of murderer may be like those of Andrea Yates, who killed her own children.'

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'BOISE, Idaho – From a Boise psychology teacher accused of having sex with a teen student to a Caldwell guardian who bore her ward's child, the Treasure Valley has seen a flurry of sex-abuse cases with female defendants.

Canyon County is prosecuting two women charged with molesting minors, and a third was sent to prison in February. In Ada County, two women have been charged with sexually abusing youths since December, the same month two others were convicted of similar crimes.

In the past year, a dozen women have been in Valley courtrooms on charges of sexually abusing minors. They range in age from 20 to 40; their victims from 12 to 17. Each woman was at least five years older than the boy or girl.'

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'OCEANSIDE, Calif. — After more than nine years locked up in prison, fighting to overturn his 1999 rape conviction, Sgt. Brian W. Foster finally won his freedom in February.

But the battle to restore his military rank, pay, career and life is just beginning.

A decade ago, while serving as a military police officer at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Foster told his company commander that he would refuse nonjudicial punishment over allegations made by his estranged wife accusing him of raping her in 1995 and assaulting her from 1994 to 1998. Her rape claim surfaced amid a bitter divorce and custody fight over their two young sons.'