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"Teacher-turned-sex-offender Debra Lafave will get to spend her final three months of house arrest on probation instead.

A judge ordered Tuesday that the 27-year-old former middle school teacher be released from house arrest on July 11. She'll serve straight probation instead, which is less restrictive and doesn't require her to wear a monitoring bracelet.

She was sentenced in November 2005 to three years' house arrest and seven years of probation for having sex with a 14-year-old student."

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"Boys prefer playing with cars to dolls because of basic biological differences rather than social pressures, scientists say.

Researchers observed young male monkeys spent more time playing with vehicles than with cuddly toys.
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Their conclusion contradicts those of the dominant psychological theory that the preference of boys for vehicles and toy soldiers and that of girls for dolls is down to social rather than innate influences."

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"A single mother kept her young son in a wheelchair for five years because she feared he would become independent and leave her, a court heard yesterday.

The 31-year-old tricked doctors into believing the child, now 11, was ill and could not walk as part of the bizarre child cruelty plot."

Still think single mothers do a great job?

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"Video was released late Monday afternoon showing a brutal beating at the hands of a gang of teenage girls. Their motivation for the attack was apparently so they could post the video on YouTube.
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When 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay arrived at her friend's house where she had been staying, six girls were waiting. Immediately, they started yelling and one girl began pummeling the victim."

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The widow of a soldier killed in Iraq this week is in a fight against time and her mother-in-law to harvest her husband's sperm before he is embalmed.

Army Sgt. Dayne Darren Dhanoolal was killed on Monday when a roadside bomb tore through the Husky mine-detecting vehicle he was driving in Iraq. The 26-year-old combat engineer was assigned to Fort Benning's 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment and was scheduled to come home just weeks before his death.

On Friday, Kynesha Dhanoolal got a federal court order restraining her husband's mother from embalming the body until she can get his sperm, which she hopes to use to have a child through artificial insemination.

Video here. [As of this writing there are two entries for this video on the right side of the page. The first when activated says the video has expired. The second however runs just fine.]

Such a T-shirt may well rank among the most direct and insidious forms of misandry one could ever see. No doubt this item will be sold throughout college campuses and soon girls will be all huddled together in great big crying circles wearing their "I was raped" T-shirts. When pressed, if at all, to say when and where, more than a few I fancy will say she wasn't (or at least not that she knows of, but maybe after talking about it for awhile, she will 'suddenly realize' that she was), but that she is doing so "to support the many other women who were raped."

Rape, rape, rape. Rape is everywhere. Check under your desk, someone is probably getting raped there, too.

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'Female patients seem to have different criteria for choosing a doctor, gender included. When Erin Cooper, a psychiatric study coordinator from Washington D.C., gets a sore throat, “I will see anyone. I’m confident any board-certified physician is competent to treat me.”

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'The woman, a successful executive, has joined a growing number of professional women in Japan in forking out from $1,000 to $50,000 a night for male companionship.

They meet their "hosts" in hundreds of clubs that have sprung up around Tokyo - the industry says only compliments are exchanged. The women pay for a man to lavish them with undivided attention.

"There's nothing wrong with a woman paying to be entertained by a man," one female client says. "It's just another step in equality."

It's a dizzying reversal of traditional gender roles in a country long known for geishas pampering male clients with conversation, singing and dancing. Now a new breed of entertainer has cropped up -- think of them as male geishas.'

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"A woman who claims Michael Jordan fathered her child wants the former NBA star to submit to a third paternity test.

Lisa Miceli also is asking a judge to lift a temporary restraining order imposed after Jordan filed a harassment suit against her.

Miceli, 35, of Meadville, claims Jordan fathered her 4-year-old son, but Jordan’s lawsuit says a pair of 2005 paternity tests rule him out as the boy’s father."

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'Britain is suffering from an epidemic of family breakdowns affecting all levels of society from the Royal family downwards, one of the country's most senior judges will say today.

Mr Justice Coleridge, who presided over the preliminary divorce hearings of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, will accuse Gordon Brown of prioritising the abolition of plastic bags over support for families, and say the Government is "fiddling while Rome burns".
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Mr Justice Coleridge, 58, who is married with a daughter and two sons, is expected to say that the family justice system - comprising social workers, local authorities, mental health specialists and legal experts - is all that stands between the present dire situation and "social anarchy".

It is understood he will call for laws relating to unmarried couples to be modernised, giving cohabitees legal rights on separation, enforceable pre-nuptial agreements, and for reform of divorce law to remove the "fault" element and blame from the process.'

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'A first grader was suspended for three days after school officials said he sexually harassed a girl in his class by allegedly putting two fingers inside the girl's waistband while she sat on the floor in front of him.

The boy's mother, Berthena Dorinvil, said she "screamed" about last week's suspension from Downey Elementary School, and added her son doesn't know what sexual harassment is.
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The principal told Dorinvil the girl complained to the teacher after her son touched the girl's waistband, hitting her skin, in a room full of children.

Dorinvil said her son told her he touched the girl's shirt, not her skin, after the girl touched him.'

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"A row has broken out over the translation of a best-selling novel by the British author Mark Haddon after a "feminist" attempted to make some of the characters female...

..."As we corrected her text, we realised that she was systematically translating neutral words into feminine ones, and masculine words into feminine or neutral forms," said Moisés Barcia, the editor at Rinoceronte. "She chose to make the narrator's pet rat a female, even though its name was Toby," he said. In another instance she changed "men" to "xente", meaning people.

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"Sometime during the overexposure of Debra Lafave - the Barbie-like teacher turned sexual predator - people started to think differently about female teachers having sex with students.

And that, we would argue, helps explain the number of female teachers being arrested for sexual misconduct - a string of trysts that has kept Tampa in the national headlines.

At Freedom High, a fellow instructor turned in English teacher Mary Jo Spack and at Martinez Middle School, a colleague who heard rumors of an affair involving math teacher Stephanie Ragusa blew the whistle. In Pasco County, the father of the boy who was allegedly having an affair with Mitchell High School substitute teacher Lisa Marinelli alerted authorities after spotting his son getting out of the teacher's car."

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'A mother accused of murdering her infant son was arraigned in court today. Savannah-Chatham police said she drowned her baby and drove around with him in a trash bag.

A judge arraigned 21-year-old Virkisha Warren Friday in a Chatham County courtroom. Investigators said she drowned her 3-month-old son Brandon Warren Thursday morning. At first she claimed she just found the baby not breathing.
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Police said it was intentional and that's why the baby's mother is now charged with murder. Detectives said Warren drowned the infant boy at her home on Mistletoe Court, put him in a black trash bag and drove around with him in her lap for almost an hour. Police said she passed hospitals, not once asking anyone for help. She then 'drove to the baby's father's house.'

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"A 3-month child was racked with seizures caused by the illicit drug methamphetamine when it arrived at The Children's Hospital, and the infant's mother is facing serious child abuse charges today, according to Denver Police.
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The baby's mother, Katreice Trujillo, 27, was arrested Wednesday on charges of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury.

Trujillo has a Child Abuse lengthy criminal record in six counties, including arrests for assault, failure to appear and traffic offenses, but no drug-related offenses, according to public records."