Women's prisons should be shut down and replaced with small secure units, according to a report commissioned for the Home Office. If adopted by the home secretary, Baroness Corston's approach would see Holloway and about 14 other all-female prisons in England and Wales shut down or converted into jails for men. Story here

Camille Paglia reviews a book entitled The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein wherein the authorship of the book is disputed with evidence showing that Mary Shelley could not have written "Frankenstein", but that her husband, Percy Shelley, was the actual author.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Last month, Harvard researchers reported the results of the first national study of eating disorders in a population of nearly 3,000 adults and found that 25 percent of those with anorexia or bulimia and 40 percent of binge eaters were men.
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Although disordered eating is well-known among teenage girls and young women, experts say the problem among boys and young men is frequently overlooked by parents and coaches and under-treated by doctors.
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Eating disorders, Robb and other experts say, appear to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.

"Genes load the gun, and environment pulls the trigger," said North Carolina's Bulik. "But one of the problems I see for male eating disorder patients is just being taken seriously."

Story here. Excerpt:

A Coeur d’Alene woman was sentenced to supervised probation today for beating her 6-year-old foster son so severely that he was hospitalized with a head injury.

Joyce D. Hibshman, 37, no longer has custody of the boy and two other foster children that were in her home, her lawyer said during today’s sentencing hearing at the Kootenai County Courthouse.

Hibshman was arrested in July 2006 after bringing the injured boy to Kootenai Medical Center. Emergency room staff contacted police.

Another foster child in the home told police that Hibshman had beat the boy “for eating mommy’s chocolate bars.”

Story here.

First ritalin, now tape. Whats next, using a staple gun? Excerpt:

"Monje wasn't charged with a crime because police determined that incident was not child abuse, Cocoa Police spokeswoman Barbara Matthews said.
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The boy's mother, Donna Negron, filed a report Feb. 23, after her son told her that his teacher had taped him to the table because he wouldn't put his head down."

Story here. Excerpt:

"Checks and life insurance forms show that two women made millions from the deaths of two transient men they are accused of killing, a prosecutor said in a preliminary hearing Monday.

Helen Golay, 76, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 74, are accused of befriending the men, convincing them to sign the women's names on to their life insurance policies before drugging and running them over in secluded alleys.

Authorities said the women collected some $2.3 million after their deaths."
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Ed. note: This is a follow-up to a previous story reported on MANN in May, 2006 here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Toronto family studies teacher has been charged with sexual exploitation for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Police said Crime Stoppers received a tip early this month revealing a romantic and sexual relationship between a female teacher and a male student, aged 15 or 16.
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The teacher, who is not married, is seven months pregnant.

"The board is aware that this teacher is pregnant, but any connection between this alleged offence and that, obviously we have no idea," Toronto District School Board lawyer Grant Bowers told CTV News.

But the student has since left the school, raising suspicions.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman and presidential-hopeful Joseph Biden plans on asking the U.S. Congress to legislate for the entire world! Author of the well-intentioned but deeply flawed Violence Against Women Act, Biden will soon be introducing an international version, dubbed "I-VAWA." This would be accomplished by awarding grants to other countries to implement VAWA-like initiatives.

For a reminder of how the U.S. version of VAWA has undermined the basic freedoms and legal protections that once characterized the U.S. as a free society, read RADAR's recent alert at http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20070129.php.

Many members of Congress have expressed concern that foreign countries' resentment of the U.S. has increased due to our unilateral action in Iraq. That resentment will pale in comparison to the resentment that will result if Congress passes I-VAWA, and thus assumes the right to impose legislation on other countries.

Story here. Looks like "O" is showing her true colors via her girls-only, boys-are-bad, gulag-inspired "school". Just what is this woman trying to prove anyway? Excerpt:

'They would have aired their concerns during a satellite link-up with the chat show queen a week ago, but that was cancelled at short notice by the school's management body.

Meanwhile the school seems to have made the rules even stricter. Until now, the girls could receive visitors every fortnight, but parents can now only visit them once a month.

Frances Mans, foster mother of Gweneth Mulder, said last week she would take her daughter out of the school if the rules were not changed.'

I've posted an e-petition on 10 Downing Street's Website (UK) asking for the government to change the UK law so that when a relationship breaks down like in most of Europe the law presumes that custody is split. At present Uk law states that children automatically go to the mother. This is sexual discrimination enshrined in the law.

If the law said children went to the father instead I'm pretty sure women's groups would be up in arms, or if the law stated that certain jobs weren't open to women can you imagine the uproar! And rightly so. If the law were changed women would be more protected form less than enthusiastic fathers, grandparents would have greater assurance of seeing their grandchildren, fathers could be proper fathers instead of every other weekend. Above all children would be allowed the opportunity for balanced parenting and good male role models.

Story here. Excerpt:

"The mother of two young children whose decomposing bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags beneath a house this week was arrested Saturday and charged with capital murder.

Valerie Lopez, 19, was arrested early Saturday along with her boyfriend, authorities said.

Lopez confessed to beating to death Sariyah Garcia, her 18-month-old daughter, and hiding her body beneath her home, Police Chief William McManus said. Sariyah died Christmas Eve."

"The boyfriend, Jerry Salazar, faces a charge of injury to a child by omission. He was aware Lopez was abusing her children"

I wouldn't be surprised if he receives a longer prison sentence than the mother.

This article gives women the ultimate aliby - "it's genetic" when they are angry, abusive, catty, bitchy, murderous? Excerpt:

'Not your fault

The results counter some common beliefs that women are to blame for their hostility. And genetic tests for anger could help predict a woman's likelihood of other anger-related diseases.

"Aggression and hostility are predictors of hypertension, glucose metabolism and heart diseases," Halder said. "The genetic marker we found for hostility also may be useful for predicting a person's predisposition to such diseases."'

Article here. Is it a bit ironic that the feminist movement has for years pressured politically correct speech, congressperson, mail carrier, etc, but none of them ever thought to push for a woman version, or gender neutral version of manhunt? Excerpt:

"The abduction sparked a manhunt and multiple Amber Alerts in Texas and New Mexico. Tips about the abduction came in from across the region and the country, Hudgens said.
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Just before midnight on Saturday, Lubbock investigators received a call from a person who reported that a woman matching the description of the person who had abducted Mychael, Lubbock police said in a statement."

Had to read five paragraphs before it mentioned the kidnapper was a woman.

A new activist group has formed called the True Equality Network. They are already quite active in working to stop I-VAWA and other such institutionalized injustices. Please take a moment to visit their site and sign up for their e-newsletter.

'"The question to those who support VAWA is: What are the scientific, ethical, and moral bases being used to justify supporting a system that knowingly excludes the majority of abuse victims and their children from receiving any support or services, while ignoring the majority of the perpetrators?"
-- Terri Lynn Tersak, True Equality Network'

Story here.

This guy obviously went too far, but it does show how fed up men are with the inequities of divorce. Excerpt:

"A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.
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After finishing the job, the man picked up his half with the forklift truck and drove to his brother's house where he has since been staying."