Story here. Excerpt:

"A woman was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with parole for killing her 3-year-old developmentally disabled foster son by binding him in blankets and tape and leaving him inside a closet for a weekend."

"A day earlier, jurors convicted Liz Carroll, 30, of murder and other charges. Under the life sentence for murder, she has no possibility for parole for 15 years. Some of the other sentences must be served consecutively."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A 9-year-old boy was in protective custody after his mother slapped him and hit his head against a brick wall in front of a teacher, then dragged him in front of the class and invited his classmates to make fun of him, police said."

Story here. Excerpt:

"Political party Feminist Initiative (FI) has received a state grant to which it is not entitled.

The state body charged with awarding grants to gender equality projects decided in January to give a total of 8.3 million kronor to 27 women's organisations. One of the beneficiaries was FI, which received an 'establishment grant' worth 400,000 kronor, opinion website Friktion.se reports.

The rules governing the distribution of state grants to women's organisations clearly state that political parties intending to stand for general election are not eligible."

Looks like she won't be doing any time. As reported previously, the woman who McMissiled another driver is now getting probation.

Story here. The article authors bring up the speculation regarding ethnicity and class, but I rather think there is a more compelling "reason": she's a mother. When the perp is a father, it seems to have little effect in these cases, does it? Excerpt:

'She said that she stands by her decision to report the incident, believing that Hall's actions were potentially dangerous and certainly illegal, but that the punishment should fit the crime. She called the jury's sentence "excessive."

"Finally, while one can argue that incarceration may help to discourage others from this type of behavior, this would come at a very high price for Ms. Hall -- a price that in my opinion is too high," Fowle wrote. "Surely the publicity that this matter has already gotten should discourage any thoughtful person from following Ms. Hall's example."'

After the earlier article about the woman who couldn't handle being cut off, here's one who solved her problem of people tailgating her, with a gun. Excerpt:

'A 39-year-old armed Macomb Township woman couldn’t handle the pressure of her morning work commute, police said today.

According to the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office, Bernadette Head, 39, in a 1993 Chevrolet Cavalier, entered I-94 westbound from Hall Road about 8:10 a.m. Wednesday when a Dodge Ram pickup rode her tail.

When the 46-year-old driver from New Baltimore eventually pulled up alongside her, she pointed her 9mm handgun and fired one round at his tires.'

In the name of religious purity, no men allowed on an island for no other reason than that they are men! Story here. Seems that Iranian women need a "men-free" island in order to be safe to enjoy their vacations. And it's in line with Islamic law, too (seems they are picking and choosing when to implement it and when not to, aren't they?).

"Men-free". Like "Rodent-free", or "care-free". Men-free banks, men-free subway cars, men-free hotels, men-free islands...

Don't let this article's title fool you. While they claim to be paying them an equal wage, women athletes at Wimbleton play fewer matches per set than the male athletes, so they're being paid more.

Complete story here. Excerpt:

'NEW DELHI: In probably the first case of its kind, a husband sought divorce from his wife on the ground of mental cruelty.

The latter was convicted by the trial court for murdering their three children, threatening to lodge false cases against her husband and even going to the extent of threatening to kill him.

On the day of her conviction by the trial court in Rajasthan, she threatened her husband with dire consequences. As she was pregnant at that time, she was granted bail and while on bail, she filed dowry harassment cases against her husband, which the police after investigation certified as false.'

All,

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Story here. Excerpt:

'A teenage babysitter who stabbed her employer to death after becoming infatuated with her young boyfriend has been jailed for life

Kelly Ross murdered her rival, mother-of-two Tracy Ann Meade, in a fit of jealousy after becoming terrified she would lose her new lover.
...
Yesterday an Old Bailey judge told Ross, now 17, she would have to serve a minimum of ten and a half years in prison.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'While the number of unmarried adults rose in 2005, the number who chose to wed dropped by 10 per cent, producing the lowest marriage rates since they were first calculated in 1862.

Figures released today by the Office for National Statistics show the marriage rate for men was 24.2 per 1,000 unmarried men aged 16 and over, down from 27.8 in 2004.'

I found this rather interesting story on "Best of Craigslist" regarding a man whose girlfriend tried to entrap him into marriage (and child support) by getting pregnant by a "bad boy." Little did she know that he had had a vasectomy shortly before meeting her. The rest of the story is ... priceless!

Steve

Article here. First it was DV increasing during the Super Bowl, then trafficked sex workers/slaves for the World Cup. All a bogus tissue of lies. Seems men getting together in large groups and enjoying themselves largely out of the company of women is so scary to feminists, they have to do whatever they can to spoil the fun. Good thing the BS-meters are working, though. Excerpt:

"Last summer, lurid headlines claimed that 40,000 women would be smuggled by sex slavers into Germany to be prostituted to World Cup football fans. The truth is very different indeed. Newly unrestricted European Union documents reveal that the German police uncovered just five cases of ‘human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation’ related to the international football tournament.

This article describes a mother unable to control her violent reactions simply because she was cut off in traffic. She threw a fastfood cup full of ice into the other person's car. Thankfully no one was hurt but often times the law is supposed to consider not just what DID happen but what COULD have happened.

My favorite part however, which is something everyone should vote on, is their poll, in which one of the options is: "No. Nobody got hurt and society will be worse off with a mother in prison for this crime"

I wonder how the vote would go if it was a father, would society be worse off with him in prison? As an added bonus, the father is off serving his country in Iraq while the mother is getting herself arrested while she's responsible for 3 children.

Presidential candidate Joe Biden has a habit of saying the wrong things at the wrong time, like his recent remark about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama being "clean." This past week, Biden had this to say about male victims of domestic violence:

"There is no doubt that we have made tremendous progress battling domestic violence in the past decade ... Everyday women, children and sometimes men, in Delaware and across the nation live in fear in their own homes."

"And sometimes men," Mr. Biden???

Men are just as likely as women to be victimized by partner violence – a fact that was already well-known to researchers back when Sen. Biden first wrote the Violence Against Women Act. But thanks to Sen. Biden's VAWA, men who need help are instead ridiculed and shunned. Or worse – they're labeled "abuser" simply because they're men, and their abuser is labeled "victim" and given a free pass.

Besides discriminating against victims based on gender, VAWA also routinely violates the civil rights of the falsely-accused.