Link here. Excerpt:

'Meghan Eagan, a 25-year-old physical education teacher at Crosby High School in Connecticut, was charged with four counts of sexual assault after turning herself into police on Saturday afternoon, reports WFSB News.

She allegedly had sexual contact with the student four times between December and January at her home close to the school.

None of the alleged sexual contact took place on school grounds.

Police would not reveal how old the student is.

Eagan posted US$100,000 ($110,800) bail and is due back in court on February 25.'

Story here. Excerpt:

A Florida woman wasn’t raped after all — she just didn’t want to get in trouble for missing work, authorities said.

Alexandra Westover, 21, of Boca Raton, had reported a frightening, broad-daylight attack to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office.

The tale, which authorities now say is fake, was full of details.

She told detectives she had a flat tire about 9 a.m. on Tuesday and pulled over in the side of the Florida Turnpike.
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Crime fighters launched a full-scale search for the phantom rapist, wasting more than 100 man hours before Westover finally admitted the hoax, according to a sheriff’s office statement.
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A deputy followed up and Westover admitted she lied because she didn’t want to get in trouble for skipping work at her great-uncle’s house, the paper reported.

Westover didn’t respond to phone calls from the Daily News.

She was arrested on Thursday on a charge of falsely reporting a crime and a misdemeanor perjury count.

Letters here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Pennsylvania woman charged along with her newlywed husband in the murder of a man they met through Craigslist admitted to the slaying in a jailhouse interview with a newspaper and said she has killed more than 20 others across the country, claims police said they are investigating.

In an interview with the Daily Item in Sunbury, Pa., 19-year-old Miranda Barbour said she wants to plead guilty to killing Troy LeFerrara in November. She also said in the interview that she has killed at least 22 other people from Alaska to North Carolina in the last six years as part of her involvement in a satanic cult."I feel it is time to get all of this out. I don't care if people believe me. I just want to get it out," Barbour told the newspaper for a story published Saturday night (http://bit.ly/1gN81z3).
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She said in the interview that she doesn't want to get out of jail and that she would kill again if she were released.

Article here. Excerpt:

'CALGARY – A teacher with the Calgary Catholic School District is facing a number of serious charges related to the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.

The 30-year-old woman is accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with the boy, who is a former student at the school where she teaches.

Police say a member of the public alerted officers after he spotted what he believed to be ‘suspicious activity’ in a vehicle in northwest Calgary.
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Jennifer Mason is charged with sexual assault, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation and sexual interference.

To protect the identity of the victim, details about the school have not been released, but police say parents have been notified.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'How can synagogues make their members — and prospective members — feel more welcome?

Some synagogues send a message of inclusion, stating on their websites that they welcome gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jews, Jews of color, disabled Jews and interfaith families. But there’s one Jewish minority that’s rarely, if ever, mentioned: the growing number of Jewish parents who choose not to circumcise their newborn sons.

Petition here. Text:

'The Jewish Circumcision Resource Center represents Jews around the world who question circumcision and choose not to circumcise their sons.

An Israeli religious court has fined a woman for refusing to circumcise her infant son. The matter is part of an ongoing divorce case. In Israel, religious courts have authority over various family matters like marriage, divorce, and child welfare. Circumcision is viewed as a requirement among religious Jews. Israel has struggled for generations to reconcile its religious and secular traditions.

The woman has said that she does not wish to harm her son. Circumcision has been shown to result in physical, sexual, and psychological harm.

As the caretaker and mother, she has the right to forgo circumcision like thousands of other Israeli parents. No civil law requires circumcision in Israel. When parents disagree, as in this instance, the default position is to let the child decide about circumcision when he is older.

The Jewish Circumcision Resource Center represents Jews around the world who question circumcision and choose not to circumcise their sons.

An Israeli religious court has fined a woman for refusing to circumcise her infant son. The matter is part of an ongoing divorce case. In Israel, religious courts have authority over various family matters like marriage, divorce, and child welfare. Circumcision is viewed as a requirement among religious Jews. Israel has struggled for generations to reconcile its religious and secular traditions.

The woman has said that she does not wish to harm her son. Circumcision has been shown to result in physical, sexual, and psychological harm.

We're done! I'll get to posting new submissions shortly. Thanks for your patience.

Article here. Excerpt:

'From the Blair papers: “May 15 – HC enthralled by S. Afr. investiture; discussed characters there like Arafat, Aristide, how charismati Winnie is.”

How charismatic was Winnie Mandela [link added]? Someone ought to ask Stompie Moeketsi.

'Stompie Seipei was killed on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s instructions to prevent the Mandela “crisis committee” discovering how badly the Mandela United Football Club had assaulted four youths they had abducted from the Soweto Methodist Manse, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard on Wednesday.

Former club “coach” Jerry Richardson testified that Madikizela-Mandela decided to kill Seipei to cover up what had happened.

1. UK: Universities struggling to cope with 'lad culture'
2. Exposed: Obama Blocks White House Council on Boys and Men
3. Nicki Minaj apologizes for using Malcolm X, racial slur in cover art
4. The (Silent) War On Men 
5. What would life be like if women really did rule the world?
6. NOW Demands Wall Street Journal Fire Columnist James Taranto for Promoting 'Rape Culture'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The January 2014 Suicide Data Update has been released by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the news is not good. Suicides are up in two groups of veterans who utilized the VA health system: young males (ages 18-24) and women. The rate of female veterans’ suicides has climbed 31.2 percent for VA users. Does that not pierce your heart?

There are pockets of positive news. Taken in an overall trend, the rate of suicide among male veterans aged 35-64 who utilize VA hospital programs has decreased by 30 percent, and is down 16 percent for all ages. (The overall rate among those who don’t use the VA for help has increased by 60 percent.)

One thing is clear based on the figures for all male veterans: Getting help at the VA does work. If you’ve had thoughts of suicide, call this hotline number 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. Or send a text message to 38255. If you have access to a computer, go to veteranscrisisline.net and you can chat online. ...'

Link here. Excerpt:

'A twisted UK serial killer has smiled and laughed in court saying she is "not sorry" for stabbing three men to death.

Joanna Dennehy, who has been dubbed "evil" by the English press, reportedly grinned her way through a pre-sentencing hearing at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday.

The 31-year-old broke into laughter as prosecutors revealed a photo of one of her victims, John Chapman, lying on a bed with five stab wounds, the Mirror reports.

Dennehy has admitted to murdering three men in Petersborough and dumping their bodies in ditches during a 12-day spree last March.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'One of the hazards of youthful idealism is that one can easily verge over into naive self-righteousness. So I should have been prepared for the latest project of StudentsNS, a collection of Nova Scotia university student associations, around sexual consent.

But this new initiative is so overflowing with gormless self-congratulation that even I was stunned.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In a bold move, National Parents Organization of South Carolina introduces National Parents Organization shared parenting model legislation. South Carolina is the latest state to join National Parents Organization. It is also the first state to take our recently developed model shared parenting legislation and work with a legislator to introduce some of the language and ideas. While it stops short of a presumption of shared parenting, it does introduce shared parenting to South Carolina family law and provide it as an additional option.

Senator Katrina Frye Shealy (R-23), the only woman in the South Carolina senate, is the lead sponsor for S. 905, Child Custody Orders. She is joined by Senators Ross Turner (R-8), Shane R. Martin (R-13), and Lee Bright (R-12). The bill is now in the Judiciary Committee.

The MANN site may be intermittently available over this coming weekend due to platform maintenance. If at some point you see "Site Unavailable" messages or even DNS "Host Not Found"-type errors, don't sweat it. Just a typical day in cyberspace during a significant maintenance job. We should be done by some time on Sunday.

Also, new story submissions will not be posted after 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US) on Friday Feb. 14 (tomorrow). The expected resumption time for new posts is Sun. Feb. 16 at 3:00 PM ET. If anything about this changes, I'll post updates. I'll also post when it's known the site is fully stable.