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'A South Carolina couple is thanking their dog for saving their 7-month-old from an abusive babysitter.

Benjamin and Hope Jordan, of Charleston, hired 22-year-old Alexis Khan to care for their son, Finn, last year.
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Suspecting that their pet might be on to something, the Jordans placed an iPhone under the couch to record what happened when Khan and their son were alone.

The recording revealed the babysitter swearing and slapping the infant as the child's cries changed "from a distress cry to a pain cry."

Khan pleaded guilty to assault and battery Monday and was sentenced to one to three years in prison. She will also never be allowed to work with children again.'

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'An IT worker accused of snatching a woman’s mobile phone on their first date to ‘teach her a lesson’ when she refused to pay half of the drinks bill was cleared of theft today.

Kishore Nimmala, 32, was said to be furious after Fakhara Sultana told him she had no cash during a romantic rendezvous at the Ruby Blue Bar in Leicester Square.
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But a jury cleared Nimmala of theft after deliberating for just 53 minutes following a three-day trial.

Nimmala said he took Ms Sultana’s phone thinking she would give him £25, but insisted he never intended to keep the device.'

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'Feminism is an old topic, like polytheism and why it’s bad to kick cats. It’s concepts are widely understood and mostly accepted – men have after all, for the most part of human history, generally been total cock-Nazis to women. Yet opposing these arguments are male right’s activists, men that claim male discrimination is as rife and unacknowledged as herpes in the 70s. They claim much of society is anti-male, snubbing men’s issues and focusing on a crude view of women as victims and men as wrongdoers.

Tom Martin made headlines back in 2011 when he attempted to sue London School of Economics for gender bias. Since then he has established himself as a leading male rights activist with a large following. A lot of people don’t like him.'

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'September 12, 2013 9:26 PM

ROYAL OAK (WWJ) – A local hospital facing some opposition to a somewhat standard cultural practice. A demonstration against circumcision is being held this Saturday at noon outside of Beaumont Children’s Hospital.

Norm Cohen is the director of a group called No Circ Michigan. He says his parents had him circumcised and he resents it. He says circumcision is not healthcare.

“It’s not normal to be cutting off normal parts of a child’s body. It violates children and their rights. Every part of our body has a function, so when doctors push this as healthcare, it’s really a pretense that’s done simply for profit and for old-fashioned ideas that do not hold up,” he says.'

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'Today marks the 19th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). As the original author and champion of VAWA, Vice President Biden brought national attention to what had too-long been a hidden problem. Then-Senator Biden held the first hearing on violence against women in the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1990 and introduced the first version of the Act that same year. After five years of hearings exposing the extent of rape, battering and stalking, the Act finally passed Congress and was signed into law by President Clinton on September 13, 1994.

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'When it comes to the Violence Against Women Act, House Republicans behaved as if they were living in the Stone Age, according to Joe Biden.
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Biden characterized skeptics of reauthorization as “this sort of Neanderthal crowd,” according to a pool report.

The Republican-led House renewed the act in February after it was in legislative limbo for a year following its expiration in September 2011. It passed with a 286 to 138 vote, with a majority of GOPers voting against it. All Democrats and 87 Republican lawmakers voted in favor for it.'

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'The by-election will take place next month and campaigners say electing a woman would be a fitting response to the manner of Walker's departure following his conviction for domestic abuse.

The idea of all-party shortlists in Dunfermline has support from political bloggers Susan Dalgety and Kate Higgins, who have supported the idea from opposite sides of the political divide.

Others say the move would amount to positive discrimination and exclude potentially good candidates because they are male. Scotland Tonight asked Kate Higgins why she backed the idea.'

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The slowly recovering U.S. job market has helped women rebound faster than men: They’ve now regained all the jobs they lost to the Great Recession. Men are still 2.1 million jobs short.

And the gender gap is expected to persist until the job market is much healthier.
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Lower-wage industries, like retail, education, restaurants and hotels, have been hiring the fastest. Women are predominant in those areas. Men, by contrast, dominate sectors like construction and manufacturing, which have yet to recover millions of jobs lost in the recession.
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Even though women’s employment has recovered faster than men’s, there are still more men with jobs than women. And more men than women have found work since the recession ended. Yet men still haven’t recovered all their losses because the cuts were so deep in sectors such as manufacturing and construction.'

This story has been mentioned before on MANN, but now it is discussed in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Feel free to post your thoughts on Yale's absurd policy. Excerpt:

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'Benton Police have arrested a woman for filing a false rape report.

According to Lt. Kevin Russell, Kristin Johnson, 24, was charged with filing a false police report after she told officers that a man had broken into her home and raped her shortly before 3:30 p.m. Aug. 19.

Russell said through extensive investigation, officers learned that Johnson was lying and arrested her on Sept. 10.

This is an on-going investigation and additional charges could be possible.'

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'Port Wentworth Police want your help after a woman’s false report of rape costs thousands of dollars in manpower and leaves a scar in the community.

Police are actively looking for the woman who filed that claim.

They say it’s not just about the wasted manpower, that false rape claims trivialize the true victims of that crime.

The crime report happened in March.

Port Wentworth Police responded to a 911 call of rape at a home on south coastal highway.

There was a scene. The female caller said the perpetrator had just fled. But the dogs couldn’t find a scent.'

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'Recently, the Wisconsin state Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's order. In the case of Belva Bowden vs. Amy Korslin, the result is that the court stopped child support payments from Bowden to Korslin, ordered Korslin to return payments she had already received, and upheld Bowden’s regular visitation with the child who is now a teenager.

Their daughter was born in 1998 while the women were in a long-term committed relationship. The couple split in 2006. They had agreed to share expenses of raising their daughter and to equal placement, but in 2008, Korslin sought to restrict their daughter’s time with Bowden. The Wood County judged had ruled that Bowden could have visitation — every other weekend and one weeknight every other week and during some holidays, but the judge would not grant 50% placement. In addition to this the judge ordered her to pay 17% of her gross income in child support to Korslin.

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'An image of woman, apparently, pointing a gun at a toddler's head has gone viral, sparking outrage -- and questions.

Is the gun real? Is it a prank? And, most importantly, who is she?

Hoping to answer those questions -- and ascertain whether the pictured child is in danger -- an anti-domestic violence blog is widely publicizing the image.

"I was sent this picture today by a friend who was very distressed to see it on her page," an entry at No Longer Victims notes. "It apparently was posted to see if anybody could find the girl and if they cared well we do care and we have to find this baby as this scares the hell out of me."'

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'A Scottish teacher whose affair with an underage student led to her being placed on a sex offenders registry has moved the student into the home she previously shared with her husband.

Earlier this year, Eppie Sprung Dawson, 27, a teacher at St Joseph’s College in Dumfries, Scotland, was caught having sex with Matthew Robinson, a 17-year-old student.

The incident, which occurred after a high school dance at Christmastime, cost Dawson her job and marriage.

She narrowly avoided a prison sentence but was ordered to register as a sex offender, according to the Daily Record.

It must have been an affair to remember because Robinson, now 18, recently moved in with Dawson, after getting into an argument with his parents over an unwillingness to clean his room, according to his mother, Sheree Robinson.'