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'A Utah lawmaker wants the state to stop waiting for Congress to act on a national putative father registry and move ahead with an electronic, confidential registry that unwed fathers, adoption agencies and attorneys — and potentially other states — could use to make and search paternity filings in adoption cases.

Sen. Luz Robles, D-Salt Lake, told members of the Health and Human Services Interim Committee on Wednesday the proposal is aimed at providing "equity and justice" to unwed fathers, particularly those from other states who want to be involved in a child’s life but may not know where the mother plans to give birth and place the infant for adoption.

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'The Supreme Court is poised to release its opinion on an affirmative-action case that could forever change the way public colleges and universities consider race in admissions. But even if, as some predict, the justices issue a broad ruling slapping down the use of race in admissions, an open secret in higher education—that many colleges lower their admissions standards for male applicants—remains unchallenged and largely unremarked upon.

This video is from 1/13. There is no text and I can't find any news articles about the incident.

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'LUBEC, Maine — Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith was the victim of an alleged domestic violence assault Thursday evening that resulted in the arrest of his wife, according to Maine State Police.

Around 5:30 p.m., Lynne Kelsey-Smith called state police from the couple’s Lubec home, alleging that the sheriff had threatened her, according to Lt. Roderick Charette.

“She requested a police response to the residence,” he said. “She alleged that she had been threatened [by Smith], but when we got there and actually did the investigation, we arrested her for assaulting him.”
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Kelsey-Smith was released on $1,000 unsecured bail early Friday morning. She is scheduled to appear in Machias District Court on July 1. Domestic violence assault is a Class D crime punishable by up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.'

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'A Brevard County woman is accused of having sex with an 11-year-old boy she was baby sitting.

Megan Nicole Hayes, 21, of Rockledge was arrested on felony sexual battery charges on Thursday, according to court records.

Hayes admitted to police that she had sex with the child she was watching, the Cocoa Police Department said.

Her father told local television stations that his daughter has a low IQ and does not know right from wrong.

Her family declined to comment to the Sentinel.'

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'This year's end-of-year paper purge in my middle school office revealed a startling pattern in my teaching practices: I discipline boys far more often than I discipline girls. Flipping through the pink and yellow slips--my school's system for communicating errant behavior to students, advisors, and parents--I found that I gave out nearly twice as many of these warnings to boys than I did to girls, and of the slips I handed out to boys, all but one was for disruptive classroom behavior.

The most frustrating moments I have had this year stemmed from these battles over--and for--my male students' attention. This spring, as the grass greened up on the soccer fields and the New Hampshire air finally rose above freezing, the boys and I engaged in a pitched battle of wills over their intellectual and emotional engagement in my Latin and English classes, a battle we both lost in the end.

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'(Jamaica Observer) JAMAICA is the lead country in a Caribbean project aimed at developing programmes and strategies to address educational underachievement in boys.

Dubbed: ‘Advancing the Education of Boys’, the initiative is being undertaken as a pilot in Jamaica and three other Caribbean countries through funding and expertise from the Commonwealth Secretariat. It is expected to last three years.

It is being executed locally by the Ministry of Education, through the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Education Programme Officer for the Commonwealth Secretariat Hipolina Josephs told JIS News that the initiative is in response to the need for support identified by member countries at a consultation in Jamaica a few years ago.'

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'One reason I truly believe the Men’s Human Rights Movement is going to continue to grow is that the children who grew up in the wake of all this family devastation are coming of age, and while some were crippled by it, others have thrived and have begun to speak out about what they’ve seen. Most of them are in their 20s and 30s now. Aimee here is still a teenager, but I think she’s probably not going to be the first, or last, person of her generation who we hear from who deplores the sexist hateful narratives of the gender ideologues, and the corrupt family court system.

You can subscribe to her channel here.'

Aimee's latest video is here.

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'MELBOURNE: An 11-year-old boy in New Zealand has become a father after conceiving a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend.

The woman coerced the boy, from Auckland, into repeated sexual encounters over a period of time before becoming pregnant, the New Zealand Herald daily reported. The woman gave the boy beer to drink and then later took part in a sexual encounter with him, the report said. The sexual contact continued for a number of months after the initial encounter. The boy had turned 12 by the time the child was born.

The Child Youth and Family Services, which took a baby into care about two months ago, confirmed it was dealing with a case at the school and that it was before the courts.

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'That's the topic tackled in a recent HuffPost Live segment. Craig Daliessio, the author of "Sometimes Daddies Cry: What a Dad Really Feels About Divorce," shared his experience with the family court system in Nashville after divorce.

"I was paying $1,000 a month because I was a mortgage banker, very successful, and the company I worked for went under in 2008. It takes 11 months to get a modification. During the 11 months, you're rolling up the charge like a taxi meter. I ended up going to jail for 15 weekends because I couldn't pay it," he said. "It is so slanted. I paid $1,000 a month for five years, and I got to see my daughter for six days out of that month. I was basically an ATM machine as far as my ex wife was concerned. I had nothing to do with any of the decisions that were made."'

Story here. Woman kidnaps baby in order to hook her boyfriend, by claiming it is his. Excerpt:

'A 34-year-old St. Paul woman said she kidnapped her friend’s 2-month-old son while everyone was asleep in the Brooklyn Park apartment because she wanted to convince her boyfriend that she gave birth to the baby and that he was the father, according to a charge filed Thursday.

Thalia T. Benson was charged in Hennepin County District Court with kidnapping Elijah Alonzo on Tuesday and remains jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Police tracked Benson to her apartment in St. Paul, Elijah was recovered unharmed and Benson admitted to the kidnapping Christina Alonzo’s son, according to the charge.'

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'A jury of six women, five of them white and the other a minority, was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who says he shot an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in self-defense.

Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, 29, racially profiled the 17-year-old Martin as he walked back from a convenience store on Feb. 26, 2012, in the rain, wearing a dark hooded shirt. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.

The race and ethnicity of the minority chosen for the jury was not immediately available.'

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'School officials in Calvert County, Maryland have denied a request to expunge the suspension of the kindergartener who brought a plastic cap gun on a school bus last month and then wet his pants during a subsequent interrogation.

The refusal came in the form of a letter dated Friday, reports The Washington Post. The letter stated that the five-year-old “did bring a cap gun in his book bag.” It also charged that some other children were frightened and told school officials that they couldn’t discern if the orange-tipped cowboy-style gun was real or fake.
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School officials considered — and denied — the request to eradicate the punishment separately.

The boy’s mother (an otherwise unidentified teacher in Calvert County) expressed frustration that a seemingly serious offense for a look-alike gun will now be part of her son’s permanent record.'

Over-criminalization is a hot-topic in America. And for good reason. Last week we told you about the Center for Prosecutor Integrity's recent survey on the criminal justice system, where two-fifths (42.8%) of the respondents said they believe that prosecutor misconduct is widespread.

We learned that 71.4% believe most cases of prosecutor misconduct are kept hidden from the public. And 73.5% believe prosecutors who commit misconduct are almost never punished. Now it's time to do something about that.

Contact your state lawmakers* today, and ask that they put effort towards ending over-prosecution.

Thank you for joining our efforts to restore confidence in America's criminal justice system.

Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org