Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2013-02-19 21:58
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'A woman who served time in state prison for having sex with two underage boys, including one who was dating her teenage daughter, is back in jail for allegedly violating her parole by possessing pornography, authorities said Tuesday.
Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 44, was arrested Friday night after state parole agents found pornography in a surprise compliance visit to her Hayward home, said Fred Bridgewater, state parole spokesman.
There was no indication that the pornography involved children, but Hubbs is not allowed to possess any pornography under the conditions of her parole, Bridgewater said.'
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-02-19 03:23
From Warren Farrell:
Reddit's Ask Me Anything is doing a highlighted interview with me on Tuesday, February 19th at 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern). I thought you might like to ask a question. I am writing this a few days ahead of time because, to do so, you would need to sign up for a Reddit account and familiarize yourself with how the Ask Me Anything (AMA) works. To submit a question, you may go to http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA and locate my AMA on Tuesday at 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern), click on it, and put a question in the comments/questions box.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-02-19 02:54
Submitted by MikeJH on Tue, 2013-02-19 00:35
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'A teenager who put a man through two months of torment by falsely accusing him of rape has been spared jail.
Sophie Hooper, 19, told police she had been forced to have sex against her will with a man she had only just met in the pub.
But two months later her conscience got the better of her and she wrote a letter to the police confessing she had lied about the allegations.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-02-18 18:50
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'Elaine Cook and her boyfriend of 10 months went out last week for Valentine’s Day, returned to her apartment and got in a fight.
She asked him to leave. He wanted to end the argument. So he leaned in for a kiss.
That’s when prosecutors said she bit off a “large” piece of his tongue.
Now the 51-year-old Cook, of the 9400 block of Lockwood in Skokie, is charged with aggravated domestic battery.
She was arrested Friday, records show, and Cook County Judge Israel Desierto ordered her held Sunday in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Her boyfriend, meanwhile, said he has “a lot of mixed feelings.” He said he’s trying to heal after losing the right side of his tongue, and he asked not to be named.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-02-18 18:28
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'EL CAJON, Calif. - A female teacher's aide who had sex with a 15-year-old male student at a school for juvenile offenders was sentenced Thursday to probation and ordered to register as a sex offender.
Chrystina Delrosario, 25, pleaded guilty in December to two counts of having unlawful sex with a minor. She admitted she had sex with the boy in a classroom in late June at La Mesa's Reflections Central School, an educational program for juvenile offenders run by the San Diego County Office of Education on behalf of the county Probation Department.
Judge John Thompson suspended a 365-day jail term for Delrosario pending successful completion of her three-year probation.
The judge said he would "entertain" withdrawing the sex registration requirement after a year of probation and would also consider reducing the felony conviction to a misdemeanor after two years of successful probation.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-02-18 18:21
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'Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings wants 10,000 men to join him March 23 at City Hall Plaza for a rally and campaign against domestic abuse. It's part of the mayor’s efforts to change a culture of violence.
Mayor Mike Rawlings says for too long domestic violence was seen as a women’s issue.
“Well, it ain’t," Rawlings told the audience at a launch of his campaign against domestic violence. "It’s a men’s issue, and we have got to make that very clear.”
Flanked by dozens of men, including former Dallas Cowboys Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith, the Mayor announced the March 23rd rally.
“I want fathers to bring their sons because this is undoubtedly a learned behavior," Rawlings said. "And we have an intergenerational teaching moment right here. We have a unique opportunity to change the mind set of the next generation in Dallas.”'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-02-18 18:16
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'Officers were summoned at 1:19 a.m. Feb. 13 to an apartment in the 400 block of South Harold Street for a report of domestic violence. They met the victim outside, where he waited in an alley for police to arrive.
He told officers that Rebecca G. Thomas-Deal, 24, was upset at him because she thought he wasn't listening to her and the couple argued, according to the FBPD. Thomas-Deal allegedly started throwing household items at the victim, pushing him and hitting his face and chest. Officers reportedly found several scratches on the victim's face and chest.
Based on the evidence and visible injuries, officers arrested Thomas-Deal on suspicion of domestic violence, according to the FBPD. She was booked at the Fort Bragg Police Department and taken to the Mendocino County Jail, where her bail was set at $25,000.'
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Submitted by GaryB on Sun, 2013-02-17 23:26
This is a really interesting story, currently popular on Reddit - and an MRI in my opinion. I just bet the girls on that cruise got ample time with princesses and various empowering females in one form or another. Good on this kid for complaining. Excerpt:
'IF AN eight-year-old kid is unsatisfied with a Disney Cruise Line experience, he has every right to complain. He's obliged to complain.
And this eight-year-old kid, Ethan, did just that, after he was robbed of the chance to see his heroes, or, "guys" he thinks "are cool" on the Disney Dream.
"I wish I could have met some princes like Aladdin or Eric, but there was no boy character on the ship," he wrote.
"I would also like to meet Jack Sparrow. It made me a little sad. I complained a lot. I'm not sure we'll go on another cruise again."'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-02-17 19:45
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'Seventy-six percent of rapists were abused themselves as children. This is true with circumcision and its societal structure. Child abuse and other types of abuse are generational. Circumcision is a type of Munchausen by Proxy.
Passing on experienced trauma by doing the same to others is a Repetition Compulsion. The act is to fill a lacking in the perpetrator’s own inner self-worth.
- 1: The cycle begins with feeling of Betrayal, whether conscious or subconscious.
- The victim tries to psychologically mediate by obtaining and exercising Power.
- Performing a power-based action on another person is to affect Control over them.
- This gives the perpetrator, whether an individual or a social force, a sense of assumed Authority. It also assumes a right to exercise influence over another person’s life personally as well as those residing within the Social Body.
- The active component is a Manipulation. Ritual manipulates objects.[4] Circumcision’s object is the genitals.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-02-17 19:43
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'Where a person is incarcerated can make or break a family's ability to stay connected — something the 4,000 children of incarcerated mothers in this state know well. Visiting far-away prisons like Albion, the state's largest women's prison, located eight hours from Manhattan, has become even more difficult since state corrections eliminated its free community bus program in 2011.
Being close to home minimizes the trauma and stress of incarceration for both children and parents, and decreases the risk of an incarcerated parent losing touch with, and sometimes parental rights to, his or her children. Keeping family connections strong also makes prisons safer (by providing incentive for good behavior) and communities safer (by providing support for people to stay out of prison after they go home).'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-02-17 19:41
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'Labour will have all-women shortlists in half its key London target seats at the next general election, shadow minister for London Sadiq Khan reveals today.
Giving his first interview in his new role as Labour’s general election campaign chief for the capital, he pledged that six out of the 12 London targets will be fought by women, with men barred from the selection contests.
“It frankly beggars belief that in 2013 we still only have one in five parliamentarians who are women,” he said. “Even in the Labour Party, the most progressive of all parties, we don’t have enough women or ethnic minorities — and we need to address that.”'
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-02-16 21:58
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'DETROIT (WXYZ) - Lional Campbell's son, Michael, passed away at the age of three from acute meningitis.
"It took a lot out of me," says Campbell who is from Detroit and now lives in Kentucky. And it's that distance that is making even more difficult for Campbell to wage a fight with Wayne County Friend of the Court over child support that Campbell says he is still paying for Michael.
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For years, Campbell never questioned paying child support to Friend of the Court because he thought the money was for what he owed for an older son he fathered with Michael's mother.
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Campbell reached out to 7 Action News and while a spokesperson for the Friend of the Court could not talk specifically about Campbell's case because of privacy issues, they did tell us that surcharges drastically raise the amounts owed by non-custodial parents.
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Submitted by Minuteman on Sat, 2013-02-16 10:46
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'It is often performed on girls under the age of ten. It is a violation of the human rights of women and girls and there is no place for it here in Australia. Its occurrence in this country cannot be excused by culture.
The Gillard Government today announced it would immediately implement the following measures:
• Provide $500,000 in grants to fund organisations to run education and awareness activities and support change within communities, as we know public education and awareness is key to change.
• New research and data collection on female genital mutilation will be undertaken as a priority. This will help us build the evidence needed to support women and girls affected by female genital mutilation.
• Minister Plibersek will hold a national summit on this subject early next year, bringing together community, health, legal and policing experts to discuss how we can increase awareness and support and reduce incidence in Australia.
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Submitted by MikeJH on Sat, 2013-02-16 10:28
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'Marriage is as important to the future of the nation as climate change and poverty, a senior family lawyer said yesterday.
Baroness Deech said the growing numbers of families without fathers was doing more harm to the next generation than other factors such as smoking, alcohol, poor diet and lack of exercise.
And she warned that a conspiracy of silence surrounded the issue because political leaders were afraid to say married families were better for children than cohabiting families or single parent families.'
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