Articled here. Excerpt:

'Keyvette Gamble went to a friend’s house with her 4-year-old daughter, playing cards into the early morning with plans to spend the night at the Southwest Washington apartment. After everyone had nodded off, Gamble slipped over to a bed where her friend’s 14-year-old son was sleeping.

Gamble, 24, then sexually assaulted the teenage boy, according to court records. The attack in September was one of three child sex abuse cases to reach a D.C. courtroom this year that involved an adult female defendant accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy.

While sex abuse cases are all too common, prosecutors and child victim advocates say prosecutions of adult women sexually attacking boys are extremely rare. All unrelated, the three cases in the District surprised local authorities and have raised awareness of an often-underreported crime.

Article here. Excerpt:

'(Arlington, TN) There will be no jail time for an Arlington teacher who admitted having sex with two of her students.

That has people wondering if the punishment fits the crime.

A judge ordered Stacy Hopkins to have no contact with the two students with whom she had sex when she was a teacher at Arlington High School.

Not only can she not teach here anymore, she cannot have a job with anyone under the age of eighteen.

A judge gave Hopkins four years of probation after she plead guilty to two counts of aggravated statutory rape, but she escaped jail time.

Some people like Cathy Park think the sentence shows a double standard in the courtroom, “If this were a case where it was a male on a young female or if the children were younger, I think it would have been much more harsh.”'

Story here. Excerpt:

'TEXAS (WABC) -- A Texas jury saw dramatic video in the trial of a high school teacher is accused of having group sex with several of her students.

Prosecutors say 28-year-old Brittni Colleps had sex with five of her students in 2010.

Colleps, a mother of three and former English teacher, is accused of arranging the meetings through text messages.
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This week, a jury saw cell phone video of a sexual encounter with four of the teens that the fifth one recorded.

Colleps is charged with several counts, including deviate sex and improper relationship between educator and student. She remained silent during her trial and Judge Ruben Gonzalez entered a not guilty plea. She faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted.

Her husband, Christopher Colleps, a soldier stationed at Louisiana's Fort Polk, has previously said he will support his wife and that they will remain married.

The teens are considered adults, but the law protects students from a relationship with someone in a superior position.'

Article here.

'Taxi drivers in Derry, Northern Ireland are installing video cameras in the cars. It all started with one driver, who installed a video camera in the cabin after an incident that saw a drunk passenger attempt to take control of the steering wheel. Some time after that, the driver was attacked by another customer, and used the footage in the trial that followed.

However, there’s another reason behind the aforementioned move. In 2011, there was at least one rape accusation that proved to be false and driver don’t want to go through such an experience.

"I know a lot of drivers who will not work at night because of fears of being attacked or robbed but the biggest fear they have is of being falsely accused of rape," said Jarlath Malone, owner of Derry cab company Foyle Delta.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'On Monday, Lok Sabha had passed the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2010, drafted by Krishna Tirath, minister of women and child development without discussion despite uproar from BJP members.

Right groups raised concerns about passing of the Bill without consulting male representatives.

“There are times when we find that there is unwanted feminine attention which is overwhelming and discomforting. Further worse, pervert social mindsets force male victims to keep quiet,” said Atit, president of Men’s Rights Association, a rights group.

Swarup Sarkar, member of a rights group pointed out that based on presentations made by men’s rights organisations, the parliamentary standing committee on human resources development had also recommended that the law should be made gender-neutral and men should also be provided equal protection.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - There is backlash from both sexes after posters supporting men's rights were ripped down in Vancouver's Commercial Drive neighbourhood.

Some of the posters read "Stop violence against women, but not men, because men don't matter -- despite being more often the victims of violence." Many of the posters have been either taken down or defaced.

News1130 hit the streets to find out what you think about the controversial message. Men and women we spoke with say they should be left up because we don't hear enough about men's rights. They also believe Vancouver is an open-minded city.
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"You don't hear a lot about [men's rights] and that's the surprising part. It is very surprising that they're being ripped down. Definitely, they should go back up. You see signs up for everything around here and to select which ones we put up and which ones we don't, it's a little bit ridiculous," explains another man.

Letter here. Excerpt:

'In any debate, people are entitled to their opinions, but not their own facts. The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a revised circumcision policy statement that relies on selectively chosen facts to support the alteration of normal male genitalia ("Pediatrician Group Says Pros Outweigh Cons in Circumcision," Aug. 27 news article).

Read it here. Pandering knows no political ideology or moral limits. There doesn't seem to be a contact page but there is a Facebook account for them here. Excerpt:

'Patriot Voices has released a survey by The Tarrance Group that listens to the voices of moms through an online survey in five Battleground states – Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, and Virginia. What it found shows that Moms Know Best, and that candidates running for national office this November shouldn’t discount the opinions of Moms across these important states. Most acknowledge that they are a key voting block this year, and that although many minds are seemingly made up, this demographic famously make up their minds late, or are often willing to change them.

Article here. Excerpt:

'JTA — One of Germany’s 16 states has declared circumcision legal, but only if performed by doctors — not, as required by Jewish law, by mohels.

Berlin, Germany’s capital and itself a state, is the first to declare the practice legal following a Cologne court ruling in June that non-medical circumcisions on children amounted to a criminal offense, according to DPA, a German news wire. National legislation is pending to legalize circumcision.

State Justice Minister Thomas Heilmann made the announcement Wednesday, saying he felt it necessary to allay fears in this “difficult transitional period,” the Associated Press reported.

The Berlin state has authorized only doctors, and not mohels, to perform circumcisions. National legislation could authorize mohels. The state also required that parents be informed of the procedure’s medical risks before consenting, and that doctors do everything possible during the procedure to reduce pain and limit bleeding.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Emily’s List president Stephanie Schriock says that in 2008 about 10 million more women than men voted in the historic presidential election the propelled Barack Obama into the White House.

Now Schriok and the group that promotes Democratic women candidates across the county hopes that the women’s vote will help Obama win another term.

“We’re going to make sure that happens again,” Schriock told me while at a reception at the Democratic National Convention given by the National Women’s Political Caucus. “It’s going to be great. We can do it.”

The reception, at an uptown bar in Charlotte, featured fiery speeches by veterans of the feminist movement. They claimed that Republicans were waging a war against women and reproductive rights and would fail.

Republicans dismissed this notion and contend their conservative, pro jobs agenda is better for all Americans, including women.

Democrats disagree.'

Stroy here. Excerpt:

'Suspicious that a woman concocted a tale of being threatened at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend, a state Superior Court judge in Morristown has suggested that police and the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office investigate the woman’s claim of being victimized.

“I’m going to reiterate: It appears you have grossly misused the domestic violence law,” Family Division Judge Thomas J. Critchley Jr. told Melanie Pilcher, 44, at a hearing in August.

“It’s foolishness what you’ve done and the banner under which you’ve marched. It’s on its face absurd some of the things you’ve been saying.” the judge said.

The current obstacle for the man Pilcher has accused — Jefferson resident Robert A. Mertrud, 55 — is that he remains criminally charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, a charge that alone carries a punishment of up to 10 years in prison upon conviction.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A bomb hoax in Philadelphia that turned a Dallas-bound flight around and led to a full-scale SWAT response was apparently triggered by a spiteful ex-girlfriend who telephoned authorities to say her former beau was aboard the US Air flight armed with liquid explosives, police told ABC News.

According to authorities, Christopher Shell, a salesman in his 20's who travels between Philadelphia and Dallas, had no explosives and is cooperating with authorities. He appears to have been the victim of a cruel joke.

When asked how Shell reacted when police took him off the plane, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Joseph Sullivan said at a news conference, "He was obviously very alarmed as I would be if heavily armed police entered a plane to take me off...he was certainly stunned."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Just 69.8 percent of all men over age 16 were in the labor force in August, compared to a long-term average of 78.3 percent since the Labor Department began tracking these data in 1948. The share has been falling pretty steadily over the last six decades but has declined sharply in the last few years.
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For example, a lot of traditionally male jobs, in industries like manufacturing and construction, have disappeared, and many of the men who were displaced gave up looking for work when they couldn’t find similar jobs.'

Relatedly (and ironically), Secretary Hilda Solis attends ‘Women in the Workforce’ discussion. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'More men in the early childhood education sector would not only bring a range of benefits for children, but could also lift the quality of early childhood education, improve staff dynamics and encourage fathers to become more involved with their child’s education, a new survey shows.

A more diverse workforce, with men represented as well as women, is seen as being necessary to expand the quality of early childhood education for children and bring different viewpoints and ways of working to the ECE profession and the sector.

The ChildForum Early Childhood Network survey questioned hundreds of people involved with early childhood education services and teacher educators about whether they would like to see more men in the workplace and what benefits or disadvantages that could bring.'

Article here. Man uses airplane bomb threat to "avenge" another man's posting of compromising pictures of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook. When will men stop upholding the "honor" of women? Excerpt:

'A man angry about a compromising Facebook photo of his girlfriend took revenge against the ex-boyfriend who posted it, making a hoax call to police that set off a terrorism scare and got the former beau taken off an airliner at gunpoint, authorities say.

The new boyfriend, Kenneth W. Smith Jr., was arrested Friday on charges of making a false threat to Philadelphia police, who recalled a Dallas-bound flight and marched the ex-beau, Christopher Shell, off the plane Thursday.

The episode led to Shell's own arrest on drug warrants after he finally reached Texas to celebrate his 29th birthday.'