Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2011-10-18 00:20
Story here. Excerpt:
'MANHATTAN — An Upper West Side mom was charged with stabbing her teenage son — a quiet kid who loved to skateboard — to death in their apartment, police said.
Yvonne Hines, 52, was hit with a manslaughter rap for stabbing Sean Hines, 18, in the leg just before midnight Saturday at their home on West 92nd Street and Columbus Avenue, according to cops.
"That boy was a nice boy, going to school," said Alberto Walters, 76, a resident for 34 years. "Never talked to anybody...It's a shame."
Neighbors said that Sean loved to skateboard and had recently graduated from high school.
When police arrived, the suspect, who has two sealed arrests, came to the door with a bloody sponge, according to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
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Sources said there was a history of domestic incidents at the apartment, including allegations of assault and child abuse. The details of the allegations were not immediately clear.
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2011-10-18 00:19
Story here. Excerpt:
'ATLANTA - Bidemi Bello will spend the next 11 years in a U.S. prison. After that she will be deported back to her native Nigeria, her luxe life in suburban Atlanta decidedly finished.
Bello, 42, was convicted for bringing two Nigerian women to the United States and forcing them to work in her plush home as slaves. U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. sentenced her to 140 months in jail Thursday.
Bello apologized to her two victims, present in the Atlanta courtroom to hear firsthand their abuser's punishment. Bello also apologized to her prosecutors, said U.S. Attorney Susan Coppedge.
"We are very pleased with the sentence," she said. "I think it fits the facts of the case."
Those facts amounted to "shocking modern-day slavery," said Brock Nicholson, the special agent in charge of immigration and homeland security investigations in Atlanta.
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2011-10-18 00:18
Story here. Excerpt:
'(CNN) -- The mother of Lisa Irwin, an 11-month old Missouri girl missing for nearly two weeks, said in an interview she was drunk the night the infant disappeared.
Deborah Bradley made the admission during an NBC interview, portions of which were aired Monday on "Today."
She also said she last saw Lisa at 6:40 p.m. October 3, when she put the girl to bed, not at 10:30 p.m., as initially believed.
Lisa was reported missing at 4 a.m. October 4, after Lisa's father, Jeremy Irwin, came home from work to find the door unlocked, lights on and a window that had been tampered with at the family's Kansas City home.
Bradley told NBC she is afraid she will be arrested. Police have accused her of killing Lisa, she said, and told her that she failed a lie detector test, with deception indicated when she was asked where Lisa was.'
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2011-10-17 22:26
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'LAS CRUCES - A Las Cruces woman was jailed after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend for not buying her another 40-ounce bottle of beer.
Doña Ana Sheriff's Deputies were called to the 9500 block of Butterfield Blvd. at around 5:30 p.m. Thursday after Alexa Monet Rodriguez, 22, allegedly became enraged at her boyfriend and stabbed him in the arm with a 14-inch stainless steel knife, according to sheriff's office spokeswoman Kelly Jameson.
Rodriguez had also allegedly thrown a 3-pound weight at her boyfriend so hard it got lodged in the wall, then struck him in the back with a TV tray and a chair, Jameson said. After the alleged stabbing, Rodriguez allegedly threw the knife at the victim and fled.'
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2011-10-17 18:25
Article here. Excerpt:
'A lesbian couple in California who say their 11-year-old son Tommy who wants to be a girl named Tammy are giving their child hormone blockers that delay the onset of puberty -- so that he can have more time that he can have more time to decide if he wants to change his gender.
The couple’s supporters say the Hormone Blocking Therapy has only minor side effects and is appropriate for a child who is unsure of his gender. "This is definitely a changing landscape for transgender youth," said Joel Baum, director of education and training for Gender Spectrum, a California-based non-profit group. "This is about giving kids and their families the opportunity to make the right decision."
Submitted by Minuteman on Mon, 2011-10-17 11:58
There's nothing in the press release to suggest that the work of these five females is any more worthy than that of the recipients of the other 1305 grants. Link here. Excerpt:
'Queensland’s leading female researchers will receive funding to continue their groundbreaking work in osteoporosis, the genetics of ovarian cancer and childhood obesity prevention, the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, announced today.
The Gillard Labor Government is providing $673.7 million for 1,140 grants to support researchers, research projects and research institutions Australia-wide. This represents the single biggest investment of grants for health and medical research in Australian history.
Queensland researchers will receive $96.5 million for 169 grants through the National Health and Medical Research Council.
“These grants support our research community to continue to do what they do so well – making cutting edge discoveries that improve the diagnosis, treatment and cure of illnesses that touch all Australians,” Mr Butler said.'
Submitted by Minuteman on Mon, 2011-10-17 03:01
Story here. Excerpt:
'The woman allegedly told police she felt no regret about what she had done to her husband, who is 29 years old, jobless and a known user of illegal drugs.
Police said she claimed to have suffered beatings even though she had worked at a local karaoke shop to support the family since the pair married two years ago.
Her husband's affair with another woman, which he did not attempt to hide, prompted her revenge, the suspect said, according to police.'
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2011-10-16 20:30
Article here. Excerpt:
'OREM — For three years, two families have wanted the same baby.
The birth father and his family have been fighting the legal system and an Orem adoption agency, declaring that the father's rights as a parent have been violated.
The birth mother, who lives in California, said she's been slandered and maligned for choosing what she felt was the best for her baby.
In the meantime, the baby's adoptive parents have been raising the little girl, praying that soon they'll be able to permanently call her theirs.
After a recent Utah Supreme Court decision affirming a 3rd District Court ruling, the longed-for adoption finalization is closer than ever before.
The Supreme Court ruled this week that the baby's birth father, Cody O'Dea, waived all of his parental rights in 2006 by not complying with Utah law to establish paternity.
Submitted by Broadsword on Sun, 2011-10-16 04:41
Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2011-10-15 21:28
Article here. Excerpt:
'Under most legal definitions, forced sexual intercourse can be considered rape or sexual assault only when the victim said “no” or was incapable of doing so due to the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to Meier.
Meier said that she and other students on the committee hoped to push the University instead toward an “enthusiastic consent” model, in which an incident can be called rape in the absence of affirmative agreement.
“The only people who lose out in this model are the rapists,” said Lila S. Schreiber ’12, who had also intended to serve on the committee.
Meier said that she plans to discuss the stay on student involvement with Rankin, but she might eventually consider leading a “student protest” or “something more radical” than acting through administration-approved channels if she feels that student voices on this issue are not being heard.'
Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2011-10-15 18:19
Report here. Excerpt:
'Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Police in Zimbabwe on Friday charged three women found in possession of 33 condoms containing semen with 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault in a case that may be a break in a string of sex attacks over the past two years by women targeting male hitchhikers.
Prosecutor Michael Reza told a court in Harare that the counts were for each of the 17 men who had positively identified the women as having sexually assaulted them in 2010 or 2011.
The women, all of them in their mid-20s, were arrested Sunday in Gweru, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of Harare, when their car was involved in an accident. Police found the condoms in the women's car. Police appealed to any other victims to inform police.
The three were taken Wednesday by police to Harare.
Submitted by Minuteman on Fri, 2011-10-14 11:14
Story here. Excerpt:
'Brazil's National Advertising Council has denied a request to ban a television ad featuring lingerie-clad supermodel Gisele Bundchen after a government agency called it sexist.
"The stereotypes in this ad campaign are common in society, easily identifiable and do not denigrate women," the council's members said on Thursday.
Brazil's Ministry for Women submitted a request in September to suspend the ad, saying it reinforces the stereotype of women as sex objects.
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Some men had called for the ad to be put down because it took them for "idiots".'
Submitted by Minuteman on Thu, 2011-10-13 16:12
Link to news release here. Excerpt:
'The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking its internal culture-change message to the public with a new video about the vital role women play in the military and the importance of providing women Veterans with high quality health care.
VA’s Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group recently completed a 60-second public service announcement (PSA) that challenges viewers to rethink pre-conceived notions about women Veterans. This dynamic video features images of women in service to our country: they drive supply trucks, participate in reconnaissance missions, walk safety patrols, and operate helicopter machine guns.
“When these brave women complete their service and become Veterans, we want them to know that VA is there to meet their health care needs,” said Dr. Patricia Hayes, Chief Consultant of the VA’s Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group. “At the same time, we want the public to recognize the contributions of women Veterans and the benefits they have earned through their service to the Nation.”'
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2011-10-13 12:11
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2011-10-13 12:02
From Marc A.:
Interestingly, this new study in Canada found that, among male doctors, their opinion on infant male circumcision correlates strongly with whether they are circumcised themselves, with 68% of the uncut doctors opposing infant male circumcision, and 68% of the cut doctors supporting it. http://www.jmhjournal.org/article/S1875-6867(10)00050-3/abstract
No wonder pro-circumcision advocacy comes mostly from the U.S., with its high (but declining) circumcision rate, while national medical associations throughout the rest of the world find no medical justification for it and some are flat-out calling it harmful and unethical. Obviously, culture influences science.
The British Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons' 9/09 report declared:
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