Judge ends probation for Debra Lafave, victim under psychiatric care

Article here. Excerpt:

'(CBS/WTSP/AP) TAMPA, Fla. - A judge ruled to end middle-school teacher turned sex-offender Debra Lafave probation early during a court hearing Thursday afternoon.
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The Tampa judge decided Thursday to end the 31-year-old former teacher's probation four years early. She had served two years of house arrest and was scheduled to remain on probation until November 2015 for having sex with a 14-year-old student.

The judge's ruling means she no longer must observe a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, and can travel anywhere outside the area.
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Lafave reportedly got engaged earlier this year and is now the mother of twin boys, she gave birth a month ago.

The victim is now 21. His sister said he is still getting psychiatric care, reports the station.'

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UK: Woman teacher held over sex with schoolgirl, 15

Article here. Excerpt:

'A teacher who admitted sexually abusing a 15-year-old female pupil has been detained under the Mental Health Act.

Suzanne Harrison, 38, pleaded guilty to four sex offences which took place when she worked at a school in Colchester.

Ipswich Crown Court heard Harrison swapped numbers with her victim at the girl's 15th birthday party.

The judge ruled the former Ipswich sixth form college worker, of Wacker Field Road, Rendlesham, Suffolk, should be held in a psychiatric hospital.

Judge Peter Thompson said he had made the ruling after a "very thorough" assessment of her condition.

"This does not mean the court takes a less serious view of the offending - the victim has suffered very significantly, " he told the court.'

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Indiana woman gets probation for false rape report

Story here.

'September 30, 2011 (MISHAWAKA, Ind) -- A former Goshen College student who falsely reported that she was abducted and raped has been sentenced to 18 months of probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.

WSBT-TV in South Bend reports that a judge Thursday also suspended an 18-month prison sentence that Jessica De La Vega could have faced under her conviction of obstructing justice.

Prosecutors said De La Vega told her mother in January she'd been kidnapped and raped as an excuse for being late. She then told police she had been abducted and raped in a Goshen park, leading police to circulate a sketch of a suspect.'

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Woman downed pint of whiskey before groping male Virgin Airways attendant

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'A WOMAN drank more than a pint of whiskey before grabbing a male Virgin Airways steward's penis and demanding sex, a UK court heard.

Katherine Goldberg, 25, from Ealing Common in west London, was on a flight from South Africa to Heathrow last month when she drunkenly assaulted the crew member.

Ms Goldberg, a teacher, was granted bail after her lawyer applied successfully to adjourn the case to make representations in relation to the charge of sexual assault, the London Evening Standard reported.

He said, "It is a serious allegation but there are good reasons why it would be in the public interest for the Crown to deal with her by way of a caution."

Ms Goldberg is charged with one count of sexual assault and another of being drunk in an aircraft.'

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Canada: Education system failing boys

Article here. Excerpt:

'Based on these results one can conclude only one of three things.

Either A) the above observations are anomalies and usually the number of high achievers is typically evenly split between boys and girls, B) girls are generally more intelligent than boys and thus it is natural that they would do better at school or C) the education system is not properly structured to educate males.

The facts point to the obvious conclusion that the education system is failing to educate our boys to the same levels as our girls and has been for decades.

Why has this situation been allowed to exist for as long as it has when it is apparent that the education system is aware of it?

Why is no one talking about this obvious inequity within our society?

Even with the now published inequity in the genders in university entrance, there is still no recognition or discussion of this awful situation.

Why is it that no one cares about the boys?'

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Verizon and National Domestic Violence Hotline Launch ‘Monsters' Video

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'The video, two minutes and 34 seconds long, graphically describes how domestic violence affects children. The child’s voice states:

“A child who lives with domestic violence lives in darkness. …She struggles to separate her nightmares from reality because there’s very little difference. The child who lives with domestic violence isn't afraid of the dark. She’s afraid of her dad because the monster doesn't live in her closet – it’s just down the hall.”'

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Ireland Bans Powerful Child-Abuse PSA for 'Baffling, Idiotic Reason'

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Scotland: Definition of abuse 'should change'

Article here. No mention of women who abuse men. Excerpt:

'Mr Dempsey said the Scottish definition of domestic abuse as primarily about male abusers controlling female victims "dominates" publicity materials and training for medical staff, police officers, judges, housing workers and civil servants. As a consequence, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people who suffer abuse at home, as well as their children, are being marginalised, he argued.
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The Scottish Government's definition of domestic abuse as an offence perpetrated by men against women does "serious damage" to gay and transgendered people suffering violence in the home, an academic has said.'

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Ex-model who killed, ate husband seeks parole

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'Nelson, who worked as a part-time model and nanny in Egypt before immigrating to the US in 1986, killed her 56-year-old husband after just one month of marriage.

She then cooked his head on a stove, skinned his torso and fried his hands in oil, at their Costa Mesa unit in central California, reports the Daily Pilot news website.

Nelson then drove garbage bags filled with body parts to ex-boyfriends, asking them to help dispose of the evidence and offering a $75,000 reward for help.
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Nelson, who was aged in her 20s at the time, told police she was under severe stress and claimed her husband often physically and sexually abused her.'

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Mexico City considers temporary marriage licenses

Article here.

'MEXICO CITY (WLS) - Mexico City lawmakers are proposing legislation that would allow newlyweds to apply for temporary marriage licenses, instead of making the plunge into wedded life a lifetime commitment.

The change to civil code was proposed this week and would allow couples to decide the length of the commitment, with two years as the minimum. If couples are still enjoying wedded bliss when the contract ends, then they would be able to renew the license. And if they’re unhappy, the contract expires and they are both free without going through a divorce.

The legislation has proved to be controversial in Mexico, the country with the second largest Catholic population in world, after Brazil.

A vote is expected on the proposed legislation by the end of the year.'

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IA: Tell the New York Times that circumsicion does not prevent the spread of HIV

From an Intact America alert:

This past Monday, the New York Times published an article claiming that mass-circumcision efforts are “one of the most promising, proven methods for preventing HIV in Africa”—and this is simply not true. Study after study shows that circumcision does not prevent the spread of HIV, and in fact increases the risk, because circumcised men think they are safe, and don’t use condoms.

The most offensive part of the article, however, is this quote from Robert Bailey, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago who helped design Kenya’s circumcision efforts (that country’s 330,000 circumcisions so far are just a third of the government’s goal). “We’re hacking away at it every month,” Dr. Bailey said. “Those foreskins are flying.”

It seems that these doctors, who have built their careers from these mass-circumcision programs, have forgotten we’re talking about human beings with normal, functional, important body parts. “Hacking?” Really?

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Mom who tried to sell baby to be set free

Article here. Excerpt:

'VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A woman who tried to sell her baby boy at a Taco Bell restaurant in southwest Washington will be free from jail soon.

Under an agreement with Clark County prosecutors, 36-year-old Heidi Knowles pleaded guilty on Thursday to reckless endangerment and was sentenced to 77 days in jail by a county judge.

The Columbian reports (http://bit.ly/pYcLlp ) Knowles has already served that amount of time and will be released this week.

According to court documents, prosecutors say Knowles approached a woman in the restaurant on July 14, handed her 1-year-old boy to a woman and offered to sell him for between $500 and $5,000. She declined and called 911.'

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Men's Rights Movement Group at Arizona State University

Site here. Excerpt:

'Feminists and society like to say we live in a Patriarchy. Because men hold more leadership positions than women. But why are all the gender concerns towards women only? None for men! NO UN panels, NO national committees, NO State organizations, NO university departments. None. All for women!

Excuse me, What "Patriarchy"???

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Australia: Female nurse banned after having affair with inmate

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'Nurse Suzanne Maree Dyason fell in love with a male prisoner at the Maryborough Correctional Centre known only as "DH" and had a sexual relationship with him between March 2006 and July 2009, the Courier Mail reports.

The Queensland Civil and Administration Tribunal (QCAT) was told Dyason tried to hide the illicit affair from her superiors and used childhood nicknames in letters and phone calls with DH to avoid detection.
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The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia requested Dyason be banned for three years but Judge Kingham has ordered the ban to be reduced to 18 months and compelled Dyason to seek counselling from a psychologist who specialised in "boundary violation issues".'

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Woman who killed grandchild says she felt unloved

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'FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A grandmother who threw her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a sixth-floor walkway at Virginia's largest shopping mall told detectives in a taped confession that she felt unloved by her family and jealous of the attention her granddaughter received.

More than anything, Carmela dela Rosa told detectives, she was angry at her son-in-law James Ogdoc for taking her daughter away from her and saw killing the infant as a way to get back at him, according to the confession. The tape was played to jurors Tuesday at the woman's murder trial.

"I just saw James through her, through the baby," dela Rosa said in the hour-long videotaped confession to a Fairfax police detective. "I thought about James and I threw her."

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