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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - 16 days ago | news, women, violence, politics, crime, presidential election of 2008
    Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits - Editorial

    Quoted: What was the thinking behind cutting the measly few thousand dollars needed to cover the yearly cost of swabs, specimen containers and medical tests? ... The rape-kit controversy is a troubling matter. The insult to rape victims is obvious. So is the sexism inherent in singling them out to foot the bill for investigating their own case. And the main result of billing rape victims is to protect their attackers by discouraging women from reporting sexual assaults.

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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 15 2008 | law, Florida, news, violence, Homeless Persons, teenage
    Attacks on the Homeless Rise, With Youths Mostly to Blame

    Quoted:In Fort Lauderdale a group of teenagers captured national attention in 2006 when a surveillance camera caught one laughing as he beat a homeless man with a baseball bat. The teenagers attacked three homeless men that night and face a murder trial in one man’s death. A year later in Daytona Beach, a 17-year-old and two 10-year-olds attacked a homeless Army veteran. One 10-year-old dropped a cement block on the man’s face, the police said.

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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 30 2007 | news, saudi arabia, violence, women, sharia, wahabbism
    Saudi Rape Case Spurs Calls for Reform

    Quoted: The case of a 20-year-old woman who was sentenced to be lashed after pressing charges against seven men who raped her and a male companion has provoked a rare and angry public debate in Saudi Arabia, leading to renewed calls for reform of the Saudi judicial system.

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