Male Rape in the Military: Michael's Story
The culture of tolerance for sexual assault and rape is pervasive in the military, and has been for decades. The military has become, essentially, a safe haven for serial rapists.
The culture of tolerance for sexual assault and rape is pervasive in the military, and has been for decades. The military has become, essentially, a safe haven for serial rapists.
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.29.2012
It should be no surprise that on America's farms, so many women are treated as less than human, since not even the government sees them as worthy of respect under the law.
Katharina Obser | Posted 05.21.2012
That the Obama administration has articulated in no uncertain terms that the Prison Rape Elimination Act should apply to all confinement is a huge victory for the countless detained individuals around the country.
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.21.2012
A northern California woman has pleaded no contest to having sex with her teenage son after the two reconnected on Facebook. Mistie Atkinson, 32, o...
Eli Lehrer | Posted 05.21.2012
Within a few years, the official rape prevention rules in every correctional facility in the country will be a lot better than they were a decade ago. The problem, however, isn't going to go away until a real cultural shift takes place in America.
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.17.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration ordered federal, state and local officials Thursday to adopt zero tolerance for prison rape as it issued m...
AP | Posted 05.08.2012
DAYTON, Ohio -- A not guilty plea has been entered for an Ohio man accused of raping a boy who authorities say was brought to the man's home by the bo...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.05.2012
Diplomacy is one thing; enabling is another. It seems Rwanda and the United States have been caught with their diplomatic pants down. Congolese and i...
The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.08.2012
A rape victim in Texas admitted this week that the man who spent five years in jail for assaulting her is innocent. In an exclusive interview with ...
Allen Frances | Posted 05.07.2012
The prize for the most wayward of all the DSM 5 work groups must surely go to the sexual disorders group -- creators of three remarkably off-beat proposals.
AP | Posted 05.04.2012
DAYTON, Ohio — An adoptive father who's been accused of raping three boys in his care was indicted along with another man Friday on rape charges...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.07.2012
Two students from Roswell, Ga., are facing charges of aggravated sodomy and aggravated molestation after a 10-year-old deaf boy reported that he was s...
Reuters | Laura Zuckerman | Posted 05.03.2012
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department unveiled a broad probe on Tuesday into complaints that authorities were failing to aggressively investigate se...
North by Northwestern | Posted 05.02.2012
As part of the campus dialogue on sexual assault during Northwestern's Take Back the Night campaign, we take a look at the ways in which sexual assault is an issue in terms of policies and politics.
Posted 05.01.2012
A Nice, Calif. woman faces incest charges after she allegedly had sex with her 16-year-old biological son. Police said they found Mistie Atkinson w...
Mette Lampcov | Posted 04.30.2012
The Huffington Post | Hilary Tuttle | Posted 04.27.2012
In only the first four months of 2012, almost 300 rapes and four serial rapists have been reported in Detroit, and a 2011 survey found 37 percent of w...
Nancy Farese | Posted 04.25.2012
Christine Pelosi | Posted 04.25.2012
It is said April is the cruelest month and certainly this April Florida Governor Rick Scott landed the cruelest act, vetoing funding for rape crisis c...
AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 04.24.2012
DETROIT — Two women testified in a Detroit courtroom Tuesday that an 18-year-old man approached them as they walked alone on city streets this m...
Nancy Parrish | Posted 04.23.2012
We would like to believe that this most recent in a series of pledges of "zero tolerance" will make a difference. However, we would only know the Pentagon is serious and effective when the careers of those senior commanders who fail to provide positive leadership and take effective action are ended.
AP | By JUSTIN POPE | Posted 04.23.2012
-- A closed- door encounter between two college acquaintances. Both have been drinking. One says she was raped; the other insists it was consensual. ...
Nancy Parrish | Posted 04.20.2012
America's troops deserve better than spin and half-hearted actions that fail to address core problems. They deserve real action. That means no longer hiding behind manipulated statistics and fundamentally reforming the way the military handles sexual assault and rape.
Nico Lang | Posted 04.18.2012
As we observe Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we must realize that our responsibility to the women and men who have been affected by sexual violence extends for more than just 30 days. Education and outreach are life-long endeavors.
Posted 04.18.2012
The Brooklyn DA's office sat on a rape recantation for nearly a year while two men accused of the crime sat behind bars, documents reveal. Last Jun...
Nancy Parrish | Posted 05.29.2012