Sexual Abuse

Sex Crimes in the White House

Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lynndie England, Sexual Torture, Condoleezza Rice, CIA Torture, Sex Torture, Torture and Democracy, Condoleezza Rice Torture, Sexual Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Politics News

The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.

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Supreme Court ruling on child rape strikes a blow to human rights.

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 06.30.2008 | Life

Read More: Justice Kennedy, Supreme Court, Capital Punishment, Child Rape, Harvard University, Rape of a Child, United Nations, Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz, Crc, Sexual Abuse, Spitzer, Perpetrator, Child Sexual Abuse, Life News

Last Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy s...

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Serious News: Indian Abuse Ignored For Decades. Why?

Sharon Waxman | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Native American, Native Americans, New York Times, Native American Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Canada, Physical Abuse, Media News

Canada has apologized to the country's Native Americans, for forcing them into residential schools where they were physically and sexually abused.

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Appealing to the Texas Supreme Court to Save the Children

Deborah King | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas Supreme Court, Polygamy, Sexual Abuse, Family and Protective Services, Flds, Home News

The Department of Family and Protective Services appealed to the Texas Supreme Court today, bluntly stating that "this case is about adult men command...

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Pope Benedict is Living in Denial

Bill Press | Posted 04.21.2008 | Life

Read More: Pope Benedict, Sexual Abuse, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, Life News

Even though for the first time he expressed regret at the way the Church covered up the priest pedophile scandal, he still refuses to recognize what lies at the heart of the problem.

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Women and the Church -- Catholicism's Original Sin

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

In the face of blatant discrimination against women, to which Pope Benedict has mightily contributed, what exactly is the basis for the Church hierarchy's moral authority?

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Between the Sheets in Texas, and Everywhere

Deborah King | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eldorado Texas, Polygamy, Child Abuse, Church of Latter Day Saints, Sexual Abuse, Politics News

It is certainly not only a splinter Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints group that forces young girls to have sex. No one is immune. No child is safe.

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Prosecuting Polygamy in El Dorado

Marci Hamilton | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

There is nothing so dangerous for a child as an insular, patriarchical religious organization and the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints is one of the scariest examples.

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Attention, New York Daily News: 7-Year-Olds Don't "Have Sex"

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Child Abuse, Rape, Nixzmary Brown, Media Coverage of Sexual Assault, Children Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Nixzmary Brown Sexual Assault, Nixzmary Brown Rape, Media News

Seven-year-old girls don't "have sex" with grown-ups. They're sexually abused by grownups. They're raped by grownups. But "have sex"? No.

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Boys Gone Wild at Giants Stadium, Gate D

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 11.21.2007 | Life

Read More: Alternative Halftime Show, Giants Stadium Halftime, Sexual Objectification, Sexual Double Standard, Jets Game Halftime, Indecent Exposure, Sexual Abuse, Gate D, Women Flashing, Life News

Too many women are taking off their shirts not because they are sluts, but because all around them, they see that this is what women are supposed to do.

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Contrary to AP Report, Single Parents Do Not Murder Their Children and Bury Them in Cement

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.18.2007 | Life

Read More: Murder, Children of Single Parents, Child Abuse, Single Parents, Healthy Marriage Initiative, Marriage Movement, Children of Divorce, Singles, Sexual Abuse, Nontraditional Families, Life News

Children in single-parent households are obviously in homes without both biological parents, and their family structures are nontraditional, so they must be the ones at risk for getting pummeled to death, right?

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Porn, Violence, Free Speech, the KGB, Google, and the Democrats

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Masturbation, Violent Art, Porn, Free Speech, Erotica, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Politics News

Today "free speech" is about the dissection of genitalia, the ripping open of orifices, the sucker-punching of strangers.

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The Catholic Indian Mission Pedophiles Must Not Go Unpunished

Tim Giago | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics

Read More: St. Francis Lawsuit, Native Americans, St Pauls Lawsuit, Catholic School Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Sex Abuse to Children, Native Americans Molested, Politics News

Having spent 10 years of my life at an Indian mission boarding school, I can readily attest to the physical, mental and sexual abuse of the children there.

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