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Survivors Of Accused Serial Killer Anthony Sowell Sought By Cleveland Police

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Rapist, Serial Killer, Rape, Police, Crime, Ohio, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, Felon, Sowell Survivors, Sexual Assault, Cleveland Police, Sausage Factory, Murder, Anthony Sowell, Cleveland, House of Horrors, Sowell, Convict, Cops, Home News

CLEVELAND — Now that most of the bodies found at the home of a suspected serial killer have been identified, Cleveland is turning its attention ...

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Mark Mathias Prostitution Case: Denver Mother Sold Sex With Her Own Daughter

Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Mark Mathias, Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Child Prostitution, Mother Pimp, Denver District Attorney, Denver News

A Denver man has been charged by the District Attorney for sexual assault on a child. Mark Mathias, 48, allegedly arranged the assault through the gi...

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Richmond Gang Rape 911 Caller Speaks: Margarita Vargas Heard About Attack, Reported It

Posted 11.08.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Manuel Ortega, Violence Against Women, Richmond High School, Richmond High School Prom, 911 Call, Crime, Gang Rape, Alcohol, Violence, Bay Area Gang Rape, Richmond High School Gang Rape, Suspects, Margarita Vargas, Sexual Assault, Los Angeles News

A 15-year-old girl who was raped, robbed and beaten by multiple attackers outside of her high school homecoming dance was found by police after 18-yea...

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Kevin Jackson, Denver Police Officer, Demoted For Sexual Texts

CBS4 Denver | Brian Maas | Posted 11.03.2009 | Denver

Read More: Sexual Assault, Denver Police Sexting, Denver Officer Demoted, Denver Police, Denver News

A Denver police sergeant has been demoted after the department says he sent a female recruit sexy text messages and made personal phone calls to the w...

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Richmond High Rape--What Do We Do With This?

Byron Williams | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Sexual Violence, Sexual Assault, Richmond-High-School-Gang-Rape, Richmond-High-School-Prom, Living News
Byron Williams

Onlookers used their cell phones to take photos of the spectacle in Richmond, Calif., rather than use them to call police. When did rape become a spectator sport?

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Woman Denied Health Care Insurance After Rape Tells Her Story (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Christina Turner, Huffpost Investigative Fund, Hiv, Preexisting Condition, Rape, rapeisnotapreexistingcondition.com, Sexual Assault, Gender Equality, Insurance Industry, Rapisnotaprexistingcondition, Anderson Cooper, Women's Health, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Com, Politics News

Christina Turner was drugged and raped by two men in 2002. After taking anti-HIV drugs prescribed by her doctor as a preventative measure, Turner was ...

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Police: People Watched Gang Rape Of Teen And Did Nothing To Help

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Manuel Ortega, Violence Against Women, Richmond High School, Richmond High School Prom, Crime, Gang Rape, Alcohol, Violence, Bay Area Gang Rape, Richmond High School Gang Rape, Sexual Assault, Home News

RICHMOND, Calif. -- Police believe as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming d...

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This Halloween, Let's Protect Our Children from Anti-Stranger Hype

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Halloween, Parenting, Family Violence, Crime, Sexual Assault, Family, Child Sexual Abuse, Sex Offenders Laws, Sex Abuse, Sex Offenders, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

A recent analysis on sex abuse concluded there isn't even the smallest blip at Halloween -- no increase in the rates on the days around Halloween compared with days two weeks before or after.

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Rape Victim's Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance?

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Rape, Rape Pre-Existing Condition, Insurance Coverage Denial to Victims of Rape, Health-Care-Companies, Health Care, Sexual Assault, Pre-Existing-Condition, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper preca...

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Republicans for Rape: Lets Get Real

Nathan Havey | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Men Can Stop Rape, Nathan Havey, Sexual Assault, Jamie Lee Jones, Men Against Rape, Al Franken, Repubilcans, Republicansforrape, Politics News
Nathan Havey

Do the Senators against Al Franken's bill consciously support rape? Of course not. But their actions absolutely support a status quo in which rape and sexual violence flourish.

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Mrs. Obama, There's a Call from Australia

Trish Kinney | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Sexual Violence, Michelle Obama, Violence Against Women, Child Abuse, Australia, Trish Kinney, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Child Sexual Abuse, World News
Trish Kinney

Sexual assault and abuse victims deserve our support, encouragement, validation and dignity. In fact, it seems we could learn a lot from our friends in Australia.

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Women Warriors: Supporting She 'Who Has Borne the Battle'

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veteran, Women, Iava, Homelessness, War, Va, Military, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sexual Assault, War Wire, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

After honorably fighting overseas, female veterans shouldn't have to wage new battles once they get home. And they should be treated like heroes, not candy stripers.

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Give Them What They Want: 5 Tips To Avoid Sexual Harrassment

Eli Davidson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Eli Davidson, Sexual Assault, Roman Polanski, David Letterman, Dr Judith Rich, Sexual Harrassment, Living News
Eli Davidson

Has the heady fragrance of Breast Health Month made it Sexual Harassment Month?

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The Gunnery Sex Scandal: Robert Reinhardt, Former Prep School Dean, Charged With 4th Sexual Assault

AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Robert Reinhardt, Connecticut, Prep School, Sexual Assault, Prep Schools, Prep-School-Sex-Scandal, New York, The Gunnery, Litchfield, New York News

LITCHFIELD, Conn. — The former dean of an exclusive Connecticut boarding school has been charged with sexually assaulting a fourth student. For...

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A Losing Proposition -- How Immigration Enforcement Hurts Women and Communities

Irasema Garza | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Customs Enforcement, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Immigrant Women, Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Irasema Garza

A teenage immigrant girl wants to report a sexual assault by her employer but fears that local law enforcement will detain her, rather than prosecute the perpetrator.

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Roman Polanski, And The Making Of A Legend

Megan Carpentier | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, Statutory Rape, Rape, Roman Polanski Court Case, Sexual Assault, Roman Polanski, Entertainment News
Megan Carpentier

Polanski, the master story-teller, has been refining his story for 30 years, weaving his little lies one by one into a cloak intended to shield him from both moral judgment and the legal system.

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Disabled man tackles suspected child molester at Westminster Wal-Mart

Fox 31 | Fox 31 | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Disabled, Child Molester, Tackle, Hero, Sexual Assault, Wal-Mart, Handicapped, Colorado, Home News

It was anything but an ordinary Saturday at the Wal-Mart at 92nd and Sheridan....

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A Beautiful Life

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Victims, Rape, Filmmaking, Incest, Survivors, Film, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Roman Polanski, Living News
Deborah Calla

I worry about people who are abused who are silent and surrounded by others who continue to blame them for their role as "victims" and perpetrate another painful form of abuse: the malice of ignorance.

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Thirty Years Later Rape Is Still Rape: Polanski's Date with Lady Justice

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 11.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sexual Violence, Debra Winger, Rape, France, Hillary Clinton, Criminal Justice, Sexual Assault, Roman Polanski, Entertainment News
C. Nicole Mason

How naïve of Roman Polanski to think we'd forget that he was a wanted man despite the many films he's made and awards he's won over the last three decades.

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Littleton Man Who's Home Was "Haven For Children" Held On Sexual Assault Charges

The Denver Post | Bruce Finley | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Littleton Colorado, Denver News

A 36-year-old man whose home was described as a "haven" for neighborhood children has been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault on a child, ...

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Jamie Leigh Jones: Halliburton Employee's Gang Rape Not Workplace Injury, Court Rules

Mother Jones | � by Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Rape, Doj, Jamie Leigh Jones, Justice Department, Sexual Assault, War in Iraq, u.s. Foreign Policy, Gang Rape, Halliburton, Sexual Harassment, Halliburton/Kbr, Iraq, Business News

Remember Jamie Leigh Jones, the Halliburton/KBR contractor who alleged she was gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq and then imprisoned in a shipping ...

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Michail Sorodsky Hit With $33 Million Bail Bond, Highest In New York

New York Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: New York, Brooklyn, Bail, Michail Sorodsky Bail, Unlicensed Doctor, Michail Sorodsky, Sheepshead Bay, Sexual Assault, Michail Sorodsky Bail Bond, New York News

An allegedly phony Brooklyn doctor accused of sexually abusing patients while they were under anesthesia has the dubious distinction of having the hig...

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Code Red for Women and Girls

Irasema Garza | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sexual Violence, George Sodini, Violence Against Women Act, Rape, Violence Against Women, Legal Momentum, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Irasema Garza

In a five year study, women whose male partners experience two or more periods of unemployment are almost three times as likely to be victims of intimate partner violence.

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South African Women Still Second-Class Citizens

Alex Matthews | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Gender Discrimination, Feminism, Patriarchy, Misogyny, Sexual Violence, South-Africa-Democracy, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, African National Congress, Mbeki, International Women's Day, Sexual Assault, Pretoria, South Africa Aids, Sexual Harassment, Africa AIDS, Status Quo, World News
Alex Matthews

South Africa has a crisis of values in which men are brought up to believe they are entitled to treat women as objects to abuse, hurt, exploit, rape, harass, control and patronize.

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Truth Or Dare Assault

AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Hector Doval, Truth or Dare Assault, Truth or Dare, Bridgeport, Crime, Connecticut, Bridgeport Connecticut, Sexual Assault, New York News

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Police in Connecticut say they arrested a Bridgeport man after a 12-year-old girl alleged she was sexually assaulted during a...

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