Keyword: sexualassualt
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Why did Christine Blasey Ford wait so long? I'll tell you ... By Leslie Marshall The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh seemed all but certain a few days ago, until a woman named Christine Blasey Ford came forward accusing him of sexual assault when they were in high school. The alleged crime having taken place decades ago has prompted many to ask: Why did she wait so long? I can tell you why. In a word ... Fear In my freshman year of college, I was the victim of something quite similar, on my 18th birthday. I understand why Dr....
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Natasha Smith planned to be in Cairo today to see Mohammed Morsi take his oath as Egypt’s first Islamist president. But the British journalist was forced to leave the capital city prematurely, she reported, “following a horrific sexual and physical attack in Tahrir Square.” It is just the latest, sickening evidence that Islam is not the “religion of peace” its adherents claim. Smith’s attack occurred earlier this week as she was making her way to Tahir Square, where a throng had gathered to celebrate Morsi’s historic election. Though Smith was “accompanied by two male companions for safety,” they could not...
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A Transportation Security Administration employee is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Manassas. The suspect, Harold Glen Rodman, 52, allegedly was wearing his uniform and displayed a badge to the victim, a 37-year-old woman. Police arrested Rodman on Nov. 20. He is charged with aggravated sexual battery, object sexual penetration, forcible sodomy and abduction with intent to defile. Police said the victim reported that she and a friend were in the 10500 block of Winfield Loop in Manassas when the suspect approached them. The suspect flashed a badge and sexually assaulted the victim before fleeing on foot, police said....
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(AP) — JACKSON, Mississippi - Police had been watching Vincent Goff for years, convinced he was the masked man who sexually assaulted couples at gunpoint on the Mississippi coast. But before investigators closed in, they say Goff picked the wrong victim and was beaten nearly to death with his own rifle. Goff, a 37-year-old unemployed Biloxi man with a wife and two stepsons, was being held Wednesday in the Harrison County Jail after spending five days in a hospital recovering from severe head wounds. Little is known about Goff's background or the unidentified man who beat him so hard that...
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For five months in 2007 and 2008, a masked man with a gun and blue surgical gloves terrorized residents and travelers of the Columbia River Gorge. Robber has record in California He robbed a pair of college students as they gazed up at the stars at Crown Point. After taking their cell phones, cash and car keys, they ran two miles to the nearest home to call police. He ordered a pregnant woman and her two children to the floor of a restaurant -- the stress causing her to go into contractions. Her children, ages 9 and 11, were so...
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Youth told his mother what happened, affidavit says By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, July 14, 2004 An Austin woman who police say had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy for months has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Bail for Jessica Renee Fraire, 27, was set at $12,000, but Tuesday afternoon she had not been booked into the Travis County Jail. She is charged with a first-degree felony, punishable by up to life in prison, because the boy was under 14. According to a probable cause affidavit, Fraire began having sex with the boy last...
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At the 1991 annual convention of the American Popular Cultural Association, an event best described as “the Gong Show of American Academia,” I presented a paper on the air war in Vietnam. On the panel before ours, a professor from a women’s studies program at an Ivy League university discussed her work on pornographic movies and the Vietnam War. She showed scenes in which porno actors in GI garb ravish a bound female Viet Cong, savagely cutting off her unique, “black leather” VC pajamas. According to the professor, the scene captured the depravity of American soldiers, reflected the corruption of...
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Dear Friends and Family, Today I am writing you amidst a troubling time here at the US Air Force Academy. In recent weeks, light of horrible criminal acts that have allegedly occurred at the Academy have been brought to the attention of the American people through the media. For those of you who are not aware of the circumstance that I am referring to, the local news, CNN, and most recently, 20/20 has televised the story and analysis behind seven sexual assault cases. In each of these seven individual cases, a male cadet has been accused of rape, sometimes on...
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