Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence Education Teaches Rape Victims They're Worthless, Dirty, And Filthy. By Tara Culp-Ressler "Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence Education Teaches Rape Victims They’re Worthless, Dirty, And Filthy" Elizabeth Smart, human trafficking victim and sexual violence prevention advocate.
4-Year-Old Indian Girl Raped, Left With Severe Brain Injuries In Critical Condition. A 4-year-old Indian girl who was raped last week is currently in critical condition, having sustained severe brain injuries after allegedly being suffocated.
The unnamed child was reportedly raped in her village in Madhya Pradesh on April 17, according to Press Trust of India. The girl's family found the child, who went missing on Wednesday, the next morning lying unconscious and profusely bleeding near a crematorium in her village, according to The Times of India. She had lacerations, tears and bruises on her body, and had allegedly been suffocated, which caused serious brain injuries. Firoz Khan, a 35-year-old welder, is accused of raping the 4-year-old. His alleged accomplice is accused of using chocolate to lure the girl from her home, NDTV reports.
India reeling after rape and murder of 3 young sisters. MURMADI, India--India is in uproar over the brutal rape and murder of three young sisters just weeks after a high-profile case of gang rape in New Delhi left a college student dead and the country in shock.
The latest incident involved girls aged 6, 9 and 11. Their bodies were dumped in a well in the village of Murmadi, some 900 kilometers south of the capital. The village in Maharashtra state is located almost midway on the 2,000-kilometer National Highway No. 6, which traverses India from east to west. As word of the slayings spread, curious bystanders mingled outside the brick and cement house where the children lived. Their 29-year-old mother said her daughters all left for their respective schools on the morning of Feb. 14. Do atheists have a sexual harassment problem? As skeptics, atheists and humanists prepare to gather for their largest meeting in Las Vegas this weekend, attendance by women is expected to be down significantly.
Officials for The Amazing Meeting, or TAM, said Wednesday (July 11) that women would make up 31 percent of the 1,200 conference attendees, down from 40 percent the year before. A month before the conference, pre-registration was only 18 percent women, organizers said. The explanations are many — the bad economy, that women, as caregivers, are less able to get away, and that more men than women identify as skeptics, whose worldview rejects the supernatural and focuses on science and rationality. But in the weeks preceding TAM, another possible explanation has roiled the nontheist community. Online forums have crackled with charges of sexism in TAM’s leadership and calls for the ouster of D.J. No one is suggesting that all nontheist events are unsafe for women. CFI unveiled its policy earlier this month.
Swiss tourist gang-raped in central India. NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian media are reporting that a Swiss tourist was gang-raped in the central state of Madhya Pradesh and that 13 men are being questioned.
Local police superintendent C. S. Solanki told the Press Trust of India that the woman and her husband had camped out for the night in a forest after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha on Friday when they were attacked by a group of eight men. He said the couple were beaten and had their belongings stolen, and that the woman was gang-raped. Five years on, no justice for British teen raped in India. The mother of a British teenager who was raped and left to die on a Goa beach five years ago has blasted India's "rubbish" legal system over the stalled trial into her daughter's death.
Scarlett Keeling was only 15 years old when her bruised and half-naked body was found on a beach in the Indian resort state of Goa in February 2008. Two men were arrested and charged with homicide several weeks after the attack on the popular Anjuna beach in the coastal state which has long been a haunt for Western tourists. Fury as Indian guru Asaram Bapu blames Delhi rape victim for vicious gang attack which killed her. Asaram Bapu says gang rape victim is responsible for her own fateSpiritual leader's remarks criticised by politicians and mocked by web usersComes as judge orders trial of rape suspects to be held in private150 people tried to cram into court room built for just 30The victim died on December 29 - 13 days after horrific attack By Hugo Gye and Suzannah Hills Published: 12:42 GMT, 7 January 2013 | Updated: 11:01 GMT, 8 January 2013 Outrage: Asaram Bapu has come under fire for criticising the victim of the notorious Delhi gang rape.
Delhi protests: Some defining moments at Raisina Hill and India Gate. Delhi protests: Some defining moments at Raisina Hill and India Gate, when tear gas shells and water failed to deter the protesters who refused to vacate the area that houses the North and South Blocks including the Prime Minister's office and turned the area into a virtual battleground They say one image is equivalent to more than thousand words....
Girl set on fire after failed rape attempt, is critical. Lucknow, Jan 7: A 16-year-old in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad town is battling for life with 70 percent burns after she was set on fire allegedly by her neighbour who attempted to rape her. When she fought off his attempts, he returned with his parents and doused her with kerosene, police said Monday. The incident took place Saturday in Shankargarh locality in Allahabad, about 230 km from here, Saturday. Police swung into action late Sunday after women’s groups protested inaction. India Sisters Rape Case Sparks Massive Outrage. NEW DELHI — Police were searching villages in western India on Friday for suspects in the rape and killing of three young sisters, as Indians still angry over the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus in December face another heinous sexual attack.
The bodies of the sisters – aged 7, 9 and 11 – were found Feb. 16 in a village well in Bhandara district in Maharashtra after they had gone missing from school two days earlier, said police officer Abhinav Deshmukh. The area is more than 1,000 kilometers (630 miles) south of New Delhi, the capital. The victims' mother said police did not take the case seriously and did nothing for several days until villagers held protests. Deshmukh said Friday that 10 teams of 30 investigators were working on the case and that he was confident they would find the killers soon. Police first dismissed the deaths as accidental, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
Rape "Jokes" Are No Laughing Matter. This post in particular is addressed to men, not because women don’t rape and women don’t make/laugh at rape jokes and not because men can’t be raped, but because, by nature of the existing gender disparity, men are in a unique position to be taken seriously when they raise objections to casual language and humor regarding rape.
Men are also in a unique position to prove to rapists that not all men rape or take rape lightly by being able to embody living proof of that fact. To all those men who don’t think the rape jokes are a problem: I get it—you’re a decent guy. I can even believe it. You’ve never raped anybody. Your "Pro-Slut" Problem—Not Ours. For five long and very strange years, death haunted tiny Dryden, NY, a town near the Finger Lakes where a plague of car accidents, suicides, and even grisly murders involving two popular cheerleaders just kept mounting up. At the end of Fargo, Frances McDormand’s police chief, Marge Gunderson, captures the psycho played by Peter Stormare.
He’s in the backseat of her police cruiser and she talks to him as she drives. We see that she cannot fathom the evil she’s just seen. “And here ya are,” she says, “and it’s a beautiful day. Well, I just don’t understand it.” I am not surprised by violence or horror but still sometimes find myself struck, not unlike Marge, in a kind of a daze, unable to wrap my head around it. Two Mexican police arrested for rape of Italian tourist. Two Mexican police officers have been arrested for the rape of an Italian tourist in a Caribbean resort, officials said Thursday, in the second rape case in a Mexican tourist spot this month.
Authorities are also searching for a senior police officer who fled after allegedly taking part in the sexual assault in an alley between two clubs in the Playa del Carmen resort at 4:00 am on February 12, the Quintana Roo state prosecutor's office said in a statement. The victim said the tourist police officers raped her after she and her companion refused to hand over 3,000 pesos ($231). The couple had gone into the alley to urinate after coming out of a club. The attack came one week after six Spanish tourists were gang raped by gunmen who stormed their beach bungalow in the Pacific resort of Acapulco. Six men were arrested and confessed to the crime, authorities said. Suspects in custody in case of rape of 6 Spanish tourists in Acapulco: authorities. Francisca Meza/EPA Relatives of the six people arrested over their alleged responsibility in the rape of a group of Spanish tourists near Acapulco last week protest with banners in which they claim their innocence.
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Mexican authorities announced Sunday that several people had been detained for investigation in connection with last week’s rape of six Spanish tourists in Acapulco, a crime that further blemished the reputation of this troubled Pacific resort. Guerrero state officials declined to say how many suspects were in custody. Gov.