Jamaica – Hearing-impaired women speak out about sexual abuse

Observer Reporter
Monday, October 02, 2006

Life for deaf women is far from peaceful. In fact, deaf women have been identified as being extremely vulnerable to sexual abuse and violence.

For deaf women like 43-year-old Florence Bailey, vulnerability is a daily part of life.

“Yesterday, I went out to walk. A man called me. He lives near me, so I went into his car. He was driving away with me so I asked him where he is going,” she said while explaining that he knew that she was deaf. “He said he wanted to have sex with me. He wanted me to touch his penis while he drove but I told him no, because I am married. He said he heard I had no children and he would give me a baby.”

FL – Sex Offender Tenants Stir Neighbors

Article
By VALERIE KALFRIN The Tampa Tribune
Published: Oct 2, 2006

TAMPA – Ever since new tenants moved into 4902 E. Okara Road, the house has been a lightning rod.

Neighbors were upset about the five or six registered sex offenders and sexual predators living there, on the same block as young children and within 1,000 feet of two school bus stops.

City code enforcement found the house in violation of residential zoning restrictions.

Swaziland – Over 250 million children raped each year

Article
By Thabile Masuku

OVER 250 million children are raped in the world each year.

They include 73 million boys and 150 million girls, according to a United Nations report prepared by Secretary General Kofi Annan’s independent expert, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. Save the Children Director Dumisani Mnisi, at a workshop closing ceremony for station commanders last Thursday, shared the content of the study with police officers. “The Pinheiro study finds that shocking levels of violence affect the lives of children in all parts of the globe,” Mnisi stated. 

DE – More than 100 People Arrested During Fugitive and Sex Offender Round Up

Reported by Laura Mazzeo
Article
10/02/06DOVER-  Delaware State Police, U.S. Marshals and other federal and local agencies teamed up to track down and arrest 102 people in Kent and Sussex Counties. Many of them are people they said failed to re-register as sex offenders. The round up is called Operation MPACT II, which stands for Marshals and Police Arresting Criminals Together.

Swaziland – Parents’ failure: the cause of rape, sexual violence

Article
By Thabile Masuku

FAILURE to bring up children, especially boys, in the right way may be the reason there are so many rape and sexual violence cases in the world.

UNICEF Officer-in-charge Pelucy Ntambiweki observed during the closing ceremony of two workshops for station commanders on child sexual abuse on Thursday. 

A Little Inspiration of Peace, Faith and Love….

http://i.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/2529/4candles.swf

I FIGHT LIKE A GIRL – Author Unknown

I fight like a girl who refuses to be a victim.

I fight like a girl who is tired of being IGNORED and HUMORED and BEATEN and RAPED.

I fight like a girl who is sick of not being taken seriously.

I fight like a girl who has been pushed too far.

I fight like a girl who offers and demands respect.

I fight like a girl who has a lifetime of ANGER and STRENGTH and PRIDE pent up in my girly body.

I fight like a girl who dose not believe in FEAR and SUBMISSION.

I fight like a girl who knows that THIS BODY and THIS MIND are mine.

I fight like a girl who knows that YOU only have as much power as I grant you.

I fight like a girl who will never allow you to take more than i offer.

I fight like a girl who fights back.

So the next time you think you can distract yourself from your own insecurities by victimizing a girl, THINK AGAIN. SHE MAY BE ME.

AND I FIGHT LIKE A GIRL.

OJJDP National Report Features Juvenile Victims

Juveniles of all ages are the victims of violent crimes. Some youth—young children, in particular—are the victims of abuse and neglect at the hands of caregivers and family members. “Juvenile Offenders and Victims 2006 National Report“ summarizes what is known about the prevalence and incidence of juvenile victimizations.
Resources:
To view the above described summary, visit http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ojstatbb/nr2006/downloads/chapter2.pdf.To access the complete report, visit http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=234394.

Federal – FBI looking into Congressman Foley

Article
By Vicki Allen
Reuters
Oct 2, 2006 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A scandal over a U.S. Republican congressman sending sexually explicit e-mails to underage boys ratcheted up on Sunday with the FBI and a congressional ethics committee looking into the accusations.

The scandal has plenty of political implications for President George W. Bush’s Republicans in the November elections, as it puts in jeopardy another Republican seat in the House of Representatives, where Democrats need only 15 to retake control. 

The Polygamy Case That Isn’t — and It’s a Good Thing, Too: Why the Warren Jeffs Prosecution Is Really About Child Rape

Article
By ERIK LUNA
Monday, Oct. 02, 2006
 

At the end of August, law enforcement finally nabbed Warren Jeffs, the prophet and autocrat of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS). Charged as an accomplice to felony rape of a minor, he had been on the lam for months and was featured on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

NY – Bail Denied for Lawyer Charged With Paying Underaged Girls for Sex

Article
Samuel Maull
The Associated Press
10-02-2006
A Manhattan judge refused to set bail Thursday for a lawyer who fled to Canada and was captured later in an East Village hotel after he was accused of paying underaged girls for sex.

State Supreme Court Justice Daniel FitzGerald denied a bail motion filed by lawyers for James Colliton, 43. The judge ordered him to remain in jail without bail, saying he would not risk freeing someone who had already tried to flee.

NYCAASA – Research to Practice Series, Nov 9, 2-5pm

Organization:
The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault

Topic:
Save the Date: Research to Practice Series

Program:
Research Department

Description:
Thursday, November 9th from 2-5pm