SNOW HILL, Md. — A Texas teenager is in Worcester County jail facing first-degree murder charges in the death of Christine Marie Sheddy, the Delaware woman who went missing in November 2007 from Pocomoke City.
The Worcester County State’s Attorney’s office said in a statement that 19-year-old Justin Michael Hadel of College Station, Texas, has been [...]

A Kentucky woman was charged with assault after she allegedly squirted breast milk into the face of a deputy, sparking online debate Sunday in the local media.
Toni Tramel, 31, was arrested Thursday for public intoxication in Owensboro, WYMT-TV reported, but it is what she did next which has attracted headlines.
As Tramel changed into an inmate [...]

Kevin Ricks

FEDERALSBURG, Md. – Police are looking for victims who may have had unsupervised contact with a teacher who faces sex offenses from as far as a decade ago.
Federalsburg police said Kevin Ricks, who is in custody as of Friday morning, is accused of sex offenses against a 16-year-old former student in Manassas, Va.
Police [...]

(March 5) — A South Korean couple addicted to the Internet left their 3-month-old daughter to starve to death while they raised a virtual daughter online during 12-hour bouts at a cyber cafe, police said. The husband and wife had been on the run since their baby, born prematurely, died five months ago [...]

While 2009 dragged on, records show 47 assaulted
 
In December 2008, an investigation into alleged sex crimes by Lewes pediatrician Earl B. Bradley was blocked when a Sussex County Superior Court judge rejected the state’s attempt to raid the doctor’s office.
Dealt a setback, Delaware authorities never took further steps that could have stopped the suspected pedophile.
While [...]

Trafficking
Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harbouring, or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor, and servitude. It is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.
The following letter is from Good Shepherd Sister Helene Hayes on her trip to Saipan in January 2009.
Dear Sisters,
“We were dead. You brought us back to [...]

60 Lashes Ordered for Saudi Woman
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 24, 2009
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi court sentenced a journalist on Saturday to 60 lashes after she was charged with involvement in a television show in which a Saudi man talked about sex.
The journalist, Rozanna al-Yami, 22, is believed to be the [...]

Suspicions about Bradley not reported, plaintiffs’ lawyer says
By CRIS BARRISH • The News Journal • March 5,
2010
Lawyers who have filed 17 lawsuits against Dr. Earl. B. Bradley and Beebe Medical Center on behalf of
abused children have added new defendants: the Medical Society of Delaware and three physicians — [...]

Former FBI Profiler Says This Was ‘Probably a Blitz Attack’ on San Diego Teen
By MIKE VON FREMD, SARAH NETTER and RUSSELL GOLDMAN
March 3, 2010—
Investigators were searching the shallow grave where the body of San Diego high school student Chelsea King was found Tuesday, trying to gather every bit of evidence that will help put [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. – The National Organization for Women on Tuesday urged New York Gov. David Paterson to resign because of a report he directed two staffers to contact a woman about a domestic violence case involving one of his top aides.
The group is highly influential in Democratic politics and called [...]

omen as Shallow as Men, Says Dating Site
You might imagine that, after scanning guys’ dating profiles, women would be turned off by the douche who’s so proud of his gym-honed abs that he poses shirtless. But scientifically-collated data begs to differ: Dating site OKCupid has found that men whose profile photos include a shirtless [...]

Multimillionaire Pop Star in Standoff With Impoverished African Villagers
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“Malawi’s government has told a group of villagers they will have to move to make way for a $15 million girls’ school being built by pop star Madonna. Residents have refused to leave the site just outside Lilongwe, the capital.” [AP]

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: February 27, 2010
For most of the last century, save-the-worlders were primarily Democrats and liberals. In contrast, many Republicans and religious conservatives denounced government aid programs, with Senator Jesse Helms calling them “money down a rat hole.”

Nicholas D. Kristof
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US commanders are taking a second look at policies that bar women from ground combat, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have thrust female soldiers into the thick of the fight.
The Army chief of staff, General George Casey, told lawmakers last week that it was time [...]

GEORGETOWN, Del. —  A former Georgetown high school teacher has been sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old student.
Twenty-seven-year-old John Thompson was a highly regarded social studies teacher at Sussex Central High School until his arrest last summer.
Superior Court Judge Richard Stokes sentenced Thompson to 25 [...]

Joseph Reyes, an Afghanistan veteran and law student, converted to Judaism when he married Rebecca Shapiro in 2004. When they split up in 2008, Rebecca won primary custody of their daughter and Joseph got regular visitation. The Reyeses had allegedly agreed to raise their child Jewish, but Joseph, seeking to expose his 3-year-old to his [...]

RIVERSIDE, Calif. —  Authorities say a father has been arrested for investigation of attempted murder and torture after his two baby girls were found bound, gagged and left on a bedroom floor in Riverside County.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Brown says deputies responded to the home in the Indian Hills area Friday on a report of a family [...]

(Feb. 26) — A 19-year-old woman says she lost her job at a popular clothing store after refusing to remove her Muslim head scarf.
When Hani Khan, who was born in New York and is of Indian and Pakistani descent, interviewed for a job at a Hollister store at a mall in Hillsborough, Calif., she was [...]

2010 Olympic Gold Medallist: “No Medal Compares to Having a Child”
By Patrick B. Craine
WHISTLER, British Columbia, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russia’s biathlon relay team revealed the secret to their success following their gold medal victory on Tuesday, reports AFP.
“Go ahead and have babies — and get better in sports,” said Russian anchor Olga Zaitseva, [...]

Suspect would face life if convicted in attack
 
WILMINGTON — Members of a street gang called "GLC" kidnapped a pregnant 19-year-old in December 2008 and took her to a Newark apartment where they punched her in the face and kicked her in the stomach, put out cigarettes on her face and held a knife to [...]

Avatar Rape
February 25, 2010
By Michael Bugeja
Avatar harassment and sexual assault remain controversial issues because institutions hosting virtual worlds are not accustomed to dealing with — or even discussing — digital forms of these distressing behaviors.
Harassment and assault are frequent infractions in virtual environs, including those frequented by students and professors. London journalist Tim Guest, author [...]

By LAURA ITALIANO
Last Updated: 4:26 PM, February 24, 2010
Posted: 3:39 AM, February 24, 2010
A young mother who falsely cried rape, sending an innocent man to prison for nearly four years, will experience firsthand what he suffered — she’ll spend one to three years behind bars for perjury.

“I wish her the best of luck,” said [...]

Our Western Director posted a little ditty that I wrote for the young children in my family. My granddaughter who is nine was inspired to write her own. I posted it.
Why ? To demonstrate that we must teach the next generation. They ARE the future. That future can be bright or grim. it can be [...]

A Glendale man accused of slaying his daughter in an “honor killing” will not face the death penalty.
After sparring with the suspect’s defense attorney over its death penalty review process, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has said it will not seek death for Faleh Almaleki, 49.
The Iraqi immigrant is accused of slaying his daughter, 20-year-old [...]

HEY you nana babe
without him we would’nt have liberty
We’d probaly be brit ish slave’
if without him
but president george
would not be in his fame
without british to hate his name
I agree with you all right
good old george put up a fight.
Without him lincoln,babe ruth, martin luther king
would just not be
if george didn’t give us
that god given liberty
ya [...]