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A 49-YEAR-OLD MAN has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of the serial rape and sexual assault of his younger sister over a five-year-period in the 1980s. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to 56 counts of rape and 15 counts of sexual assault in County Waterford, on dates between December 1983 and June 1988. The abuse is alleged to have begun when the complainant was four years old and continued until she was aged 10 or 12. The woman, now aged 41, says her brother abused her in their family home in County Waterford and at various other nearby locations including fields, woodlands, school grounds, a community centre and a clubhouse. Opening the case today, Caroline Biggs SC, prosecuting, told the jury that two of the alleged rapes took place on specific dates, namely the girl’s First Holy Communion in June 1984 and the day after it. The court heard that from the time the woman was about four years old, her brother would touch her inappropriately, and that these incidents progressed to oral rape and rape as she got older. School The woman took the stand and said that by the age of six she was being raped regularly, as she remembered sitting in senior infants in school and feeling sore. She said her brother would bring her up to his bedroom under the illusion that they were going to play a board game, but then would then lock his door and abuse her. The woman said the abuse also took place in the sitting room when there was no one in the house, and on a weekly basis on the nights when her mother was at bingo in the local community hall. She said her brother started off asserting that what he was doing was a “secret” but that this progressed to a threat to kill her mother, on one occasion using his father’s hunting gun to threaten her. “He took the shotgun one day and he came into my room and he told me that if I told anyone what was going on, that he was going to shoot my mother,” she told the court, crying. Name calling She said her brother would force her to watch pornographic videos and re-enact what was happening in the film, be it an oral sex scene or sexual intercourse. The woman said she would try to squirm away and turn her head so she wouldn’t have to look at the videos, but that he would hold her head in place to force her to watch. She alleged that her brother would call her names like “dirty little bitch” and would get angry with her if she showed unwillingness, hitting and pinching her. The woman told the jury that the abuse continued up until her 12th year, when her body began to change and she put on weight. The man was arrested in August 2015 on foot of allegations made by his sister, but he denied any improper sexual activity with her. The trial continues next Monday before Ms Justice Eileen Creedon and a jury of six women and six men. It’s due to continue for at least another week.

Everyone feels weird about their own naked body sometimes. Write down three positive things that you appreciate about your body (not just its appearance) every day (or try something like “stopping stupid thoughts” [pdf]), look at lots of different types of bodies, remember that sex isn’t performance, and practice being naked more: “Just like the way many of us hate the sound of our own voice played back on a recording, we often avoid the sight of our own natural naked body. You just need some practice. There is something special about coming to terms with the fact that this is your body and nobody else’s. It will change over time in a million ways and that’s okay. It’s always you. Spending time alone or with your partner in the buff consistently over time is a great way to get on better terms with it.” “My neo-pussy isn’t a cis vagina,” writes Juno Roche at Broadly: “My neo-vagina is a feminist work, and reaching that understanding was my own quieter, queerer tipping point. It feels womanly to understand, accept, and embrace that my neo-vagina isn’t actually a vagina. I adore her now for all that she is and not how much she may appear to be the “real thing.” Perhaps now we could work towards getting advice and care for our vaginas as they truly are. Safe sex advice for trans folk is so woefully inadequate it would almost be laughable if it weren’t for the astonishing rates of HIV within the trans femme population. Currently, we sit globally as the most high-risk group for HIV transmission—a fact not lost on me, as I have been HIV positive for over 25 years.” Revolutionary feminist health guide Our Bodies, Ourselves will stop printing new editions. At Vice, YouTuber Molly Burke wrote about dating while blind. SESTA/FOSTA impacts Canadian sex workers, too. Here are seven sex workers on what it means to lose Backpage. What if people actually listened to sex workers instead. Here’s how each astrological sign handles breakups. How well do you know your pin-up girl history? Disengagement with hot people around and devaluation of potential romantic alternatives make you more likely to be good at monogamous fidelity, according to a new study (based on monogamous hetero relationships). And being younger, having more short-term relationships, and having a good sex life make you more likely to suck at it. Don’t forget to pay attention to nipples: “”The nipples can be an oft-forgotten erogenous zone because we have such a goal-oriented sex culture that’s penis or clit-centric,” said Hodder, which may be the reason mine don’t regularly get the full spectrum of attention they deserve, from both myself and partners. Her first recommendation was as brilliant as it was obvious: Lube is for nipples, too! You should treat nipples ‘like a sensitive clitoris or penile glans,’ so when you involve lube, you can access greater pleasure, she said.” Teledildonics — wifi-enabled sex toys — have interesting implications, including for long-distance relationship dynamics, sexual exploration, safer physical sex (though not necessarily risk-free sex), access and more, writes Olivia Cassano: “By potentially recreating sex with someone who you’ll never be in the same room with, let alone inside of, the technology can be a safe sexual space for anyone unable to get off. ‘Anybody who wants sexual variety or wants to try out a new sexual experience that they are curious about, or maybe afraid to try with another person could benefit from teledildonics,’ says Lieberman. ‘Also, people who are exploring attraction to different genders might benefit from it, because it might be less risky to explore through technology than with another person.’ Because there is no actual physical contact with another human being, teledildonics also removes all risk of STIs or unwanted pregnancies, which is definitely a bonus. The technology also has the amazing potential to benefit those with physical disabilities, but only if sextech companies start to design toys with handicapped people’s needs in mind, Lieberman points out.”

The gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua district of Indian-administered Kashmir is a chilling reminder of how sexual assault is used as a tool to instil fear among those belonging to the minority communities in India. There have been many Indians, especially on social media platforms, who have repeatedly claimed that one must look at this rape as a gender violence crime. But to turn a blind eye to the events that took place before and after her murder and to her belonging to the Bakarwal nomadic minority would be grossly unfair. The official investigation has already shown that there is a hate crime element to the rape and murder - in other words, the victim being attacked by her murderers had a lot to do with her being a Muslim Bakarwal. The charge sheet reads: In the course of investigation, it transpired that [one of the accused] was against the settlement of Bakarwals in Rasana Kootah, and Dhamyal area, and always kept on motivating the members of his community of the area not to provide land for grazing or any other kind of assistance… [Two of the accused] were also against the settlement of Bakarwals in Rasana, Kootah and Dhamyal area who had already discussed this issue [...] to Chalk out a strategy for dislodging the Bakarwals from the area. They were blaming the Bakarwals on one pretext or the other and used to threaten them... This apart during investigation it transpired that a particular community had a general impression that the Bakarwals indulge in cow slaughter and drug trafficking and that their children were turning into drug addicts... Thus during investigation it has become abundantly clear that the accused had a reason to act against the Bakarwal Community and hence the conspiracy ultimately resulting into the gruesome rape and brutal murder …" One could easily see in these lines elements of the demonising stereotypes that have provoked attacks on minorities across India in recent years. In 2017 alone, accusations of cow slaughter (forbidden in most Indian states) against minority communities resulted in dozens of mob lynching and 11 deaths. Furthermore, tensions between the Hindu majority and minorities have also resulted in communal violence in the past in which women and girls have been specifically targeted, as was the case in Gujarat in 2002 and Uttar Pradesh in 2013. In this sense, it is difficult to see the sexual assault and murder in Kathua only in the framework of gender violence. Unfortunately, we live at a time when rape has become a political tool to instil fear among minority groups in India. Support for the suspect rapists Before this brutal case made to national and international news, the Bakarwal community struggled with pressure from members of the Hindu majority not to make noise about it. The family and their lawyer were repeatedly threatened not to speak out; some members of the community left early for the mountains. Her parents were forced to take her brutalised body to another village to bury because baton-wielding locals did not allow them to lay her to rest in the place where she used to live. But even more disturbingly, after the suspects in the case were arrested, locals organised protests in their support. On February 15, thousands joined the demonstrations in Kathua to demand the release of special police officer Deepak Khajuria - one of the accused. The march was organised by the newly created right-wing Hindu Ekta Manch (Hindu Solidarity Platform, based in Jammu) and was backed and attended by officials from the ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including two ministers in the state government. After much outrage, the ministers submitted their resignations, but one cannot but wonder why they were not expelled by the party immediately for being part of the protests. Similarly, Congress Party member Ghagwal Vijay Tagotra, who was also in the front line of the protest, was suspended but not expelled from the party. It took national public outrage and the release of gruesome details of the violence unleashed on an 8-year-old girl in temple premises for the prime minister to come out and issue a general statement four months after the murder. This says a lot about how seriously a crime committed against a Muslim girl belonging to a nomadic community in a state like Jammu and Kashmir is treated. But it hasn't only been Kathua locals and politicians who have reacted disgracefully to the brutal murder. Public figures like Indian feminist and academic, Madhu Kishwar have gone as far as claiming that the crime was committed by "jehadi [sic] Rohingya" refugees. Support for the Bakarwal community from tribal organisations has also been conspicuously absent. "The inherent bias against the Muslim minority community also displays itself in the fact that there have not been any joint statements made by de-notified/nomadic tribal organisations across the country condemning the incident faced by the nomadic family let alone standing in solidarity with them," told me one leader of an alliance of denotified tribes, who did not wish to be named. As protests around the country take place to demand justice for the eight-year-old victim, we must ponder two points. One, in the December 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case, the family of the victim did not have to beg and plea for their safety and security; there were no protests in support of the six suspects and rightly so. Two, not one of those named as the suspects in the gang rape of seven Muslim women during the Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh in 2013 are behind bars today. Society and media both forgot the women soon after they received a small amount of compensation as rape survivors. With this in mind, we should continue to demand not only that justice is served for the Kathua victim and her family, but also that it is seen as a hate crime. We need to acknowledge that there is a problem with both gender and communal violence in our country.

Updated 1651 GMT (0051 HKT) April 19, 2018 Northern Syria (CNN)For Samantha Sally, a vacation was all it took to flip her quiet middle-American world of muscle cars, cotton candy and an Indiana packing company, into the horror of the ritual beatings, serial rape, torture and propaganda videos of ISIS's so-called Caliphate. A holiday is what her husband, Moussa Elhassani, promised her when she went to Hong Kong in 2014, she says. The couple was planning to move to Morocco to start a new, cheaper life, she says, and needed to go through Hong Kong to transfer money. Days later, Sally says, she stood on the Turkish border with Syria, on the edge of ISIS territory, her husband holding her daughter, Sarah, while she held her son, Matthew, then 7, confronted with an impossible choice: Abandon her daughter to ISIS and save her son, or follow her husband into ISIS's so-called Caliphate. Following him was the only way to protect her daughter, she says. "To stay there with my son or watch my daughter leave with my husband -- I had to make a decision," Sally, 32, tells CNN in northern Syria. "Maybe I would never have seen my daughter again ever, and how can I live the rest of my life like that." Sally spoke to CNN in Syrian-Kurdish custody, in limbo, arrested after ISIS's collapse in Raqqa and unsure if she will ever see the United States again. The story of how Sally got there is a remarkable web of mystery, compassion, and animal savagery befitting ISIS's legacy of almost surreal terror. And in it, Sally flits between the role of naive, manipulated housewife, and the savvy pragmatist able to survive the savage, male-dominated world of ISIS. As she sits in a Syrian-Kurdish jail, waiting the US government to determine -- or not determine -- what to do with her, it is navigating that delicate balance between unknowing victim and deft manipulator that will decide her fate. 'I was like a prisoner' Sally's journey to the former Caliphate begins in Elkhart, Indiana, where she and Elhassani worked at a delivery company. They lived with Matthew, her son from her first marriage to a US soldier, and their daughter Sarah. Elhassani took delight in souped-up cars, family videos show, and, according to Sally, used drugs and cheated on her -- showing few signs of devout faith. Their marriage was rocky at times, but Elhassani came up with a plan to move to his native Morocco for a year, where she could get cheap surgery on her knee and they might find a new start. She says she went ahead to look, and was impressed enough to later fly to Hong Kong and help transfer some of their money. From Hong Kong, the couple together went to Turkey, on what Sally says was a romantic holiday, during which Elhassani lavished her with gifts. At the time, the indirect trip to Asia before diverting to the Syrian border in Turkey, and the proxy transfer of funds to Hong Kong, were textbook methods of evading law enforcement for those seeking to join ISIS. But Sally insists she thought nothing was amiss before she reached the Turkish border town of Sanliurfa. It was there that Elhassani refused to let her leave the hotel room, saying the city was "too dangerous." "Once we got to Sanliurfa everything changed," she says. "I was like a prisoner in the room." Pushed as to how a woman adequately assertive to divorce her first husband in her 20s was now so submissive in a bustling Turkish city, she said: "This was years in the making. He separated me from my family. I could not see that he was the one that was wrong. It was always 'no, my husband is right.'" Days later, they found themselves on the border, Sally faced with the agonizing choice. She insists the crossing was forced and then felt she could have come back again to Turkey later. "People can think whatever they want but they have not been put in a place to make a decision like that," she says. Buying slaves at a market Inside the so-called Caliphate, her relationship with Elhassani changed. "Before he would spoil me. 'I love you.' We were very much in love. The romance never left. As soon as we came here it changed. I was a dog. I didn't have any choice. He was extremely violent. And there was nothing I could do about it. Nothing." Sally says she feared divorcing him as that would leave her and her children yet more vulnerable in ISIS's society. She said at one point she was jailed by ISIS for three months while pregnant for trying to escape and for alleged espionage for the US. She says she was held in solitary confinement and tortured, even sexually abused, in that jail. Sally says she was later released and went back to the small home she had made for her family on the outskirts of Raqqa, where Elhassani would periodically return from the frontline and -- in between fits of violence -- fathered two children by her. The loneliness of her domestic existence made Elhassani propose an addition to their home, which was, by the warped standards of the Caliphate, commonplace. In 2014, the terror group had captured hundreds of Yazidis when it took Mount Sinjar in Iraq, and many of the younger women were being sold as slaves, some purely for the purposes of sexual abuse. Elhassani suggested some Yazidi slaves would help keep Sally company while he was away, and he took her to the slave market. There she saw Soad. "When I met Soad, I couldn't think about money, I needed to help her," she said. The 17-year-old girl cost her $10,000 -- half the money she says she smuggled with her from their United States savings. She brought Soad home, and soon, her husband Elhassani began raping her. But that was not enough. Elhassani soon decided to "buy" his own slave, using another $7,500 from their savings to purchase Bedrine, who was younger still. She was also raped by Elhassani. The family also bought a young boy, Aham, for $1,500 later still. Sally is defensive about the decision to buy the girls, saying she offered them a protection and care that other homes could not have. "I was trying to hold on to that money as at some point I knew that he (Elhassani) was going to die and I was going to need that money. That wasn't the plan." Asked if she feels she enabled the girls' serial rape, she said: "In every house that she was in before that was the same situation, but she did not have the support of someone like me. We constantly talked about going to see her mother. I was going to get her out and she was going to go back home." Sally continued: "And no, no one will ever know what it is like to watch their husband rape a 14-year-old girl. Ever. And then she comes to you -- me -- after crying and I hold her and tell her it's going to be OK. Everything is going to be fine, just be patient." "I would never apologize for bringing those girls to my house. They had me and I had them. And we knew that if we were just patient we would stick together. You understand? In any other situation they would be locked in a bedroom and fed tea every day. And the situation I was in with them, we cooked together, we cleaned together. Drank coffee together. Slept in the same room together. I was like their mother." Two broken ribs Sally does not outwardly appear a devout ISIS wife. She has a large blue tattoo of pursed lips on the right side of her neck and a nose ring. She smokes, and appears defiantly dismissive of the suggestion she must have known more about her husband's plans to join the Caliphate than she admits. Indeed, she has been interviewed by the FBI, and admitting to voluntarily joining ISIS would legally complicate her situation, if not result in charges. CNN has spoken to several friends from her hometown, who say there were no open signs of her radicalization, and depict a loyal, single divorcee who found in Elhassani a generous provider-turned-controlling abuser. "She was an amazing, wonderful, generous person, a really good friend and an excellent mom to Matt and Sarah," says friend Andria Lightner. "I believe with all my heart she would never be willing to take her kids" to join ISIS. A close friend in Indiana, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Sally became less available before she left and curiously did not confide in her friends that she intended to move to Morocco. She quit her job, and declared she was going on vacation to Hong Kong, but the friend describes what would be their final farewell as ordinary: "It was 'I can't wait for you to be home and see you soon,'" the friend says. "She was being everyday normal Sam." CNN also tracked down Soad, the older of the three Yazidi children Sally and Elhassani bought. Now 17, she is in a refugee camp in Iraq, reunited with her family, and has nothing but gratitude for the American housewife who purchased her into a life of repeated rape. She sent a video message to Sally in which she said: "I really want to see you, even if it is one last time. I miss you so much and I miss your children. Anything I can do to help you get out, I will do. I love you so much." In other ways too, Sally's own children became victims. Her son Matthew, a US citizen through and through, was a prized cast member for ISIS as they increasingly sought to involve children in their macabre and sickening propaganda videos. Matthew was eventually visited by another ISIS fighter, who knew the ISIS propaganda wing, and approached Sally and Matthew with a script, part Arabic, part English, for Matthew's appearance. "After I saw the script was when the beating happened," Sally said, referring to her husband. "I was like, 'This is absolutely not acceptable'. All I could do was talk. He became very violent and scared my son into becoming complicit. I ended up with two broken ribs on that video. I fought. I fought. It was three days after my operation with her," she says, indicating to her youngest daughter. "I did not give birth naturally, it was Cesarean. I couldn't even fight back. There was nothing I could do." Matthew, sitting next to his mother throughout her interview, chimes in: "It was a very bad beating." Sally added: "They learned the script but it was grueling. His days were long and he came home crying every day about how tired he was." The video is one of ISIS's more notorious, in which Matthew is made to walk through a damaged mosque and streets, vow revenge on US President Donald Trump and pledge attacks on the West. His mouth intermittently full of candy given to him by his Syrian-Kurdish captors, Matthew says: "It was extremely stressful and it was hard. I would have to say one word and then they would make me say another in Arabic. I never even knew Arabic before. I did not want to do it. He would hit me, he would stress me. About all those things." Asked where he wants to go now, he said: "Back to my state. Back to America." ISIS a bunch of 'drug-using thugs' The family's escape from Raqqa came tantalizingly closer when a drone strike killed Elhassani in the middle of last year. "I was able to breathe," recalled Sally. "I was like -- OK -- we can start phase two. At least now we can all breathe." The US coalition in Syria slowly tightened its noose around Raqqa, but Sally said she saw no avenue to escape with the thousands of civilians who had been fleeing the city during the assault. "All that I knew was that if somebody tried to leave, the snipers -- which was my husband's job -- had permission to kill. So I am thinking if I try to walk out, I take the risk of IEDS (mines) if I go off road, and I run the risk that I will be sniped." They remained in Raqqa until the very final days, released, Sally says, as part of the final hundreds of ISIS fighters -- many foreign hardliners -- whose departure from the city was negotiated with the US-backed Syrian-Kurdish fighters besieging ISIS. She left in that convoy east, and then found her way north, where she was eventually detained. Sally's time in the so-called Caliphate spanned from its most brutal beginnings in 2015 until its very final moments, the totality of which, in some way, complicates her defense that she was an innocent bystander. Sally said: "I really don't care what people think and what people say. Once I left, I was extremely relieved and I was not able to breathe in three years until now. All I saw was a bunch of drug-using thugs who had no place. They created their own state here and called it in the name of God." Yet it is the believability of her story -- that of the pliable and then abused housewife, turned savior of three child slaves -- upon which her and her children's fate surely hinges, as US authorities decide their next steps. "I will do anything to get my kids back where they belong," Sally says. "If I have to spend 15 years in prison, it's better than anything here." They dream of returning home, yet the FBI agents who visit them in custody to talk, have yet to bring charges or plane tickets home. "Me and my kids we talk about wanting to eat McDonald's," she said. "We want to live a normal life again."

The Post’s Annie Gowen explains how the rape and murder of 8-year-old Asifa Bano in Kathua, India, has set off a firestorm across the country. (Annie Gowen, Joyce Lee/The Washington Post) KATHUA, India — The young girl’s body lay for three days in the forest where they left her. Eight-year-old Asifa Bano had been raped, strangled with her own scarf and been bashed in the skull with a rock, police said. The case — one more devastating example of child rape and killing in a country where such crimes are rising — attracted little attention until last week, when police charged seven men and one juvenile, including four police officers, in the girl’s death. Police allege that the men kidnapped Asifa as she tended to her family’s horses, held her for days in a remote shrine and raped her repeatedly before killing her. Asifa was Muslim. Her alleged assailants are Hindu, a circumstance ripe for conflict in a Hindu-dominated area in one of the most polarized states in India, where religious tensions and nationalism are rising under the conservative government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the same week, a lawmaker from Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was arrested and charged with raping a teenager in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The rape cases pierced the public consciousness in a way unseen since the 2012 rape and murder of a college student that resulted in widespread calls for tighter rape laws in India. The reverberations from the arrests in the 8-year-old’s death were immediate. On one side, lawyers from the local bar association — their black robes billowing — tried to block police from filing arrest papers in court, arguing that the Hindu men were being framed. Two state BJP ministers were accused of attending a rally in support of the alleged assailants. Indian armed forces walk past a burning tie left by Kashmiri Muslim demonstrators during a protest after the rape and killing of Asifa Bano, 8. (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images) Party officials ultimately forced the two ministers to resign. Modi has vowed that the crimes will be prosecuted, but urged that the case not be politicized. “When a young girl is raped, it is such a heart-wrenching incident,” Modi said Wednesday at an event in London. “I believe that there cannot be a more wrong path to take. Rape is rape. With a daughter, this injustice, how can we tolerate it?” Over the weekend, hundreds gathered in cities throughout India to protest the child’s killing , waving signs and accusing Modi’s government of not doing enough to protect women. A group of former civil servants wrote an open letter to Modi decrying the “culture of majoritarian belligerence” of right-wing Hindu groups, adding that this is the country’s “darkest hour” since its independence. Even members of Modi’s party said they were ashamed of what was happening. “The BJP has been acting as apologist for these criminals. It’s absolutely inexcusable,” said Yashwant Sinha, a former finance minister and prominent BJP leader. A plan to rid Muslim tribes The young girl with curly brown hair often took her family’s horses to a nearby meadow to graze, including a white horse, her favorite, that she called “Beautiful.” Her family is part of a nomadic Muslim tribe that stayed in the Kathua area during the winter and then took their sheep, goats and horses higher in the Himalayas to graze during the summer. The restive state of Jammu and Kashmir, which includes the conflict-ridden and disputed Kashmir valley, is debating whether such tribes can continue to use protected land for grazing. In January, police alleged in charging documents that a retired revenue clerk named Sanji Ram came up with a plan he hoped would rid the area of the nomadic tribes. Police say one of the men kidnapped the girl from the field and dragged her to a small shrine, where she was drugged and locked up for at least four days, and repeatedly gang-raped. At one point, police said, Ram’s son was called from another state to “satisfy his lust” with the girl. Eventually, they decided to kill her, police said. Local officers found her body in a forested area on Jan. 17. Members of the Kashmir Civil Society take part in a protest demanding the death penalty for the men who raped and killed Asifa Bano. (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images) Ram’s lawyer, Ankur Sharma, who also represents Ram’s son and one of the police officers, said the suspects are innocent. “We don’t know who killed that a poor little girl,” he said. They pleaded not guilty to the crime in a court hearing Monday. Sharma said the case was a state conspiracy to demoralize the local Hindu population so they won’t protest what he called the “demographic invasion” of Muslims in the area. In Uttar Pradesh, after a teenage girl tried to light herself on fire in front of the chief minister’s house to protest police inaction in her case, BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar was charged last week with raping her. According to a high court judge’s ruling that ordered Sengar’s arrest, the girl’s father was beaten by the politician’s aides and later died in police custody. The judge complained that it was “disturbing” that “law and order machinery and the government officials were directly in league and under the influence” of Sengar. “I think undoubtedly the issue here and the cause for outrage and people’s anger is the fact that the BJP is clearly protecting those accused in these cases,” said Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association. Choudhary Lal Singh, one of the state ministers forced to resign last week, rejected this assessment in an interview Tuesday. He questioned the validity of the police investigation of Asifa’s case, calling for a new inquiry into the child’s death to be done by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, the national investigating agency. “No BJP person is supporting any accused,” he said. “When they demand a CBI inquiry, that’s not defending the accused. It’s very clear in India if there is any disputes which are controversial, they make a CBI inquiry. Why not this case?” Hundreds of supporters greeted Singh on Tuesday and cheered his name at his expansive white bungalow not far from the victim’s home, where he arrived in a white sport utility vehicle with marigold blossom garland. 'Every moment I feel her absence' The small shrine where Asifa was kept — a one-story concrete building painted pink, with bars on the windows — is now locked, as is the simple home where the young girl lived with her aunt and uncle, who adopted her when she was 6 months old, and two cousins. Asifa’s adoptive father, Mohammad Yousuf Pujwala, 45, said the family is still in shock about her death. “Now every moment I feel her absence,” he said. “Everything reminds me of her — her clothes, her place at the table, the horses. “She played with all the children,” he added. “She didn’t know the difference between a Muslim and a Hindu. She was only 8 years old.” He said the family is afraid to return to the village, where what police called a long-standing “rivalry” between the nomadic Muslims and the local Hindu community has deepened since his daughter’s death. The family was not able to bury Asifa in the local graveyard, he said, because a group of Hindus showed up and threatened them. The family has fled the village with their livestock to higher altitudes, fearing for their safety. His wife, Naseema, still cries every day, he said, adding: “We hope justice will be delivered.” Ishfaq Naseem in Kathua and Swati Gupta in New Delhi contributed to this report.

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By Associated Press | Posted: Wed 12:48 PM, Apr 18, 2018 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A Lincoln woman has been sent to prison for having sex with a 15-year-old boy. Court records say 47-year-old Sunny Gibbons was sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 15 years. She'd pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of sexual assault of a minor. Police began investigating after the boy told a school official last year that Gibbons performed sex acts with him in 2016, when he was 15. Under Nebraska law, people 19 and over cannot have sexual contact with people under 16.

A federal judge in Bismarck sentenced four men to prison this week for crimes related to selling or attempting to buy sex through Backpage.com. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland condemned the “nasty website” that was recently shut down by federal authorities, but said he expects the sex-for-sale ads have resurfaced elsewhere. “There’s 100 similar websites that are up and operating,” Hovland said during a hearing Tuesday in Bismarck. “It never ends.” Hovland sentenced Montay Maurice Knight to six years, seven months in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to transportation for illegal sexual activity and a drug conspiracy offense. A more serious charge of sex trafficking by force or coercion was dismissed under a plea agreement. Knight, 35, admitted he transported a woman to North Dakota to engage in prostitution in early 2017. But he denies allegations of forceful and coercive sex trafficking. According to a law enforcement affidavit: A woman called 911 in March 2017 to report she had been assaulted by her boyfriend at a Bismarck hotel. The woman, 22, told police Knight had hit her, choked her and threatened to kill her. During an interview in a Bismarck emergency room, the woman told investigators she met Knight in California. She said Knight traveled to North Dakota to sell drugs and posted a sex ad for the woman on Backpage to see what kind of response it would get. Because of the large number of responses, he instructed her to travel to Bismarck. The woman told police she met about 20 men in Bismarck through Backpage and was expected to earn $500 on weekdays and $1,000 on weekends. She said she gave the money to Knight and she had to ask him for money for food. The woman later recanted her statements about sex trafficking. Defense attorney Michelle Monterio said there was no evidence that Knight forced the woman to engage in prostitution and she continued to post ads on Backpage after Knight went to jail. Knight told Judge Hovland the woman was engaged in prostitution when they met but he wasn’t involved. “I’ve never been part of that lifestyle at all,” said Knight, who doesn’t have other criminal history. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Dawn Deitz said there are indications the woman recanted out of fear. Deitz said it’s not out of the ordinary for trafficking victims to stay in the lifestyle. “It’s years of trauma and years of brainwashing,” Deitz said. “You don’t just fix that overnight.” Undercover sting On Tuesday, Hovland sentenced three men who attempted to buy sex with someone they believed was a 15-year-old girl but was actually an undercover officer. The men were arrested in October in Bismarck and rural Mandan during an undercover sting that used ads posted on Backpage. They pleaded guilty to attempted coercion and enticement, a felony. Hovland said, every time law enforcement officers run one of these stings, it has to be shut down after four to six hours simply because the jails don’t have room to hold any more offenders. “I’ve sentenced far too many defendants that have chosen to use that website,” Hovland said, estimating he’d likely sentenced at least 30 to 40 men with similar crimes. Hovland sentenced Hoang Hai Nguyen, 43, of Bismarck, and Chad Anthony Teiken, 48, of Mandan, to one year in custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and John Kofi Aworon, 29, of Bismarck, to six months, along with another six months of home confinement. Hovland said he will recommend the men serve time in a halfway house with the option of work release. They also will be required to serve five years of supervised release and register as a sex offender. Teiken’s lawyer, Bob Bolinske Jr., argued that law enforcement seemed to pursue Teiken even after he said he was looking for someone 18. The online ad said 18, but on the phone and in text messages the officer posed as a 15-year-old girl. “You have to be 18,” he wrote in a text message exchange. Law enforcement responded with “your loss” and “thanks for wasting my time.” Hovland told defendants if they felt they were entrapped by law enforcement, they should take the cases to trial. Hovland said the men’s lack of a criminal history is what swayed him to impose a lower sentence but he felt there still needed to be consequences. He said his years as a trial judge have made him more familiar with Backpage.com than he ever wished to be. He said the site is “plagued with women who’ve been exploited.” “I’ve seen what happens in those people’s lives,” Hovland said of the victims and the devastation they’ve experienced.

Conway Police Department via AP In this image provided by the Conway (Ark.) Police Department, Robert Rook is seen in this June 3, 2016, photo. An Associated Press investigation finds that even as Hollywood moguls, elite journalists and politicians have been pushed out of their jobs or resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct, the world of medicine is more forgiving. Rook was allowed to keep his family practice open, so long as he’s chaperoned, despite facing multiple criminal charges for rape. Prosecutors subsequently downgraded the charges to more than 20 counts of sexual assault in the second- and third-degree, charges for which Rook says he is innocent. WASHINGTON — The first time that Dr. Anthony Bianchi came onto a patient, California's medical board alleged, the gynecologist placed a chair against the exam room door, put his fingers into the woman's vagina and exposed his erect penis. The second time, the board claimed, he told a patient that he couldn't stop staring at her breasts and recounted a dream in which he performed oral sex on her in the office. The third time, the board charged, he told a pregnant patient suffering from vaginal bleeding that she shouldn't shave her pubic hair before her next visit, as he was getting too excited. These episodes led to disciplinary actions by the state's medical board in 2012 and in 2016. Bianchi agreed not contest the charges, and he held onto his medical license. Under a settlement with California's medical board, he agreed to seek therapy and refrain from treating women during five years of probation. Bianchi did not respond to telephone messages from The Associated Press left for him at the workers' compensation clinic in Fresno, California, where he now evaluates occupational health claims. In recent months, Hollywood moguls, elite journalists and top politicians have been pushed out of their jobs or resigned their posts in the wake allegations of sexual misconduct. In contrast, the world of medicine is often more forgiving, according to an AP investigation. When the doctors are disciplined, the punishment often consists of a short suspension paired with mandatory therapy that treats sexually abusive behavior as a symptom of an illness or addiction, the AP found. Decades of complaints that the physician disciplinary system is too lenient on sex-abusing doctors have produced little change in the practices of state medical boards. And the #MeToo campaign and the rapid push in recent months to increase accountability for sexual misconduct in American workplaces do not appear to have sparked a movement toward changing how medical boards deal with physicians who act out sexually against patients or staffers. The sentencing of Larry Nassar, a former doctor for the U.S. Olympic gymnastics program convicted of abusing more than 150 women and girls, has put a high-profile case of physician misconduct in the spotlight. But across the country, most doctors accused of sexual misconduct avoid a medical license review entirely. A study last year found that two-thirds of doctors who were sanctioned by their employers or paid a settlement as the result of sex misconduct claims never faced medical board discipline. "There's been a failure of the medical community to take a stand against the issue," said Azza Abbudagga, a health services researcher with nonprofit advocacy organization Public Citizen. She published a report recently detailing sexual misconduct among physicians. Its findings showed that of the 253 doctors reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank for having been sanctioned by their respective hospitals or health care organizations for sexual misconduct, or paid a settlement that stemmed from such an allegation, 170 of them were not disciplined by state medical boards, even though all boards have access to the reports filed with the data bank. "They could tell the public that they will investigate every single case. There are many things that can be done, even just having a policy of zero tolerance," she said. "If every single hospital would just take a stand and issue a statement saying clearly that any sexual misconduct with patients won't be tolerated and that there will be consequences including permanently revoking the medical license of every doctor found guilty." Current guidelines from the Federation of State Physician Health Programs, which represents doctor rehab programs in 47 states, are largely silent on handling sexual misconduct treatment and describe sexual harassment as a "cause of impairment" in a doctor. Programs to treat doctor impairment are inherently supposed to be "nondisciplinary," per the federation's guidelines. Linda Bresnahan, who heads the federation, said its guidelines are being rewritten and, despite their language, should not be applied to sexual misbehavior. A statement provided by the federation says only about half of doctor rehab programs nationwide accept doctors accused of sexual misconduct, a choice the group considers to be "a local issue beyond the purview of national guidance." The harm committed by sexually abusive doctors is aggravated by the personal nature of the doctor-patient relationship, according to experts and doctors' victims. When Marissa White came to Dr. Gunwant Dhaliwal in 2007 for neck pain after a car accident, he reached under her shirt and into her bra, grabbing her breasts. A jury convicted him of misdemeanor battery in the case, and Florida's medical board concluded that his crime demonstrated his "lack of good moral character" and "lack of worthiness" to practice medicine. But despite that finding — and at least six other similar allegations made by women patients and employees, both before and after the incident with White, according to court cases and police complaints — Dhaliwal can still be found practicing at his Tampa-area urgent care clinics. "I had to sit there in front of him, look him in the eye, they made their guilty verdict and that's it, nothing came of it," White told the AP of her experience at trial. She still lives in Florida, but won't even go to the neighborhood where Dhaliwal practices medicine. "He should have lost his license a long time ago. He should have lost it the first time it happened." But his office manager told the AP that, while the Florida board referred him to the state's impaired physician network for evaluation, nothing came of it. "They did an evaluation and did not find anything wrong," the woman told the AP. "They don't do any treatment." The office manager, who refused to provide the AP with her full name, noted that Dhaliwal had not had any new complaints brought against him since his settlement with the medical board. When the AP asked to speak with Dhaliwal, she said that he was declining on the advice of his lawyers. Dhaliwal did not respond to requests for comment left with his clinic's staff or a voicemail left with his lawyer. Examples of problematic behavior are easy to find in states across the country. In Arkansas, Dr. Robert Rook was allowed to keep his family practice open, so long as he's chaperoned, despite facing multiple criminal charges for rape. Prosecutors subsequently downgraded the charges to more than 20 counts of sexual assault in the second- and third-degree, charges for which Rook says he is innocent. Rook did not return phone messages left with a secretary at his Conway office. He is set to face trial later this year. The Idaho State Board of Medicine in May reinstated the license of Richard Pines, a child and adolescent psychiatrist who lost his license in 2013 after the board accused him of having sexual relationships with four former patients, including taking nude photos of a 14-year-old and convincing the boys that he needed to practice giving naked massages to keep his medical license. The state's highest court in 2015 ruled that Pines had engaged in sexual misconduct, but determined that two of the four alleged victims were not former patients. The court remanded Pines' case to a lower court and vacated his punishment, instead ordering the board to re-evaluate the scope of disciplinary action based on the charges the court upheld. The court's order also blasted the board for being impartial, accusing its members of "passionately railing" against Pines in its decision. The AP reached out to Pines' former employers and contacted his most recent attorneys, but was unable to reach him. The AP also left a message for a biller at Sage Health Care, where Pines still processes invoices. The receptionist said Pines bills through the office but was unable to provide more details about his current practice. State-authorized programs that attempt to oversee the rehabilitation of doctors who have committed sexual misconduct aren't always forthcoming about their methods. In Florida, the Professional's Resource Network, which the state medical board assigned to evaluate Gunwant Dhaliwal after his battery conviction, asked the AP to provide detailed questions and a list of sources before it would answer questions. After the AP provided the head of the program, Alexis Polles, with basic questions about the program's approach to clearing doctors for return to work after instances of sexual abuse, she declined to answer any of them. The lenience of penalties for sexually abusive doctors sometimes a source of frustration even for members of the medical board who administer the discipline, according to Jason Rosenberg, a former chairman of the Florida medical board. "This is incredibly inappropriate," Rosenberg said during one 2013 meeting when Florida's medical board allowed James Yelton-Rossello, a psychiatrist alleged to have molested jailed psychiatric patients, to keep his license. The settlement with the Florida board of medicine did not require Yelton-Rossello to admit guilt. "You can't do this and serve french fries," Rosenberg said at that meeting, citing fast food restaurants' policies against hiring sex offenders. "I'm ashamed of what's going on here." Yelton-Rossello's lawyer did not respond to telephone messages or an email request for comment. Some medical boards blame administrative law judges for tying their hands from seeking harsher punishments. In an interview last year, Rosenberg said he responded to an administrative law judge's refusal to uphold a different license revocation by attempting to compel that doctor to display a sign stating "I molest patients" in his office. Rosenberg's effort failed, though some doctors have been required to post signs in their office stating that they must be chaperoned in the presence of female patients. Bob Cohen, the chief judge in Florida's division of administrative hearings, rejected the idea that administrative law judges are responsible for watering down the punishments of sexually abusive doctors. He said the board of medicine could seek to override administrative law decisions they disagree with, something the Florida board acknowledged in a statement to the AP. "One of the reasons they don't always appeal is they have a lot of cases," Cohen said of state health officials. He acknowledged, however, that "consistency" was a goal in punishments, and that past leniency shown to doctors sets a precedent for weaker punishments in the present day. The question of doctor punishments is part of a larger problem in the medical field. Numerous factors, including hospitals' disinclination to report abusive doctors, to shortfalls in a private, interstate system meant to flag them to future employers, and patients' simple reluctance to challenge a medical professional, skew the field in doctors' favor, according to a 2016 investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Some doctors who are reported to medical boards for sexual misconduct receive reprimands instead of suspensions. G. Eric Nielson, a medical malpractice attorney in Utah, says that's because doctors tend to try to protect other doctors as much as possible. "There's an institutional bias on the part of the medical review board," he said. "They're generally doctors, they work very hard to get their medical degrees and they're very, very disinclined to yank the license of another doctor. The primary focus is: Let's take care of the doctor and help him get through this problem." A medical board in California in 2009 revoked the license of Dr. Kamron Hakhamimi after it ruled that his conduct constituted abuse, neglect and exploitation when he prescribed powerful drugs to a woman he met online and then had sex with her; he had previously pleaded no contest to a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming from the incident. But the board stayed the revocation in favor of seven years' probation and a requirement that he complete an ethics class and a course on professional boundaries, though the California Department of Health Care Services barred Hakhamimi from participating in any federally funded programs for 12 years. When contacted for comment, Hakhamimi said, "Nothing happened in the clinic. No medical malpractice, no suspension." When asked whether the courses were effective, he said, "they're mandatory for a reason: It's a business," and then hung up. Sexually abusive physicians are not generally required to apologize or even acknowledge having acted inappropriately in order to keep their license. Three years after his misdemeanor battery conviction, for example, Florida doctor Dhaliwal was acquitted of molesting another patient. He took the opportunity to issue a news release calling the women who have accused him of misconduct liars motivated by greed. In email statement, Florida Medical Board spokesman Brad Dalton said the doctor disciplinary boards "do not have the legal authority to force a physician to speak or place a gag order on them to prevent them from doing so." In practice, even some lawyers who represent doctors find the physician health programs to be problematic. David Spicer, who has represented doctors facing medical board discipline in Florida, says the state's doctor rehabilitation program isn't well designed to evaluate or treat sexual misbehavior. The program's key component, he said, is a "one-size-fits-all" requirement that doctors engage in therapy sessions and not get into trouble for a specified period, generally five years. Spicer said Florida's program, run by an independent organization called the Physician Research Network, does a better job dealing with doctors' who abuse alcohol or drug, but it hasn't been effective at evaluating or treating doctors with sexual problems. Experts in the treatment of sexual misbehavior question whether the treatments mandated for doctors who molest patients are even appropriate for such misconduct. "We have clinical trials for everything underneath the sun," Reid said. "But there's not one clinical trial that I'm aware of on the efficacy of treatment for doctors who have engaged in sexual misconduct.""It's insufficient," said Rory Reid, a UCLA psychology professor who studies addiction and hypersexual behavior. While some types of sexual behavior, such as the compulsive viewing of pornography, might best be addressed through addiction treatment therapy, rehabilitation programs for sex offenders typically focus on restitution and empathy for a person's victims.

Ohio State University (OSU) tried to expel a student for engaging in an allegedly nonconsensual threesome. That student is now suing the university, and this week a judge agreed that the administrators who investigated the case likely violated the due process rights of the accused. Unlike the vast majority of sexual misconduct disputes litigated under the auspices of Title IX, the federal statute mandating gender equality on campus, the accused is a woman. The genders of her accusers are unknown—Judge Edmund Sargus's decision omits the use of gendered pronouns. The accused student, referred to as "Jane Roe," filed a motion for preliminary injunction to prevent her expulsion, arguing that she was denied the opportunity to cross-examine her accusers. Judge Sargus agreed to this request, explaining in his decision that Roe is likely to prevail in court. "Given the central role cross-examination has played as a truth-seeking device in our justice system, and given that Defendants have not identified any authority supporting their position, the Court cannot conclude that a pre-hearing investigative process, such as OSU's, is a constitutionally adequate substitute for cross-examination," wrote Sargus. The dispute actually concerns two separate incidents, one on September 3, 2016, and another on November 12, 2016. The September incident took place during a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where Roe met up with several friends. One of these friends, LH, became very drunk, as did Roe. While they were seated next to each other, Roe allegedly began to grope and kiss LH. LH claimed to have remembered Roe's actions later after a friend told LH something had happened. The university investigated the matter, and noted that LH said Roe had engaged in nonconsensual touching while LH "drifted in and out of consciousness." Roe countered that she merely sat next to LH and couldn't recall anything inappropriate happening. A witness said Roe had "encroached" on LH's territory but did not see her kiss LH. The November 12 incident involved two other complainants, RK and MH, who met up with Roe for a night of drinking and dancing. All three returned to Roe's house afterward, where they engaged in a threesome. RK and MH later claimed that Roe had "engaged in intentional sexual touching and sexual penetration without consent and/or by force or coercion." RK told an investigator that consent had been verbalized, but that RK had been too drunk to meaningfully consent at the time. Investigators interviewed several witnesses, but as The College Fix's Greg Piper notes in his write-up of the case, "five of the seven purported 'witnesses' had simply been told by one or another accuser about the incident. The other two were roommates of Roe and one accuser." Neither RK nor MH showed up for the hearing, leaving Roe with no opportunity to meaningfully cross-examine them. Roe testified that she had obtained their consent for each and every individual sex act she performed. Roe's roommate testified that he saw one of the complainants leave the house after the encounter, and that this person did not seem drunk. Administrators suspended Roe for two years as a result of the Rocky Horror Picture Show incident. They expelled her for the allegedly nonconsensual threesome. She appealed both decisions, and lost twice. These are complicated allegations involving multiple intoxicated young people. (They might also involve students who were experimenting with their sexuality, and who may have regretted or been ashamed of certain same-sex activities.) It's entirely possible that Roe violated acceptable norms of consent. But she should have had an opportunity to question her accusers about what happened. Cross-examination is a vital component of due process, and a critical tool for evaluating conflicting stories and arriving at the truth. "Cross-examination is important for both the accused and the accuser, because both sides have an interest in accurate and reliable outcomes," Joshua Adam Engel, an attorney for Roe, tells Reason. "For hundreds of years we have recognized that cross-examination helps the finder of fact 'get it right.'" KC Johnson, a chronicler of the various due process abuses suffered by students accused of sexual misconduct under campus Title IX procedures, describes Sargus's defense of cross-examination as "very powerful." Indeed, it's cases like this one that remind us why Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently told The Atlantic that she believes some college sexual misconduct policies are "not giving the accused person a fair opportunity to be heard, and that's one of the basic tenets of our system."

Deputy sheriffs help Darrin Rouse flush his eyes after he was sprayed with a sensory irritant during a scuffle with deputies at Kentville Supreme Court Tuesday morning. (IAN FAIRCLOUGH / Staff) A Supreme Court judge has convicted Darrin Philip Rouse of one of four sex-related charges he was facing. Justice Mona Lynch found Rouse, 51, guilty of sexual touching, but not guilty of invitation to sexual touching, invitation to sexual touching while in a position of trust, and sexual touching while in a position of trust. Lynch said in her decision Wednesday afternoon in Kentville that there was no evidence Rouse was in a position of authority over a girl he had sex with when she was 13, more than a decade ago. She also said there was was no evidence presented at trial as to the dates for the invitation to sexual touching charge. The victim, who is now in her 20s, said at trial this week that she met Rouse through her mother, who had met him at a bar. She testified that Rouse one day told her he had feelings for her and knew she had feelings for him, and they had sex in his vehicle. She said she thought at the time that she loved him, and they had sex several times until the relationship ended when she was 15. Rouse had denied the allegations. He said he knew the girl but they were never alone because his parole conditions on a sexual assault conviction didn’t allow it. He said they had no sexual relationship. But Lynch said she didn’t find that Rouse’s testimony under direct and cross-examination was credible. “I agree he was all over the map,” she said. “There were many inconsistencies. He was evasive, he was argumentative.” She also said she rejected the evidence of Rouse’s surety, who she said was “tailoring her evidence to assist Mr. Rouse.” The judge said that the victim gave her evidence “in a straightforward manner. She was very clear about details of the event.” After the judge gave the guilty verdict on the fourth count, the victim wiped tears from her eyes with a tissue while sitting next to supporters and a worker from the Justice Department’s victim services program. Lawyers had made their closing arguments in the case Wednesday morning. Rouse will be sentenced May 11. Defence lawyer Bob Stewart declined comment after court. Crown attorney Mike MacKenzie said he was pleased with the verdict and accepted the judge's decision on the other counts. He said he would likely be seeking a sentence beyond the minimum because of Rouse's record. A couple of hours later, Rouse was in Kentville provincial court, in the same building, for a bail hearing on charges resulting from an incident during a break in the trial Tuesday. He was arrested by sheriffs after a scuffle that followed him allegedly making a threat in the lobby of the courthouse. His application for bail on those charges got underway Wednesday evening and was to resume Thursday morning. The Crown has opposed his release.

Vlogger Sven van der Meulen from Meppel unmasked four men trying to make appointments to have sex with animals in a new episode on his YouTube channel. According to him, one of the men was until recently a faction leader in a municipal council for a national party in the Netherlands. Over the past weeks Van der Meulen went undercover in the world of animal pornography. He discovered a chat site on which multiple men were looking to make a date for animal sex, something that has been illegal in the Netherlands since 2010, according to newspaper AD. The 21-year-old vlogger decided to make a date with four of these men. It did not actually get as far as having sex with an animal, he stressed. One of the men turned out to be a former politician. He wanted to have sex with a dog, along with the vlogger. Van der Meulen did not reveal his identity. This former politician did not only agree to meet with Van der Meulen, but also sent him animal pornography to get him in the mood. Another man Van der Meulen met with wanted saw no problem in having sex with a cow. "You put a cow in the stables to milk it. That is also not normal, because it should actually run in the wild. Why then can you not fuck a cow?" the man said to him. Van der Meulen filed charges against the four men, the police confirmed to AD. The young vlogger hopes that this will prompt more action against people who want to abuse animals with their sexual fantasies. "I was shocked by how many people on this chat site walk around with those kinds of thoughts. Only nobody seems to do anything about it", he said to the newspaper. Last month Van der Meulen also posted a video about pedophiles. That video led to an arrest. The police intervened while the man was in the car with Van der Meulen, showing him child pornography. "If you say you are 15 on some chat sites, you will have hundreds of men sending you a message in no time", he said to the newspaper. After the pedophile video, the police indicated that they were not pleased with the young vlogger's research for several reasons, according to AD. For example, he runs the risk of being suspected of crimes himself, possibly frustrates ongoing criminal investigations, and jeopardizes his own safety. Now too the police say the do not appreciate this kind of detective work. "We explained what the risks are to this vlogger the last time, but he has the freedom to do what he wants with it", police spokesperson Anne van der Meer said to AD.

Wilson J. Badillo [Alachua County Jail] By Daniel Smithson Wednesday Posted Apr 18, 2018 at 5:45 PM Updated Apr 18, 2018 at 5:45 PM A Gainesville man accused of paying a 14-year-old boy $6 for sex faces more charges after an investigation by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office revealed he gave a 12-year-old boy $15 worth of cannabis, while requesting sexual favors. Wilson Junior Badillo, 25, gave the 12-year-old boy and two 14-year-olds — one boy and the whose gender was unknown — cannabis and alcohol while they stayed with him at a home while the owner was out of town, a sheriff’s report says. Badillo had permission to stay at the home and let the children stay with him after they left the Gainesville Interface Youth Program without permission or knowledge of staff, the report said. Badillo told investigators that he was smoking cannabis and the 12-year-old told him he wanted some. Badillo told the 12-year-old he’d give him $15 worth of cannabis for sexual favors, the report says. It’s unclear from the report if Badillo and the boy had sex. On another occasion, Badillo picked a lock while the boy undressed in the bathroom, the report says. Badillo, held in the Alachua County jail, now faces five counts of lewd behavior with a victim aged 12 to 16, three counts of giving alcohol to someone under 21 and three counts of giving marijuana to someone under 18. His bond was set at $450,000 Wednesday. The Gainesville Interface Youth Program could not be reached Wednesday morning for comment.

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MS-13 has directed its members to “take out a cop” on Long Island — prompting the NYPD to put its officers on high alert, according to a new memo obtained by The Post. Police are hunting for the suspect, a tall, light-skinned Hispanic man with a thin build and a tattoo of three dots next to his eye. Police in Hempstead — one of the Long Island towns where the violent gang has a stronghold — were tipped off to the threat Wednesday by a “credible” informant, the NYPD memo said. The member of the Salvadoran gang told the informant they needed to make a “statement” and specifically wanted to kill a cop in the Hempstead area. “The police have been making too many arrests and it’s time to take the streets back and take out (shoot) a cop like we do in El Salvador,” the suspect said, according to the informant. Any member of MS-13 has permission to carry out the attack, the informant said. “It is imperative for members of the service to take these threats seriously and adapt their work habits and lifestyles accordingly,” the police memo said.

For some male victims of sexual assault and abuse, #MeToo can feel more like #WhatAboutMe? They admire the women speaking out about traumatic experiences as assault and harassment victims, while wondering whether men with similar scars will ever receive a comparable level of public empathy and understanding. “Because the movement happened to get its start with women only, in a way it furthers my loneliness as a past victim,” said Chris Brown, a University of Minnesota music professor. He was among several men who in December accused renowned conductor James Levine of abusing them as teens several decades ago, leading to Levine’s recent firing by the Metropolitan Opera Company. “Men are historically considered the bad guys,” suggested Brown, referring to public attitudes. “If some men abuse women, then we all are abusers ourselves … so therefore when it comes to our being abused, we deserve it.” Brown’s sense of distance from the #MeToo movement is shared by other abused men — some of whom have been using a #MenToo hashtag on Twitter. “We’re never necessarily welcome to the parade,” said Andrew Schmutzer, a professor of biblical studies at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago who has written about being abused as a teen. “As a male survivor, you’re always an adjunct,” he said. “You’re never the leading subject of a conversation.” Schmutzer is among a group of survivors and therapists forming the leadership of MaleSurvivor, which since its incorporation in 1995 has sought to provide support and resources to men who suffered sexual abuse as children or adults. It says its website has been visited by hundreds of thousands of men worldwide. The psychologists and therapists who work with MaleSurvivor endorse the findings of multiple studies concluding that about one in six men in the US experienced childhood sexual abuse, compared with one in four women. Many adult men also suffer sexual abuse: Rape in prison is frequent, and the latest Pentagon survey found that 6,300 men in the military said they were victims of sexual assault or other unwanted sexual contact in 2016. Despite such data, experts say many men, because of social stigma and feelings of shame, are reluctant to speak up about the abuse they experienced or to seek professional help. Joan Cook, a psychiatry professor at Yale School of Medicine, has been treating sexually abused men for more than 20 years. “Many of them still espouse this John Wayne mentality,” she said. “If something bad happens to you, just wall it off and don’t acknowledge it to yourself or others.” Some of her patients fear they’ll be perceived as weak if they go public about their abuse, she said, while others worry people will view them as more likely to be abusers themselves because of what they suffered as children. According to MaleSurvivor, a significant portion of abuse perpetrators report having been victimized by abuse, but most victims do not go on to commit sexual abuse against others. New York-based psychoanalyst Richard Gartner, a co-founder of MaleSurvivor, says there’s increased public awareness of the childhood sexual abuse of males as a result of the extensive publicity given to scandals within the Roman Catholic Church and at Penn State University, where Jerry Sandusky was an assistant football coach before being convicted in 2012 of sexual abuse of 10 boys. However, Gartner, like other advocates for abused men, said that in both those cases, public attention was far more focused on the perpetrators than on their victims. Given the reluctance of many male survivors to speak publicly about the abuse, Gartner says it’s helpful when prominent men, including actors, music stars and pro athletes, do make that decision. “They are models for others to come forward, to tell their families, to find help,” Gartner said. “It becomes a less shameful thing when somebody famous says it happened to them.” Among the celebrities who have taken that step: former pro hockey star Theo Fleury; Cy Young Award-winning baseball pitcher R.A. Dickey; film director Tyler Perry; actors Tom Arnold and Anthony Edwards; and Chester Bennington, lead singer for the rock band Linkin Park, who hanged himself last year. Edwards, best known for his role on the television series “ER,” announced Wednesday that he has joined the board of directors of 1in6, a national nonprofit similar to MaleSurvivor that supports men who have experienced sexual abuse or assault. Dickey and Perry, in accounts of their youth, say they were abused by females as well as males — in Dickey’s case a teenage babysitter, in Perry’s case the mother of a friend. The Catholic Church and Penn State scandals reinforced a pervasive perception that the child sexual abuse is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men, but Gartner said female-on-male abuse “is not as rare as people think.” According to one large-scale study published in 2005 by researchers with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, female perpetrators accounted for 40 percent of the child sexual abuse experienced by men. The study found that both men and women who were abused as children were twice as likely as other people to attempt suicide later in life. Perry, in an interview in December with the Associated Press, recalled how difficult it was for him to go public about the abuse he suffered. He expressed hope that the momentum of the #MeToo movement might ease the path for other survivors. “It takes a tremendous amount of courage and it’s very, very scary and you don’t know how people are going to react to it,” he said. “So being in this moment, you know I’m hoping that there is change.” Joan Cook, the Yale professor, said she was thrilled by the magnitude of the #MeToo movement, yet frustrated on behalf of abused men who “don’t seem to be included under the tent.” “Women have waited so long to get their due, so maybe there’s an attitude of, ‘Don’t take away my voice,’” Cook said. “But it’s not a competition.” “Men also have been waiting a long time, and they shouldn’t have to wait. They should be heard now.”

An ageing pimp who allegedly sold underage girls for sex out of his Brooklyn apartment — threatening to kill and starve his victims if they didn’t comply — was hit with sex trafficking charges Wednesday, according to prosecutors. Between December 2014 and August 2017, Neter Kamani, 52, used the internet to lure at least 10 out-of-town victims — including two minors — to the Big Apple and then prostituted them out via nude photos on the recently-shuttered classified site Backpage.com, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. said in a statement. Kamani — who also goes by “Prince,” “Prince Johnson” and “Prince International” — kept the girls on a tight leash, only allowing them to wear clothes he’d approved, referring to them exclusively by their “prostitution nicknames,” and making them hand over all their money and identification, Vance alleges. He also kept them in fear — allegedly threatening to kill one 19-year-old victim if she told anyone, and warning an 18-year-old that she wouldn’t be allowed to eat if she didn’t work for him. Kamani was busted after two victims reached out to cops at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, prosecutors say. He was indicted on two counts of sex trafficking, and three counts of promoting prostitution.

April 19, 2018 04/19/2018 12:17 pm No matter how much coasting you did during your last semester of high school, Norwegian teens do it better. Every year, the graduating class takes part in russefeiring — a stretch of insane partying that involves drinking heavily, renting party buses, wearing patriotic outfits, and, apparently, having sex in roundabouts. The latter is apparently enough of a problem that the Norwegian government had to release an official statement, one that doesn’t so much warn as it does politely ask the teens to stop having traffic-circle sex. Per Reuters, the head of the Public Roads Administration, Terje Moe Gustavsen, said the following in “No to sex on roundabouts:” “Everyone understands that being in and around roundabouts is a traffic hazard. It may not be so dangerous for someone to be without clothes on the bridge, but drivers can get too much of a surprise and completely forget that they are driving.” Norway, you may have an extremely fun partying culture and an extensive social safety net, but you cannot have it all! Norwegian Government to Teens: ‘No to Sex on Roundabouts’