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Uncovering Domestic Abuse Can Start At The Doctor's Office
Many doctors are reluctant to probe patients about possible domestic abuse, but studies show that merely asking a battered woman if she has been abused can help her. Barbara Gerbert, director of the Center for Health Improvement and Prevention at UC San Francisco tells the New York Times, "Just by asking, you may be planting a seed for change." Even years later a woman might remember her doctor reaching out to her and be moved to ask for help. Experts are recommending that doctors now screen for domestic abuse even when there is no physical evidence, as domestic violence is, "more common in women than many diseases for which doctors regularly check, including breast and colon cancer, and its health risks are well documented," according to Dr. Erin Marcus, associate medical director of the Institute for Women’s Health at the University of Miami, writing for the Times. More »
flowers in the cellar
Paparazzi Hound Rape Victim Elisabeth Fritzl Into Public Press Appearance
Celebrities know what they're getting into, paparazzi apologists will argue, dismissing the constant haranguing mega-stars and their reality TV counterparts experience at the hands of photographers. But Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman who was locked in the family cellar for 24 years by her deranged father, Josef, and in the meantime impregnated with seven children against her will, never asked for any publicity, and yet, photographers are camped outside the private hospital she's been living in since she and her children surfaced last month. Elisabeth has reportedly agreed to a television interview, and people close to the case think she has submitted to a public appearance merely to get rid of the constant swarm of aggressive lensmen. Seventeen photographers have been arrested so far, according to the Daily Mail, and just this past weekend "a security guard at the hospital was injured after he fell from a balcony while tackling a photographer." More »
flowers in the cellar
Who Is Josef Fritzl?
Austrian authorities are still trying to piece together the story of Josef Fritzl, the man who kept his daughter, Elisabeth, captive in the family cellar for 24 years and fathered 7 of her children. Why, for instance, did he raise three of the children above-ground while keeping the other three surviving children (one died in childbirth) in the basement? According to the Guardian, Fritzl said that the Lisa, Monika and Alexander "were sickly and cried too much in the cellar for my liking," which is why he didn't bring them out in daylight. The Guardian points out that Fritzl's logic is completely flawed, as "one would expect that Kerstin, Stefan and Felix [the children raised outside the basement] would also have cried a lot as babies." More »
abuses of power
Sheriff Charged With Raping, Sodomizing & Bribing Female Prisoners
An Oklahoma Sheriff is being accused of running his own version of Girls Gone Wild in prison: On Wednesday, Mike Burgess, the top officer in Custer County — 90 miles outside Oklahoma City — was arrested for, among other charges, forcing female prisoners to "engage in wet T-shirt contests and offering cigarettes to those who would flash their breasts," reports the AP. Burgess's T-shirt contests weren't his only alleged misconducts: A federal lawsuit against him includes "14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official." Other dastardly deeds attributed to the asshole: telling a drug court participant he would send to jail if she didn't give him sexual favors; giving a prisoner a coveted "jail trusty" job after she performed a sex act on him, then taking the position away when she would no longer service him, and telling a third woman he would get her brother released from jail if she did him. More »
Everything is spot on in this truly creepy PSA for child abuse awareness. The live action direction is subtle but powerful, and the texturing, animation and compositing of the tentacle are horribly convincing. The concept gets under your skin and sticks with you hours after the visuals have faded away.
Deciding how far to push the obvious reference to male genitalia must have been tricky. The spot wavers on both sides of the line—and I think that works very well.
Even after his tearful testimony (there were no tears that we could see), ex-cop Bobby Cutts has been found guilty of the murder of both girlfriend Jessie Davis and their unborn child. However, he has been found not guilty of aggravated murder. Cutts may still face the death penalty. Story developing...[CNN]
mumbai molestation
Indian Men: Not So Welcoming To Women These Days
Ugh: There is a flurry of stories today about the shoddy treatment given Indian women by some Indian men. First comes the story of 22-year-old Monika Rani, an Indian transplant living in Oak Forest, Illinois. Monika's father, Subhash Chander, is charged under arrest for setting fire to Monika's apartment on Saturday, killing her, her 3-year-old son, her husband, and their unborn child. Police and friends of the family believe that the killing was motivated by caste, or class differences — Subhash thought his daughter had married a man beneath their family. More »
Kumari Fulbright, the stab-happy beauty queen/law student who was languishing in a Tucson jail for kidnapping, biting, and threatening her ex-boyfriend, is currently out on bail. Police are holding another suspect in the kidnapping, Larry Hammond, 40, but they are still looking for a pair of fugitive brothers, Robert Ergonis, 44, and Michael Ergonis, 46. The Ergonis brothers have allegedly high-tailed it to Colombia, according to the Associated Press. Fulbright is accused of biting her ex-boyfriend on the arm, hand and ear, sticking him with a butcher knife (also in the ear) and threatening to kill him. Hell hath no fury like a pageant princess scorned! Just ask Miss Puerto Rico. [MSNBC]
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Violence Against Teen Girls: It Happened To You, It's Happening To Them
On Friday, we posted a quick item about abusive teenage boyfriends and ways they sabotage their girlfriends' birth control in order to get them pregnant. We had no idea this issue was so close to our readers. We want to mention the story about teens dating safely on CBS News today, but we can't even start without acknowledging those who shared their horror stories. Commenter Skinny Bone Jones wrote:So, in the 10th grade, when my boyfriend punched me in the face standing next to my locker during the end of lunch for breaking up with him and refusing to listen to why I should get back together with him, not one student (and there were plenty around, believe you me) jumped in, or offered to help, even after I was alone. Magically, there were no teachers around. This is at a "high-end" public HS in a suburban town in the Bay Area. Stunned, I got on a bus and went home.More »
