Last week, the horrible story broke of Farzana Parveen, the 25-year-old Pakistani woman who was stoned to death by relatives outside of a courthouse in broad daylight for marrying for love rather than agreeing to an arranged marriage with her cousin. If you thought this story couldn't get any worse, you were wrong.
A 25-year-old Pakistani woman is dead after relatives, upset she had married the man she loved, beat and stoned her to death in broad daylight outside of a courthouse in Lahore.
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christianity, has given birth in prison.
Today's daily dose of Vitamin Rage: a man in Indiana will serve no prison time despite being found guilty of drugging and raping his wife repeatedly and over the course of years. The judge even suggested that the woman forgive her now-ex husband who, let me remind you, had drugged and raped her repeatedly over an…
What is going on in schools lately? I don't even have any kids yet and I'm already terrified of sending my future offspring to school without a camera attached to their person. And after watching this horrifying video of a teacher grabbing six-year-old Ian Nelson by his neck and face and slamming him against the wall,…
The recently opened Hostile Hostel in Rockaway Beach, Queens named its beds in its "Wife-Beater Bungalow" after Ike Turner, Chris Brown and Mel Gibson as a joke-y way to "just trying to lighten the vibe," according to the establishment's owner.
A 16-year-old Connecticut girl is dead after rejecting a prom invitation from a male classmate. Everything is terrible.
The number of students missing from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria is still in question after education officials reported that 85 students were kidnapped during an attack on the school on April 14, but local parents have countered that the number is closer to 234.
Numerous students were stabbed at Franklin Regional High School, in Western Pennsylvania, this morning. Police report the suspect, a male student at the school, is in custody.
Authorities in Monterey County, CA rescued three children from an abusive home late last week. The police came to the home to do a wellness check after the children —who were homeschooled— failed to appear at an unspecified appointment. What they found at the home of Eraca Dawn Craig, a former counselor, and Christian…
A fairfield man was arrested on Thursday after he attempted to bite off his one-month-old son's nose. The baby's crime? Making too much noise.
Pennsylvania couple Herbert and Catherine Schaible were sentenced to 3.5-7 years in prison yesterday after pleading no contest to third degree murder in the death of their 8-month-old son Brandon, who passed away last year from complications stemming from treatable pneumonia. The Schaibles — who are devoted…
A fortysomething woman in Montreal was killed this morning after her scarf got caught in the escalator at a train station. Holy fucking shit. An escalator strangled someone to death. I need to lie down.
This is the worst thing I've read in my entire life, so brace yourselves — the Gothamist has unearthed a Reddit thread asking doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to share their "most gory, disgusting or worst medical experience." As one might predict, it's not something you'd ever want to read or think…
Thirteen people have been arrested for their involvement in the case of the gang rape of a woman in West Bengal, India. According to police, the participants in the attack did so because they were ordered to... by the village council. Is it too late to formally resign from humanity?
A lot of people have a (generally) unwarranted fear of going to the dentist, because opening one's mouth under a bright light so a relative stranger can fiddle with one's teeth is a fairly daunting prospect. It's gross, nerve-wracking, and occasionally painful, but it should never, as it was recently for a…
What does a person deserve for being caught possessing another person's credit cards and baggies containing trace amounts of marijuana? A fine? Probation? Jail time? Nah, not tough enough. How about death?
Hello good day and salutations friends. Did you know that in Colombia, FARC rebels regularly force female fighters to have abortions? (Holiday party tip: don't start conversations this way unless you want to bum everyone out.)
Today in unimaginably horrible news that reaffirms both the tenacity of the human spirit and human beings' unfathomable capacity for cruelty to each other: three UK women who were held as slaves for thirty years have been freed. One of the women, who is 30, had never lived a free day in her life.
On Thursday November 14, federal complaints were filed against both Vanderbilt and Amherst — two schools that have had highly-publicized, ghastly rape cases in the past year — alleging that the college administrations both mishandled reports of sexual assault and permitted a hostile sexual environment to flourish on…
