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State Rep. Ryan Fattman (Monster-MA)

Many professions require one to be a mandatory reporter of suspected child, elder or vulnerable-person abuse, with significant penalties possible if you do NOT follow through on this responsibility. ...

[Massive Trigger Warning for this entire post] I first "met" Jane Doe about 8 years ago. I was lying on the couch with my boyfriend at the time, watching TV. One of those hour-long primetime crime ...

This Military Justice Improvement Act could pass as an amendment to the 2014 Defense Spending bill. It's very close to having enough votes but the vote may take place today. Is your Senator is on ...

When I started this campaign to get more military folks to see the film, The Invisible War , I didn't expect it to be easy. Not really. But I thought more of my military wife friends would help. I ...

I have not heard this before but it should be front and center. This is horrible and amplifies the pretty typical sociapath behavior he exhibits. Of course he would feel comfortable around this ...

I'm just gonna be straight. One of my 7 brothers is a product of rape. My mother has 11 kids, 5 of them with a husband that beat her. According to the logic of that fuckhead misogynist senatorial ...

Enrollment now open for Don't Say Stupid Shit About Rape 101 Are you a Republican who has a devil of a time not opening your piehole and letting gobsmackingly stupid shit about rape spew right ...

Forget the degeneration of indigenous groups by race based names on football teams. After reading yet another college sacrificing the lives of their female students in order to allow football ...

It was March 4, 1966. I was a young, twenty-two year old recently divorced mother of a four year old. I worked in Atlanta, Ga at a moving company. We had an office inside a large warehouse that ...

I know the election's sucking the air out of the room around here for most things. Even Halloween is a minor event on DK right now, though I imagine most Kossacks, like myself, are actually planning ...

Heather Michon writes : The statistics are stark. More than 1 in 3 Native American women will be sexually assaulted their lifetimes, a rate much higher than the general population. In one study, ...

Oh, look, another [pathetic FAIL http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-rape-incest-abortion.php] from the Romney campaign. Must be a day that ends in "y." “I’m very proud of my ...

Have no doubt, Paul Ryan is a big admirer of Ayn Rand "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s ...

This ad features three female veterans—Dottie Guy, Kayla Williams and Shannon Clark—who have recently returned from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is part of a campaign by the coalition ...

Good news, everyone! For those of you who, like me, have been wondering when conservatives would stop making infuriatingly stupid statements about rape and guns, It just got worse. Now they're ...

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As high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio, are tried for raping a 16-year-old girl who was so drunk they had to carry her from party to party as they continued raping her over a period ...

And not just once. From the story at the BBC The unnamed teenager at the centre of this court case became pregnant in 2008 after she was raped at the age of 14. In accordance with the law, she ...

A young woman will be buried today. Her mother and father have lost a most beloved child. Her children have lost the mother whom they loved and depended on. Her many friends have lost their ...

This one reads like an episode of Raising Hope . Dateline Chippewa Falls: As tensions are running high in Wisconsin a Republican Jeffrey Radle tried to prevent his estranged Democratic spouse Amanda ...

Rep. Todd Akin, Missouri's Republican nominee for Senate, isn't the first Republican to announce that rape—legitimate rape, that is—doesn't lead to pregnancy and therefore rape exemptions in ...

If Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock makes it to the Senate after his comments that pregnancies resulting from rape are "something God intended to happen," it will be because the national ...

On the extremely long list of reasons why House Republicans suck, refusing to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is definitely somewhere near the top. For 18 years, Democrats and ...

A sexual assault victim suing the city of San Diego because her assailant was a police officer is now being portrayed in court documents as having committed a criminal act. According to an article ...

Sir Sweater-vest Santorum thinks it is all well and good for a woman who was raped to be punished for the rest of her life for it.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), the 51st supporter of the Military Justice Improvement Act. Debate about how to handle military sexual assault started on the Senate floor Wednesday ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) What Republican war on women? The Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized in 2005 by unanimous consent in the Senate and with 415 votes in favor in ...

My junior year in college was not good. I'd gone from being a promising freshman with straight A's and a heavier than average course load, to someone on probation who had more incompletes than I ...

I understand that violating a court order is a problem. But how do victims protect themselves when a court prevents the victim of a crime from publishing the names of her attackers -- even when it ...

Thin diary - just wanted to get this out there Background: [Shawnee County District Attorney] Chad Taylor originally announced that his office would no longer ...

In a sign that the Air Force is taking the latest abuses at Lackland AFB very seriously, Colonel Glenn Palmer, commander of the 737th Training Group, has been relieved of command. His name and ...

Charleston South Carolina's Stand Your Ground law has limits,

A few days ago, Hillary Adams posted a video of her father, Texas judge William Adams, beating her savagely with a belt 20 years earlier. Well, it looks like William Adams won't face justice--at ...

Ok folks, Surf’s up.   There is a big wave out there.  We need some surfers.   We need to Bring this home ..NOW.   All surfboards in the water and catch the wave.   THAT BIG BLUE WAVE.   Yosef has a diary up and it gives all the info you need.  I am...

I have visited Planned Parenthood a number of times in my life, for different reasons. My experiences with them have been helpful, and the people there were unfailingly courteous. This diary tells ...

When he kissed her and then had sex with her, she complied because she felt she had no choice, she said. "What else was I supposed to do in that situation?" she asked. Those last words are the ...

So occasionally one gets into arguments in which "She asked for it" is the primary position of the opposition, usually said in reference to things like tube tops and miniskirts. Because ...

This time in the state of Indiana: “ I can’t walk out the door without someone calling me a whore or slut ,” the girl said. “I used to have a lot of friends, or people I thought were my ...

A timeline and presentation of the evidence of the Steubenville rape case. Warning: Graphic descriptions and language ahead.

This guy used a semi automatic and he gets charged with criminal mischief and burglary.  Of course he is white and probably claiming to be Christian but terror is terror.   This man in the elite community of The Villages riddled the home with  bullets...

Ah the the classic list of blame the victim excuses "she dressed older than her age" "wearing make-up" "fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s" "She would hang out with teenage boys at ...

I do not know what more I can say as the video below says it all of what we have become.  We are hypocritical as a country.   We are slowly failing.    Emma Lazarus, a beautiful poet wrote the words engraved on Lady Liberty.  The words in 2018 are...

Told ya so, Republicans. Hot _damn_, ladies and friends of ladies. Look at what we did this week: We delivered a second term for President Barack Obama; We not only kept control of the ...

An Arizona Republican Trent Franks is under the impression that the rate of pregnancy resulting from rape is virtually non existent. Apparently he is of the school of thought that presumes rapists ...

Think we might need some more Federal aid to states and counties and cities? But perhaps the most shocking idea to save money is being debated right now by the City Council of Topeka, ...

There are some stories that nearly defy all sense of reason. This is one of them. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/12/4549775/nightmare-in-maryville-teens-sexual.html MARYVILLE, Mo. — There wasn’t much left by the time she arrived, just a burnt-out...

SwedishJewfish (Rebecca) sent this to me yesterday and I join her in her outrage. I am asking everyone to contact the Christian Broadcast Network and express your outrage at their blatant blaming ...