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Police also issued an appeal for information involving a possible abduction of a woman in the 600-block East Pender Street at about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday.
Vancouver police were called to the scene after witnesses reported seeing a turquoise 1995 Ford Aerostar van in the block and a woman shouting for help from inside.
The missing former lover of a top Brazilian football star was strangled and then fed to dogs, police say.
Eliza Samudio, 25, was a former girlfriend of Bruno Fernandes, goalkeeper for Flamengo, Brazil's most popular club.
He handed himself into police after a warrant was issued for his arrest over her disappearance nearly a month ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/latin_america/10565346.stmDelhi survey suggests women 'unsafe' in city
There's no specific time frame for the review on whether to stop paying the constable's salary,
....a woman's dead and they talk about her murderer's pay....
Alleged, after all.
Maybe OJ did it.
Too depressing to handle, sometimes.
though this was reported in the Don't Rape thread, will add it here for record compliation.
Woman sexually assaulted in cemetery
Yesterday, the Catholic Church announced new useless rules fo combatting sexual abuse, at the same time it announced new rules making the attempt to ordain women an equal crime as sexual abuse in the church by the clergy.
church puts female ordination on par with sex abuseSo the struggle for women's equality, including the simple right not be abused or murdered, continues
*Also posted by writer in the blamming the victim thread.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Photos+teen+rape+gang+viral+Internet/3537298/story.html#ixzz0zmrIgXm2
This is so absolutely disgusting that really what can be said other than go on a rant, or note; the sexual objectification of girls and women must stop.
This kinda shit, IMV leads directly to men believing they have a right to do whatever they want to women/girls once they have put the label "whore" upon us.
Since this complaint was lodged, 2 more servers have come forward from 2 other restaurants the franchise owns in Vanacouver, with complaints of the same, and stating their forced dress code has prompted them be called whores by the patrons, at best.
Have to do a bit of a rant, in addition.
That any men/boys would believe that a 16 year old was up for being gang "banged", need to give their head a fucking shake.
And just wtf are parents teaching their sons, besides sfa.
A 31-year-old Moncton man accused of assaulting murder victim Sabrina Patterson had a brief court appearance on Tuesday afternoon to face a new charge.
Fred Prosser, the former boyfriend of Patterson and the father of their two children, is charged with assaulting Patterson, breaching a court order to stay away from her and theft under $5,000 for allegedly stealing Patterson's cell phone.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/11/09/nb-fred-prosser-court-appearance.html#ixzz14stR69Ie
Heard this depressing story today:
Overstating the obvious once again: more women need to be in positions of power.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11718367
There is a huge responsibility here. I think a lot of parents assume that this is a passive one where as long as they are not overtly sexist they are doing their jobs.
I have noticed from our boy that sexist attitudes do come home and they do need to be addressed. If parents are not actively involved in this education and if they are not talking to their kids and responding to and engaging the ideas they have then yes they can blow it and produce a sexist child. My parents knew this and said so 35 years ago. I am not sure why so many don't realize this today. Remind is right on the money in addressing this responsibility.
And included in this is to teach your kids not to stand by silent when other kids spout garbage-- it can be rough for them at moments but having principles feels a lot better than just comfort and growing up with character is a group effort.
Thanks for that Sean, and when you say "if parents are not actively involved in this education and if they are not talking to their kids... they can blow it and produce a sexist child", I believe you are accurate, but you know it is more than " just blowing it". They could very well be destroying their child's life, and other children's lives as well, if they do not teach their children sexism is wrong. Or they do not teach their children treating other people as lesser beings is wrong.
If you allow dehumanization and objectification to be alive and well in your home, people as parents may have to deal with their male children in other situations which couldl be like the murder of Ms Proctor in Victoria.
The recent case of the 2 boys in Victoria that lured that young girl, who they knew, to the one boy's place, where they raped her and murdered her. They had had it planned out to do so, and indeed had tried to lure another girl they also knew there to do the same thing, thankfully she refused and thereby saved her own life.
The Mennonite Economic Development Associates in Waterloo (MEDA) is helping more than 2,000 women in the Parwan province of Afghanistan (a relatively safe area for NGO activity north of Kabul) to extend their gardens to not only feed their families, but produce enough to sell at the markets. The women learned about drip irrigation, solar drying, fertilization, weeding and planting in rows, trellis grapes and tomatoes and how to grade the produce for market, buildrough greenhouses of studding and plastic, create underground storage...
"Children are seeing women taking leadership roles." Before project "Garden Gate" cold even start, however, it was necessary to get approval from the men in the village. They were rejected by only one village.
Women are considered old there "by age 45 to 50."
I hunted for a place to post bits of this piece from the local Record , and decided that, perhaps in a place where women have been an identifiably exploitable group for many centuries, it might fit.
George, no matter how interesting and perhaps rewarding to read, it is, this was not the thread for it.
Perhaps it shoulda had a thread of its own, or put in a Afghanistan thread?
The Crown prosecutor at the trial of a Saint John woman charged with murdering her common-law partner told the court Tuesday that the couple's relationship was turbulent and involved domestic violence.
Crystal Dawn MacKenzie,28, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Thomas, 29.
MacKenzie and Thomas were in a relationship and had three children together, Crown prosecutor Jill Knee said in her opening statement in provincial court.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/11/16/nb-mackenzie-trial-208.html#ixzz15Y4B9LCG
From caissa's article link
Great article on the front page about Charter of Rights attacks upon women being sanctioned by the City of Ottawa to name one city...and to see the Anglican Church participate in this travesty against women religates them to the equivalent of the Catholic Church.
Probably we all know this, but it bears repeating. From a recent StatsCan page:
This verdict was a pleasant surprise. Listening to media coverage, I thought she would be convicted of manslaughter.
A Saint John woman has been acquitted of a second-degree murder charge in the killing of her common-law husband.
Crystal Dawn MacKenzie, 28, was accused in the stabbing death of Patrick Thomas, 29.
The Saint John provincial court jury deliberated for eight hours Tuesday before returning their verdict.
MacKenzie took a deep breath, her eyes welling up with tears, as she looked back at her mother from the prisoner's box.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/11/23/nb-woman-aquitted-of-murder.html#ixzz16CXHW1zR
A Saint John man has pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of his estranged wife that happened in May outside of a tanning salon.
Jason Getson entered the plea in a Saint John court on Wednesday.
Getson's sentencing is expected on Jan. 4.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/12/01/nb-saint-john-murder-plea-140.html#ixzz16tLyEWsr
The jury selection process began on Monday morning for the sexual assault trial of a Esgenoopetitj man.
Curtis Bonnell, 30, is accused of sexual assault and three related charges against a 17-year-old female.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/12/06/nb-bonnell-trial-149.html#ixzz17RBvRKvh
Heard on CBC yesterday that the Toronto police strip searched over 400 girls under 17 back in 2004 and then in spite of a commitment to do so decided to stop keeping stats. In the same radio program they had a heartbreaking interview with a woman of 69 who was subjected to a strip search. They know say perhaps as many as 50% of those arrested in the GTA are strip searched and that it is known that there is no purpose beyond harassment in the search. Other cities have never kept stats at all. The police mostly think it is not a big deal.
I think this does belong here --
As well on the way in to work today I heard interviews about the latest Conservative backbench attack on choice -- to criminalize coercing women to have an abortion. The MP bringing the bill refused to say why the bill would not also criminalize those who coerce a woman not to having an abortion or address violence against women.
Of course I also thought about the chill effect of laws upon the innocent -- such a bill raises the prospect of accusations against any people whose friends or partners become pregnant and then exercise their right to an abortion. The authors of the bill of course insist that this would not extend to professional providers of abortion services who are already trained to look for any signs of abuse. Such a bill provides a remarkable tool for anti-abortion activists to go after everyone around a woman who has made a choice to have an abortion to accuse them and intimidate those who provide information and comfort to women faced with the choice.
It would be interesting to see if government social policy which is anti-women and anti-poor could ever be examined as potential coercion under such a bill. Would you think it is coercion to tell a pregnant woman on social assistance that there is not going to be enough food to feed her baby because social supports have been reduced? Thankfully this stinker of a bill won't pass- it is just something for the Cons to put in the window to remind their base that they still believe in putting women in their places-- at least for now. Down the road of course they will keep at it and eventually get something through.
A Nova Scotia man has admitted he strangled his wife, elementary teacher Paula Gallant, in an argument over a $700 gambling debt.
Jason Wayne MacRae, 37, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax on Wednesday.
He was sentenced to life in prison. Justice Kevin Coady ruled that he would be eligible for parole in 15 years.
"The reality is he is a very dangerous person," Coady told the court. "[The] potential for violence is real."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/03/02/ns-macrae-gallant.html
Two terrifying cases of domestic violence from the past week here on PEI. One happened today, the other a few days ago.
Domestic Abuse Standoff with Police :
Man gets 90 days for hosing wife in sub zero temperatures
New Brunswick saw an increase in women killed by a partner or ex-partner in 2010, according to researchers.
Deborah Doherty, the executive director of the Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick, said five women were killed in acts of domestic violence in 2010.
Doherty said the past year has seen a higher than average number of cases of domestic violence.
"Five women this year is perhaps a little higher than normal, but there's been other years where there have been three or four," Doherty said.
"So there have been 34 deaths in the last 20 years, so that definitely is more than one each year."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/03/14/nb-domestic...
Patrick Chareka was in Antigonish provincial court surrounded by five police and sheriff officers on Thursday morning.
The 47-year-old was there to be formally charged with the first degree murder of his wife.
Police say Patrick Chareka's wife, Ottilia Chareka, 42, died from injuries sustained in the family home Wednesday morning.
RCMP responded to a 911 call about a disturbance at 27 Centennial St. They found Ottilia with life-threatening injuries.
She died two hours later at St. Martha's Regional Hospital.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/03/17/ns-court-st-fx-prof.html
A national women's organization says it's a mistake for the New Brunswick government to eliminate an arm's length agency dedicated to women's rights.
In Tuesday's provincial budget, Premier David Alward's government announced the elimination of funding for the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women, calling the decision a tough but necessary choice for the Progressive Conservatives.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/03/24/nb-womens-council-mistake.html
Two Castlegar, B.C., men who created a Facebook guide to having sex with girls as young as 13 will not be criminally charged, but they are not off the hook, according to the RCMP.
Police say the two men in their early 20s created the webpage, which included recommendations about which teens to target, what music to play, how much liquor to ply them with and what to do if caught by the teens' parents.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/05/25/bc-faceb...