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Blaming the victim: Lawyer for youth pastor accused of rape says underage girl is lying since "she consented 6 times after rape"

David Edwards
Raw Story
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 18:57 UTC
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© WPXIFormer youth pastor Daniel Jack
The lawyer for a Pennsylvania youth pastor who has been charged with rape suggested this week that the underage victim may have been lying because she consented to sex on other occasions.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, court documents filed against 31-year-old Daniel Allen Jack of Amplify Church alleged that the youth pastor first met the victim in December 2014 when she joined the church youth group.

By January, Jack was using text messages to gain the trust of the girl, the complaint alleged. And he created fake identities on Google and gave her a second cell phone so the two could talk privately.


Comment: The above behavior by Jack can be easily identified as "grooming", something sexual predators routinely engage in with underage victims.


Before Easter, Jack was said to have taken to girl to his parents' home, where he suggested that the two should have sex. But when he started kissing and touching her, she cried and refused to cooperate, the complaint said.

When she refused to have sex with Jack again, he allegedly held her on the floor and forcibly raped her.

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Rhode Island couple charged with murder after body found on property covered up by concrete


Yahoo News
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:54 UTC
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© Mary Murphy/Providence Journal via AP, PoolSteven Pietrowicz, Jr., center, of Burrillville, R.I., is arraigned on a murder charge in Providence District Court in Providence, R.I., for the murder of Domingo Ortiz of Worcester, Mass.
A Rhode Island couple was ordered held without bail Monday in the killing of a Massachusetts man whose body was found under newly poured concrete at the couple's home nearly a month after he went missing.

Steven Pietrowicz, 39, and Michelle Morin, 40, were arraigned on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and obstruction of a police officer. A bail hearing was scheduled for June 15.

Morin was arrested late Saturday in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she and Pietrowicz previously lived. She waived extradition Monday and agreed to be returned to Rhode Island to face charges.

Pietrowicz was already in custody on charges of domestic assault.

Comment: Looks like a case of domestic violence turned to murder.

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African children put in harm's way in Israeli 'baby warehouses'

Delphine Matthieussent
Yahoo
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:52 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Jack GuezChildren from families of illegal African immigrants gather at a so-called day-care center in southern Tel Aviv
It is nap-time at Felizia's daycare center, a squalid street-level flat in Tel Aviv where loud pop music drowns out the miserable cries of dozens of children and babies cooped up inside.

Run by a corpulent Ghanian woman, it is one of dozens of unlicensed establishments which have sprouted up across Israel's commercial capital offering an "affordable" child-minding service to thousands of illegal African immigrants who have to go to work.

Characterized by filth and squalor, they have been uniformly denounced by both rights groups and the media as "baby warehouses".

So far this year, five babies -- all only several months old -- have died in these so-called daycare centers.

Comment: So sad to see young children suffering at the hands of this woman who sees child care as only a business. It seems right now there's not too many affordable choices for African immigrants who need to work.

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Nearly 400 female Mounties attempt to join class action sex harassment suit against RCMP


RT
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:01 UTC
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Nearly 400 female employees of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are asking a British Columbia judge to be allowed to join a class action lawsuit against the federal police force over sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

The original lawsuit was filed by veteran RCMP officer Janet Merlo. Her case has been stuck in various courts for three years.

"My name is on there, but there's 400 ladies standing behind ... from nine provinces and all the territories," Merlo told CBC News. "It speaks to a problem that's systemic and that's nationwide."

David Klein, the lawyer representing the 363 women, said that the Mounties' work environment is toxic for women.

"Day after day, week after week, year after year, they were subjected to degradation, humiliation, and demoralizing comments and behavior. Comments and behavior that were not adequately addressed by management," Klein told journalists outside the British Columbia Supreme Court on Monday.

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Seattle: CPS workers kidnap social media darling

Heather Callaghan
Activist Post
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:46 UTC
bubby everson
Bubby Everson...Bubby Everson...how do I know that name? Wait, didn't I send him stickers?

You may have - along with a birthday card. Back in February, he became a national sensation when a social media campaign asked for cards and stickers to fulfill his one birthday wish for his 9th year of living. His autism was highlighted heavily on the news and his spirit captured hearts everywhere. Thousands and thousands of people responded to the request - so much so, that the parents had to rent a storage locker.

Even the President and his family sent Bubby a birthday card!

So of course, he would be removed from his home in May after the media attention died down. The attention he received is what got attention from CPS workers....

Comment: See also: Endless war on children: Exposing child 'protective services' abuses

For more listen to this episode of The Truth Perspective - Interview with Tammi Stefano: The truth about Child Protective Services

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Heartless school district fires kitchen manager for giving lunch to students without money


CBS Denver
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:39 UTC
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© CBSDella Curry
Della Curry is out of work, and unashamed, after being fired by the Cherry Creek School District.

A married mother of two, Curry is the former kitchen manager at Dakota Valley Elementary School in Aurora. She lost her job on Friday after giving school lunches to students who didn't have any money.

"I had a first grader in front of me, crying, because she doesn't have enough money for lunch. Yes, I gave her lunch," Curry said.

In the district, students who fail to qualify for the free lunch or reduced lunch program receive one slice of cheese on a hamburger bun, and a small milk.

Curry says that meal is not sufficient. Many times she paid for lunches out of her own pocket.

"I'll own that I broke the law. The law needs to change," she said.

Comment: One wonders how the individuals on the Cherry Creek School District council would feel if it was their children who she had given free meals to.

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40 reasons U.S. jails and prisons are full of black and poor people

Bill Quigley
Counterpunch
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownAmerican Corrections Association convention, 1997.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation's jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole in the US, totaling 6.8 million people, one of every 35 adults. We are far and away the world leader in putting our own people in jail. Most of the people inside are poor and Black. Here are 40 reasons why.

One. It is not just about crime. Our jails and prisons have grown from holding about 500,000 people in 1980 to 2.2 million today. The fact is that crime rates have risen and fallen independently of our growing incarceration rates.

Two. Police discriminate. The first step in putting people in jail starts with interactions between police and people. From the very beginning Black and poor people are targeted by the police. Police departments have engaged in campaigns of stopping and frisking people who are walking, mostly poor people and people of color, without cause for decades. Recently New York City lost a federal civil rights challenge to their police stop and frisk practices by the Center for Constitutional Rights during which police stopped over 500,000 people annually without any indication that the people stopped had been involved in any crime at all. About 80 percent of those stops were of Black and Latinos who compromise 25 and 28 percent of NYC's total population. Chicago police do the same thing stopping even more people also in a racially discriminatory way with 72 percent of the stops of Black people even though the city is 32 percent Black.

Comment: "It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." -- Nelson Mandela

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Family faces jail time for cheering to their graduating teen

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:50 UTC
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© ShutterstockBlack woman cheers as she graduates
A black Mississippi family was kicked out of a high school graduation ceremony and charged with disturbing the peace after they cheered for a graduating senior.

Superintendent Jay Foster asked audience members to hold their cheers and applause until all the graduates' names were called, but one family said they were unable to contain their excitement, reported WREG-TV.

Ursula Miller said she called out the first name of her niece, Lanarcia Walker, as she crossed the stage to receive her diploma from Senatobia High School.

The teen's father, Henry Walker, shouted, "You did it, baby," and waved a towel, drawing laughs from the crowd.
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Muslim chaplain refused can of coke by United Airlines so she wouldn't weaponize it


RT
Sun, 31 May 2015 21:20 UTC
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United Airlines is facing a customer backlash after discriminating against a Muslim passenger. Tahera Ahmad was on an internal US flight when she was refused an unopened can of soda. The flight attendant believed she would use it as a weapon.

Ahmad, a Muslim chaplain from Northwestern University, was traveling from Chicago to Washington, DC, for a conference aimed at promoting dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian youth.

During the flight, she asked the flight attendant if she could have a can of diet coke. However, the 31 year-old's request wasn't granted. The attendant told her: "Well I'm sorry I just can't give you an unopened can so no diet coke for you," Ahmed wrote on her Facebook page.

Moments later, the passenger sitting next to her was given an unopened can of beer. This prompted Ahmad to ask the flight attendant why she hadn't been given an unopened can of diet coke.

"We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon on the plane," the attendant is reported by Ahmad to have said.

An astounded Ahmad tried to ask her fellow passengers to support her claim, but unfortunately she only received more abuse.
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Sickening: Jerusalem kindergarten creates play acting out IDF soldier murdering Palestinian


RT
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:48 UTC
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A kindergarten in East Jerusalem has come up with a controversial play which showed a kid dressed as IDF soldier "killing" a Palestinian boy with a gun. The supporters of the "victim" then cover him in a Palestinian flag.

The play took place in a kindergarten at the Dar al-Hekma private school in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, the Arabic-language Himma News reported. The site posted a video of the performance but soon deleted it. It was later uploaded by the Jerusalem Post.

In the video, a kindergarten pupil dressed as an IDF soldier takes another boy, apparently a Palestinian, from the crowd. He explains to him something and then "shoots" him at close range.

Then kids playing Palestinian supporters are seen running to the victim, grieving the murder of their fellow comrade. They later cover him with a Palestinian flag.

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