Word: aurelia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aurelia and Leroy Davis say their daughter LaShonda entered fifth grade in Forsyth, Ga., an excited, engaged kid. But by December she was telling her parents that a boy in her class was sexually taunting her with touches and comments. The Davises complained, but for the next five months found their concerns brushed aside. LaShonda was forced to sit next to the boy for months despite his lewd comments and his attempts to grab her genitals. The principal responded with a lackluster promise to "threaten him a little harder." LaShonda became withdrawn and depressed, and one night her father found...
...comforting. Last week in Rome, its shadows intruded again. A band of what Italians call "Nazi-skins" invaded Casa del popolo, a social center for immigrants. Shouting "Bastards, we're going to kill you," they threatened to throw Molotov cocktails into the building on the Via di Valle Aurelia. A 17- year-old immigrant suffered serious head injuries after being bludgeoned with an iron...
...juries have always been interested in why something happened," she says. "Once the defendant crosses the threshold and does present that evidence ((of his victimization)), I do think the jurors' ears perk up and they become more interested." She speaks from some experience. She won the felony acquittal of Aurelia Macias, accused of cutting off her sleeping husband's testicles with a pair of scissors, by arguing that the California woman had been verbally and emotionally abused throughout her marriage and feared for her life. Macias now faces just one count of simple battery...
...DIED. AURELIA SCHOBER PLATH, 87, educator and editor; in Needham, Massachusetts. The Boston-born mother of poet Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Plath compiled Letters Home, a collection of her daughter's correspondence from 1950 until Sylvia's suicide in 1963. Published in 1975, Letters Home revealed a writer torn by insecurity, ambition -- and a heartbreaking need to please her mother. The book was eventually adapted for the stage...
...woman who cut off her husband's testicles with a pair of scissors was acquitted of charges of mayhem and assault by a Los Angeles jury. Aurelia Macias admitted to the castration but claimed that she was afraid she was going to be raped and that she had been beaten throughout her marriage. Macias and her husband Jaime have reconciled, but prosecutors took the case to trial anyway. The jury deadlocked on a lesser charge of battery...