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With SEC's top enforcement brass in the back of the hearing room, House committee members, including Pennsylvania Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, listened to by far the most damning explanation of how the government missed Madoff's crime for decades...
...grounds for Sullivan’s conviction were shaky. First, the trial only lasted one day. Second, the victim could not clearly identify Sullivan as the rapist, and biological evidence was not presented in court—and has since been destroyed. Nevertheless, even if Sullivan committed the crime, he did not deserve the punishment he received. No 13-year old child should ever be sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. At such a young age, adolescents’ brains are very much still in a process of development. Young children should not be held culpable as adult...
...figures—which hide the fact that many of the so-called “civilians” were Hamas fighters in plain clothes—without question and without considering Hamas’s admitted use of women and children as human shields, which is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court...
...Slender with thick hair and a shy smile, Ali made headlines in Yemen last April when she walked out on a man more than three times her age, to whom her father had married her off. It was an act driven by terror and despair. (See the top 10 crime stories...
...countries. "Often families marry off girls very young because they want to protect them, not realizing the dangers they face," says Stella Schumacher, a UNICEF child-protection specialist in New York. "It requires a change of social norms. Legislation is not enough." (Read "Selling Brides: Native Mexican Custom or Crime...