Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years have done little to calm public outrage. Lawrence Singleton, 59, was convicted in 1979 of kidnaping and raping a 15-year-old hitchhiker, then chopping off her forearms with an ax. He left her to die in a culvert beside a rural Northern California road. But the girl survived the attack, managed to seek out assistance and later helped convict her tormentor. When Singleton was paroled two weeks ago, after serving nearly eight years of a 14-year, four-month sentence, local officials across the state took court action to ensure that he would not settle in their communities...
...predators" who surrounded Goetz on the subway car. Despite an admonition from Judge Stephen Crane, Slotnick referred to Goetz's victims as "drug addicts" and attempted to bring up their criminal records. (Two of the four are in jail on other charges, one for the rape of an adolescent girl, and a third is completing drug rehabilitation. The fourth shooting victim, Darrell Cabey, was left paralyzed from the waist down...
...charged with the sexual abuse of his daughter Jessica, 2 1/2. There followed a two-year ordeal during which Spiegel, a psychologist from Flanders, N.J., lost most of his practice, built up legal bills of $70,000 and worst of all, he says, was denied contact with his little girl. "I wanted to kill myself," Spiegel recalls...
...under dire circumstances that the mettle of great men proves itself, and in grave danger that the most bucks are to be made. Above all, one should always remember that the situation could always be worse. I mean, at least Gary didn't drive off a bridge with the girl...
...apartheid had become so obsessively established that a white taxi driver refused to let a blind white girl and her colored nurse ride together in his cab; that white and colored children were forbidden to appear together in a Red Cross pageant; that Cabinet ministers refused to attend any receptions where blacks or coloreds might be present; that the Afrikaner poet Breyten Breytenbach was denied permission to bring his Vietnamese wife into the country to meet his parents; that a black workman could hold two wires for a white electrician but was not allowed to join them together...