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...that time, last summer, the future didn't look so bleak to Letourneau. She was still talking to her other four children, her "angels," even though they were moving to Alaska with their dad Steven. True, her lawyer, David Gehrke, was telling her she had to plead guilty to "rape of a child." Such a ridiculous charge, she thought. Why couldn't everyone realize that Vili had come on to her for months? But Dave and his wife Susan were friends from the neighborhood, good people who assured her that Dave had obtained a good deal--a few months...
...truth is stranger than fiction, it is, in this instance, also harsher. Mary, 37, is pregnant again, and her and Vili's second child, when it is born, will be Exhibit A in the likely case that the local prosecutor will bring fresh charges of rape against her. Though she has persuaded her prison keepers that she is ill enough to stay in the infirmary--which is equipped with a phone that she uses constantly--prison is still a terrible place to be pregnant. The appeal of her original case will take weeks just to plan, weeks more...
...microphone was left open for audience members to speak. The speeches--unrehearsed, emotionally moving, and often based on personal experience--dealt with issues facing women including rape, sexual assault, abuse and depression...
Tonight's rally and march affirms women's comfort in the community and also addresses safety on the level of interpersonal relationship. Women need to feel safe both physically and psychologically with their friends and partners. Rape happens at Harvard. Therefore our programming necessarily addresses both women and men: TBTN is hosting a male athletes' forum to discuss violence against women, a discussion with a speaker from a battered women's shelter, panels on domestic violence amongst various ethnic communities on campus and beyond and a demonstration and discussion about Harvard's date rape policies...
...palace was rebuilt in 1995 by conscripted laborers monitored by armed soldiers. Every one of the city's 500,000 citizens was conscripted for three days every month, unless he or she paid a fee. Resistors are subject to rape, torture, imprisonment, execution and a host of other abuses which typify the regime's treatment of dissenters...