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...kill him. But I was too drunk to drive. I called the police, and they took it from there." Hanlon, now 65, denied the charges, but last week a jury in Plymouth County found the priest guilty, and he was sentenced to three concurrent life terms for the rape of Wood. Said district attorney William O'Malley: "He's a pedophile who happens to be a priest. The rape of a child involves some element of betrayal of trust, whether it's a boy scout leader or a high school coach...
Somewhere in northern Haiti: a lone human-rights worker sifts through a stack of Polaroid pictures. Photos of men beaten so badly that chunks of flesh are missing from their buttocks. Pregnant women with deep bruises on their bellies. Young girls gone vacant-eyed after rape. The pictures, the man says, are proof of brutal government repression in Haiti, in this case the coastal city of Gonaives, against supporters of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the President ousted in a 1991 military coup...
During his tenure as dean, Jewett oversaw and influenced Harvard policy on such contentious issues as the date rape, housing choice, ROTC and alcohol consumption...
Some say that the point of the "Take Back the Night" rally is to make men more "aware" of or "sensitive" to the desires of women, so as to discourage them from committing as foul a violation as date rape. I daresay, though, that the kind of man who would rape a woman is not the sort to attend a "Take Back the Night" rally,. If such a miscreant were in the audience, the presentations are as likely to encourage his flagitious schemes as to dissuade him from them. To a rapist, the women's stories nothing but case studies...
Perhaps by "awareness" my critics mean making the rest of the community aware of the incidence and horror of rape. My critic are thereby admitting that the rally is an act of shameless exploitation, manipulating victimized women for the sake of an article in the press or a mention in the nightly newscast...