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| 04 Oct 2009 - 12:09 | Change.org
URL: humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/vi . . .
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Video
End Child Trafficking Walk
humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/video_stop_child_trafficking_walks_inspire_action
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| 04 Oct 2009 - 10:03 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues- . . .
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More Powerful UN Gender Equality
The United Nations General Assembly has finally mandated the establishment of a new gender equality entity. What does this mean?
By Kathambi Kinoti
see
awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/More-Powerful-UN-Gender-Equality-Entity-finally-on-the-way
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| 04 Oct 2009 - 09:20 | Delilah, PEACE4 THE MISSING
URL: api.ning.com/files/iwVCIms*6cfKq9m9v8T5d . . .
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"H.R. 3695, The Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law Sponsored by Representatives Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Ted Poe (R-TX)" on PEACE4 THE MISSING
The ALL important "Help Find the Missing Act" (Billy's Law) has been introduced to Congress.
It's now our DUTY to all missing persons and their families to do all we can to get this passed.
This is THE most important NATIONAL legislation for missing persons. DO YOUR PART to ensure that in the future cases will be handled properly on a national level.
Get the phone numbers of all of your Congressmen and MAKE THAT CALL!
"The more cosponsors we get, the more likely Congress will vote on the bill. Representatives are more likely to cosponsor the bill if constituents call (or write) and ask them to! They can leave a general message or ask to speak with the Judiciary staffer.
"Billy's_Law_-_final.pdf
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| 03 Oct 2009 - 08:36 | Shared Hope
URL: www.saredhope.org/dmst/documents/SHI%20N . . .
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The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children
Excerpt from the Executive Summary
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The key findings of the study can be grouped into four components of domestic minor sex traffi cking:
identifying the victims; prosecuting the traffickers; combating demand; and providing protection, access to services, and shelter for victims.
1. Misidentification
Shared Hope International found misidentification of the victims to be the primary barrier to the rescue and
response to domestic minor sex trafficking victims. This misidentification occurs at all levels of fi rst responses
from law enforcement arrest on the streets to homeless and runaway youth shelters’ intake process, to court
adjudication of the victim as a delinquent for habitual runaway or drug possession, or other offense occurring
as a result of the prostitution of the child. Misidentification causes a chain reaction of negative outcomes.
It is responsible for the failure to deliver the necessary services to interrupt and treat the trauma they have
endured. It is often the cause of their adjudication as delinquents or criminalization as adult offenders of
prostitution, leading to detention and/or a criminal record with resulting lack of access to victim of crime
funds. Misidentification can be remedied only through awareness and education of first responders and the
community at large to properly identify the indicators of domestic minor sex trafficking and to respond with
the appropriate treatment and approach developed by experts in the specific trauma caused by traffi cking.
2. Criminalization of the Victim through Misidentification
Victims of domestic minor sex trafficking are frequently processed as juvenile delinquents or adult
prostitutes. Prostituted juveniles are trained by their trafficker/pimp to lie to authorities and are provided
with excellent fraudulent identification resulting in their registration in the arrest records as an adult
— an identification that follows them through their years as a minor unless and until it is corrected
by the insight of a law enforcement officer who recognizes the victim is a minor and pursues a correct
identification. Law enforcement cited this problem as a barrier to identifying a child sex traffi cking
victim. Those victims who are identified as minors are frequently charged with a delinquent act either for
prostitution-related activities or for a related offense, such as drug possession or habitual runaway. These
children are found in detention facilities across the country, as well as in juvenile justice rehabilitative
programs. Due to the unique trauma bonding that occurs between a victim and her traffi cker, these
children often run from juvenile facilities right back to the person that exploited them.
3. Criminalization as a Response to No Options for Placement
Law enforcement officers report they are often compelled to charge a victim of domestic minor sex
trafficking with a delinquency offense in order to detain her in a secured facility to keep her safe from
the trafficker/pimp and the trauma-driven response of flight. The frustration of first responders with
this maneuver was widely expressed; however, in the absence of better options, this stop-gap measure
continues. The results are detrimental for the victim who rarely receives any services in detention, much
less services specific to the trauma endured through sex trafficking. Also, the entry of the juvenile into the
delinquency system can disqualify her from accessing victim of crime funds for services in some states.
4. Inappropriate or Inaccessible Services for Domestic Minor Sex Traffi cking Trauma
Experts speak of the trauma suffered by child sex trafficking victims as more severe than most sexually-
based trauma given the chronic nature coupled with the reinforced victimization from the community at
large of buyers. Therefore, the services required for a child sex trafficking victim are unique and rarely
available. Many victims cannot access the services due to their detention and resulting label of juvenile
delinquent. In some cases, the victim’s access to services can be contingent on cooperation with law
enforcement in an investigation into the trafficking crime. Sex trafficking is the only sex crime in which the
victim is threatened with incarceration or denial of services to elicit facts about the crime.
5. Burden on the Victim to Build the Case Against the Traffi cker/Pimp
Arrest and prosecution of the traffickers is too frequently based solely on the victim’s cooperation and
testimony. This approach places the burden on the victim rather than on the investigators — a burden that is
most often too heavy for these traumatized children who typically require a lengthy amount of time before
they will disclose the facts of their victimization and only if approached with advanced interview techniques
to help them with this disclosure. For these reasons, it is critical in cases of domestic minor sex traffi cking
that law enforcement pursue innovative or alternative investigation to corroborate the victim’s allegations.
Currently, law enforcement agencies typically are not trained in alternative investigative approaches and/or
are not provided with adequate resources to develop and initiate these alternative techniques.
6. Lack of Protective, Therapeutic Shelters for Domestic Minor Sex Traffi cking Victims
Only five residential facilities specific to this population exist across the country. These include the Girls
Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) Transition to Independent Living (TIL) in New York City,
Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE) Safe House in San Francisco, Children of the Night in Los
Angeles, Angela’s House in Atlanta, and the Letot Center in Dallas. There are initiative groups striving to
establish these unique shelters for the population of domestic minor sex trafficking victims in their areas,
but the need outpaces the development. The New York State Safe Harbor for Exploited Children Act
passed in 2008 calls for the establishment of such shelters, as will future safe harbor legislation in states
already considering it — establishing these protective shelters is critical for an effective strategy to combat
domestic minor sex traffi cking.
7. Insufficient Priority on Combating Demand
Buyers are not being recognized as a critical component in the sex trafficking of children, yet demand is the
primary driver of the commercial sex industry within which children are being exploited for commercial sex
activities and performance. Buyers of sex with children can be preferential (pedophiles), opportunistic (thrill-
seekers), or situational (do not care how old the person being prostituted is) — they are all committing a crime.
Frequently, arrests of buyers are pursued in the traditional investigative technique of decoys which is limited to
targeting “johns” in general and cannot specifically target a buyer of child sex given the decoy’s age. Innovative
investigative techniques that shift the burden of making the case against a perpetrator away from the juvenile
victim and focus instead on arresting all parties to the crime of the sexual exploitation of a child are required.
See Full Report:
www.saredhope.org/dmst/documents/SHI%20National%20Report_without%20cover.pdf
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| 03 Oct 2009 - 08:16 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09100203-Pese . . .
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De 1993 a abril de 2009 suman 504 mujeres asesinadas
Pese a los recursos invertidos, el feminicidio en Juárez va en aumento
Por Paulina Rivas Ayala
México, DF, 2 oct 09 (CIMAC).- Más de mil 818 millones de pesos ha destinado el Gobierno federal, estatal y municipal de Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua para combatir la violencia contra las mujeres y el feminicidio a través de la creación de Fiscalías Especiales para atenderlo sin que se hayan registrado avances en las investigaciones de los asesinatos y desapariciones de mujeres, por el contrario, el feminicidio en la entidad se ha incrementado hasta abril de este año a 504 asesinatos.
Así lo da a conocer un recuento de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH) titulado Los homicidios y las desapariciones de mujeres en Ciudad Juárez 1993-2009 realizado por Raúl Plascencia Villanueva, primer visitador de la CNDH, el cual fue presentado esta semana.
De acuerdo con la información recopilada por esta Comisión en su base de datos, registró de 1993 (año en que las organizaciones civiles empezaron a documentar el feminicidio) a abril de este año, 504 asesinatos, de los cuales dice, 364 están pendientes por resolver en la Procuraduría General de Justicia de Chihuahua (PGJ).
Sin embargo es necesario precisar que dicha cifra no coincide con la registrada en el mismo periodo por la Procuraduría de Justicia estatal que contabiliza 447 asesinatos de mujeres.
ACCIONES INFRUCTUOSAS
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| 03 Oct 2009 - 08:07 | El Universal Mx
URL: www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/60634.htm . . .
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Mexico
Denunciarán a “Gabo” y al gobierno de Puebla
Buscan frenar la filmación de “Memoria de mis putas tristes”
Liliana Alcántara
El Universal
Viernes 02 de octubre de 2009
La Coalición Regional contra el Tráfico de Mujeres y Niñas en América Latina y el Caribe presentará una denuncia penal ante la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) en contra del gobierno de Puebla y del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez por el delito de apología a la prostitución infantil.
Lo anterior por el anuncio de hace tres semanas del gobierno de Puebla en el sentido de que este mes comenzarán en esa ciudad las filmaciones de la película -de co-producción de Puebla, España y Dinamarca- basada en la novela Memoria de mis putas tristes escrita y publicada en 2004 por García Márquez.
En esa obra el Premio Nobel de Literatura cuenta la historia de un hombre que al cumplir 90 años de edad decide regalarse “una noche de amor loco con una adolescente virgen”. Para “co nsegui r” a una niña de 14 años recurre a la propietaria de un prostíbulo que el anciano visitó durante muchos años.
Teresa Ulloa, directora de la Coalición Regional contra el Tráfico de Mujeres y Niñas en América Latina y el Caribe, señaló que filmar una película que difunda este tipo de historias “re p re s e n ta un riesgo en un país donde la pedofilia y la trata de personas con fines de explotación sexual crecen con la tolerancia y la complicidad de autoridades”.
Lo que dicta la ley Dijo que, además, la filmación y posterior difusión del filme constituye un delito sancionado por el Código Penal Federal y que se denomina apología a la prostitución infantil. El título 8 del Código Penal Federal habla sobre los delitos contra la moral pública y las buenas costumbres y en este apartado, el artículo 209 establece que “al que provoque públicamente
un delito, o haga apología de éste o algún vicio, se le aplicarán de 10 a 180 jornadas de trabajo a favor de la comunidad si el delito no se ejecutare; en caso contrario se le aplicará al provocador la sanción que le corresponda por su participación en el delito cometido”.
continua...
www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/60634.html
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| 02 Oct 2009 - 09:51 | BAJO JUAREZ
URL: www.bajojuarez.com
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Bajo Juárez - La ciudad devorando a sus hijas: DOCUMENTAL/
BAJO JUÁREZ es una película que borda sobre círculos concéntricos en torno
al fenómeno de asesinatos contra mujeres de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. En la
voz de un periodista, una madre que pierde a su hija, y una trabajadora de
la maquila recién llegada de Veracruz, cuyo rostro representa a las vivas de
Juárez, la violencia contra las mujeres se vive de manera distinta sin
embargo los transforma a los tres.
www.bajojuarez.com
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| 02 Oct 2009 - 08:35 | Stop Family Violence
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Judge Susan Carbon Picked to Head Office on Violence Against Women
by Foon Rhee
A top judge of New Hampshire's family court is going to Washington for a new job.
President Obama annnounced this evening he is nominating Susan B. Carbon as director of the Office on Violence Against Women in the Department of Justice.
Carbon, first appointed to the bench in 1991, has been a supervisory Judge of the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Family Division since 1996. She is a member of the Governor’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and, until recently, was chairwoman of New Hampshire’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee.
Her resume, provided by the White House, is below:
Susan B. Carbon, Nominee for Director, Office on Violence Against Women, Department of Justice
Susan Carbon, first appointed to the bench in 1991, has been a Supervisory Judge of the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Family Division since 1996. She is a member of the Governor’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and, until recently, chaired New Hampshire’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee. Judge Carbon was also a President of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) from 2007 to 2008 where she still frequently serves as a faculty member. She also serves as faculty for the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence - a partnership of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, and the NCJFCJ. In September 2006, she chaired Firearms and Domestic Violence: A National Summit for Community Safety in Los Angeles, an initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Justice. She also chaired the project which produced the multidisciplinary Effective Issuance and Enforcement of Orders of Protection in Domestic Violence Cases (The Burgundy Book), a document used throughout the country and U.S. territories to guide professionals in their work around civil protection orders. Judge Carbon has trained judges and other professionals across the country and internationally on topics related to family violence, firearms, child custody, and child protection. She has published extensively on these and other topics, including on judicial selection and retention and judicial administration. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the DePaul University College of Law.
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| 02 Oct 2009 - 08:12 | Irene Weiser, Stop Family Violence
URL: www.sfvo.org/action/act-now/petition-sen . . .
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Petition
Prosecute Roman Polanski
no excuses for celebrity pedophiles
go directly to petition
October marks the beginning of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Ironically, it also marks the time that hundreds of celebrity pals of child rapist Roman Polanski have signed a petition asking that the charges against him be dropped.
Roman Polanski raped a child. Then a 43 year old man, he held a 13 year old girl against her will, drugged her and then vaginally and anally raped her. To spare this traumatized young victim from the additional trauma of having to testify about what happened, the prosecutor offered Polanski a plea bargain that allowed him to plead guilty to statutory rape. Polanski then fled the country rather than face sentencing.
And more than 100 celebrities and thousands of others have signed a petition saying that's OK - he shouldn't be punished.
For anyone needing their awareness raised about how prevalent men's violence against women is, about how socially acceptable men's violence against women still is, about how invisible women's and children's human rights are.... it doesn't get any more blatant than this.
This year, let's do more than raise awareness about men's violence against women. Let's make a commitment to speak out against it, a commitment to speak up in support of survivors and justice and accountability. Beginning right now. With Roman Polanski.
Sign the petition below demanding that Roman Polanski be prosecuted.
Go to:
www.sfvo.org/action/act-now/petition-send-polanski-to-prison
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| 02 Oct 2009 - 07:59 | Diario de navarra
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ESpana
-Aído insiste en que los periódicos retiren los anuncios de prostitución
Aído insiste en que los periódicos retiren los anuncios de prostitución
Jueves, 1 de octubre de 2009 - 04:00 h.
La ministra de Igualdad, Bibiana Aído, aseguró ayer que el Gobierno seguirá insistiendo con los medios de comunicación para que en el marco de sus códigos deontológicos retiren los anuncios de contactos sexuales. "Creo que se debe hacer respetar y cumplir el acuerdo que se tomó en el Parlamento porque estamos hablando de un asunto serio, de una publicidad que no sólo atenta contra la dignidad de las mujeres, sino que beneficia al negocio de las mafias", dijo Aído. EFE .
La ministra de Igualdad, Bibiana Aído, aseguró ayer que el Gobierno seguirá insistiendo con los medios de comunicación para que en el marco de sus códigos deontológicos retiren los anuncios de contactos sexuales. "Creo que se debe hacer respetar y cumplir el acuerdo que se tomó en el Parlamento porque estamos hablando de un asunto serio, de una publicidad que no sólo atenta contra la dignidad de las mujeres, sino que beneficia al negocio de las mafias", dijo Aído.
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| 02 Oct 2009 - 07:45 | Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol
URL: carmensanjurjo.blogspot.com/2009/09/mani . . .
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ES-Manifiesto PSOE del Día Internacional contra la Explotación sexual y la Trata de Personas
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:39:52 -0300
Manifiesto PSOE del Día Internacional contra la Explotación sexual y la Trata de Personas
Se cumplen ya diez años desde que la Conferencia Mundial de organizaciones
y redes que luchan contra la explotación sexual y el tráfico de personas, en
coordinación con la Conferencia de Mujeres reunida en Dhaka, Bangladesh,
acordara celebrar, cada 23 de septiembre, a nivel mundial, el Día
Internacional contra la Explotación sexual y la Trata de Mujeres, Niños y
Niñas.
Desde entonces, cada 23 de septiembre, el Partido Socialista y las
organizaciones y personas que luchamos para erradicar ese infame comercio
que algunos definen como la "esclavitud del siglo XXI", unimos nuestras voces
para llamar la atención sobre la gravedad de un problema que sigue
moviendo, en España y en el mundo, ingentes cantidades de dinero, que lo
han convertido (según el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo) en el segundo
negocio ilegal más lucrativo del mundo, después de el narcotráfico..
Con la misma claridad y contundencia con que siempre nos hemos
manifestado, los hombres y mujeres socialistas queremos reiterar nuestra
profunda convicción de que la trata de personas con fines de explotación
sexual es, además de un delito que se sigue cobrando cada año
innumerables víctimas, una violación de los Derechos Humanos, que
atenta contra la libertad, la igualdad, la dignidad y la integridad física y
psíquica de millones de víctimas en todo el mundo, que debemos
combatir.
Sabemos que la inmensa mayoría de las personas que ejercen la prostitución
en nuestro país son mujeres extranjeras, captadas mediante engaño por redes
mafiosas, y obligadas a ejercer la prostitución por medio de amenazas,
coacciones, uso de la fuerza o abuso de poder. Acabar con esas redes de
tráfico humano se ha convertido en uno de los objetivos de este
Gobierno, a pesar de la aparente indiferencia que esas situaciones suscitan
en la sociedad debido, tal vez, a la "invisibilidad social" de sus víctimas.
En coherencia con esta posición, hemos ratificado el Convenio del Consejo
de Europa de 2005 para la lucha contra la trata, y hemos puesto en
marcha la herramienta política más potente: el primer Plan Integral de
lucha contra la trata de seres humanos con fines de explotación sexual.
Un Plan dotado con 44 millones de euros de Presupuesto, que tiene una
vigencia de 3 años (2009-2011), que se articula en torno a tres ejes: atención y
protección a las víctimas; lucha efectiva contra las mafias, traficantes y
proxenetas; y sensibilización, prevención y coordinación.
continua...
carmensanjurjo.blogspot.com/2009/09/manifiesto-del-dia-internacional-contra.html
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| 01 Oct 2009 - 15:15 | Equality Now
info@equalitynow.org
URL: equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_3 . . .
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Take action against rape simulator games and the normalization of sexual violence in Japan.
Equality Now has just issued Women’s Action 33.2 Update Japan: Rape simulator games and the normalization of sexual violence. The Action renews efforts to stop the sale of rape simulator games in Japan and all games that involve rape, stalking or other forms of sexual violence against women and girls. The action also details Equality Now’s campaign thus far and urges the Japanese government to comply with recent recommendations made by the UN Committee which oversees government compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), to ban such games.
For Women's Action 33.2 please click on the following link:
equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_3302_en.html
We hope that you will support this and our other Women's Action campaigns.
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| 01 Oct 2009 - 09:20 | Reuters Health
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Niños víctimas de abuso y maltrato tienen sexo más temprano
Por Megan Rauscher
NUEVA YORK (Reuters Health) - Los niños víctimas de abuso sexual suelen comenzar a tener relaciones sexuales antes que los chicos sin esa mala experiencia, quizás por el estrés emocional.
Un nuevo estudio demuestra que existen otros tipos de maltrato, como el abandono y el abuso físico y emocional, que también elevan el riesgo de tener un inicio sexual temprano.
"Todos los tipos de maltrato (el abuso físico y emocional, el abandono y el abuso sexual) aumentan el riesgo de estrés emocional a los 12 años y de inicio sexual a entre los 14 y los 16 años", dijo a Reuters Health la doctora Maureen M. Black, de la University of Maryland, en Baltimore.
"Las relaciones sexuales en la adolescencia elevan el riesgo de uso inadecuado de métodos de anticoncepción y de tener parejas múltiples, dos conductas que exponen (a los chicos) a las infecciones de transmisión sexual y al embarazo", agregó.
El equipo de Black investigó la relación entre varios tipos de maltrato y la actividad sexual en 637 adolescentes de 14 años y en 493 de 16 años.
Una fortaleza del estudio, precisó Black, fue que "se siguió a los niños que habían sufrido maltrato (o no) hasta la adolescencia, en lugar de pedirles (a ellos o a los adultos) recordar sus historias de maltrato o inicio sexual".
El seguimiento comenzó cuando los niños tenían 4 años, en los estudios llamados The Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN).
Ese grupo de niños registra una alta tasa de maltrato: el 79 por ciento cuando se los entrevistó a los 14 y el 81 por ciento cuando se los entrevistó a los 16 habían sufrido maltrato antes de los 12 años. Ellos habían padecido abuso sexual, físico o psicológico o abandono.
A los 14, el 21 por ciento de esos niños tenía actividad sexual, mientras que a los 16 la tenía el 51 por ciento, publicó la revista Pediatrics.
Según el equipo, los adolescentes que habían sufrido algún tipo de maltrato, no sólo abuso sexual, eran mucho más propensos a tener actividad sexual a los 14 y a los 16 años, que los adolescentes que no habían padecido maltrato.
Por ejemplo, a los 14 años, los adolescentes con antecedentes de abuso psicológico eran dos veces más propensos a tener actividad sexual que los que no habían tenido esa mala experiencia. El abuso físico y el abandono estuvieron asociados con aumentos relativamente similares de ese riesgo.
Los jóvenes maltratados tuvieron también significativamente más estrés emocional que los jóvenes no maltratados y el estrés emocional explicó la relación entre el maltrato y el inicio de la actividad sexual a los 14, indicó Black.
A los 16 años, factores distintos al estrés emocional explicaron la relación entre el maltrato y la actividad sexual.
"Los niños víctimas de maltrato están en riesgo de iniciar la actividad sexual tempranamente y deberían ser el centro de atención de las intervenciones orientadas a las experiencias traumáticas para mejorar la salud psicológica y conductual", concluyó Black.
"Las evaluaciones de los adolescentes sexualmente activos no deberían limitarse a los riesgos de embarazo e infecciones, sino que deberían incluir una evaluación general orientada a detectar la posible existencia de un maltrato", agregó.
FUENTE: Pediatrics, online 10 de agosto del 2009
Reuters Health
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| 01 Oct 2009 - 09:01 | Family Violence Prevention Fund
URL: foreign.senate.gov/hearings/2009/hrg0910 . . .
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Hearing on International Violence Against Women Act Oct. 1 at 2:30 p
Hi all,
We just wanted to send out a reminder about tomorrow's hearing on International Violence Against Women: Costs and Consequences. It will be at 2:30 p.m. in Dirksen Senate Building, Rom 106. (walking distannce from Union Station). It would be great if as many people in the DC area as possible could make it. Melanne Verveer, our new Ambassador for Global Women's Issues will be testifying along Major General Patrick Cammaert, former head of peace-keeping efforts in the Congo, and our founder Esta Soler. We feel its incredibly important for senators to see that the US based violence against women movement also cares deeply about what is happening to women and girls around the world.
Here is the link to the website if you need more information or want to see the full line-up: foreign.senate.gov/hearings/2009/hrg091001p.html.
These hearing also also frequently broadcast on C-SPAN or d! irectly on the Committee's website for those not in DC.
Hope some of you can make it!
-Kiersten Stewart
Family Violence Prevention Fund
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| 01 Oct 2009 - 08:56 | CaLcasa
URL: www.preventconnect.org/display/displayDo . . .
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Downloadable Presentation by Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Jacquelyn C. Campbell
(55 min) The following presentation by Doctor Jacquelyn C. Campbell was recorded on April 14, 2009 at Men Can Stop Rape's Men and Women as Allies National Conference on the Primary Prevention of Men’s Violence Against Women. Doctor Campbell is the Anna D. Wolf Chair and a Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this presentation, Doctor Campbell summarizes research related to forced sex by an intimate partner with a range of perpetrators, from casual dating partners to married spouses. Due to technical difficulties, this recording begins about two minutes into the presentation.
See...
www.preventconnect.org/display/displayDocumentItems.cfm?itemID=248
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| 01 Oct 2009 - 08:22 | Sexual Violence Law Center
URL: f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/8MPESm8MSzkwtljkwS . . .
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JOB * JOB * JOB
Sexual Violence Law Center, WA
Project Attorney
more info:
click active link above
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| 01 Oct 2009 - 08:16 | Victoria
galatia522@gmail.com
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* Thank you for this site; I've been researching (help-seeking, advocacy, etc.) since 2003 at least, and this is one of my favorites.
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* After I lost 100% of contact with my kids and 100% of employment, despite trying to get some justice, I was amazed to have someone give me a laptop. I began blogging and researching some more, and dedicated a post to JUSTICEFORWOMEN:
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* http://familycourtmatters.wordpress.com/ 2009/09/29/got-profound-and-long-term-ci vic-despair-check-out-justicewomen-org/
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* You say things that aren't said elsewhere, are unbelievably true, and are not being even mentioned, I believe, in the many conferences between different agencies (etc.) in this field, who are taking federal funding to mess with due process in the courts.
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* I have been dealing with leaving DV with children in the Bay Area, CA since 1999. I thought a move to the next county (with two daughters) and rebuilding profession (which I did) would be sufficient. I educated myself best I could the second it went to family law when I attempted to renew the restraining order.
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* When my ex managed to turn my relatives (who'd sat in, with me, on the RO filing, and had previously helped me feel the house at times during the violence), and began working overtime behind the scenes, and finally upfront, it really turned the situation around.
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* I read, called, researched, networked, collaborated, and went every where I could think of for help and while single mother. I have moved 4 times since leaving him (3 times because landlord sold). The 4th time, within 2 months, I lost my kids on an overnight visitation (unsupervised, despite my request) and though this is a felony in California, no one would do anything -- neither law enforcement, nor District Attorneys in two cases. CA NOW was in on the case (at least by email awareness) and wrote a letter of Amicus, which was buried. I have been stalked repeatedly since he got full control of both girls, and denied visitation. However, once I realized no enforcement for violating any court order, I opted to stay alive or make sure they weren't hurt (I hope) rather than challenge him any further.
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* I now research grants, and am something of an advocate, though also unemployed and back on Food Stamps. The CHILD SUPPORT agency is a crucial factor in why batterers are getting control of the children. The other factor is, I believe, simply bribers, kickbacks, etc. through federal grants to socialize women into not reporting abuse to them, or to their children.
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* I recently am determined to pass the California BAR somehow (I know have the smarts, if I can get the time together, and finances) and make a difference. I never got a cent of Victim Compensation fund for any crime committed, and lost 100% of income as a result of the child-stealing, with no unemployment, credit, and so forth.
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* I work with NAFCJ.net also, she does the money trail and history of some of these organizations.
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* Just thought you should know I'm promoting this site.
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These are very difficult times, but at least I am in touch with many women who know we are not making these things up, and they are very strong.
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* Thanks, again.
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Victoria
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| 30 Sep 2009 - 22:41 | Artemisa Noticias
URL: www.artemisanoticias.com.ar/site/notas.a . . .
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Argentina
Festival contra la trata
Por María Herrera
El viernes pasado se realizó el Festival 'Un Mundo contra la Trata' recordando el Día internacional contra la Explotación Sexual y la Trata de personas. Virginia Inocentti, Luis María Pescetti, Liliana Herrero y Luis Salinas, entre otros artistas, apoyaron la causa.
Más de 150 instituciones y organizaciones se reunieron para denunciar la forma más cruel de las violencias de género: la esclavitud humana, principalmente de mujeres, niñas, niños y adolescentes, recordando el 'Día Internacional contra la Explotación Sexual y la Trata de personas', que se lleva a cabo todos los años el 23 de septiembre. La cita fue en el anfiteatro Eva Perón, en el Parque Centenario y el encuentro fue organizado por la Fundación Mujeres en Igualdad. La campaña fue declarada de interés por la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación, por la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y por la OIM Cono Sur.
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| 30 Sep 2009 - 08:09 | National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
URL: new.vawnet.org/category/Documents.php?do . . .
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Domestic Violence Awareness: Action for Social Change - Part II: Organizing and Communications
Domestic Violence Awareness: Action for Social Change - Part II: Organizing and Communications (2009) by the Domestic Violence Awareness Project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Previously released in 2005, Action for Social Change Part I explored the topics of Violence Against Women & Social Change and Working Within Our Own Communities. At that time, the manual was intended to be dynamic and organic, as well as reflective of the diversity of perspective throughout the material as the source of its strength. The same holds true today with Action for Social Change Part II (2009). As evidenced by the diverse representation of the Domestic Violence Awareness Project Advisory Group members and the constituents each organization serves, both Parts I and II present “a tremendous array and scope of experience, priorities, approaches, analyses and opinions, always from an advocacy-based perspective” (Introduction, Action for Social Change Part I, 2005).
This second installment of the Action for Social Change manual intends to generate critical thinking and enhance dialogue regarding community organizing and partnerships, communications and engaging the media. Included in this manual are very practical examples of local events that can be replicated and improved upon to meet the needs of your individual community
See
new.vawnet.org/category/Documents.php?docid=2066
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| 30 Sep 2009 - 08:01 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2549
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Espana
Prostitución, regularización laboral y medios de comunicación
Si la sociedad aceptase la regularización laboral de la prostitución estaríamos validando la explotación sexual
por Pilar Rego
Madrid, 30 sep. 09. AmecoPress.- Si no legitima la sumisión el hecho de que algunas mujeres asuman el rol al que se han visto abocadas, si no legitima la violencia de género la defensa que algunas víctimas hacen de sus agresores no puede ser lícito defender la legalización de la prostitución con el manido argumento de que muchas prostitutas lo son porque han decidido desde su libertad personal realizar una práctica que las convierte en esclavas sexuales.
Si abogamos por una relación entre sexos igualitaria no podemos aceptar que la prostitución constituya una forma adecuada de relación ni que pueda estar sujeta a ningún tipo de convenio laboral, no podemos denominar “clientes” a los hombres que compran sexo.
Esclavitud y vejación ¿una transacción comercial?
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| 30 Sep 2009 - 07:53 | Washingtoncitypaper
URL: www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist . . .
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Common Roman Polanski Defenses, Refuted
www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/09/28/common-roman-polanski-defenses-refuted/
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| 30 Sep 2009 - 07:41 | Wendy Murphy, New England Law
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AN OPEN LETTER TO WHOOPI GOLDBERG
Dear Whoopi;
Yesterday on "The View", you said Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to "unlawful sex with a minor", but that it wasn't "rape rape". So I've been wondering -
What the hell is "rape rape"?
I know you said your point was to articulate the nature of the crime to which he pleaded guilty - which, you said, was somehow DIFFERENT from "rape".
It isnt.
"Unlawful sex with a minor" IS the crime of child rape in California.
So again - I ask you - how is "rape rape" different from "rape"?
Regular folks understand "rape" to mean "sexual penetration without consent" - and of course, consent is irrelevant when the victim is a child.
The law says "rape" means: "sexual penetration".
The dictionary says "rape" is: "forced sexual intercourse".
No matter which definitional source you use, Whoopi, Polanski "raped" his victim.
So I'm trying to understand what you meant when you say it wasn't "rape rape".
Did you mean it wasn't "real rape"?
What wasn't "real" enough about the crime for you, Whoopi?
A 43 year old man forced his penis into a 13 year-old child's vagina - and then he forced his penis into her anus. How is this "rape", but not "rape rape"?
The victim was not only a child, she was also intoxicated because Polanski gave her booze and drugs before the crime. The child protested - told him to stop - but he continued. She was incapacitated to a point where she could barely walk, much less defend herself against her 43 year-old attacker. Is that enough for "rape rape", Whoopi?
What would have done it for you? If he'd used a knife - or jumped on her in a dark alley instead of a bed? If it had happened at a homeless shelter instead of the mansion of a famous Hollywood actor? If he'd had to remove a trench coat before committing the crime, rather than silk underwear from a fancy shop on Rodeo Drive?
What if the victim had been a little black girl from a triple decker in the poorest part of Los Angeles? Would that have been "rape rape", Whoopi? Or would you have still offered the same lame excuse you came up with on The View - that "people in other countries see things differently" when middle-aged men force themselves on children.
If it's true that 13 year-old kids in France are so disrespected they can anticipate being attacked by men - you can and should condemn the practice - not chalk it up to a "cultural difference" - as if to suggest that the United States might evolve one day to a period of enlightenment when we will be "liberated" enough to celebrate the sexual abuse of children.
Your audience is filed with women who need and deserve the empowerment potential in a show like yours. Cultural values are created, in part, through the dissemination of ideas. You had a chance to explain to millions of people why the personal autonomy, bodily integrity and liberty of all women and children is at stake when even one rapist is not held accountable for his actions. At a minimum, you could have explained how backward we really are in this country - and how the epidemic of rape and child sex abuse serves as a kind of domestic terrorism that interferes with the freedom of millions of people who are affected by the disproportionate failure of our legal system to redress sexual violence. According to a study submitted to Congress in support of the Violence Against Women Act in the 1990s, by then Senator Joseph Biden, only 2% of rapists spend even one day behind bars. Violence against women and children is grossly underreported and underprosec uted, and the data consistently shows that crimes against property are punished much more harshly than crimes against female bodies.
Rather than highlight this profound and pervasive injustice, you bemoaned the fact that Mr. Polanski was compelled to flee the United States after pleading guilty to child rape because he was about to be go to jail for "a hundred years".
Many people would argue he deserved such a sentence, and under California law today, but not back then, drugging and raping a child would expose Mr. Polanski to a mandatory minimum term of 25 years. But because he was allowed to plead guilty to only one of six felonies with which he was originally charged - he faced no more than four years behind bars, and some reports say the judge intended to impose a sentence of only a few weeks of incarceration.
Mr. Polanski arrogantly decided that he shouldn't spend any time in jail, and he fled this country spinelessly for a nation he knew would not extradite him for his crime. If it's true, as has been reported, that he took off because he thought it was unfair that he should go to jail after his lawyer worked out a "no jail" deal with the prosecutor, he had a right to withdraw his guilty plea and go to TRIAL - not PARIS.
That Mr. Polanski would show such disrespect for this country's legal system is a reason to punish him MORE, not less, for his crime. It may be a decades-old case, but it bears stating the obvious that the law should not reward fugitives for their successful efforts to evade justice.
Nonetheless, Mr. Polanski is a man of wealth and power, and kids don't vote or have any money. Which is why people like you are so quick to say things that degrade children. Admit it Whoopi, you'd be talking out of the other side of your mouth if filmmaker Polanski were garbageman Polanski.
Next time, try reading the Constitution BEFORE speaking on this topic. There's nothing in there that says people of influence should not be held accountable for their crimes. In fact, try focusing on the 14th Amendment for a few minutes - especially the part about how all citizens are entitled to "equal protection" of the laws. Then try reading some of our most basic court decisions that discuss how the law is supposed to protect the weak, and deter the cunning.
You have a 13 year-old granddaughter, Whoopi. What does she call you? "Nana"? "Grandma"?. What if she told you that she had been "raped" by a 45 year-old man who stripped her naked and then penetrated her private parts even as she cried "no". Would you correct her for using the word "rape"? Would you say, "sorry sweetheart - what happened to you was not a 'rape rape'".
No matter how hard some people try to make the crime seem harmless and full of gray areas - - it really is quite simple if you think about it the way someone famous once did: "rape is to sex what a punch in the mouth is to a kiss". Not all punches knock teeth out - but nobody ever says "it wasn't a 'punch punch'".
I will say one thing, Whoopi - in your defense. Maybe we SHOULD give up the term "rape" altogether, and start calling it "bodily enslavement". We could put it in the Constitution as a civil rights crime, rather than in the lowly statute books alongside shoplifting.
I'm thinking if we had initially codified the offense in law where it truly belongs - under the umbrella of fundamental liberty - you might have stopped yourself before saying "it wasn't a violation of civil rights civil rights".
Can you see how dumb that sounds, Whoopi?
I hope so - because you are an important voice for women and children and I want you to sound smart.
Yours truly,
Wendy Murphy
New England Law|Boston
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| 29 Sep 2009 - 14:25 | Philadelphia Inquirer
URL: www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20090928_D . . .
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Phila. police upgrade handling of rape cases
By Daniel Rubin
Inquirer Columnist
Watching Philadelphia Police Capt. John Darby talk to reporters last month about the rape of a jogger near Forbidden Drive, Carol Tracy sat before the television, slack-jawed.
She couldn't believe how sensitive he seemed.
Police had no suspect. The victim had been unwilling to sit with detectives.
"He said he understood how traumatic this event was for the victim, and that he hoped she would be in a place where she would be able to speak to police in a short time," recalled Tracy, who directs the Women's Law Project. "He understood the trauma of the event was having a devastating impact on her."
And to Tracy, that was news.
You may not realize it, but Philadelphia police have made a remarkable turnaround in the way they handle sexual assaults. Once pariahs, they are now models.
Down with crime
It was 10 years ago that The Inquirer began a series of articles documenting how the Special Victims Unit had buried thousands of reports of assaults since its formation in 1981, deliberately mislabeling rapes and other serious offenses to make the city look safer.
Victims' stories were bottom-drawered if they seemed troublesome to prove, downgraded to something called a 2701: investigation of person, a category that hid the commission of a crime.
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| 29 Sep 2009 - 09:37 | Dr. Janet Parker DVM
MedicalWhistleblower@gmail.com
URL: www.slideshare.net/MedicalWhistleblower/ . . .
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Todas las mujeres deben ser conscientes del problema de las drogas facilitó el asalto sexual. Este es el uso de una droga como un arma para llevar la capacidad de la mujer para luchar y defenderse. Drogas asalto sexual facilitado es muy traumático para la víctima y causa los síntomas de estrés postraumático. Este tipo de violación criminal es difícil de investigar y procesar. El apoyo de familiares y amigos es de vital importancia para la víctima de violación / sobreviviente. Esta presentación de Medical Denunciante discute este tema tan delicado e importante.
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* www.slideshare.net/MedicalWhistleblower/drug-facilitated-sexual-assault-partners-with-law-enforcement
Dr. Janet Parker DVM (MedicalWhistleblower@gmail.com)
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| 29 Sep 2009 - 09:30 | Legal Momentum
URL: www.legalmomentum.org/assets/pdfs/unempl . . .
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Legislative Update: Unemployment Insurance for Victims of Violence
Some victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking need to
leave their jobs because of the violence in their lives. The American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is helping victims of domestic
violence by encouraging states to offer unemployment insurance
benefits to persons who are forced to leave their jobs to protect
their own safety or the safety of another person close to them, but
the legislation does not cover victims of sexual assault and stalking.
* 33 states now provide unemployment benefits for victims of domestic violence.
See Legal Momentum's updated State Law Guide:
Unemployment Insurance Benefits for details.
www.legalmomentum.org/assets/pdfs/unemployment-insurance.pdf
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| 29 Sep 2009 - 09:09 | Women's enews
URL: www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/ . . .
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
New Mexican Burial Sites Rise from Hidden Graves
By Laura Paskus
WeNews correspondent
Months later, the killings are unsolved. But the families of 11 slain New Mexican women now have a burial site to decorate and visit. One father wants to change the way police respond to missing person reports.
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| 28 Sep 2009 - 10:45 | Boston Herald
URL: bostonherlad.com/news/regional/view.bg?a . . .
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Thin blue lie
BPD boss to cops: Tell truth or face consequences
By Jessica Fargen and Peter Gelzinis / Herald Exclusive
Sunday, September 27, 2009 - Updated 21h ago
Vowing to bolster his department’s legitimacy in the eyes of the public, Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis is finalizing a new policy that allows him to fire any cop caught lying in the line of duty.
“This is a no-brainer - everybody understands truthfulness is fundamental to being a police officer,” Davis told the Herald in an interview Friday.
The policy comes in the wake of high-profile lying cases that have led to civil suits, tarnished the BPD’s reputation, left a trail of victims and undermined the department’s community standing.
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| 28 Sep 2009 - 10:26 | Artemisa Noticias
URL: www.artemisanoticias.com.ar/site/notas.a . . .
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España: La píldora del día después en las farmacias
28.9.2009
La píldora del día después (anticoncepción hormonal de urgencia) puede adquirirse sin receta médica en las farmacias españolas desde hoy, 28 de septiembre, una vez finalizados los trabajos para el cambio de estatus de este medicamento.
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| 28 Sep 2009 - 09:49 | Collin Miller, Feminist Law Professors Blog
URL: feministlawprofessors.com/?p=13093#more- . . .
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The Devil is in the Dictum: Second Circuit Makes Troubling Statements in Dictum in Rape Shield Ruling
A female employee allegedly flashes her breasts to co-workers at the workplace. That female employee later brings a sexual harassment action against her superior, claiming that he touched her thighs and breasts, offered her job security in return for sex, and showed up uninvited at her residence. The superior, who was not present during the alleged breast flashing, seeks to present evidence of this flashing in his defense. How should the court rule? Clearly, the answer should be to deem the evidence inadmissible. And indeed, that is what the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held in hearing a case with these facts: Basile v. Spagnola. Moreover, the Second Circuit recently affirmed that decision in its recent opinion in Basile v. Spagnola, 2009 WL3015489 (2nd Cir. 2009). So, what’s the problem? Well, in this case, the devil is in the dictum.
The facts in Spagnola were basically the facts listed above. Julia Basile brought a sexual harassment action against her superior, Walter Spagnola, and
presented testimony from herself and two other witnesses about multiple incidents of inappropriate behavior by Spagnola. These witnesses detailed inappropriate behavior by Spagnola, including touching Basile’s thighs and breasts, offering her job security in return for sex, and showing up uninvited at Basile’s residence.
In an attempt to defend against these claims,
Spagnola sought to introduce testimony that Basile had flashed her breasts at the workplace when Basile was offduty. Spagnola did not witness the event himself, relying on hearsay from a co-worker. The court declined to admit the evidence, finding that the prejudicial effect of the evidence outweighed the probative value.
The Second Circuit affirmed this ruling, but not because it agreed with the district court’s conclusion. Instead, according to the Second Circuit, the district court
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| 28 Sep 2009 - 09:40 | Melissa Farley, Prostitution Education and Research
URL: www.prostitutionresearch.com/Report%20on . . .
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What Really Happened in New Zealand after Prostitution was Legalized
Melissa Farley, Prostitution Research and Education
see
www.prostitutionresearch.com/Report%20on%20NZ%2010-29-2008.pdf
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| 28 Sep 2009 - 09:16 | National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Exploitation
URL: preventioninstitute.org/documents/BKLT_P . . .
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National Plan to Prevent the Sexual Exploitation of Children
Developed by the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Exploitation
see report:
preventioninstitute.org/documents/BKLT_PCSE_FINAL.pdf
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