News, 9/20/24
Angeline Binick
I. GLOBAL NEWS
II. FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
III. LAW ENFORCEMENT
IV. FORENSIC EVIDENCE
V. ARMED CONFLICT
VI. CLERGY ABUSE
VII. SEXUAL ABUSE BY PROFESSIONALS
VIII. CASE STORIES
IX. COMMENTARY
GLOBAL NEWS
Striking Indian doctors set to resume essential services
UK: Domestic abuse specialists to be embedded in 999 control rooms
The measure – part of ‘Raneem’s Law’ – will speed up referral of domestic and sexual abuse victims to support services.
Rape Crisis Scotland boss apologizes for Edinburgh centre failings
‘Everyone here is disgusted’: the village at the heart of the rape trial that shook France
(Trigger warning)
Defendants begin testifying at Pelicot rape trial gripping France
French judge limits of screenings of ‘shocking’ videos in Pelicot mass rape case
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
Call for greater protection for girls as FGM cases rise by 15% in England
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Canada: Atrocious' comments by RCMP officers alleged in internal probe
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/racism-sexism-rcmp-chat-coquitlam-1.7327477
FORENSIC EVIDENCE
America tested 100,000 forgotten rape kits. But justice remains elusive.
(Trigger warning)
Wisconsin received millions to test rape kits. Only 10 offenders have been convicted.
ARMED CONFLICT
Taiwan loses only ‘comfort women’ memorial as land sold at auction
CLERGY ABUSE
Missouri: Catholic Diocese of Springfield accused in federal lawsuit of concealing child sex abuse
SEXUAL ABUSE BY PROFESSIONALS
Kentucky sheriff charged in judge’s death allegedly ignored deputy’s abuse of woman in his chambers
US opens civil rights investigation into Mississippi sheriff’s office after torture of Black men
(Trigger warning)
CASE STORIES
Sean Combs under suicide watch by jailers as he awaits sex trafficking trial
COMMENTARY
The Sexual Abuse Scandal That’s Engulfed the Evangelical Movement
https://newrepublic.com/article/185907/evangelical-movement-sexual-abuse-scandal
Protect Women and Girls in DR Congo’s Prisons
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/20/protect-women-and-girls-dr-congos-prisons
Using Education To Stop the Generational Cycle of Violence Against Women in the Pacific