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According to CNN and one of most widely-used research databases on police criminality, police in the U.S. received 1260 sexual assault charges in a nine-year period, including 405 rapes, 636 acts of sexual fondling and 219 acts of forcible sodomy.
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It's not just the sexual assault allegations. Brett Kavanaugh's contempt for women is a defining characteristic of his ideology — and the political movement that groomed him. Once malice is embraced as a virtue, it is impossible to contain.
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Last year, student protests at some HCBUs aimed to highlight inadequacies in the way sexual assault and rape cases are handled. Students at HCBUs tend to under report sexual violence and they’re often not included in national conversations about it.
I’m a doctor for teenagers. Attempted rape Is not a normal part of teen behavior. Christine Blasey Ford’s story is one of sexual assault and attempted rape, not “boys being boys.” What life was like as a girl in Montgomery County in the early 1980s.
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House Democrats should pledge now that if they win a majority, they will conduct an impeachment investigation, to get to the truth. He should be removed from the Federal Appeals Court. Holton-Arms Alumnae statements supporting Christine Blasey.
A woman held at an immigration detention center in Washington state said she was raped by a medical worker and a private facility contractor as she sought help in the center’s medical unit. Women and men held in immigration detention centers across the country have saying “me too” for years.
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