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MaleSurvivor Weekends of Recovery for Male Sexual Abuse Survivors Offer Hope and Healing for Many
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MaleSurvivor, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to overcoming sexual victimization in boys and men through its interactive website, membership program, weekend workshops, and bi-annual International Conference in New York City, has announced the 2011 schedule of events for its Weekends of Recovery. The program, launched in 2001 and serving male sexual abuse survivors from…
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Get used to being raped or get out.
After being severely beaten and raped by a fellow Coast Guardsman, the female victim was said to be at fault for choosing a career that was predominately for men, according to official Coast Guard records. After the victim reported the alleged rape in 2006 to her command at Coast Guard Station Burlington, VT, her command…
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Air Force mum on whether predator baby sitter left more victims
Officials with the Air Force are staying mum about the possibility of more victims of Staff Sergeant Joshua Adam Smith. They refuse to give the information about the convicted child rapist because the case is still open. Linda Card, an Air Force Office of Special Investigations spokeswoman at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, stated that…
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Man Raped In Military Says VA Denying Him Benefits
CHICAGO (CBS) – It’s a problem the military doesn’t like to talk about. But thousands of soldiers are sexually assaulted every year by fellow soldiers. Now one of them is speaking out about how the Veterans Administration failed him, denying him benefits for decades as he continued to be haunted by the memory of a…
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Detectives collect DNA evidence in Coast Guard veteran rape case
Detectives took hair, saliva and blood samples from Mitchell Dean Morrison, the suspect in a rape in Raleigh last month, according to search warrants released Tuesday. Morrison, 25, of 4163 N.C. Highway 210 in Smithfield, was indicted Monday on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense, assault on a female, first-degree burglary, false imprisonment and…
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Staff Sgt sentenced to life without parole
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — An Air Force staff sergeant who posed online as a trusted baby sitter to troll for victims was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday after pleading guilty to multiple counts of raping and molesting three girls, two of them preschool age. Staff Sgt. Joshua Adam Smith, who…
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Former Coast Guard chief sent to state prison
After exhausting his final appeal of a rape conviction, the former chief officer of the Coast Guard’s Provincetown station was sentenced Thursday to between three and four years in state prison. David Pierce, 46, was led from the Barnstable Superior Courtroom in handcuffs and dressed in a suit after a largely pro forma hearing during…
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Officer admitted to rape in the Colombian Army
An abuse scandal builds against the Colombian army’s 5th Brigade as General Alejandro Navas announces that a sub-lieutenant confessed to raping two girls in October. Raul Muñoz Linares confessed to raping two girls in the municipality of Tame, in the Auraca department, on October 12 and 14, Navas told W Radio. General Navas said that…
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SJC rejects Coast Guard Master Chief rape conviction appeal
By George Brennan gbrennan@capecodonline.com The state’s highest court has rejected a request to hear the appeal of a Sandwich man convicted of rape in February of 2009. David Pierce, 46, the former chief officer of the Coast Guard’s Provincetown station, had avoided his 3-4 year prison sentence to MCI Cedar Junction pending the appeal. In…
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Another Coast Guardsman arrested for RAPE–Mitchell Dean Morrison
A Smithfield man accused of attacking a woman in her bed in Raleigh should be in a hospital, not a jail cell, his father said Monday. Mitchell Dean Morrison, 25, of 4163 N.C. Highway 210, faces three counts of first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense and assault on a female. He is also charged with first-degree…
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