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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…

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…

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…

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…

Capt. Nichola Goddard, who in 2006 became the first female Canadian combat death, wrote to her husband that women working at bases in Afghanistan were often victims of sexual harassment or assault, and that in one week there had been six rapes at her camp. “OK. Now for all the stuff I can’t say over…

BARNSTABLE — David Pierce, the former Coast Guard master chief petty officer convicted of rape, remains a free man pending an appeal before the state’s highest court. Pierce, 46, of Sandwich stood before Judge Gary Nickerson in Barnstable Superior Court yesterday to see whether he would be sent to prison to begin serving his three-…

Six months ago, Gen. Carter Ham, USAREUR (U.S. Army, Europe) commander in Germany, won an exception to the Restricted Reported policy, allowing civilian survivors of sexual assault to benefit from an option that has helped many servicemembers seek help in the aftermath of a rape. Until then, the only way for a survivor who wasn’t…

A man accused of multiple rapes in the Fayetteville-Fort Bragg community is scheduled to face a court-martial Dec. 8, a military judge announced Monday. Spc. Aaron M. Pernell of Tulsa, Okla., is charged by military authorities with attempted rape, two counts of rape, assault, two counts of burglary and one count of housebreaking on Fort…

by Ms. Paula D. Fraass, LCSW 50th Space Wing We are all familiar with the terms rape and sexual assault. We’ve been trained on what constitutes rape and the damaging effects it has on the victim and the Air Force mission. The Air Force is currently being trained on Bystander Intervention to learn how to…

This month is National Suicide Prevention Month. I don’t think that anyone reading this needs a primer on suicide. It has probably touched all of our lives in one way or another, either directly or indirectly, whether personally (either ourselves or a loved one), or through the holes left behind when someone falls into circumstances…