• Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:18am By Tim McElreavy
    A 21-year-old waitress lost her job at the Coq D'Argent restaurant in London. She had apparently not been pulling her weight and was taking too much time off. Embarrassed and afraid to tell her family the real reason behind her sudden unemployment,...
  • Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 3:24pm By Chris Hall
    Under the current system of health care, getting raped is a good reason for insurance companies to deny you coverage. That seems to be the lesson of this piece by Danielle Ivory of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. Ivory writes about the case...
  • Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 1:40pm By Tim McElreavy
    Britain's Telegraph is reporting that a 26-year-old Greek woman is being hailed as a national hero after lighting a British man's genitals on fire as he sexually assaulted her in a bar on Crete. Her stature in the Greek public eye rose sharply today...
  • Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 11:57am By Chris Hall
    Monday night, the Los Angeles City Council approved funding to test the huge backlog of rape kits that have been sitting untested in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department. An audit in September, 2008 showed that the LAPD had over 7,000...
  • Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 4:23pm By Tim McElreavy
    Following the precedent-setting conviction of an HIV-positive Canadian man for first-degree murder, Toronto police have arrested and charged a 28-year-old man with attempted murder and aggravated sexual assault for having unprotected sex with...
  • Sunday, April 5, 2009 - 7:18pm By Tim McElreavy
    The Canadian Broadcasting Company reports that after a closely watched six-month trial, Johnson Aziga, a 52-year-old native of Uganda and resident of Ontario, has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of two of his sex partners from...
  • Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 10:52am By Chris Hall
    The British Home Office released a study this week showing that 1 in 7 people believe that in some circumstances, it is okay for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend for wearing "sexy of revealing clothes in public." People also considered it...