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 PRINTABLE PAGE Calls to Students Offering Scholarships Are Actually Harassment Scams By Joe RobertsonOriginally published in The Kansas City Star, May 22, 2002 Their phones rang with the calls that teen-age athletes yearn for: A university coach was offering a…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Court Slaps Longer Jail Terms on Rape Gang By Sarah CrichtonOriginally published in The Sydney Morning Herald, March 13, 2002 Jail sentences for three teenage gang rapists have been more than doubled in an appeal court ruling which…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Teen Rapist Gets Seven Years Originally published by Sky News, August 1, 2002 A boy who raped a 17-year-old girl who later committed suicide has been sentenced to seven years. The unnamed youth will go to jail for…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Sex Abuse Priest Must Pay £64,000 By Jeevan VasagarOriginally published in The Guardian, July 26, 2001 A Roman Catholic priest who sexually abused a vulnerable parishioner was ordered to pay £64,000 damages yesterday. Father Terance Fitzpatrick told Pamela…

 PRINTABLE PAGE U.S. Rape Victims Shortchanged in ER, Study Finds Originally published by Reuters Health, June 3, 2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Half of all U.S. women who are sexually assaulted are not given recommended treatments to prevent pregnancy or sexually…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Ireland Man Convicted of Wife Rape Originally published by The Associated Press, July 18, 2002 DUBLIN, Ireland — A 46-year-old man was found guilty Thursday of raping his wife, the first such conviction in Irish legal history. The…

 PRINTABLE PAGE DNA Alters Thinking on Swift Justice Texas, other states extend deadlines to file sex cases By Ed TimmsOriginally published in The Dallas Morning News, July 30, 2001 DNA evidence is chipping away at a long-standing legal principle—a time…

 PRINTABLE PAGE You’ve Been Raped. Why Bother Reporting It? (The Guardian) Of all rapes reported to police, just one in 13 results in a conviction. If this rate is to improve, a number of enduring myths have to be shattered,…