Witchy Woman

Indian police have filed murder charges against two individuals who allegedly set a 16-year-old girl on fire on December 23, after the victim succumbed to her injuries and passed away on New Years Eve. The two suspects are closely connected to the people accused of gang-raping the 16-year-old, who was pregnant at the time of her death, and may have burned her alive in order to punish her for going to to the police.

Happy fucking New Year.

Denim Day

A young mother was burned alive in Papua New Guinea this week after townspeople accused her of being a witch.

According to multiple reports, Kepari Leniata, 20, was tortured and killed in front of a mob of hundreds in the town of Mount Hagen. The woman, stripped naked and covered in gasoline, was burned alive on a pile of trash by relatives of a young boy who had died earlier in the week. The relatives had accused Leniata of killing him with sorcery.

Stalkers often access information about victims that is available online. Do you know what information about you is online?
This is why I try to be careful and never use my real name online, as well as not posting my address nor phone number.  Even though most victims know their stalker, I prefer not to take any chances.

Stalkers often reoffend; recidivism rates are as high as 60%.

Phones, computers, GPS, and cameras are some of the common forms of technology used by stalkers.

Most stalking victims know their stalker.

How young can stalking behavior start? Do you see stalking behaviors among high school students? Middle school students? Younger?

Rates of stalking among college students are higher than the general public.

Rates of stalking among college students exceed the prevalence rates found in the general population.

A 32-year-old man in India who had been acquitted of all charges in the rape and murder of a young girl was allegedly arrested last week for the murder and rape of another child.

Apparently, in India, a rape is reported every 20 minutes.  Think about all the ones that are not reported.

They're still trying to make the Sanctity of Human Life Act happen.  Only this time there's an extra bonus!  If the victim became pregnant and sought an abortion, the rapist could theoretically sue to prevent her from doing so.

In a Reuters poll of the situation of women in G20 countries, India came in at 19.  Canada took first place and the US came in at #6.  In another survey of the worst countries for women, India ranked #4.

These findings give good insight as to why Canada (or at least British Columbia) is so popular with south Asian immigrants.  The factors contributing to India's lowly ranking include "child marriage, foeticide and infanticide, sexual trafficking, domestic slave labour, domestic violence and high maternal mortality," whereas the qualities for which Canada is lauded are "Policies promoting women’s rights and well-enforced laws against violence and exploitation."  I will even go so far as to add the emphasis on education and health care that I have observed in my time living here.  All of these attributes contributed to the decision my husband and I made as to which of our two nations would become our home, and that's only in comparison to #6 on the list.

"A panel of California judges overturned the conviction of Julio Morales because the woman he raped thought that he was her boyfriend. The woman had been drinking and she and her boyfriend had gone to sleep after consciously deciding not to have sex for lack of a condom. At some point in the night, the boyfriend left without the woman’s knowledge. Morales sneaked into the room and, pretending to be the boyfriend in the dark room, had sex with the inebriated and half-asleep woman. She realized during the intercourse that she was having sex with someone who was not her boyfriend... due to a law passed in 1872 (yes, Eighteen Seventy Two), an unmarried woman is not protected."

Your Outrage of the Day with a dash of Do Not Trust Your Legal System thrown in.

People mistakenly believe that most rapists hide in the bushes, waiting for a victim wearing the right type of clothing to walk by.  This falsely held belief contributes to victim blaming and other outrageous apologies.

Most rapists know their victims.

I sure as hell knew my rapist.