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homeTax Museum: http://www.tax.org/Museum/1861-1865.htm 500 Mil Sex
was first recognized in the fossil records more than 500 million
years ago and the oldest known penis is about 100 million years old.
It belongs to an ostracod, an early crustacean related to crabs,
shrimps and water fleas, and was found in a fossil sample unearthed
in Brazil.
(Reuters, 9/13/02)
380Mil BC In 2009 Scientists from Australia and
Britain studying 380 million-year-old fossils of the armored
placoderm fish, or Incisoscutum richiei, said embryos in the fish
indicated that sex as we know it, fertilization of eggs while they
are still inside a female, took place as much as 30 million years
earlier than previously thought. They originally thought the fish
laid their eggs before fertilization.
(AP, 2/26/09)
415BC In Athens the masculine street corner
statues were dismembered in one night en masse.
(Econ, 12/1/12, p.89)
425 Million British researchers reported that an
ancestor of modern water fleas, found in rocks in Britain, is the
earliest clear example of a male animal. The fossil crustacean,
named Colymbosathon ecplecticos (swimmer with a large penis), is
unusually well-preserved, allowing scientists to see it had gills
and an advanced circulatory system.
(Reuters, 12/5/03)(SFC, 12/5/03, p.A2)
320-240 Million The male Y and female X
chromosomes evolved from ordinary chromosomes over this period.
(SFC, 6/19/03, p.A11)
6200BC In Germany the Adonis of Zschernitz, a male
fertility figurine dating to this time, was excavated near Leipzig
in 2003. In 2005 a female counterpart was found at the same site.
(SFC, 8/17/09, p.12)
c1200-1300 A mural at Massa Marittima, Italy,
dating to the 13th century, depicts a spidery tree with 25 penises
and testicles hanging in the branches. "It's a message from the
Guelphs, telling people that if the Ghibellines are allowed power
they will bring with them heresy, sexual perversion, civic strife
and witchcraft."
(Reuters, 12/7/04)
c1400 “The Edifying Book of
Erotic Chess," in effect a manual of seduction, was published.
(Econ, 7/10/04, p.76)
1439 Jul 16, Kissing was banned
in England in order to stop germs from spreading.
(MC, 7/16/02)
c1531-1537 Ceramicist Francesco Urbini was later
believed to have created a plate that shows a male head made up
entirely of phalluses. In 2003 a British museum paid $317,000 for
it. The head is framed by a garland carrying the inscription: "Ogni
homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi" (Every man looks at me
as if I were a dickhead).
(Reuters, 9/18/03)
1534 Britain passed a statute
that made buggery a capital offense.
(Econ, 2/11/12, p.82)
1552 A revision of canon law in
Britain meant that adulterers could face life imprisonment of
exiled.
(Econ, 2/11/12, p.82)
1562 Mar 9, Kissing in public
was banned in Naples and made punishable by death.
(MC, 3/9/02)
1628 May 1, A May festival in
Quincy, Mass., degenerated into an orgy with Indian women.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1689 The White Hart Inn at Ware
put up 26 butchers and their wives in one bed, the "Great Bed of
Ware," in a marketing ploy to attract customers.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A19)
1697 Charles Perrault first
penned "La Petit Chaperon Rouge" (Little Red Riding Hood) as a
sexual morality tale for adults. In 2002 Catherine Orenstein
authored "Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the
Evolution of a Fairy Tale."
(WSJ, 8/7/02, p.D14)
1712 The English tract "Onania;
or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, and All Its Frightful
Consequences in Both Sexes, Considered, With Spiritual and Physical
Advice to Those Who Have Already Injur'd Themselves by This
Abominable Practice," was published. It was later attributed to a
quack doctor named John Marten.
(SSFC, 5/18/03, p.E7)
1730 Jul 21, States of Holland
put a death penalty on "sodomy."
(MC, 7/21/02)
1732 In Scotland the Beggar’s
Benison Club was founded by members of the upper middle-class. It
was devoted to "the convivial celebration of male sexuality."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beggar%27s_Benison)(Econ, 2/11/12,
p.82)
1767 Kitty Fisher, a prominent
British courtesan, died.
(Econ, 2/11/12,
p.82)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Fisher)
1777 Dec 12, Rev. Benjamin
Russen was hanged at Tyburn, England, for rape.
(MC, 12/12/01)
1791 A New Hampshire law called
for convicted adulterers to be paraded on the gallows for an hour
and then be publicly whipped no exceeding 39 stripes before being
sent to prison and fined £100. By 2014 the penalty had been reduced
to a fine of $1,200 as legislators proposed a repeal of the law.
(Econ, 4/19/14, p.24)
1805 Louisiana passed
legislation against sodomy. The law was upheld in 2002.
(SFC, 11/23/02, p.A5)
1840 Aug 14, Baron Richard
Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (d.1902), German psychiatrist, was born.
He was the author of the seminal work “Psychopathia Sexualis"
(1886).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing)
1840 In Paris, France, there
were some 200 brothels.
(Econ, 7/14/12, p.47)
1850 California passed
anti-sodomy legislation in its “crime against nature" law.
(SSFC, 5/11/08, Books p.4)
1856 May 6, Sigmund Freud
(d.1939), father of psychology and the Viennese physician who
discovered the unconscious, was born. He treated his hysterical
patients by encouraging them to associate freely. He insisted that
sexual desires and fears lay just beneath the surface of
everyone’s mind. A biography of Freud was later written by
Peter Gay.
(V.D.-H.K.p.281-282)(SFEC, 1/11/98, BR p.9)(HN,
5/6/98)
1869 Iceland made it illegal to
sell or distribute pornography.
(Econ, 4/20/13, p.64)
1873 The US Comstock Act was
passed. It declared the public dissemination of information about
contraception illegal. Until this time newspapers and magazines were
filled with ads for birth-control devices and services. Anthony
Comstock, morals crusader, successfully lobbied for a strict federal
law on obscenity and established the New York Society for the
suppression of Vice.
(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)(SFC, 1/21/04, p.D2)
1882 Mar 22, US Congress
outlawed polygamy. The Edmunds Act was adopted by the US to suppress
polygamy in the territories. [see Morrill Act 1862]
(AP, 3/22/97)(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)
1886 Nov 30, Folies Bergere
introduced an elaborate review featuring women in sensational
costumes. Years later, the Folies followed the Parisian taste for
striptease and gained a reputation for spectacular nudie shows. The
Folies had originated as a hall for operettas, pantomime, and even
political meetings.
(MC, 11/30/01)
1888-1965 Mary Day Winn, American writer: "Sex is
the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on
every course in the menu."
(AP, 1/10/01)
1889 May 30, The
brassiere was invented.
(HN, 5/30/98)
1894 Jun 23, Alfred Kinsey,
zoologist and sociologist, was born.
(HN, 6/23/01)
1896 Nov 1, The 1st bare women
breast (Zulu) appeared in National Geographic Mag.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1899 The vibrator was
introduced as a home medical appliance. By 1904 it appeared in
magazine advertisements. In 1918 a Sears Roebuck catalog described a
$5.95 portable model.
(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.F6)
1900 Feb 1, In Chicago Ada and
Minna Everleigh opened their Everleigh Club, a high-end brothel.
They closed operations in 1911.
(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.P8)
1903 Apr 9, Gregory Pincus,
inventor of the birth control pill, was born.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1905 Sigmund Freud authored his
"Three Essays on Sexuality" that misinformed generations about the
nature of the female orgasm.
(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1906 Felix Salten (1869-1945),
Austrian writer, authored the novel “Josephine Mutzenbacher," the
fictional autobiography of a Vienna prostitute, a notorious
pornographic novel. In 1923 he authored “Bambi."
(Econ, 11/8/08,
p.102)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Salten)
1907 Mar 9, Indiana enacted the
nation’s 1st involuntary sterilization law based on eugenics.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A3)(NH, 7/02, p.12)(MC, 3/9/02)
1909 California legalized the
sterilization of convicted sodomites.
(SSFC, 5/11/08, Books p.4)
1911 May 4, In San Francisco
Police chief Seymour instructed Capt. Thomas Duke of Central Station
to notify the proprietors of brothels that $2 per day would be the
maximum they would be allowed to charge the 100 prostitutes at 633
Jackson and 719 Commercial Street. Current charges for the women
were $5 per day.
(SSFC, 5/1/11, DB p.46)
1911 Mar 12, In San Francisco a
squad of immigration officials captured 6 Chinese slave girls, said
to have been purchased for $25,000.
(SSFC, 3/13/11, DB p.42)
1911 Oct 25, In Chicago Ada and
Minna Everleigh closed their Everleigh Club, a high-end brothel,
which they had begun in 1910. In 2007 Karen Abbott authored “Sin in
the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for
America's Soul."
(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.P8)
1911 Nov 10, George Levick, a
surgeon and the medical officer on Scott's famous 1910-1913
expedition to the South Pole, wrote in Greek (translated here):
"This afternoon I saw a most extraordinary site [sic]. A Penguin was
actually engaged in sodomy upon the body of a dead white throated
bird of its own species. The act occurred a full minute, the
position taken up by the cock differing in no respect from that of
ordinary copulation, and the whole act was gone through down to the
final depression of the cloaca."
(http://tinyurl.com/bmlpwm9)
1913 Apr 26, Mary Phagan (13)
was killed at an Atlanta pencil factory. She had stopped to pick up
her check on her way to Peachtree Street to see a Confederate
Memorial Day Parade. Leo Frank (29), a Jewish factory manager, was
falsely accused of raping and murdering the young working-class
girl. Georgia Gov. John M. Slaton later commuted Frank’s sentence to
life, but a vigilante crowd dragged him out of prison and lynched
him on Aug 17. In 1968 Leonard Dinnerstein authored “The Leo Frank
Case." The story is covered in the 1997 novel "The Old Religion" by
David Mamet. In 1998 the musical "Parade" was produced based on the
Frank lynching.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, BR p.6)(WSJ, 12/22/98, p.A16)(WSJ,
6/9/00, p.A12)(WSJ, 1/17/09, p.W8)
1914 Nov 13, The brassiere,
invented by Caresse Crosby, was patented by Mary Phelps Jacob.
(HN, 11/13/00)(MC, 11/13/01)
1915 Sep 21, Anthony Comstock
(b.1844), former US Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to
ideas of Victorian morality, died. The anti-porn campaigner had used
his position to seize 50 tons of books and 4 million pictures.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock)(Econ, 3/15/08, p.44)
1915 California expanded the
definition of sodomy to include fellatio and cunnilingus.
(SSFC, 5/11/08, Books p.4)
1916 Feb 11, Emma Goldman was
arrested for lecturing on birth control.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1920 Feb 10, Alex Comfort,
English physician and author, was born. His books included "Joy of
Sex."
(HN, 2/10/01)
1921 Mar 17, Dr Marie Stopes
opened Britain's 1st birth control clinic in London.
(MC, 3/17/02)
1924 Mar 20, The Virginia
Legislature passed two closely related eugenics laws: SB 219,
entitled "The Racial Integrity Act" and SB 281, "An ACT to provide
for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in
certain cases", henceforth referred to as "The Sterilization Act".
The Racial Integrity Act required that a racial description of every
person be recorded at birth, and felonized marriage between "white
persons" and non-white persons. The law was the most famous ban on
miscegenation in the US, and was overturned by the US Supreme Court
in 1967, in Loving v. Virginia. Virginia repealed the sterilization
in 1979. In 2001 the House of Delegates voted to express regret for
the state’s selecting breeding policies that had forced
sterilizations on some 8,000 people. The Senate soon followed suit.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924)(SSFC,
2/4/01, p.A3)(SFC, 2/15/01, p.C16)
1925 Feb 11, Virginia E.
Johnson, doctor, sexologist (Masters & Johnson), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1926 Apr 9, Hugh Hefner,
publisher of Playboy Magazine, was born in Chicago.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Hefner)
1927 South Africa’s first
Immorality Act prohibited sex between whites and blacks. It was
amended in 1950 to prohibit sex between whites and all non-whites.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immorality_Act)
1928 Jun 4, Ruth Westheimer,
sex therapist (WYNY-FM), was born in Germany.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1929 The Czech film "Erotikon"
starred Ita Rina and was directed by Gustav Machaty. It was about a
young virgin seduced by a traveling salesman.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.E8)
1930 Dec 4, Vatican approved
the rhythm method for birth control.
(MC, 12/4/01)
1931 Mar 30, In Scottsboro,
Ala., 9 young black men were indicted for rape. By the end of April
all were tried, convicted and sentenced to death, except for one age
13, who was sentenced to life in prison. The US Supreme Court later
overturned the convictions, but they were convicted at a 2nd trial,
even though one of the accused said no rape had occurred. Five
convictions were overturned in 1937 after one alleged victim
recanted her story. Clarence Norris received a pardon before his
death in 1976. In 2013 Alabama’s parole board approved posthumous
pardons for the “Scottsboro Boys" during a hearing for three black
men whose convictions were never overturned.
(WSJ, 6/20/07, p.A17)(SFC, 11/22/13, p.A15)
1937 Mar 15, The 1st state
contraceptive clinic opened in Raleigh, NC.
(MC, 3/15/02)
1938 Apr 10, NY made syphilis
testing mandatory for a marriage license.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1939 Jul 8, Henry Havelock
Ellis (80), English sexologist (Man & Woman), died.
(MC, 7/8/02)
1940s Sally Stanford operated a
cat house at 1144 Pine St, SF, Ca. It was called "The Fortress" by
vice cops because it was so difficult to penetrate. Stanford later
authored "A House Is Not a Home" and a personal memoir in 1966. In
1976 she became mayor of Sausalito.
(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.D6)
1944 Hungary’s Admiral Miklos
Horthy passed the 4th of four anti-Jewish laws, outlawing sexual
intercourse between Jews and non-Jews.
(Econ, 11/9/13, p.59)
1946 France outlawed brothels.
(Econ, 7/14/12, p.47)
1946-1948 US scientific researchers infected
hundreds of Guatemalan mental patients with sexually transmitted
diseases. The researchers were trying to determine whether the
antibiotic penicillin could prevent syphilis infection, not just
cure it. The practice only came to light in 2010 thanks to the work
of an academic researcher. On Oct 1, 2010, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius issued a formal apology to Guatemala, and to Guatemalan
residents of the United States. A 2011 report said 2,082 people were
infected with syphilis, gonorrhea or chancroid. Previous studies had
said about 1,300 people were exposed, including soldiers,
prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients.
(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39456324/ns/health-sexual_health/)(AP,
12/7/11)
1948 The Kinsey Report "Sexual
Behavior in the Human Male" was published.
(TMC, 1994, p.1948)(SFEM, 2/9/97, p.27)
1950 May 1, South Africa’s 1927
Immorality Act, which prohibited sex between whites and blacks, was
amended to prohibit sex between whites and all non-whites.
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Immorality_Amendment_Act,_1950)
1950 Alfred Kinsey, pioneer sex
researcher, wrote: "Human sexual behavior represents one of the
least explored segments of biology, psychology, and sociology."
(PacDis, Spring/’94, p. 48)
1953 Dec, Marilyn Monroe took
it all off in the 1st issue of Playboy Magazine.
(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1953 Alfred Kinsey published
"Sexual Behavior in the Human Female," the 1st major US survey on
women's sexual habits. He found that attitudes did not match
behavior.
(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1954 The “Story of O" by
Pauline Reage was first published. She had written it at age 47 out
of fear that her married lover would leave her. He never left her
and saw to it that the novel got published.
(SSFC, 6/26/11, p.F3)
1956 Aug 25, Alfred C. Kinsey,
US sexologist (Kinsey Report), died.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(MC, 8/25/02)
1957 Nov 3, Wilhelm Reich
(b.1897), Austria-born psychoanalyst, died in the US. His work was
based on the sexual energy in people that he called "Orgone." In
1999 Farrar, Straus & Giroux published: "American Odyssey:
Letters and Journals 1940-1947."
(WUD, 1994,
p.1209)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich)
1959 Russ Meyer produced his
1st film “The Immortal Mr. Teas." This inaugurated the “nudie-cutie"
genre.
(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.E4)
1960 May 9, The US Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approved a pill as safe for birth control
use. The pill, Enovid, was made by G.D. Searle and Company of
Chicago. [see May 11]
(AP, 5/9/00)
1960 May 11, The Searle drug
company won US FDA marketing approval for a birth control pill. In
2001 Carl Djerassi authored "This Man’s Pill: Reflections on the
50th Birthday of the Pill." Djerassi synthesized a key hormone in
the pill in Mexico City in 1951. [see May 9]
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.R6)
1960 Jun 23, The Food and Drug
Administration approved Enovid by GD Searle, the first oral
contraceptive.
(Internet)
1960 Aug 18, Enovid 10, the 1st
commercial oral contraceptive, debuted in Skokie, Ill.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1961 Aug 14, SF vice squad
stage an early morning raid at a restaurant at Bush and Taylor and
jailed 103 people. All but 14 were men accused of dancing together
and kissing. Of 242 patrons 139 escaped.
(SSFC, 8/14/11, DB p.42)
1961 India outlawed the dowry
as an institutionalized marital custom to help reduce gender-driven
abortions.
(SFC, 12/6/02, p.J1)
1962 Jan 26, Bishop Burke of
Buffalo Catholic dioceses declared Chubby Checker's "Twist" is
impure & banned it from all Catholic schools.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1962 Mar 21, Dutch RC bishop
Beckers declared himself in favor of birth control.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1962 Jun, In 2012 Mimi Alford
(69), a grandmother and retired church administrator said she began
a relationship with Pres. John F. Kennedy while she was a
19-year-old intern in the White House press office. According to a
New York Post, which obtained a copy of the memoir, the affair began
in the summer of 1962, on the fourth day of Alford's internship,
when they had an encounter in the White House swimming pool. That
night, Alford says, she lost her virginity to the president in First
Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's bedroom. The affair was first revealed in
2003, when Kennedy biographer Robert Dallek wrote in "An Unfinished
Life" about an unnamed intern who allegedly had a relationship with
the late president. Alford’s "Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with
President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath" was released on Feb 8,
2012.
(http://tinyurl.com/7shp9j3)
1962 Helen Gurley Brown
(1922-2012) authored "Sex and the Single Girl." In 2009 Jennifer
Scanlon authored “Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley
Brown."
(NW, 6/23/03, p.65)(WSJ, 4/10/09, p.W7)(SFC,
8/14/12, p.A5)
1963 Jul, Serial killers
Myra Hindley (d.2002) and her boyfriend, Ian Brady (the Moors
Murderers), began abducting, molesting and killing children. The
pair were caught in Oct, 1965. Between 1963 and 1965 they lured five
children and teenagers to their deaths, burying four of them on
remote moorland near Manchester.
(AP, 11/16/02)(AFP, 8/17/12)
1964 Jun 19, In SF publicist
Davey Rosenberg (1937-1986) persuaded waitress Carol Doda (b.1937)
to don a Rudi Gernreich topless bathing suit at the Condor Club. She
soon had her size-34 breast injected with silicon, and her bust came
to be known as Doda's "twin-44s" and "the new Twin Peaks of SF." Her
fame prompted the club to erect a neon sign with blinking nipples
that lasted to 1991.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Doda)(SFEC,
8/1/99, DB p.32)(SSFC, 9/11/11, DB p.46)
1964 Jan, Mary Sullivan (19)
was raped and strangled in her Boston apartment. In 2001 there was
evidence that she was not killed by Albert DeSalvo (d.1973), the
suspected Boston Strangler. In 2013 DNA evidence linked DeSalvo to
Sullivan’s slaying.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A2)(SFC, 7/12/13, p.A10)
1965 Dr. Judd Marmor (d.2003 at
93) authored "Sexual Inversion." It questioned the prevailing views
on homosexuality.
(SFC, 12/18/03, p.A25)
1965 The Supreme Court ruled in
Griswold vs. Connecticut to invalidate a state law prohibiting the
use of contraceptives. The court ruled that the government cannot
regulate a married couple's use of birth control.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A22)(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1965-1985 The Boy Scouts of America collected some
20,000 pages of “perversion files" during this period. They came to
light when used as evidence in a 2010 lawsuit. In 2012 the Oregon
Supreme Court approved their release.
(SFC, 6/15/12, p.A12)
1966 Dr. William H. Masters
(1915-2001) and Virginia Johnson (b.1925), leading researchers in
human sexuality, authored the best seller "Human Sexual Response."
Masters and Johnson reported that half of all US marriages are
plagued by some kind of sexual inadequacy. They founded a research
institute in St. Louis, which closed in 1994 following their 1993
divorce. In 2009 Thomas Maier authored “Masters of Sex: The Life and
Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught
America How to Love."
(SSFC, 2/18/01, p.A24)(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)(Econ,
5/16/09, p.90)
1966 In San Francisco
Iranian-born topless star Yvonne D’Angers (21) chained herself to
the Golden Gate Bridge to protest her threatened deportation. In
2009 Yvonne Boreta (64), accomplished painter and model died in Las
Vegas. In 1965 D’Angers, her stage name, was a star witness in a
trial over the legality of topless waitresses.
(SSFC, 6/14/09, p.B3)
1967 Jun 24, Pope Paul VI
published his encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus (priestly
celibacy).
(MC, 6/24/02)
1967 The British Sexual
Offenses Act partially decriminalized sexual behavior between
consenting males over 21. Elements of the indecency legislation
remained in place until 2003, including anti-gay restrictions
relating to the age of consent, the military, and sex under various
circumstances. The event was later described in the film: "A Bill
Called William." The age of consent for homosexual acts was reduced
to 16 in 1998.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, DB p.49)(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A10)(AP,
1/16/13)
1968 Mar 29, In SF Linda Harmon
(14) was raped and stabbed to death while babysitting for a neighbor
in Visitacion Valley. In late 2003 police matched DNA evidence to
William Speer, who was undergoing therapy for sexually violent
tendencies at an Arizona mental hospital.
(SFC, 12/24/03, p.A13)(SFC, 11/4/05, p.B1)
1968 Jul 29, Pope Paul VI
issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae which reaffirmed the Church’s
opposition to abortion, and to all contraception except the rhythm
method.
(WUD, 1994, p.1687)(AP, 7/29/98)(SSFC, 7/8/01,
p.A4)
1968 David “Moses" Berg of
Oakland, Ca., founded the Children of God. He combined the free love
of the sexual revolution with the fervor of the American evangelical
movement. [see May, 2, 1978]
(SSFC, 2/27/05, p.A1)
1968 Al Goldstein and Jim
Buckley co-founded Screw magazine. It folded in 2003.
(SFC, 12/20/13, p.D9)
1968 In Austria a girl (16) at
the state-run home in Tyrol province was reportedly raped by two
soldiers and three others defecated on her. She and four other girls
were picked out for the soldiers by a female orderly. In 2012 a
military commission was been set up to investigate the allegations.
(AP, 8/20/12)
1968 Dr. Kurt Freund
(1914-1996), psychiatrist, left Czechoslovakia after the failure of
the revolt and moved to Canada. He had developed a way to measure
penile response to erotic stimulation with a phallometric device.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.B8)
1969 May 14, Abortion and
contraception was legalized in Canada.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1969 Sep 4, The US Food and
Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills
safe, despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked
to the pills.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1969 Barbara Grizzuti (d.2002
at 67) authored "Unlearning the Lie: Sexism in School."
(SFC, 4/27/02, p.A21)
1969 San Francisco's hardcore
pioneer director/producer Alex de Renzy, in his directorial debut
with reputed sexologists Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, conducted
interviews with uninhibited Danes, along with closeups of every
detail of conventional sexual intercourse and depictions of
lesbianism, fellatio, and cunnilingus. A 90-minute version screened
in San Francisco was later confiscated and the film was banned in a
number of states. In the wake of the landmark decision in People v.
Alex de Renzy the documentary film “Pornography in Denmark" went
into wide release.
(www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms21.html)(SFC,
7/12/11, p.E1)
1969 In India Hindustan Latex,
a government enterprise, began making condoms to the government curb
the rising population. In 2009 it was renamed to HLL Lifecare.
(Econ, 11/14/09, p.75)
1970 Feb 12, Dean Arthur
Schwartzmiller (28) was convicted in Juneau, Alaska, of 2 charges of
lewd conduct after being accused of molesting 2 boys. Over the next
35 years he was arrested in 6 more states on molestation charges. In
2005 police in San Jose found notebooks at his home that documented
over 36,000 sex acts with young boys.
(SFC, 6/17/05, p.A1)
1970 Nov, The Sun, a British
tabloid newly acquired by Rupert Murdoch, introduced topless photos
on Page 3.
(Econ, 8/17/13,
p.50)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_3)
1970 Shulamith Firestone
(1945-2012) authored “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case For Feminist
Revolution."
(SFC, 9/4/12, p.C4)
1971 Dr. Mary C. Raugust Howell
(d.1998 at 65) contributed to the women’s medical guide: "Our
Bodies, Ourselves."
(SFC, 2/6/98, p.A23)
1971 In the Orange Free State,
South Africa, 19 citizens were arrested for contravening the
Immorality Act by having sex across the color line.
(Econ, 2/28/04, p.81)
1972 Alex Comfort (1920-2000),
British author, published his "Joy of Sex." The book sold 12 million
copies worldwide.
(SFC, 3/28/00, p.E1)
1973 Jan 22, The Supreme Court
in a 7-2 ruling handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which
legalized abortion, using a trimester approach. The court ruled that
a woman's right to privacy encompasses her decision to terminate a
pregnancy. Norma McCorvey, the anonymous Jane Roe, revealed her
identity in 1989. She ended up having her 3rd baby that was the
initial focus of the issue.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 1/22/98)(SFC, 1/28/98,
p.E1)(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A15)(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1973 Mar 5, During spring
training in Florida, Yankee pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike
Kekich announced they had swapped wives.
(www.around-the-horn.com/?p=131)
1973 May 4, The 1st TV network
female nudity appeared in Bruce Jay Smith's Steambath (PBS) with
Valerie Perrine.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0167415/trivia)
1973 Richard and Christina
Milner authored “Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps."
The book was the product of an anthropological study regarding both
the lifestyles and subculture of San Francisco Bay Area pimps and
their prostitutes.
(www.amazon.com/Black-players-Secret-World-pimps/dp/0316574112)
1973 Montana initiated a ban on
homosexual sex. In 1997 this was ruled unconstitutional.
(SFC, 7/3/97,
p.A3)(www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?id=3977)
1973 Marvin Zindler
(1922-2007), TV reporter, pressed Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe to close
the Chicken Ranch brothel. His crusade eventually led to the
Broadway show and film: “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
(SFC, 7/30/07, p.B8)
c1973 Sigurdur Hjartarson began collecting penis
memorabilia and later opened his Icelandic Phallological Museum in
Reykjavik.
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.C8)
1973 Louise O'Keeffe (9) was
sexually abused by a lay teacher at a state-backed Roman Catholic
school during lessons in his classroom. She later argued that the
Irish state failed to put in place appropriate measures to stop
"systematic abuse" at the Dunderrow National School.
(AP, 1/28/14)
1974 Feb 2, In Fort Myers,
Florida, Cynthia Nadeau was raped and her boyfriend Terry Milroy was
murdered. Delbert Tibbs (1939-1974) was soon after arrested in
Ocala, Fl., for the rape and murder. In December Tibbs was falsely
convicted and sentenced to death. In 1976 a judge reveiewed the case
and found no evidence to support the conviction. Tibbs was released
in 1977.
(www.floridacapitalcases.state.fl.us/case_updates/Htm/046450.htm)(Econ,
12/21/13, p.140)
1974 This year's edition of the
"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM), 1st
published in 1952, removed homosexuality from its list of disorders.
(WSJ, 12/3/96, p.A1)(SFC, 12/18/03, p.A25)
1975 California Assemblyman
Willie Brown won the narrow approval of a bill that decriminalized
various sex acts, including sodomy, by consenting adults.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.A10)
1975 The Salt Wells and the
Lazy B Ranch brothels opened in Churchill County, Nevada.
(WSJ, 10/20/04, p.A12)
1976 Oct 16, In Alabama Sheryl
Lynn Payton (24) was abducted, raped and murdered. In 1977 Thomas
Whisenhant (29) was convicted after he confessed to her murder and
that of 2 other convenience store clerks. Whisenhant's original
conviction was overturned by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
He was convicted again at a retrial in 1981. On May 27, 2010,
Whisenhant was executed by lethal injection.
(http://tinyurl.com/39dbsea)(SFC, 5/28/10, p.A8)
1976 Dec 1, Sex Pistols used
profanity on TV, and got branded as "rotten punks."
(MC, 12/1/01)
1977 Sep 11, Lou Ellen Burleigh
(21) of Walnut Creek, Ca., went missing. Roger Kibbe was later
identified as a suspect confessed to her rape and murder. In 2009
Kibbe, who had become known as the I-5 strangler, was convicted of
her murder and that of 5 others. In 2011 remains of Burleigh were
found in a dry riverbed near Lake Berryessa.
(SFC, 6/28/11, p.C6)
1978 Mar 6, Larry Flynt,
founder of "Hustler Magazine," was shot and wounded outside a
Georgia courtroom. His story was told in a 1996 film "The People vs.
Larry Flynt."
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.41)(MC, 3/6/02)
1978 May 18, Italy legalized
abortion.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1978 John Maynard (1920-2004),
English biologist, authored "The Evolution of Sex."
(SSFC, 4/25/04, p.B7)
1978 Bernie Zilbergeld
(d.2002), psychologist, authored "Male Sexuality." In 1999 it was
updated and published as "The New Male Sexuality."
(SFC, 6/20/02, p.A20)
1978 Perry Mann held a nudist
ball at his Tenderloin apartment in San Francisco as a fund-raiser
for Louis Abolafia, who since 1968 had run as the candidate for the
Cosmic Love Party. In 1979 it moved to California Hall as the Exotic
Erotic Ball.
(SFEM, 10/18/98, p.4)(SFC, 10/20/03, p.D5)(SFC,
10/22/04, p.B1)
1979 Nov 1, In Oakland, Ca.,
Nancy Lugassy (28) was fatally shot by Harvey Heishman. She had told
police that Heishman had raped her on the night they had met July.
Heishman was later convicted and sentenced to death. In 2010 an
appeals court upheld his murder conviction.
(www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/09/08/07-99016.pdf)(SFC,
9/10/10, p.C2)
1980 Oct 28, Susan Jordan (15)
of Riverside, Ca., was raped and murdered by Albert Greenwood Brown.
In 2010 Brown (56) was scheduled to be executed.
(http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=7687899)
1980 Nov 17, Clifford Olson
(1940-2011) began a murder spree killing 3 girls and 8 boys, ages 9
to 18, in British Columbia over an eight month period. The victims
were tortured and sexually assaulted. Olson, who had an extensive
criminal history, was arrested on August 12, 1981. He later
confessed to the murders and, in a controversial deal, gave police
information on the location of the victims' bodies in return for a
C$100,000 ($95,000) payment to his family.
(Reuters,
10/1/11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Olson)
1980 Robert Graham, a
California millionaire, opened a sperm bank, The Repository for
Germinal Choice, to make sperm available from Nobel laureate types.
It closed in 1999 after yielding 215 children. In 2005 David Plotz
authored “The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize
Sperm Bank."
(SSFC, 6/12/05, p.B6)
1981 Jan 18, Wendy O. Williams
was arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity.
(MC, 1/18/02)
1981 May 1, Heather Scaggs (20)
was reported missing. Her naked body was found on May 24 in Big
Basin State Park near Santa Cruz. She had been raped and shot to
death. David Joseph Carpenter, a co-worker, was arrested on May 14
1981. In 1984 he was convicted of 2 murders in Santa Cruz and
sentenced to death. On May 10, 1988, a San Diego jury convicted
Carpenter of first degree murder in the slayings of Richard Stowers,
Cynthia Moreland, Shauna May, Diana O'Connell, and Anne Alderson.
Carpenter was also pronounced guilty of raping two of the women and
attempting to rape a third.
(SFC, 2/24/10,
p.A7)(www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/carpenter.htm)
1981 Aug 27, Rene Soto clubbed
to death Anselmo Covarrubias in LA County. Maria Suarez (21), a
battered "sex slave" to Covarrubias and witness to the murder, was
convicted of first-degree murder and sent to prison. In 2002 Gov.
Davis rejected a recommended parole for Suarez. In 2003 Gov. Davis
issued a parole.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.A20)(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A1)(SSFC,
4/6/03, p.A12)
1981 Aug 13, In a ceremony at
his California ranch, President Reagan signed a historic package of
tax and budget reductions. Abstinence-only sex education programs
were introduced under Pres. Reagan. The Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1981 included a rider known as the
Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA), sponsored by Republican Senators
Orrin Hatch (Utah) and Jeremiah Denton (Alabama). AFLA set aside a
small but significant amount of federal money to be used for the
promotion of abstinence, as well as religious instruction in sexual
matters within the public schools.
(www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/sex1_education.html)(AP, 8/13/01)
1981 Nov 30, Porn star John
Holmes was arrested on fugitive charges.
(MC, 11/30/01)
1982 Jan 25, In Stockton, Ca.,
Renee Rontal (13) and Nancy Rubia (13) were out looking for fun on a
popular cruising strip when they were picked up by a 22-year-old
Reyes and 21-year-old Antonio Espinoza. The next day a farm worker
found Renee in a ditch outside town with her throat cut. Nancy was
found nearby face down in shallow water, and an autopsy concluded
that she died from drowning in the muddy water. Both girls had been
beaten and raped. Espinoza was arrested a year and a half after the
killing and was convicted of murder. On May 27, 2011, FBI agents and
Mexican federal police arrested Alfredo Reyes (51) outside a pool
hall in Tijuana, where he had been living under an alias.
(AP, 6/24/11)
1982 Jul 10, In Germany Kalinka
Bamberski (14) was found dead in her bed in the home of Dr. Dieter
Krombach. The girl and her mother had moved in with Krombach after
her parents' separation. The girl's father, Andre Bamberski,
believed that Krombach gave his daughter a dangerous injection to
make her lose consciousness so he could rape her, leading to her
death. France convicted Krombach in absentia in 1995 of "intentional
violence that led to unintentional death" and sentenced him to 15
years in prison. In 1997 Krombach was convicted in a German court to
a two-year suspended sentence and suspended from medical practice
after pleading guilty to drugging and raping a 16-year-old girl in
his office. In 2009 Krombach (74) was kidnapped from his German
town, tied up, and appeared near the courthouse in the eastern
French city of Mulhouse. Andre Bamberski later acknowledged
involvement, and was hit with preliminary charges of kidnapping. In
2011 Krombach was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "intentional
violence that led to unintentional death." On Dec 20, 2012, a French
court upheld the conviction against Krombach. Kidnapping charges
were still pending against Bamberski,
(http://tinyurl.com/4agzq8a)(AP, 3/29/11)(AP,
12/20/12)
1982 Jun 26, Porn star John
Homes (1944-1988) was acquitted of drug-related murders in 1981. He
remained in jail for burglary and contempt-of-court charges until
his release in November 1982.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0001360/bio)
1983 Mar 6, In a case that drew
much notoriety, a woman in New Bedford, Mass., reported being
gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern; four men were later
convicted.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1981 Mar 23, The U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that states could require, with some exceptions,
parental notification when teen-age girls seek abortions. U.S.
Supreme Court upheld a law making statutory rape a crime for men but
not women.
(AP, 3/23/97)(HN, 3/23/98)
1981 State Supreme Court cases
in Massachusetts and New Jersey ruled that husbands can be
prosecuted for raping their wives.
(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1983 Aug 31, In Fairfield, Ca.,
Kyle Stracner (15) returned home after visiting with friends and
found his mother, Priscilla Strole (40), naked and beaten to death
on the floor. In 2014 investigators used DNA evidence to identify
Robert Hathaway (48), a childhood friend of Kyle, as the murderer.
Hathaway hanged himself on Feb 15, 2014.
(SFC, 3/6/14, p.D2)
1983 Nov, In San Francisco
Jimmy "the Beard" Ferrozzo (40), the assistant manager of the Condor
Club, made famous by topless dancer Carol Doda, was crushed to death
by a piano that was used to raise Doda up and down on a hydraulic
lift. Exotic dancer Teresa Hill (23), naked and hysterical, survived
beneath him.
(http://tinyurl.com/7lrvcuu)(SSFC, 12/30/12, DB
p.42)
1983 Dennis Maher was convicted
in Boston of raping 3 women and spent the next 19 years in prison.
In 2003 DNA evidence proved his innocence.
(SFC, 4/4/03, p.A3)
1984 Jan 13, Arizona inmate
Robert Henry Moormann beat, stabbed and suffocated his adoptive
mother, Roberta Moormann (74), who allegedly sexually abused him
into adulthood. He was out of prison in Florence on furlough for
another crime, the kidnapping and molesting of an 8-year-old girl in
1972. Robert Henry Moormann was executed in 2012.
(AP, 2/29/12)
1984 Feb 26, Pak Awang (84)
married his 80th spouse.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1984 Apr 22, The US Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) said French researchers had discovered that a
virus causes AIDS. Scientists identified a retrovirus named human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A20)(www.avert.org/his81_86.htm)
1984 Jun 26, Michel Foucault
(b.1926), French philosopher (History of Sexuality), died in Paris
of an AIDs-related illness.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault)
1984 Jul 23, Vanessa Williams
became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude
photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1984 Aug 4, In Germany Robert
Brown (24), a former American soldier, struck Nicola Stiel (19) and
raped her, then strangled her to prevent her from reporting the
rape. In 2009 Brown was extradited to Germany to face charges that
he raped and murdered the woman near where he worked on a US
military base in Hesse state.
(AP, 8/17/09)
1984 Sep 21, In Cleveland,
Ohio, Romell Broom (28) raped a murdered Tryna Middleton (14) after
abducting her at knife-point as she walked home from a football game
with friends. His execution in 2009 was delayed as executioners
failed to find a good vein for lethal injection.
(www.associatedcontent.com/article/2185057/romell_brooms_execution_fails_over.html)
1985 Mary Anne Warren authored
“Gendercide," a look at the moral issues raised by new and emerging
technologies of sex selection.
(Econ, 3/6/10, p.77)
1986 Apr 13, Phillip Hallford
forced his daughter (15) to lure her boyfriend Eddie Shannon (16) to
an isolated area in Daly County, Alabama, where he shot and killed
the boy and threw his body off a bridge. Melinda Hallford was
pregnant at the time of the killing and had been sexually abused by
her father. In 2010 Hallford (63) was executed.
(http://off2dr.com/modules/extcal/event.php?event=256)(SFC, 11/5/10,
p.A9)
1986 Jul 9, The Attorney
General's Commission on Pornography released the final draft of its
2,000-page report, which linked hard-core porn to sex crimes.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1986 Dec 6, Annette Thur (17)
of Santa Cruz County was kidnapped, raped and killed following a
party in Boulder Creek. A tourist found her body off Skyline Drive
in San Mateo County. In 2012 DNA evidence linked registered sex
offender John William Kelley (49) of Placerville to her murder and
he was arrested.
(SFC, 8/17/12, p.C5)
1987 Mar 10, The Vatican
condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial
insemination.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1987 Dec 25, Antoni Imiela
pounced on Sheila Jankowitz near her home in Forest Hill, southeast
London. The attack preceded a series of rapes across south-east
England in 2001 and 2002 for which the ex-railway worker was given
seven life sentences in 2004. In 2012 the 'M25 Rapist' was sentenced
12 years more for raping Jankowitz.
(AFP, 3/22/12)
1988 Apr 8, The Rev. Jimmy
Swaggart was defrocked as a minister of the Assemblies of God after
he rejected an order from the church's national leaders to stop
preaching for a year amid reports he'd consorted with a prostitute.
(AP, 4/8/08)
1988 Jul 31, The last US
Playboy Club closed in Lansing, Mich.
(www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/date/july03/07_31_1988.html)
1988 In Poland Mariusz T. raped
and killed four boys in Piotrkow Trybunalski. His death sentence was
commuted to 25 years under an amnesty announced when Poland shed
communism in 1989. His release in 2014 caused a national uproar.
(AP, 2/12/14)
1989 Jan 24, Physicians 1st
reported a case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex.
(www.aegis.com/news/Lt/1989/LT890104.html)
1989 Feb 12, In Ohio the body
of Joy Stewart (22) was found raped and fatally stabbed in Preble
County. She was eight months pregnant at the time. Dennis McGuire
was later convicted and sentenced to death. On Jan 16, 2014, McGuire
(53) was executed by a new combination of lethal drugs. The process
took nearly 25 minutes from injection to death and left him gasping
for air in the final minutes.
(SFC, 1/8/14,
p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/kdp2x6z)(SFC, 1/17/14, p.A8)
1989 Mar 12, In the SF Bay Area
two hikers found the sexually assaulted body of Sheila Lorraine
Hatcher (27) in a ravine on San Bruno Mountain. In 2014 police
arrested Gabriel O’Neill (45) of Brisban after DNA evidence linked
him to the case.
(SFC, 6/13/14, p.D4)
1989 Mar 22, Ann Harrison (15)
was abducted as she waited for a school bus in front of her home in
Raytown, Missouri. African-Americans Roderick Nunley and Michael
Taylor forced her into a stolen car, raped and stabbed her to death.
They left her body in the boot of the car. Taylor and Nunley were
convicted and sentenced to death. In 2006 their execution was
postponed pending a decision on whether lethal injection constitutes
cruel and unusual punishment. On Feb 26, 2014, Taylor was executed.
(http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=18038)(Econ,
7/22/06, p.36)(SFC, 2/27/14, p.A8)
1989 Jun 18, John Wayne Bobbitt
(b.1967) married Lorena L Gallo (b.1970). [see Jan 10, 1994]
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena_Bobbitt)
1989 Apr 19, A jogger was raped
and beaten in Central Park. 5 black and Latino youths (14-16) were
soon arrested and convicted. In 2002 DNA evidence identified Matias
Reyes (31) as the rapist. A judge then overturned the original
convictions. 3,254 other rapes were reported in the park in 1989. In
2003 Trisha Meili identified herself as the victim in her book “I Am
the Central Park Jogger." In 2014 the five men initially convicted
agreed to settle their civil rights lawsuit for about $40 million.
(NG, 5/93, p.16)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A3)(SFC,
11/21/09, p.A7)(SFC, 6/20/14, p.A11)
1989 Phil Harvey founded DKT
Int’l. to provide contraceptives at knock-down prices to some of the
poorest parts of the world. His PHE group included Adam & Eve,
America’s biggest mail order and online retailer of sexual toys.
(Econ, 10/9/04, p.62)
1990 Apr 18, The US Supreme
Court ruled that states may make it a crime to possess or look at
child pornography, even in one's home.
(AP, 4/18/00)
1990 May 20, In Massachusetts
the body of Cheryl Kosilek (35) was found in her car at a North
Attleborough shopping mall. Robert Kosilek (41) was convicted of her
murder in 1993 and while in prison demanded that the state of
Massachusetts provide him or her with a sex-change operation.
(SFC, 11/24/09,
p.A9)(www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8176530.html)
1991 Jul 26, Paul Reubens (Pee
Wee Herman) was arrested in Florida for exposing himself at an adult
movie theater.
(http://crime.about.com/library/blreubenspaul.htm)
1991 Aug 22, The Supreme Court
of Canada struck down the so-called rape shield law, which said the
previous sexual conduct of a rape victim could not be used in court.
(AP, 8/22/01)
1991 Nov 26, Condoms were
handed out to thousands of NYC High School students.
(www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3573/is_199611/ai_n8414037)
1992 Jun 20, Indian officials
raided Vachathi village in southern Tamil Nadu state to search for
smuggled sandalwood. 18 women were reportedly raped and 100 people
were badly beaten during the two-day raid. On Sep 29, 2011, an
Indian court found 17 police and forest officials guilty of raping
the group of lower-caste women.
(AP, 9/29/11)(http://tinyurl.com/3wyvf2j)
1992-1995 The war between Bosnia's Croats, Muslims
and Serbs claimed some 100,000 lives. Government officials estimated
that at least 20,000 mostly Muslim women were raped during the
conflict.
(AFP, 11/29/10)
1993 Jun 23, John Wayne Bobbitt
had his penis severed by his wife, Ecuadorian born Lorena Bobbitt,
in a domestic dispute. In 1996 he was ordained a minister in the
Universal Life Church. Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va.,
sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
John Bobbitt was later acquitted of marital sexual assault; Lorena
Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding by reason of
insanity.
(SFC, 12/5/96, p.A3)(AP, 6/23/98)
1993 Jul 23, Surgeon
General-designate Joycelyn Elders stuck by her firm stands on sex
education and AIDS prevention in a one-day confirmation hearing on
Capitol Hill.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1993 Aug 9, Reputed "Hollywood
Madam" Heidi Fleiss pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to five counts
of pandering and one count of selling cocaine. Fleiss was convicted
in 1994 of three counts of pandering and acquitted of the drug
charge, but the verdicts were later thrown out due to jury
misconduct. She eventually pleaded guilty to attempted pandering.
(AP, 8/9/98)
1993 Nov 10, A jury in
Manassas, Va., acquitted John Wayne Bobbitt of marital sexual
assault against his wife, Lorena, who'd sexually mutilated him. Mrs.
Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding.
(AP, 11/10/98)
1993 Dec 25, In London, an
unidentified 59-year-old woman who'd been implanted with donated
eggs gave birth to twins in a case that sparked controversy.
(AP, 12/25/98)
1993 Dec 31, Samuel Morris
Steward (b.1909), also known by the pen name Phil Andros, died. He
was a novelist and tattoo artist later based in Oakland, California.
His “Stud File" ran to more than 4,600 encounters with over 800 men.
In 2010 Justin Spring authored “Secret Historian: The Life and Times
of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Andros)(SSFC,
8/22/10, p.F1)(Econ, 8/14/10, p.70)
1993 SF police officer Joanne
Welsh filed a suit against police-chief Anthony Ribera for sexual
harassment. In 12/95 Ribera was acquitted by a federal jury but the
jury found the city guilty for not returning her to her job. She was
awarded $288,606 in damages, attorneys fees and back pay.
{SF, USA, Sex}
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A15)
1993 Somaly Mam (b.~1970-71)
escaped Cambodia following years of forced prostitution. She moved
to Paris and later returned to Cambodia to help women caught in
similar situations. In 2006 she was honored as one of Glamour
magazine's women of the year. In 2007 she published her
autobiography: "The Road of Lost Innocence." In 2008 she was the
co-winner of the $150,000 World's Children's Prize for the Rights of
the Child, awarded by the Swedish Children's World Association to
recognize those who defend the rights of children. In 2014 she
resigned from the New York-based foundation she helped found after
reports alleged that she had distorted aspects of her personal
history.
(AP,
5/29/14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaly_Mam)
1993 Japan’s “Kono Statement"
was its first apology for incidents of sexual slavery during WWII.
Yohei Kono was Chief Cabinet Secretary at the time.
(Economist, 9/8/12, p.38)(AP, 6/1/13)
1994 Jan 10, In Manassas, Va.,
Lorena Bobbitt went on trial, charged with malicious wounding of her
husband, John. She had cut off her husband's penis and was acquitted
by reason of temporary insanity.
(AP, 1/10/99)(MC, 1/10/02)
1994 Jan 25, Singer Michael
Jackson settled a child molestation lawsuit against him; terms were
confidential, although one source put the monetary figure at least
$10 million.
(AP, 1/25/04)
1994 Feb 24, Surgeon General
Joycelyn Elders labeled smoking an "adolescent addiction" and
accused the tobacco industry of trying to convince teen-agers that
cigarettes will make them sexy and successful.
(AP, 2/24/99)
1994 Mar, Minnesota officials
issued an arrest warrant for Shawn Sullivan on charges of molesting
2 girls (11) and raping another (14). He escaped to Ireland as
prosecutors prepared to file charges, and while staying there was
convicted of sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls. In 2010 he
was arrested in London. In 2012 Britain's High Court blocked a US
government bid to extradite him to Minnesota, saying the state's
restrictive treatment program for sex offenders was far too
draconian.
(AP,
6/28/12)(www.startribune.com/local/south/134474288.html)
1994 Dec 2, Reputed "Hollywood
Madam" Heidi Fleiss was convicted in Los Angeles of three counts of
pandering.
(AP, 12/2/99)
1994 Dec 9, President Clinton
fired Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders after learning she'd told a
conference that masturbation should be discussed in school as a part
of human sexuality.
(AP, 12/9/99)
1994 Carol Queen and Robert
Lawrence of SF founded the Center for Sex and Culture,
www.sexandculture.org. In 2004 they acquired office space at 11th
and Harrison.
(SFC, 12/29/04, p.E1)
1994 Dr. William Howell Masters
and Virginia Johnson Masters (Masters and Johnson) closed their sex
research institute in St. Louis. The couple had divorced in 1992
after 35 years together.
(SFEC,11/30/97, Par p.2)
1994 Victoria’s Secrets
introduced the Miracle Bra, a bottom padded push up bra designed by
Linda Wachner of Warnaco.
(WSJ, 4/10/00, p.A1)
1995 Sep 11, Jimmy Ryce (9) was
kidnapped, raped and murdered in south Florida. In 1998 Juan Carlos
Chavez, a Cuban ranch hand was convicted. His defense was that he
was framed by his bosses into a confession for fear of being
deported. The defense held that Edward Sheinhaus, the son of
Chavez’s bosses, was the killer. Chavez was executed on Feb 12,
2014.
(SFC, 9/19/98, p.A4)(SFC, 2/13/14, p.A15)
1995 Dec 31, Pres. Clinton and
Monica Lewinsky engaged in their 3rd sexual encounter. By this time
Lewinsky was a member of the staff of the Office of legislative
Affairs.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A12)
1995 A Female Genital
Mutilation Act was made federal law.
(SFC, 1/10/04, p.A3)
1995 Frank Curtis, a Mormon
brother, died. He had been convicted of criminal sex abuse. In his
1998 lawsuit filed in Multnomah County, Oregon, Jeremiah Scott,
accused the church of hiding the fact that Curtis, one of its high
priests, was a pedophile. Curtis was excommunicated from the church
in 1983 in Pennsylvania but was rebaptized in 1984 in Michigan. In
1988, he joined the Brentwood Ward in Portland. In 2011 Lisa Davis
authored “The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal,
Conviction, and the Mormon Church.
(SSFC, 3/20/11, p.G7)
1996 Feb 15, A federal judge
temporarily blocked the Communications Decency Act, saying the
government had to explain what material it considered indecent
before it could enforce the law, designed to protect children from
sexually explicit material on computer networks.
(AP, 2/15/01)
1996 Mar 10, Birdwatchers noted
the "act of raptor love" between two red-tailed hawks on the Hotel
Carlyle at 2:30 p.m. in New York City. It lasted a full five
seconds.
(WSJ, 4/17/96, p.A-18)
1996 Mar 15, Beatrice Abilez
Loza (68), a mother of 10, was murdered and sodomized at her home in
la Puente, Ca. In 1997 her son, Frank Manuel Abilez, was convicted
and sentenced to death for the murder. He died at age 53 while on
death row at San Quentin in 2012.
(SFC, 4/4/12, p.C8)
1996 May 8, Postal inspectors
wrapped up a two-year sting operation in 36 states against the
nation's biggest child pornography ring.
(AP, 5/8/97)
1996 Nov 13, Sgt. Loren B.
Taylor, a drill sergeant who'd had sex with three women recruits at
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., was given five months in prison and a
bad-conduct discharge in the first sentencing of the burgeoning Army
sex scandal.
(AP, 11/13/97)
1996 The documentary film
“Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam" by Nick Broomfield was about the
leader of the LA call-girl ring.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, DB p.47)
1996 The US passed anti-child
pornography legislation.
(WSJ, 4/17/02, p.A1)
1996 Dr. Stuart Meloy found
that an electro-stimulator, designed by Medtronic to interrupt pain
signals, induced orgasms in women when applied to a certain point in
mid spine.
(SFC, 2/8/01, p.A3)
1996 India outlawed sex
determination tests to reduce gender-based abortions.
(SFC, 12/6/02, p.J1)
1996 In southern India a
teenager (16) was kidnapped and held for several weeks in Kerala
state. A court had acquitted all but one of 24 of the accused in
2005. In 2013 India's top court ordered a retrial, which was
completed in six months. In 2014 one man was sentenced to life and
23 others to 7-11 years.
(AP, 4/4/14)
1997 Apr 30, Sarah Patterson
(11) was sexually assaulted and murdered with her throat slit near
Fort Worth, Texas. Her brother was beaten, but survived and later
testified against Bobby Wayne Woods. Woods (44) was executed on Dec
3, 2009.
(SFC, 12/4/09,
p.A18)(www.prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/08/jan08.htm)
1997 May 19, NBC sportscaster
Marv Albert was charged in an indictment with biting a woman in an
Arlington, Va., hotel as many as 15 times and forcing her to perform
oral sex. At trial, Albert ended up pleading guilty to assault and
battery.
(AP, 5/19/98)
1997 Jul 3, Daisy Mascada (18)
cut off the penis of Julio Luna with a 10-inch knife in Seaside, Ca.
She was sentenced to 7 years in prison and later pleaded that she
had been kidnapped, battered and abused.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A22)
1997 Jul 24, A Dallas jury
awarded $120 million in damages against the local Roman Catholic
diocese that ignored evidence that the priest, Rudolph Kos, sexually
abused a number of altar boys from 1977-1992. Kos was suspended in
1992. Kos pleaded guilty to 3 sex abuse charges in 1998.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A1)(SFC, 3/25/98, p.A3)
1997 Dec 21, In Colorado
Susannah Chase (23) was brutally attacked, abducted, sexually
assaulted and beaten in Boulder. She died the following day of
severe head injuries. In 2008 DNA evidence connected Diego Olmos
Alcalde to the slaying, as he served time in Wyoming for a
kidnapping. In 2009 Chilean citizen Diego Olmos Alcalde (39) was
sentenced to life in prison for Chase’s murder.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A3)(SFC, 6/30/09,
p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/nwtazu)
1997 Snowflakes, the 1st
embryo-adoption program in the US, began matching donor embryos to
infertile women.
(NW, 4/24/03, p.53)
1997 The Thai constitution
guaranteed citizens 12 years of free education. This effectively
reduced the number of Thai girls sold into the sex industry.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A12)
1997 The Vatican’s top diplomat
in Ireland told bishops that their policy of mandatory reporting
suspected of sex abuse cases to police "gives rise to serious
reservations of both a moral and canonical nature." In 2011 the
Vatican insisted the letter had been "deeply misunderstood."
(AP, 1/19/11)
1998 Jan 30, In Sarasota,
Florida, a 14-year-old girl was found staggering along a road. She
had been raped and stabbed nearly 30 times and beaten badly four
days earlier. She hid in the woods in fear of her assailant, Scott
Christopher Malsky (22), who was arrested in Delaware the next day.
(SFC, 2/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Feb 3, Mary Kay
LeTourneau, 36, former Washington state teacher, violated probation
with the 14 year-old father of her baby.
(http://tinyurl.com/7smjq)
1998 Mar 4, The Supreme Court
ruled that sexual harassment at work can be illegal even when the
offender and victim are of the same gender.
(WSJ, 1/4/98, p.R4)(AP, 3/4/99)
1998 Mar 16, Sgt. Maj. Gene
McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was reprimanded and
demoted one rank by a jury that had convicted him of obstruction of
justice in a sexual misconduct case.
(AP, 3/16/08)
1998 Mar 27, The US Food and
Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, saying
it helped about two-thirds of impotent men improve their sexual
function. Viagra’s effects were shown to last 8-12 hours. Pfizer had
originally tested the compound UK 92,480 as a drug for angina and
found that male volunteers were getting frequent erections. They
renamed it Viagra and sought sales approval.
(AP, 3/27/99)(SFC, 5/28/02, p.A4)(Econ, 7/16/05,
p.76)
1998 Apr 2, California agreed
to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by 3 female prison
workers for $4.3 million.
(SFC, 4/3/98, p.A26)
1998 Jul 10, Bringing to a
close one of the biggest sex scandals ever to hit the Roman Catholic
Church, the Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine
former altar boys who said they had been molested by a priest.
(AP, 7/10/99)
1998 Jul 16, In Stockton, Ca.,
a jury awarded $30 million in damages to 2 brothers for enduring
years sexual abuse from Rev. Oliver O’Grady.
(SFC, 7/17/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 25, In Cincinnati,
Ohio, 4 boys under age 11 were charged in the sexual assault of a
7-year-old girl.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 6, Connecticut Dr.
George Reardon (b.1930) died. He began abusing children in the 1950s
as a young doctor in Albany, New York, and continued in Connecticut
through the 1980s. In 2011 a jury found St. Francis Hospital in
Hartford at fault for failing to protect young patients from abuse
by Dr. Reardon. A man who said he suffered abuse as an 8-year-old
was awarded $2.75 million.
(SFC, 7/9/11, p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/3s682nb)
1998 Nov 13, In California
Cyndi Vanderheiden (b.1973) was last seen at a bar in Linden, Ca.
Her car was found the next day but her body was not found. A jury
later determined that she was raped and killed by Loren Herzog and
Wesley Shermantine, later dubbed the “Speed Freak Killers." Their
murder spree lasted for 15 years. Shermantine and Herzog were later
sentenced to death, but in 2010 Herzog was freed.
(SSFC, 9/12/10,
p.C11)(http://tinyurl.com/3yepn39)
1998 In Texas 4 women were
convicted of assaulting two nieces of Anna Ramirez, ages 7 and 9, in
successive attacks during a week in 1994. The girls had testified
that the women held them by their wrists and ankles, attacked them
and threatened to kill them. Anna Vasquez was released on parole in
November, 2012. Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh and Cassandra
Rivera were released in 2013 after a judge decided to
recommend that an appeals court vacate their 1998 convictions as
tainted by faulty witness testimony.
(AP, 11/18/13)
1998 Rev. Lawrence Murphy
(d.1998), who had worked at the former St. John's School for the
Deaf in St. Francis, Wisconsin (1950-1975), died. In July 1996,
Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland sent a letter to the
Vatican seeking advice on how to proceed with charges of sexual
molestation by Murphy on as many as 200 deaf students. Cardinal
Ratzinger, who led the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
from 1981 until 2005, when he was elected pope, did not respond. The
case was made public in 2010.
(AP, 3/25/10)
1998 A South Africa court
struck down the law against sodomy.
(SSFC, 5/25/03, p.A12)
1999 Jan 29, In Virginia Paul
Warner Powell (20) stabbed and killed Stacie Reed (16). He also
raped and attempted to kill her sister (14). Powell was executed on
March 18, 2010.
(SFC, 3/19/10, p.A8)
1999 Mar 5, Denmark's
parliament voted 81-27 to legalize prostitution, effective Jul 1.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 14, In western Japan
Takayuki Otsuki (18) raped and killed Yayoi Motomura (23) before
strangling to death her 11-month-old daughter Yuka in Yamaguchi. In
2000 Otsuki was convicted and jailed for life, but in 2008 he was
sentenced to death. In 2012 Japan’s Supreme Court upheld the ruling.
(www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120220x1.html)
1999 Apr 15, Erotica USA, a
pornography trade show, opened a 4-day exhibit at the Javits Center
in NYC.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A3)
1999 May 24, The US Supreme
Court ruled 5-4 that schools can be held liable for students
sexually harassing other students. The court also ruled that police
violate the 4th Amendment right to privacy when they allow the media
into people's homes to document arrests and raids.
(SFC, 5/25/99, p.A1,3)(AP, 5/24/00)
1999 Jul 2, A 3-day UN
conference on population closed after 170 nations agreed on sex
education, access to abortion and parental rights.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.C1)
1999 Aug 7, In Finland the
village of Kutemajarvi planned a sex fair for people over age 45 to
commemorate the UN designation of 1999 as the Int'l. Year of Older
Persons.
(SFC, 1/16/99, p.A12)
1999 Leslie Cunliffe, dubbed
the "Silence of the Lambs" rapist by Australian authorities, posed
as a policeman to abduct a 21-year-old woman at gunpoint from the
southern city of Geelong and locked her in a backyard shed with
padded walls. He served 12 years in prison for the torture and rape.
(AFP, 6/18/11)
1999 Sweden established its
so-called "Sex Purchase Law," where paying for sex is punished by
fines or up to six months in prison, plus the humiliation of public
exposure.
(AP, 3/16/08)
2000 Mar 26, Dr. Alex Comfort,
British author of the 1972 "Joy of Sex," died at age 80 in
Oxfordshire. Comfort wrote some 50 books that included novels,
poetry, criticism, scientific texts and works on Eastern philosophy.
(SFC, 3/28/00, p.E1)(AP, 3/26/01)
2000 Mar 29, The US Supreme
Court affirmed cities’ power to ban nude dancing in a 6-3 decision.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A3)
2000 May 3, The US FDA approved
the first device to aid women with sexual dysfunction.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.A3)
2000 May 22, The Supreme Court
struck down, 5-to-4, a federal law that shielded children from
sex-oriented cable TV channels. The US Supreme Court invalidated
part of a 1996 law that relegated pornography on cable TV to
late-night hours.
(AP, 5/22/01)(WSJ, 3/24/04, p.A4)
2000 Oct, Brothels were
legalized. The $1 billion sex industry was estimated as 5% of the
Dutch economy.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Feb 17, Lynsie Ekelund
(20), a Fullerton College student, disappeared after going to a club
with Christopher McAmis. In 2010 her body was found in a canyon
north of Los Angeles. McAmis had used a tractor to dig her grave
after he killed her during an attempted rape.
(SFC, 11/5/10, p.C10)
2001 Aug 8, US Federal
authorities announced the arrests of 100 people nationwide in an
Internet child pornography operation, Landslide Productions Inc.,
based in Fort Worth, Tx.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 22, Ron Nicolino (62)
towed his 1,300 pound "Big Giant Bra Ball" around Point Richmond.
His project "Bras Across the Grand Canyon" was rejected 10 years
earlier.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A25)
2001 LiveJasmin, an Internet
cam company featuring live sex chats, was launched. By 2011 it was
the number one adult destination site and the 50th most visited site
in the world.
(Econ, 10/1/11, p.64)
2001 In Belgium a 3-block
tolerance zone for prostitution was established in Antwerp as a test
case for national legalization of prostitution.
(WSJ, 5/26/05, p.A1)
2001 In Canada the website
AshleyMadison.com was launched with the slogan, “Life is short. Have
an affair."
(SSFC, 11/10/13, p.A6)
2001 In Paraguay Benigna
Leguizamon (17) was allegedly raped by Fernando Lugo, head of
diocese of San Pedro. In 2009 she said Pres. Lugo was the father of
her 6-year-old child and told Magnificat radio in Ciudad del Este
that she was a 17-year-old cleaning woman for the diocese of San
Pedro at the time of the initial rape.
(AP, 6/24/09)
2002 Feb 12, The JAMA medical
journal reported that gonorrhea was in an estimated 5.3% of the
Baltimore population and that chlamydia infected 3%.
(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A5)
2002 Feb, Worldwide estimates
of children in the sex industry reached at least 1 million.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 8, In Mexico Ines
Fernandez and Valentina Rosendo, two indigenous Me'phaa women from
the state of Guerrero, reported that they had been raped and
tortured by members of the Mexican Army. Since then, they have been
subject to a constant stream of threats to keep them from speaking
about the incidents. On Dec 15, 2011, Interior Secretary Alejandro
Poire offered what he called "the most sincere of apologies" to
Valentina Rosendo.
(http://tinyurl.com/7bdvlyk)(AP, 12/16/11)
2002 Mar 18, The FBI "Operation
Candyman" snared over 90 people following a 14-month investigation
of child pornography over the Internet.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A3)
2002 Apr 16, The US Supreme
Court ruled as unconstitutional a ban on simulated depictions of
child sex, that was part of the 1996 child pornography law.
(WSJ, 4/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 22, Linda Boreman
(53), who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 porno film "Deep
Throat," died in Denver from Apr 3 car crash injuries. Boreman
became an anti-porn advocate after the film and authored "Ordeal" in
1980.
(SFC, 4/23/02, p.A18)
2002 May 7, It was reported
that strain of Gonorrhea resistant to antibiotics had reached the
mainland US after migrating from Hawaii and Asia.
(SFC, 5/7/02, p.A5)
2002 Jun 5, Elizabeth Ann Smart
(14) was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Salt Lake City.
Richard Albert Ricci (48), a suspect and former handyman for the
family, died from a brain tumor on Aug 30. She was found Mar 12,
2003, with kidnapper Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Eileen
Barzee. In 2005 a judge found Mitchell mentally incompetent to stand
trial. In 2009 Barzee (64) pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15
years in prison. She also agreed to testify against her husband. In
2010 a federal jury found Mitchell guilty of kidnapping and forcing
sex on her for 9 months.
(SFC, 6/7/02, p.A3)(SFC, 3/13/03, p.1)(SFC,
7/27/05, p.A3)(SFC, 11/17/09, p.A7)(SFC, 12/11/10, p.A4)
2002 Jun 9, A Taiwanese man who
claims to have castrated about 50 people and was caught over the
weekend with human testicles in the refrigerator of his suburban
Detroit home may not have committed any crime.
(Reuters, 6/13/02)
2002 Jun 22, In Meerwala,
Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai (18) was gang raped in the Punjab on orders
from a tribal council after her brother (13) was accused of
socializing with a higher-caste Mastoi girl. It was later reported
that the affair was fabricated to cover up sodomy of boy by Mastoi
tribesmen. Six death sentences were handed down for the crime on Sep
1. In 2005 a lower court overturned 5 convictions, but Pakistan’s
high court threw out the acquittal. In 2009 Mukhtar Mai married the
police officer who was assigned to protect her as her case gained
notoriety, becoming his 2nd wife. On april 21, 2011, Pakistan's
Supreme Court freed five men accused in the gang-rape. The ruling
left just one of the initial 14 suspects in prison.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A10)(SFC, 7/12/02,
p.A13)(Reuters, 9/1/02)(AP, 3/11/05)(AP, 3/18/09)(AP, 4/21/11)
2002 Jul 5, The Arkansas state
Supreme Court ruled that a law banning sexual relations between
people of the same sex was an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 9, US officials said
they broke up an int'l. child pornography ring headquartered in
Clovis, Ca. 10 Americans were arrested in Operation Hamlet. Lloyd
Alan Emmerson (45), chiropractor, was arrested Jan 26 on a tip from
Danish police.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A1,11)(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A13)
2002 Aug 10, Leaders of Roman
Catholic religious orders, meeting in Philadelphia, approved a plan
to keep sexually abusive clergy away from children.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2002 Aug 15, In NYC WNEW-FM
radio shock jocks Gregg Hughes and Anthony Cumia aired an eyewitness
account of a couple having sex in the vestibule of St. Patrick’s
Cathedral. Their show was cancelled Aug 23.
(SFC, 8/24/02, p.D4)
2002 Sep, The Museum of Sex
opened at 27th and Fifth. Its 1st show was titled: NYC Sex: How New
York Transformed Sex in America."
(WSJ, 10/22/02, p.D8)
2002 Oct 8, A nasal spray named
PT-141, made by Palatin Tech., was reported to raise sexual desire.
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 18, According to Greek
scientists, the length of a man's index finger can accurately
predict the length of his penis. The findings are published in the
September issue of the journal Urology.
(Reuters, 10/18/02)
2002 Nov 26, A poll of 50,000
people, commissioned by Durex condom makers SSL International and
released in Malaysia, showed the French had sex an average 167 times
a year, pipping the Danes and the Dutch for the number one spot. It
was a bad year for sex in the United States, which came in eleventh
with an average of 138, after heading the rankings in 2001. Britons
scored an average of 149 times. At the bottom of the pile,
Singapore's 110 times was two less than Thailand's. Four in 10
people in India did not have sex until they were married and
Norwegians were most likely to have sex on the first date, the
survey showed. Norwegians, along with South Africans, were also more
likely than any other nationality to have a one-night stand. Those
in Taiwan were least likely; just 20 percent surveyed had a
one-night stand.
(Reuters, 11/26/02)
2002 Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
authored "Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and
suppression in Nineteenth-Century America.
(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.M2)
2002 Olivia Judson,
evolutionary biologist, authored "Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All
Creation."
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.M3)
2002 Midori, a San Francisco
sex educator, authored “The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage."
(SSFC, 2/10/08, p.F3)
2002 "The Sexual Life of
Catherine M." by Catherine Millet was published in the US following
a successful introduction in France.
(NW, 5/27/02, p.70)
2002 Kristen O’Hara authored
“Sex as Nature Intended It." O’Hara claimed that women are more
likely to enjoy intercourse if their male partner is uncircumcised.
(SSFC, 7/15/07, p.F3)
2002 In Arizona Steven Dyer was
convicted of 13 counts of child molestation. Dyer went on the run.
He was captured in 2012 in Montreal and turned over to US
authorities.
(SFC, 2/24/12, p.A2)
2002 China banned the novel "K:
The Art of Love" by Chen Hongying following a lawsuit by a British
woman who said the book insulted her late parents. The book was
based on letters and journals of Julian Bell (d.1937), a nephew of
Virginia Woolf, and his affair with poet named Lin.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.K2)
2003 Apr 3, The N. Dakota state
Senate voted to keep a 113-year-old law that made it a crime for
unmarried couples to live together.
(SFC, 4/4/03, p.A7)
2003 May 1, The Australian
stock market began trade in Australia's first-ever listed brothel,
The Daily Planet. Shares began trading at 31 cents. Heidi Fleiss was
on hand to promote the enterprise and her new book, "Pandering."
(AP, 5/1/03)
2003 May 2, In SF the Centre
for Sex and Culture held its second annual public
"Masturbate-a-Thon".
(Reuters, 5/3/02)
2003 May 9, The film "Forbidden
Photographs: The Life and Work of Charles Gatewood" premiered at the
Roxie theater.
(SFC, 5/8/03, p.E3)
2003 Jun 13, Philip Giordano,
former 3-term mayor of Waterbury, Conn., was sentenced to 37 years
in federal prison for having oral sex with 2 young girls while in
office.
(SFC, 6/14/03, p.A3)
2003 Jun 23, The US Supreme
Court ruled that Congress can require libraries to install filters
on computers to screen out pornography.
(SFC, 6/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 16, New research
indicated that frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps
prevent prostate cancer later in life.
(AP, 7/16/03)
2003 Aug 19, It was reported
that women in Kenya had begun rebelling against a traditional
"cleansing" ritual whereby new widows were required to sleep with a
designated "cleanser" in order to be inherited by male relatives and
freed of haunting spirits.
(SFC, 8/19/03, p.A10)
2003 Sep 9, The Catholic
archdiocese of Boston agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims by
more than 550 people who said they were sexually abused by priests.
(SFC, 9/10/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 11, The Seattle
Archdiocese agreed to pay $7.87 million to settle lawsuits brought
by 15 men who said they were molested by the same priest.
(SFC, 9/12/03, p.A3)
2003 Oct 26, It was reported
that Cambodian prostitutes were being subjected to gang rapes, and
that the practice, called "bauk," has been common for years.
(SSFC, 10/26/03, p.A11)
2003 Oct, In Santiago, Chile,
Claudio Spiniak, a wealthy businessman, and 6 colleagues were
charged with using a luxury gym for sadomasochistic orgies with
children. An estimated 4,000 children worked in Chile's commercial
sex trade.
(SFC, 11/24/03, p.F1)
2003 Nov 7, The New Hampshire
Supreme Court ruled that a lesbian affair did not constitute
adultery under state law.
(SFC, 11/8/03, p.A2)
2003 Nov 20, The Archdiocese of
Cincinnati agreed to pay $10,000 in fines after pleading no contest
to failing to inform authorities about sex-abuse allegations.
(WSJ, 11/21/03, p.A1)
2003 Dec 15, In Cleburne,
Texas, Joanne Webb, housewife and sales rep for Passion Parties,
answered to obscenity charges for selling a vibrator to undercover
narcotics officers posing as a dysfunctional married couple.
(SFC, 12/16/03, p.A2)
2003 Thomas W. Laqueur, a
professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley
authored "Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation."
(Reuters, 5/3/02)(SSFC, 5/18/03, p.E7)
2003 Leonard Shlain authored
"Sex, Time & Power: How women's Sexuality Shaped Human
Evolution."
(SSFC, 8/17/03, p.M1)
2003 The US Bureau of Land
Management auctioned off the assets of Mustang Ranch on eBay. Lance
Gilman paid $145,000 for the brothel’s trademark and pink stucco
building, which he airlifted to his Wild Horse bordello in Storey
County, Nevada.
(Econ, 1/29/05, p.33)
2003 New Zealand swept away
laws under which prostitution was a criminal offence.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.86)
2004 Jan 9, Federal officials
arrested 2 people in southern California for conspiring to perform
genital mutilations on 2 girls. It was the 1st prosecution under the
1995 federal Female Genital Mutilation Act.
(SFC, 1/10/04, p.A3)
2004 Jan 16, A Canadian
regulator ruled that a song lauding the joys of an "enormous penis"
is not obscene because the object of the lyric's affection isn't
necessarily sexual.
(AP, 1/16/04)
2004 Jan 19, The SF Cafe Du
Nord on upper Market opened the touring Sex Workers' Art Show,
founded by Annie Oakley. The original show was conceived in Olympia,
Wa., in 1997.
(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.E3)
2004 Jan, In Seoul, South
Korea, 9 former prostitutes sued 8 brothel operators for $842,000 in
overdue wages and compensation for suffering. 7 of the girls were
minors and said they were forced into sexual slavery.
(WPR, 3/04, p.25)
2004 Jan, Sergiusz Kozubek
(26), creator of a website for the town of Koniakow, Poland,
(www.koniakow.com), began offering locally produced lace thongs,
named stringi, on the site. Women of this Silesian highlands town
had produced lace articles for some 2 centuries.
(WSJ, 6/2/04, p.B2B)
2004 Apr 15, Several Los
Angeles porn-movie companies said they would stop production for 2
months following reports that 2 stars, including veteran performer
Darren James, had recently tested positive for AIDS.
(SFC, 4/16/04, p.A2)(Econ, 4/24/04, p.66)
2004 Jul 2, The Dutch
government backed plans for "seals of quality" for well-run brothels
and standard contracts for prostitutes, as well as more support for
those who want to leave the world's oldest profession.
(Reuters, 7/2/04)
2004 Jul 15, Naum Ciomu, a
Romanian surgeon, underwent a fit of madness while operating on a
man's testicles. He proceeded to amputate the patient’s penis and
cut it into three pieces.
(AP, 7/16/04)
2004 Sep 18, Russ Meyer (82),
producer-director who helped spawn the "skin flick" with such films
as "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1966) and later gained a measure
of critical respect, died. In 2005 Jimmy McDonough authored “Big
Bosoms, Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of Sex Films.
(AP, 9/22/04)(SFC, 9/22/04, p.A2)(SSFC, 7/10/05,
p.E1)
2004 Nov 19, Police in
Abington, Pennsylvania, arrested Michael Cornelius Burke Jr. (38)
for the assault and rape of 2 girls ages 10 & 13. In Apr 2006
Burke pleaded guilty but failed to show up for sentencing. In 2009
Burke was arrested in Mexico’s in central Veracruz state.
(www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=66637)(AP,
12/9/09)
2004 Dec 3, It was reported
that methamphetamine initially revs up the dopamine nervous system
in the brain and that sex is the No. 1 reason people use it. The
effect of an IV hit of meth is the equivalent of 10 orgasms all on
top of each other lasting for 30 minutes to an hour, with a feeling
of arousal that lasts for another day and a half. After you have
been using it a little bit longer you can't have sex even when
you're high. Nothing happens. It doesn't work. Later hair falls out
and teeth fall out. A total of 1,083 clandestine methamphetamine
labs were cleaned up in Tennessee in 2003.
(AP, 12/4/04)
2004 Simon Blackburn,
philosophy prof. at the Univ. of Cambridge, authored "Lust," the 3rd
of his series on the 7 deadly sins.
(SSFC, 2/07/04, p.M2)(Econ, 5/8/04, p.82)
2004 Jenna Jameson, porn star,
authored “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale."
(WSJ, 8/27/04, p.W13)
2004 Dr. Halima Bashir (24) was
gang-raped by Sudanese soldiers after speaking out about atrocities
in Darfur. She told UN workers about the attack by the Janjaweed
militia. The military came after her. She was cut with knives,
burned with cigarettes and gang-raped repeatedly. They let her live,
taunting her with the words: "Now you can go and tell the world
about rape." She wrote about her experiences in her memoir, "Tears
of the Desert" (2008).
(Reuters, 10/6/10)
2005 Jan 10, GlaxoSmithKline
PLC said that Bayer Healthcare AG has paid more than 200 million
euros ($260 million) for sole marketing rights outside the United
States for the erectile dysfunction drug Levitra.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2005 Feb 8, Virginia lawmakers
passed a bill authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or
her underpants in a “lewd or indecent manner."
(SFC, 6/9/04, p.A3)
2005 Mar 1, In Geneva, Switz.,
Edouard Stern, French financier and former Lazard banker, was found
dead in his home. Swiss police later arrested Cecile Brossard (36),
his French lover, who confessed to the sex-related killing of banker
Edouard Stern. During her trial in 2009 she said that she lost
control after Stern called her a whore. On June 18, 2009, Brossard
was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
(WSJ, 3/3/05, p.A1)(AP, 3/16/05)(WSJ, 4/14/05,
p.A1)(SFC, 6/15/09, p.A2)(AP, 6/18/09)
2005 Apr, John Boyer, a North
Carolina long-haul trucker, picked up prostitute Jennifer Smith (25)
and brought her to an abandoned parking lot just off Interstate 40.
The two argued over money, and Boyer strangled the victim with the
seat belt of his truck, dumped her body from the cab, and drove off.
In 2001 Boyer pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing
Scarlett Wood (31) in Wilmington four years earlier and began
serving a 12-year sentence. Investigators believed that Boyer was
responsible for a number of other unsolved killings.
(AP, 9/18/11)
2005 May 31, In Switzerland
Griselidis Real (76), writer and well-known prostitute who
campaigned for the rights and dignity of sex workers, died in
Geneva. In 2009 she was re-buried in the presence of 200 people at
the Cemetery of the Kings, which is reserved for individuals that
have profoundly marked Swiss or international history.
(www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/griselidis-real-493264.html)(AP,
3/10/09)
2005 Jul 19, US Army soldier
Lavena Johnson (b.1985) of Missouri was apparently raped and
murdered while on duty in Iraq. A DOD report said she had killed
herself.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVena_Johnson)(Econ, 10/19/13, p.35)
2005 Jul 28, Jamie Leigh Jones,
a Halliburton/KBR employee in Baghdad, Iraq, was allegedly drugged,
raped and held against her will at Camp Hope by seven KBR employees.
On May 16, 2007, she filed a lawsuit against the company and the
employees which the Department of Justice failed to act upon. On
December 19, 2007, she testified before Congress. The Department of
Justice had been subpoenaed to also testify; they failed to appear
or send a reason for declining to appear. In 2011 Jones (26) lost
her lawsuit against KBR.
(www.jamiesfoundation.org/Jamie.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/2tm4g4)(AP,
7/8/11)
2005 Sep 29, The Oregon Supreme
Court held yesterday that its State Constitution protects live sex
shows and nude dancing, also voiding a 4' limitation.
(http://talkleft.com/new_archives/012567.html)
2005 Nov 1, In the Philippines
6 US Marines took part in a rape at the former US naval base at
Subic Bay. The incident soon fueled anti-US demonstrations in Manila
and objections to US presence in the Philippines. Prosecutors later
contended the victim (22) was attacked in a van at Subic Bay by
Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith as Lance Cpl. Keith Silkwood, Lance Cpl.
Dominic Duplantis and Staff Sgt. Chad Carpentier cheered on the
assault. In Dec, 2006, Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith (21) from St. Louis,
was convicted of raping a Filipino woman and sentenced to 40 years
in prison. He was the first American soldier convicted of wrongdoing
in the Philippines since the country shut down US bases here the
early 1990s. In 2009 his accuser submitted a five-page affidavit to
an appeals court saying she now doubts her own version of events.
(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A13)(AP, 6/26/06)(AP,
12/4/06)(AP, 3/18/09)
2005 Midori, a San Francisco
sex educator, authored “Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink Educational,
Sensual, And Entertaining Essays."
(SSFC, 2/10/08, p.F3)
2005 Mark West authored “Law in
Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide and Statutes."
(Econ, 6/4/11, p.92)
2005 In Germany Patrick
Stuebing (b.1976) was sentenced to 14 months in prison for incest
with his younger sister, with whom he fathered four children. In
2012 the European Court of Human Rights said his privacy rights were
not violated.
(AP, 4/12/12)
2006 Jan 7, In India folk
singer Bant Singh lost both arms and a leg in an attack after he
dared to challenge high-caste landlords in his area of the
northwestern state of Punjab who had raped his 17-year-old daughter.
Singh's tenacity and refusal to keep quiet led to the conviction of
the seven men accused of raping his daughter.
(AFP,
2/21/11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bant_Singh)
2006 Jan 24, Banaz Mahmod (20)
was raped, beaten, strangled, stuffed in a suitcase and buried in a
back garden in Birmingham, England, on her father's orders for
becoming involved with a man of whom he did not approve. Mahmod's
father was given a life sentence in 2007 for ordering the killing.
In 2010 two of her Kurdish cousins were jailed for life by a London
court for murdering Mahmod because her family disapproved of her
boyfriend.
(www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5263475.ece)(AP,
11/10/10)
2006 Mar 12, In Iraq a family
of 4 in the Khasir Abyad area, about 6 miles north of Mahmoudiya,
were found killed. They included Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, who had
been raped and shot in the head, her sister and her parents. A
neighbor said the Abeer was 14 years old and her sister 10. In June
up to 5 US soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment were placed under
investigation for the murders. On June 3 federal prosecutors charged
former Army Pfc. Steven Green with the rape and killing of Abeer and
her family. In 2007 Sgt. Paul Cortez (24) was sentenced to 100 years
in prison for the gang rape and murder. Pfc. Jesse Spielman was
sentenced to 110 years in prison. 3 other soldiers who pleaded
guilty received sentences of 5 to 100 years. In 2009 Pfc. Steven
Green was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to life in
prison.
(SFC, 7/3/06, p.A6)(AP, 7/3/06)(SFC, 2/23/07,
p.A3)(SSFC, 8/5/07, p.A16)(AP, 5/22/09)
2006 Mar 13, The 47 lacrosse
players at Duke Univ., North Carolina, paid a couple of strippers to
entertain them. Events this night led to the arrest of 2 players on
April 18. In 2014 William Cohan authored “The Price of Silence: The
Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of
Our Great Universities."
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.46)(Econ, 4/12/14, p.83)
2006 Sep, Rielle Hunter, a film
producer and mistress of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, created a
video sex tape with Edwards. In 2008 she had a child, fathered by
Edwards, who only admitted paternity in 2010. Andrew Young, a former
Edward’s loyalist, later viewed the tape and in 2010 authored a book
that chronicled the affair.
(SFC, 1/30/10, p.A6)
2006 Oct 10, The Catholic
Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, sought bankruptcy protection, the 4th
one in the US to do so because of priest sex-abuse claims.
(WSJ, 10/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Sister Margaret Farley, a
member of the Sisters of Mercy religious order and emeritus
professor of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, authored
"Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics." In 2012 the
Vatican said the book posed "grave harm" to the faithful.
(AP, 6/4/12)
2006 Tom Perkins, a Silicon
Valley venture capitalist, authored his novel “Sex and the Single
Zillionaire."
(Econ, 10/1/11, p.74)
2007 Mar 1, Deborah Palfrey
(50) of Vallejo, Ca., was indicted in Washington DC for running a $2
million prostitution ring. She threatened to sell detailed phone
records of her clients to pay for her defense. At least 132 women
were employed by her firm in the Washington area from 1993-2006. On
April 15, 2008, Palfrey was convicted of racketeering and other
charges.
(SFC, 3/3/07, p.B1)(SFC, 4/16/08, p.A2)
2007 Mar 3, In San Jose, Ca.,
members of the De Anza College baseball team gang-raped a girl at a
house party. Members of the women’s soccer team rescued Jessica
Gonzalez (17). In 2011 prosecutors said no criminal charges would be
filed because the DA’s office could not prove that a crime occurred.
(SFC, 10/15/11, p.C1)
2007 Apr 5, In San Mateo, Ca.,
Dr. William Ayres (75), a published child psychologist, was arrested
on 14 counts of child molestation, which dated back as far as 1969.
4 new charges were added on April 12. In 2013 Ayres was sentenced to
8 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/7/07, p.A1)(SFC, 4/13/07, p.B1)(SFC,
8/27/13, p.C1)
2007 Apr 6, In San Francisco
Umar Hudson stabbed his girlfriend, Jernell Scott, to death in front
of her home on Ellsworth Street after she reported his sexual abuse
of her two daughters, aged 9 & 13. In 2012 Hudson (35) was
sentenced to 205 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 1/26/12, p.C6)
2007 Apr 11, Joe Francis
(b.1973), the creator of the “Girls Gone Wild" video series, was
indicted in Reno, Nevada, on federal tax charges. In September 2009,
Francis pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns and bribing
Nevada jail workers. On November 5, 2009, US District Judge S. James
Otero accepted Francis’ deal on the grounds that a key witness
withheld information from prosecutors.
(SFC, 1/29/10,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Francis)
2007 Jul 11, In San Francisco
Joseph Konopka, a neighborhood activist, died at his home on Ashbury
St. in the midst of erotic asphyxiation. Terry Frazier was soon
arrested and charged with murder, robbery and burglary. In 2010
Frazier pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges.
(SSFC, 3/21/10, p.C2)
2007 Jul 23, Jennifer
Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were killed during a violent home
invasion in Cheshire, Conn. Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten but
escaped. His wife and one daughter were sexually assaulted. The
girls, aged 11 and 17, were tied to their beds, doused in gasoline,
and left to die in a fire. Steven Hayes (44) and Joshua
Komisarjevsky (27), on parole at the time for other burglaries, were
accused of their murder. Prosecutors later said they will seek the
death penalty. In 2010 Hayes was convicted of murder.
(AP,
7/23/08)(www.nbc30.com/news/14405181/detail.html)(AP, 10/5/10)
2007 Sep 5, Chinese authorities
said two late-night radio shows that discussed sex and drugs have
been banned for damaging young people and being "extremely
pornographic."
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 8, In Nevada Darrin
Tuck (26) handed in a videotape to Nevada authorities. The graphic
video depicted a 2003 sexual assault on a 2-year-old girl. Chester
Arthur Stiles was tracked down following a nationwide manhunt. In
2009 Stiles was sentenced to 21 terms of life in prison.
(SFC, 5/30/09,
p.A4)(www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=49286)
2007 Sep 24, Hungarian
officials said that in an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal
economy, they will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's
permit, a move that could generate government revenues from an
industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 30, It was reported
that China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras,
figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist
government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it
calls social pollution.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2007 Oct 19, Christopher Paul
Neil (32), a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing
boys, was arrested in rural Thailand and charged after a 3-year
international manhunt that relied on digitally unscrambled photos
and tips from the public. Neil later pleaded guilty to sexually
abusing a 13-year-old boy and was sentenced to three years and three
months in jail; he faces other charges involving the victim's
younger brother.
(AP, 10/19/07)(AP, 10/19/08)
2007 Oct 21, In Brazil a girl
(15) was arrested on accusations of breaking and entering a house
and jailed with male inmates in Abaetetuba, Para state. She was
locked up for weeks with 21 men who she said would only let her eat
in return for sex. By her account, officials did nothing, until the
story erupted in the national media and outraged Brazilians demanded
her transfer.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Oct 30, In Sunnyvale, Ca.,
Todd David Burpee kidnapped and raped a 17-year-old girl. He was
arrested 2 days later. In 2009 Burpee (22) was convicted of
kidnapping and sexual assault and was sentenced 43 years to life in
prison.
(SFC, 5/30/09, p.B2)(SFC, 9/12/09, p.C3)
2007 Nov 2, In Italy Meredith
Kercher (21), a British university student, was found dead with her
throat slashed in the bedroom of a house in the central city of
Perugia. A week later 3 suspects in the murder were remanded in
custody by an Italian investigating magistrate. On Nov 19 police in
Perugia identified a 4th suspect as Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivory
Coast native. Guede was arrested in Germany the next day and DNA
evidence confirmed that he had sex with Kercher the night she was
stabbed. In 2009 roommate Amanda Knox was convicted and
sentenced to 26 years in prison. The court also convicted Knox's
co-defendant and former boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, and
gave him a 25-year jail term for the murder. Rudy Hermann Guede, an
Ivory Coast citizen, had already been convicted in the murder and
sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(AP, 11/2/07)(AFP, 11/10/07)(AP, 11/19/07)(AP,
11/22/07)(AP, 12/5/09)
2007 Nov 23, Emily Sander (18),
a Kansas college student and Internet porn star, was last seen
leaving a bar in El Dorado, about 30 miles from Wichita, with a man
identified as Israel Mireles (24). Her body was found Nov 29 about
50 miles east of El Dorado. Mireles was arrested in Mexico on Dec 19
and extradited to the US on June 25, 2009.
(AP, 11/29/07)(AP, 11/30/07)(SFC, 12/20/07,
p.A4)(SFC, 6/27/09, p.A4)
2007 Dec 12, A new report said
the trafficking of Bulgarian women as sex slaves brings in about 1.8
billion euros ($2.6 billion) a year for the gangs behind it, making
it the country's most profitable criminal activity.
(AP, 12/12/07)
2007 Dec 16, Australian police
said they had broken up an alleged nationwide child porn ring with
the arrest of six men overnight, including a former policeman, a
trainee teacher and a swimming instructor.
(AFP, 12/16/07)
2007 Dec 16, Spanish police
said they had arrested 63 people across the country in five
investigations into child pornography being posted, viewed and paid
for on the Internet.
(AP, 12/16/07)
2007 SF Bay Area filmmakers
Wendy Slick and Emiko Omori produced “Passion & Power: The
Technology of Orgasm." It was inspired by the 1999 book “The
Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women’s Sexual
Satisfaction" by Rachel Maimes.
(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.F1)
2008 Jan 9, A Survey of teen
sexual behavior in Europe and North America found that a
“substantial minority" of 15-year-olds have had intercourse.
(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.A1)
2008 Feb 1, In Sweden Christer
Merrill Aggett (32), a British man, was sentenced to 14 years in
prison for infecting two young women with HIV and putting 13 more at
risk of infection. Six of them were under the age of 15, the legal
age of consent in Sweden, when the sexual encounters took place.
(AP, 2/1/08)
2008 Feb 12, In Canada at least
22 people, including a minor, have been charged in what police said
was one of Central Canada's biggest investigations of Internet child
pornography.
(AP, 2/13/08)
2008 Feb 12, A US federal
appeals court has overturned a statute outlawing sex toy sales in
Texas, one of the last states, all in the South, to retain such a
ban.
(AP, 2/13/08)
2008 Feb 19, In Thailand Glenn
Richard Allen (61), an American man was sentenced, to 16 years in
prison for raping a 13-year-old girl and sexually abusing a second
teenager in Pattaya, a Thai seaside resort town notorious for its
sex industry.
(AP, 2/19/08)
2008 Mar 3, Cambodia passed
legislation on the “Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual
Exploitation" to comply with the United States policy on human
trafficking.
(http://healthdev.net/site/post.php?s=3840)
2008 Mar 11, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said more than one in four US teen
girls is infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease,
and the rate is highest among blacks.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 13, The Dutch
parliament voted unanimously to outlaw bestiality and pornography
involving animals.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 14, In Australia
Milton Orkopoulos (50), a former New South Wales state minister, was
convicted on child sex and drugs charges after being described as a
"sordid genius" by prosecutors.
(AFP, 3/14/08)
2008 Apr 4, Child welfare
officials scrambled to find foster homes for dozens of girls removed
from a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist
leader Warren Jeffs after a 16-year-old living there complained of
physical abuse. By April 8 Texas had taken 416 children into
protective custody. Some 140 women came along voluntarily. It was
later reported that over half of the teenage girls from the Yearning
for Zion Ranch had children or were pregnant. The number of 14-17
year old girls with children was later reduced as ages became
confirmed. On May 22 a state appeals court ruled that authorities
had no right to take children from the polygamist compound. In 2009
jurors convicted sect member Raymond Jessop (38) of sexually
assaulting a girl, who became pregnant at age 16. By 2012 legal
costs associated with the case approached $20 million.
(AP, 4/5/08)(Econ, 4/12/08, p.36)(WSJ, 4/29/08,
p.A1)(SFC, 5/17/08, p.A2)(SFC, 5/23/08, p.A2)(SFC, 11/6/09,
p.A6)(SFC, 4/4/12, p.A6)
2008 Apr 10, In Virginia a jury
convicted Rev. James Bevel (71), a noted civil rights figure, of
incest after concluding he had sex with his teenage daughter 15
years ago. His had daughter testified that Bevel had begun molesting
her at age 6.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.A4)
2008 Apr 16, In Oklahoma Custer
County Sheriff Mike Burgess resigned just as state prosecutors filed
35 felony charges against him, including 14 counts of second-degree
rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of
bribery by a public official.
(AP, 4/18/08)
2008 Apr 23, Actress Megan Fox
was named the world's sexiest woman by an annual online poll, while
the world's most Googled woman, Britney Spears, barely scraped in at
No. 100 after a shocker of a year.
(AP, 4/24/08)
2008 Apr 26, In Austria police
found a woman (42), missing since 1984, in the town of Amstetten
following a tip. Elisabeth said her father, Josef Fritzl, had kept
her captive in a cellar for almost 24 years, that he had repeatedly
raped her, and that she gave birth to 7 children, one of whom later
died. In November Fritzl (73) was charged with murder as well as
rape, incest, false imprisonment and slavery. On March 18, 2009,
Fritzl pleaded guilty to all charges against him, including
homicide, after his daughter appeared unexpectedly in the courtroom.
On March 19 Fritzl was convicted of homicide and sentenced him to
life imprisonment in a secure psychiatric facility.
(AP, 4/27/08)(AP, 11/13/08)(AP, 3/18/09)(AP,
3/19/09)
2008 May 1, Deborah Palfrey
(b.1956), a woman from Vallejo, Ca., known as the “D.C. Madam," was
found hanged at her mother’s home in Tarpon Springs, Fl. She had
been convicted on April 15 of racketeering and other charges related
to a prostitution ring, whose clients included high profile
government officials.
(SFC, 5/2/08, p.A13)
2008 May 8, In Martinez, Ca.,
Contra Costa sex crimes prosecutor Michael Gresset (51) brought home
a fellow female prosecutor (30) for afternoon sex. She later accused
him of rape. That afternoon he convicted a man for molesting a
4-year-old relative. The case was not reported to police until Sep
26, 2008. A grand jury indictment against Gresset was issued in
October 2009. In 2011 A judge dismissed the rape case saying
prosecutors had failed to present exculpatory evidence to the grand
jury. The woman, at the time of the indictment, had been in the
process of securing a $450,000 civil claim settlement from the
county over the alleged attack.
(SFC, 7/27/09, p.A1)(SFC, 10/20/11, p.C6)
2008 May 14, Marc Dann (46),
Ohio’s attorney general, resigned under threat of impeachment due to
an extramarital affair with an employee.
(SFC, 5/15/08, p.A7)
2008 May 27, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said the UN will investigate
allegations by a leading children's charity that UN peacekeepers are
involved in widespread sexual abuse of children. The report by Save
the Children UK was based on field research in southern Sudan, Ivory
Coast and Haiti.
(AP, 5/27/08)
2008 Jun 6, An official said
Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will offer them free
for qualifying citizens.
(AP, 6/7/08)
2008 Jun 19, The UN adopted
Resolution 1820 affirming that sexual violence as a weapon of war
affects international peace and security, and could trigger
sanctions.
(Econ, 2/21/09, p.61)(http://tinyurl.com/lg8px5)
2008 Jun 20, Paraguayan
prisoners rioted to press a list of demands including more sex.
Inmates seized the Esperanza prison's director and other
administrators, demanding nighttime conjugal visits and an end to
mistreatment by guards.
(AP, 6/20/08)
2008 Jul 2, The British
government said police have arrested more than 500 suspects in a
crackdown on human trafficking in the sex trade. Police made 528
arrests in the operation, codenamed Pentameter 2, after raiding 822
premises, of which 157 were massage parlors and 582 houses and
flats. The operation began in October and involved 55 police forces.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Aug 13, An alleged assault
by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (b.1955) reportedly took place on
a young model (20) on a yacht on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza.
An investigating magistrate on the resort island closed the case in
2010 on grounds of insufficient evidence. In 2011 Spain reopened a
rape probe after tests done by a forensic lab found semen in the
woman and traces of a sedative called nordazepam.
(AP, 9/14/11)
2008 Aug 18, In Britain Philip
Thompson (27), a pedophile who acted as a "librarian" for a global
Internet child abuse ring, was jailed after one of the biggest
undercover police investigations into online abuse.
(Reuters, 8/18/08)
2008 Aug 19, Vietnamese
authorities freed British glam rocker Gary Glitter after nearly
three years in prison on child molestation charges, then moved
immediately to deport him.
(AP, 8/19/08)
2008 Sep 2, In Australia Brian
Spillane, a 65-year-old ex-priest, was arrested and charged in
Sydney with 60 counts relating to alleged sexual assaults against
eight people. Spillane was originally charged in May with 33 child
sex offenses against five people as a result of a police
investigation into allegations of abuse in the 1980s at St.
Stanislaus in the city of Bathurst.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, In Australia police
arrested a 66-year-old Catholic brother in connection with their
probe into St. Stanislaus and a 63-year-old former teacher of
another religious school in Bathurst that is also under
investigation.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, Swiss prosecutors
said police have broken up an Internet child pornography ring
operating in at least four European countries where men exchanged
details about their contacts with young girls. In all investigators
said they had identified 600 people in Germany, 40 in Austria, 13 in
Switzerland and four in Liechtenstein using the forum.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Poland police
detained Krzysztof B. (45), in the eastern city of Siedlce, after
his wife and daughter came forward with the allegations that he had
imprisoned and raped his daughter (21) for 6 years fathering 2
children, who were put up for adoption.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 15, Hundreds of disco
workers protested in Kathmandu against a government crackdown on
"nude dancing" in its bid to improve the deteriorating law and
order.
(Reuters, 9/15/08)
2008 Oct 1, Spanish police said
they have staged their biggest ever operation against Internet child
pornography, arresting 121 people suspected of involvement in a
network that reached 75 countries. Some 800 police took part in
Operation Carousel, an investigation that began last year in
cooperation with Brazilian police.
(AFP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 10, A Swedish court
sentenced Chilean tenor Ernesto "Tito" Beltran (43) to two years and
six months in prison for raping an 18-year-old nanny and molesting a
7-year-old girl. The appeals court in Goteborg upheld a previous
rape conviction, but overturned an acquittal in the molestation
case.
(AP, 10/10/08)
2008 Oct 16, In Dubai a British
couple was sentenced to three months in jail in a case that has
caused controversy because the two were charged in July with having
sex on the beach. The Dubai Court of Appeals upheld the guilty
verdict but dropped the prison sentences for Michelle Palmer and
Vince Acors, though it ruled the couple must still be deported from
the United Arab Emirates and pay a fine of about $272 each.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 23, England Schools
Minister Jim Knight said millions of children in England aged from
five to 16 in state-funded schools will receive compulsory lessons
about subjects including sex and drug use.
(AFP, 10/23/08)
2008 Oct 27, An FBI spokesman
said 642 arrests in 29 cities were made last week during a 3-day
sting operation, Operation Cross Country II, focusing on people who
forced teens into prostitution. 100 adults were arrested in the SF
Bay Area.
(SFC, 10/28/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 27, In Somalia Aisha
Ibrahim Duhulow, a 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped, was
stoned to death in Kismayo after being accused of adultery by
Islamic militants.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Oct 30, Indonesia's
parliament passed a bill banning pornography, ignoring opposition
from lawmakers and rights groups who worry it will be used to
justify attacks on artistic, religious and cultural freedom.
(AP, 10/30/08)
2008 Oct 30, In South Korea a
court ruled that a law that allows only visually impaired people to
become licensed masseurs does not violate the constitution, in a
victory for the blind. South Korea's Constitutional Court upheld a
ban on adultery, rejecting complaints that the 55-year-old law is
outdated and constitutes an invasion of privacy.
(AP, 10/30/08)
2008 Nov 13, Mexico City Health
Secretary Armando Ahued said that the government will start handing
out doses of one or two Viagra, Levitra or Cialis pills on Dec. 1.
(AP, 11/13/08)
2008 Nov 19, The British
government announced plans to make it illegal to pay for sex with
women forced into prostitution and to name men who solicit sex on
the streets, measures that prostitutes say will put more women at
risk.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 20, The new Australian
Sex Party launched at Sexpo, an annual sex exhibition in Melbourne.
It has already gathered the required 500 members and plans to
register with the electoral commission next week.
(AP, 11/20/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Britain a
Sheffield man (56) was sentenced to life in prison for raping his
children for more than 25 years, from the time they were between 8
and 10, beating them when they resisted. Between them, the daughters
bore their father seven surviving children. Two more died at birth;
the other pregnancies ended in abortion or miscarriage.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Dec 6, Amsterdam unveiled
plans to close brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in its
ancient city center as part of a major effort to drive organized
crime out of the tourist haven.
(AP, 12/6/08)
2008 Dec 7, NYC police officers
escorted a drunken Gap designer (29) to her East Village apartment.
In 2011 a Manhattan jury acquitted two officers of rape, but found
them guilty of misconduct for three unauthorized post midnight
visits to her apartment.
(SFC, 5/27/11, p.A6)
2008 Oct 15, A NYC police
officer warned Michael Mineo, a tattoo parlor worker, that if he
reported being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway
station, officers would lock him up for a felony. Officer Richard
Kern (25) was later charged with aggravated sexual abuse and
assault. Fellow Officers Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales were charged
with hindering prosecution and official misconduct for allegedly
covering up the crime.
(AP, 12/9/08)
2008 Dec 2, In Arkansas a
federal indictment was unsealed accusing evangelist Tony Alamo (74)
of sexually abusing five girls on separate occasions beginning in
1994, including a period when he was serving a tax-evasion sentence
at a halfway house in Texarkana. Alamo was convicted on July 24 of
taking girls as young as 9 across state lines for sex.
(AP, 12/3/08)(SFC, 7/25/09, p.A3)
2008 Dec 3, In California
Theodore Neff (66) was found strangled to death as his house on San
Pablo Bay burned. Within days police arrested Alejandro Hernandez
Rivera, a male prostitute, in a sting operation. Neff’s golden flute
was in Rivera’s car.
(SFC, 9/21/10, p.A1)
2008 Dec 11, Australian police
said detectives have charged 22 men including a policeman, a senior
lawyer and a child care worker in connection with a child
pornography-sharing network spanning 70 countries. Brazilian
information, which was shared via the international policing network
Interpol, identified more than 200 suspects in 70 countries.
(AP, 12/11/08)
2008 Dec 13, A woman (28) in
Richmond, Ca., was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian,
repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment
building. In early January police arrested 2 men and 2 teens on
suspicion of the gang-rape. On Dec 18, 2013, Humberto Salvador (36),
the ringleader of the gang rape, was convicted of multiple charges
in the case. Robert Ortiz (20) still awaited trial. Darrell Hodges
(20) was already sentenced to 24 years. Josue Gonzalez, who
testified against Salvador, was awaiting sentencing for carjacking
and robbery.
(AP, 12/23/08)(AP, 1/2/09)(SFC, 12/19/13, p.C3)
2008 Dec 17, A South Korean
court found one of the country's most famous actresses guilty of
adultery, months after she tried but failed to have a law that makes
extramarital affairs a crime ruled unconstitutional. Ok So-ri was
handed a suspended jail term.
(AP, 12/17/08)
2008 William N. Eskridge Jr.
authored Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003.
(SSFC, 5/11/08, Books p.4)
2008 In the Netherlands Saban
Baran (38) was convicted of leading a gang notorious for forcing
more than 100 women into prostitution, tattooing some of them to
mark them as the gang's property. Prosecutors also say some women
who came from Germany and eastern Europe were forced to have breast
implants and illegal abortions while working in brothels in
Amsterdam and other Dutch cities. In 2009 he fled while on a
temporarily release from prison, where he was serving a 7½ year
term, to visit his wife and newborn baby.
(AP, 9/17/09)
2009 Jan 12, State media said
China has shut down 91 websites for pornographic and other "vulgar"
content, as well as a political blog portal, since announcing its
latest bid to ensure Internet morality.
(Reuters, 1/12/09)
2009 Jan 13, Iran’s judiciary
announced that 2 men were stoned to death last month for adultery.
(WSJ, 1/14/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 16, British pop star
Boy George (47) was sentenced to 15 months in jail for imprisoning a
Norwegian male escort (29) after a nude photoshoot. The singer and
disc jockey, who stood trial under his real name George O'Dowd,
admitted to police to handcuffing Audun Carlsen to his bed on April
28, 2007, as he investigated the Norwegian's alleged tampering with
his computer.
(AFP, 1/16/09)
2009 Jan 16, In South Korea
Yonhap news agency said Busan District Court handed a man (42) a
suspended 30-month sentence for raping his wife (25) at knifepoint.
It was the first time a man in traditionally male-dominated South
Korea has been convicted of marital rape.
(AP, 1/16/09)
2009 Jan 21, In Missouri a
father was arrested in Daviess County after two sealed coolers with
the remains of two infants were found. a third child is believed to
have died in Oklahoma. A surviving child, a 3-year-old boy, was in
state custody. The man was suspected of fathering four children with
his teenage daughter and faced charges of killing at least one after
human remains were discovered at their rural home.
(AP, 1/24/09)
2009 Feb 2, In Cambodia police
in Siem Reap arrested Jack Louis Sporich (75), an American from
Chicago. He was charged with sexually abusing four Cambodian boys.
(AP, 2/4/09)
2009 Feb 8, In Fort Bragg, Ca.,
Aaron Vargas (31) shot and killed Darrell McNeill (63), a former
neighbor. McNeill, a former boy Scout leader and Big Brother, had
begun molesting Vargas at the age of 11 and continued as Vargas grew
into his 20s. Over the next year 12 other men came forward with
stories of molestation by McNeill. On April 6, 2010, Vargas pleaded
no contest to voluntary manslaughter charges and faced up to
10 years in prison.
(SSFC, 2/21/10, p.A1)(SFC, 4/7/10, p.A1)
2009 Jan 17, In Tijuana,
Mexico, a prostitute (19) was smothered to death. 2 US sailors,
petty officers Jarrett Monzingo and Joshua Dockery, were taken into
custody and faced murder and attempted-murder charges while being
held at La Mesa Prison.
(AP, 2/12/09)
2009 Feb 12, Domenica Niehoff
(63), Germany's best-known former prostitute, died. She was a
familiar figure on TV talk shows in the 1970s and '80s and was
instantly recognizable for her 48-inch bust and notoriously
revealing outfits.
(AP, 2/13/09)
2009 Feb 14, Mexico City set a
new record as nearly 40,000 people locked lips in the city center
for the world's largest group kiss. Gunmen killed a state police
officer and 10 members of his family, including five children in the
town of Monte Largo, Tabasco state. The shooting also killed a
street vendor in front of the house of state police officer Carlos
Reyes.
(AP, 2/14/09)(AP, 2/15/09)
2009 Feb 15, Authorities in
Malaysia arrested 26 unmarried Muslim couples in hotel rooms during
Operation Valentine, aimed at curbing illegal premarital sex in this
conservative country.
(AP, 2/16/09)
2009 Feb 18, Polish police said
they have detained 78 people, including a priest and a doctor,
suspected of possessing child pornography and spreading it on the
Internet.
(AP, 2/18/09)
2009 Feb 21, Jamaican
regulators said they are forbidding all explicit references to sex
and violence over the airwaves. The announcement followed a Feb. 6
ban that specifically targeted dancehall tunes and videos depicting
"daggering," a dance style popular among Jamaican youth that
features pelvic grinding simulating sex.
(AP, 2/22/09)
2009 Feb 23, The FBI said it
has rescued more than 45 suspected teenage prostitutes, some as
young as 13, in a nationwide 3-night sweep, Operation Cross Country,
to remove kids from the illegal sex trade and punish their accused
pimps.
(AP, 2/23/09)
2009 Feb 27, New Mexico
authorities said they have recovered bones from 13 victims at a
desert site west of Albuquerque. 2 victims were identified as
prostitutes reported missing in 2004.
(SFC, 2/28/09, p.A4)
2009 Feb, A Texas grand jury
returned a 106-count indictment against the former Montague Sheriff
Bill Keating and 16 others. It revealed that inmates had the run of
County Jail, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in
recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by
friends or guards.
(AP, 3/17/09)
2009 Feb, An Australian man in
Victoria state was arrested on charges of raping his daughter for 30
years and fathering four children with her. The daughter first told
police about the alleged abuse in 2005, but no charges were filed
because she said she feared for her safety and would not cooperate
with police.
(AP, 9/17/09)
2009 Mar 13, John Worboys
(b.1957), a London cab driver, was found guilty of raping or
assaulting 12 women, often after persuading them to drink champagne
spiked with sedatives. On April 21 he was sentenced to at
least 8 years in prison. In 2010 Scotland Yard said 102 women have
come forward to accuse Worboys of sexually motivated crimes since
his highly publicized trial.
(AP,
10/26/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys)
2009 Mar 18, Mumbai police
arrested an Indian businessman (49) for allegedly raping his
daughter for more than eight years, apparently on the advice of a
Hindu mystic who .said it would make him wealthy. Tantrik Hansmukh
Bhai Rathode (54) was arrested the next day.
(AP, 3/19/09)
2009 Mar 19, Former Israeli
President Moshe Katsav was indicted on rape and other sexual offense
charges, after calling off a plea deal that would have allowed him
to escape jail time.
(AP, 3/19/09)
2009 Mar 23, A US judge ordered
the FDA to allow sales of the morning-after pill to women 17 and
older without a prescription.
(WSJ, 3/24/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 26, A New Jersey girl
(14) was accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30
explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com, charges that could
force her to register as a sex offender if convicted.
(AP, 3/27/09)
2009 Mar 27, In Honda,
Colombia, Arcebio Alvarez (59), a farmer and widower, was arrested
on charges of incest and sexual abuse. He was accused of incest for
allegedly fathering eight children with his daughter. He denied
being the woman's biological father.
(AP, 3/29/09)
2009 Apr 2, Human rights groups
and some Afghan lawmakers criticized President Hamid Karzai for
signing into law legislation that some believe legalizes the rape of
a wife by her husband and prevents women from leaving the house
without a man's permission. Article 132 of the law says: "As long as
the husband is not traveling, he has the right to have sexual
intercourse with his wife every fourth night." Critics said Karzai
signed the legislation in the past month only for political gains
several months before the country's presidential election.
(AP, 4/2/09)
2009 Apr 8, In Canada Tori
Stafford (8) was kidnapped outside her school in Woodstock, Ontario.
In 2012 Terri-Lynne McClintic admitted she had kidnapped Tori and
delivered her to her boyfriend Michael Rafferty, who raped the
child. McClintic said she then battered the girl to death with a
claw hammer. On May 11, 2012, a jury in London, Ontario, found
Rafferty (31) guilty of first degree murder, kidnapping and sexual
assault, dismissing his girlfriend's testimony that she alone was
responsible for killing Tori Stafford.
(Reuters, 5/11/12)
2009 Apr 9, A top human rights
group said in a report that at least 90 women have been raped and
180 villagers killed over the past two months by rebels as well as
government forces in volatile eastern Congo.
(AP, 4/9/09)
2009 Apr 11, A Saudi man
convicted of rape and robbery was beheaded, becoming the 22nd
prisoner to be executed by sword this year in the kingdom. An
Interior Ministry statement says the man committed the crimes after
drinking alcohol.
(AP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 12, Marilyn Chambers
(born in 1952 as Marilyn Ann Briggs), adult film star, was found
dead at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Canyon Country. The
pretty Ivory Snow girl helped bring hard-core adult films into the
mainstream consciousness when she starred in the explicit movie
"Behind the Green Door" (1972).
(AP, 4/14/09)
2009 Apr 14, France's
government launched a campaign against forced marriages and genital
mutilation, seeking to protect women from practices that quietly
thrive in immigrant communities the nation is struggling to
integrate.
(AP, 4/14/09)
2009 Apr 17, Five of Germany's
leading Internet providers agreed to block access to sites
identified by national criminal investigators as hosting child
pornography, as authorities reported the breakup of an international
ring.
(AP, 4/17/09)
2009 Apr 20, In Washington
state former Tacoma elementary school teacher Jennifer Rice (33) was
convicted of having sex with a student (10) and his brother (15).
(SFC, 4/21/09, p.A6)
2009 Apr 22, In Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet approved a new law to require the
vast majority of the country's Internet service providers to block
child pornography sites.
(AP, 4/22/09)
2009 Apr, UN special
investigator Philip Alston said on October 15 that Congolese
soldiers had killed 50 Rwandan Hutu refugees and abducted and raped
around 40 women during an April attack on a refugee camp in eastern
DR Congo.
(AFP, 10/16/09)
2009 May 11, US District Judge
Samuel Kent was sentenced to 3 years in prison for lying to
investigators about sexually abusing 2 female employees at his
Galveston, Texas, courthouse. Kent had pleaded guilty to obstruction
of justice as his trial was about to start in February. This was the
first sex abuse case ever against a sitting federal judge.
(SFC, 5/12/09, p.A5)
2009 May 14, Bangladesh's high
court moved to plug a gaping hole in the country's laws by
introducing a first-ever ban on sexual harassment. Bangladeshi
police arrested 250 border guards accused of spreading violence
across the country during a mutiny that started at a military base
in Dhaka.
(AFP, 5/14/09)
2009 May 14, A British
parliamentary report into human trafficking said more than 5,000
mostly women and children have been smuggled into Britain to work as
sex slaves and beggars.
(AFP, 5/14/09)
2009 May 18, In China a
government spokesman said a sex theme park that featured explicit
exhibits of genitalia and sexual culture is being demolished before
it can even open. The park, christened "Love Land" by its owners,
went under the wrecking ball over the weekend in the southwestern
city of Chongqing.
(AP, 5/18/09)
2009 May 20, Nebraska Gov. Dave
Heinemen signed a bill to prevent registered sex offenders from
using social networking sites such as Facebook.
(SFC, 5/21/09, p.A4)
2009 May 20, SF-based
Craigslist sued South Carolina’s Attorney Gen’l. Henry McMaster to
block him from filing criminal charges against the online classified
site for abetting prostitution.
(SFC, 5/21/09, p.C1)
2009 May 29, In Kashmir the
bodies of two young women (17 & 22) were found in Shopian town.
The pregnant wife of Shakeel Ahmed Ahangar and his teenage sister
were allegedly raped and murdered by Indian soldiers.
(Reuters, 6/20/09)(Econ, 6/27/09, p.48)
2009 May 30, Michelle
Samaraweera (35) was rape and murdered in Walthamstow, England. On
July 4, 2009, Aman Vyas (26), a suspect in her murder and other
sexual assaults, was arrested at Indira Gandhi International Airport
just before he boarded a flight for Thailand.
(AP,
7/5/11)(http://michelle-samaraweera.gonetoosoon.org/)
2009 May 31, In Egypt police
reported that a 25-year-old man cut off his own penis to spite his
family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower
class family.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 8, The Wall Street
Journal reported that China will require all personal computers sold
in the country from July 1 to come with software that blocks access
to certain websites. The program aimed to prevent the spread of
pornography and other "unhealthy" content.
(AFP, 6/8/09)(AP, 6/9/09)
2009 Jun 9, In Kansas David Lee
Gage of Wichita committed suicide in his jail cell. He faced 30
years in prison for raping 3 women who had advertised erotic
services on Craigslist.
(SFC, 6/10/09, p.A5)
2009 Jun 10, In Argentina
Father Julio Grassi (52), a Roman Catholic priest who won fame
running an Argentine foundation for poor youths (1993), was
convicted of sexually molesting a boy who participated in the
program. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Grassi continued to
proclaim his innocence, saying he was "the victim of an injustice."
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 18, China's Internet
watchdog condemned the Chinese-language version of Google for
"disseminating pornographic and vulgar information."
(AP, 6/18/09)
2009 Jun 19, Google Inc. said
that it was working to block pornography reaching users of its
Chinese service after a mainland watchdog found the search engine
turned up large numbers of links to obscene and vulgar sites.
(AP, 6/19/09)
2009 Jun 19, A leading South
African research group said one in four male South Africans it
surveyed admitted to committing rape, a finding that cast a harsh
light on a culture of sexual violence that victims groups say is
deeply embedded in society.
(AP, 6/19/09)
2009 Jun 20, Italian police in
Sicily said they have arrested 14 people and placed more than 250
under investigation in the country's biggest sweep against Internet
child pornography.
(AP, 6/20/09)
2009 Jun 22, In Democratic
Republic of Congo rioting inmates overnight raped around 20 female
prisoners during a failed prison break in Goma. Two people were
killed and 12 others were injured when prisoners detonated two
grenades.
(Reuters, 6/23/09)
2009 Jun 22, In eastern Bolivia
8 men from a Mennonite farming community were arrested following
accusations of raping dozens of females at the settlement. 60 women,
from 11 to 47 years old, have accused the men of rape.
(AP, 6/23/09)
2009 Jun 28, Swiss police said
they have uncovered a child pornography ring involving more than
2,000 people in 78 countries.
(AP, 6/28/09)
2009 Jun 30, Australian serial
rapist John Xydias (45) was jailed for 28 years. For over 15 years
he had dressed his unconscious victims in his collection of women's
underwear and filmed assaults on them.
(AFP, 6/30/09)
2009 Jun, In Kenya three young
men and a boy told police that Rev. Renato Kizito Sesana, an Italian
priest, had been sexually molesting them for years at a shelter for
poor children. No church investigation followed. Kenyan police later
said they found no evidence and believed Sesana is innocent. Soon
after going to the police, three of the four complainants, including
a 17-year-old, withdrew their accusations, saying they had been
forced to make them by con men planning to take over church
property. But in 2010 the 17-year-old told the AP that he recanted
only because he and his mother repeatedly received anonymous text
messages threatening them with death. He insisted he really had been
abused but did not seek to press charges again because he felt no
one would believe him.
(AP, 4/11/10)
2009 Jul 6, In Yemen a barber
was publicly executed after he was found guilty of raping and
killing an 11-year-old boy who came to his shop for a haircut. The
barber was arrested in December 2008 and confessed during a January
trial to raping the boy inside his salon, killing him and cutting up
his body before dumping it outside San'a.
(AP, 7/6/09)
2009 Jul 15, Mazen Abdul-Jawad
(32), a Saudi man, appeared on the Lebanese-based LBC satellite TV
station’s "Bold Red Line" program and shocked Saudis by publicly
confessing to sexual exploits. More than 200 people soon filed legal
complaints against Abdul-Jawad, dubbed a "sex braggart" by the
media, and many Saudis said he should be severely punished. On July
31 Abdul-Jawad was detained for questioning. The Jiddah offices of
the LBC station were closed soon thereafter.
(AP, 8/6/09)(AP, 8/9/09)
2009 Jul 16, In Phoenix,
Arizona, 4 boys, all Liberian refugees (9-14) lured a Liberian girl
(8) to a storage shed and raped her. Charges against one of the
boys, aged 8, were dropped on Dec 16 after a judge ruled the boy was
not competent to stand trial.
(SFC, 8/10/09, p.A4)(SFC, 12/17/09, p.A12)
2009 Jul 16, In India Rita
Bahuguna Joshi, a leading politician of India's ruling Congress
party, was arrested and her house set on fire by activists after she
suggested that a rival leader be raped so she can better understand
the plight of rape victims.
(AP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 28, Tennessee state
Sen. Paul Stanley (47) resigned in Nashville after his extramarital
affair with an intern (22) was revealed by an investigation into an
extortion case. McKensie Morrison’s boyfriend was charged with
trying to extort $10,000 from the GOP lawmaker.
(SFC, 7/29/09, p.A6)
2009 Aug 1, Brazilian police
said they have busted a ring that allegedly sent some 200 women in
the last year to the United States, Europe and elsewhere to work as
prostitutes. Most of the women were recruited through the Internet
or Brazilian brothels and then sent to Las Vegas, the Dominican
Republic and France.
(AP, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 19, Brazilian
prosecutors said Father Clodoveo Piazza, an Italian priest who ran
an award-winning shelter for homeless children in Brazil, has been
charged with sexually abusing boys for years and allowing visiting
foreigners to exploit the children. Piazza, now working as a
missionary in Mozambique, was charged along with another former
director of the nonprofit group Fraternal Help Organization, a
private group based in Salvador.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Aug 24, An American UN
peacekeeper under investigation for sexual exploitation and abuse of
minors in Liberia was found dead in his house in Monrovia. Sources
said it appeared that the American, a civilian in the Liberia
mission, known as UNMIL, had committed suicide due to the
investigations.
(Reuters, 8/26/09)
2009 Aug 26, In Cambodia a
Phnom Penh Municipal Court Judge found Michael James Dodd of
Washington, DC, guilty of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl. He
was arrested in October 2008 at his rented house in Phnom Penh, in
the girl's company. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and
ordered to pay 20 million riel ($4,878) in compensation to the
girl's family.
(AP, 8/26/09)
2009 Aug 31, In southern
California fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander was sentenced to 59
years to life in prison for sexually assaulting aspiring models he
lured to Los Angeles.
(AP, 9/1/09)
2009 Sep 4, The US Embassy in
Afghanistan says it has fired eight security guards following
allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living
quarters. Two other guards resigned and also left. All of them
appeared in photographs that depicted guards and supervisors in
various stages of nudity at parties flowing with alcohol. The
management team of the private contractor that provided the guards
was also to being replaced immediately.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 9, California
Assemblyman Mike Duvall, R-Yorba Linda, resigned after a videotape
surfaced of his bragging about sexual exploits with 2 women, one of
whom reportedly worked as a lobbyist.
(SFC, 9/10/09, p.A11)
2009 Sep 9, A Malaysian
government report said indigenous tribal girls have been sexually
abused by loggers in remote jungles on Borneo island, in the first
official verification of rape accusations involving timber
companies.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 11, A Kenyan
magistrate sentenced Jon Cardon Wagner, an American who founded a
popular chain of coffee shops, to 15 years' imprisonment for the
statutory rape of three teenage Kenyan girls. Wagner's lawyer
Mohammed Nyaoga said his client is the victim of an extortion racket
and will appeal. Nairobi Java House began a culture of gourmet
coffee drinking nine years ago and now has eight coffee shops in the
capital.
(AP, 9/11/09)
2009 Sep 11, In South Africa
reports on gender testing on running sensation Caster Semenya has
determined she has male and female sexual organs. This triggered
outrage and dealt a blow to her family, who may have been unaware of
the reported condition. There was worry about how the 18-year-old
will handle all this. Testing determined that Semenya has internal
testes, meaning the runner herself, who was raised in a poor
village, may have been unaware of such a condition. The condition is
generally referred to as intersexuality. The older term for someone
who has both male and female organs is hermaphrodite.
(AP, 9/11/09)
2009 Sep 14, In Indonesia
expanded Islamic law was passed by the regional parliament in Aceh
province. One key article regarding adultery threatened 100 cane
lashes for the unmarried and stoning to death for those who are
married.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 21, Gordon Wateridge
(78), a carer at the former Haut de la Garenne children’s home
during the 1970s on the Channel island of Jersey, was jailed for two
years for sexually assaulting teenage girls there.
(AFP, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 25, Poland approved a
law making chemical castration mandatory for pedophiles in some
cases, sparking criticism from human rights groups.
(Reuters, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 26, In Switzerland
director Roman Polanski (76) was taken into custody on a 31-year-old
US arrest warrant, where he traveled to receive an award at the
Zurich Film Festival for his lifetime work as a director. Polanski
fled the United States in 1978, a year after pleading guilty to
unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
(AP, 9/27/09)(SFC, 9/30/09, p.A4)
2009 Sep 27, A New Zealand
teen, Cherelle May Dudfield (18), flashed her breasts at passing
cars and ended with up in a hospital after a distracted driver ran
into her. In Dec she was found guilty of disorderly behavior for the
prank and was fined $198.
(AP, 12/18/09)
2009 Sep 28, In San Jose, Ca.,
Cristina Warthen (36), a Stanford law school graduate, was sentenced
to home detention for one year for tax evasion and ordered to pay
$243,000 in back taxes. She had run an escort service beginning in
2001 (touchofbrazil.net), and grossed $133,717 in 2003. In 2004 she
married David Warthen, co-founder of Ask Jeeves, later Ask.com. They
were later divorced.
(SFC, 9/29/09, p.C5)
2009 Sep 28, Guinea’s
military's presidential guard shot at pro-democracy demonstrators in
Conakry, leaving at least 157 people dead. Eyewitnesses said
security forces had stripped female protesters and raped them in the
streets. Other eyewitnesses said soldiers had stabbed protesters
with knives and bayonets.
(AP, 9/29/09)
2009 Sep 30, Amnesty
International said tens of thousands of women who fled unrest in
Darfur face the daily threat or rape and violence in refugee camps
in neighboring Chad.
(AP, 9/30/09)
2009 Oct 1, David Letterman,
late-night TV talk show host, admitted in an extraordinary monologue
before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with
female employees, after a CBS News employee tried to extort $2
million from him. Suspect Robert J. Halderman later admitted his
guilt and was sentenced to 6 months in jail. He was freed on Sep 2,
2010, after serving 4 months.
(AP, 10/2/09)(SFC, 9/3/10, p.A4)
2009 Oct 2, Michael David
Barrett (48), accused of taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN
reporter Erin Andrews, was arrested at O’Hare Airport as he arrived
on a flight from Buffalo, NY. He faced federal charges of interstate
stalking for taking the videos, trying to sell them to celebrity Web
site TMZ and posting the videos online. On March 15, 2010, Barrett
was sentenced to 2½ years in prison.
(AP, 10/3/09)(SFC, 3/16/10, p.A5)
2009 Oct 5, It was reported
that conservative Egyptian lawmakers have called for a ban on
imports of a Chinese-made kit meant to help women fake their
virginity and one scholar has even called for the "exile" of anyone
who imports or uses it. The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit,
distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo, costs about $30. It is
intended to help newly married women fool their husbands into
believing they are virgins.
(AP, 10/5/09)
2009 Oct 7, A Saudi court
convicted Mazen Abdul-Jawad for publicly talking about sex after he
bragged on a TV talk show about his exploits, sentencing him to five
years in jail and 1,000 lashes. The program, which aired July 15 on
the Lebanese LBC satellite channel, was seen in Saudi Arabia and
scandalized conservative viewers where such frank talk is rarely
heard in public.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 15, A French court
turned down a bid by Fabienne Justel, a 39-year-old widow, to
retrieve her late husband's frozen sperm in order to have his child
by insemination in another country. A French law prohibited
post-mortem insemination.
(AFP, 10/15/09)
2009 Oct 19, Israeli police
arrested Donald Edward Nelson (59), a convicted American pedophile,
in a hostel in the Old City of Jerusalem. Nelson was convicted last
year in a California court on 52 counts of sexual abuse of minors
and sentenced to 110 years in prison. He fled the US to avoid being
jailed and was hiding out in Jerusalem.
(AP, 10/21/09)
2009 Oct 23, Swiss and US
authorities said the US has asked Switzerland to hand over Roman
Polanski to authorities in California, where he could serve up to
two years in prison for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.
(AP, 10/23/09)
2009 Oct 23, In Richmond, Ca.,
a girl (16) left a homecoming dance at Richmond High gym and joined
a group of men drinking in a nearby alley. She became drunk and was
raped and robbed by as many as 10 young men. Police found her
semi-conscious near a lunch table and arrested one suspect fleeing
the scene. 2 more suspects, aged 15 and 21, were arrested on Oct 27.
On Oct 28 three juveniles were arrested in connection to the crime
and charged as adults. A 6th suspect was arrested on Oct 29. On Jan
19 John Crane Jr. (43) turned himself in for participating in the
rape. In 2010 Cody Smith, the youngest of 7 defendants was released,
because his Miranda rights had been violated. In 2011 the West
Contra Costa Unified School District settled a civil suit and agreed
to pay the victim $4 million. On Sep 6, 2012, Manuel Ortega (22)
pleaded guilty as was expected to receive 32 years behind bars. On
Aug 15, 2013, Jose Montano (22) was sentenced to 33 years to life;
Marcelles Peter (20) was sentenced to 29 years to life.
(SFC, 10/27/09, p.C6)(SFC, 10/28/09, p.A10)(SFC,
10/29/09, p.A1)(SFC, 10/30/09, p.A1)(SFC, 1/22/10, p.C9)(SFC,
12/22/10, p.C2)(SSFC, 1/23/11, p.C3)(SFC, 9/7/12, p.A20)(SFC,
8/16/13, p.D1)
2009 Oct 24, A Saudi court
convicted a female journalist for her involvement in a TV show, in
which a Saudi man, Abdul-Jawad, publicly talked about sex, and
sentenced her to 60 lashes. Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the
first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The same
court sentenced Abdul-Jawad earlier this month to five years in jail
and 1,000 lashes. 3 other men who appeared on the show, "Bold Red
Line," were also convicted of discussing sex publicly and sentenced
to two years imprisonment and 300 lashes each.
(AP, 10/24/09)
2009 Oct 25, In Italy 4
policemen were questioned for allegedly attempting to blackmail
opposition leader Piero Marrazzo (51). The case centered on
widespread media reports that a video shows the center-left
politician in the company of a transsexual in a Rome apartment.
(AP, 10/25/09)
2009 Oct 27, US-based Human
Rights Watch said the Sept. 28 massacre by Guinean troops of at
least 150 people and the rapes of dozens of women at a pro-democracy
rally in Guinea were premeditated, and that rapes of kidnapped women
continued for days.
(AP, 10/27/09)
2009 Oct 29, In Cleveland,
Ohio, police found the remains of 6 bodies at the home of Anthony
Sowell (50) as they tried to arrest him on charges of felonious
assault and rape. Sowell, a convicted rapist, was arrested on Oct
31. 5 more bodies were soon found at Sowell’s home. The women had
begun disappearing in 2007. On July 22, 2011, Sowell was convicted
of killing 11 women.
(SSFC, 11/1/09, p.A20)(SFC, 11/5/09, p.A10)(SFC,
7/23/11, p.A4)
2009 Nov 4, In South Carolina
Rodell Vereen, caught on video having sex with a horse, was
sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the
second time in two years to abusing the creature.
(AP, 11/4/09)
2009 Nov 4, In China a guard at
an unofficial jail in Beijing pleaded guilty to raping a young
detainee, in a case that has put a spotlight on "black jails" where
a growing number of people seeking justice from the government end
up. The woman (21), from central Anhui province, had been expelled
from college because of poor exam scores and came to Beijing to ask
the government to reinstate her. The woman escaped the "black jail"
with about 50 other detainees after the guard fled following the
alleged rape.
(AP, 11/5/09)
2009 Nov 5, The UN said at
least 50 peacekeepers have received punishments ranging from
reduction in military rank to eight months imprisonment for
committing sexual abuses on United Nations missions since 2007.
(AP, 11/5/09)
2009 Nov 14, It was reported
that Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses,
avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist
party's efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening
its rule and sullying its reputation.
(AP, 11/14/09)
2009 Nov 14, In North Carolina
the Fayetteville Police Department said Antoinette Nicole Davis, the
mother of Shaniya Davis (5), faced a child abuse charge involving
prostitution as well as filing a false police report. The child
hadn't been seen since Nov 10, when surveillance footage showed
Mario Andrette McNeill carrying Shaniya into a hotel room. He was
arrested and charged with kidnapping on Nov 13. The body of Shaniya
Davis was found on Nov 16 in woods 30 miles from Fayetteville. She
had been sexually assaulted and asphyxiated on Nov 10, the day her
mother reported her missing.
(AP, 11/15/09)(SFC, 11/17/09, p.A26)(SFC,
11/21/09, p.A4)
2009 Nov 15, Dr. Brooke
Magnanti (34), who works for The Bristol Initiative for Research of
Child Health, revealed herself to be the woman behind the nom de
plume "Belle de Jour," which is the title of a 1967 French film
starring Catherine Deneuve. Magnanti kept a weblog of her antics in
2003-2004, which were turned into a best-selling book, "The Intimate
Adventures of a London Call Girl." Her memoirs were adapted into a
hit 16-episode television series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl,"
which starred Billie Piper and was screened in countries around the
world.
(AFP, 11/16/09)
2009 Nov 24, In Alaska the
Catholic diocese of Fairbanks and representatives of almost 300
alleged victims of sex abuse by clergy agreed on a settlement of
almost $10 million.
(SFC, 11/25/09, p.A4)
2009 Nov 24, In Italy
prostitute Patrizia D'Addario’s memoir, "Gradisca, Presidente," (At
Your Pleasure, Premier), went on sale. In it she claimed that she
had slept with Premier Silvio Berlusconi on the understanding he
would help her set up a countryside inn but that she got "nothing"
in return.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 25, US federal
prosecutors said a young woman from Mexico was smuggled over the
border and forced to work as a prostitute for years in Brooklyn, and
the remains of an infant were found in concrete at the home where
she was held prisoner. NYPD officials discovered the bin a day
earlier, with the remains of an infant inside. Domingo Salazar (33)
and his wife, Norma Mendez (32), appeared in US District Court in
Brooklyn on sex trafficking charges and were being held without
bail.
(AP, 11/26/09)
2009 Nov 26, In Ireland an
official report said the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Dublin
obsessively covered up widespread sexual abuse of children by
priests until the mid-1990s in a misuse of the Church's central role
in Irish society.
(Reuters, 11/26/09)
2009 Dec 4, In Switzerland
Roman Polanski took refuge at his snowbound chalet after being
granted bail under house arrest, while he fights extradition to the
US on a child sex case.
(AP, 12/4/09)
2009 Dec 10, Uganda's
parliament approved a bill banning female genital mutilation.
(AP, 12/11/09)
2009 Dec 12, In New York state
truck driver Thomas Wallace hit a disabled car killing Julie
Stratton (33). The car was disabled after hitting a deer. On Sep 1,
2010, Wallace was sentenced to 3-9 years in prison after pleading
guilty to 2nd degree murder. His laptop computer was streaming
pornography when his rig hit the disabled car.
(SFC, 9/2/10, p.A6)
2009 Dec 14, In Egypt a 2-day
regional conference ended addressing for the first time the once
taboo topic of sexual harassment. Activists said the sexual
harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the
Arab world was driving them to cover up and confine themselves to
their homes.
(AP, 12/15/09)
2009 Dec 25, In Maryland law
enforcement found the body of Sarah H. Foxwell (11) near the
Delaware state line three days after she was last seen at her home.
Thomas J. Leggs Jr. (30), a known sex offender and former boyfriend
of the girl's aunt, was charged on Dec 23 in Sarah's kidnapping.
(AP, 12/26/09)
2009 Dec 26, In India Andhra
Pradesh Gov. Narain Dutt Tiwari (86) resigned, a day after a
television news channel broadcast a tape allegedly showing him in
bed with three women.
(AP, 12/26/09)
2009 Dec 30, An Argentine judge
convicted former Santa Fe Roman Catholic Archbishop Edgardo Storni
of sexually abusing a seminarian in 1992.
(AP, 12/30/09)
2009 Mara Altman authored
“thanks for Coming: One Young Woman’s quest for an Orgasm."
(SSFC, 4/19/09, Books p.J4)
2009 Richard Bernstein authored
“The East, the West, and Sex," in which he wrote of the erotic
allure of the East for Western men.
(SSFC, 6/14/09, p.J3)
2009 Josh Sides authored
“Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San
Francisco."
(SSFC, 10/25/09, Books p.F1)
2009 Iceland introduced fines
and jail terms for those who patronize prostitutes.
(Econ, 4/20/13, p.63)
2009 In the Ivory Coast a
random poll of 10 underage girls in Toulepleu by aid group Save The
Children U.K. found that eight performed sexual acts for UN-Benin
peacekeepers on a regular basis in order to secure their most basic
needs. A 2010 diplomatic cable revealed that "Eight of the 10 said
they had ongoing sexual relationships with Beninese soldiers in
exchange for food or lodging," citing information shared with the
embassy by a protection officer.
(AP, 9/1/11)
2009 Thailand authorities
arrested Maksym Shynkarenko of Ukraine for distributing child
pornography. In 2012 he was extradited to the US and charged in a
32-count indictment.
(SFC, 6/12/12, p.A6)
2009 UAR love guru Widad Lootah
published the much-debated Muslim sex guide "Top Secret: Sexual
Guidance for Married Couples."
(AP, 2/13/12)
2010 Jan 1, In Dubai a British
woman (23) told police she had been raped the previous evening by a
waiter at a 5-star hotel. Police arrested her after she revealed
during questioning that she had drunk alcohol and had sex with her
fiance, with whom she was on holiday.
(Econ, 1/16/10, p.48)
2010 Jan 1, Malaysia’s Islamic
morality police arrested 52 unmarried couples for sexual misconduct
following raids in hotel rooms on New Year’s Day. The detained
couples were expected to be charged with khalwat (close proximity),
and faced a maximum penalty of 2 years in prison and a fine.
(SFC, 1/5/10, p.A4)
2010 Jan 6, In Chile
investigators accused Rev. Ricardo Munoz Quinteros (55), a Catholic
priest, and his girlfriend, Pamela Ampuero, of soliciting sex from
young girls, including one who later bore his child.
(AP, 1/6/10)
2010 Jan 10, Juliet Anderson
(71), adult film star born as Judith Carr, died at her home in
Berkeley, Ca. She had begun her career in 1978 and appeared in some
80 hardcore porn films. In 1984 she cast and directed Nina Hartley
in “Educating Nina."
(SSFC, 1/31/10, p.C12)
2010 Jan 12, A web site linked
to leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported that Poland's tax
office has levied a fine of 2.3 million zlotys ($820,000) on an
unemployed woman for failing to pay tax on income worth at least
13.7 million zlotys she said she had earned as a prostitute.
(Reuters, 1/13/10)
2010 Jan 12, Israeli police
broke up the harem of Goel Ratzon (60), who was suspected of
enslaving a cult-like harem of at least 17 women and 37 children.
Ratzon, who's lived this way for two decades, denied any wrongdoing.
He maintained the harem with 17 women in a state of near-total
obedience in apartments in the Tel Aviv area. On Feb 14 he was
charged in a Tel Aviv court with enslavement, rape, incest and other
sexual offenses.
(AP, 1/14/10)(AP, 2/8/10)(AP, 2/14/10)
2010 Jan 18, A group of 30
Mauritanian Muslim leaders issued a religious edict banning female
genital mutilation in the West African country. The leaders also
agreed to preach against the practice at their mosques.
(AP, 1/18/10)
2010 Jan 19, In Cuba Mariela
Castro, the daughter of pres. Raul Castro and head of the Center for
Sex Education, said Cuba has begun performing state-sponsored
sex-change operations. The government had lifted a longtime ban on
the procedure in 2007.
(SFC, 1/20/10, p.A2)
2010 Jan 20, In Greece dozens
of prostitutes, most using headscarves or hoods to hide their faces,
demonstrated in central Athens, demanding working licenses for
brothels across Greece.
(AP, 1/20/10)
2010 Jan 20, South Korea’s
health ministry said in a statement that switches will be flicked at
7.30 pm every third Wednesday in the month to "help staff get
dedicated to childbirth and upbringing." Low birthrate was a
pressing issue in this fast-ageing society.
(AFP, 1/20/10)
2010 Feb 3, New Zealand police
warned that local teenager (19), who says she auctioned her
virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money, did not break
any laws but it might be risky for her to follow through on the
deal. Prostitution is legal in New Zealand under laws considered
more liberal than many countries. Prostitution among consenting
adults is allowed in brothels and on the streets, and offering
sexual services in print ads and online is also legal.
(AP, 2/3/10)
2010 Feb 6, China’s state media
said a man who operated a porn website has been sentenced to 13
years in jail and fined 100,000 yuan (15,000 dollars), amid an
ongoing campaign to crack down on online sexual content.
(AFP, 2/7/10)
2010 Feb 7, In Canada Air Force
Col. Russell Williams (46) was arrested in Ottawa and charged with
first degree murder in the deaths of 2 women. He was also charged in
the sexual assaults of 2 other women.
(SFC, 2/9/10, p.A2)
2010 Feb 12, Palestinian
officials rallied around Rafiq Husseini, the chief of staff to
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after a video surfaced showing
him in the nude in an alleged attempt to trade his influence for
sex. Pres. Abbas fired Husseini on April 7.
(AP, 2/12/10)(AP, 4/7/10)
2010 Feb 9, Authorities in
Malaysia caned three Muslim women for having extramarital sex,
making them the first women in the country to receive such
punishment under Islamic law. Each woman reportedly received between
four and six strokes of a rattan cane.
(AP, 2/17/10)
2010 Feb 18, In Germany
attorney Ursula Raue said 115 former students have come forward with
charges of sexual abuse at schools run by Germany's Jesuit order.
Victims had named 12 priests and several women among the attackers.
Most of the victims were former students of one of Germany's most
prestigious high schools, Berlin's private Catholic Canisius Kolleg.
(AP, 2/18/10)
2010 Feb 22, A Delaware grand
jury returned an indictment on pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley of
Lewes with 471 counts of sexual crimes against 103 children.
(SFC, 2/23/10, p.A6)
2010 Feb 25, In California
Chelsea King (17) failed to return from a run at a San Diego park.
On Feb 28 John Albert Gardner III (30) of Lake Elsinore man was
arrested for investigation of murder and rape. King’s body was found
buried on March 2 in a shallow grave on the south shore of Lake
Hodges.
(AP, 3/3/10)
2010 Feb 25, In India a Hindu
newspaper said India's best-known painter M.F. Husain (94), who went
into exile after death threats from Hindu hardliners, has been
granted Qatari citizenship, sparking new soul-searching about his
persecution at home. Husain, known as the "Picasso of India," had
angered hardline Hindus by portraying Hindu deities in the nude or
in a sexually suggestive manner.
(AFP, 2/25/10)
2010 Feb 26, Mozambique state
media said 2 young men accused of having sex with a goat in central
Mozambique are facing criminal charges, and the goat's owner is
demanding they make traditional wedding arrangements.
(AFP, 2/26/10)
2010 Mar 3, A Mexican woman
charged that Rev. Marcial Maciel (1920-2008), the deceased,
scandal-tainted founder of the conservative order Legionaries of
Christ (1941), led a double life and fathered two children with her.
(AP, 3/4/10)
2010 Mar 4, Liam Adams, the
brother of Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams, surrendered to Irish
authorities to face 23 charges of sexually abusing his daughter. He
fled to the Republic of Ireland to avoid a November 2008 Belfast
hearing over the charges of abusing his daughter Aine for eight
years when she was a child.
(AP, 3/4/10)
2010 Mar 11, Brazilian
television network SBT broadcast a tape of Luiz Marques Barbosa (83)
in bed with a 19-year-old that was widely distributed on the
Internet. The station said the video was secretly filmed in January
2009 and sent anonymously to the network. Barbosa was detained in
april out of fear he would flee the country.
(AP, 4/20/10)(http://tinyurl.com/y7vwfnz)
2010 Mar 12, A union
representing Dutch nurses launched a national campaign against
demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part
of their standard care.
(Reuters, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 16, Brazilian police
and church officials said authorities were investigating three
priests accused of sexually abusing altar boys after a video
allegedly showing one case of abuse was broadcast on SBT television
a week earlier.
(AP, 3/17/10)
2010 Mar 23, Austria’s
Graz-Seckau diocese said a priest has resigned after admitting he
abused a 17-year-old boy. The priest reportedly stepped down of his
own accord for the abuse that happened more than 20 years ago on a
vacation. 2 other priests have also been suspended as a
precautionary measure because one was convicted of committing a
homosexual act with a 17-year-old and the other was convicted of
exhibitionism in cases dating back about 15 and 20 years.
(AP, 3/23/10)
2010 Mar 24, Dozens of French
sex workers proclaiming themselves proud to be prostitutes marched
to protest a lawmaker's proposal to legalize brothels in France,
arguing that such a law would deny them the freedom to work on their
own.
(AP, 3/24/10)
2010 Mar 24, Iceland’s
parliament voted to ban striptease shows, making it an offense for
any business to profit from the nudity of its employees. The ban
became effective on 1 July.
(http://news.scotsman.com/world/Strip-shows-offlimits-in-.6178649.jp)
2010 Mar 26, Mozambican police
said they have arrested 7 people suspected of trafficking women to
neighboring South Africa to work as prostitutes. The men were
arrested last week through a police sting operation. The women were
on sale for about $670 each.
(AP, 3/26/10)
2010 Mar 29, An American doctor
living in Guatemala was convicted of sexually abusing four
10-year-old boys and sentenced to six years in prison. Dr. Joshua T.
Kotouc was arrested in 2008 with the four boys in bed.
(AP, 3/29/10)
2010 Mar 30, In India
Paramhamsa Nityananda (32), a Hindu holy man with thousands of
followers across India, resigned as head of Dhyanapeetam (knowledge
center) after police began investigating his role in a sex scandal.
On April 21 Nityananda, who claims to have devotees in 33 countries,
and an aide Nithya Bhaktananda, were nabbed in the northern state of
Himachal Pradesh on charges including obscenity and hurting
religious sentiments.
(Reuters, 3/30/10)(AFP, 4/21/10)
2010 Apr 2, In Yemen Elham Assi
(13) bled to death hours after she spoke to her mother and just days
after she was married to a 23-year-old man, in the deeply poor
village of Shueba. She was tied down and forced to have sex by her
husband, according to later interviews with the child's mother,
police and medical reports. A February 2009 law set the minimum age
for marriage at 17, but it was repealed and sent back to
parliament's constitutional committee for review after some
lawmakers called it un-Islamic. The committee is expected to make a
final decision on the legislation this month.
(AP, 4/10/10)
2010 Apr 3, In Portland, Maine,
about two dozen women drew a crowd of onlookers when they shed their
shirts and marched downtown to promote what they call
equal-opportunity public toplessness.
(AP, 4/5/10)
2010 Apr 8, Uruguay's La
Republica newspaper reported that a Catholic priest who fled home to
Uruguay and was defrocked after a nun accused him of raping three
children in Bolivia has been living with his family for more than a
year, with the full knowledge of Uruguayan church officials, despite
an Interpol warrant for his arrest. Juan Jose Santana has been a
fugitive from justice since being charged in May 2008 with raping
three children ages 12 to 17.
(AP, 4/10/10)
2010 Apr 12, The Vatican
responded to allegations it long concealed clerical sex abuse by
making it clear for the first time that bishops and clerics
worldwide should report such crimes to police if they are required
to by law.
(AP, 4/13/10)
2010 Apr 15, A new study by
Oxfam said the number of rapes carried out by civilians in eastern
Congo has increased by 17-fold in the last few years. It said sexual
assaults long perpetrated by armed groups are spreading across the
population.
(AP, 4/15/10)
2010 Apr 16, In South Africa 7
suspects waived their right to bail in a case in which they are
accused of recruiting women and at least one 16-year-old from across
South Africa and bringing them to Ermelo, where they were treated
like slaves and forced into prostitution.
(AP, 4/16/10)
2010 Apr 18, Pope Benedict XVI
met in Malta with a group of clerical sex-abuse victims and promised
them with tears in his eyes that the Catholic Church would seek
justice for pedophile priests and implement "effective measures" to
protect young people from abuse. 10 Maltese men came forward earlier
this month saying they wanted to meet with the pope to tell him
their stories and to request an apology. They said they were abused
by 4 priests at a Catholic orphanage.
(AP, 4/18/10)
2010 Apr 20, Bolivia’s Pres.
Evo Morales said that men should stay away from eating chicken if
they want to maintain their hair and virility. He said chicken
producers inject the birds with female hormones. Producers in the
US, EU and other countries abandoned the use of hormones in poultry
several decades ago.
(SFC, 4/21/10, p.A2)
2010 Apr 23, Belgium's longest
serving bishop, Roger Vangheluwe (73) the Bishop of Bruges,
resigned, saying he was "enormously sorry" for having sexually
abused a young boy about 25 years ago. It later was established that
the victim was his nephew. In 2011 the Vatican clarified the
punishment against Vangheluwe after Belgian bishops reported that he
had merely been sent outside Belgium for spiritual and psychological
counseling.
(AP, 4/23/10)(AP, 4/12/11)
2010 Apr 26, Chile's Roman
Catholic Church was shaken by a series of dramatic televised
interviews of men alleging they were abused by a respected former
priest. Early the next morning a bombing that damaged a church's
facade.
(AP, 4/27/10)
2010 May 6, In Ramapo, NY, Pro
Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor (51) was charged with raping
a 16-year-old runaway who police said was forced into prostitution
by a man who had beaten her up. Third-degree rape is a charge levied
when the victim is under the age of consent, which is 17 in New
York.
(AP, 5/7/10)
2010 May 7, In California
former Burbank middle school teacher Amy Victoria Beck (33) was
sentenced to 2 years in prison for unlawful sexual intercourse and
committing a lewd act on a child. Back had pleaded no contest to
having sex with a former student (14).
(SFC, 5/8/10, p.A5)
2010 May 20, Chinese officials
said Ma Yaohai (53), a college professor accused of organizing a
swingers club and holding private orgies, has been sentenced to 3
1/2 years in prison, in a case that touched off national debate
about sexual freedom. Ma, along with 21 other people, was arrested
and charged last year under a 1997 law.
(AP, 5/20/10)
2010 May 20, In Brazil a court
ordered the arrest of a Polish priest suspected of sexually abusing
a teenager in a Rio de Janeiro suburb and turning his parish home
into what the judge described as an "erotic dungeon" for sex with
adolescents. State prosecutors have accused Marcin Michael
Strachanowski (44) of handcuffing a former altar boy (16) to a bed 3
years ago in the parish house where the priest lived and threatening
to kill the youth if he spoke of the abuse.
(AP, 5/21/10)
2010 Jun 1, Philippine
officials said elementary and high schools will start teaching basic
sex education as a pilot program in the conservative Roman Catholic
nation, brushing aside concerns by church leaders that it may
encourage promiscuity among the youth.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 8, In northeastern
Brazil Jose Agostinho Pereira (54) was jailed for keeping his
daughter imprisoned for 12 years in a remote fishing village. Police
said he had raped her repeatedly and had seven children with her.
The man was also accused of abusing a young girl he had with his
daughter. In Feb, 2011, Pereira was decapitated by fellow inmates
who broke into his cell in the city of Pinheiro.
(AP, 6/9/10)(AP, 2/9/11)
2010 Jun 10, In Saudi Arabia a
government-owned daily reported that a Saudi court has convicted a
man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for
kissing a woman in a mall.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 18, In Italy Pierino
Gelmini (85), a politically connected former priest, was indicted on
charges he sexually molested 12 young men who were being treated at
the drug rehabilitation center he founded in Italy.
(AP, 6/18/10)
2010 Jun 24, Libya justified
its closure of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office in a
statement that included claims its representative had offered
refugee status in exchange for sex.
(AP, 6/25/10)
2010 Jun 29, In Thailand Karl
Joseph Kraus (90), a Berlin-born Australian, was arrested at his
home near the northern city of Chiang Mai, where police confiscated
about 100 photographs of naked children. He was charged with raping
four young sisters whom he allegedly lured to his home with imported
chocolates and English lessons.
(AP, 6/30/10)
2010 Jul 13, A US federal
appeals court struck down the government’s long-standing prohibition
against indecency on broadcast television and radio ruling that the
policy was unconstitutionally vague.
(SFC, 7/14/10, p.A5)
2010 Jul 20, The Australian Sex
Party promised to spice up campaigning for next month's elections
with a manifesto "unlike Australia had ever seen before." The
party's policies include legalizing euthanasia, decriminalizing all
drugs for personal use, and watering down strict anti-pornography
laws.
(AFP, 7/20/10)
2010 Jul 28, In Canada the
Vancouver, BC, Superior Court sentenced Kenneth Klassen to 11 years
in prison for committing sex tourism with children in Cambodia and
Colombia and for importing pornography.
(SFC, 7/29/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 30, Patrick Joseph
McCabe (74), a former Catholic priest, surrendered to US authorities
in Alameda, Ca.. They sought to extradite him to Ireland to face
sexual assault charges dating back from 1973-1981. On June 5, 2011,
McCabe was handed over to Ireland’s national police service.
(SFC, 8/11/10, p.A1)(SFC, 6/8/11, p.C4)
2010 Jul 30, In eastern
CongoDRC rebels from the Mai Mai militia and Rwandan Hutu FDLR
occupied Luvungi town, North Kivu, one day after beginning an attack
there. Over the next 4 days they gang-raped scores of women. The
rebels withdrew voluntarily on Aug 4. Later reports said there were
over 500 systematic rapes.
(AP, 8/23/10)(Reuters, 9/1/10)(AP, 9/7/10)
2010 Aug 2, In Australia
publicist Kristy Fraser-Kirk (25) sued Australia's poshest
department store and its former head, Mark McInnes, for 33 million
US dollars over alleged sexual misconduct that led to the disgraced
chief executive's resignation. McInnes abruptly quit in June after
claims of inappropriate behavior were made.
(AP, 8/2/10)
2010 Aug 2, Chinese
plainclothes officers detained Ye Haiyan, an activist for sex
workers' rights, a few days after she publicly called for
prostitution to be legalized.
(AP, 8/2/10)
2010 Aug 24, Attorneys general
in 17 US states demanded in a joint letter that SF-based Craigslist
remove its adult services section because the website cannot
adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and
child trafficking.
(SFC, 8/25/10, p.D1)
2010 Aug 26, In Germany Nadja
Benaissa (28), a member of girl group No Angels, broke down in tears
after a German court handed her a two-year suspended sentence for
infecting a former sex partner with the AIDS HIV virus.
(AFP, 8/26/10)
2010 Aug 27, Australian police
warned social networking sites to be alert to illegal child sex
activity, after cracking an alleged pedophile porn ring operating on
Facebook. Australian police said six arrests had been made in
Britain, including the alleged head of the network, three in
Australia and two in Canada.
(AFP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, Some Nigerian
women and girls are being forced into prostitution in neighboring
Ivory Coast after being deceived with promises of a better life
outside of their country, according to a new report by Human Rights
Watch.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 31, Spanish police
said that for the first time they have broken up a human-trafficking
gang that brought men to the country to work as prostitutes,
providing them with Viagra, cocaine and other stimulant drugs to be
available for sex with other men 24 hours a day. Authorities
arrested 14 people, mainly Brazilians, on suspicion of running the
organization and another 17 alleged prostitutes for being in Spain
illegally.
(AP, 8/31/10)
2010 Aug, In CongoDRC rebel
militants raped some 240 people over 4 days in the Walikale district
of eastern Congo. At least 387 people were raped in the Walikale
territory in late July and early, including men, children and a
month-old baby boy. In 2011 survivors suffered reprisals and a
judicial inquiry into the violence was suspended.
(Econ, 1/15/11, p.64)(AP, 7/6/11)
2010 Sep 3, SF-based Craigslist
yielded to pressure and removed its controversial adult services
section. On Sep 15 Craigslist said the shutdown was permanent.
(SSFC, 9/5/10, p.A1)(AFP, 9/16/10)
2010 Sep 3, A Portuguese court
found six men and one woman guilty of crimes relating to child sex
abuse in a major trial that lasted nearly six years. All seven
defendants were found guilty of crimes including sexually abusing
minors and adolescents, raping children and running a pedophile ring
at the Casa Pia, a state-run children's home in Lisbon during the
1990s.
(AP, 9/3/10)
2010 Sep 9, The Belgium
government said that an investigation into sexual abuse in the
Catholic Church can continue even though a June 24 raid on the
archdiocese has been ruled illegal. The next day the commission
looking into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy said it had received
testimony from hundreds of victims and that witnesses’ widespread
abuse over decades had led to at least 13 suicides.
(AP, 9/9/10)(AP, 9/10/10)
2010 Sep 12, An Egyptian
security official said 16 Russians and Moldovans, who killed an
Egyptian smuggler, have handed themselves over to police. Some of
the would-be migrants to Israel attacked and fatally stabbed
smuggler Massud Salim (31) after he attempted to rape one of the
female members of the group.
(AFP, 9/12/10)
2010 Sep 13, The Belgian Roman
Catholic church acknowledged widespread sexual abuse over years by
its clergy and pleaded for time to set up a system to punish all
abusers and provide closure for victims.
(AP, 9/13/10)
2010 Sep 13, A Canadian police
study said human trafficking groups have exploited Canada's visa
rules to bring victims from Europe and Asia to work in the illegal
sex trade.
(Reuters, 9/13/10)
2010 Sep 16, Pope Benedict XVI,
beginning a controversial visit to Britain, acknowledged that the
Catholic Church had failed to act decisively or quickly enough to
deal with priests who rape and molest children. He said the church's
top priority now was to help the victims heal.
(AP, 9/16/10)
2010 Sep 16, Germany's Jesuits
announced a plan to pay the victims of sexual abuse in the order's
schools a "symbolic compensation" of at least euro5,000 ($6,500)
each, saying the gesture is meant to be "financially painful" to the
Roman Catholic organization.
(AP, 9/16/10)
2010 Sep 16, Iran hanged Amir
Bilchi Kangarlu, a man convicted of raping several young girls, in
the town of Varamin, south of the capital Tehran.
(AFP, 9/17/10)
2010 Sep 18, In Britain Pope
Benedict XVI said he was ashamed of the "unspeakable" sexual abuse
of children by priests, issuing an apology to the British faithful
even as thousands of people opposed to his visit marched in central
London in the biggest protest of his five-year papacy.
(AP, 9/18/10)
2010 Sep 21, In Georgia lawyers
for 2 men filed suit in DeKalb County against Bishop Eddie Long of
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church of Lithonia alleging coercion
into a sexual relationship. A 2nd suit was filed the next day by a
3rd man. A 4th suit was filed on Sep 24.
(SFC, 9/23/10, p.A13)(SFC, 9/24/10, p.A4)
2010 Sep 26, San Francisco held
its 27th annual Folsom Street Fair, a celebration of fetishes and
aggressive sexuality.
(SFC, 9/27/10, p.C1)
2010 Sep 27, Police in Brazil’s
state of Rio Grande do Sul arrested Rev. Avelino Backes (70) after
finding him in a hospital in the town of Santa Rosa. Backes
disappeared in 2008 after being sentenced to seven years in jail for
molesting girls aged 9 and 10 in the neighboring state of Santa
Catarina in the 1990s.
(AP, 9/29/10)
2010 Sep 28, In Canada an
Ontario court tossed out key provisions of Canada's
anti-prostitution laws, saying they did more harm than good,
following a constitutional challenge by three sex-trade workers. The
ruling allowed sex workers to solicit customers openly.
(Reuters, 9/28/10)(SSFC, 10/3/10, p.A4)
2010 Sep 29, Nigerian
authorities said as many as 40,000 girls and women have been
trafficked to nearby West African countries to serve as sex workers.
(AP, 9/29/10)
2010 Sep 30, Puerto Rico police
charged a couple with repeatedly raping their six children and
forcing them to participate in drug-fueled orgies. Police said the
alleged abuse occurred daily from 2001 to 2004. The three girls were
3, 5 and 7 years old at the time. The boys were 9, 10 and 11.
(AP, 10/1/10)
2010 Oct 14, Margot Wallstrom,
the UN special representative for sexual violence in armed conflict,
told the 15-nation Security Council that a man known as "Colonel
Serafim" was among those believed to be responsible for the rape of
over 300 people. She also said Congolese government troops are
raping, killing and looting civilians in the same area of eastern
Congo where militias carried out mass rapes over two months ago.
(AP, 10/14/10)(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 14, Taiwan's
government reported plans to allow sex workers to set up small
businesses in the latest change to laws that had once forced the
huge industry underground. Prostitution was legal only in
Taiwan's capital, Taipei, until 1997 when the city authorities
made it a criminal offence to be a prostitute though not to
patronize one. In 2009 it stopped punishing sex workers. Estimates
from activists put the number of people involved in sex-related jobs
in Taiwan at 600,000.
(Reuters, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 15, Roger Meece, heads
of the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, said more than 15,000
people were raped in the volatile eastern region of Congo last year,
according to the best data available.
(AP, 10/15/10)
2010 Oct 18, Australia’s
Justice Minister Brendan O'Connor said illegal pornographic material
must be declared on arrival, watering down recent rules that asked
for all pornography to be revealed. The government said it changed
the wording on passenger arrival cards after becoming aware of
confusion among travelers about what pornography to declare.
(AFP, 10/19/10)
2010 Oct 22, A British judge
sentenced James Robinson (73), a former Roman Catholic priest, to 21
years in jail after he was convicted of 21 charges of sexual
offenses against boys. Ordained in 1971, he was accused of abusing
boys from 1959 to 1983.
(AP, 10/22/10)
2010 Oct 22, Human Rights Watch
said banditry, violence, and rape are widespread in Ivory Coast's
western provinces even as the country gears for historic national
elections.
(AP, 10/22/10)
2010 Oct 26, The UN Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said at least 30
women were kept as prisoners in a dungeon-like structure and
gang-raped over multiple weeks at the Congo and Angola border before
being left in the bush without their clothes. The deportees said
they were held by Angolan authorities in a dingy building. At least
three were killed, including two men and a woman (27) who died after
being raped repeatedly.
(AP, 10/27/10)
2010 Oct 26, In Brazil a man
accused of raping 40 women turned himself in, only to be let go
because Brazilian law prohibits voters from being arrested five days
before elections unless they are caught red-handed. The no-arrest
provision was included in the Brazilian electoral code enacted in
1932 after a period in which election fraud and arrests to
intimidate voters were common.
(AP, 10/27/10)
2010 Oct 27, In Michigan police
Raymond R. Bush (38) and Taylor E. Manley, a 15-year-old girl he
knew, dead in a van in a cemetery, hours after the man was to appear
in court on charges alleging he sexually assaulted the girl.
(AP, 10/28/10)
2010 Nov 6, United Nations
officials said they were investigating reports that some 700
Congolese women were sexually attacked along the country's border
with Angola. Many women had said Angolan soldiers were responsible
for their attacks.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 8, An indictment was
unsealed that charged 29 people in a sex trafficking ring in which
Somali gangs in Minneapolis and St. Paul allegedly forced girls
under age 14 into prostitution. 17 people were arrested in
Minnesota, 9 in Tennessee and 3 remained at large.
(SFC, 11/9/10, p.A6)
2010 Nov 8, In Michigan high
school freshman Samantha Kelly hanged herself after enduring
taunting from classmates for accusing a senior of rape. Prosecutors
were forced to drop criminal charges against Joseph Tarnopolski
(18), saying they had no case without the accuser’s testimony.
(SFC, 11/11/10, p.A8)
2010 Nov 10, In Howard, Ohio,
Tina Herrmann (32) and her 2 children went missing along with friend
Stephanie Sprang (41). Sarah Maynard (13) was found alive on Nov 14
in the Mount Vernon basement of the home of Mathew Hoffman (30), an
unemployed tree trimmer. The bodies of Tina, Sprang and Kody Maynard
were found on Nov 18 in a hollow tree central Ohio. On Jan 6, 2011,
Hoffman admitted killing the 3 people and raping a 13-year-old girl.
He was sentenced to life in prison.
(SSFC, 11/14/10, p.A14)(SFC, 11/19/10,
p.A11)(SFC, 1/7/11, p.A6)
2010 Nov 15, In Italy the
political crisis engulfing Premier Silvio Berlusconi deepened with
four members of the Cabinet quitting their jobs, a move that does
not topple the government but further weakens the leader. Berlusconi
stands accused of having an "uncontrollable sickness" when it comes
to women, and of hosting "bunga-bunga" parties that culminate in
sex.
(AP, 11/15/10)(http://tinyurl.com/2anggqg)(Econ,
11/6/10, p.63)
2010 Nov 20, Pope Benedict XVI
formally created 24 new cardinals amid cheers in St. Peter's
Basilica, bringing a mostly Italian group into the elite club that
will eventually elect his successor. Benedict XVI reiterated that
condoms are not a moral solution for stopping AIDS. But he added
that in some cases, such as for male prostitutes, their use could
represent a first step in assuming moral responsibility "in the
intention of reducing the risk of infection.
(AP, 11/20/10)(AP, 11/21/10)
2010 Nov 23, In Atlanta,
Georgia, Amador Cortes-Meza (36) of Mexico was convicted on federal
charges of orchestrating a sex trafficking scheme in which
prosecutors say he lured impoverished young Mexican women to the
Atlanta area with false promises of better lives, high-paying jobs
and even hints of romance. He was accused of bringing at least 10
women to the area between spring 2006 and June 2008.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In southern
California Carlie Rose Attebury (31), a former El Modena High School
high school band teacher, was convicted of 4 counts stemming from
her sexual relationship with a boy (15).
(SFC, 11/26/10, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/2g9r229)
2010 Nov 26, In Argentina the
newspaper Clarin published the comments of a woman who has accused
her father of sexually abusing her for 30 years and having 10
children with her, including one who killed himself after learning
that his grandfather was his father. Elvira Gomez (43) did not
report the alleged abuse until her father, Armando Gomez (62), was
recently arrested for robbery.
(AP, 11/27/10)
2010 Nov 26, In Chile the
lawyer for a group of men who accused Fernando Karadima, a prominent
Chilean priest, of sexually abusing them as teenagers said his
clients will not appeal a ruling in favor of the clergyman. Five
men, now adults, had alleged that Karadima began abusing them about
20 years ago, when they were between 14 and 17 years old. In 2011
the Vatican said Karadima was guilty of abusing minors and must
retire.
(AP, 11/26/10)(SFC, 2/19/11, p.A2)
2010 Nov 26, In South Africa a
study led by the government-funded Medical Research Foundation says
that in Gauteng province, home to Johannesburg, more than 37% of men
said they had raped a woman. A quarter of the women interviewed said
they'd been raped, but the study said only one in 25 rapes are
reported to police.
(AP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 28, In Cleveland,
Texas, a girl (11) was gang raped in an abandoned trailer home.
Authorities were notified of the alleged rape after a student from
Cleveland ISD found a video of the assault. Four assaults on the
young girl had begun in September. By March 24, 2011, 19 young men
and teenage boys were charged with participating in the rape. On Aug
30, 2012, Eric McGowen, who fled free on bail, was convicted and
sentenced to 99 years in prison.
(SFC, 3/9/11,
p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/4cbmd2c)(SFC, 3/25/11, p.A5)(SFC, 8/31/12,
p.A5)
2010 Dec 4, Mill Valley, Ca.,
resident John Nuzzo (65) died of an apparent heart attack. He was
better know to legions of fans as John Leslie, an adult film actor
who appeared in over 300 movies before becoming a prolific director.
(SFC, 12/9/10, p.C5)
2010 Dec 7, In the Netherlands
a teacher (27) was arrested on suspicion of molesting dozens of very
young children. The man's computers containing child pornography
were seized and he later confessed to dozens of sex crimes allegedly
committed over the past year and a half.
(AP, 12/13/10)
2010 Dec 16, The UN Security
Council adopted Resolution 1960, which called for an end to all acts
of sexual violence. The Secretary-General was asked to include
information on parties suspected to be responsible for acts of rape
or other acts of sexual violence, which the Council would use to
engage with the parties or take action against them.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1960)
2010 Dec 29, A Belgian priest
published a confession to a child sex-abuse accusation that came to
light during a campaign to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize
for his work fighting globalization's impact on developing
countries. In October, after supporters of Francois Houtart (85)
began working to nominate him for the Nobel, a woman contacted the
nonprofit organization he founded and said the priest had abused her
brother 40 years ago.
(AP, 12/29/10)
2010 Dec 30, In Israel former
President Moshe Katsav (65) was convicted of raping an employee when
he was a Cabinet minister in 1998. "Relax, you'll enjoy it." He held
the largely ceremonial office of president from 2000-2007.
(AP, 12/30/10)
2010 Dec, Oliver O'Grady (66)
was arrested in Dublin, Ireland, after leaving a computer containing
pornographic images of children on a flight from Amsterdam. O'Grady
had worked as a priest in northern California from 1971 until 1993,
when he was arrested for abusing two brothers. He served seven years
in prison and was deported to his native Ireland in 2000. In 2012 he
was sentenced to 3 years in prison in Ireland for possessing child
pornography.
(AP, 1/31/12)
2010 Dec, In China Dai
Qingcheng (46) was given the death penalty for raping 116 women
between 1993 and 2009 in Anhui province in eastern China.
(AP, 4/19/11)
2010 Louann Brizendine authored
“The Male Brain." “Women don’t always realize the penis has a mind
of its own – for neurological reasons." The male brain has an area
for sexual pursuit 2.5 times larger than female brains.
(SSFC, 3/28/10, p.A1)
2010 Philip Carr-Gomm authored
“A Brief History of Nakedness."
(Econ, 7/3/10, p.79)
2010 Laura Citron authored “A
Compendium of Kisses," an examination of philematology, or the study
of kissing.
(Econ, 2/13/10, p.86)
2011 Jan 1, In CongoDRC at
least 67 women were raped in South and North Kivu provinces,
including a teen-ager and two pregnant women. On Jan 21 Congo
arrested Lt. Colonel Kibibi Mutwara, a senior army commander accused
of ordering the rapes in Fizi. The arrest followed the detention of
10 other soldiers earlier in the week. On July 22, 2011, a UN report
said investigators found at least 47 women were subjected to rape
and other sexual assaults from Dec. 31, 2010, to Jan. 1, 2011 in an
isolated and mountainous area of North Kivu province.
(Reuters, 1/25/11)(AP, 7/22/11)
2011 Jan 4, Owen Honors,
Captain of the US aircraft carrier Enterprise, was permanently
relieved of his command for making a series of ribald and offensive
videos that aired on the ship’s closed-circuit TV system when he was
second in command in 2006-207.
(SFC, 1/5/11, p.A4)
2011 Jan 5, China’s state media
said Beijing and Shanghai will be among the first places to put
marriage databases online this year. The plan is to have records for
all of China online by 2015. Officials were putting marriage records
online so lovers and spouses could check for cheaters. The Ministry
of Civil Affairs a few years ago said such a project would be
operational by last year. The plan now is to have records for all of
China online by 2015.
(AP, 1/5/11)
2011 Jan 5, In Brazil five
sisters in Sao Paulo state went to police and accused their father
of sexually abusing them for over 20 years.
(AP, 1/8/11)
2011 Jan 6, In the Netherlands
the daily Het Parool reported that prostitutes in Amsterdam will be
required to pay taxes this year. Over 3,000 sex workers were
affected by the move.
(SFC, 1/7/11, p.A2)
2011 Jan 8, In Los Angeles a
2nd suspect was arrested regarding videotaped sexual assaults of
profoundly disabled women at a residential care facility. As many as
10 suspects were possibly involved.
(SFC, 1/10/11, p.A4)
2011 Jan 10, Texas authorities
heralded the capture of Billie Joe Harris (53), a suspected serial
rapist believed to have attacked a dozen elderly women in the past
two years.
(SFC, 1/11/11, p.A6)
2011 Jan 10, Canada-based
Research In Motion said it will filter pornographic internet content
for its Blackberry smartphone users in Indonesia, following
government pressure to stop access to porn sites or face its
browsing service being shut down.
(Reuters, 1/10/11)
2011 Jan 13, A Somaliland judge
sentenced a German man to four years in jail for making pornographic
films and pictures in Somalia. Gunter Pischof Albert (72) was
ordered jailed and fined him $10,000. A woman (23) was also
sentenced to one year in jail and fined $880.
(AP, 1/13/11)
2011 Jan 14, Italy’s PM
Berlusconi learned that he had been placed under investigation for
paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his position
by trying to cover it up.
(Econ, 1/22/11, p.63)
2011 Jan 17, Canada-based
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry, promised
Indonesia it will meet the country's request to filter out
pornographic content on its smartphones in the next four days.
(AP, 1/17/11)
2011 Jan 19, The UN reported
that Lt. Col. Kibibi Mutware, a former rebel commander integrated as
a colonel into the Congolese army, has been arrested in the rapes of
dozens of women in volatile eastern Congo on New Year's Day. 7 other
soldiers were also arrested.
(AP, 1/19/11)
2011 Jan 21, Northern
California school officials said a second-grade teacher in Oakland
was placed on leave while a school and police investigate accounts
by students that classmates engaged in oral sex and stripped off
some of their clothes during class.
(AP, 1/22/11)
2011 Jan 24, Chief Master Sgt.
William Gurney, a senior Ohio Air Force base official, pleaded
guilty to sexual misconduct and adultery, blaming extramarital
affairs he had with married female subordinates and inappropriate
sexual advances he made toward others on getting "caught up in a
cycle of sin."
(AP, 1/25/11)
2011 Jan 24, A Chinese
newspaper said that transnational crime gangs are trafficking a
growing number of Chinese women to Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa
where they are forced into prostitution.
(AP, 1/24/11)
2011 Jan 27, In Italy PM Silvio
Berlusconi faced more pressure to resign after magistrates issued
new documents with fresh details of erotic parties, some with
under-age girls, and of his gifts to participants.
(Reuters, 1/27/11)
2011 Jan 30, Iranian courts
sentenced two people to death for running porn sites.
(AFP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 31, In Indonesia
popstar Nazril “Ariel" Irham was sentenced to 3½ years in
prison after sex tapes with his celebrity girlfriends found their
way to the Internet.
(SFC, 2/1/11, p.A2)
2011 Feb 1, Swiss police said a
54-year-old man has admitted sexually abusing 100 mentally disabled
children and adults in Switzerland and Germany during almost 3
decades.
(SFC, 2/2/11, p.A2)
2011 Feb 3, Bangladesh police
said they have arrested four Islamic clerics after Mosammet Hena
(14) was whipped to death for allegedly having an illicit
relationship with a married man, who escaped his 100 lashes. The
girl collapsed after she was lashed in public with a bamboo cane
about 70 times on Jan 31.
(AP, 2/3/11)
2011 Jan 14, Italy’s PM
Berlusconi learned that he had been placed under investigation for
paying for sex with an underage prostitute, Karima el-Mahroug (known
as Ruby), and abusing his position by trying to cover it up.
(Econ, 1/22/11, p.63)
2011 Feb 9, Italian prosecutors
filed a request for an immediate trial of PM Berlusconi on criminal
charges relating to prostitution and abuse of power.
(SFC, 2/10/11, p.A2)
2011 Feb 10, In Utah
first-degree felony count of sodomy on a child and two second-degree
felony counts of sexual abuse of a child were filed against Keith
Brown (55), father of the 5 Browns classical piano group. The Brown
children severed their professional relationship with their father
in October of 2008.
(AP, 2/17/11)
2011 Feb 14, In Malaysia
Islamic morality police detained 40 unmarried Muslim couples in
hotel rooms during Operation Valentine, aimed at curbing illegal
premarital sex. The main Islamic body issued an edict in 2005
banning Muslims from celebrating what it said was a day synonymous
with vice.
(AP, 2/15/11)
2011 Feb 14, In Thailand a
couple in Pattaya locked lips for 46 hours, 24 minutes and 9 seconds
to celebrate Valentine’s Day. A previous world record of 32 hours
was set by a Germany couple in 2009.
{Thailand, World Record}
(SFC, 2/15/11, p.A2)
2011 Feb 15, In Germany the
trial of Detlef S. (48) opened in Koblenz. The man has admitted to
fathering seven children with his step-daughter but denied charges
that he sexually abused her for more than two decades. He also stood
accused of abusing his own daughter and step-son, and forcing both
daughters into prostitution.
(Reuters, 2/15/11)
2011 Feb 15, Italy's Silvio
Berlusconi faced a potentially fatal challenge to his power when a
judge ordered him to stand trial on prostitution and abuse of power
charges.
(AP, 2/15/11)
2011 Feb 16, In California
Norman Wielsch (49), commander of the Central contra Costa Narcotics
Enforcement Team, was arrested along with Christopher Butler (49),
owner of a Concord private investigation firm, for allegedly
stealing and selling drugs. Stephen Tanabe (47), a Contra Costa
deputy sheriff, was arrested on March 4 on drug and weapons charges
related to the case against Wielsch and Butler. Tanabe resigned on
March 10 after being accused of making “dirty DUI" arrests. Butler
later said he helped Wielsch set up a house of prostitution at 670
Gregory Lane in Pleasant Hill in 2009. Butler also said Wielsch
robbed prostitutes whose operations competed with his own.
(SFC, 2/18/11, p.C2)(SFC, 3/11/11, p.C3)(SFC,
5/13/11, p.A1)(SFC, 5/14/11, p.A1)
2011 Feb 20, It was reported
that researchers have found a 225-percent increase in oral cancer
cases in the United States from 1974 to 2007, mainly among white
men. US scientists have said there is strong evidence linking oral
sex to cancer, and urged more study of how human papillomaviruses
may be to blame for a rise in oral cancer among white men.
(AFP, 2/20/11)
2011 Feb 21, In CongoDRC a
mobile military court convicted army Lt. Col. Mutuare Daniel Kibibi
(46) of crimes against humanity, a landmark verdict in this Central
African country where aid groups say thousands are brutally raped
each year and where impunity prevails for the soldiers and militia
groups who terrorize civilians. 3 of Kibibi's officers received the
same sentences, and 5 others got lesser sentences. 49 women who
testified about the New Year attacks in Fizi were to receive up to
$10,000 each in compensation from the government as part of the
verdict.
(AP, 2/21/11)
2011 Feb 22, In northeastern
Brazil police in the city of Pirapemas arrested a man accused of
sexually abusing his daughter for 12 years and fathering her two
children. The man confessed to abusing his daughter starting when
she was 14 years old and fathering two daughters, aged 5 years and 2
months.
(AP, 2/23/11)
2011 Feb 24, A British judge
ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (39), who rocked the US
government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, must
be extradited to Sweden to face sex crimes allegations.
(Reuters, 2/24/11)
2011 Feb 25, UN officials said
at least 40 people have been raped in eastern areas of the
Democratic Republic of Congo over the past 2 weeks.
(SFC, 2/26/11, p.A2)
2011 Feb, A Italian convicted
Pietro Lamberti for having sex with an 11-year-old girl and
sentenced him to five years in prison for sexual acts with a minor.
The verdict was later upheld by an appeals court. In 2013 Italy's
highest court overturned the conviction of Lamberti (60) because the
verdict failed to take into account their "amorous relationship."
(AFP, 12/30/13)
2011 Mar 3, In Germany a former
folk music star (65) was sentenced to 9 years in prison for abusing
hundreds of underage girls in Thailand by having unprotected sex
with them while being HIV-positive. The member of Godewind was
accused of 403 cases of unprotected sex the occurred in Pataya
between 2005-2009.
(SFC, 3/4/11, p.A2)
2011 Mar 3, Indonesian
journalist Banjir Ambarita, who covered a police sex scandal, was
treated in the hospital after being stabbed in the stomach and
chest. Ambarita had written about three police officers who
confessed to sexually abusing a female detainee.
(AP, 3/3/11)
2011 Mar 4, In Connecticut
Aaron Thomas (39), a man suspected of rapes and other attacks on 17
women since 1997, was arrested in New Haven. On march 7 bail for
Thomas, the suspected East Coast Rapist, was set at $1.5 million.
(SFC, 3/5/11, p.A5)(SFC, 3/8/11, p.A4)
2011 Mar 8, Authorities in
Myanmar announced a ban on massage parlors and restrictions on
restaurants and karaoke lounges in the country's remote capital,
Naypyitaw, in a bid to curb disguised prostitution.
(AP, 3/21/11)
2011 Mar 9, In Egypt attackers,
said to be pro-Mubarak thugs, armed with knives and machetes waded
into hundreds of pro-democracy activists in Cairo's Tahrir Square,
as insecurity raged. Military authorities detained women in Tahrir
Square and forced 18 of them to undergo “virginity tests."
(AFP, 3/9/11)(SFC, 6/1/11, p.A6)(SFC, 6/28/11,
p.A2)
2011 Mar 9, Guyana police Sgt.
Dexter Clemenston was accused of raping and sodomizing a 19-year-old
recruit after beating him unconscious at the national force's
headquarters.
(AP, 3/10/11)
2011 Mar 16, Europol said
police in several countries have arrested 184 alleged members of an
online pedophile ring and rescued 230 children in one of the biggest
operations of its kind. Dubbed Operation Rescue, Europol said the
probe started three years ago.
(AFP, 3/16/11)
2011 Mar 18, The Internet
Corporation for Assigned names and Numbers approved the .xxx domain
for adult-content websites.
(SFC, 3/19/11, p.D2)
2011 Mar 18, In India 2 British
men were sentenced to six years in jail in India for sodomizing
young boys living at the Anchorage Shelter Home in Mumbai. Charges
against Duncan Grant and John Allan Waters were originally filed in
2001.
(AFP, 3/18/11)
2011 Mar 20, In Egypt 3 men
kidnapped and raped a woman (24) after stopping a vehicle at gun
point. She was driving with a male relative. In April a military
court in Ismailiya ordered the execution of the three men who were
convicted of the kidnapping and rape. In Qena province Muslim
vigilantes arrested Anwar Mitri (45), a school administrator and
Coptic Christian, for renting a flat to a woman they claimed was a
prostitute and for allegedly having sex with her. Mitri was tried
and had his ear lopped off.
(AFP, 4/11/11)(Econ, 4/2/11, p.21)
2011 Mar 21, Bosnian police
said they have seized some 2 million child pornography pictures and
7,000 video clips in the arrest of an alleged member of an
international online child pornography ring. An unidentified
46-year-old suspect was arrested over the weekend following a raid
on his home in the northern town of Derventa.
(AP, 3/21/11)
2011 Mar 22, US President
Barack Obama wrapped up a visit to Chile and departed for El
Salvador, the third and final stop of his Latin America tour. In El
Salvador Obama promised increasing trade and economic growth,
fighting drug trafficking and creating work opportunities. In 2012
it was reported that Secret Service employees took prostitutes to
their hotel rooms ahead of Obama’s visit to El Salvador.
(AFP, 3/22/11)(SFC, 3/23/11, p.A3)(SFC, 4/27/12,
p.A6)
2011 Mar 22, A German court
jailed Detlef Spies, a former lorry driver, for 14 and a half years
for sexually abusing his daughter, stepson and stepdaughter, with
whom he fathered eight children. Spies was arrested on August 10,
2010.
(AFP, 3/22/11)
2011 Mar 23, Amnesty
International condemned the "shocking" treatment of 18 women
protesters in Egypt after serious allegations that the army
subjected them to torture and forced "virginity tests."
(AFP, 3/23/11)
2011 Mar 23, Germany approved
legislation whereby citizens, who were sexually abused as children,
will now have up to 30 years after their 21st birthday to bring
their alleged attackers before the courts.
(AP, 3/23/11)
2011 Mar 24, In London Delroy
Grant (53) a former British taxi driver dubbed the "Night Stalker",
was found guilty of preying on 18 men and women over a 17-year
period. Grant had preyed on the elderly for nearly two decades and
may have assaulted scores of victims. On March 25 Grant was
sentenced to at least 27 years in prison.
(AP, 3/24/11)(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 26, In Libya Iman
Al-Obeidi said she spent two days in detention after being arrested
at a checkpoint, and sexually assaulted by up to 15 men while in
custody. She shouted to tell her story at the Rixos hotel in
Tripoli, after storming into the hotel's breakfast room to show her
wounds to foreign media. Minders overpowered the woman and took her
away. Days later Iman Al-Obeidi was sued for slander for naming her
alleged attackers.
(AP, 3/26/11)(Reuters, 3/29/11)
2011 Mar 30, A prominent
Mexican businessman accused of luring poor girls to his home was
sentenced to 13 years on child pornography charges in a case that
tarnished the reputations of a state governor and another
businessman. Jean Succar Kuri, a legal US resident, was extradited
to Mexico in 2006. Targeted by an investigation in Mexico in 2003,
Succar fled to the United States but was arrested during a traffic
stop in Arizona in February 2004 and extradited two years later. On
Aug 31 a judge extended Kuri’s prison term to 60 years.
(AP, 3/31/11)(AP, 9/1/11)
2011 Apr 6, The Australian
military was hit by another scandal after a young army recruit
allegedly filmed himself having sex with a female cadet and
broadcast it via Skype to his friends.
(AFP, 4/6/11)
2011 Apr 11, Indonesian
lawmaker Arifinto (50), a member of the staunchly Islamic Prosperous
Justice Party who helped pass a tough anti-pornography law, resigned
after he got caught watching sexually explicit videos on his
computer during a parliamentary debate.
(AP, 4/11/11)
2011 Apr 11, In Puerto Rico
Hilton Cordero, the police commissioner of San Juan, was charged
with sexually assaulting a minor and producing child pornography in
a case that emerged after his teenage daughter accused him of
molesting her.
(AP, 4/11/11)
2011 Apr 15, In Toronto,
Canada, Liu Qian (23) was found raped and dead a few hours after her
former boyfriend in China watched via webcam as she tried to fend
off an attacker who appeared at her door. On April 7, 2014, Brian
Dickson (32) was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in
prison.
(AP, 4/8/14)(http://tinyurl.com/mq7crka)
2011 Apr 18, Two airline
employees came to the aid of a woman that was being raped at Denver
Int’l. Airport. Noel Bertrand (26) was later charged with sexual
assault.
(www.truecrimereport.com/2011/04/ex-marine_noel_alexander_alleg.php)
2011 Apr 20, A South Australian
politician was detained and charged with four child pornography
offences.
(AFP, 4/21/11)
2011 Apr 21, A group of
Japanese internet service providers started blocking access to child
porn websites as part of efforts to crack down on the spread of
sexually explicit images of children.
(AFP, 4/21/11)
2011 Apr 28, The Christian
Brothers in North America filed for bankruptcy becoming the 2nd
Catholic order to do so because of sexual abuse claims.
(SFC, 4/29/11, p.A7)
2011 May 1, In central
Mozambique a US Peace Corps volunteer was raped at knife-point. On
May 11 the US Congress opened hearings into the safety of the
agency's volunteers worldwide. The program said more than 1,000
volunteers had been raped or sexually abused in the past decade and
reported on allegations that the agency had mishandled sexual
assault complaints.
(AP, 5/11/11)
2011 May 4, The Vatican
condemned former Canadian Bishop Raymond Lahey after he pleaded
guilty to possession of child pornography and said it planned to
take disciplinary action against him.
(AP, 5/10/11)
2011 May 10, Two more top
Turkish opposition politicians resigned, a month before the
country's general election, over secretly filmed tapes posted on the
Internet that reportedly showed them having extramarital affairs.
(AP, 5/10/11)
2011 May 11, A new study
released by the American Journal of Public Health said 1,152 women
are raped every day in CongoDRC, a rate equal to 48 per hour.
(AP, 5/11/11)
2011 May 13, In Italy Rev.
Riccardo Seppia (51), who had served in Sestri Ponente as pastor of
Holy Spirit church for 14 years, was arrested for allegedly abusing
a 16-year-old boy and giving him cocaine.
(AP, 5/15/11)
2011 May 14, Dominique
Strauss-Kahn (62), the leader of the International Monetary Fund and
a possible candidate for president of France, was yanked from an
airplane moments before it was to depart for Paris and arrested in
the alleged sexual assault of Nafissatou Diallo, a NYC hotel maid.
The immigrant maid from Guinea identified him in a line-up. On Aug 8
Diallo sued Strauss-Kahn for sexual assault. In 2012 John Solomon
authored “DSK: The Scandal That Brought Down Dominique
Strauss-Kahn."
(AP, 5/15/11)(Econ, 5/21/11, p.25)(SFC, 8/9/11,
p.A5)(Econ, 5/12/12, p.88)
2011 May 16, Australia’s Sydney
Morning Herald said a development application has been lodged for a
Aus$12 million (US$12.7 million) extension to the Stiletto brothel,
which proposes doubling its size to 40 working rooms and 21 waiting
rooms.
(AFP, 5/16/11)
2011 May 17, In South Korea
hundreds of prostitutes and pimps rallied near a red-light district
in Seoul to protest a police crackdown on brothels, with some
unsuccessfully attempting to set themselves on fire.
(AP, 5/17/11)
2011 May 18, The John Jay
college of Criminal Justice released a $2 million report titled:
“The Causes and Contexts of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic
Priests in the United States, 1950-2010." The Catholic church
provided funding and cooperation.
(SFC, 5/18/11, p.A5)
2011 May 18, A Turkish website
that posted compromising videos which forced four far-right
politicians to resign threatened to post new sex videos that could
hurt more opposition politicians ahead of next month's election.
(AP, 5/18/11)
2011 May 20, In Sweden a
43-year old man was charged with having provided 23 women with 510
films and photos of children being exploited in "especially
ruthless" manner. The 23 women from across Sweden were charged with
involvement in what investigators call a unique child pornography
case.
(AP, 5/20/11)
2011 May 21, In the Netherlands
the Salesian order's top official, Delegate Herman Spronck,
confirmed in a statement that a priest, identified by RTL Nieuws as
73-year-old "Father Van B.," had served on the board of "Martijn," a
group that campaigns to end the Dutch ban on adult-child sex.
(AP, 5/21/11)
2011 May 21, Six senior
politicians in a Turkish opposition party resigned amid a sex video
scandal that could have far-reaching consequences in elections on
June 12.
(AP, 5/21/11)
2011 May 22, Joseph Brooks
(73), the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life"
(1977), was found dead in NYC of an apparent suicide while awaiting
trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women and
just months after his son was accused of murdering a swimsuit
designer.
(AP, 5/23/11)
2011 May 29, It was reported
that 259 Libyan women responded on questionnaires that they have
been raped by militiamen loyal to Moammar Khadafy.
(SSFC, 5/29/11, p.A6)
2011 May 29, Nigerian police
raided the Cross Foundation in Aba, a home allegedly being used to
force teenage girls to have babies that were then offered for sale
for trafficking or other purposes. Dr. Hyacinth Orikara was arrested
and 32 pregnant girls, aged 15-17, were rescued.
(AFP, 6/1/11)(Reuters, 6/2/11)
2011 May 31, Mahmoud Abdel
Salam Omar (74), former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria, was
arrested in NYC for allegedly assaulting a hotel maid the previous
evening. On June 24 Omar pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor sexual
abuse charge, acknowledging he kissed the woman on the lips and neck
and touched her breasts after she brought tissues to his room at the
posh Pierre hotel. He completed five days of community service in a
soup kitchen, and his case will be closed without jail time or
probation if he stays out of trouble for a year.
(AP, 5/31/11)(http://tinyurl.com/3mjbkkf)(AP,
6/24/11)
2011 Jun 4, In Malaysia the
"Obedient Wives Club" was launched. The new club said it can cure
social ills such as prostitution and divorce by teaching women to be
submissive and keep their men happy in the bedroom.
(AP, 6/5/11)
2011 Jun 6, Under pressure from
bloggers and journalists, Representative Anthony Weiner of New York
finally admitted he sent inappropriate e-mails to six women he did
not know but met via social media. He also admitted to lying about
using Twitter to send a suggestive photo of himself to a young
woman. He had previously denied sending the photo, claiming
his account was hacked. After apologizing to his wife and his
constituents for his poor judgment, Weiner said he had no plans to
resign from his congressional seat.
(NYT, 6/6/11)
2011 Jun 8, In Redwood City,
Ca., 5 boys aged 12-14 were taken into custody for an alleged rape
attempt on two girls during a school field trip in March.
(SFC, 6/15/11, p.C2)
2011 Jun 11-2011 Jun 13, In
Congo’s South Kivu province at least 121 rapes occurred during this
period in the village of Nyakiele. Medicins Sans Frontieres worked
with Congolese health officials and the UN to get more information.
(AP, 6/23/11)(Reuters, 6/24/11)(AP, 7/1/11)
2011 Jun 17, In Connecticut
former prep school dean Robert Reihhardt (46) was sentenced to
9½ years in prison for sexually abusing 4 students at The
Gunnery.
(SFC, 6/18/11, p.A5)
2011 Jun 21, In Brazil Kenneth
Andrew Craig (42), an American on the US Marshals' list of
most-wanted sex offenders, was captured in Rio de Janeiro. Craig had
been arrested in 1998 in Deerfield Beach, Florida, after police
allegedly found him in a hotel room with two underage boys. He
allegedly filmed the two youngsters having sex, but was released on
bail and then fled to Brazil.
(AP, 6/21/11)
2011 Jun 22, In Colombia women
of Barbacoas announced that they would deny their partners sex until
authorities began paving a 35-mile (57-km) road linking the town of
35,000 people with the provincial capital of Pasto. Army engineers
began work on Oct 11 and the sex strike was declared over.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Jun 23, Early Bradley
(58), a former Delaware pediatrician, was found guilty of abusing
scores of young patients, most of whom were toddlers.
(SFC, 6/24/11, p.A8)
2011 Jun 23, F. Chris Garcia, a
former Univ. of New Mexico president, was arrested and jailed in
connection with a multistate, online prostitution ring. Police said
Garcia and New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson professor David Flory
were among 7 members in the top echelon of the ring, which had 1,400
members including 200 prostitutes.
(SFC, 6/24/11, p.A8)
2011 Jun 27, A Swiss man (62)
appeared in court accused of drugging and sexually abusing some 50
girls at a camp and a private boarding school between 1996 and his
arrest in 2007. On July 1 the man was sentenced to 13 years in
prison and ordered to pay his victims 65,000 Swiss francs ($77,000).
(AP, 6/27/11)(AP, 7/1/11)
2011 Jun 29, Britain’s first
nationwide study into the scale of child grooming on its streets has
identified more than 2,000 victims. The Child Exploitation and
Online Protection Center (CEOP) report said the victims were aged 14
and 15 and female.
(AFP, 6/29/11)
2011 Jun, A petition campaign
against a Jordanian garment maker was begun by US labor activists
after a Bangladeshi worker told police that her Sri Lankan manager,
Anil Santha, had raped her three times since March. This prompted
several US retailers to stop placing orders with the Classic Fashion
factory.
(AP, 9/9/11)
2011 Jun, A Danish convicted
Harry Larsen of a number of abuses, including using a baseball bat
and metal bars to beat some of his family's nine children, and
raping two of its teenage daughters. In its sentence, that court
said he should be sent to a mental health facility. On Dec 15 an
appeals court overturned the ruling and sentenced him to 11 years in
prison.
(AP, 12/15/11)
2011 Jul 1, In NYC former IMF
chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (62) was released without bail after a
dramatic court hearing where the sexual assault case against him
appeared to shift in his favor. Prosecutors said the credibility of
the woman at the center of the case had been thrown into question.
(Reuters, 7/1/11)
2011 Jul 5, French author
Tristane Banon (31) filed charges of attempted rape against former
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The incident took place in 2003.
She had first recounted the incident on a 2007 TV show. The charges
were dismissed on Oct 13 due to a 3-year statute of limitations.
(SFC, 7/6/11, p.A5)(SFC, 10/14/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 12, Aid organization
CARE said that cases of rape and violence against women and girls
fleeing to an overcrowded refugee camp in Kenya have risen sharply
this year. CARE said 136 cases had been reported since January in
two of three camps in Dadaab in the east of Kenya, compared to 66 in
the same period in 2010.
(AFP, 7/13/11)
2011 Jul 15, In Argentina
French tourists Cassandre Bouvier (29) and Houria Moumni (20) were
raped and killed by a group of men who followed the academics from
Sorbonne University up a popular hiking trail, the Quebrada de San
Lorenzo, outside the provincial capital of Salta.
(AP, 8/16/11)
2011 Jul 15, Saudi authorities
beheaded a man convicted of attacking a woman and snapping nude
photos of her in order to blackmail her for sex.
(AP, 7/16/11)
2011 Jul 20, NYC authorities
said a high-end prostitution ring catering to Wall Street clients,
who often would spend over $10,000 for a night bingeing on sex and
cocaine, has been busted and 17 people indicted.
(Reuters, 7/20/11)
2011 Jul 20, In Haiti a man
(18) was sexually assaulted by peacekeepers from Uruguay on a UN
base along the southern coast. The alleged attack only became public
in late August when a video taken by cell phone was circulated and
the UN announced an investigation.
(AP, 9/6/11)
2011 Jul 22, In
Indian-controlled Kashmir thousands hurled rocks and shouted
anti-India slogans protesting in a remote village, after a woman
told police she was abducted and raped by army soldiers stationed in
the disputed Himalayan region.
(AP, 7/22/11)
2011 Jul 25, A court in Burundi
found Frenchman Patrice Faye (58) guilty of raping five teenagers,
giving him a 25-year jail sentence and a fine of 14,000 euros
($20,000). Faye was accused of raping five girls aged 13 to 17,
students at a school he set up for poor children. He denied the
charges and said a doctor had confirmed that three of his accusers
were still virgins.
(AFP, 7/25/11)
2011 Jul 26, Oregon Rep. David
Wu (56) said he would resign his Democratic seat in the US Congress
following allegations of sexual misconduct with a teenage girl.
(SFC, 7/25/11, p.A7)
2011 Jul 29, In Argentina
French tourists Cassandre Bouvier (29) and Moumni Houria (20) were
found dead in Buenos Aires. They were last seen alive two weeks
earlier. On Aug 6 authorities detained seven people, including the
son and daughter of a high-ranking local police official, for
questioning in the rape and slaying of the two French tourists.
(AP, 8/7/11)
2011 Aug 1, Malta sentenced
Rev. Charles Pulis and Rev. Godwin Scerri to 5 and 6 years in prison
after they were convicted of sexually abusing boys under their care
in St Joseph's Home for children more than 20 years ago.
(AP, 8/2/11)
2011 Aug 4, US investigators
confronted Jesse Osmun in Connecticut and obtained a written
confession that as a Peace Corps volunteer, he had sexually molested
at least 5 girls at a South African shelter for AIDS orphans and
other children. None of the girls were older than 6.
(AP, 8/11/11)
2011 Aug 4, A Texas jury
convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs (55) of child sexual
assault, in a case stemming from two young followers he took as
brides. Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child
with a 15-year-old girl and played an audio recording of what they
said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old.
(AP, 8/4/11)
2011 Aug 20, In South Africa
some 2,000 women draped sexy lingerie over their street clothes and
marched through Cape Town, bringing the international "SlutWalks"
campaign against the notion that a woman's appearance can excuse
attacks to a country where rape is seen as a national crisis.
(AP, 8/20/11)
2011 Aug 23, Sri Lanka police
carried out mass arrests in the northern Jaffna region after
residents clashed with troops alleged to have protected so-called
"grease devil" sex offenders.
(AP, 8/23/11)
2011 Aug 25, Austrian officials
said they are investigating allegations that a man locked up his two
mentally disabled daughters in a small room in their home, sexually
abused them for 41 years. The women have accused the 80-year-old of
repeatedly raping them between 1970 and May 2011. The alleged
victims are now 53 and 45 years old. The Austrian man, held for
around two weeks on suspicion that he regularly raped his daughters
for 41 years, was freed on Sep 9 after the two women changed their
story.
(AP, 8/25/11)(AP, 9/9/11)
2011 Aug 26, Former Delaware
pediatrician Earl Bradley (58) was sentenced 14 life sentences
without parole for committing horrific acts of sexual abuse against
scores of young patients over more than a decade.
(AP, 8/26/11)
2011 Aug 29, Adult film
productions in Los Angeles shut down temporarily after an adult film
performer tested HIV-positive. A retest by the end of the week
indicated no virus and film production was allowed to resume.
(SFC, 8/30/11, p.A6)(SSFC, 9/4/11, p.A8)
2011 Sep 1, The German city of
Bonn was reported to have started collecting taxes from prostitutes
with an automated pay station. The tick machine printed receipts for
nightly flat fees of 6 euros for the privilege of streetwalking.
(SFC, 9/1/11, p.A2)
2011 Sep 1, Italian police
arrested businessman Giampaolo Tarantini and his wife Angela
Devenuto on charges of allegedly extorting money from Premier Silvio
Berlusconi to ensure his cooperation in a probe over recruiting
prostitutes to attend wild parties at Berlusconi's home. Tarantini
has admitted he paid a high-end prostitute, Patrizia D'Addario, and
other women to attend parties at Berlusconi's residences, but
insisted the premier didn't know. Between September 2008 and May
2009 Tarantini recruited women of "young age, slender frame," and
told them what to wear and how to behave at the parties.
(AP, 9/1/11)(AP, 9/16/11)
2011 Sep 4, Haitian President
Michel Martelly "vigorously condemned" an alleged sexual assault by
UN troops against an 18-year-old man. The incident aggravated
mistrust between Haitians and the peacekeeping mission. The UN was
investigating allegations that five Uruguayan naval personnel at a
UN base in the south sexually molested an 18-year-old man in an
attack reportedly captured by a cell phone camera.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 5, Mexico City police
arrested Claudia Tapia (44), Jorge Iniestra (32), his mother and
several of his siblings. Iniestra was arrested for allegedly keeping
his two teenage stepdaughters captive for five years. He fathered
five children with one of them, then killed the other young woman
and one of the babies. Tapia was arrested for covering up the abuse.
(AP, 9/7/11)
2011 Sep 13, Australian
lawmaker Nick Xenophon named Catholic priest Monsignor Ian Dempsey
as having allegedly raped Anglican Archbishop John Hepworth in
violent attacks dating back about 50 years.
(AFP, 9/13/11)
2011 Sep 13, In Germany
Nuremberg prosecutors said they have charged a 69-year-old man with
497 counts of rape over allegations that he abused his daughter for
34 years and fathered three sons by her.
(AP, 9/13/11)
2011 Sep 17, In Brazil a
14-year-old girl escaped and told police she was held and raped for
four days by inmates after being taken inside the men's Heleno
Fragoso prison in northern Para state. The teenager testified she
was drugged, beaten and taken by a woman along with two other
teenagers into the prison.
(AP, 9/19/11)
2011 Sep 20, In Nigeria local
authorities dismissed a 10-minute video of a Nigerian woman
repeatedly asking her attackers to kill her as they take turns
raping her at a university dormitory. The video had circulated for
weeks around the campus of Abia State University before being posted
on the Internet.
(AP, 9/21/11)
2011 Sep 22, In South Korea
about 1,600 prostitutes and pimps at a rally in Seoul chanted
slogans calling for laws, that toughened the punishment for
prostitution, to be scrapped.
(AP, 9/22/11)
2011 Sep 27, Anthony Mangione
(50), the chief of US Immigration and Customs in South Florida, was
indicted on child pornography charges. US federal investigators had
found child pornography images on his computer last April.
(SFC, 9/29/11, p.A8)
2011 Sep 28, In London Reginald
Davis, a 77-year-old man from Australia, was charged with a string
of child sex attacks dating back to 1949.
(AFP, 9/28/11)
2011 Oct 6, Mexican police
arrested four men and a woman for allegedly helping force women to
work as prostitutes in Mexico and the United States.
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 7, Nepalese
campaigners said desperate AIDS charity workers are turning to
prostitution to pay bills and buy food because government
bureaucracy has denied them their wages.
(AFP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 8, Iran hanged a man
(67) convicted of multiple rapes of 37 women whom he coerced by
filming acts with them. He was executed in a prison in Isfahan after
four years of repeated appeals against his sentence.
(AFP, 10/8/11)
2011 Oct 8, In South Korea US
military officials apologized as they tried to ease growing public
anger over 2 US soldiers who have been accused of raping teenage
girls.
(AP, 10/8/11)
2011 Oct 9, In French Polynesia
German tourist Stefan Ramin (40) was murdered while visiting Nuku
Hiva island. Haiti, a 31-year-old local guide, said Ramin was
injured and then attempted to sexually assault Ramin’s girlfriend
Heike Dorsch (37). Human remains were found in a charred pit on the
island on Oct 12.
(AFP, 10/18/11)
2011 Oct 11, Two Italians, who
say they were sexually abused by priests, completed a 19-day,
340-mile (550-km) protest march to the Vatican and tried
unsuccessfully to obtain an audience with the pope.
(AP, 10/11/11)
2011 Oct 14, Kansas City's
Catholic Bishop Robert Finn became the highest-ranking US Catholic
official indicted on a charge of failing to protect children after
he and his diocese waited five months to tell police about hundreds
of images of child pornography discovered on a priest's computer.
The indictment, handed down Oct. 6, was sealed because Finn was out
of the country.
(AP, 10/15/11)
2011 Oct 17, Austrian officials
said an investigation will be launched into claims by 2 women that
they and other girls at the Schloss Wilhelminenberg foster home, run
by the city of Vienna, were raped in the 1970s. The sisters, now 47
and 49, alleged the abuse began when they were 6 and 8, and ended in
their early teens.
(AP, 10/17/11)
2011 Oct 18, A Swedish court
convicted 23 women and one man of child pornography offenses in what
investigators called a unique case because of the number of female
perpetrators.
(AP, 10/18/11)
2011 Oct 26, A Jordanian man
(46) was sentenced to death for raping and impregnating his daughter
then cutting her open to remove the fetus and letting her bleed to
death. The man had been charged with the murder of the 19-year-old
in May 2010 and confessed to having had sex with his daughter for
five years.
(AFP, 10/28/11)
2011 Oct 28, South Korea's
parliament approved a tougher law against sex crimes, inspired in
part by a recent movie based on a real-life case of sexually abused
deaf children.
(AP, 10/28/11)
2011 Oct 29, Jimmy Savile
(b.1926), popular British children's TV entertainer, died. His gold
coffin went on public display and he was lauded as a "national
treasure" who had raised millions of pounds for good causes. In 2012
allegations that Savile sexually abused young girls for decades
first emerged in an expose on the TV channel ITV. Since then, police
say some 300 victims had come forward.
(AP,
10/28/12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile)
2011 Oct, Zimbabwe police
arrested three alleged sperm-hunting women, found with a plastic bag
of 31 used condoms. They were nabbed for allegedly violating 17 men.
Reports of sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009.
Sperm-hunting charges against the women were dropped in May, 2012,
but the state decided to prosecute two of the women on a lesser
charge of "loitering for the purposes of prostitution", punishable
by a fine.
(AFP, 3/22/12)(AFP, 5/3/12)
2011 Nov 1, A South Korean
court sentenced US soldier Pfc. Kevin Flippin to 10 years in prison
for raping a teenage girl, the second harshest punishment handed
down to a convicted American soldier here in nearly 20 years.
(AP, 11/1/11)
2011 Nov 3, In Northern Ireland
Liam Adams (56), a brother of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, was sent
to jail after he was arraigned on 18 charges of raping and
indecently assaulting one of his daughters. He had fled Belfast in
2008 after police charged him with repeatedly abusing his daughter
Aine when she was aged 4 to 10.
(AP, 11/3/11)
2011 Nov 4, A Cambodian court
sentenced American James D'Agostino (56), a volunteer doctor at a
children's hospital in the Cambodian capital, to four years in
prison on charges of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy.
(AP, 11/4/11)
2011 Nov 5, Penn State
assistant coach Jerry Sandusky (67) was arrested for 40 sex crimes
against boys dating from 1994 to 2005. All of the boys were under
the care of the Second Mile Foundation, a charity that Sandusky
founded in 1977.
(SFC, 11/9/11, p.A12)(http://tinyurl.com/864sytk)
2011 Nov 8, A British court
ruled that Roman Catholic priests are equivalent to employees, a
decision that could pave the way for victims of sexual abuse to win
damages from the church.
(AP, 11/8/11)
2011 Nov 8, A French court
ruled that the News of the World had violated the privacy of former
world motorsport chief Max Mosley when it published photographs of
him in a sadomasochistic orgy. The court fined Rupert Murdoch's News
Group, publisher of the now-defunct tabloid, 10,000 euros ($13,800)
and ordered it to pay 7,000 euros in damages for violating Mosley's
privacy, but said there was no defamation. Mosley (71) had already
won a case in a British court against News Group, after the News of
the World published a front-page story in March 2008 entitled "F1
boss has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers."
(AFP, 11/8/11)
2011 Nov 8, Indonesian police
said they had arrested a British-born man accused of molesting nine
children following a tip-off from authorities in Britain. The
61-year-old man, who became an Indonesian citizen after changing his
nationality, was also allegedly involved in an online child
pornography network.
(AFP, 11/8/11)
2011 Nov 9, An independent
report recommended the Ealing Abbey monastery should no longer be
allowed to run St. Benedict's School, a London Roman Catholic school
where pupils were physically and sexually abused over several
decades. Former St. Benedict's headmaster, the Rev. David Pearce,
was jailed in 2009 for abusing boys at the school over a 35-year
period.
(AP, 11/9/11)
2011 Nov 10, Israel's Supreme
Court ordered former President Moshe Katsav (65) to spend seven
years in prison after rejecting the disgraced politician's appeal of
a rape conviction and other sex crimes. He was convicted last
December of raping a former employee when he was a Cabinet minister
and of sexually harassing two other women during his term as
president from 2000 to 2007.
(AP, 11/10/11)
2011 Nov 12, Nigeria evacuated
from Mali 104 of its citizens, mostly women, either made to work as
"sexual slaves" or suspected of involvement in human trafficking.
(AFP, 11/15/11)
2011 Nov 13, A Malawi high
court official said some 14 local sex workers arrested by police and
forced to undergo HIV tests two years ago have sued the government
for "unfair action and violating their privacy." The sex workers
were charged for trading in sex while having a sexually transmitted
disease. They were fined $7 (K1,200) and set free. About 14% of the
country's 13 million citizens are infected with HIV.
(AFP, 11/13/11)
2011 Nov 17, It was reported
that Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (20), an Egyptian woman activist who posted
nude pictures of herself on her blog to protest limits on free
expression, has triggered an uproar in Egypt, drawing condemnations
from conservatives and liberals alike.
(AP, 11/17/11)
2011 Nov 21, Robert Burke (43),
a former elementary school principal in Dubuque, Iowa, was sentenced
to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of
producing child pornography involving students at his school. Burke
was also fined $25,000.
(AFP, 11/22/11)
2011 Nov 24, Bosnian police
said they have discovered around 1.5 million pornographic images of
children on the computer of a man they suspect of blackmailing
United States citizens with money transfers amounting to some $3000.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 26, In Libya dozens of
women rallied in Tripoli to pressure the new government to do more
to help women raped during the country's civil war.
(AP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 28, Ginger White (46)
of Georgia said that she and Republican presidential hopeful Herman
Cain had a 13-year extramarital affair that lasted nearly until the
former businessman announced his candidacy for the White House
several months ago.
(AP, 11/28/11)
2011 Dec 2, In Canton, Georgia,
Jorelys Rivera (7) disappeared from a playground after her
babysitter went home to fetch sodas for friends. The girl’s body was
found on Dec 1 in a trash container and she appeared to have been
severely beaten and sexually assaulted.
(SFC, 12/6/11, p.A12)
2011 Dec 2, Spanish police said
they have arrested L. Morris (66), a British man, suspected of
raping his step-daughter when she was nine years old and years later
abusing her daughter as well. He had moved to Spain from Kent where
the alleged rapes took place.
(AFP, 12/2/11)
2011 Dec 3, Pakistani actress
Veena Malik said a nude photo has been published in violation of her
agreement with FHM India and she was considering legal action
against the magazine. She had posed in the nude for the Indian
magazine with the initials of Pakistan's feared and powerful
intelligence agency on her arm and triggered fury across her
conservative nation.
(AP, 12/3/11)
2011 Dec 4, In Singapore
hundreds of people gathered at a park to protest sexual violence
against women as part of the global "SlutWalk" movement, in a rare
public demonstration in the tightly controlled city state.
(AP, 12/4/11)
2011 Dec 10, Saudi Arabia’s
Okaz newspaper reported that a man convicted of raping his daughter
has been sentenced to receive 2,080 lashes over the course of a
13-year prison term. A court in Mecca found the man guilty of raping
his teenage daughter for seven years while under the influence of
drugs.
(AP, 12/10/11)
2011 Dec 12, Senior Australian
naval officer Lieutenant Commander John Alan Jones (58) was
convicted by a court martial of repeatedly spanking a junior female
sailor to test her discipline and obedience.
(AFP, 12/13/11)
2011 Dec 14, In Guyana a
34-year-old woman told reporters in the South American country that
Chief Henry Greene took her to a hotel and raped her. She alleges
the incident occurred in late November. The US revoked Greene's visa
in 2006 over alleged links to drug trafficking. Greene was soon
placed on leave and in January Jamaica sent a team of detectives to
probe the rape allegations.
(AP, 12/15/11)(AP, 1/5/12)
2011 Dec 16, Europol said
police have arrested 112 people in 22 countries after a yearlong
investigation into child pornography, warning that technology is
making combating the spread of child abuse images ever more
difficult. The investigation, code named "Operation Icarus," was
carried out under the leadership of Danish police, due to Danish
expertise in analyzing the peer-to-peer networks that were used to
share files.
(AP, 12/16/11)
2011 Dec 16, In the Netherlands
a long-awaited report said thousands of children suffered sexual
abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions over the past 65 years, and
church officials knew about the abuse but failed to adequately
address it or help the victims.
(AP, 12/16/11)
2011 Dec 19, In Brazil A
juvenile court judge in the northeastern state of Alagoas sentenced
three priests for sexually abusing minors for years. Monsignor Luiz
Marques Barbosa was sentenced to 21 years in prison, while Monsignor
Raimundo Gomes and priest Edilson Duarte were given 16 years and
four months in prison.
(AP, 12/20/11)
2011 Dec 19, In Denmark the
Copenhagen City Court ruled that Marcel Lychau Hansen had strangled
73-year-old Edith Louise Andrup in 1987 and 40-year-old Lene
Buchardt Rasmussen three years later. The court also found him
guilty of raping three teenagers and a 23-year-old woman in 1995 and
two women in 2005 and 2010, respectively.
(AP, 12/19/11)
2011 Dec 28, In New Jersey
Patrick Lott appeared in court for videotaping teenage boys at
Immaculata High School in Somerville for nearly 3 years.
(SFC, 12/29/11, p.A4)
2011 E. L. James authored
“Fifty Shades of Grey." In 2012 the bondage and wild sex trilogy
held the top three spots on the NYT’s best seller list.
(SFC, 5/10/12, p.A7)
2011 Elaine Sciolino authored
“La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life."
(Econ, 6/11/11, p.87)
2011 Christopher Turner
authored “Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution
Came to America."
(Econ, 7/16/11, p.85)
2011 Mark West authored
“Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law."
(Econ, 6/4/11, p.92)
2011 In Saudi Arabia a teacher
(42) was arrested for abducing and raping a girl (9). In 2013 he was
convicted of kidnapping and raping eight young girls (ages 6 to 11).
In 2014 the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence.
(AFP, 4/6/14)
2012 Jan 8, Israeli police
arrested 3 more men in a suspected pedophilia ring thought to have
preyed on dozens of Jerusalem children. The ring is suspected of
molesting 70 children between the ages of 2 and 7 in their religious
Jewish neighborhood.
(AP, 1/9/12)
2012 Jan 12, The Australian
military was rocked by more sex scandals, including allegations of
assault, child porn, rape and drug-dealing within its ranks.
(AFP, 1/12/12)
2012 Jan 12, In Germany a
46-year-old priest, who has been suspended, went on trial at the
state court in Braunschweig. The Roman Catholic priest has admitted
to 280 counts of sexually abusing three boys over a several-year
period.
(AP, 1/13/12)
2012 Jan 16, Mexican
investigators detained three more women in the city of Guadalajara
in connection with an apparent child-trafficking ring that aimed to
supply babies to Irish couples. Authorities last week detained four
women and seized nine children, all of them between two months and
two years of age. At least 11 Irish couples are involved in the
case. On Jan 18 a Mexican official said four of 10 children seized
showed signs of sexual abuse.
(AP, 1/16/12)(AP, 1/18/12)
2012 Jan 18, Defrocked Irish
priest Peter Kennedy (72) returned to Dublin after being extradited
from Brazil. He faced 55 counts of sexually abusing 18 children from
1968-1984. Kennedy had fled to England in 2002 and to Brazil in
2003.
(AP, 1/25/12)
2012 Jan 20, In Haiti Pakistani
peace-keepers raped a 14-year-old boy in Gonaives. In March a
Pakistani military tribunal convicted two soldiers and sentenced
them to one year in prison.
(Econ, 4/28/12, p.41)
2012 Jan 23, Martin Smith (46),
a former TV psychic from North Shields, was found dead at HMP
Manchester, formerly Strangeways Prison. Smith was jailed for 16
years in March 2011 after being found guilty of a string of offences
including rape, attempted rape and indecent assault. His wife Lianne
Smith (43) faced murder charges for the deaths of their 2 children
in a hotel in Spain in 2010.
(AFP, 1/25/12)
2012 Jan 26, A German court
convicted a Roman Catholic priest (46) of some 250 counts of
sexually abusing children over a several-year period and sentenced
him to six years in prison. He was found guilty of abusing three
boys aged 9 to 15 between 2004 and 2011.
(AP, 1/26/12)
2012 Jan 27, In Puerto Rico
Nicolas Gonzalez Figueroa, an assistant US Army chaplain who pleaded
guilty to producing child pornography, was sentenced to nearly 20
years in prison.
(AP, 1/27/12)
2012 Jan 28, A California
police officer under investigation for sexual misconduct with a
teenage minor was shot and killed while on duty by fellow officers
as they tried to arrest him in Santa Maria.
(AP, 1/28/12)
2012 Jan 29, Iranian media
confirmed that Saeed Malekpour (36), an Iranian man with Canadian
residency, has had a death sentence against him reinstated by the
supreme court on charges he operated a pornographic website.
Malekpour was arrested in Iran in 2008 while visiting his dying
father.
(AFP, 1/29/12)
2012 Feb 9, It was reported
that a woman (35) recently walked through a field in northern
Mozambique, near where a group of teenage boys were undergoing their
ritual circumcision into adulthood. Accusing her of trespassing on
sacred ground forbidden to women, the traditional leader meted out
his punishment: He ordered 17 of his young initiates to gang rape
her. Four of the youths were arrested.
(AFP, 2/9/12)
2012 Feb 10, Former San Diego
police officer Anthony Arevalos was sentenced to nearly 9 years in
prison for soliciting sexual favors in exchange for not issuing
traffic tickets against young women.
(SFC, 2/11/12, p.A5)
2012 Feb 15, Hajah Noraihan,
the Malaysian consul to Uganda, said that more than 600 Ugandan
girls are currently trapped in Malaysian prostitution rings.
Uganda's honorary consul in Kuala Lumpur said that at least three
Ugandans have been killed there in the last two years.
(AP,
2/20/12)(http://allafrica.com/stories/201202150018.html)
2012 Feb 15, Mexican federal
prosecutors said they have detained four people in Tlaxcala state,
who for almost a decade lured unsuspecting young Mexican women to
the United States to force them into prostitution. Police found the
mutilated bodies of six men inside plastic bags dumped on a road
leading to the tourist city of Cuernavaca, Morelos state.
(AP, 2/15/12)(AP, 2/16/12)
2012 Feb 21, Malaysia's Home
Ministry said in a statement that bookstores were no longer allowed
to sell "Where did I come from?" by British author Peter Mayle
pending a review.
(AFP, 2/21/12)
2012 Feb 22, Tunisia's court of
cassation threw out a ruling banning pornographic websites.
(AFP, 2/22/12)
2012 Mar 1, In Ohio an adoptive
father was charged with raping three boys in his care and compelling
prostitution by hiring the 10-year-old out for sex. He and two other
men remained in jail on rape charges.
(AP, 3/1/12)
2012 Mar 2, It was reported
that thousands of male Indonesian civil servants had their monthly
pay transferred to their wives' bank accounts this week in a bid by
a local government to stop men having affairs.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 6, Moldova introduced
new legislation approving chemical castration for foreigners and
nationals convicted of sexually abusing children.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 9, Germany’s Bild
daily proclaimed that a bare-breasted front page blond would be the
Berlin paper’s last of more than 5,000 women who have appeared since
1984.
(SFC, 3/10/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 9, In Ukraine Oksana
Makar (18) was invited by two young men, ages 21 and 23, to their
friend's apartment, where the three men allegedly gang-raped her,
tried to choke her to death, wrapped her in a sheet, took her to a
construction site, dumped her in a pit and set her on fire. After
surgery 55% of her skin was gone, her kidneys were completely
burned, and one of her arms and both her feet had to be amputated.
The suspects were arrested the next day, but two of them were
released soon after. The two men who were released are the sons of
former government officials. On March 13 the two men were arrested,
and all three suspects were charged with attempted murder. Makar
died of her injuries on March 29. Murder was added to the rape
chargers against the suspects.
(http://tinyurl.com/798q68z)(AP, 3/29/12)
2012 Mar 18, In China Ling Gu,
the son of a loyal aide to President Hu Jintao, was killed in a
Ferrari accident which initially garnered only minimal coverage in
China's state media. Two young women were also injured. A report on
Sep 3 said Ling was half-naked when the crash occurred and his two
passengers were naked or half-dressed, suggesting they had been
involved in some kind of high-speed sex game.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Mar 23, Australian police
said they have smashed a child porn ring and arrested 14 men,
including fathers, after hundreds of thousands of images and videos
were seized, some depicting toddlers. Police raided more than a
dozen properties across the country over the past week after a
tip-off by Interpol, which linked the men to a child exploitation
network in Germany.
(AFP, 3/23/12)
2012 Mar 26, Ontario's highest
court struck down a national law that outlaws brothels but upheld an
effective ban on street prostitution, a partial victory for those
arguing Canada's laws put sex workers in harm's way.
(Reuters, 3/26/12)
2012 Mar 26, In France former
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was handed preliminary charges
alleging he was involved in a French prostitution ring.
(SFC, 3/27/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 26, A Spanish court
dropped a rape probe against a Saudi prince who is one of the
world's richest people, saying his accuser's allegations are
inconsistent and do not stand up. The ruling cleared Prince Alwaleed
bin Talal (57) and was released today by a court in Palma in Spain's
Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean. The drugging and sexual
assault of a young Spanish model was alleged to have occurred aboard
a yacht moored at the island of Ibiza in the wee hours of Aug 12,
2008.
(AP, 3/29/12)
2012 Mar 27, Brazil’s Tourism
Ministry said it is asking more than 2,000 websites to remove sexual
content that promotes Latin America's biggest country as a sex
tourism destination.
(AP, 3/27/12)
2012 Mar 29, The Arkansas
Supreme Court struck down a state law banning sexual contact between
teachers and students 18 or older.
(SFC, 3/30/12, p.A6)
2012 Mar 29, In Colombia a
10-year-old ethnic Wayuu girl gave birth via Caesarean section.
Under Colombian law, any sexual relations with a child age 14 or
younger is a crime punishable by at least 9 years in prison. Under
Colombia's 1991 constitution the Wayuu have jurisdiction.
(AP, 4/10/12)
2012 Mar 30, Amnesty
International blasted a Brazilian verdict by an appeals court as
"outrageous" and called it an "affront to the most basic human
rights. The Superior Court of Justice ruled this week that a man
accused of having sex with three 12-year-olds couldn't be convicted
of rape because of extenuating circumstances, including the fact the
girls had previously worked as prostitutes.
(AP, 3/30/12)
2012 Apr 6, In Indiana Richard
Leon Finkbinder (39) was arrested and charged with coercing 2
teenage boys into performing online sex acts for him by threatening
to post on gay porn sites videos he secretly made of them.
(SFC, 4/10/12, p.A12)
2012 Apr 13, Pres. Obama
arrived in Cartagena, Colombia, for meetings with 33 other regional
leaders for the Summit of the Americas this weekend. 11 US Secret
Service agents, sent to provide security for President Obama, were
reported to have visited prostitutes in Cartagena. At least 20 women
were in hotel rooms with US agents and military personnel just
before President Barack Obama arrived for the summit.
(AP, 4/14/12)(AP, 4/17/12)(SFC, 4/19/12, p.A5)
2012 Apr 16, Sex experts urged
Hong Kongers to strip off their reputation as some of the least
active lovers in Asia to get more out of their sex lives and
overcome challenges of privacy in a cramped city.
(AFP, 4/17/12)
2012 Apr 17, South Africa
Police arrested seven youths, aged 14 to 20, for the gang rape of a
teenage girl (17) after they were identified based on video images.
She was said to have the mental capacity of a four-year-old. A day
earlier the Johannesburg High Court heard 62 rape cases, including a
father-son pair charged with attacking 21 women together.
(AFP, 4/19/12)
2012 Apr 24, Moldova's Pres.
Nicolae Timofti refused to sign a law that would have meant that
foreigners convicted of sexually abusing children in Moldova were
chemically castrated. Parliament had approved the law on March 6
after lawmakers said the impoverished nation was attracting
pedophiles from the West.
(AP, 4/24/12)
2012 Apr, In Jordan girl (14)
was shopping in the northern city of Zarqa when a man (19) kidnapped
her, took her to the desert where he had a pitched a tent, and raped
her for three consecutive days. Within days news emerged that the
boy had agreed to marry the girl, while all charges against him were
dropped. Article 308 allows rape charges to be dropped if the
perpetrator agrees to marry the victim. He cannot divorce the woman
for five years. Jordanians, particularly women activists, have held
several street protests against the law.
(AFP, 6/28/12)
2012 May 4, A federal jury in
Nashville split its verdict against 9 people accused of operating a
sex trafficking ring run mostly by Somali refugee gang members. 3
men were convicted of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of
children. 6 men were acquitted.
(SFC, 5/5/12, p.A5)
2012 May 6, In New Jersey
Justin Street (22), a father of two, died one day after receiving a
silicon injection from Kasia Rivera (35), who advertised a penis
enlargement procedure. On Sep 11 Rivera pleaded not guilty to
causing his death.
(SFC, 9/12/12, p.A16)
2012 May 9, Nine men in
northwest England were sentenced to jail terms for luring girls as
young as 13 into sexual encounters using alcohol and drugs. The men,
aged between 22 and 59, were all of Pakistani or Afghan origin.
(AP, 5/9/12)
2012 May 11, Tennessee Governor
Bill Haslam's office confirmed that he had signed the controversial
"gateway sexual activity" bill, which stirred up controversy
nationwide and even was lampooned by comedian Stephen Colbert.
(Reuters, 5/11/12)
2012 May 17, The Canada Science
and Technology Museum in Ottowa opened "Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition"
as planned despite strong criticism from Canadian Heritage Minister
James Moore, who has called it an insult to taxpayers.
(Reuters, 5/17/12)
2012 May 9, In Yemen a girl
(13) was raped as she headed to a bakery. She was kidnapped and
taken into a car whose owner has been identified. She was brutally
raped by the suspects who then deformed her face using sharp tools.
Protesters later called for the arrest of 7 escaped suspects.
(AFP, 5/19/12)
2012 May 13, Japanese artist
Mao Sugiyama (22) had his penis and testicles surgically removed in
March and kept them frozen for two months before dishing them out,
seasoned and braised, to customers at an event hall. Diners paid
20,000 yen ($250) for the plate with a portion of genitals. Police
in Tokyo said they knew of the episode, but added that it had not
broken the law as cannibalism was not illegal in Japan.
(AFP, 5/25/12)
2012 May 27, Chinese
authorities said police have arrested Li Xingong, the former deputy
director of the party committee in Yongcheng city, Henan province,
on suspicion of raping at least 10 underage girls. The case has
sparked a storm of Internet anger.
(AFP, 5/27/12)
2012 Jun 4, In Cambodia
Alexander Trofimov, who built a $300 million tourist resort in the
country, was arrested at the house of an under-aged girl (11-12)
outside of the capital Phnom Penh. Authorities planned to deport him
shortly. Russian businessman Trofimov was arrested in 2007 facing 17
complaints of sexually abusing minors, the youngest just six years
old. He was sentenced to 17 years, reduced on appeal to eight years.
He was controversially freed early in December last year after
receiving a royal pardon.
(AFP, 6/5/12)
2012 Jun 6, A UN report said
Joseph Kony's Lord Resistance Army has abducted more than 600 child
soldiers and sex slaves over the past two years even as the hunt for
the rebel leader intensifies. At least 591 children, including 268
girls, were reported seized over the same time in Democratic
Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan.
(AFP, 6/6/12)
2012 Jun 15, In Alameda County,
Ca., a jury ordered the Jehovah’s Witnesses to pay an unprecedented
$21 million to a woman who blamed the church for allowing a fellow
congregant to molest her when she was a child in the mid-1990s.
(SFC, 6/16/12, p.A1)
2012 Jun 15, In Australia
documents were released revealing "horrific" child sex assaults and
brutal initiation ceremonies in the Australian military, prompting
PM Julia Gillard to signal a possible public inquiry. The report
details allegations of sexual and other serious physical assaults
against boys as young as 13 dating back to the 1950s.
(AFP, 6/15/12)
2012 Jun 20, In Australia a
Sydney brothel was reported to have received the green light for a
multi-million-dollar expansion which will see it become the nation’s
largest sex premises. Stiletto’s hourly rate of Aus$370
includes room, lady of choice and beverages.
(AFP, 6/20/12)
2012 Jun 22, In Pennsylvania
Jerry Sandusky (68), former defensive coach at Penn State, was
convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years.
(SFC, 6/23/12, p.A4)
2012 Jun 26, A German court
ruled that circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to
grievous bodily harm, in a landmark decision that the Jewish
community said trampled on parents' religious rights.
(AFP, 6/27/12)
2012 Jul 4, Austrian police
said they have identified 272 suspects in the country as part of a
months long investigation of internet-based child pornography
involving 141 nations.
(AP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 10, A damning report
on the Australian military detailed 24 allegations of rape that
never went to trial and other claims that Defence Minister Stephen
Smith admitted would "shock" people. Smith released an entire
1,500-page document detailing 847 alleged incidents of sexual or
other abuse dating back to the 1950s.
(AFP, 7/10/12)
2012 Jul 12, A Nepalese court
jailed Bajir Singh Tamang (37) for a record 170 years for
trafficking teenage girls to work as prostitutes in India.
(AFP, 7/12/12)
2012 Jul 20, In Texas
instructor Staff Sgt. Luis Walker was found guilty on all 28 charges
he faced including rape and sexual assault. He was among 12 Lackland
Air Force Base instructors investigated for sexual misconduct toward
at least 31 female trainees. The next day Walker was sentenced to 20
years in prison.
(SFC, 7/21/12, p.A5)(AP, 7/21/12)
2012 Jul 20, In the Ivory Coast
nine women were sentenced to two years in prison each for
involvement in female genital mutilation, marking the first time
such a case results in jail time in the West African nation.
(AP, 7/20/12)
2012 Jul 21, An Egyptian court
sentenced Ali Wanees, an ultraconservative former lawmaker and
cleric, to a year in prison for public indecency, after police said
they found him fondling a woman on his lap in a parked car at night.
He was tried in absentia and is allowed a retrial. The court
sentenced the woman he was with to six months in jail.
(AP, 7/21/12)
2012 Aug 4, Minor Bollywood
actress Sherlyn Chopra (28), the first Indian woman to pose naked
for Playboy magazine, said she is proud to have "pushed the
envelope" in a country where public nudity in any form remains
largely taboo.
(AFP, 8/5/12)
2012 Aug 5, The LA Times
reported that internal documents from the Boy Scouts of America
reveal more than 125 cases in which men suspected of molestation
allegedly continued to abuse Scouts, despite a blacklist meant to
protect boys from sexual predators.
(AP, 8/5/12)
2012 Aug 16, In Iraq Banin
Haider (4) was kidnapped in Zubair, a rundown town just outside the
city of Basra. Police later found her body in a derelict area with
her hands and legs bound. She was raped multiple times, and her head
was smashed by what was believed to be a large brick. An off-duty
soldier assigned to a nearby army base, Akram al-Mayahi, was
arrested in connection with the Banin's murder. He was found guilty
on Oct. 22 and sentenced to death for abusing and killing the girl.
(AP, 11/9/12)
2012 Aug 17, Brittni Nicole
Colleps (28), a former North Texas high school teacher, was
convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with
five 18-year-old students at her home in 2011. Three former
students, who testified a day earlier, said that they did not
consider themselves victims and did not want to see their former
English teacher prosecuted.
(AFP, 8/18/12)
2012 Aug 21, In Pakistan barber
Yousaf Khan (32) was kidnapped by seven members of a landowning
family who gouged his eyes with a sharp knife before slitting his
ears, nose, lips and tongue over a relationship with a married woman
in the family in Mirzapur village.
(AFP, 8/23/12)
2012 Aug 22, Minnesota Democrat
state Rep. Kerry Gauthier (56) dropped his re-election bid following
reports of his sexual encounter with a 17-year-old boy.
(SFC, 8/22/12, p.A6)
2012 Aug 23, In Illinois
authorities in Washington Park, a village next to East St. Louis,
raided a house where a teenage girl (17) had been held captive and
repeatedly sexually assaulted for over 2 years. Police took into
custody a 24-year-old man and his mother. They also recovered the
teen's young child, which the girl said was the result of rape by
her captor.
(AP, 8/24/12)
2012 Aug 23, Jordan's
Paralympic committee said it has withdrawn three members from a
pre-Games training camp in Northern Ireland over charges of sex
offences.
(AFP, 8/23/12)
2012 Aug 24, Rupert Murdoch's
British tabloid The Sun published nude photographs of Prince Harry
(27), claiming it defied royal orders not to print them in defense
of press freedom.
(AFP, 8/24/12)
2012 Aug 24, Sierra Leone
lawmakers passed a sexual offences law introducing stiff minimum
sentences for offenders that has been hailed as a victory in a
nation where sexual abuse is rife.
(AFP, 8/24/12)
2012 Aug 26, In Togo women in
the civil rights group "Let's Save Togo" said they will have a week
long sex strike to demand the resignation of President Faure
Gnassingbé.
(AFP, 8/26/12)
2012 Aug 29, Vietnamese
researchers said new species of fish with a penis on its head has
been identified in the Mekong Delta.
(AFP, 8/29/12)
2012 Aug 31, In northern Mali a
man accused of rape in received 100 lashes, as the Islamists
controlling the city continue to mete out punishments under Shariah
law. He was identified as a Burkina Faso citizen named Boubacar
El-Bourkinabiyoune.
(AP, 8/31/12)
2012 Aug, In Richmond, Ca., a
young woman escaped from the home of Raul Ochoa, who had held and
sexually assaulted her since she was 12 years old. On Jan 29, 2014,
Ochoa (52) pleaded guilty to forced lewd acts and forcible rape on
the victim (28).
(SFC, 2/1/14, p.C2)
2012 Sep 6, In Kansas City,
Missouri, Bishop Robert Finn was found guilty of a misdemeanor count
for failing to report suspected child abuse from a child pornography
case involving Rev. Shawn Ratigan.
(SFC, 9/7/12, p.A11)
2012 Sep 9, In Carrolton,
Texas, Franklin Davis (30) was charged with murder after confessing
to the death of Shania Gray (16). Police believe he killed her to
prevent her testimony at an upcoming sexual assault trial.
(SFC, 9/11/12, p.A5)
2012 Sep 14, A French magazine
published photos of Prince William's wife Kate sunbathing topless at
a private house in southern France, prompting a strong condemnation
from the royal family.
(AP, 9/14/12)
2012 Sep 22, In Australia Jill
Meagher (29) was raped and strangled as she walked home from a bar
after an evening out with work colleagues in Melbourne. On Jun 19,
2013, sex offender Adrian Ernest Bayley (41) was sentenced to life
in prison for the rape and murder. He had been free on parole after
previous convictions for raping five women.
(AP, 6/19/13)
2012 Sep 26, US defense
officials said Fort Bragg, NC, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair faces
possible courts martial on charges that include forced sex with
several female subordinates and fraudulent claims on a government
charge card. In 2014 Sinclair (51) pleaded guilty to less serious
counts of misconduct in a deal that included the dropping of sexual
assault charges.
(SFC, 9/27/12, p.A7)(SFC, 3/6/14, p.A8)(SFC,
3/18/14, p.A7)
2012 Sep, In Tunisia Meriem Ben
Mohamed (27) was reportedly raped by two policemen who later said
they had found and her boyfriend having sex in a car in a Tunis
suburb. A third policeman allegedly tried to extort money from her
fiance at a bank cashpoint. The woman later authored a book in
France entitled "Guilty of being raped." The policemen faced trial
in 2014.
(AFP, 2/13/14)
2012 Oct 2, Hundreds of
Tunisians protested in support of a woman (27) who says she was
raped by police and is facing accusations of violating modesty laws.
The woman says three police officers stopped her in a car last
month, and one of them held her fiancé back while the other two
raped her. The police officers deny wrongdoing
(AP, 10/2/12)
2012 Oct 3, In Britain a
documentary screened on ITV showing interviews with several people
who claimed they had been abused as children by Jimmy Savile, a
popular BBC presenter who died in 2011.
(Econ, 10/27/12, p.58)
2012 Oct 5, In Colorado
fifth-grader Jessica Ridgeway (10) never showed up at a nearby park
where she was supposed to meet friends for the one-mile walk to her
elementary school. On Oct 10 her body was found in an Arvada, Colo.,
park, just a few miles from where she went missing. On Oct 23 police
arrested Austin Reed Sigg (17) in connection with the murder and
sexual assault. Sigg confessed to killing Ridgeway. On Nov 19, 2013
Sigg, was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 10/13/12, p.A5)(SFC, 10/26/12, p.A9)(SFC,
11/20/13, p.A6)
2012 Oct 9, In Portland, Maine,
Alexis Wright (29) pleaded not guilty to 106 counts of prostitution,
violation of privacy, tax evasion and other charges for allegedly
providing sex for money at her Zumba fitness studio and a nearby
one-room office she rented in Kennebunk. The man police say was her
business partner, 57-year-old Mark Strong Sr., pleaded not guilty to
59 counts of promotion of prostitution and violation of privacy. On
May 31, 2013, Alexis Wright was sentenced to 10 months in jail in a
plea agreement.
(AP, 10/10/12)(SFC, 6/1/13, p.A4)
2012 Oct 10, Former US Peace
Corps volunteer Jesse Osmun apologized for sexually abusing young
girls in South Africa before he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
He had provided support to people affected by the AIDS virus.
(SFC, 10/11/12, p.A4)
2012 Oct 11, In France a court
in Creteil, outside Paris, sentenced 4 of 14 men accused of rape to
prison terms, although most of the time was suspended. The longest
term any will serve is a year. French women's organizations decried
the acquittals and lenient sentences for the gang raping two teenage
girls more than a decade ago.
(AP, 10/12/12)
2012 Oct 11, In Iraq Abeer Ali
(5) was abducted while her family attended a wedding in Zubair. Her
body was found 12 hours later in an empty lot, bearing similar signs
of trauma to Banin Haider, who was raped and killed in the same area
on Aug 16. Abeer was strangled with a shoelace. The suspected
kidnapper phoned nine friends and invited them to take part in the
rape. So far, eight people have been arrested and have confessed.
All of those arrested in the two cases were drug addicts under the
influence at the time of the crimes.
(AP, 11/9/12)
2012 Oct 16, In Japan two US
sailors were arrested for the alleged rape of a Japanese woman on
Okinawa.
(SFC, 10/18/12, p.A2)
2012 Oct 18, In Portland,
Oregon, the Boy Scouts of America some 4,500 pages of secret
"perversion files" released by order of the Oregon Supreme Court,
their maneuvers protected suspected sexual predators while victims
suffered in silence. The new files are a window on a much larger
collection of documents the Boy Scouts of America began collecting
soon after their founding in 1910.
(AP, 10/19/12)
2012 Oct 28, London police
arrested one-time pop star Gary Glitter as part of an investigation
into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy
Savile. Glitter, born Paul Gadd, shot to fame in the early 1970s
with the hit "Rock and Roll". He has long been dogged by child sex
accusations. He was convicted of abusing two girls in Vietnam in
2006 and has been jailed in that country.
(AP, 10/28/12)
2012 Nov 1, British police
arrested comedian Freddie Starr as part of an investigation
triggered by allegations that the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile
sexually abused hundreds of children.
(Reuters, 11/2/12)
2012 Nov 7, Egypt's top
prosecutor ordered government ministries to enforce a ban on
pornographic websites, three years after a court denounced the sites
as "venomous and vile." The order followed a protest by
ultraconservative Salafis.
(AP, 11/7/12)
2012 Nov 9, David Petraeus, the
retired four-star general renowned for taking charge of the military
campaigns in Iraq and then Afghanistan, abruptly resigned as
director of the CIA, admitting to an extramarital affair. Petraeus
carried on the affair with his biographer and reserve Army officer
Paula Broadwell.
(AP, 11/10/12)
2012 Nov 9, The Australian
government said it has abandoned its 5-year-old pledge to mandate a
filter blocking child pornography and other objectionable Internet
content. Instead service providers have agreed to block a list of
1,400 websites.
(SFC, 11/9/12, p.A2)
2012 Nov 13, Peter Ball (80), a
former Church of England bishop was arrested in western England on
suspicion of sexually assaulting boys as young as 12 in the late
1980s and early 1990s. A 2nd man, a retired Anglican priest aged 67,
was detained in Sussex on suspicion of separate offences against two
teenage boys in 1981 and 1983.
(AP, 11/13/12)
2012 Nov 20, San Francisco
lawmakers disappointed committed nudists by voting 6-5 t0 approve a
ban on public nakedness despite concerns the measure would undermine
the city's reputation as a sanctuary for free expression. Exemptions
would be made for participants at permitted street fairs and
parades.
(AP, 11/20/12)(SFC, 11/21/12, p.A1)
2012 Nov 20, A 5-year-old sex
tape of an 18-year-old woman allegedly hired by developers to sleep
with a city official exploded on the Chinese Internet when
screenshots of it were uploaded by a Beijing-based former journalist
Zhu Ruifeng to his Hong Kong-registered website, an independent
online clearing house for corruption allegations.
(AP, 11/27/12)
2012 Nov 23, Congolese troops
fleeing the M23 rebels raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as
young as 6, over the last 24 hours. A UN report released on May 8,
2013 said most of the rapes took place over Nov. 22-23, 2012,
in the eastern Congo town of Minova.
(AP, 5/8/13)
2012 Nov 23, Former French
tennis coach Regis de Camaret (70) was convicted and sentenced to
eight years in prison for raping young students at his academy,
ending a seven-year legal case that began when a former ranked
player published a book describing years of abuse at his hands.
(AP, 11/23/12)
2012 Nov 29, In New York
lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn and house keeper Nafissatou
Diallo reportedly reached an agreement to settle a suit she had
brought against him for sexual assault. Attorneys the next day
denied a settlement saying they merely “discussed a resolution." A
settlement was agreed to on Dec 10.
(SFC, 11/30/12, p.A10)(SFC, 12/1/12, p.A5)(SFC,
12/11/12, p.A14)
2012 Dec 4, A ban on nudity in
San Francisco was given final approval by the city’s Board of
Supervisors in a raucous meeting at which several people stripped
naked in board chambers.
(SFC, 12/5/12, p.C1)
2012 Dec 9, Argentina’s
President Cristina Fernandez gave Susana Trimarco a human rights
award before hundreds of thousands of people in the Plaza de Mayo
for her efforts in rescuing sex slaves and helping them start new
lives. Argentina's efforts to combat sex trafficking began largely
as a result of Susana Trimarco's one-woman, decade-long quest to
find her missing daughter, Maria de los Angeles "Marita" Veron.
(AP, 12/11/12)(AP, 12/13/12)
2012 Dec 12, In Argentina the
acquittal of 13 people accused in the disappearance of a young woman
who was allegedly kidnapped and forced into prostitution for "VIP
clients" spread shock and outrage across the country, prompting
street protests and calls by political leaders to impeach the three
judges who delivered the verdict.
(AP, 12/12/12)
2012 Dec 14, In San Francisco
Frederick Dozier Jr. (33), a school cafeteria worker, was sentenced
to 373 years to life in prison for assaulting 3 women in the Mission
District in 2011.
(SSFC, 12/16/12, p.C11)
2012 Dec 16, In India six men
raped a woman (23) and savagely beat her and her companion with iron
rods on a bus driving around New Delhi, passing through several
police checkpoints, before stripping them and dumping them on the
side of the road. The rapes triggered massive protests on Dec 19 as
police fished out the raped body of a 10-year old girl from a canal
in Bihar state's Saharsa district. The victim of the bus rape died
on Dec 29.
(AP, 12/19/12)(AP, 12/29/12)
2012 Dec 17, Philippine
legislators passed a landmark bill that would provide government
funding for contraceptives and sexuality classes in schools despite
strong opposition by the dominant Roman Catholic Church and its
followers. Pres. Aquino III signed the legislation on Dec 21.
(AP, 12/17/12)(SSFC, 12/30/12, p.A6)
2012 Dec 28, In India
authorities in Punjab state took action when an 18-year-old woman
killed herself by drinking poison a month after she told police she
was gang-raped. Authorities suspended one police officer and fired
two others on accusations they delayed investigating and taking
action in the case. The woman was raped Nov. 13 and reported the
attack to police on Nov 27. The three accused in the rape were
arrested only on the previous night night, a month after the crime
was reported.
(AP, 12/29/12)
2012 Dec 29, Indian police
charged six men with murder, adding to accusations that they beat
and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus on Dec 16 in a case that
shocked the country. The victim "passed away peacefully" early today
at Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore.
(AP, 12/29/12)
2012 Dec 30, Spain's Interior
Ministry said police have arrested 17 people on suspicion of
smuggling Nigerian women into Spain and forcing them into
prostitution using threats including claims they would cast Voodoo
spells on them if they didn't comply.
(AP, 12/30/12)
2012 Faramerz Dabhoiwala
authored “The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual
Revolution."
(Econ, 2/11/12, p.82)
2012 Tom Hickman authored
“God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis."
(Econ, 12/1/12, p.89)
2012 Florence Williams authored
“Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History."
(SSFC, 5/13/12, p.F6)
2013 Jan 3, In India 5 men
accused of raping a university student for hours on a bus as it
drove through New Delhi were charged with murder, rape and other
crimes that could bring them the death penalty. A sixth suspect,
listed as a 17-year-old, was expected to be tried in a juvenile
court, where the maximum sentence would be three years in a reform
facility. Authorities said they will seek the death penalty against
the 5 men.
(AP, 1/3/13)(SFC, 1/4/13, p.A2)
2013 Jan 6, Somalia’s Universal
TV reported that armed men in police uniform had raped a young
woman. The same day Al Jazeera published an article describing rape
by security forces in camps for internally displaced people in
Mogadishu. Journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim then interviewed the
woman but never published a story. He was arrested for conducting
the interview.
(AP, 1/23/13)
2013 Jan 11, A US federal judge
barred California from enforcing a voter-approved law that requires
73,000 registered sex offenders to disclose their internet
identities to police.
(SFC, 1/12/13, p.C1)
2013 Jan 11, British police
released a report saying the late entertainer Jimmy Savile committed
more than 200 sex crimes from 1955-2009, with most victims children
and teens assaulted the length and breadth of Britain, from TV
studios to hospitals and even a hospice.
(AP, 1/11/13)
2013 Jan 12, In India police
arrested six suspects in another gang rape of a bus passenger in
Punjab state. Police also arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly
raping and killing a 9-year-old girl two weeks ago in Ahmednagar
district in western India.
(AP, 1/13/13)
2013 Jan 22, In Connecticut
Kevin Wallin (61), a Catolic priest, pleaded not guilty to federal
charges of selling crystal meth to an undercover police officer. On
April 2 Wallin pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge. He was
accused of making over $300,000 in methamphetamine sales while
running an adult video and sex toy shop.
(SFC, 1/24/13, p.A10)(SFC, 4/3/13, p.A5)
2013 Jan 23, Rights groups
called for the Somali government to release a journalist arrested by
police for interviewing a woman who said she was raped by government
security forces. Freelance journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim and
three others accused in the case have been held for more than a week
without charge. Journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur was later charged with
insulting a government body and inducing the woman to give false
evidence.
(AP, 1/23/13)(AP, 1/31/13)
2013 Jan 25, In China a scandal
involving Chinese city officials having sex with women hired by
developers who secretly videotaped the trysts to extort construction
deals broadened with state media announcing that 10 more officials
have been fired.
(AP, 1/25/13)
2013 Jan 26, Pennsylvania
police said Stephen Baker (62), a Franciscan friar, was found dead
of a self-inflicted knife wound at the St. Bernardine monastery.
Baker was named in recent settlements involving 11 men who alleged
that he sexually abused them 3 decades ago.
(SSFC, 1/27/13, p.A6)
2013 Jan 29, Mexican
immigration authorities said they have broken up a bizarre cult that
allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the US
border. The "Defensores de Cristo" or "Defenders of Christ"
allegedly recruited women to have sex with a Spanish man who claimed
he was the reincarnation of Christ.
(AP, 1/30/13)
2013 Jan 29, The Somali
government charged a woman who has said she was raped by security
forces. Human Rights Watch later said three other people including
the woman's husband were also charged with assisting the alleged
rape victim to evade investigators.
(AP, 1/31/13)
2013 Jan 31, The United Nations
demanded that Egyptian authorities act to bring perpetrators of
sexual assaults to justice, saying it had reports of 25 sexual
assaults on women in Tahrir rallies over the past week.
(AP, 2/2/13)
2013 Feb 1, In San Francisco a
ban on public nudity took effect.
(SSFC, 2/2/14, p.C1)
2013 Feb 2, Nebraska Lt. Gov.
Rick Sheehy resigned abruptly in a scandal involving thousands of
calls to four women on his state-issued cellphone, including one
woman who said she had a romantic relationship with the politician.
(AP, 2/2/13)
2013 Feb 2, South Africa
teenager Anene Booysen (17) was gang-raped, mutilated and left for
dead on a building construction site in the Western Cape. She lived
long enough to identify one of her attackers. Police on Feb 7 said
they have arrested a second suspect for the gang-rape. On May 21 a
magistrate said there was not enough evidence to try suspect
Jonathan Davids (22), her rejected boyfriend. On Nov 1 Johannes Kana
(21), a man convicted of raping and murdering the girl, was
sentenced to life in jail.
(AP, 2/7/13)(AP, 5/21/13)(AFP, 11/1/13)
2013 Feb 4, In Mexico a gang of
armed, masked men raped six Spanish tourists in the Mexican resort
of Acapulco.
(AP, 2/6/13)
2013 Feb 5, In Somalia a
Mogadishu court handed down one-year prison sentences to a woman who
said she was raped by security forces and a reporter who interviewed
her. The judges decided the woman falsely claimed she was raped and
had insulted the government. On March 3 an appeals court dropped
charges against the woman. A journalist who interviewed the rape
victim and was tried alongside her had his sentence reduced from one
year to six months.
(AP, 2/5/13)(AP, 3/3/13)
2013 Feb 7, In Ottowa, Canada,
police said Marc Leduc (56) has been charged with two counts of
first-degree murder in connection with the killing of two local sex
workers. Pamela Kosmac, 39, was found murdered in 2008 near a
bicycle path, while Leanne Lawson, 23, was found in a parking lot in
a central part of the city. Leduc was already in custody facing 11
charges related to an alleged sexual assault of a 19-year-old Ottawa
woman last November.
(AP, 2/8/13)
2013 Feb 16, A court in Egypt
ordered a TV channel that airs belly dancing clips off the air for
showing "sexually explicit" content and operating without a
broadcast license.
(AP, 2/16/13)
2013 Feb 16, In India the
bodies of three sisters — aged 7, 9 and 11 — were found in a village
well in Bhandara district in Maharashtra after they had gone missing
from school two days earlier. Police eventually registered a case of
rape and murder after a post-mortem of the girls found that they had
been sexually abused and brutally killed.
(AP, 2/22/13)
2013 Feb 18, In Maryland Dr.
Nikita A. Levy (54) was found dead. The gynecologist’s employment at
Johns Hopkins was terminated on Feb 8 following reports of his
surreptitiously photographing and videotaping his patients. In
2014 the John Hopkins Health System agreed to pay $190 million to
some 8,000 women to settle the case.
(SFC, 2/19/13, p.A7)(SFC, 7/22/14, p.A4)
2013 Feb 26, Human Rights Watch
said Sri Lankan security forces continue to use torture, rape and
other forms of sexual violence against suspected members of the
Tamil Tiger rebels and their supporters, nearly four years after the
end of the country's civil war. The military denied the allegations.
(AP, 2/26/13)
2013 Feb 27, British health
officials said gonorrhea cases have soared by 25 percent in the past
year in England as superbug or drug-resistant strains of the
sexually transmitted infection (STI) take hold worldwide.
(AP, 2/27/13)
2013 Feb 27, Brazilian police
said Father Emilson Soares Correa, a Roman Catholic priest, is being
investigated for allegations of sexual abuse of three young girls in
his parish in Niteroi, a city across Guanabara Bay from Rio de
Janeiro.
(AP, 2/27/13)
2013 Feb, Malaysian restaurant
manager Riduan Masmud (40) was charged with committing statutory
rape with a girl (13) in a parked car in Borneo. He later defended
his actions by saying he has married the girl.
(AP, 5/22/13)
2013 Mar 1, In Japan US Seaman
Christopher Browning (24), of Athens, Texas, and Petty Officer 3rd
Class Skyler Dozierwalker (23), of Muskogee, Oklahoma, were found
guilty by the Naha District Court of raping and robbing a woman in
her 20s in a parking lot in October. Both admitted committing the
crime. Browning was sentenced to 10 years and Dozierwalker received
nine years.
(AP, 3/1/13)
2013 Mar 3, Scottish Cardinal
Keith O’Brien acknowledged having engaged in unspecified sexual
misbehaviour, apologized for his actions a d recused himself from
the conclave to select a new pope.
(SFC, 3/4/13, p.A3)
2013 Mar 8, In South Africa
statistics say someone gets raped every four minutes. A woman is
also killed by an intimate partner every eight hours, a probable
underestimate because no perpetrator is identified in 20 percent of
killings.
(AP, 3/8/13)
2013 Mar 15, In Britain Dr.
Davinderjit Bains, arrested last year, admitted 39 charges against
30 victims, including sexual assault, voyeurism and sexual activity
with a child. He had used a Tieex 4GB Waterproof HD Spy Watch DVR,
which has a camera on its face, to record assaults on patients at
his practice in Royal Wootton Bassett in western England.
(AP, 3/15/13)
2013 Mar 15, In India a Swiss
woman (39) on a cycling trip in Madhya Pradesh state with her
husband was gang-raped by eight men. On March 17 police arrested 5
men, who admitted to the attack. At least 2 others remained at
large.
(AP, 3/16/13)(AP, 3/17/13)
2013 Mar 16, In Texas Air Force
Staff Sgt. Eddy Soto was sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and 4
years in prison for raping a female trainee. Over 30 Lackland
instructors have been investigated in the military sex scandal. Soto
was the 9th trainer convicted and sentenced.
(SFC, 3/18/13, p.A5)
2013 Mar 17, In Ohio 2 members
of the Steubenville high school football team were found guilty of
raping a drunken 16-year-old girl after a drinking party last August
11. On Nov 25 a superintendent and two coaches were charged with
lying or failure to report possible child abuse.
(SFC, 3/18/13, p.A5)(SFC, 11/26/13, p.A6)
2013 Mar 21, India passed
anti-rape legislation that included a controversial provision
setting the age of sexual consent at 18.
(SFC, 3/22/13, p.A6)
2013 Mar 22, In Ireland Patrick
McCabe (77), a former Catholic priest who had worked in California,
was sentenced to 18 month in prison for assaulting two boys decades
ago in Ireland.
(SFC, 3/23/13, p.C2)
2013 Mar 26, In Libya 3 British
female activists of Pakistani origin were kidnapped and raped in the
eastern city of Benghazi. Pro-government militiamen were suspected.
The women were part of an overland aid convoy bound for Gaza.
(AP, 3/29/13)
2013 Mar 31, In Brazil a French
man and US woman studying Portuguese were held for hours while the
woman was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport van they
boarded in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach neighborhood. Three
men, ages 20 to 22, were soon taken into custody and a third was
being sought in connection with the attack. Police later detained a
14-year-old suspected of participating in the attack. On Aug 14
three men were convicted of grand theft, rape and extortion.
(AP, 4/2/13)(SFC, 4/3/13, p.A3)(SFC, 4/9/13,
p.A2)(Reuters, 8/15/13)
2013 Apr 1, Gaza's
Hamas-controlled parliament announced a new law requiring separate
classes for boys and girls in public and private schools from the
fourth grade rather than the current 7th grade. The education law
also bars male teachers from teaching in girls' schools. It will go
effect at the start of the new school year in September.
(AP, 4/1/13)
2013 Apr 7, In Halifax, Canada,
Rehtaeh Parsons (17) died after being removed from life support
following a suicide attempt by hanging on April 4. She had killed
herself after a photo of her allegedly being sexually assaulted in
Nov, 2011, circulated online. In August one man (18) was charged
with two counts of distributing child pornography and the second man
(18) was charged with making child pornography and distributing it.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Rehtaeh_Parsons)(AP,
8/9/13)
2013 Apr 10, A Danish man (31)
was acquitted of molesting two 17-year-old girls after he was found
to suffer from a rare sleep disorder known as "sexsomnia."
(AP, 4/12/13)
2013 Apr 13, Congolese Justice
Minister Wivine Mumba said a dozen senior officers in the Congolese
army have been arrested for responsibility for mass rapes committed
by several army units in eastern Congo in November 2012.
(AP, 4/13/13)
2013 Apr 17, In India a
5-year-old girl was found after being raped and tortured by a man
who held her in a locked room in New Delhi for two days. Manoj Kumar
(24), who lived in the room where the girl was found, was arrested
on April 20 in Muzaffarpur town, Bihar state. The girl remained in
serious condition. Kumar led police to a 2nd suspect, Pradeep Kumar
(19), who was arrested April 22.
(AP, 4/20/13)(AP, 4/22/13)
2013 Apr 20, Police in
Nicaragua detained Eric Justin Toth, a former US school teacher, who
was on the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child
pornography investigation.
(AP, 4/23/13)
2013 Apr 26, British celebrity
publicist Max Clifford (70) was charged with 11 counts of indecent
assault, including on two underage girls. He was arrested in
December as part of an investigation into sex crime allegations
against the late Jimmy Savile.
(Reuters, 4/26/13)
2013 Apr 27, In Indonesia an
Australia woman (28) was attacked and raped while vacationing with
her family near Bali’s popular Kuta beach. Her assailant also stole
stole three iPads, two cellphones and $154 in cash.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, On California a
jury in Santa Ana convicted Catherine Kieu (50) of torture and
aggravated mayhem. She was accused of drugging her husband (60) and
then severing his penis and tossing it into the garbage disposal.
She was jealous of his plans to divorce her because he was seeing
his ex-girlfriend.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A4)
2013 May 1, Bill Roache,
Britain’s longest-serving soap actor, was arrested on suspicion of a
1967 rape.
(SFC, 5/2/13, p.A2)
2013 May 2, British news media
reported that Stuart Hall (83) had pleaded guilty last month
to sex abuse charges against young girls decades ago. Media were
barred from reporting the plea until now.
(SFC, 5/3/13, p.A5)
2013 May 4, Nigel Evans (55), a
member of PM David Cameron's Conservative party, was detained over
sexual attacks allegedly carried out at his home in Lancashire,
northern England between July 2009 and March of this year. Evans had
announced in 2010 that he was gay.
(AP, 5/5/13)
2013 May 6, US Air Force Lt.
Col. Jeffrey Krusinsky (41), head of Air Force sexual assault
prevention, was arrested on charges of groping a woman a day earlier
in a suburban Virginia parking lot.
(SFC, 5/8/13, p.A8)
2013 May 6, In Cleveland 3
women, Amanda Berry (27), Gina DeJesus (23) and Michelle Knight
(32), who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were
in their teens or early 20s, were found alive in a residential area
just south of downtown. 3 brothers, Ariel Castro (52), Pedro (54)
and Onil Castro (50) were arrested. On May 8 Ariel Castro was
charged with kidnapping and rape of the 3 women. His two borthers
were not charged. On July 26 Ariel Castro pleaded guilty to 937
counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty.
(AP, 5/7/13)(AP, 5/8/13)(SFC, 5/8/13, p.A10)(AP,
5/9/13)(SFC, 7/27/13, p.A6)
2013 May 8, Guinea's leading
human rights group confirmed that a member of the country's
paramilitary police unit was found guilty of raping a female
demonstrator inside the national soccer stadium during the Sep 28,
2009, pro-democracy rally.
(AP, 5/8/13)
2013 May 12, It was reported
that an upsurge of gang rapes has hit the breakaway region of
Somaliland. Rights activists and medical officials said least 84
women have been raped since the beginning of this year.
(AP, 5/12/13)
2013 May 15, The Vatican
ordered disgraced Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland
for several months to pray and atone for sexual misconduct, issuing
a rare public sanction against a "prince of the church" and the
first such punishment meted out by Pope Francis.
(AP, 5/15/13)
2013 May 19, Tunisian feminist
Amina Sboui (19), aka Amina Tyler, who scandalized her country by
posting topless photos of herself online, was arrested after
allegedly sneaking into Tunisia's holiest city disguised in a veil,
then trying to get undressed during a protest. Sboui was freed from
jail on Aug 1, but still faced trial for profanation of a
cemetery.
(AP, 5/20/13)(AP, 8/1/13)
2013 May 20, In New York
Brooklyn assemblyman Vito Lopez resigned following allegations that
he had groped or harassed at least 8 young female staffers.
(Econ, 5/25/13, p.32)
2013 May 22, Army Secretary
John McHugh and Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno told a Senate
panel they were addressing the service's sexual harassment and
sexual assault problem as their top priority. They revealed that
Sergeant First Class Michael McClendon was charged last week for
videotaping female cadets in the showers at West Point.
(Reuters, 5/22/13)
2013 May 23, Lawyers said an
order of the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay $16.5 million
to more than 400 adults who said they were sexually abused as
children by religious leaders. The victims claimed abuse at schools
and child-care facilities belonging to the Christian Brothers and
the Christian Brothers of Ireland, Inc, in 17 US states and Canada
from the late 1940s or early 1950s until the 1980s.
(Reuters, 5/23/13)
2013 May 24, An Egyptian
security official said 10 male relatives have killed a mother and
her two daughters on suspicion of moral offenses, so-called "honor
killings."
(AP, 5/24/13)
2013 May 25, In Turkey some 100
people kissed for several minutes at a subway stop in Ankara after
subway officials earlier in the week made an announcement asking
passengers "to act in accordance with moral rules" after security
cameras spotted a couple kissing.
(AP, 5/26/13)
2013 Jun 4, India’s police
reported that an American tourist was gang-raped in the northern
resort town of Manali. 3 men picked her up in a truck while she was
hitchhiking, then drove to a secluded spot and raped her. Himachal
Pradesh police on June 6 arrested 3 Nepalese men in connection to
her rape.
(AP, 6/5/13)(SFC, 6/7/13, p.A5)
2013 Jun 5, India’s police said
they have arrested a man accused of raping an Irish woman (21) who
volunteered at a children's charity in the Indian city of Kolkata.
(AP, 6/5/13)
2013 Jun 6, Bolivian officials
said Quachua villagers in the southern highlands buried alive Santos
Ramos (17) in the grave of Leandra Arias Janco (35), for her rape
and murder on June 2.
(SFC, 6/8/13, p.A2)
2013 Jun 18, Mexican
authorities arrested Walter Lee Williams (64), a former university
professor who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, in
the resort city of Playa del Carmen. He was wanted on charges of
sexual exploitation of children and traveling abroad for the purpose
of engaging in sexual acts with children.
(AP, 6/19/13)
2013 Jun 19, The US Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Md., charged 3 Navy football players with
sexually assaulting a female midshipman at an off-campus house in
April, 2012.
(SFC, 6/20/13, p.A7)
2013 Jun 24, In Italy former
premier Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to seven years in prison and
banned from politics for life for paying an underage prostitute for
sex during infamous "bunga bunga" parties and forcing public
officials to cover it up. He still had two levels of appeal.
(AP, 6/25/13)
2013 Jun 26, In Ukraine Irina
Krashkova (29) was beaten and raped by local police in Vradiyevka.
The officers involved were not arrested until enraged residents
stormed the police station in protest.
(AP, 7/21/13)(http://tinyurl.com/lf25gh4)
2013 Jun 27, The UN raised the
alarm about the recent rape of 9 girls in eastern Congo. The
youngest was 18 months old and 2 of the girls died.
(SFC, 6/28/13, p.A2)
2013 Jun 29, In Tennessee
Vanderbilt University said it has dismissed four football players
from the team and suspended them from the university as the result
of a sex crimes investigation.
(CSM, 6/30/13)
2013 Jul 1, In southern
California police arrested high school teacher Laura Elizabeth
Whitehurst (28), two weeks after giving birth, for allegedly having
had unlawful sex with a student (16).
(SFC, 7/3/13, p.A5)
2013 Jul 1, Connecticut’s
Fairfield Univ. and others that supported a charity, designed to
help feed and educate boys in Haiti, reached a $12 million
settlement with children who were sexually abused by Douglas
Perlitz, a founder of the group. Perlitz was sentenced to
nearly 20 years in prison in 2011 for the assaults at the Project
Pierre Toussaint School.
(SFC, 7/2/13, p.A4)
2013 Jul 10, In southern
California three former allies of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner called
on him to resign, saying several women had approached them
describing instances of sexual harassment.
(Econ, 8/10/13, p.24)
2013 Jul 11, Pope Francis
overhauled the laws that govern the Vatican City State,
criminalizing leaks of Vatican information and specifically listing
sexual violence, prostitution and possession of child pornography as
crimes against children that can be punished by up to 12 years in
prison.
(AP, 7/11/13)
2013 Jul 18, In Martinez, Ca.,
Marcelles Peter (20) of Pinole and Jose Montano (22) of Richmond
were found guilty of nuumerous felony charges in the Oct 24, 2009,
gang rape of a girl (16) outside Richmond High School (see Oct 23,
2009).
(SFC, 7/19/13, p.A1)
2013 Jul 17, In Dubai Marte
Deborah Dalelv (24), a Norwegian woman, was sentenced to 16 months
in jail for having sex outside marriage after she reported an
alleged rape. On July 19 she decided to speak out in hopes of
drawing attention to the risks of outsiders misunderstanding the
Islamic-influenced legal codes in this cosmopolitan city. Norwegian
diplomats secured her release and she has been allowed to remain at
the Norwegian Seamen's Center in central Dubai. She said her alleged
attacker received a 13-month sentence for out-of-wedlock sex and
alcohol consumption. On July 22 Dubai pardoned Dalelv.
(AP, 7/19/13)(Reuters, 7/22/13)
2013 Jul 19, Ohio police
arrested Michael Madison (35), a registered sex offender, after
finding a female body in a garage in East Cleveland. Two more bodies
were found the next day. Authorities believed the victims were
killed in the last 6-10 days.
(SFC, 7/22/13, p.A4)
2013 Jul 20, An Indian court
sentenced six men, convicted of the gang rape last March 15 of a
Swiss woman, to life in prison.
(Reuters, 7/20/13)
2013 Jul 22, In San Diego, Ca.,
Irene McCormack, the former communications director for Mayor Bob
Filner, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Filner alleging
unwanted sexual advances that included demands to work without
panties.
(SFC, 7/23/13, p.A5)
2013 Jul 24, Virginia Johnson
(b.1925), pioneering sex therapist and researcher, died in St.
Louis. She and her husband, William Masters (d.2001), had authored
books that included “Human Sexual Response" (1966) and “Human Sexual
Inadequacy" (1970.
(SFC, 7/26/13, p.D7)
2013 Jul 29, US officials said
the FBI has arrested 150 people across the country on charges of
holding children against their will for prostitution in a three-day
weekend sweep. Officials called this the largest-ever operation
against child sex-trafficking.
(Reuters, 7/29/13)
2013 Jul 30, Morocco’s King
Mohamed VI pardoned 48 jailed Spaniards at the request of Spain's
King Juan Carlos, who visited Morocco last month. Included in the
pardon was Spanish pedophile Daniel Fino Galvan, convicted 18 months
ago by criminal courts in Kenitra, near Rabat, of raping and filming
children aged between 4 and 15. He was serving a 30-year sentence
for raping 11 children.
(Reuters, 8/1/13)
2013 Aug 1, In Ohio Ariel
Castro (53), the man convicted of holding three women captive and
raping them for a decade, was sentenced to life without parole plus
1,000 years.
(SFC, 8/2/13, p.A6)
2013 Aug 3, Morocco’s King
Mohamed VI revoked a pardon granted on July 30 to Spanish pedophile
Daniel Fino Galvan. Galvan, already back in Spain, was soon arrested
by Spanish authorities.
(Reuters, 8/6/13)
2013 Aug 6, In China a panel of
the Shanghai Communist Party Committee said that three Shanghai
Supreme Court officials had "participated in prostitution"
after being invited to dinner. A fourth court official had accepted
female companionship but did not take a woman to a room. A
whistleblower had filed a police complaint in April, but "the case
went nowhere" and he therefore decided to post the video online
instead of going to the police again. His case triggered the
investigation.
(AP, 8/7/13)
2013 Aug 16, In California a US
District Judge ruled that a Los Angeles County law requiring adult
film performers to wear condoms is constitutional.
(SSFC, 8/18/13, p.A12)
2013 Aug 22, Sources said that
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (70) will resign as part of a mediation
deal reached in his sexual harassment lawsuit. At least 18 women
have accused Filner of sexual harassment.
(SFC, 8/23/13, p.A5)
2013 Aug 22, In India a young
photojournalist was repeatedly raped by five men in a deserted
textile mill in Mumbai. One suspect was arrested the next day. On
April 4, 2014, three of the men were sentenced to death and a 4th
was sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 8/24/13)(SFC, 8/24/13, p.A5)(SFC, 4/5/14,
p.A2)
2013 Aug 24, In India police
arrested a 2nd man in the gang rape of a young photojournalist in
Mumbai, and said they had enough evidence to prosecute those
responsible for a crime that has renewed public outcry over sexual
violence in the country. The victim (22) remained in a hospital and
was recovering well after being repeatedly raped by five men on Aug
22 in a deserted textile mill.
(AP, 8/24/13)
2013 Aug 25, In Massachusetts 3
suburban Boston high school soccer players used a broomstick to rape
one freshmen and try to rape two others at a sports team-building
retreat in the Berkshires at Camp Lenox in Otis.
(SFC, 9/4/13, p.A5)
2013 Aug 25, India’s police
arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a
photojournalist in Mumbai.
(AP, 8/25/13)
2013 Aug 26, In Montana
defendant Stacey Rambold (54) received a 15 year sentence with all
but one month suspended for the rape of student Cherice Moralez (14)
in 2008. Morales committed suicide in 2010, a few weeks before her
seventeenth birthday and before the case went to trial. On Sep 4
state prosecutors said they are appealing the sentence. Rambold was
released on Sep 26. On April 30, 2014, the state Supreme Court ruled
that the one month sentence was too short.
(http://tinyurl.com/mjks62n)(SFC, 9/7/13,
p.A4)(SFC, 9/27/13, p.A7)(SFC, 5/1/14, p.A8)
2013 Aug 26, Zurich,
Switzerland, launched publicly funded, drive-in, open wooden garages
to make prostitution less of a public nuisance and safer for women.
(AP, 8/26/13)
2013 Aug 28, In China Li Tianyi
(17), the teenage son of a prominent Chinese general, denied the
charge of gang rape, inflaming public anger in a case that has
stirred resentment against the offspring of the political elite who
are widely seen as spoiled. In 2011 he drove a BMW into another car
in Beijing, beat up the couple inside the vehicle and then scoffed
at bystanders about calling the police. Tianyi was one of five
accused of assaulting a woman in a Beijing hotel in February. On Sep
26 a court sentenced Tianyi to 10 years in prison for his role in
the rape. Two juvenile accomplices, who pleaded guilty, were given
suspended sentences and released.
(Reuters, 8/28/13)(Econ, 10/26/13, p.53)
2013 Aug 31, An Indian teenager
was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention for the December
gang rape of a trainee physiotherapist, the first verdict in a case
that sparked debate over whether India is too soft on young
offenders. The woman died in a Singapore hospital two weeks after
the December 16 attack.
(Reuters, 8/31/13)
2013 Sep 1, In India Asaram
Bapu, a controversial spiritual guru, was arrested on a rape charge
filed by a teenage girl in the northwestern state of Rajasthan.
(AP, 9/1/13)
2013 Sep 4, In India holyman
Baba Premdas (60) was found bleeding late in northern Uttar Pradesh
state after severing his genitals in what reports said was a protest
at last week's arrest of Asaram Bapu, a self-styled Hindu holyman.
(AFP, 9/5/13)
2013 Sep 10, In Louisiana local
and federal law officials said they have arrested Van Draylan Dixson
(38), a neighborhood watch volunteer, on suspicion of raping four
women in Dallas.
(SFC, 9/11/13, p.A4)
2013 Sep 10, An Indian court
convicted four men in the deadly gang rape of a young woman on a
moving New Delhi bus.
(AP, 9/10/13)
2013 Sep 10, Lawmakers in
Switzerland, where prostitution is legal, agreed to make it a
criminal act to pay for sex with anyone who is under 18 years old.
(AP, 9/10/13)
2013 Sep 11, In Sierra Leone a
statement from the office of the president said Mamoud Tarawalie,
the country's deputy education minister, has been relieved of his
duties "with immediate effect" because he was facing "sexual assault
and rape" allegations.
(AP, 9/12/13)
2013 Sep 20, In Peru Luis
Bambaren, the former president of Peru's bishops' conference and
bishop emeritus of Chimbote, told local media that Gabino Miranda
has been dismissed as auxiliary bishop in the dioceses of Ayacucho,
a poor Andean region in southern Peru, after he was accused of
having sexual relations with minors.
(Reuters, 9/20/13)
2013 Sep 26, In China the
teenage son of two celebrity singers for the Chinese military was
convicted of rape and sentenced to 10 years in prison, in a case the
public closely watched for signs of leniency because of his family
ties.
(AP, 9/26/13)
2013 Oct 1, Colorado teenager
Austin Reed Sigg (18), who confessed to abducting, killing and
dismembering a 10-year-old girl last year, pleaded guilty to
first-degree murder, sexual assault and also to the botched
kidnapping of a female jogger months before the killing.
(Reuters, 10/1/13)
2013 Oct 2, Polish police said
they have located Rev. Wojciech Gil, a priest sought by Interpol on
suspicion he sexually abused children in the Dominican Republic,
where he led a parish in the mountain town of Juncalito for eight
years.
(AP, 10/2/13)
2013 Oct 4, Poland's Catholic
Church said it will not pay compensation to victims of priests who
sexually abused children. Rev. Jozef Kloch said in comments aired by
Polish Radio 1 that the responsibility for compensation lies with
the perpetrator.
(AP, 10/4/13)
2013 Oct 8, A Saudi court
sentenced a preacher convicted of raping his five-year-old daughter
and torturing her to death to eight years in prison and 800 lashes.
The court also ordered Fayhan al-Ghamdi to pay his ex-wife, the
girl's mother, one million riyals ($270,000) in "blood money."
Ghamdi's second wife, accused of taking part in the crime, was
sentenced to 10 months in prison and 150 lashes.
(AFP, 10/8/13)
2013 Oct 9, Sex workers in the
legendary London district of Soho demonstrated in carnival masks and
negligees against evictions they claim threaten their safety and the
unique nature of the area.
(AFP, 10/9/13)
2013 Oct 10, Kenyans demanded
justice after three men accused of brutally gang raping a school
girl (16) and dumping her in a pit latrine were ordered to cut grass
as punishment.
(AFP, 10/10/13)
2013 Oct 15, Bob Filner (71),
the former mayor of San Diego, pleaded guilty to a series of false
imprisonment and battery charges involving three women. He faced
three years of probation and house confinement as well as a six
month loss of pension benefits.
(SFC, 10/16/12, p.A5)
2013 Oct 18, French osteopath
Pierre Pallardy (72) was sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping
and sexually assaulting female patients. His list of famous clients
included Pablo Picasso and Rudolf Nureyev.
(AFP, 10/18/13)
2013 Oct 21, South African
prosecutors said a man arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering
two toddlers in a Johannesburg slum has confessed, after the case
sparked violent riots last week.
(AFP, 10/21/13)
2013 Oct 23, A Nevada jury
found Saudi Arabian air force Sgt. Mazen Alotaibi guilty of sexually
assaulting a boy (13) at the Circu Circus hotel in las Vegas on New
Year’s Eve.
(SFC, 10/24/12, p.A6)
2013 Oct 26, In Manchester,
England, Ray Teret (72), the former driver for disgraced late BBC
entertainer Jimmy Savile appeared in court to face charges including
multiple counts of raping girls younger than 16.
(AP, 10/26/13)
2013 Nov 4, New Zealand police
said they were investigating a gang of young males who boasted
online about stupefying underage girls with alcohol then having
group sex with them. The case has raised concerns about how to
police online bullying.
(AFP, 11/4/13)
2013 Nov 5, Lyon-based Interpol
said it was waiting for information from Dutch authorities after a
rights group said it had identified 1,000 paedophiles by offering
online sex with a computer-generated girl (10).
(AFP, 11/5/13)
2013 Nov 10, Spanish police
said they have busted a gang of 25 Nigerians who were engaged in
human trafficking for sexual exploitation, Internet fraud and money
laundering.
(AP, 11/10/13)
2013 Nov 15, Toronto police
said a global investigation into a Canadian child porn website has
led to the arrest of 341 people including teachers, doctors and
police officers, and the rescue of 386 sexually abused children.
(AFP, 11/15/13)
2013 Nov 16, In Texas Franklin
Davis of the Dallas area was sentenced to death for the killing his
children’s babysitter, Shania Gray (16), to prevent her from
testifying that he had raped her.
(SSFC, 11/17/13, p.A8)
2013 Nov 23, In Santa Cruz,
Ca., Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes (51) died on his 50-foot
yacht following a heroin injection given by Alix Catherine Tichelman
(26), a high-priced call girl. The action was caught on video and
Tichelman was arrested on July 4, 2014.
(SFC, 7/10/14, p.A1)
2013 Nov 21, The UN in Somalia
called for a "proper investigation" after police arrested an alleged
rape victim and the journalists who reported her story for
defamation.
(AFP, 11/21/13)
2013 Nov 27, In Northern
Ireland Liam Adams (58), the brother of Sinn Fein president Gerry
Adams, was jailed for 16 years for raping his own daughter in the
late 1970s and early 1980s, when she was between 4 and 9 years old.
(AFP, 11/27/13)
2013 Nov 30, The French
parliament backed a reform of the country's prostitution law that
will impose a 1,500-euro fine on anyone paying for sex. The bill
will give France some of the toughest legislation on prostitution in
Europe, similar to that of Sweden.
(Reuters, 11/30/13)
2013 Nov 30, In India Tehelka
Editor Tarun Tejpal (50) was taken into custody for allegedly
assaulting a female colleague in the elevator of a hotel in Goa.
Tejpal was charged on Feb 17, 2014, for sexual assault and rape.
Tehelka magazine was one that pushed Indian society to confront
corruption and sexual violence.
(SFC, 2/18/14, p.A2)
2013 Dec 2, In central Poland a
priest (49) was sentenced to more than eight years after being
convicted of sexually abusing five boys.
(AP, 12/2/13)
2013 Dec 4, Nigerian police
said that they raided a home and freed 16 pregnant girls and young
women allegedly being forced to have babies to be sold.
(AFP, 12/4/13)
2013 Dec 9, A Somali court
sentenced to jail a woman (19) who said she was raped and two
journalists who broadcast her story, saying they were guilty of
defamation and insulting state institutions. The woman, who is also
a journalist, was handed a suspended six-month jail sentence for
defamation and lying, during which time she will be confined to her
home.
(AFP, 12/9/13)
2013 Dec 18, A British judge
sentenced the former lead singer of the rock band Lostprophets to 29
years in jail, saying that Ian Watkins had "plumbed new depths of
depravity" in committing a string of sexual offenses against very
young children.
(AP, 12/18/13)
2013 Dec 19, Al Goldstein (77),
the publisher of Screw magazine, died at a Brooklyn hospice. He and
Jim Buckley co-founded the magazine in 1968 and it continued to
2003.
(SFC, 12/20/13, p.D9)
2013 Dec 20, Canada's highest
court struck down the country's anti-prostitution laws, a victory
for sex workers who had argued that a ban on brothels and other
measures made their profession more dangerous.
(AP, 12/20/13)
2013 Dec 31, In India a
pregnant girl (16) died in Kolkata following severe burn injuries.
She had been raped two times On Oct 25-26 and ended up in a hospital
on Dec 23 with sever burn injuries. Her family said she was set on
fire by associates of those who had gang raped her.
(AP, 1/7/14)
2013 Shereen El Feki authored
“Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World."
(SSFC, 2/17/13, p.F1)(Econ, 3/30/13, p.81)
2013 Estelle B. Freedman
authored “Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage
and Segregation."
(SSFC, 9/15/13, p.F7)
2014 Jan 2, South Korea's
military said it would fight a court ruling quashing its move to
kick an officer candidate out of the elite Army Academy for having
sex with his girlfriend while on leave.
(Reuters, 1/2/14)
2014 Jan 8, Seventeen people
related to the San Diego street gang BMS were arrested in California
and New Jersey by police and FBI agents for operating a prostitution
ring that spanned 46 cities in 23 states.
(SFC, 1/10/14, p.A5)
2014 Jan 8, Seventeen people
related to the San Diego street gang BMS were arrested in California
and New Jersey by police and FBI agents for operating a prostitution
ring that spanned 46 cities in 23 states.
(SFC, 1/10/14, p.A5)
2014 Jan 10, French President
Francois Hollande threatened legal action over a Closer magazine
report saying he is having a secret affair with actress Julie Gayet.
Hollande’s wife Valerie Trierweiler was hospitalized following the
news.
(AP, 1/10/14)(SFC, 1/13/14, p.A2)
2014 Jan 14, In India a Danish
tourist (51) was gang-raped, robbed and beaten near a popular
shopping area in New Delhi after she got lost and approached a group
of men for directions back to her hotel.
(AP, 1/15/14)
2014 Jan 16, The Catholic
diocese of Stockton, Ca., filed for bankruptcy after pauing millions
of dollars to plaintiffs who made sexual abuse allegations during
the past two decades.
(SFC, 1/17/14, p.A8)
2014 Jan 16, In Utah 5 people
were found dead after co-workers reported that police officer Joshua
Boren (34) failed to show up for his shift at the Lindon Police
Dept. Boren had shot and killed his wife, mother-in-law and two
children before killing himself. Kelly Boren had just confronted her
husband about raping her and told him their marriage was over.
(SFC, 1/18/14, p.A4)(AP, 7/8/14)
2014 Jan 16, British police
working alongside counterparts in the Philippines and Australia said
they had dismantled a paedophile ring that streamed live sexual
abuse of Filipino children as young as six over the Internet, with
victims' parents involved in some cases.
(AFP, 1/16/14)
2014 Jan 17, It was reported
that Pope Benedict XVI defrocked 384 priests from 2011-2012 for
sexually molesting children. This was a dramatic increase over the
171 priests removed in 2008 and 2009, when the Vatican first
provided details on the number of priests defrocked.
(AP, 1/17/14)
2014 Jan 20, In India a woman
(20) was assaulted by 13 men in Birbhum district in West Bengal.
Police later said was gang-raped on the orders of a village court as
punishment for having a relationship with a man from a different
community. The village chief and all 13 men were soon arrested.
(Reuters, 1/23/14)
2014 Jan 21, China executed a
man who held six women as sex slaves in an underground prison and
killed two of them, in a crime which shocked the nation. Li Hao (36)
was convicted of murder and rape in Luoyang Intermediate People's
Court in the central province of Henan in 2012.
(Reuters, 1/21/14)
2014 Jan 27, South Africa’s
Pres. Zuma signed a “DNA Act" to match more sexual offenders,
including many who break the law more than once, with their crimes,
exonerate the wrongly accused and crack cold cases.
(AP, 2/21/14)
2014 Jan 29, In France Bayern
Munich winger Franck Ribery and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema
were acquitted on charges of soliciting an underage prostitute,
ending a case that has lasted more than three years and tarnished
both players' reputation.
(AP, 1/30/14)
2014 Feb 3, Macedonia's
parliament adopted a bill imposing chemical castration on repeat
offenders convicted of sexually abusing children. On Feb 5 the
country's leading child protection group said that the law is still
too lenient.
(AP, 2/5/14)
2014 Feb 5, A UN human rights
committee urged the Holy See to open its files on pedophiles and
bishops who concealed their crimes saying the Vatican
"systematically" adopted policies that allowed priests to rape and
molest tens of thousands of children over decades.
(AP, 2/5/14)
2014 Feb 8, In India an angry
crowd gathered outside a Delhi police station to protest poor
policing and racist treatment of people in the northeast after a
14-year-old girl from that part of India filed charges of rape in
the capital.
(Reuters, 2/8/14)
2014 Feb 9, Danish director
Lars von Trier brought an extra-long version of his "Nymphomaniac
Volume I" to the Berlin International Film Festival, a cut that
increases to nearly 2½ hours the first installment of the two-part
drama about a woman's sexual life from girlhood to age 50.
(AP, 2/9/14)
2014 Feb 14, The Chinese
government sacked the police chief of the southern "sin city" of
Dongguan following a candid report by the state broadcaster on the
underground sex industry there.
(Reuters, 2/14/14)
2014 Feb 14, In Germany
Agriculture Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich announced his resignation
over claims he leaked confidential information about an
international child porn probe.
(AFP, 2/14/14)
2014 Feb 15, In Pakistan a
cleric ordered that a woman be stoned to death after her husband
found her with another man. She was stoned to death and an autopsy
revealed that her skull had been shattered with a brick, and that
she had multiple ax wounds. Six people were arrested on Feb 17 in
connection with the stoning.
(AP, 2/18/14)
2014 Feb 17, In Zimbabwe former
US Rep. Melvin Jay Reynolds (62) was arrested on suspicion of
possessing pornography and an immigration offence. Reynolds, an
Illinois Democrat, resigned from his congressional seat in 1995
after he was convicted of 12 counts of statutory rape, obstruction
of justice and solicitation of child pornography. On Feb 21 a judge
dismissed the pornography charges but ordered Reynolds to pay a fine
or face jail time after pleading guilty to charges of violating the
country's immigration laws.
(AP, 2/18/14)(AP, 2/21/14)
2014 Feb 18, Polish prosecutors
said they have charged a Catholic priest (Wojciech G.) with four
counts of sex abuse against children in Poland and in the Dominican
Republic, where he was working in a rural parish.
(Reuters, 2/18/14)
2014 Feb 19, Libya said it will
offer compensation to women raped during the 2011 NATO-backed
uprising that toppled Moammar Khadafy.
(SFC, 2/20/14, p.A2)
2014 Feb 21, The head of
Croatia's Bishops Conference, Archbishop Zelimir Puljic, said the
Rev. Nedeljko Ivanov has been found guilty of sexually abusing
minors in 1980s and 1990s. Ivanov was ordered to apologize to the
victims and donate part of his pension to charity.
(AP, 2/22/14)
2014 Feb 26, Canadian
anesthesiologist Dr. George Doodnaught (65) was sentenced to 10
years in prison for sexually assaulting 21 sedated women.
(SFC, 2/27/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 7, In Fort Hood,
Texas, Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen, a coordinator of the
post’s sexual assault and harassment program, was charged with 21
counts of pandering, conspiracy and maltreatment of a subordinate.
(SSFC, 3/9/14, p.A9)
2014 Mar 10, South Africa said
it will ask Mozambican authorities to investigate reports of sexual
abuse of its female nationals held in the neighbouring country's
jails.
(AFP, 3/10/14)
2014 Mar 11, Eric Toth, a
former Washington private school teacher, was sentenced to 25 years
in prison in a child pornography case. He was captured in Nicaragua
in 2013 after a year on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives list.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 13, US border agent
Esteban Manzanares (32) committed suicide. He was accused of
kidnapping and assaulting an immigrant woman, her daughter and
another girl a day earlier in Mission, Texas.
(SFC, 3/15/14, p.A10)(AP, 3/17/14)
2014 Mar 14, In Pakistan a
woman died after setting herself on fire a day earlier outside a
police station after reporting men tried to rape her died. The
woman's brother had filed a complaint with police in January, saying
his sister had been abducted and the assailants tried to rape her.
(AP, 3/14/14)
2014 Mar 21, An Indian court
sentenced four men to life in prison for raping a call-center
operator last August inside an abandoned textile mill in the
financial hub of Mumbai.
(AP, 3/21/14)(SFC, 3/21/14, p.A5)
2014 Mar 21, Uganda news
reported that authorities have ordered a police investigation into
complaints by elite female runners that they suffered sexual
harassment and abuse from a top athletics coach.
(AFP, 3/21/14)
2014 Mar 22, Pope Francis named
the initial members of a commission to advise him on sex abuse
policy, tapping lay and religious experts.
(AP, 3/22/14)
2014 Mar 24, British Judge
Jonathan Gosling Francis sentenced Paul Cullen (85), a former
Catholic priest who spent decades on the run, to 15 years in jail
for sexually abusing seven children between 1957 and 1991.
(AFP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 27, China’s Xinhua
state news said a Wuhu city court has sentenced to death a rapist
who posed as a female on social networks to lure 16 girls to meet
him. Wang Yong (40) was sentenced earlier this month for raping the
girls aged 12 to 16 starting in 2009.
(AP, 3/27/14)
2014 Mar 27, South Korea
formally approved a request from women rights activists, including
one "comfort woman", to meet North Korean counterparts at a
conference on Japan's wartime use of sex slaves.
(AFP, 3/27/14)
2014 Mar 27, A scandal in
Uganda over alleged sex abuse of female runners deepened after it
emerged that Moses Kipsiro, the athlete who exposed the issue, was
dropped from the national half-marathon team.
(AFP, 3/27/14)
2014 Mar 28, Italian bishops
published guidelines adopting a Vatican-backed sex abuse policy that
says they have no obligation to inform police if they suspect a
child has been molested.
(SFC, 3/29/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 31, In Connecticut The
Rev. Paul Gotta was arrested on seven sexual assault charges. Police
say the assaults took place over the span of a year beginning in
January 2012. He was arrested by federal authorities last year on
charges including illegally transferring a gun, ammunition and
explosive material to a juvenile.
(AP, 4/1/14)
2014 Mar 31, Two Tunisian
police officers were convicted of raping a young woman in September
2012, and sentenced to seven years in prison in a case that drew
widespread protests after the victim was initially accused of
immoral behavior.
(AP, 4/1/14)
2014 Apr 2, In Mexico
Cuauhtemoc Gutierrez de la Torre, president of the PRI in Mexico
City, denied a report that he kept a network of prostitutes on the
party payroll for his personal use. The PRI quickly put him on leave
and called for a police investigation.
(Econ, 4/5/14, p.31)
2014 Apr 7, A judge in Puerto
Rico ordered a diocese to provide state prosecutors with all
confidential documents related to an ongoing sexual abuse probe. The
Diocese of Arecibo has defrocked six priests accused of sex abuse,
and prosecutors are investigating at least 11 other priests facing
similar accusations.
(AP, 4/8/14)
2014 Apr 14, California police
said two parolees killed at least four women while wearing GPS
trackers last fall. Franc Cano (27) and Steven Dean Gordon (45) were
charged with four counts of rape and four counts of murder.
(SFC, 4/15/14, p.A8)
2014 Apr 14, French police
demanded that male students and staff at a high school in western
France — 527 people in total — give DNA samples as they searched for
the assailant who raped a teenage girl in La Rochelle. Investigators
had exhausted all other leads in the Sept. 30 rape of the girl in a
dark bathroom at the school.
(AP, 4/14/14)
2014 Apr 16, A Kentucky jury
convicted James Schook (66), a former Catholic priest, of three
counts of sodomy in a case stemming from the 1970s.
(AP, 4/17/14)
2014 Apr 19, Tobias Bowen (47),
charged with raping a child in March 2010 when he lived in New
York’s Syracuse suburb of Liverpool, was arrested in London after
getting off a plane. He had fled to his native Liberia, where he was
administrator of a government hospital.
(AP, 4/22/14)
2014 Apr 22, In Brunei the
penalty for homosexuality was increased to death by stoning as part
of a new broader imposition of Islamic Shariah law which also
imposed death for rape, adultery and extramarital relations.
(SSFC, 5/18/14, p.A17)
2014 Apr 24, Four French police
officers were held in custody on suspicion of raping a 34-year-old
Canadian woman at their Paris headquarters. The alleged rape took
place overnight April 22-23 at the headquarters of the Paris police
station.
(AFP, 4/25/14)
2014 Apr 28, British celebrity
publicist Max Clifford (71), one of the most influential figures in
Britain's entertainment world, was convicted of eight counts of
indecent assault on victims aged between 15 and 18 at the time of
offense in the 1970s and '80s. On May 2 he was sentenced to eight
years in prison for the string of indecent assaults on four women.
(AP, 5/2/14)
2014 May 2, In Oakland, Ca.,
the “Hook-Up Truck" made its debut a few blocks off Telegraph at
26th St. after security guards at Art Murmur refused its entrance.
The brainchild of conceptual artist Spy Emerson provided a space for
couples to enjoy intimacy.
(SSFC, 5/4/14, p.C1)
2014 May 2, Philippine
officials said police have arrested 58 suspected members of an
online extortion syndicate this week in Manila and three other
regions. They had reportedly duped hundreds of victims worldwide
into exposing themselves in front of webcams or engaging in lewd
chats. Some 100 more Filipino suspects were later linked to online
blackmail syndicates.
(SFC, 5/3/14, p.A2)(AP, 5/13/14)
2014 May 5, A Paris court found
a South African artist guilty of sexual exhibitionism after a
performance in Paris that saw him dance with a rooster tied to his
penis. But the criminal court imposed no penalty on the artist
Steven Cohen (51), noting that no complaint had been filed against
him and that he had not engaged in sexual acts.
(AFP, 5/514)
2014 May 6, The Vatican
released comprehensive statistics for the first time on how it has
disciplined priests accused of raping and molesting children. It
said 848 priests have been defrocked and an additional 2,572 given
lesser sanctions over the past decade.
(SFC, 5/7/14, p.A3)
2014 May 7, An Indonesian
official said a woman who was gang-raped by men accusing her of
having extramarital sex may be caned publicly for violating Islamic
law. The widow (25) said she was raped by eight men on May 1 who
allegedly found her with a married man in her house. The men
reportedly beat the man, doused the two with sewage, and then turned
them over to Islamic police in conservative Aceh province.
(AP, 5/7/14)
2014 May 9, Police in Davis,
Ca., arrested Rev. Hector Coria (45) for allegedly engaging in a
sexual relationship with a teenage girl.
(SFC, 5/12/14, p.A6)
2014 May 9, In New Zealand a
foreign diplomat followed a 21-year-old woman and assaulted her. New
Zealand charged the man with assault and attempt to rape, but his
home country claimed diplomatic immunity and sent him home within
days of the incident.
{New Zealand, Rape}
(AP, 6/30/14)
2014 May 12, In Pakistan Qari
Naseer (27) and two friends raped a college girl (20) in a moving
car. Naseer, a teacher at a Quranic school in Mansehra, and the two
friends were soon arrested. He was suspected of having filmed and
blackmailed other victims.
(AP, 5/14/14)
2014 May 13, US authorities in
Puerto Rico said they have arrested a Roman Catholic priest on
charges including sexual trafficking of minors in the first federal
case of its kind in the US territory. Israel Berrios (58), a priest
in the Diocese of Caguas, was arrested in the northern town of
Naranjito.
(AP, 5/13/14)
2014 May 15, In Sudan Meriam
Ibrahim (26), a pregnant woman doctor who married a Christian man in
2011 and who was convicted earlier this week on charges of
"apostasy," was sentenced to death. The court in Khartoum also
ordered Ibrahim be given 100 lashes for committing "zena" — an
Arabic word for illegitimate sex. On May 27 Ibrahim gave birth to
her child in jail. On June 23 the Court of Cassation canceled her
sentence and ordered her release. On June 24 Khartoum airport
passport police arrested Meriam Ibrahim after she presented
emergency travel documents issued by the South Sudanese embassy and
carrying an American visa. She was freed again on June 26.
(AP, 5/15/14)(AP, 5/18/14)(AP, 5/29/14)(AP,
6/23/14)(AP, 6/26/14)
2014 May 27, In Pakistan
Farzana Parveen (25), a three-months pregnant woman, was reportedly
beaten to death outside the Lahore High Court with bricks by members
of her own family for marrying the man of her choice. She had gone
to testify in defense of her husband Muhammad Iqbal (45), who was
accused by her relatives of kidnapping her and forcing her into the
marriage. Parveen's father Muhammad Azeem was detained while five
others, two brothers and three cousins, remained at large. Four more
suspects were arrested on May 29. On May 31 Farzana's elder sister
said it was Iqbal who had killed her. Iqbal has admitted that he had
killed his first wife in a dispute over Farzana in 2009. The two
brothers were arrested on June 4. Authorities also arrested a third
man for taking part in the assault who has claimed the woman Parveen
was married to him at the time she married against her family's
wishes.
(AFP, 5/27/14)(AP, 5/28/14)(AP, 5/30/14)(AP,
6/1/14)(AP, 6/4/14)
2014 May 28, In India villagers
found the bodies of two girls (14&15), who had gone missing the
previous day, hanging from a tree near Katra village in Uttar
Pradesh state. A group of men had raped and killed the two cousins,
then hung their bodies from a mango tree. On May 30 two police
officers were arrested and two more fired in the case. By May 31
three suspects were in custody and two remained missing.
(AP, 5/29/14)(AP, 5/31/14)
2014 May 30, In Kentucky James
Schook (66), a former priest dying of cancer, was sentenced to 15
years in prison for carrying on a years-long sexual relationship
with a teenage boy.
(SFC, 5/31/14, p.A4)
2014 May 30, In Mexico 19
people filed a criminal complaint alleging they were sexually abused
by a now-suspended Mexican priest, and allege his archdiocese
covered up the allegations for years. Mexico's Roman Catholic Church
announced May 27 that the Vatican had stripped Eduardo Cordova of
his clerical functions after investigations into allegations of the
sexual abuse of a 16-year-old in 2012.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 5, Egypt’s outgoing
Pres. Adly Mansour decreed sexual harassment a crime punishable by
up to five years in prison.
(SFC, 6/6/14, p.A2)
2014 Jun 8, In China a raid by
officers on small bathhouses and other businesses associated with
prostitution sparked clashes lasting hours in the southern city of
Guangzhou.
(AP, 6/8/14)
2014 Jun 9, Egyptian police
arrested seven men for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old student
during celebrations marking the inauguration of the country's new
president in Cairo's central Tahrir Square the day before.
(AP, 6/9/14)
2014 Jun 11, London’s new
Trafficking and Kidnap Unit of its Metropolitan Police
arrested six people suspected of sex trafficking. The arrests were
part of an ongoing investigation of a Hungarian organized crime
group.
(AP, 6/11/14)
2014 Jun 11, In Cambodia the
Phnom Penh Municipal court sentenced Daniel Johnson (35) to one year
in prison for abusing five boys, aged 11 to 15, at the Hope
Transitions orphanage, where he served as director. Johnson was
sought in the US on child sex allegations.
(AP, 6/11/14)
2014 Jun 17, Austrian police
said a Romanian woman (40) was imprisoned, raped and repeatedly
beaten in a house in Styria for more than a month before escaping
when her attacker got drunk. Police arrested a Romanian man (49) in
connection with the imprisonment and attacks.
(Reuters, 6/17/14)
2014 Jun 18, Indonesian
officials officially shut a massive prostitution complex in Surabaya
amid protests by sex workers, who said their livelihoods were being
destroyed. Tri Rismaharini, the first female mayor of Surabaya, had
pledged to close down all brothels in the city.
(AP, 6/18/14)
2014 Jun 18, Japan's parliament
passed a law which bans possession of child pornography, but
excludes sexually explicit depictions of children in comics,
animation and computer graphics.
(AP, 6/18/14)
2014 Jun 25, US federal
investigators shut down myredbook.com, a SF Bay Area website that
catered to prostitutes and johns. Eric Omuro (53) of Mountain view
and Annmarie Lanoce (40) of Rocklin (Placer Ct.) were arrested after
being indicted a day earlier.
(SFC, 6/26/14, p.A10)
2014 Jun 27, Mexican
authorities in the northern state of San Luis Potosi arrested Roman
Catholic priest Guillermo Gil Torres on suspicion of sexually
abusing a minor, the second priest charged there in a week.
(AP, 6/28/14)
2014 Jun 27, The Vatican said
that Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, a former ambassador to the
Dominican Rep., was found guilty for sexually abusing boys and
sentenced to laicization.
(SFC, 6/28/14, p.A4)
2014 Jun 28, In northeastern
Nigeria an explosion overnight in a brothel in the city of Bauchi
killed 11 people and wounded 28.
(Reuters, 6/28/14)
2014 Jun 30, In England Rolf
Harris (84) an Australian-born artist, TV presenter and performer of
songs like "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," was convicted at Southwark
Crown Court on all 12 counts of indecently assaulting girls and
young women from 1968-1986.
(AFP, 6/30/14)
2014 Jul 2, Britain sentenced
five members of a gang to between three and 12 years in prison for
luring victims with false promises of legitimate work. The organizer
and Indian national Vishal Chaudhary (35), received 12 years. Over
120 eastern European women were forced to have sex with up to 20 men
a day in brothels across London.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 2, In India a girl (6)
was assaulted when she left her classroom to go to the restroom in
Bangalore. It took two weeks for the incident to be reported. On
July 19 thousands of people angry over alleged police inaction
rallied to demand that authorities arrest those responsible for the
attack.
(AP, 7/19/14)
2014 Jul 4, In London
television entertainer Rolf Harris, who for decades cultivated an
image of the affectionate uncle with numerous children's television
programs, was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for
a string of abuses against young girls.
(AP, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 6, In eastern India a
14-year-old girl was dragged into a forest and raped on the orders
of a village council in retaliation for a sex assault blamed on her
brother.
(AP, 7/11/14)
2014 Jul 8, In Thailand the
body of a raped girl (13) was discovered early today near the train
tracks in Prachuap Khirikhan province's Pranburi district. She had
disappeared the night of July 5 from a sleeping berth en route from
the southern province of Surat Thai to the capital, Bangkok. A
railway worker was arrested and faced charges of rape, concealing a
body and murder, which carries the death penalty.
(AP, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 12, Egyptian police
said they have arrested a driver for raping a Russian tourist in a
resort town. Cairo police said they have arrested a low-ranking
officer who groped a Tunisian woman at Cairo airport.
(AP, 7/12/14)
2014 Jul 12, In Iraq gunmen
stormed two buildings in Baghdad's residential district of Zayouna,
known in the area for housing rented flats where a notorious pimp
kept a "stable" of up to 60 women. At least 31 people were killed,
two of them men.
(AFP, 7/14/14)
2014 Jul 16, Britain’s National
Crime Agency said police have arrested 660 suspected pedophiles
including doctors, teachers and care workers in a six-month
operation targeting people watching indecent images online.
(AFP, 7/16/14)
2014 Jul 16, Medical charity
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said women and children are being
kidnapped by armed gangs and forced to work as sex slaves in eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo.
(AFP, 7/16/14)
2014 Jul 16, An Egyptian court
sentenced seven men to life in prison over sexual assaults at
Cairo's Tahrir Square, including during celebrations marking Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi's presidential election victory last month.
(AFP, 7/16/14)
2014 Jul 17, In Wyoming,
Michigan, the body of Brooke Slocum (18) was found in the trunk of
Brady Oestrike (31). Her boyfriend Charles Oppenheimer (25) was
found decapitated a day earlier. The couple had connected with
Oestrike on Craigslist and arranged a sexual encounter. Oestrike
fled a police chase and fatally shot himself after crashing his car.
(SFC, 7/22/14, p.A4)
2014 Jul 17, In northern Syria
Jihadists in Tabaqa, Raqa province, accused a woman of adultery and
stoned her to death.
(AFP, 7/18/14)
2014 Jul 18, An Italian appeals
court acquitted former Premier Silvio Berlusconi (77) in a
sex-for-hire case.
(SFC, 7/19/14, p.A3)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese state
media said the government would target pronography on smartphones
and punish pornographic app creators.
(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 24, UN official
Jacqueline Badcock said Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all
women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital
mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in
the war-ravaged country.
(AP, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 25, A Texas judge
recommended that Michael Phillips (57) of Dallas be exonerated based
on recent DNA evidence that absolved him of a 1990 rape for which he
served 12 years in prison.
(SFC, 7/26/14, p.A7)
2014 Mindy Chateauvert authored
“Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slut
Walk."
(SSFC, 1/12/14, p.F7)
