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USA Today
Latrelle Huff says her twins were conceived by rape.
Now she blames domestic violence for her children's health problems.
New research is giving scientists more insight into the far-reaching and long-lasting harms of domestic violence to the children who grow up around it – including a startling finding: witnessing abuse carries the same risk of harm to children's mental health and learning as being abused directly.
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Military Times
The number of unwanted sexual encounters for cadets at the nation’s service academies has risen sharply in the last two years, the Defense Department said, which raises alarms that current efforts to create a safer atmosphere on those campuses have failed.
The estimated number of incidents of unwanted sexual contact rose from 507 across all service academies in 2016 to 747 in 2018, DoD’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office reported. The study, undertaken every two years, is based on anonymous surveys submitted from each service academy.
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Columbia Daily Tribune
The nation’s top child abuse hotline found that the majority of the people calling in were adults.
So, this month, it launched a service young people would be more likely to use: a text line.
And Missouri will be one of the key states to help determine how well it’s working.
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The Conversation via Medical Xpress
A new study shows that 130 million women have undergone female genital mutilation in 29 of the highest prevalence countries, many of which are in Africa. And 30 million more girls in Africa under the age of 15 will be at risk in the coming decade.
FGM types I-III comprise all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.
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University of Twente via PhysOrg
Thanks to the work carried out by University of Twente Ph.D. candidate Brigitte Bruijns, crime scenes can now be inspected on the spot for the presence of human DNA. In her Ph.D. thesis, she describes a lab-on-a-chip that rapidly indicates whether a trace discovered at a crime scene contains human DNA and, thus, whether it should be examined in the laboratory.
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Hong Kong Free Press
The aftermath was almost as traumatic as the incident itself. After Miu was sexually assaulted, she spent 13 long hours with emergency services. A social worker from local sexual violence crisis center RainLily had accompanied her to the police first where, for eight hours, she recalled the incident in painful detail.
Then, she was shuffled on to the emergency department for two hours for medical treatment, followed by an hour with police to locate the perpetrator. But her ordeal was far from over. She then spent an additional two hours being probed by forensic medical examiners, and another hour at the hospital for a final clinical check-up.
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The Daily Beast
A California couple have launched an online tool to connect victims of workplace sexual misconduct to others harassed or abused by the same person—and they plan to fund it by anonymizing the data they collect and selling it to the accusers’ companies.
The just-launched website, ImWithThem.org, is the latest example of the intersection of the #MeToo movement and technology. It’s a nonprofit started by two people with business backgrounds who hope to help victims—but privacy experts say the tool raises red flags.
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Bloomberg Businessweek
Joe Wright has no doubt that ketamine saved his life. A 34-year-old high school teacher who writes poetry every day on a typewriter, Wright was plagued by suicidal impulses for years. The thoughts started coming on when he was a high schooler himself, on Staten Island, N.Y., and intensified during his first year of college. “It was an internal monologue, emphatic on how pointless it is to exist,” he says. “It’s like being ambushed by your own brain.”
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The Intercept
Roughly six months ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. He recalls her giving him a paper with some phrases and offering him a strange choice: he could go up to the phone and utter the phrases that an automated voice would ask him to read, or he could choose not to and lose his phone access altogether.
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Reuters
Pope Francis, whose papacy has been marked by efforts to quell a global crisis over sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy, said recently that he was committed to stopping the abuse of nuns by priests and bishops, some of whom had used the women as sex slaves. Francis made his comments on the plane returning from Abu Dhabi in response to a reporter’s question about an article last week in a Vatican monthly magazine about the abuse of nuns in the Catholic Church.
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NIH
Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new assay to accurately and easily count the cells that comprise the HIV reservoir, the stubborn obstacle to an HIV cure. This advance will enable researchers who are trying to eliminate the HIV reservoir to clearly understand whether their strategies are working. The research was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of NIH.
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