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The Marshall Project
At the end of 2016, Lt. Angela Bapp told her commanding officer that someone in her Army unit raped her. The Army started an investigation into the assault. But since the man she accused was married, her commander also charged her and her alleged assailant with adultery—a crime that is unique to the military. Her life and trust in the military’s justice system imploded.
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Medical Xpress
It is hard to get much of a reputation if nobody knows you're around, and that has definitely been the case for mycoplasma genitalium, a tiny bacteria estimated to be more prevalent than the bug that causes gonorrhea but almost completely off the public's radar.
That's because, until very recently, it has been difficult for front-line physicians to confirm that this particular microbe—the smallest bacteria ever detected—was present in specific patients.
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The Mercury News
The ascendance of white nationalism, online radicalization, divisive politics and ongoing religious tensions all point to a potentially turbulent time ahead, especially as the nation gears up for a contentious 2020 presidential election, according to a new report on hate crimes in the U.S.
“Increasingly, we’re seeing that political events correlate to fluctuations and spikes in hate crimes,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, which released the comprehensive report Tuesday, July 30. The report includes legal policy analysis and the center’s own findings on the latest police-reported hate crime in major cities across the United States, showing a nine percent increase in 2018.
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FBI
A monthlong FBI-led operation to identify and arrest sex traffickers and recover child victims has resulted in dozens of arrests across the country and the identification and recovery of more than 100 juveniles.
The initiative during the month of July, dubbed Operation Independence Day, relied on more than 400 law enforcement agencies working on FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Forces in each of the Bureau’s 56 field offices. The sweep included undercover operations and has led to the opening of five dozen federal criminal investigations. Agents and analysts at FBI Headquarters and in the field worked closely with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to identify young runaways, missing kids, and juveniles who may have been subjected to human trafficking.
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VOA News
In 2019, Indonesians saw a surging number of cases of violence involving children.
In April, a 14-year-old girl was bullied and physically assaulted by three high school students in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. Her case created an uproar on social media.
On July 13, a 16-year-old student at a military school in Palembang, South Sumatra, was a victim of hazing during orientation week. He died in a hospital days later.
At the end of July, the police in Aceh, Indonesia’s most conservative province, arrested two men who worked at an Islamic school. They allegedly sexually abused 15 students between the ages of 13 and 14, according to two students who came forward and further investigation by authorities.
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Mailman School of Public Health
From risks of violence and abuse to disrupting their development, humanitarian crises present major threats to the wellbeing of children, and for more than two decades Child Friendly Spaces have been considered one of the best ways to respond.
A recent study by World Vision and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health looked at the impact of Child Friendly Spaces in five countries affected by humanitarian emergencies and found major differences across settings. This is the first study to evaluate whether existing interventions successfully provide a safe environment and opportunities for children to engage in activities. The findings are published in the journal BioMed Central Public Health.
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NPR
There were three high-profile shootings across the country in one week: The shooting in Gilroy, CA, on July 28, and then the back-to-back shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, this past weekend.
That's no surprise, say scientists who study mass shootings. Research shows that these incidents usually occur in clusters and tend to be contagious. Intensive media coverage seems to drive the contagion, the researchers say.
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NBC News
The Boy Scouts of America are continuing to cover-up a “pedophilia epidemic within their organization,” a group of lawyers alleged in a new lawsuit.
The Abused in Scouting lawyers said they’ve identified 350 previously unknown scoutmasters and volunteers who allegedly preyed on boys — and whose names were not known to law enforcement or in the BSA’s internal database, which critics have called “perversion files.”
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NOVA
David Camm lost 13 years of his life to eight drops of blood.
In 2000, the Indiana state trooper was charged with murder after finding his wife and two children shot to death in their home. During the three trials that followed, the prosecution brought in bloodstain experts who argued that the flecks of blood on the t-shirt Camm had worn the night of the murder were “high-velocity impact spatter”—proof, they said, that he was the shooter. Analysts called by the defense, on the other hand, testified that the blood was actually a transfer stain that had smeared onto Camm’s clothing after he’d tried to help his children.
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University of Melbourne via Medical Xpress
One dose of human papillomavirus vaccine has comparable effectiveness to two or three doses for preventing cervical pre-cancer, according to a new study.
In a large national data linkage study published in Papillomavirus Research, researchers compared cervical screening outcomes for a quarter of a million Australian women who were eligible for vaccination under the national program.
Researchers found that in women who were vaccinated at a young age, when most had not yet been exposed to HPV, that receipt of even one dose of HPV vaccine lowered the chance of having a pre-cancerous lesion detected at cervical screening.
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Crime and Justice Research Alliance via PhysOrg
Police are increasingly called on to combat crimes related to sex and labor trafficking. A new study sought to determine how the victims of these crimes are served by police. Based on researchers' review of human trafficking investigations and interviews with police and service providers in three communities in Northeast, West, and South United States, the study concluded that victims of human trafficking often do not trust the police and rarely seek their assistance. The study also found that these views are due in part to victims' beliefs that police are not trained adequately and hold biases and stereotypes about them. The authors offer recommendations to improve police responses to these victims.
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CBS News
The Air Force is dealing with an epidemic of suicide. So far this year, there have been 30 more suicides among airmen than there were by this time last year.
"We lose more airmen to suicide than any other single enemy. Even more than combat. Seventy-eight of our brothers and sisters have given up on life this year alone," said Chief Master Sgt. Kaleth Wright.
In an extraordinary video message, Wright explained why the Air Force is ordering a first ever suicide stand down — a day off from training to focus on an epidemic of young people like Airman Xinhua Mesenberg taking their own lives.
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