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Hack taxi driver sentenced for rape
Samuel Renard Queen, of the 3500 block of Elmley Ave. in Baltimore, was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for rape, kidnapping and related offenses this week for assaulting a woman at knifepoint in his unlicensed taxicab, the Baltimore state's...Tags: Prosecution, Punishment, Belair Road, Justice System, Lawyers
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Rape and prison
The prospect of spending years behind bars in a tiny cell is sufficiently chilling to deter most people from ever committing a crime. Those who willfully break the law anyway and get caught have no one to blame but themselves when a judge sentences them...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Sexual Assault, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Judges, Prisons
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Rape in the ranks
Sexual assault in the military threatens our national security. This has been a hard lesson for military leaders to learn, but thanks to significant pressure from Congress and victims' advocates, they're starting to get the picture. Last month, Secretary...Tags: Criminals, Sexual Assault, Leon Panetta, Wars and Interventions, Assault
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County police will suspend collecting DNA evidence in some cases
The Baltimore County Police Department announced Friday that, in the wake of a Maryland Court of Appeals opinion, it will discontinue collection of DNA samples at the time of arrest from suspects charged with certain violent crimes. But in a press...Tags: Police Arrests, Prosecution, Baltimore County, Biotechnology Industry, DNA
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Former Catholic school students fight to keep child rapist in prison
Standing under a stormy sky, Bill Stankiewicz got chills as he looked toward the old brick building that once housed the Catholic Community middle school in South Baltimore.
"It's kind of creepy," he said, rubbing goose bumps along his forearms. He hadn'...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Locust Point, Punishment, Teaching and Learning, Baltimore County
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Forensic nurses taking the lead on rape cases in Maryland
Rape is a notoriously difficult crime to prosecute. Of every 100 rapes nationwide, 46 are reported, 12 lead to arrests and three result in prison sentences.
To improve those odds, advocates are encouraging more nurses to receive the training to give a...Tags: Police Arrests, Hospitals and Clinics, Prosecution, Sexual Assault, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Laura Neuman: Harnessing power and perception
Laura Neuman remembers exactly what she was wearing the night she was raped -- down to the pinstripes on her pajamas. She remembers the night so vividly that when she talks about it there is a visceral quality to the story. It happened when she was 18....
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Howard County, Apple iPad, Annapolis, Sex Crimes
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Merzbacher must not be freed
The U.S. Supreme Court made an important ruling for the cause of fairness when it decided this week that the right to effective counsel extends to plea bargains and not just trials. As Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion in the 5-4 case,...Tags: Prosecution, Punishment, Anthony Kennedy, Court Preliminary, Lawyers
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Saluting the rapists: America's culture of silence on sex
Remember that awkward silence that fell across the nation back in '94 when Bill Clinton's surgeon general used the M-word?
Jocelyn Elders, speaking at an AIDS conference at the U.N. about reducing the risk of sexually transmitted disease, said that...Tags: Bill Clinton, U.S. Department of Defense, Values, Abusive Behavior, Defense
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Man accused in Skateworks rape acquitted of most serious charges
A Baltimore County man accused in a gang rape at a Woodlawn roller rink was acquitted Monday of the most serious charges against him. But Davon Perry faces two counts on which the judge declared a mistrial after members of the jury said they were...Tags: Prosecution, Punishment, Bankruptcy, Baltimore County, DNA
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Rape victim, investigator release book about 21- year odyssey
For years, the stranger who raped her in her Annapolis bedroom maintained a hold over her. If it wasn't her self-imposed isolation from friends, it was the nightmares, or the difficulty of keeping up the facade that she was fine, or the drinking, or the...Tags: Crime Victims, Criminals, Genes and Chromosomes, Sexual Assault, Suicide
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Girl, 13, identifies attacker in Skateworks assault
A 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted in a Woodlawn roller skating rink in 2010 took the witness stand Tuesday in Baltimore County Circuit Court, pointing to Davon Perry as one of three males who took part in the attack. The girl from Baltimore...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Punishment, Baltimore County, DNA, Witnesses
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