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NPR
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced sweeping rules on how colleges handle cases of sexual assault and harassment that she says will fix a "failed" and "shameful" system that has been unfair to accused students. In what the administration is calling a "historic process," the proposed rules aim to significantly enhance legal protections for the accused and reflect a sentiment expressed by President Trump that men are unfairly being presumed guilty. More than a year in the making, the rules replace Obama-era policies on how to implement Title IX, the law barring gender discrimination in schools that get federal funding.
The new rules are drawing both applause and anger.
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Chicago Tribune
Sarah Parsons is ready to move forward, to endure a criminal case against the man she said sexually assaulted her, to begin closing a difficult chapter.
But she is waiting on one thing. The evidence collected last year in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital, known as a rape kit, hasn’t yet been analyzed. An attorney advised waiting; the results would likely bolster the case.
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University of Southern California via PhysOrg
When children are victims of crimes, the legal testimony they provide is known as forensic interviews. However, since victims are often traumatized and potentially abused by their caregivers they can be reluctant to come forward with accusations or disclose relevant information.
As such, a protocol has been developed to carefully extract as much relevant information about a crime as possible. Yet what if artificial intelligence could be a useful tool to help young victims tell their stories? What if AI could support interviewers with tools to help gather information in an appropriate manner?
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NPR
Gun violence has become a part of everyday life in America, and of the work lives of doctors, nurses and first responders, too.
After the National Rifle Association told doctors to "stay in their lane" in response to a policy proposal from the American College of Physicians for reducing gun-related injuries and deaths, there was a backlash. Healthcare professionals shared heart-wrenching stories about treating people harmed by firearms.
How do doctors and nurses cope with their regular encounters with the human toll of gun violence? How does exposure to trauma affect them?
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Huffington Post
At least 506 indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been killed in 71 American cities — including more than 330 since 2010 — the Urban Indian Health Institute has found. A staggering 95 percent of these cases were never covered by national or international media, UIHI revealed Wednesday in its new report.
The oldest of the victims was 83. The youngest, an infant. Nearly 100 cases were tied to domestic violence, sexual assault or police brutality. The circumstances surrounding many of the other deaths and disappearances remain unknown.
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ABC News
Like many victims of a Connecticut sex trafficking ring that preyed on troubled young men and teenage boys for more than 20 years, Samuel Marino never told his family or police about being coerced into sexual relations with much older men.
Marino ended up carjacking vehicles from two different women in 2009 and leading police on a chase that left him dead at just 26 years old. In a handwritten note found years later in a raid on one of the suspected sex trafficking ring leader's homes, Marino wrote he was angry, ashamed and disgusted at how he was taken advantage of.
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The Austin Chronicle
On Oct. 31, Council Member Greg Casar announced that the Austin Police Department has tested its entire backlog of rape kits – a number that ballooned to over 4,000 after the 2016 implosion of the APD forensics lab and included kits dating as far back as the 1990s. Though testing is just the first step in a long and expensive process to secure justice for sexual assault survivors, some celebration was expected. But advocates admit they're still uncertain of exactly which kits have been tested and what's being done with the results.
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Newsy
Dozens of cities in America are making many rape cases look as if they are solved without actually arresting a suspected rapist. In “Case Cleared: How Rape Goes Unpunished in America,” reporters from Newsy, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica found that in those cities, a type of clearance intended to be the exception has become the rule for closing rape cases.
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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists via Medical Xpress
The latest report from the RCOG's Each Baby Counts clinical initiative shows there was a 14 percent increase in the number of completed local investigations into stillbirths, neonatal deaths and severe brain injuries that occurred from incidents during term labor in 2016 across the UK, when compared to 2015.
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University of Michigan via Medical Xpress
Nearly 28,000 American children and teens have died because of firearms in the past decade — second only to the 44,800 who died in motor vehicle collisions.
But while the number of young people who die each year from car and truck crashes has fallen, it's stayed about the same for guns.
A new website aims to change that by helping researchers, healthcare providers and others tackle the prevention of youth firearm injuries as a public health issue.
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The Conversation via Medical Xpress
Donald Weaver writes, "Every week in my neurology clinic, I see patients and their families who are dealing with the realities of dementia. Of the many people I encounter, these three stories highlight a growing health issue that I feel is neglected — the complex relationship between dementia and domestic violence.
The first is a story of confusion: 'Dad is a nice guy, always has been. But now, because of the Alzheimer's, he's confused most of the time—and Mom isn't coping. She doesn't know what to do and she is frustrated. It started with her twisting his arm to get him to do things, but now she even hits him sometimes.'"
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University of Colorado at Boulder via PhysOrg
As global temperatures climb, warmer winters in parts of the country may set the scene for higher rates of violent crimes such as assault and robbery, according to a new CIRES study.
"During mild winters, more people are out and about, creating the key ingredient for interpersonal crimes: opportunity," said Ryan Harp, a CIRES/CU Boulder Ph.D. student and lead author of the study published today in the AGU's cross-disciplinary journal, GeoHealth.
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The Cut
Ah, fall: the changing of the leaves, a spiked hot cider, bundling up in some chic outerwear, and, of course, gonorrhea.
Yes, gonorrhea. It turns out the sexually transmitted infection thrives in the autumn months, according to a study published last week in PLoS Pathogens. In fact, the researchers found, it seems nearly all infectious diseases tend to wax and wane depending on the time of year.
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