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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (121877)	4/6/2010 6:46:09 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

is sexual misconduct rape? or an inapropriate comment? your farked!

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (121877)	4/6/2010 6:50:58 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 132070

These law enforcement assholes cannot find any mortgage ffraud to go after so this is a sexy story but does not come close to catholic priest rapist.. Kid sex charges dropped, but teacher’s life still ‘ruined’ By Edward Mason and Laura Crimaldi \| Tuesday, April 6, 2010 \| bostonherald.com \| Local Coverage Photo by Daily News/ Ed Hopfmann Charges have been dropped against a former middle school teacher accused of grooming a student for sex, but she said her life remains a living hell. “I was a teacher who had a decent, good life,” Donna S. Giguere told the Herald yesterday. “My life was ruined three years ago.” In 2007, Giguere was a Blackstone Middle School teacher arraigned in Worcester District Court on six child sex-assault charges, including the alleged rape of a 13-year-old boy who was her foster child. Authorities accused the teacher, who was 38, of “grooming” the teen for sex. Giguere, a mother of five who has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, said her family “lost everything.” “I couldn’t get a job, we lost our home,” Giguere said, adding $100,000 in legal fees has left her family in debt “up to our eyeballs.” Prosecutors dropped the case because the alleged victim didn’t want to proceed, said Timothy Connolly, a spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr. “We got some e-mails that said he didn’t want to go forward,” said Connolly, who does not know the precise whereabouts of the man, now 20. “We were never able to get an address or a solid telephone number from him.” Connolly said prosecutors last knew the alleged victim was living in Montana. “Since he’s left (the state), we haven’t had a lot of cooperation,” he said. “It’s been a while since we had contact with him. It’s been several months.” Giguere claimed prosecutors didn’t have a case against her. But Connolly said his office wouldn’t have dropped the case if the alleged victim cooperated. “We certainly would have gone forward if we had the victim,” he said. “(This) doesn’t say we don’t believe the crime occurred. We don’t have the victim to go forward.” Article URL: bostonherald.com

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (121877)	4/6/2010 6:53:36 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Here is a cause you can take up for the downtrodden: Double standard par for course By Margery Eagan \| Tuesday, April 6, 2010 \| bostonherald.com \| Columnists Photo by AP Here we were, all tuned in for a much-hyped press conference on a sex scandal featuring threesomes, spanking, slapping, biting and Tiger Woods’ repeated claims, “I would wear you out.” There was not a single question about any of it yesterday. What about your putting, somebody asked Tiger toward the end of this boring charade. And the reporter was not making a joke. But what was writ large yesterday at Augusta National was the male/female double standard, still going strong in 2010. Tiger apologized to everybody. His family, his fans, his fellow players who had to endure pesky Tiger questions. But he had no words of apology to the multiple women he bedded. This is not to defend porn stars and strippers or anyone else who knowingly carries on with a married man. But porn stars and strippers are human beings, too. They’re somebody’s sister or daughter. I felt particularly bad through all this for Mindy Lawton, the $8 an hour manager/waitress at a restaurant near Woods’ home where he’d order an egg-white omelet with broccoli. Lawton’s family described her as extremely naive, gullible, and totally dazzled by Tiger’s attention. Throughout their 14-month affair, her sister said, she really believed Tiger loved her. “I thought I meant something to him,” Lawton told reporters. She meant about as much as that egg-white omelet, if that. The redemption of Tiger Woods - as far away as his next PGA triumph - offers a great lesson. Men survive these scandals. Women are ignored, forgotten, scorned, even today. Women still can’t be members of Augusta National, which made it a particularly ironic place for Tiger’s return. If Augusta treated Jews, blacks or anybody else the way they treat women, there would be no masters tournament there this week. Yet they get away with banning women with claims they’re on a waiting list. “A complete myth,” says Martha Burk, who organized a protest against Augusta in 2003 and was frequently ridiculed for her efforts. “But we still don’t take sex discrimination as seriously as we take race discrimination,” said Burk, who has won multimillion-dollar sex discrimination settlements against the likes of Morgan Stanley. “As to why Tiger did not address (the women) himself, I’m not surprised,” she said. “His apology is insincere. I don’t think he has any personal courage.” Oh Martha, touche! So right then, so right now. Article URL: bostonherald.com

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (121877)	4/6/2010 6:55:37 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Here is some more muslim terrorist you can champion: France to ban Muslim full-face veils on buses Tim Ross 26.01.10 Muslim women in France will be banned from wearing full-face veils on public transport and in schools, universities, post offices and hospitals under plans outlined today. A parliamentary committee called for women wearing the “niqab” to be refused access to key public services. It also recommended denying French citizenship to anyone showing visible signs of “radical religious practice”. The proposals could come into force by the end of the year. The niqab, which is worn with a long robe, is viewed by many as an affront to France's secular values and a gateway to extremism. In 2004 Muslim headscarves were banned from French primary and secondary schools. The latest plan would force women to show their faces when entering public institutions or boarding transport and to “keep the face uncovered throughout their presence”. Failure to do so would result “in a refusal to deliver the service demanded”. There are about five million Muslims living in France.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (121877)	4/6/2010 10:26:26 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	5 Recommendations Respond to of 132070

BC, I am sure we disagree on some points, but let me save you some time and suggest you not correspond with Zeus very much on this issue. You could provide him with all the data in the world from the mouth of God himself demonstrating similar, equal, or even greater levels of abuse and cover up in other public and religious institutions and it wouldn't mean a thing. He's singularly hates the Catholic church and is looking for justifications for his hate. He's not trying to understand what happened, why, to what extent priests were abusive, to what extent the clergy in power were ignorant, irresponsible, or evil etc... He would simply twist the relevant information into a defense of the church so he could attack the provider and grasp onto to his hate. He is either incapable or unwilling to judge individuals based upon their actions unless it serves him to do so.