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On International Women's Day, Twitter Targets Charlie Sheen
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIt's International Women's Day, and everyone's talking about ... Charlie Sheen. Sure, the tiger blood jokes are funny enough. But there's a growing backlash against the media frenzy that's been eager to document Sheen's every wild utterance and less eager to discuss his history of domestic violence charges. As Jezebel.com founding editor Anna Holmes wrote in a New York Times op-ed this weekend, "While his self-abuses are endlessly discussed, his abuse of women is barely broached." But on the very microblogging platform that gave Sheen a Guinness record, that started to change ...
Facebook Fracas: Florida Couple in Jail After Woman 'Unfriends' Boyfriend
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsA Florida couple went from Facebook to central booking after a squabble over the popular social networking site. Thomas Gannon, 35, told Brooksville authorities that the couple's troubles began when his 31-year-old girlfriend, Tina Cash, "unfriended" him on Facebook, the St. Petersburg Times reports. According to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office, Gannon claims Cash not only nixed their online friendship -- she also changed her relationship status on her Facebook page. ...
Can Corporations Help Stem Violence Against Women?
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS -- "On the day of the attack I woke up before dawn ... before I could even say anything he threw the acid at my face and fled. I was rushed to the hospital; my face and body were burned severely. As a result I am blind in both eyes, I have lost both earlobes have gone through 16 skin grafting surgeries" This is the story of Florence, a 40-year-old woman from Uganda, whose testimony was read out last month at the United Nations as an example of violence against women, which is described as a "pandemic." One in three women experience some form of physical abuse in their ...
Hospital Discovers Mutilation as Woman Readies for Birth
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- An Uzbek immigrant in New York says her husband carved epithets into her skin, gouged out chunks of flesh with a key and beat her since they were married in December. Hospital workers called police Friday after discovering scars spelling out "bitch" and "whore" in Cyrillic, the alphabet used in her homeland, while they prepared her to give birth, the New York Daily News reported. "He started beating me on the day of our wedding," said the woman, Ozodoa Khakimov, 23. "One time he wrote bad words on my leg, and another time with a key on my neck." Her husband, Ulubek Khakimov, ...
Abused Wife Who Killed Preacher Husband Speaks Out
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Nov. 5) -- A woman convicted of shooting and killing her husband after allegedly suffering years of abuse wants women to know they can get help without resorting to violence. Women are sometimes "hesitant to speak out and ask for help," Mary Winkler told NBC's "Today" show this morning. But, she said, "someone will believe you." Winkler, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the March 2006 killing of her preacher husband, Matthew Winkler, served less than a year behind bars. Just two years later, in 2008, she regained full custody of her three daughters. But the Tennessee woman ...
Texas Dad Accused of Killing His 3 Kids Had History of Abuse
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Sept. 20) -- A Texas man accused of shooting and killing his three children while they slept had a history of domestic violence and for years had allegedly threatened to kill himself and his wife, a social worker involved in the family's case said. Mohammad Goher, 47, had allegedly held guns and swords to the neck of his estranged wife, Norma Goher, and had even kidnapped the couple's children in the past, said Bebe Khan, Norma Goher's advocate and social worker at the An-Nisa Hope Center shelter in Houston. Khan said Norma Goher had sought refuge at the shelter from her husband's abuse. ...
Men Wear Heels So Women Can Heal From Domestic Violence
By David Moye - AOL News
(Sept. 20) -- A group of men in San Diego are collectively putting their best foot forward -- and into high heels. It's part of a Sept. 30 event called "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes," which, true to its name, will feature hundreds of guys strutting their stuff in a mile-long walk through the city's downtown in an effort to raise money for the local YWCA's domestic-violence programs. There are similar events all over the country, but this is the third year that San Diego men have risked bunions, twisted ankles, hammertoes, blisters and all the things that women go through just for the "joy" of ...
Disfigured Afghan on Cover of Time Heads to US
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- A disfigured Afghan teen whose image has fast become the new face of the 9-year-old Afghan war -- and a harbinger of what could come if U.S. troops quit the country -- lands in America today for reconstructive surgery on her missing nose and ears. Doctors in California will try to rebuild 18-year-old Bibi Aisha's face, disfigured in an act condoned by the Taliban after she tried to flee abuse from her in-laws. But a controversy is already swirling over Aisha's photo [Warning: graphic content on this and other links] on the cover of Time magazine, and what it says about ...
Mel Gibson as Metaphor for What Ails America
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyOK. Here's my guilty summer confession: I can't get enough of the Mel Gibson scandal. Let me preface this post by saying that I'm hardly one for celebrity gossip. I have no idea who Justin Bieber is. I don't care whether Jennifer Aniston wants kids or not. And despite former Politics Daily colleague Emily Miller's compelling argument for why we should all be taking The National Enquirer more seriously, I can't stomach tabloids. Still, when it comes to the ongoing Mel Gibson saga, I can't look away. And I suspect I'm not alone. And that's because Gibson embodies a whole bunch of different ...
Husband Charged in Marriage Counselor's Stabbing Death
By Stuart Warner - AOL News(July 27) -- Tonya Hunter tried to help many couples save their marriage, but apparently she couldn't help her own. The 42-year-old Bedford Heights, Ohio, marriage counselor was stabbed to death in her home; her husband, 38-year-old Maurice Lyons, has been charged with aggravated murder. Hunter's 4-year-old son was dropped off near a bar after she was killed Sunday night in the Cleveland suburb, according to media reports. The boy led police to his mother's body. "He was able to tell the police his address and where his mother was," Leroy Hunter, the victim's uncle, told Cleveland TV ...
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