Battered Women’s Syndrome is a psychological condition that can develop when a person experiences abuse, it is also a legal defense used in courtrooms. This specific legal defense doesn’t work for just anyone. Battered Women’s Syndrome has only ruled in favor of white women. Black women who kill their abusers are typically served for a … Read more
Imagine you’re shopping at your local grocery store, you then walk out to your car to find a sticky note on your windshield. This note was really a distraction, giving a kidnapper time to grab you and take you while you’re preoccupied with the note. Most human trafficking rings start by kidnappings or start by … Read more
Female Genital Mutilation During COVID-19 By: Caison Bates In a world plagued by COVID-19, the fears involve social isolation, quarantining, or even hospitalization, but never was it thought that this pandemic would put an increasing number of young girls at risk for female genital mutilation (FGM). Due to COVID-19 related school closures, European experts estimated that … Read more
Students that attended the schools, Stone Bridge, Broad Run, and Riverside decided that they wanted to participate in a school walk out about a sexual assault incident that occurred at Stone Bridge High School. The recent incident involved a boy dressed as a girl (with a skirt) that sexually assaulted a girl in the girl’s … Read more
Indigenous women experience a lot of terrifying dangers, often for no reason other than their race and culture. Currently 4 out of 5 American Indian and Alaska Native women have experiences abuse and 1 out of 2 have experienced sexual abuse. Domestic violence rates are up to ten times higher for the Alaskan native women … Read more
I chose to write this post on the violence in the foster care system since my research paper will be on that. Violence in the foster care system is something that is very well known but most everyone, but it’s something that’s always overlooked. Children of all ages experience mental, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse … Read more
This article stuck out to me after reading the statists of my last blog post I wanted to know why the sexual assault of males isn’t talked about like sexual assault of women is. This article states that a lot of what causes men to not come forward is the way it happened, there’s so … Read more
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/25/liberty-university-fired-sexual-assault-517105 This article details former Liberty U official Scott Lamb’s claims that he was fired after reporting the mishandling of cases under Title IX. If these claims are true, which they likely are, it is highly disappointing and a slap in the face to sexual assault survivors. Often people who are sexually assaulted on campus feel … Read more
Vanessa Guillen was a soldier for the United States Army. She was 20 years old when she went missing on April 22, 2020. Guillen was reportedly missing from Fort Hood Army base, Texas. Ten weeks had passed when the police finally found her dismembered body near Leon River in Texas. After, Vanessa Guillen threatened to … Read more
Now it’s common to always talk about sexual assault in females. Which it is an important and heartbreaking topic since they have it worse; but men also get sexually abused. In an article I found it states, “As of 1998, 2.78 million men in the U.S. had been victims of attempted or completed rape.” Some … Read more