"For years, Madison, Wisconsin police and city lawyers refused to believe a blind woman who said an intruder raped her at knifepoint. They even charged her with lying about it.

"Now, five years after DNA connected a sex offender to the attack, the city has apologized to the woman, known as Patty, and is offering her $35,000." picked by digitalgimpling 2 years ago

The Saudi judiciary on Tuesday defended a court verdict that sentenced a 19-year-old victim of a gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes because she was with an unrelated male when they attacked. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Utah Supreme Court justices acknowledged Tuesday that they were struggling to wrap their minds around the concept that a 13-year-old girl could be both an offender and a victim for the same act - in this case, having consensual sex with her 12-year-old boyfriend. picked by muppet 8 months ago

A victim from Hurricane Katrina who was buried anonymously as "Will" to represent the will of the people to persevere has been identified through a DNA match with his son. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

HARTFORD, Conn. - A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic.

full text here picked by bevissimo 3 months ago

Tied up and left to die in a burning apartment, a Columbia student used the blaze set by her sadistic rapist to free herself. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

A grieving widower is facing further heartache after becoming the target of callous thieves... yes, yes, yes, but how about that actual headline? picked by mitzuzake 9 months ago

She should have hugged a tiger. picked by Bornbad 8 months ago

Yep... it's her fault for being alone with a man not related to her. Another example of Islamic law at it's finest! picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

A woman whose purse was stolen and the thief who took it inadvertently stood next to each other at a Prescott bookstore picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

They had just celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. I can't imagine. picked by tigertony 1 day ago

Suspected drug gang hitmen killed a man in the seedy northern Mexican border city of Tijuana and wrapped him in Christmas gift-wrap in one of the more unusual of Mexico's daily rash of murders. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A man has been given change by two men who attacked and robbed him at a bus stop in Brisbane's south-west. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Two other boys found his alleged victim on their way home from school on January 24th -- the five-year-old girl was under a bush, her body partially covered by building material -- she was badly beaten and barely breathing. picked by muppet 9 months ago

After his pedigree details were accidentally posted online. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

A teenager told mates he wanted to stab someone just before he plunged a knife into the heart of a passing university student. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

The mother of two "lost it" when her friend of six years, Daniel Peter Blair, went on a masturbation marathon on April 6 last year. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

...for $3 quadrillion. picked by mandolinorange 7 months ago

Let me get this straight. You were raped by a ghost? picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Talking for about an hour, she talked to him about religion, then said she was ill and her husband would be home soon. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago