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Search results for "date rape" ...
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Campus Sexual Assault: A Culture of Indifference
The stories explored the "culture of indifference" that many college women report experiencing after being sexually assaulted. Many schools across the country are in denial about the scope of the problem and the systems in place for women to report assaults are often barely existent at many campuses. Victims in the story tell their stories and explain how their school's handling of their assault cases only made things worse.
Tags: sexual assault; culture of indifference; rape; date rape; rapist; college; university
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Living off the Radar
An investigation shows that the Texas state sex offender registry is filled with fake and out-dated addresses, allowing thousands of sex offenders to evade authorities.
Tags: Sex offender; rape; registry; sexual abuse; false address
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Insecurity on Campus
As reported by two teams of journalism students at Southern Methodist University and Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas, many colleges were failing to inform students about violent crimes-such as rape-in and around their campuses. Also, many campuses were misinterpreting or ignoring the Clery Act, which requires disclosure of campus-related crimes. Many rapes were ignored or were logged as simple 'assaults'. As a result, U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the story's findings.
Tags: campus crimes; date rape; sexual abuse; sex; college; Clery Act; Texas universities; U.S. Department of Education
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Party Animals
This story helps the reader to understand the drinking habits of college students. The reporter went to notorious party spots near her campus to capture the scene; the result is a scary expose of the risks involved at parties, especially for freshman women.
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The Secret Life Of Karl Ryll
Smart Money reports on an Indiana teacher who was suckered by a con-artist treasure hunter. Time after time Karl Ryll sunk his savings into promises of sunken treasure that never materialized. But when Dennis Standefer faxed an anonymous tip to police that Ryll was seducing his students with date-rape drugs, he vowed revenge. This revenge took him across the globe, turning him into the adventurer he'd envied in Standefer.
Tags: treasure hunting; fraud; scams
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Murderers' Row
Westword examines Colorado death-penalty system and finds it works inefficiently. The story features the most eye-catching murder cases in recent years, and follows the judicial process for each them. Residents of death row had their execution dates come and gone a number of times, the newspaper reveals. At the same time victims' relatives, present at endless debates of lawyers and judges, were impatient to receive justice and disappointed to find out that "killings could be rated and ranked." The article provides some on the history of death penalty in Colorado since 1900.
Tags: jurors; courts; judges; murders; hanging; killings; violence; rape; capital punishment; felony
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Getting Off Easy
The Riverfront Times details a case involving strangers, a date-rape drug and an overnight encounter. After 'Anne' woke up in the bed of a strange man, she immediately went home, called her friend and then called the authorities. "The results for a urine test were positive for 'amphetamine/designer drug'." She gave police the business card of "Matthew J. Wasiak". Wasiak gave police four different accounts of that night and failed to pass a "computer voice-stress analysis" twice. The evidence against Wasiak was strong and the jury's decision of guilty on all three counts asked for a tough 27 year sentence. However, Judge Jeff Schaeperkoetter disagreed. He gave Wasiak "120 days of shock incarceration at the local detention center, followed by five year's probation. The Riverfront Times questioned Schaeperkoetter on how he could make such an opposing decision.
Tags: rape; date-rape drugs; GHB; Drug-Induced Rape Prevention and Punishment Act; Missouri Department of Corrections; crime
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Date Rape Drugs
WPIX-TV examines the ease with which many people can buy GHB, commonly known as the date rape drug. This investigation finds that "thousands of recorded overdoses and several deaths and 'date rapes' have resulted from the use in nightclubs and at parties of dangerous liquid chemical compounds, such as GHB. After several high profile arrests and a tragic nightclub death here in New York, we were still able to go into a drug store and buy this substance over the counter."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; date rape drugs; rape; crime; violence
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Hunt for the college town rapist
In 1995 investigators from Georgia and Florida collaborated in tracking down a serial rapist who had terrorized women at the University of Georgia and the University of Florida dating all the way back to 1977.
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Date with Disaster
Tobin examines the stories behind a sexual assault case that "divided the Ohio University campus; forced a hard light onto issues like college drinking, sex, and date rape; raised difficult questions about gender politics on campuses; and could cost taxpayers millions of dollars."
Tags: rape; date rape; college; binge drinking