According to a new study from the Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC) at Boston University, African-American women who reported sexual or physical abuse before age 11 had a greater risk of uterine fibroids in adulthood compared with women who had no such abuse history. The association was strongest for women who experienced sexual abuse. The study, [...]
Boy Scouts Inaction May Have Contributed To Hundreds Of Sexual Attacks
September 17, 2012 | Posted by
The Boy Scouts of America may have been tacitly complicit in the sexual assaults of hundreds of boys by failing to report the predators to police and hiding the allegations from parents and the public. A Los Angeles Times study of 1,600 confidential files dating from 1970 to 1991 found that scouting officials often urged [...]
Joe Paterno Defends Coach Legacy In Letter
July 12, 2012 | Posted by
Joe Paterno defended his football program’s integrity in a seven-month-old letter released Wednesday, a day ahead of a report today that could forever mar his legacy. In the letter, written shortly before his death and confirmed as legitimate by his family, Paterno rejected the notion that Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of boys amounted to a [...]
Inquiry into Jerry Sandusky Not Good for Joe Paterno Legacy
July 7, 2012 | Posted by
A consulting firm’s report offering new information about how Joe Paterno and Penn State senior officials responded to an allegation that Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused a boy inside the football team’s showers could be made public as early as next week, several sources said Friday, and is expected to be tough on Paterno. The [...]
The Penn State Cover-Up: Emails Emerge
July 1, 2012 | Posted by
Details in the Penn State sex abuse scandal continue to disturb, even after ex-assistant football Jerry Sandusky was convicted last week. Sandusky was found guilty of 45 counts of sexually abusing 10 different boys, after apparently being shielded by Penn State officials for years. Over the weekend, emails between the school’s former president Graham Spanier, [...]
R. Kelly Recalls Jay-Z Beef In Memoir
June 29, 2012 | Posted by
This week brought the release of Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me, the memoir of R&B singer R. Kelly. In the book, Kelly details his trials and tribulations, including a history of sexual abuse as a child, a feud with tour mate Jay-Z, and the drowning death of his first girlfriend. He detailed his experiences in [...]
