*Total Forcible Sex Offenses Reported in Florida, 2007* *
- Forcible rape: 6,145 - Forcible sodomy 1,402 - Forcible fondling 3,667 - Total Sexual Offenses Reported 11,214 - 3,064 arrests were made for forcible sex offenses in Florida in 2007 (*Florida Statistical Analysis Center: FDLE, Crime in Florida, Florida Uniform Crime Report; Tallahassee, FL) ------------------------------ *General Sexual Assault Statistics* According to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010*(1): *Women:* - 1,266,000 women in Florida have been raped at some point in their lives. That’s 17% or 1 in 6 women in Florida. - 41.8% of women, or 3,111,000, in Florida have been victimized by sexual violence other than rape. - 79.6% of female victims who have experienced one or more completed rape experienced the *first* rape before the age of 25; 42.2% were under 18 at the time of the *first *completed rape. *Men:* - 20.4% of men, or 1,437,000 men, in Florida have been victimized by sexual violence other than rape. - More than one-quarter (27.8%) of male victims who have experience at least one completed rape experienced the *first* rape when they were 10 years of age or younger. *For this survey, *rape* is defined as completed forced penetration, attempted forced penetration, or alcohol/drug facilitated forced penetration. “*Sexual violence other than rape*” means unwanted sexual contact short of penetration, and unwanted, coerced penetration. *Reporting Rates* The National Women’s Study Replication, funded by the National Institute of Justice, in 2005 found that nationally only 18% of forcible rapes are reported to law enforcement.(2) The study found only 10% of drug and alcohol facilitated rapes are reported. (2) *Military * According to Department of Defense statistics gathered by the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN)(5): - 3,158 military sexual assaults were reported in fiscal year 2010, a decrease of 2% from fiscal year 2009. Only about a quarter of these sexual assaults occurred during deployment to a combat zone. - While sexual assaults are notoriously underreported, this problem is exacerbated in military settings. The Department of Defense estimates that only 13.5% of survivors report the assault, and that in 2010 alone, over 19,000 sexual assaults occurred in the military. On Thursday, October 9, 2014 9:56:41 AM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Police arrested a 65-year-old Manitowoc man last > week on a charge of child rape following an indictment by the Rutherford > County Grand Jury. > > Gary Tuschl was arrested and extradited to Murfreesboro, according to a > report filed by Murfreesboro Police Detective Tommy Roberts. > > In his report, Roberts said the alleged abuse occurred in 2005, around > Christmas, and involved a girl who was then 7 years old. At the time, > Tuschl was visiting Murfreesboro. Roberts was notified by the state > Department of Children's Services earlier this year, the report said. > > "I received a DCS referral regarding the possible sex abuse back in 2005. > Janiece Miller, DCS investigator, and I began an investigation," Roberts > wrote, adding that the victim was interviewed March 26 at the Child > Advocacy Center and made "credible disclosures." > > The victim said that Tuschl molested her on the sofa, Roberts wrote. > > The detective later arranged for Tuschl to be interviewed by the Manitowoc > Police Department. Manitowoc Police Detective Dave Vorpahl interviewed > Tuschl on April 21, the report said. > > "Mr. Tuschl confessed to molesting the victim while visiting > Murfreesboro," Roberts wrote. > > Roberts presented the evidence in June to the Grand Jury , which > determined there was enough evidence for an arrest. > > Tuschl was placed in custody in Wisconsin and brought back to > Murfreesboro, where Roberts interviewed him and served the indictment. > > Tuschl is being held at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center on > $100,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in Rutherford County Circuit Court > at 9 a.m. July 14. > > Mealand Ragland-Hudgins writes for the Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro, > Tenn.; [email protected] <javascript:>. > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Posted: Friday, July 11, 2014 8:33 pm | *Updated: 10:06 am, Sun Jul 13, >> 2014.* >> >> BY ROBERT SORRELL | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER >> >> - [image: Robert Sorrell] >> <http://www.tricities.com/users/profile/Robert%20Sorrell> >> - >> >> Posted on Jul 11, 2014 >> >> by Robert Sorrell >> <http://www.tricities.com/users/profile/Robert%20Sorrell> >> >> BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. – A Sullivan County judge ordered a Bristol, Tennessee >> man to serve 50 years in prison on charges stemming from a 2008 case >> involving the rape of a child. >> >> Randall Dwight Walton II, 32, was given the sentence Friday following a >> hearing that included witness testimony, a presentencing report and the >> state’s request for consecutive sentences, which was denied. >> >> On April 15, a Sullivan County Criminal Court jury found Walton guilty of >> two counts of rape of a child, three counts of aggravated sexual battery >> and two counts of solicitation or sexual exploitation of a minor by >> electronic means. >> >> Assistant Sullivan County District Attorney General Teresa Nelson said >> Walton has been held in the Sullivan County jail since the April verdict. >> She added that he is not eligible for parole and will be transferred to the >> Tennessee Department of Correction. >> >> Nelson said the solicitation charges, which resulted in six-year >> sentences, stemmed from Walton showing the victim pornographic material. >> The victim was under the age of 10 at the time of the offenses, Nelson said. >> >> Walton had already been convicted on possession of child porn. That >> investigation revealed that Walton had more than 150 illegal images on his >> home computer. >> >> Two counts of rape of a child resulted in two 25-year sentences. Three >> counts of aggravated sexual battery resulted in three 12-year sentences. >> >> Nelson said the charges will run concurrently, except for the two 25-year >> sentences, resulting in a total of 50 years in prison. >> >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:46 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg—who is 63 with a long, graying beard—recently >>> sat down with me to explain what he described as a “child-rape assembly >>> line” among sects of fundamentalist Jews. He cleared his throat. “I’m going >>> to be graphic,” he said. >>> >>> A member of Brooklyn’s Satmar Hasidim fundamentalist branch of Orthodox >>> Judaism, Nuchem designs and repairs mikvahs in compliance with Torah Law. >>> The mikvah is a ritual Jewish bathhouse used for purification. Devout Jews >>> are required to cleanse themselves in the mikvah on a variety of occasions: >>> Women must visit following menstruation, and men have to make an appearance >>> before the High Holidays, such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Many of the >>> devout also purify themselves before and after the act of sex and before >>> the Sabbath. >>> >>> On a visit to Jerusalem in 2005, Rabbi Rosenberg entered into a mikvah >>> in one of the holiest neighborhoods in the city, Mea She’arim. “I opened a >>> door that entered into a schvitz,” he told me. “Vapors everywhere, I can >>> barely see. My eyes adjust, and I see an old man, my age, long white beard, >>> a holy-looking man, sitting in the vapors. On his lap, facing away from >>> him, is a boy, maybe seven years old. And the old man is having anal sex >>> with this boy.” >>> >>> Rabbi Rosenberg paused, gathered himself, and went on: “This boy was >>> speared on the man like an animal, like a pig, and the boy was saying >>> nothing. But on his face—fear. The old man [looked at me]* without* any >>> fear, as if this was common practice. He didn’t stop. I was so angry, I >>> confronted him. He removed the boy from his penis, and I took the boy >>> aside. I told this man, ‘It’s a sin before God, a *mishkovzucher*. What >>> are you doing to this boy’s soul? You’re destroying this boy!’ He had a >>> sponge on a stick to clean his back, and he hit me across the face with it. >>> ‘How dare you interrupt me!’ he said. I had heard of these things for a >>> long time, but now I had seen.” >>> >>> The child sex abuse crisis in ultra-Orthodox Judaism, like that in the >>> Catholic Church, has produced its share of shocking headlines in recent >>> years. In New York, and in the prominent Orthodox communities of Israel and >>> London, allegations of child molestation and rape have been rampant. The >>> alleged abusers are schoolteachers, rabbis, fathers, uncles—figures of male >>> authority. The victims, like those of Catholic priests, are mostly boys. >>> Rabbi Rosenberg believes around half of young males in Brooklyn’s Hasidic >>> community—the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the >>> world—have been victims of sexual assault perpetrated by their elders. Ben >>> Hirsch, director of Survivors for Justice, a Brooklyn organization that >>> advocates for Orthodox sex abuse victims, thinks the real number is higher. >>> “From anecdotal evidence, we’re looking at over 50 percent. It has almost >>> become a rite of passage.” >>> >>> Ultra-Orthodox Jews who speak out about these abuses are ruined and >>> condemned to exile by their own community. Dr. Amy Neustein, a >>> nonfundamentalist Orthodox Jewish sociologist and editor of *Tempest in >>> the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals*, told me the >>> story of a series of Hasidic mothers in Brooklyn she got to know who >>> complained that their children were being preyed on by their husbands. >>> >>> In these cases, the accused men “very quickly and effectively engage the >>> rabbis, the Orthodox politicians, and powerful Orthodox rabbis who donate >>> handsomely to political clubs.” The goal, she told me, is “to excise the >>> mother from the child’s life.” Rabbinical courts cast the mothers aside, >>> and the effects are permanent. The mother is “amputated.” One woman >>> befriended by Dr. Neustein, a music student at a college outside New York, >>> lost contact with all six of her children, including an infant she was >>> breastfeeding at the time of their separation. >>> >>> *Rabbi Rosenberg inspects a ritual purification bath, known as a >>> mikvah. In 2005, he witnessed a young boy being raped inside a similar >>> bath. * >>> >>> Seven years ago, Rabbi Rosenberg started blogging about sex abuse in his >>> community and opened a New York City hotline to field sex abuse complaints. >>> He has posted appeals on YouTube, appeared on CNN, and given speeches >>> across the US, Canada, Israel, and Australia. Today, he is the lone >>> whistleblower among the Satmar. For this he is reviled, slandered, hated, >>> feared. He receives death threats on a regular basis. In Yiddish and Hebrew >>> newspapers, advertisements taken out by the self-described “great rabbis >>> and rabbinical judges of the city of New York” have denounced him as “a >>> stumbling block for the House of Israel,” “a public rebuker and preacher of >>> ethics” who “persists in his rebelliousness” and whose “voice has been >>> heard among many Jewish families, especially young people in their >>> innocence… drawn to listen to his poisonous and revolting speeches.” >>> Leaflets distributed in Williamsburg and Borough Park, the centers of >>> ultra-Orthodoxy in Brooklyn, display his bearded face over the body of a >>> writhing snake. "Corrupt Informer," reads one of the leaflets, followed by >>> the declaration that Rabbi Rosenberg’s “name should rot in hell forever. >>> They should cut him off from all four corners of the earth.” >>> >>> When Rabbi Rosenberg wants to bathe at a mikvah in Brooklyn to purify >>> himself, none will have him. When he wants to go to synagogue, none will >>> have him. “He is finished in the community, butchered,” said a fellow rabbi >>> who would only talk anonymously. “No one will look at him, and those who >>> will talk to him, they can’t let it be known. The pressure in our >>> community, it’s incredible.” >>> >>> The powerful men—and it is worth noting that this community is regulated >>> by men only—who govern the world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism would rather >>> their adherents be blind in their faith, their eyes closed to the horrors >>> Rabbi Rosenberg is exposing. Like the Catholic establishment, the rabbinate >>> seeks to cover up the crimes, quiet the victims, protect the abusers, and >>> deflect potential criticism of their institutional practices. Those who >>> speak out are vilified, and the faithful learn to shut their mouths. When >>> the father of the seven-year-old boy whom Rabbi Rosenberg rescued from the >>> Jerusalem bathhouse showed up to collect his son, he couldn’t believe his >>> son had been raped. Trembling, terrified, he whisked his son away to get >>> medical help but was still too scared to raise a formal complaint. >>> According to Ben and Survivors for Justice, “The greatest sin is not the >>> abuse, but talking about the abuse. Kids and parents who step forward to >>> complain are crushed.” >>> >>> As for Rabbi Rosenberg, when he voiced his concerns to the rabbinate in >>> Israel, he was brought up on charges by the *mishmeres hatznuis*, the >>> archconservative Orthodox “modesty squad,” which regulates, often through >>> threats of violence, proper moral conduct and dress in the relations >>> between men and women. The modesty squad is a sort of Jewish Taliban. >>> According to Rabbi Rosenberg, the rapist he caught in the act was a member >>> of the modesty squad, which charged him with the unconscionable offense of >>> having previously been seen walking down a street in Jerusalem with a >>> married woman. “But it’s OK to molest children,” he adds. >>> >>> The abuse and its cover-up are symptoms of wider political >>> dysfunction—or, more precisely, symptoms of socially disastrous political >>> control by religious elites. >>> >>> “This isn’t a problem about a few aberrant cases or an old-fashioned >>> community reluctant to talk to police about sexual matters,” said Michael >>> Lesher, a practicing Jew who has investigated Orthodox sex abuse and >>> represented abuse victims. “This is about a political economy that links >>> Orthodox Judaism with other fundamentalist creeds and with aspects of >>> right-wing ideologies generally. It’s an economy in which genuine religious >>> values will never really rise to the top, so long as they’re tied to the >>> poisonous priorities that elevate status and power over the basic human >>> needs of the most vulnerable among us.” >>> >>> Michael, who is completing a book on the topic, noted that the infamous >>> Rabbi Elior Chen, convicted in 2010 in what was arguably Israel’s worst >>> case of serial child abuse, is still defended in public statements by >>> leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis. Among other legal and moral crimes, the >>> rabbi forced his victims to eat feces, claiming that this cruelty was >>> necessary to “purify” the children he abused. >>> >>> According to Ben, the ultra-Orthodox community has never been as >>> repressive as it is today. The repression, as he describes it, stems from >>> the burden of having too many children. Huge families are encouraged: Every >>> child born to a Hasid is seen as “a finger in the eye of Hitler.” Ben also >>> told me that the average family size among Williamsburg Hasidim is nine, >>> and that some families include more than 15 children. >>> >>> *Mikvah Israel of Boro Park, one of the many mikvahs in Brooklyn that >>> no longer accept Rabbi Rosenberg.* >>> >>> Families saddled with an increasing number of children soon enter into a >>> cycle of poverty. There is simultaneously an extreme separation of the >>> sexes, which is unprecedented in the history of the Hasidim. There is >>> limited general education, to the point that most men in the community are >>> educated only to the third grade, and receive absolutely no sexual >>> education. No secular newspapers are allowed, and internet access is >>> forbidden. “The men in the community are undereducated by design,” Ben >>> said. “You have a community that has been infantilized. They have been >>> trained not to think. It’s a sort of totalitarian control.” >>> >>> The rabbis, dominating an ignorant and largely poverty-stricken flock, >>> determine the fate of every individual in the community. Nothing is done >>> without the consent of the rabbinical establishment. A man wants to buy a >>> new car—he goes to the rabbi for counsel. A man wants to marry—the rabbi >>> tells him whether or not he should marry a particular bride. As for the >>> women, they don’t get to ask the rabbi anything. Their place is beneath >>> contempt. >>> >>> Michael told me that current Orthodox leadership, accruing wealth from >>> the tithes of subservient followers, is “drifting to the right, politically >>> as well as religiously.” Many rabbis in New York City have taken up the >>> banner of neoliberalism. “Every English-language Orthodox publication I >>> know embraced Romney during the 2012 elections, decried national health >>> insurance, blamed liberals for bribing the lower classes,” he said. >>> “In Orthodox society, just as in America at large, the financial mismatch >>> between the elite and the rest of us is ominously large.” >>> >>> Michael also notes that the problem is not confined to the extremists. >>> “The same patterns of victim-blaming, covering up, idealizing the rabbis so >>> that cover-ups aren’t even acknowledged, are found all across the spectrum >>> of Orthodoxy,” he told me. “The Orthodox left was shamefully slow to react >>> to Rabbi Baruch Lanner’s abuse or to the similar case of Rabbi Mordechai >>> Elon.” Rabbi Lanner, a former New Jersey yeshiva high school principal, was >>> found guilty in 2000 of sexually abusing dozens of teenage students over >>> the decades of his tenure. Rabbi Elon, who had publicly denounced >>> homosexuality, was convicted last August on two counts of forcible sexual >>> assault on a male minor, following several years of reports of his abuse of >>> young boys. >>> >>> “I have children come to me with their parents, and the blood is coming >>> out of the anus,” Rabbi Rosenberg told me when we met. “These are zombies >>> for life. What are we to do?” >>> >>> This of course is the key question, and no answers are forthcoming. >>> Michael holds out little hope that the situation will change. “If Orthodox >>> institutions continue on their current trajectory,” he said, “I’d say >>> things could get worse before they get better.” >>> >>> A few weeks after our interview, Rabbi Rosenberg was walking through the >>> Williamsburg section of Brooklyn when an unidentified man rushed up behind >>> him, tapped him on the shoulder, and threw a cup of bleach in his face. He >>> went to the hospital with facial burns and was temporarily blinded. Such is >>> the measure of justice among the Satmar that a once-respected rabbi, now >>> amputated from the community, should find himself chemically burned on a >>> street in a neighborhood considered holy. >>> >>> Later Rabbi Rosenberg told me a story of being surrounded by young boys >>> in Williamsburg. The boys cursed him, laughed at him, threatened him, and >>> spat at him. He wondered how many of them would end up molested. >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, October 9, 2014 6:31:49 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> BareNakedIslam posted: "A Manhattan Muslim man from Africa was >>>> charged with circumcising the clitoris of his much-younger wife after she >>>> refused to have sex, authorities said. NY Post (h/t next instinct) Moussa >>>> Diarra, 48, wanted to have anal intercourse with the 24-year-old v" >>>> >>>> New post on *BARE NAKED ISLAM* >>>> <http://www.barenakedislam.com/?author=1> MUSLIM man in Manhattan >>>> performs female genital mutilation on his young wife after anally raping >>>> her >>>> <http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/10/08/muslim-man-in-manhattan-performs-female-genital-mutilation-on-his-young-wife-after-anally-raping-her/> >>>> by >>>> BareNakedIslam <http://www.barenakedislam.com/?author=1> >>>> >>>> A Manhattan Muslim man from Africa was charged with circumcising the >>>> clitoris of his much-younger wife after she refused to have sex, >>>> authorities said. NY Post (h/t next instinct) Moussa Diarra, 48, wanted >>>> to >>>> have anal intercourse with the 24-year-old victim and when she said no, he >>>> forced himself on her, police said. 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