Al-Qaeda suspect sues over torture
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"the Western Ontario study is so important. It reveals that the areas of the brain responsible for such traumatic memories are radically different from those underlying normal memory."
The Girls Next Door By Peter Landesman 1/25/04 "Because of the porousness of the U.S.-Mexico border and the criminal networks that traverse it, the towns and cities along that border have become the main staging area in an illicit and barbaric industry, whose ''products'' are women and girls. On both sides of the border, they are rented out for sex for as little as 15 minutes at a time, dozens of times a day. Sometimes they are sold outright to other traffickers and sex rings, victims and experts say. These sex slaves earn no money, there is nothing voluntary about what they do and if they try to escape they are often beaten and sometimes killed." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25SEXTRAFFIC.html
Diocese to pay victim $3 million 1/25/04 AP Oakland "The Roman Catholic Church agreed Friday to pay a record-setting $3 million to a woman who was raped repeatedly as a girl by her parish priest. Jennifer Chapin, 31, an Oakdale psychiatric nurse, said she was pleased to put the case filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland behind her....Chapin said she was raped by Monsignor George Francis over a four-year period, starting when she was about 6 years old. The abuse included ritualistic assaults involving ropes and religious objects in hotel rooms, Chapin said. Francis had been pastor of St. Bede Parish in Hayward during that time. He died in 1998. After the rapes, Chapin said Francis would sprinkle holy water on her." http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/crime_courts/7792964.htm
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three fwds from L Moss Sharman - P.E.I. fighting victims' lawsuit by CP 1/26/04 Charlottetown - "The Prince Edward Island government is denying any responsibility in the case of 57 people who say they were abused at the Mount Herbert Orphanage. The former residents have filed a group action against the province and the Protestant Children's Trust, which took over the orphanage's assets when it closed in the 1970s. In their suit, the claimants said they endured physical, sexual and psychological abuse while living at the facility." http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-01-26-0039.html
Former orphanage resident creates group to help victims of abuse: Suing P.E.I. and Nova Scotia for their role in alleged mistreatment - Journal Pioneer (Summerside) 1/26/04 by Jim Brown " Longueepee is naming the Province as a co-defendent in his suit of the trust. He's also going a big step farther and preparing to launch a second suit. The P.E.I. and Nova Scotia governments, he alleges, were complicit in allowing he and his twin brother, who was also a resident of the orphanage, to be exploited without their consent for the purposes of "a twin case study" conducted at Nova Scotia and P.E.I. medical facilities. None of the allegations in either of the cases have been proven in court. His lawyer, Richard Bureau, said Longueepee's case against medical institutions would be the among the first of its kind in Canada. Longueepee said he and his brother were given drugs, including sedatives, and subjected to various tests to determine their resiliance to abuse they say they suffered at the orphanage. "We were two guinea pigs," he said." http://financialpost.infomart.ca/
Studies show how we remember and forget Jay Ingram 1/25/04 "One study was conducted at the University of Western Ontario, where scientists used magnetic resonance imaging to see what goes on in the brains of people with post-traumatic stress disorder. They compared the brains of people with PTSD to those who had suffered similar traumas but had not gone on to develop post-traumatic stress. The volunteers' brains were imaged as they listened to a 30-second recording of a script, a detailed description of their own trauma that they themselves had written. They then were asked to spend the next minute concentrating on the imagery generated by the script, no matter which sense â olfactory, visual, auditory, touch â was engaged. Both groups had memories of their experiences brought back by the scripts, but there were significant differences between the two. Those with PTSD experienced those memories as flashbacks: vivid, uncontrollable replays of the incident that, within seconds of hearing the script, made them feel as if they were experiencing the trauma." "Those who didn't have stress disorder experienced their memories as the normal sort of autobiographical ones we all have of events in our past." "In this study (University of Oregon), these frontal regions were apparently shutting down the hippocampus, preventing it from playing its usual role in the retrieval of memories. The effect was so robust that the experimenters could predict an individual's degree of forgetting from his brain scan. It is possible that this sort of memory-inhibiting mechanism could play a role in voluntarily forgetting traumatic experiences. In support of this idea, the researchers cite the gradual fading of the intensity of traumatic memories in most people, wondering if it is the result of deliberate forgetting. Even if that's true, it obviously doesn't help those with PTSD, and that is where the Western Ontario study is so important. It reveals that the areas of the brain responsible for such traumatic memories are radically different from those underlying normal memory. "
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/23/1074732604306.html
Al-Qaeda suspect sues over torture
By Grant McCool in New York January 24, 2004
"A Syrian-born Canadian has sued the United States Attorney-General, John Ashcroft, for deporting him to Syria as an al-Qaeda suspect and said US Government officials knew he would be tortured in a Damascus jail."
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