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Friday, August 28, 2009

Trafficking in misery

A case of a female trafficking in the misery of other women:

Atchara Nualpenyai, 30, paid criminals in Thailand to bring women into the UK. But they had their passports taken away and were then forced to work as prostitutes to repay “debt bondages” of up to £30,000.

The women were forced to work every day, sometimes sent to other brothels in London and even as far as Bristol.

Last month Nualpenyai pleaded guilty to controlling prostitution and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation. She also pleaded guilty to possessing Class A drugs.

Nualpenyai paid about £11,000 to people in Thailand for the women to be brought to the UK. She also hired maids and ran both brothels, making £100 to £200 per day at each property. - Read the entire article here
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Women killing children

The following two stories are about two women who either tried or did kill their children and post partum depression clearly was not involved:



Sylvia Sieferman, 61, who tired to take her own life after the stabbings, will serve more than 16 years in prison.

She had pleaded guilty to two second-degree attempted murder charges in Ramsey County District Court.

Sieferman drew 16 years and six months for the first attempted murder charge, and 12 years and 7 1/2 months for the second. She will serve at least two-thirds of that time for each sentence, which are concurrent.

Sieferman lost her job a few months before the attacks on her then 11-year-old daughters, Linnea and Hannah, and had been hospitalized because of her distress, said her attorney Paul Rogosheske when she pleaded guilty in May.

The attack occurred last Aug. 21 at her home. That morning, Sieferman drank two to four beers.
In the afternoon, Sieferman went to Linnea's room. Linnea said Sieferman loved Hannah best because she had bought Hannah a pair of shoes, Rogosheske related during the plea hearing. Sieferman then went into the kitchen and returned to Linnea's room with a knife.

She covered the girl's face with a pillow and cut her throat.

At that point, Hannah tried to stop the attack. When she ran away, Sieferman followed her to a bathroom and hit her with an ax. Sieferman then turned the knife on herself. She called 911 and said she had killed her children. - Read the entire article here



NORTH HERO, VT. -- A Vermont judge has sentenced a 51-year-old Montreal woman to 15 years in prison for drowning her 8-year-old son three years ago.

Judge Michael Kupersmith issued the sentence to Louise Desnoyers in Vermont District Court for Grand Isle County after hearing her give a lengthy statement of apology to her family, friends and the court.

She told authorities she held her son under water so he wouldn't have to suffer through her impending breakup with his father. - Read the entire article here
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Friday, August 21, 2009

Sex Trafficking case

This is a horrific case in which 2 women basically enslaved a mentally disabled girl, forced her into prostitution and tortured her:


St. Louis - Waquita Wallace was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a federal charge of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, Grace Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, and Michael W. Reap, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri announced today.

In June 2008, April Chaney moved into the 5200 block of Genevieve in St. Louis to live with her sister, Waquita Wallace. That same month, Chaney and Wallace talked a mentally disabled 18 year-old girl into moving in with them so they could care for her. Instead the girl was held captive, forced to give up her monthly disability check, and to work as a prostitute to pay off a drug debt. Wallace constantly threatened, beat, burned, tortured and humiliated the girl. On one occasion, Wallace was afraid that the police had been called, so she and Chaney tied the girl up with a phone cord and left her in the garage.

“Sex trafficking violates individuals’ basic human rights, stripping them of their dignity and freedom,” Acting Assistant Attorney General King said. “The damage done to the victim in this case cannot be reversed, but I applaud the investigators and attorneys who brought these defendants to justice, and it should send a message that we will continue to vigorously enforce our nation’s civil rights laws.” - Read the entire article here
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Female internet sexual predator

This case is one of a female sexual predator on the internet:


CISNE, Ill. — A Pennsylvania woman arrested last fall for using the Internet to lure a Wayne County, Ill., teen to a sexual encounter has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Catharine L. Miller, 33, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court at East St. Louis. In addition to 10 years in prison, Miller has been placed on a lifetime of supervised release once she is out of prison, and has been fined $625.

In March, Miller entered a guilty plea to a single charge of traveling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual conduct. She admitted to using the Internet as well as cell phone text messages to lure a 14-year-old Wayne County girl to a sexual encounter.

Investigators said Miller began an Internet relationship with the teen and made plans to travel to Wayne County last fall to propose marriage to the 14-year-old girl.

Court records indicate that on Nov. 14, Miller brought the victim a diamond ring, a pair of boxer shorts and a baby bottle as part of a marriage proposal. A relative of the victim became suspicious of Miller traveling from Ohio to visit the teen and alerted police. - Read the entire article here
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Female Pedophile - Sexually Violent Child Predator

Another awful story. A story of a boy who was sexually assaulted from the time he was 5 until he was 15 by his babysitter/relative. The comment that strikes me is when she says "I never encouraged the behavior."


A woman from Luzerne County who admitted sexually abusing a boy learned her fate Friday.

Tracy Vasholz, 34, of Wanamie, pleaded guilty earlier this year to raping and assaulting a child for 10 years. She was sentenced to four to eight years behind bars.

"I never encouraged the behavior. I probably should have gone to the authorities," Vasholz said.

According to police, Vasholz is related to her victim and often babysat him.

From the time he was five years old, police said, Vasholz began to sexually assault him and the assault didn't stop for 10 years. The boy's mother, who is not being identified to protect the victim.

Tracy Vasholz is listed as a sexually violent predator and when she is released from prison, she will be required to register on the Megan's Law registry for the rest of her life. - Read the entire article here
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Female Abusers - scandal of our times

There is a new article in the Independent that talks about female sexual abusers and I wanted to talk about a few points they made and encourage everyone to read the article.

The article starts out talking about a woman named Sharon who had been sexually abused by her mother for years. The article states that the particulars are to horrific to repeat and that there was sustained sexual violence committed by her mother.

The article then starts to hit the points that are common whenever a person starts to investigate this subject. The main point being that it goes unreported and even when it is reported no one wants to hear it or believe it. The article states that Sharon was 30 and told her doctor what had happened and he told her to stop being silly because mothers do not sexually abuse their children.

The author of the article reports that this reaction seems common and that while doing research for the article she spoke with a number of people who had been sexually abused by a female and very few had ever told their story.

This comment made in the article is the one that is so very true. The author states "The systemic denial of female sexual abuse is one of the scandals of our times."

Another part is excerpted here:

One of the biggest problems, of course, is that the idea that women can and do sexually abuse children is highly provocative in itself – a fact confirmed by a spokeswoman for the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Services (CEOP), a newly formed Government taskforce charged with "eradicating the sexual abuse of children" in Britain. "Women are perceived as the nurturers, those who are there to look after our young people," she explains, adding that female sexual abuse is often even more threatening than male sexual abuse as it undermines what we understand about the way women relate to children. In order for us to recognise it, the spokeswoman continues, we have to set our preconceptions aside. Otherwise, children will continue to suffer in silence: "How can a child be expected to understand they are being abused and that what they are enduring is wrong if we as a society cannot recognise women as abusers?" she asks.

And that raises a good point. Society as a whole has a double standard when it comes to gender and sexual abuse. So much so that there are some that do not even want this topic discussed as this excerpt discusses:

Understandably, this is a sensitive and highly emotive subject, the fallout from which Michele Elliott of Kidscape has witnessed at first hand. In 1992, she held a conference in London while compiling her book on the subject of female sexual abuse. She recalls how 30 women turned up to disrupt her address: "They stood up and started yelling about how terrible it was that I was detracting from the fact that male power was to blame. It is very disappointing when you encounter such extreme and closed-minded reactions. I was simply responding to what victims had told me."

And such closed-mindedness is rife in the criminal- justice system too, Hilary Aldridge confirms: "There is a tendency in the courts to see the woman as a victim of a male counterpart." But this isn't always the case by any means. Even when there is a male co-offender, this doesn't automatically mean that the female partner is an unwilling accomplice.


There is much more in the article and I would urge everyone to read the entire article. - Read the entire article here
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Friday, August 7, 2009

Female Serial Rapist?

If the allegations are true this becomes a story about a female serial rapist who operated on her own. Just another example that sexual assault is not a gender specific issue but rather a human rights issue.


The police were shocked that 32-year-old Valeria K., a quiet good-looking woman from the city of Tambov, was the mysterious rapist who abused 10 local men after poisoning them with clonidine, Life.ru reports.

Valeria, who has already been nicknamed the Black Widow for her love of spiders, would get acquainted with men and invite them to her place.

She gave them drinks with clonidine, which almost immediately sent them to sleep for almost 24 hours.

After that, she undressed her victims and raped them, tightening a rope on their male organs to keep them erect.

Waking up in hospital with clonidine poisoning and penis trauma, all the victims could remember was a friendly brunette who gave them drinks. - Read the entire article here
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Domestic Violence case

When domestic violence comes to mind many people think of a male abusing a female or a female defending herself from a male. Cases like the one below demonstrate what, slowly, more and more professionals are coming to realize and that is that domestic violence is often committed by women as well as men. In this case the male tried to leave (avoidance and not violent) and gets stabbed in the back and sustains life threatening injuries. And his attacker gets no jail time.


A CORK woman received a suspended three-year prison sentence yesterday for stabbing her husband in the back less than one year after the couple married.

Unemployed hairdresser Laura Egan (25) had previously been convicted of assault causing serious harm arising from the incident in which she attacked Gerry Egan with a carving knife at Castlepark Drive, Mallow, Co Cork, on June 14th last year.

Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that both parties had consumed large amounts of alcohol on the night in question, nine months after they had wed.

The marriage effectively ended after the attack, which left Mr Egan with life-threatening injuries. The court heard testimony that the couple had been out on the night leading up to the assault, with the defendant consuming about seven pints of cider and six glasses of wine.

An argument took place upon their return home, with Mr Egan eventually declaring that he was leaving. His wife’s response was to go to the kitchen, get a carving knife and stab him in the back. - Read the entire article here
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