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Amanda Knox: Young and Female Means You Cannot Murder?

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Amanda Knox has been freed, her conviction overturned, and she’s now back to living the life of an American citizen.

And I can’t help wondering what role her status as a young American girl played in this.  I mean, who wants to believe that Mandy Girl-Next-Door would be capable of savage murder?

Clutching at DNA straws has, for many, made for the justification of a rather alarming gut reaction, but in a country where O.J. Simpson literally got away with murder and police procedurals have sent the erroneous societal message that forensics are 100% absolute, we should all know better.

Anyway, Amanda Knox was convicted for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher from the U.K.  The actual throat-slashing was apparently done by “drifter” Rudy Guede, although Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were tied pretty tightly to the crime scene through small things like lying to the police during the investigation and forensic evidence.

But I guess it’s easier to let a so-called “drifter” take the …

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Should A Guy Go to Jail for Giving His Girlfriend Herpes?

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When two people engage in sexual behaviors, there is a risk.  No matter how well you think you know somebody, however honest you believe someone to be in terms of their sexual history, there is a leap of faith involved.

Period.

Is that level of trust often given too easily?  Of course it is.

Does that make a person knowingly walking around with an STI keeping that information from his or her sexual partner a cad?  Absolutely.

Does it make him or her a criminal?

Well, that’s the question du jour following reports that 28-year-old David Golding of the U.K. received 14 months in prison for “inflicting grievous bodily harm” after giving his girlfriend genital herpes.

From Fox News:

The court heard Golding had denied having the infection when his then girlfriend, 24-year-old Cara Scott, was diagnosed with it soon after their relationship began in 2009. He only admitted it to her shortly before they broke up in 2010. Scott then went to the police.

According to the Daily Mail, Judge Michael Fowler said at sentencing, “‘Because it was in a relationship, it was particularly mean and an offense which amounted to a betrayal — a betrayal in a relationship in which you [Golding] professed love.

“The injury you caused her by this infection is at least or more …

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California Teen Avoids Heavy Sentence in Matricide by Pinning the Blame On Boyfriend

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Photo of Accused Murderers Steven Colver and Tylar Witt
There’s no doubt about it, the mother/daughter dynamic can be tough.  Words and actions can be easily misconstrued—on both sides—and it can ultimately lead to a lot of pain and heartache.

And, evidently, murder.

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In 2009, Joanne Witt of California was brutally stabbed to death in a plot hatched by her daughter Tylar, then just fourteen years old, and Tylar’s 19-year-old boyfriend, Steven Colver.

Seems Ms. Witt had the audacity to go to the police and file a statutory rape claim against Colver, now twenty-one, giving authorities Tylar’s diary as evidence.

Tylar Witt clearly felt that matricide was a just reward for her …

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“Fiscal Conservative” Tea Partier Owes Over A Hundred Grand in Child Support

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Hypocrisy is unspeakably distasteful to me.

I think that’s most of my problem with the whole Tea Party movement.  The gist of what they’re saying sounds logical to those who aren’t educated in the ways of politics, and they use that logic to prey on the ignorant.

Their M.O. is to make themselves sound like an average citizen struggling to get by, and John Q. Minimum Wage has no idea that most of the Tea Partiers are extremely wealthy.  They collect the votes of people with legitimate financial struggles in order to put plans in place that will protect their fortunes, often at the cost of us low or middle class citizens.

It’s sickening.

Which is why I’m always kind of excited when Tea Partiers are caught with their financial pants down.  It gives me hope that the misguided people following them in droves will see the light.

Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois, he who has accused Barack Obama of “spending like a drunken sailor”, allegedly owes well over $100,000 in back child support.

For those of you unfamiliar with the child support concept, there is a standard …

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