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Michael Kobulnicky, spokesperson for the San Diego Tea Party, has been arrested for rape and assault. Kobulnicky is accused of a Feb. 25 abduction and sexual assault of a 56-year-old woman who was walking home near Linda Vista Road in Fiesta Island. The woman was pulled into a car and assaulted, then left on the island, police said. Surveillance footage …

(Via JMG reader Sara)

Thousands marched through lower Manhattan yesterday at Slutwalk 2011, an event meant to encourage women to report rape and to denounce “slut shaming.” The walk got its start in Toronto after a local cop told women to stop “dressing like they want to be raped.” A similar thought was voiced just this week by Brooklyn police who are seeking a …

A Seattle man on trial for the 2009 rape and fatal stabbing of a lesbian couple told the court that God had instructed him to commit the crime. “I was there and I was told by my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to attack my enemies, and I did so,” Isaiah Kalebu said under questioning by one …

Over the last seven days… Virginia: Pastor Jason Bolton charged with stalking an underage girl. He has a previous arrest for statutory rape.New York: Rabbi Nechemya Weberman arrested for molestation of 12 year-old girl.Georgia: Pastor Albert Turnell charged with possession and distribution of child porn.Alabama: Pastor Michael Wilkerson charged with writing a bad check to purchase $111K Mercedes. He previously …

Over the last seven days… Nevada: Pastor Otis Holland arrested for molesting a seven year-old girl. Holland was arrested last year on similar charges.New York: Pastor Jason LaPierre arrested for embezzling over $400,000 from a credit union.Ontario: Father James Boudreau arrested for sexual assault on a child.Belgium: Father Eric Dejaeger accused of molesting multiple children in Canada. He has already …

Over the last seven days… Virginia: Pastor J.P. Hale sentenced to six years in prison for indecent liberties with a child.Pennsylvania: Father Robert Timchak sentenced to six years in prison for possession of child pornography.North Carolina: Rev. Walter Donald Bradshaw arrested for the rape of an 11 year-old girl.South Carolina: Pastor David K. Love arrested for the murder of a …

“I think that two wrongs don’t make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade. Well …

A South African doctor has invented a female condom barbed with sharp teeth. The device is meant to be worn by women as a rape deterrent. According to Human Rights Watch, South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world, and many women in the country live in constant fear of being attacked. One South African doctor, …

Our second American Talibangelists post for today: An anonymous Christian group is approaching women in Virginia and handing them leaflets that advise that their clothing is “ungodly” and because men cannot withstand such temptation, they may be deservingly facilitating their own rapes. Here’s what a young woman working a fast food drive-thru window experienced: “Even though nothing is showing, you’re …

Former USMC Sgt. Charles Dyer is the organizer of a Tea Party offshoot called the Oath Keepers, a group dedicated to recruiting military personnel into the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Dyer works as a liaison between militia groups and the Tea Party and last year spoke at a Tea Party rally in Oklahoma. On Tuesday, Dyer was arrested …

Several times in recent weeks, commenters on this and other LGBT blogs have feuded over reader statements that the perpetrators of hate crimes deserve to get raped in prison. This has generated a number of complaining emails to me, including a couple from LGBT prisoner activists. Pertinent to that issue, the photos above are part of a new awareness campaign …

The trial of three men accused of the murder and gang-rape of lesbian South African soccer star Eudy Simelane has begun. Eudy Simelane loved football. In other countries the 29-year-old who rose through the ranks to become captain of the women’s national football team would have been feted as a star. In South Africa it cost her her life. The …

The New York Times reports that armed militias are raping male villagers in the Congo in order to force them into submitting to their control. According to Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, United Nations officials and several Congolese aid organizations, the number of men who have been raped has risen sharply in recent months, a consequence of joint Congo-Rwanda military operations …

A compiling of recent FBI and local law enforcement data on violent crimes per capita reveals that Chicago has five of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation. I’m kind of surprised to see Orlando on the list, although the cited neighborhood is so famously sketchy I was once told that the local ER had a special admitting stamp for …

The four Florida middle school students arrested last month for raping a fellow student with a broom handle were charged as adults today in a Tampa court. At a bond and arraignment hearing, the defendants appeared before Hillsborough County Judge Wayne Timmerman to hear the counts against them read in court. Prosecutor Kimberly Hindman described to the court how two …

Over the last seven days… Minnesota: Rev. Donald Dean Budd convicted of two counts of felony sexual misconduct.Utah: Pastor William J. Blanscet charged with exposing himself over a webcam to who he thought was a 13 year-old girl.Pennsylvania: Pastor Guy Carlton Jones sentenced to three years in state prison for attempted sexual conduct with an 8 year-old girl. Bonus: Jones …

Yet another sick bullying case. Four Florida middle school students are under arrest for raping a 13 year-old fellow student with a broom handle and a hockey stick. The 13-year-old boy said the bullying had been going on for months. But he didn’t say anything. Not to a teacher. Not to a coach. Not to his mother. Not even when …

In what is somehow being hailed as a landmark case, a South Korean court has convicted a man for raping a transsexual woman, but apparently only because it was proven that the woman had been having regular vaginal sex with her longtime partner, therefore making her a “real” woman capable of being raped. The Busan District Court yesterday convicted a …