Sudan Charged a Rape Victim with Adultery and Prostitution

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Sometimes there's not a lot of commentary that can be added to a story. This is one of those times. In Sudan a married 18-year-old Ethiopian woman stood trial for adultery and prostitution charges. If found guilty she would have been stoned, but instead the court convicted her of “indecent acts” after she convinced them she was divorced. She was sentenced to one month in jail and a $880 fine. (The jail sentence has been suspended since she's pregnant.) Why did authorities arrest her in the first place? Because back in August, seven men filmed themselves gang-raping her when she was three months pregnant, and the footage spread on social media. By the way: According to the Guardian, she slept on a jail's concrete floor as she awaited trial. Fuck you, Sudan.

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Did you miss the boat on the 13 years of comedic genius that was Tom Scharpling's The Best Show on WFMU? Okay, well here are the archives. Go ahead and catch up. I'll wait! Okay. It was great, right? Of course it was. Now, remember when Jon Wurster would call in, end up in some terrible trouble with the law, and right before he got carted away would yell, “Hide my spank mags?” Well, folks, a former US congressman actually did that this week! That's right. Former Democratic Representative Mel Reynolds had been living in Zimbabwe, and the government busted him for having porn, which is a big no-no there. According to the Chicago Sun Times, Mel asked government officials to give him his phone and laptop as they dragged him to a government vehicle. That's code for a dude telling people to hide his digital spank mags!

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Do you ever get bored, start thinking about how you haven't had a successful date in a long time, and then troll through Craigslist's dating section? Then because you're only human, you find these dating profilesexhausting and you move on to the oh-so Casual Encounters section and start trolling there? And you start answering a few ads, slowly building up the nerve to go on a late-night hook-up, because you have nothing to lose? And you finally go on a few, and some are great, but others are awkward, and once or twice you get this sense of creepiness in the other person's eyes? And then one day you read the news about some crazy woman confessing that she and her husband would pick up dudes on Craiglist and kill them? And then you google her name and find out that she claims to have murdered 22 men across four states, including the state where you live? And so you go ahead and consider yourself lucky for getting through that particular time in your life and vow to never again take those risks again? But then as each update to the story comes through, it seems she was full of shit, so you begin battling with yourself over whether or not you need to keep that original promise to yourself, because even if this particular woman is lying, there’s still a lot of creeps out there? No? Me neither. Carry on.

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