December 29, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Los Angeles Times

The Seattle pair face six charges of aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of her parents, her brother and his family.

From the Associated Press
December 29, 2007

Michele K. Anderson and Joseph Thomas McEnroe, both 29, confessed to detectives they had shot six members of Anderson’s family, according to court documents….(Full Story)

The LA Times story states that the reason for the murders may never be known.  Nevertheless, a related story in The Australian, also based on an Associated Press report, states:

Ben Anderson, who said he was the Andersons’ grandson, told reporters outside his grandparents’ property that money could have been a factor in the deaths. “She (Michele Anderson) felt she wasn’t loved enough and everyone didn’t appreciate her, and she was pushed out of everyone’s life,” he said….(Full Story)

It will be interesting to see what spin will be put on this, so that perhaps the “real” victim turns out to be Michele Anderson, who will thereby be able to avoid a sentence of life in prison without parole.

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December 29, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

The Age (Melbourne)
24 December 2007

Men say wives use India’s pro-women laws to torment them
By Amrit Dhillon, Delhi

Every Saturday evening, a group of male victims…swap stories about vicious wives tormenting them under India’s pro-women laws.

The men, members of the Save Indian Family Foundation, believe they have
been at the receiving end of vengeful women for long enough and are
campaigning for “men’s rights”.

At the last weekly support meeting, Avinash Datta, 32, related how his wife
threatened to have him and his elderly mother thrown into jail by falsely
accusing him of demanding more dowry after their marriage two years ago….

India’s laws on dowry and domestic violence are meant to protect women
against mistreatment and violent husbands — but increasingly unscrupulous
wives are abusing them to intimidate or blackmail husbands….

“A man can rot for years while the woman lives happily in the home that the
man’s parents built, ” said Mahesh Tiwari, a (happily married) New Delhi
lawyer who works for the Foundation. “And he can go bankrupt fighting the
case in the courts.”….

…Sadhana Ramachandran, a female lawyer in the capital who used to take
up women’s cases, has changed her mind after becoming disillusioned with
women abusing the laws.

“I have known innocent, decent men put in jail by women because they want
custody of the children or the house. I’ve seen men turned into mental
wrecks fighting these cases because cases in India can take 20 years,
ruining your life,” she said.  (Full Story)

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December 29, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

By Maria Cheng AP Medical Writer, Dec 27, 2007,

European doctors, researchers say alarming resurgence of disease once thought eradicated could be tied to ‘safe sex fatigue’

“Syphilis used to be a very rare disease,” said Dr. Marita van de Laar, an expert in sexually transmitted diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. “I’m not sure we can say that anymore.”

…In 2000, syphilis infection rates were so low that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention embarked on a plan to eliminate the disease. But about 9,800 cases were reported in 2006.

In Europe, Van de Laar said syphilis’ reappearance was so surprising that many doctors initially had trouble diagnosing it.

Though these days it mainly affects urban gay men, experts worry that the disease could also rebound in the general population if stronger efforts to fight it are not taken soon….(Full Story)

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The Guardian
28 December 2007

Priest sued over seminar ‘curing’ homosexuality
By Mike Elkin in Madrid

Spanish clergyman is to be investigated after complaints that he is holding seminars which aim to “rehabilitate homosexuals”. Protestant minister Marcos Zapata, head of an organisation running youth centres for troubled children in Galicia, prompted the row after reports surfaced of a recent seminar he led entitled “How to Raise Heterosexual Children”….(Full Story)

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