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Tag: Rape

Crime and Justice

Star Tribune’s rape series shouldn’t have surprised people

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 25, 2018, 9:36 AM Jul 25, 2018

Maybe Sunday’s efforts will be a wake-up call to law enforcement and politicians. If so, it should give us pause to ask why it’s slept on the problem to now. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Judge rejects meeting with lawmakers over ‘slap on the wrist’ for rapist

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2018, 9:01 AM Jun 27, 2018
11 Comments

Some Wisconsin lawmakers want to meet with a judge who decided a three-year sentence for an Edina man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three women was fair. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Survivor who led fight against priest abuse dead at 58

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2017, 9:54 AM Apr 18, 2017
20 Comments

If not for people like Joe Crowley, the Catholic Church’s chronic problem of sexual abuse might never have found its believers.
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Crime and Justice · Education · Sports

Why do scandals keep happening at the U of M?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2017, 6:47 AM Jan 4, 2017
157 Comments

The firing of University of Minnesota football coach Tracy Claeys reinforces a good piece of advice: Be careful what you tweet. And don’t thumb your noses at the people who sign your paycheck.

Claeys was a success on the field and really bad at social media off it. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education

A rape victim reveals her identity

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 30, 2016, 9:49 AM Aug 30, 2016
35 Comments

A third of the untested rape kits in Minnesota remain untested because the victim didn’t want to pursue a case. After reading the story of a New Hampshire rape victim, can we blame them? Read more →

Arts & Culture

R.I.P., VCR

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 21, 2016, 1:18 PM Jul 21, 2016
31 Comments

We come here today to bury the VCR and to announce the breaking news that VCRs are still being manufactured.

But only for another 10 days. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Woman sexually assaulted 3 times: ‘Rape happens because some men are rapists’

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2016, 9:40 AM Jun 9, 2016
18 Comments

Minneapolis woman: Staying silent hasn’t made the emotional scars go away, she writes, ‘and it hasn’t held the men who victimized me responsible for what they did to and stole from me. I’ve realized all too late that our voices are our strongest asset.’ Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education

College says it’s not blaming rape victim, as it blames rape victim

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 7, 2016, 9:06 AM Jun 7, 2016
12 Comments

Worcester Polytechnic Institute attorneys argue the victim engaged in risky behavior, including excessive drinking, on the night that a security guard at her university-leased apartment building lured her to the roof and attacked her. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Where’s the mugshot for Stanford rapist?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 6, 2016, 9:47 AM Jun 6, 2016
16 Comments

There’s an odd result when you try to find the mugshot for Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who got a slap on the wrist for raping a woman.

It’s impossible to find. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Crime and Justice

When the rape culture ‘poisons’ a victim of rape

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2015, 2:00 PM Sep 1, 2015

Former Pretenders front woman Chrissie Hynde put people in an uncomfortable position of criticizing a rape victim for her response to rape with her comments to an interviewer about her new book. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Rapist’s remorse not good enough, appeals court rules

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 24, 2015, 10:22 AM Aug 24, 2015
4 Comments

Jacob Miles Solberg, of Erskine, Minn., is probably going to spend more time in prison for raping a co-worker in 2013 because the Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled that being remorseful isn’t enough to get a break on his sentence. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Ex-NFL star’s rape case exposes a broken system

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 9, 2015, 10:25 AM Apr 9, 2015
11 Comments

It’s believed that only one in three rape victims report their attack. It’s not something we didn’t already know. Darren Sharper’s case, though, shows it’s something that doesn’t seem to change.
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Crime and Justice · Economy

Study: 1 in 3 men OK raping if it’s not called rape

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2015, 8:38 AM Jan 14, 2015
50 Comments

According to a study from the University of North Dakota, 31.7 percent of the men surveyed said they would force a woman to have sexual intercourse. Read more →

Sports

Bowl game overshadowed by rape taunt

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 2, 2015, 7:04 AM Jan 2, 2015
2 Comments

After the kind of year that football and NFL had — wife beating and child abuse — the latest controversy around the treatment of women shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Crime and Justice

30 years to believe a woman’s rape allegation? Why?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 13, 2014, 8:15 AM Nov 13, 2014
5 Comments

Today’s must-read comes from the Washington Post where a woman who says she was raped — twice — by Bill Cosby asks important questions that she’s had for 30 years: Why didn’t anyone believe her?
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