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May 12, 2012 at 8:37 pm
There is no way Penn is more dangerous than Temple, where I would never feel safe walking around campus alone at night.
May 12, 2012 at 8:37 pm
how did they define the boundaries of campus for these stats?
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May 12, 2012 at 8:37 pm
UPENN’s campus is one of the safest areas in this city! Every bolck on our campus has at least 1-2 officers on foot or bikes and we have an outstanding on and off campus escort service. Our crime stats are public record and they’re low! Clearly it wasn’t reviewed. What sucky journalism! I know HS students who wouldn’t be so remedial with getting the facts! Stop spreading lies about our school jerks!
In March, Secular Pro-Life broke the story that Drexel was promoting two pro-abortion pro bono projects. The pro-life group highlighted the two projects in its boycott call:
The “Judicial Bypass Intake Project” involves law students in legal proceedings that allow minors to have abortions without their parents’ knowledge. Some of those girls likely go to the local Planned Parenthood, which has a history of providing inadequate follow-up care for its abortion patients. Drexel has provided no assurances that these girls will have access to prompt emergency care in the event of a complication.
A second project, the “Abortion Clinic Escort Service,” encourages law students to threaten pro-life sidewalk counselors with bogus lawsuits. Although Drexel has changed the wording of that project’s description on its website, it has not contacted Secular Pro-Life to explain any substantive reforms to the project, despite repeated requests.
See the full article from “LifeNews.com”
By COLUMB HIGGINSStaff WriterMARMORA – The church council of Trinity United Methodist Church in Marmora has scheduled a public meeting for Wednesday, May 2 at 7 p.m. as parents of children at the nursery school there continue to question the church’s response to the arrest of Rev. Randy Harry on charges of loitering to engage in prostitution.
The Gazette reported last week that Harry, 51, the senior pastor at Trinity, was accused of trying to hire a prostitute in Millville on Nov. 11 of last year. The charge of loitering to engage in prostitution was later amended and Harry was found guilty of a disorderly conduct charge.
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The patrolman asked him if he was driving in the area loitering for prostitution and Harry stated that he does not do things like that, according to the report. Harry was asked if he has ever “picked up” a prostitute and he said “To be honest with you, I never come out in Millville, no.”
Rafferty attributes the growth of his keen interest in human trafficking to his post-Navy R.O.T.C days, when, in 2005, fresh out of Boston College with a B.A. in philosophy, he became the Legal Officer, assigned to a U.S. Navy vessel in Japan. His job was, he says, to “educate the crew on relevant local law, including prostitution, including sex-trafficking, also young girls coming into the ports.”
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Fulbright scholarships don’t, somehow, seem to belong in the same sentence with the twisted and violent behaviors associated with forms of human trafficking. At first glance, John Rafferty, who lives in Narberth, and formerly with his parents in Devon and with other Main line connections as well, might seem to have taken his recently awarded Fulbright beyond the normal academic and inter-cultural pale.Talk with Rafferty for an hour or so and he creates a picture of deceived, coerced and entrapped people turned into 21st-century slaves, perhaps as close as West Philadelphia or Chester County. But that’s not where the Fulbright will take hi …
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At 3 p.m. today, a group of strippers (more than 80 planning to attend at this point) will protest in front of the Daily News over a recent cover story regarding prostitution arrests at the Gold Club in Center City. Mostly, they’re pissed the Daily News went out of its way to quote Dr. Mary Ann Layden, who, according to the blog Sex With Timaree, “implies all women in exotic dance are fueled by drug addiction and unable to make their own choices, she vilifies and pathologizes men who use porn or visit strip clubs and she makes illogical associations between sexual content and violence”—a fair point. A woman calling herself Melissa Bang Bang Forgione, who set up the event, will read and present her letter to the editor on Broad Street denouncing the article and paper. Here is a Daily News blog mocking the protest.
Philadelphia Escorts: Prostitution arrests, simple asasult, DWI, disorderly conduct – Millville Blotter
April 30, 2012
Prostitution arrests, simple asasult, DWI, disorderly conduct – Millville Blotter
Published: Monday, April 30, 2012, 1:45 PM Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012, 1:47 PM
File photoPolice charged Evelyn Delcarpio with prostitution.
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Editor’s note: Police on Monday were unable to provide information on bail amounts, or whether some of the accused were taken to the county jail or released on a summons.
* Evelyn Delcarpio, 52, of West Broad Street, was arrested Friday and charged with prostitution.
* Danielle Reed, 37, of South Race Street, was arrested Friday and charged with prostitution.
* Sue Yellets, 46, of East Vine Street, was arrested Friday and charged with prostitution.
* Jill Williams, 26, of Route 49, was arrested Friday and charged with prostitution.
* Nikila Jenkins, 32, of Riverside Drive, was arrested Friday and charged with prostitution.
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* Jessica Maldonado, 32, of East Broad Street, was arrested Friday and charged with prostitution.
See the full article from “NJ.com”
The Philadelphia Museum of Art states that the van Gogh exhibition that they currently have on display contains “some 40 masterpieces borrowed from collections around the world.” After some effort, I believe I found the complete list (by title, origin, date, city, and museum/collection) of the art works at this exhibition. It includes seven from the Van Gogh Museum, two (“Vase With Twelve Sunflowers” and “Wheat Field in Rain”) from down the hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one (“Wheat Fields at Auvers under Clouded Sky”) from the Carnegie Museum of Art here in Pittsburgh, and one (not “The Starry Night”).from the New York Museum of Modern Art.
But what was most interesting to me were the four works of van Gogh art — “The Brothel,” “The Smoker,” “Still Life” and “The Postman” — that were missing from that exhibition list. Where are these four masterpieces hanging? Well, starting May 19, they will be hanging within walking distance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the new “Philadelphia campus” of the Barnes Foundation.
Over the last few weeks, a storm of controversy has been brewing around The Village Voice‘s Backpage section. A story in the New York Times claimed that an underage girl was abused and pimped out, with her pimp using the Backpage service to offer her services. The Village Voice claimed the NYT article was full of errors in fact and logic, and said they have a staff of people weeding out the underage ads and reporting them to authorities. According to the NYT piece, an underage girl was pimped out in NYC, Philadelphia (the Philly version of Backpage is here), Atlantic City, and Boston, but the Voice claims that when these things happened, Backpage was not in existence either at all or in those locations. But either way, the damage has been done, because a bunch of musicians noticed and have called for the shutdown of the adult section of Backpage.
Congressmans grandson accused of sex abuse commits suicide
By Michael P. Rellahanmrellahan@journalregister.com
Posted: 04/17/12 08:51 am
John Charles Ware, grandson of a former U.S. congressman, and facing federal charges involving allegations of sex tourism, has reportedly taken his own life.
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Wares attorney, Chris Hoey of Paoli, said he had been informed that his client was taken to Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia sometime Monday morning and pronounced dead. He said the cause of death was suicide, but had no other details.
Information was not immediately available from the hospital.
Ware was in custody at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, where he had been held following his arrest on the federal charges in February 2011. He had been scheduled to plead guilty to those charges in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia Monday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Mary McLaughlin.
Attorney: Sex tourism suspect commits suicide (Update)
By MICHAEL P. RELLAHANmrellahan@dailylocal.com
Posted: 04/16/12 11:38 amUpdated: 04/16/12 05:38 pm
John Charles Ware, the grandson of a former U.S. congressman who was facing federal charges involving allegations of sex tourism, died in custody Monday, reportedly taking his own life.
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A spokesman for the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia where Ware was being held confirmed Ware had died but was unable to comment on the cause or manner of death. An autopsy will be performed later by the Philadelphia Medical Examiners Office as part of the investigation into Wares death, spokesman Darren Howard said Monday.
Wares attorney, Chris Hoey of Paoli, said his client had been taken to Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia sometime Monday morning, where he was pronounced dead. He said the cause of death was suicide, but had no other details.