An 18-year-old mother is dead after an obsessed co-worker stabbed her 30 times after she rejected his advances.
Vinessa Lozano had just finished a shift at the Pizza Ranch in Montevideo, Minnesota Friday night when 24-year-old Darek Nelson allegedly stabbed her with a large hunting knife.
The kind-hearted teen had befriended Nelson after he started working at the pizza restaurant more than a year ago, as it seemed he had trouble making friends.
The FBI’s definition of “rape” is about to get a long-awaited update, for the first time since 1929.
The revamped description will be broader, pleasing activists who say the current definition leads to the low-balling of sexual assault cases, and also discourages victims to come forward.
An agency panel voted on Tuesday to change the narrow definition that’s currently in use: “Carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.”
The new definition, which will more closely match the ones that police departments around the country already use, will remove the word “forcible,” along with several other amendments.
Rape will now include sex attacks by relatives, and include non-traditional penetration.
According to the FBI’s website, the proposed new definition is “penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
These changes are crucial, according to women’s rights advocates.
Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women’s Law Project, said the modifications will “better inform the public about the prevalence of serious sex crimes and will ultimately drive more resources to apprehend sex offenders,” according to the HuffingtonPost.com.
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Police arrested a 42-year-old man harboring a runaway 13-year-old Massachusetts girl at his New Jersey home Wednesday.
Police say Alexandra “Allie” Loftis vanished from her Boston home for nearly two weeks after boarding a bus headed to New York City on November 4th, sending her parents on a relentless hunt to get their daughter back.
Allie was located at Jorge Garzon’s Jersey City residence and taken into police custody around 9 am Wednesday, after police say they received a tip off.
Garzon, who also goes by the name George Gonzalez, was arrested just over an hour after her recovery at the Jersey address.
Affirming Allie’s father’s fear, the two are believed to have met online, a sources close to the investigation told NJ.com.
Allie’s family had searched long and hard for their daughter, never giving up hope, with their efforts rippling throughout the New York area to local police stations, city streets and across social media sites showing a number of various fliers.
Believing she had run away independently, her parents posted numerous messages to her on Facebook, as well as pictures of them together, imploring her to come home.
Her father admitted that before her disappearance she seemed unhappy in school, but thought it was just a rough patch.
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A Lincoln woman says a man sexually assaulted her after she agreed to give him a ride to an after hours party last weekend. She tells police that she and Luis Flores Villegas were both at downtown bars Saturday night.
The two left in her car to attend a party about 2:30 Sunday morning. When she parked in the area of 16th & N Street, the woman says Villegas forced himself on her and sexually assaulted her. The 21-year old woman was examined at a Lincoln hospital which reported injuries consistent with her story.
Villegas was arrested Monday night for first degree sexual assault.
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