U.S. woman said imprisoned, abused in W.Va race crime
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A young black woman was held prisoner for a week in a remote area of West Virginia where she was sexually and racially abused, stabbed and forced to eat animal waste, a prosecutor said on Wednesday in a case he compared to a horror movie.
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The actress delivered a speech on -- you guessed it -- racism.
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A Ukrainian woman wins damages of $430,000 from a US agency for introducing her to a husband she says beat her.
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The woman who claims she saw photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse contacts the police.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A U.S. soldier who stomped on  hooded Iraqi prisoners was sentenced to six months behind bars  on Friday, becoming the sixth person imprisoned in connection  with abuses at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
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Two women were charged with soaking a longtime homeless drug addict with gasoline and burning her to death after she reported that one of them had robbed her.
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Pfc. Lynndie England was celebrating her 21st birthday when she helped commit some of the worst acts of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, military prosecutors said Tuesday.
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A U.S. woman jailed in Brazil since December in a sex abuse case involving minors has been placed under house arrest because of poor health, her lawyers and authorities said Thursday.
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A pair of Indonesian women brought to the United States to work as housekeepers were starved, deprived of sleep and repeatedly stabbed and beaten by a millionaire couple, prosecutors said Monday at the couple's trial.
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Six West Virginians charged with kidnapping, torturing and sexually assaulting a woman for at least a week may also face hate crime charges, Logan County Sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
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A female leader of Colombia's Farc rebel group is sentenced to more than 16 years in jail in the US for drug trafficking.
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A woman had the word "snitch" burned into her face with a branding iron in apparent retaliation for helping police in a domestic violence case, authorities said.
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A former Hollywood studio attorney and his wife have been sentenced for abusive treatment of their Filipino maid in a case federal prosecutors said "amounts to modern-day slavery."
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A key figure in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal has been sentenced to eight years in prison. US Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick had pleaded guilty to five charges of sexually and physically abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.
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A woman who claims she was raped by a fellow employee while working for a U.S. contractor in Iraq told House lawmakers Wednesday that her case is far from unique.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A woman has been charged with animal cruelty for what police call a retaliatory killing of a parakeet. Witnesses told police that Andrea Grantham, of Martinsburg, brandished a knife during a weekend property dispute with a neighbor.
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An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after saying that she had been imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted in Iraq during the 1990s appears to have made false claims.