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1041 BASH AM, Ex-Transgender Conversion/Reparative Therapy

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Stefanie Dickinson, Mother Accused Of Sexting A 14-Year-Old Student, Arrested Again

For Sexual Assault Of A Child (VIDEO)
First Posted: 10/20/11 09:57 AM ET Updated: 10/20/11 10:24 PM ET
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Stefanie Dickinson, 37, a former Ellicot School District treasurer and mother of two accused of sexting a 14-year-old student, was arrested again Wednesday, this time for sexual assault on a minor,Fox31 reports. This second arrest comes just one month after her arrest for charges that she sexted her son's friend.
According to the arrest affidavit, during the sexting investigation, sheriffs received multiple tips that there was another victim of sexual assault from 2008,KRDO reports. Just last week, a 17-year-old male student admitted to having sex with Dickinson on at least five occasions during the summer of 2008 as well as during his senior year of high school.
The victim said that he regularly spent time at Dickinson's house -- his own father was a single parent and Dickinson helped take care of the victim and his younger brother. Later, the victim occasionally spent the night after baby-sitting Dickinson's own children.
The affidavit goes on to state that the pair had sex in Dickinson's car in a parking lot as well as in a children's "playhouse" at her home where, according to 7News, Dickinson gave the victim oral sex before engaging in sexual intercourse. The former student also told authorities that he received explicit text messages and pictures from Dickinson during that period. Dickinson asked the victim to not tell anyone about their relationship because it could ruin her marriage and relationship with her children.
If convicted of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, a Class 3 felony, Dickinson could spend the rest of her life in prison, according to The Gazette.
Police first arrested Dickinson back in September for sexting a 14-year-old student, a friend of her son.
The sexts were discovered by the victim's sister, who became suspicious after witnessing Dickinson hugging her brother multiple times. At the time, Dickinson was a sitting board member and treasurer of Ellicot School District-22, near Colorado Springs.
Deputies told the Colorado Springs Gazette that they believe Dickinson had been texting the boy since he accompanied her, her husband and two sons on a camping trip to Lake Meredith in mid or late August. After the trip Dickinson allegedly asked the boy for his cell phone number so that she could send him photos from the trip, but the arrest warrant says that Dickinson texted him that she wanted to sneak out of the house to meet with him.
Other text messages found on the boy's phone said, "I just want u," and on Sept. 2 they got more explicit. In the message, Dickinson talks about having sex and texts, "Baby I will rock ur f***ing world!"
In another message Dickinson's text reads, "You can't tell anyone about this at all because I could lose my family."
A report cited by KDVR says that the boy told deputies that he felt uncomfortable, and says in the arrest warrant that she would frequently come to his football games and "would always tell me I have a sexy smile".
Dickinson resigned from the Ellicot school board shortly after the sexting allegations and arrest.For Sexual Assault Of A Child (VIDEO) First Posted: 10/20/11 09:57 AM ET Updated:... more

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Azura Lakin, 21, Will Not Be Prosecuted For Ex-Boyfriend's Murder Under Colorado's 'Make My Day' Law (VIDEO)

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A woman who caused fatal injuries to her ex-boyfriend with a broken beer bottle will not face any charges under Colorado's Make My Day law.
On Oct. 2, Azura Lakin, 21, slashed her ex-boyfriend's throat with a broken bottle after a fight during which he choked her and tried to re-enter her house. According to police reports the ex-boyfriend, Shaun Cassidy, 23, was with Lakin and friends at a downtown Fort Collins bar called the Drunken Monkey. Witnesses there told police that Cassidy "began to act hostile," was intoxicated and smashed Lakin's phone before returning to her Fort Collins apartment to take back his things.
Once at the apartment, the two got into another argument and Cassidy started choking Lakin. He was pushed out by Lakin and her sister, but kept banging on the door so Lakin says she opened it again. When he moved towards her as if to choke her again, Lakin says she hit him with the broken bottle cutting him.
Cassidy died on Oct. 9 from a stroke resulting from his blood loss and blunt force head injury.
Though the Larimer County Coroner ruled Cassidy's death a homicide, District Attorney Larry Abrahamson says the Make My Day law applies in this case. Cassidy unlawfully entered Lakin's home, committed a crime of assault, and, Abrahamson says, Lakin had a reasonable expectation of Cassidy causing her harm.
The Make My Day is intended to insure Coloradans their right to self-protection at home, and Lakin says she was acting in self defense.
"We came to the unanimous conclusion that criminal charges could not be sustained beyond a reasonable doubt," Abrahamson told 7News.
Cassidy's relatives however, are not satisfied with the decision.
"She was mad over a broken cell phone. So my nephew is gone because of a cell phone that was broken. It's not right," Cassidy's aunt, Colleen Countryman told CBS4 News, as quoted in Westword.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/21/azura-lakin-21-will-not-b_n_1024428.html?icid=... more

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Transgender Murder: 498 Years Ago This Month

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Tennessee to free woman who was sentenced to death

NASHVILLE, Tenn | Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:38pm EDT
(Reuters) - A year to the day after she was supposed to have been executed for the killing of her husband, Tennessee officials announced on Wednesday that Gaile Owens will be freed from jail.

The Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole said Owens, 58, will be released sometime within the next three weeks.

"We don't have a date for certain," said Melissa McDonald, spokeswoman for the board.

"She has to get her release plan approved," she said. Owens will have to provide information about where she is planning to live and, if applicable, where she will be working, prior to her release. McDonald also said arrangements must be made for her regular meetings with a parole officer.

Owens would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than a century.

She was sentenced to die after being found guilty in 1986 of arranging to have her husband killed. She was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on September 28, 2010.

But then-Gov. Phil Bredesen stepped in before the execution date to commute her sentence, which made parole a possibility.

Parole was recommended by the single member of the board who was at her first parole hearing September 7. That recommendation was forwarded to other members of the board, who considered the case and recommended 4-2 to parole her.

During her parole hearing, Owens testified about sexual assaults and physical abuse she suffered from her husband that she said led her in 1984 to contract a man to kill him. Ron Owens died from 21 blows with a tire iron.

The man who actually killed her husband, Sidney Porterfield, now 68, also was sentenced to death and has been on death row since, according to Dorinda Carter, spokeswoman for the state Department of Correction. Owens was a convicted in 1986 of being an accessory to first-degree murder.
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Dancing With the Stars Cast Will Not Feature Same-Sex Couples | Snark Food

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I'm no tranny, gurl!

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The necessity of "core sex identity"

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Robert Jensen on What Does It Mean to Be a Human Being? The Mistaken Identities of Nation/Race/Gender

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Life Is Precious - A poem by Haley Smith

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“Am I A Boy or A Girl?” “That’s Entirely Up To You, Dear.”

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Male High School Student Removed From School For Wearing High Heels

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