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Researchers from the Arizona Cancer Center recently completed a study on the prevalence of the anal human papillomavirus (HPV) in heterosexual men.

Much research concerning HPV has focused mainly on women — for example, developing a vaccine for HPV in women — and on homosexual men.

Of the 222 men in the study from Tucson and Tampa, Fla., who acknowledged having had no prior sexual intercourse with other men, nearly 25 percent were found to have an anal HPV infection.

Of the men with infections, 33.3 percent had at least one of 13 types that eventually lead to cancer.

The researchers have secured funding from the National Cancer Institute to replicate the study in a larger group of men from the United States, Mexico, and Brazil.

From The Nation:

Retired General Antonio Taguba, the officer who led the U.S. Army’s investigation into Abu Ghraib, recently wrote in the preface to the new report, Broken Laws, Broken Lives:

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Photographs published at EveryOne web site

Scientifically, most racial supremacists are wacky heterosexuals. Wacky heterosexuals all over Europe discriminate against the modern border-preceding nomadic Roma people, or Gypsies. This is simply another het wackiness, this one based on a random circumstance of birth, such as — in this true story — I’m a real Italian, you’re not human.

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At about 1pm, the four girls decided to go into the water even though none of them, it seems, knew how to swim. They soon got into difficulties because of strong currents in the area and were hit by an unusually big wave.

Two of the girls were rescued by life-savers from a nearby private beach. But rescuers were unable to reach the two oldest until they were already dead.

Their corpses were dragged ashore and laid out on the sand under beach towels.

“But the knot of curious onlookers that formed around the girls’ bodies dissolved as [swiftly] as it had formed,” the newspaper Corriere della Sera reported. “Few left the beach or abandoned their sunbathing. When the police from the mortuary arrived an hour later with coffins, the two girls were carried away on the shoulders [of the officers] between bathers stretched out in the sun.”

La Repubblica also expressed astonishment at the behaviour of those present. “While the lifeless bodies of the girls were still on the sand, there were those who carried on sunbathing or having lunch just a few metres away,” it reported.

Corriere recalled that this was not the first time people had decided a death was no reason to give up their day at the beach. In August 1997, sunbathers carried on as normal after a man drowned near Trieste.

But the fact that the two victims on this occasion were Roma added an extra twist to the affair.

Italy is gripped by anti-Gypsy feeling. Since coming to office in May, Silvio Berlusconi’s rightwing government has appointed three special commissioners to deal with the Roma in each of Italy’s three biggest cities — Naples, Milan and Rome. It has also ordered the fingerprinting of the country’s Gypsy population, including minors, who make up more than half of the estimated 150,000 Roma in Italy.

The European commission has asked the Italian government for more details on the census, and this month the European parliament approved a motion condemning it as an act of discrimination banned by the European convention of human rights. Berlusconi last week told the commission president, José Manuel Barroso, that the information was being collected to ensure Gypsy children went to school.

The civil liberties group EveryOne said it was unconvinced by reports of the incident at Torregaveta and asked whether there might be something more sinister behind it.

A statement from the group said: “Two young Roma would never have left their scant merchandise for ‘a refreshing dip’ in the waves. Two Gypsy girls would never have gone bathing in full view of everyone because of the modesty that is one of their distinguishing characteristics.”

The group said it had asked for a meeting with the authorities, adding: “We await their response.”

A heterosexual 23-year-old Kennewick, Washington woman, Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong, was arrested on June 29 for the murder of Araceli Camacho Gomez.

The Associated Press reports that Araceli Camacho Gomez’s body was found in Columbia Park in Kennewick. Gomez, bound with yarn, suffered stab wounds to the chest and trauma to the abdomen, with evidence that a fetus had been removed.

Police allege that on Friday night Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong dialed 911 and tried to pass a baby boy off as her own. The child is currently in critical condition on life support at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. Police found incriminating evidence in Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong’s purse including a box cutter, bloody gloves, a baby bottle and yarn. A local NBC affiliate, KNDU, has reported that Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong told a friend that she was nine months pregnant. Her friend did not doubt she was pregnant because she did appear to be pregnant when she saw her.

Other Cases of Murder or Attempted Murder to steal fetuses

Practicing het Lisa Montgomery confessed to strangling 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, cutting her baby from her womb and then telling her husband she had given birth. The child, a baby girl, was later reunited with her father.

Near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2005, another case of a jealous cousin led to an emergency birth of a baby. Police report that Valerie Lynn Oskin’s cousin, outspoken heterosexual Peggy Jo Conner, hit her over the head with a ball bat and then drove her to a remote area on a dirt road and cut her abdomen with a razor blade. Luckily for Oskin, someone on a four-wheeler called police and Oskin was taken to the hospital while her cousin was arrested. Unlike the Araceli Camacho Gomez case, however, this story has a happy ending. Doctors performed an emergency Cesarean delivery and both Oskin and the baby survived.

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In another horrific case, 23-year-old Jimella Tunstall was murdered by a confessed heterosexual friend, Tiffany Hall, who cut her fetus from her womb. The infant, who did not survive, was passed off as her own and was given a funeral. Hall picked up the three older children from their father’s a few days after the murder of their mother, and then drowned them. She then stuffed the children into the washer and dryer units at their home. Hall, who premeditated the murder of Jimella Tunstall, pled guilty to the murders and will spend life in prison. Her plea deal saves her from the death penalty.

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IL Tiffany Hall pleads guilty to murder of Jimella Tunstall, three children
Tue 10 Jun 2008
From the Belleville [IL] News-Democrat–
Tiffany Hall imprisoned for life; plea deal saves her from death penalty
BY BETH HUNDSDORFER
News-Democrat
A week before she knocked her friend Jimella Tunstall unconscious and stripped her unborn baby from her womb, Tiffany Hall bought items for a makeshift birth kit: scissors, alcohol and a bulb syringe.

Three days after removing the fetus and killing Tunstall, Hall got the murdered woman’s three children and drowned them one at a time in the bathtub where she killed their mother.

Hall pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of first-degree murder and received four sentences of natural life in prison without parole for the deaths of Tunstall and her children, along with 60 years for the intentional homicide of Tunstall’s unborn child.

“The kids? It didn’t have to happen. None of it had to, but the kids….,” said St. Clair County State’s Attorney Robert Haida said. He added that Hall didn’t provide any motive for killing DeMond, 7, Ivan, 2 1/2 and Jinella, 1 1/2.

At a hearing Monday on the plea agreement, Haida outlined the details of the crime.

Hall planned for weeks to kill Tunstall and take her unborn child, Haida said, but the plan went awry when the little girl she eventually named “Taylor Horne” was stillborn on Sept. 15, 2006, due to being cut from the womb. Hall took the baby’s body to Frank Holten State Park and called Illinois State Police, telling them she gave birth to the child after she was raped.

St. Clair County Circuit Judge Milton Wharton asked Hall on Monday if she would tell him, in her own words, what the sentence meant.

“I will never get out,” Hall responded in a soft voice.

Haida had announced his intention to seek the death penalty against Hall, if she was convicted of the murders. But he and Assistant State’s Attorney Jim Piper about a month ago cemented the deal for life in prison after they were approached by Hall’s defense attorneys, Jim Gomric and Jim Stern.

“In this circumstance, I don’t know if there are any winners,” Gomric said. “There are degrees of losing.”

Tunstall’s family members expressed opposition to the death penalty, Haida said, and the proceedings stressed the grieving family.

When she walked into the courtroom, Hall looked around the courtroom packed with the victims’ family members, reporters, Illinois State Police investigators, command staff and crime-scene technicians, and East St. Louis Police investigators, but didn’t show any emotion.

Sandra Myers, Tunstall’s mother, trembled and clutched a tissue as Hall took her seat.

Hall had a funeral for the baby on Sept. 18, 2006. But Hall confessed to her boyfriend, Keith Horne, that she was not the baby’s mother, and that she killed Tunstall to get the baby. Tunstall’s body was found in high weeds near Hall’s home. Earlier that day, Hall lied to Ivan Collins, the father of Tunstall’s children, telling him Tunstall wanted her children and her car. That allowed Hall to pick up DeMond, Ivan and Jinella. Hall drowned them, then hid their naked bodies in a
washer and dryer in Tunstall’s apartment in the John DeShields housing complex.

Illinois State Police arrested Hall that night.

East St. Louis and Illinois State Police found the children’s bodies two days later.

As Haida described the crime, Myers, overcome with emotion, left the courtroom hand-in-hand with Illinois State Police Detective David Bivens. She returned, trembling.

“I’m going to have deal with this the rest of my life,” Myers said after the hearing. “I’m going to put it in God’s hands. I have to forgive her. We all make mistakes. We all will need forgiveness. Being a spiritual person, I have to find a way to forgive.”

Hall, 26, had only one previous felony conviction, for retail theft.

But her young life was troubled. Adjudicated as a juvenile delinquent at 14, Hall failed to keep a curfew, failed to appear for drug tests and didn’t attend school. At 16, Hall gave birth to her first child. A year later, she delivered her second.

Hall lost custody of her daughters in 1999 after a court found evidence her 2-month-old daughter was abused.

In 2001, both girls were returned to Hall’s care. They returned to foster care after Hall was arrested for the murders.

Hall, who Gomric said is mildly retarded and suffers from mild mental illness, wore shackles and shuffled out of the courtroom. She never looked back at spectators.

Contact reporter Beth Hundsdorfer at bhundsdorfer @bnd.com or 239-2570.
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