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She rolls over for some immediate relief from the brightness, but as the Sun creeps its way higher and higher through the sky the light intensifies. Soon sunlight fills the room acting as an alarm clock. Eyes open and sheets shuffle as she stumbles lazily out of bed. Her bare feet meet the cold hard wooden floor. She stands up straight as a shadow cast from natural light greets her on the wall in front of her.

He died from drugging and positional asphyxia during the ordeal. Despite his being at their home with approval from his parents, the defense argued he was complicit in the sexual acts, and therefore the death was accidental. Considering how he was a minor and the men were adults, this was considered unlikely. Further details revealed in the court case depicted a gruesome death. Dirkhising's death received only regional media coverage until a Washington Times article ran a story nearly a month after his death, noting the lack of national coverage in contrast to that given to the death of Matthew Shepard. The media coverage of the Dirkhising case was repeatedly and consistently contrasted with that of the high-profile Shepard case, although the cases were dissimilar in several important details.

I 've been a police officer for two decades and a detective, specialising in serious crime and sexual offences, for 15 years. Never once in all the time I've investigated these horrific crimes has it occurred to me that one day I would be a victim; that I would be raped — and that I would refuse to help the police investigate. But a couple of weeks ago, I made a series of choices that led to me, a heterosexual man, waking up in a man's bed, trapped underneath him. Being raped.

The church, Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, is working to coordinate volunteers and help victims of the August catastrophic floods caused by prolonged rainfall. Tony Perkins, who is president of the Family Research Council FRC , an anti-gay lobbying group, is serving as the interim pastor of that church. We need help with a number of activities and projects that we are managing related to the relief effort.