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Study Shows How Juvenile System Criminalizes Girls Who are Victimized by Sexual Abuse
Loaded on Aug. 4, 2016
by Joe Watson
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Victims,
Juveniles,
Failure to Protect (Juveniles),
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
United States of America.
A Norman, Oklahoma high school student, raped by a male peer and repeatedly harassed and touted by her classmates, is suspended from school after she lashes out and swings at another student.
A girl, 17, under the age of legal consent, is charged in California with solicitation of prostitution after ...
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