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Will Archbishop Myers be arrested?

admin — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:44:28 +0000

Will Archbishop Myers be next?

Prosecutor’s investigation shouldn’t stop at Fugee says the Star-Ledger Editorial Board

The Star-Ledger Editorial Board is asking whether Archbishop Myers is next. So are we? We’re leaving the district attorney to express his opinion on the criminal implications and we’re encouraged by the strong political support in New Jersey calling both for the Archbishop to step down and for the removal of the statutes of limitations on child sex abuse that encourage and support this continued behavior by the Roman Catholic Church and other institutions.

5,826 of us are now calling for Pope Francis to put the protection of children before the protection of the church or its priests and tell Newarkto step down for putting children at risk. We are declaring our support for the 6 questions being asked by Catholic Whistleblowers and asking Pope Francis for his support of their recommendations:

Read the Star-Ledger story here

New York who will you protect, our children or their predators?

admin — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:36:26 +0000

Will New York’s State Senate put church or children first?

Assemblywoman Marge Markey is a long time supporter of victims of child abuse. A version of her Child Victims Act has passed the New York State Assembly four times but it has never received a vote in the State Senate. Why not? What’s standing in its way?

The most significant opposition to the Child Victims Act is from the Roman Catholic Church who are spending a fortune across the country on lobbyists and arm twisting. New York’s Senators are having to decide between protecting children from child sex abuse or protecting the assets of the churches who were responsible for shielding many of their abusers.

We believe their effort would be better spent cleaning up their own processes. Processes that have just been exposed in Newark, New Jersey where Newark Archbishop John J. Myers was caught deciding to allow priest and self confessed child molester, Rev Fugee, to breach an agreement and have unsupervised access to children – including taking their confession. Father Fugee has now been arrested again.

Sign our petition to tell Pope Francis no more recycling pedophile priests

Minnesota’s State Senate have just passed their version of the Child Victims Act with an unanimous vote.

Recognizing our understanding that victims of child sex abuse can often take years to report their abuse Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is expected to sign the bill into law.

“People who have suffered trauma are not public property,” said Andrew Willis of the Stop Abuse Campaign. “They have the right to come to terms with their abuse in their own time and express it in their own way, when they are ready.”

Meanwhile back in New York Senator Klein is on record as supporting church over children.

We know that in states like California, Delaware, Hawaii, etc. where statutes of limitations have been removed victims have come forward and identified abusers, previously unidentified, who were often still abusing children. The cycle of violence gets broken, abuse stops before it happens, before another child becomes a statistic.

Opponents of the bill have included New York’s infamous Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez who now says he will quit the assembly on Monday and whose poster from last September adorns our office wall.

Soon to be former Assemblyman Lopez represents the interests of the Roman Catholic Church and ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in defeating the bill. It seems Senator Klein does too.

But is Senator Klein correct? Does the Child Victims Act expose religious institutions to potentially devastating civil liability? Not according to advocates at SOL Reform led by constitutional law expert Marci Hamilton who show that opening the court to allow victims of child sex abuse to seek justice will not destroy the church.

With over 10,000 signatures on a very public petition and many of us making calls to Senator Klein and Senator Skelos’ office we hope they’ll schedule a vote and hurry the Child Victims Act to the Governor for signature.

“New York should put the safety of it’s children first.” Andrew Willis, Stop Abuse Campaign

25,000 call on NY to call a rape a rape!

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:05:46 +0000

Click here and become one of the 25,000+ calling on NY to call a rape a rape!

New York’s Rape is Rape Bill proposed by Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas will redefine rape adopting a consistent standard of contact rather than the current standard of penetration, further it will call forcible oral and anal contact what they are – Rape.

There are many reasons to support this bill. Here are our top three:

Rape is not just a legal term
Consistency with a National Standard
Respect for victims

Rape is not just a legal term

Making the legal definition of rape consistent with the everyday meaning of rape will make prosecutors jobs easier. It will also clarify in a post Steubenville world that rape is rape. There should be no excuse for abuse. The law should set clear, easily communicated standards that we, the public, can easily understand. The Rape is Rape Bill does that.

We looked at Google’s search data to see what we the people search for when we enter the word rape, the most searched for term is “was I raped.” Other top search terms include man raped, boy raped, guy raped and anally raped.

“I don’t have a vagina, but I was raped as a child” Andrew Willis, New York

Sadly both straight and gay men get raped, almost 1 in 6 of them as children, and in a state that recognises marriage equality we believe we should also recognise rape equality.

Consistency with a National Standard

After significant public consultation and debate Attorney General Eric Holder announced revisions to the Uniform Crime Report’s definition of rape, stating that this would mean data reported on rape will better reflect state criminal codes and Victim Experiences.

The new definition of rape is: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” The definition is used by the FBI to collect information from local law enforcement agencies about reported rapes. The Uniform Crime Report is well respected and nationally quoted including by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

The longstanding, narrow definition of forcible rape, first established in 1927, is “the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.” It thus included only forcible male penile penetration of a female vagina and excluded oral and anal penetration; rape of males; penetration of the vagina and anus with an object or body part other than the penis; rape of females by females; and non-forcible rape.

Labelling differing forms of rape, vaginal, anal and oral rape will continue to reinforce a view of difference when in fact the root causes of the crime, power and control, and the victim impact are exactly the same.

Respect for victims

For victims like Lydia Cuomo to come to terms with being raped is hard enough, for the justice system not to recognise rape as rape is to re-victimise victims in favor of perpetrators. New York should pass the Rape is Rape Bill. The revised definition of rape sends an important message to the broad range of rape victims that they are supported and to perpetrators that they will be held accountable.

A distinction between Rape, Oral Rape and Anal Rape as proposed in the Senate legislation perpetuates the intractable fallacy of “real or legitimate rape” as contrasted with violations of the mouth and anus as not real rape. Rape is rape and it should be simply known as such.

Our petition to redefine rape in New York State has now attracted more than 25,000 signatures.

Philip Culhane – A child abuse survivor fights law protecting predators

admin — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:25:40 +0000

This is Philip Culhane who traveled from Hong Kong to participate in last week’s Child Victims Act hearing in New York. Please join us in thanking Philip for his brave testimony by asking your friends to sign our state petitions. This is the testimony he gave:

Good morning. My name is Philip Culhane.

A bit about me. I grew up in New York City, in Brooklyn and Greenwich Village. I attended Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, beginning as a fifth grader in 1976 and graduating in 1984. I went to college in Massachusetts and then went on to New York University School of Law. I went to work for a large Wall Street law firm, eventually moving to my firm’s Hong Kong office where I have been for the last 15 years. I am married and have two children, a 10-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son.

A story of fulfillment, success, love and driven accomplishment. But there is another narrative.

From 1966 through 1991, Poly prep had on staff a serial sexual abuser. He was the football coach. He was a legend. He was hired the year I was born. At one point while I was Poly, when my friends were on the team, the team was undefeated for three and a half years. He was a legend and also a serial sexual abuser. He repeatedly abused me starting when I was 10 years old.

Polly Prep

At some point I managed to make it stop and he allowed me to escape, perhaps because he had so many other options. What did I do? I packed it away. I told no one. Not a soul. I assumed that it was somehow my fault and my pain to bear alone. I sensed then that others knew, the teachers, the administrators, the community. How could they not? It was happening every day to many children, year after year. It was just a thing that happened.

And who would dare to challenge the coach that put Poly football on top and helped open the wallets of so many alumni? And so I buried it deep. I didn’t forget but I refused to remember. I refused to remember so well that by the time I was 14, 15, 16, I lived a life seemingly unaware that it had happened. For years my mind never went inside the room I had put it.

And so I went. I went on to many good things. Always, though, there was an undercurrent. Something lurking. A good life but a life also beset by recurrent bouts of depression. A swirling storm that would arrive and sink in and I would have to fight my way out.

And so many years later my daughter was born, and then my son. My son was born when I was 43. And it all began to explode into my life. I saw myself in my son and the question, ‘How can I protect him, how can I protect my children from something that I was unable to protect myself from?” became relentless and overwhelming. I didn’t have an answer. And that is when my world exploded. This is how it works. The science shows this. Years later, like a time bomb, a life-changing event, marriage, the birth of a child, is a trigger and then resolution of some kind must be found.

And this is the core of the problem we are here to discuss today. The statute of limitations guarantees that in all but a tiny minority of instances, there will be no accountability for sexual abusers and, of critical importance, no accountability for the institutions, schools, churches, administrators, that harbor the abuses and seek to deny and work desperately to cover up, to avoid scandal. Desperate and deeply immoral actions and decisions are made rather than good decisions that take responsibility and seek to reconcile.

And so where are we? As a society, as a polity, as a community? We have a law that simply does not work. A law that guarantees injustice. This is not the purpose of the law. I am a lawyer. I studied jurisprudence at NYB, the study of the philosophy of law, the purpose, power and methods of the law.
Finality has value and must be respected and provided for in certain circumstances. For breach of contract, for a situation where the harmed party knows he or she has been harmed and has the presence of mind and standing as an adult to decide rationally what to do in response. I am an adult. I slipped on a banana and broke my hip. It happened in the lobby of a building. I have the, for example, three years in which to bring suit against the owners of the building for their negligence in not keeping their lobby banana-peel free.

Note the stark differences. What we are talking about today is the sexual abuse of children, children being molested and raped. The mind of a child does interesting and profoundly complicated things in the aftermath of these experiences. The adolescent seeks to survive and thrive, not to process the experience in the context of within how many years from when I turn 18 should I sue the people who did this, who allowed this to happen to me.

What do we need to do? We need to demand stridently that the time has come, for our society, for a society that we want to be a good society, a society in which people are free and empowered to live good lives, to demand and declare enough, the statute of limitations must be abolished for a set of behavior that amounts to rape, a crime against the soul, against still-forming adolescent minds. And we know we are going there. We are at one of those moments in history when we all know this will happen. Football, Penn State, Poly Prep, brought this issue into the living rooms of all of America. If before people could turn the other way, say it’s just some problem in the Catholic Church, now football has shown this problem, this injustice, to be American. Our problem. Our challenge to fix.

There will always be ill, sick people who need help and don’t get it and who abuse children. We know this. To fight this, to help police against this, we need every institution that has primary care for children, schools especially, to understand that where we are going is zero tolerance and total accountability. Abolishing the statute of limitations will achieve this. If institutions know, know that what they see in front of them but deny, if they know that accountability will be had when the situation is discovered, we will have powerful allies in the fight for the safety of children. As a society we will convert the institutions from enablers, concealers, deniers, to a force for vigilance against abuse and for the protection of children. We will help these institutions return to their primary mission. The nurturing of children. We will end the litigation and their desperate attempts to deny.

In our case, the case against Poly Prep, we worked, we fought, for three and a half years, just like that undefeated Poly football team from the early ‘80s. Fighting denial and a defense that said even if it all happened, it doesn’t matter, because the statute of limitations has run. The details aren’t at this point hugely critical. What is relevant is that the case settled. We found a measure of justice. But at what cost? Three and a half years. Twelve courageous men, each supplying a piece of the factual puzzle. One brilliant attorney. A huge investment of blood and treasure. Leading white-shoe law firms defending the school. Battle after battle. And at the end, a measure of justice came.

Two things I want to note. First, we had extraordinary facts and an extraordinary combination of committed plaintiffs and brilliant lawyering. But how many victims are going to have this? Have this, odd to name it so, this fortuitous combination of factors? Not many. We know this. For the huge majority of both victims and schools and institutions, there is no justice, no accountability. What did we prove? We proved that Herculean effort and the coming together of 12 men, one incredible attorney and a set of facts worthy of Dante’s Inferno bring it all together and justice and accountability can be had.

Second, what did we achieve? We didn’t change the law, we nudged it maybe, we established RICO, we established that possibly the statute of limitations could be tolled and the primary actions heard, but no fundamental change in the law. We achieved a small measure of recompense to 12 men. But what else? The world took note. Critically, schools took note. There are other schools in the NYC area who are today clearly behaving differently in response to abuse allegations. Why? Because they see the cost of fighting accountability. They know there is a better path, an inevitable path, a path to cooperating with society’s need, victims’ need, for just and accountability, finally for reconciliation.

Who are we protecting by these statutes? Institutions, schools, churches, teachers, administrators, priests and fathers, about whom we all instinctively recognize that they have the highest moral and ethical duty to protect our children when we as parents as community members give our children into their custody. They are charged with the academic and ethical and moral teaching of our children. We all know in our hearts that the highest standards of conduct and vigilance in the care of our children apply.

Finally, let me tell you one more story.

Imagine that right now your child is being abused, raped, at school. He or she is not going to tell you or anyone. He or she is going to bury that event so deep that it won’t return until 15 years from now, 20 years from now, when she has a baby, when he marries. And I tell you right now, as this is happening, an administrator, a priest, a father, knows and is doing nothing. And I tell you, your child has grown up and suffered mightily and then explodes into crisis. And I tell you the law offers you and your child no justice, no accountability, no resolution. No one lies. No one makes up a story that elicits shame, makes too many people turn away at the discomforting need to face the unspeakable. This story is a true story.

Our choice, our society’s choice: Protect the children? Make a just society? Or protect administrators and teachers and institutions that did wrong, that continue to do wrong? Grievous wrong. And so I ask you, what are we going to do? We are going to abolish the statute of limitations. We are going to pass laws that impose harsh penalties for the failure to report sexual predators. This is what we are going to do. We know this. It’s just a question of how long. How long? Not long. As Martin Luther King famously enunciated and declared, the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice. It’s time. The safety of your child demands that we take action and abolish the statute of limitations for these crimes.

How long is too long to report a rape in your state?

admin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:10:31 +0000

Advocates want to end the statute of limitations on civil and criminal litigation against rapists and child molesters.

New York’s Rape is Rape bill—which would include forced oral and anal penetration in the legal definition of rape—suffered a huge setback last week when a major Republican backer of the bill, New York State Senator Catharine Young, retracted her support, arguing that juries will reject the idea that forced anal or oral penetration constitutes rape and refuse to convict.

That notion is a slap in the face to people like Andrew Willis.

“I may not have a vagina, but I was raped as a child,” Willis tells TakePart.

It took Willis decades and a 2008 suicide attempt before he finally came to terms with his abuse.

Then, he became an advocate.

Willis is the cofounder of Stop Abuse Campaign. His organization is at the forefront of attempting to bring New York’s (and the rest of America’s) rape laws into the 21st century. Not only is Stop Abuse Campaign one of the primary backers of New York’s Rape is Rape bill, it is making a nationwide push to end civil and criminal statutes of limitations on reporting crimes of sexual violence—particularly sexual crimes against children.

In Minnesota, Stop Abuse Campaign is backing the Child Victims Act, which would end the statute of limitations on civil litigation against perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Minnesota law currently states that child victims have until six years after they turn 18 to bring legal action against their attacker.

Willis argues that allowing civil litigation isn’t just about compensating victims—it can be a means of preventing further abuse:

Read the full story on takepart.com

By Matthew Fleischer

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Now is time to protect children not pedophiles

admin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:55:21 +0000

It’s time to stop blaming victims

To support our petitions to change statutes of limitations click here.

America, why do we insist on blaming the victims of crime more than the perpetrators? ”But surely we don’t!”, you say! But the fact remains, we do. Our laws governing rape, especially child rape, make America out to be a country more protective of predators than of children. Today, most of our states arcane laws, impose arbitrary limits on how long a rapist has to wait before they’re off the hook to go on molesting more of our children.

Here’s how it happens, in most states statutes of limitations mean that 5 years after a child reaches 18, i.e. when they’re 23, their abuser is protected by law. Given what we know today about a victims ability to talk about child abuse, that’s just wrong. Pedophiles don’t retire, they don’t wait till the 5 years are up and then stop abusing kids! As we have seen from the cases of the Boy Scouts, the Roman Catholic Church and the Sandusky Scandal once abusers start to abuse kids they usually continue till they are identified and stopped.

Worse still, victims have to continue to live their lives, silenced by a lack of justice, while society protects their abusers by law.

Eliminating statutes of limitations works, changes in California identified over 300 pedophiles.

Opponents of change argue that statutes of limitations encourage early reporting but their argument is flawed. If it wasn’t we would not need change, but almost a quarter of our kids are still getting sexually abused, for that reason alone we need change. The question we get asked most often is why people wait to tell, we like this answer from a British newspaper, The Guardian, talking about the disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien who has resigned just 36 hours after complaints of inappropriate behaviour by three priests and an ex-priest. Now the story has plunged the church deep into crisis.

“But why had the men waited so long to report allegations dating back to the 1980s? The answer is that people who have suffered trauma are not public property. They have the right to come to terms with it in their own time and express it in their own way, when they are ready. Being ready can simply be a collision of circumstances. Often, it’s as straightforward as realising you are not the only one.”

To support our petitions to change statutes of limitations click here.

To read the full story of how Cardinal Keith O’Brien then Britain’s Catholic leader fell from grace click here.

True Love Honor Roll

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:54:03 +0000

THIS HEART’S FOR YOU!

WELCOME TO THE ‘TRUE LOVE’ HONOR ROLL.

HERE WE HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE REACHED A SIGNIFICANT LEVEL OF GIVING AND MEANINGFULLY IMPACTED THE SUCCESS OF THE ‘TRUE LOVE CARD’ AND OUR ABILITY TO CONTINUE THE HARD WORK HERE AT THE STOP ABUSE CAMPAIGN.’

FOR ALL YOU DO TO STOP ABUSE, THANK YOU!

KENNY AND ANDREW

Hitting your child out of love

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:59:25 +0000

Spanking…most of us have a very personal connection to spanking, as in most of us were spanked at home, at school or both. Most of us turned out okay in spite of it or BECAUSE of it some would say. What do you say? We asked the question as part of our awareness campaign on spanking and hope you take a quick second to answer our poll: Should You Hit Your Child?

Below is an article by Steve Hendrix that we found interesting. Also here are some links to previous articles we have published here on Spanking.

Thanks for all you do to stop abuse.
Ken and Andrew

Poll: Should You Hit Your Child?

http://stopabusecampaign.com/feature/be-an-american-hero-stop-spanking

http://stopabusecampaign.com/feature/who-is-beating-your-kid

http://stopabusecampaign.com/feature/why-spanking-doesnt-work

Illustration by Anna Parini

By Steve Hendrix, Published: January 3

George Holden envisions a world without spanking. No more paddling in the principal’s office. No more swats on little rear ends, not even — and here is where Holden knows he is staring up at a towering cliff of parental rights resistance — not even in the privacy of the home. When it comes to disciplining a child, Holden’s view is absolute: No hitting.“We don’t like to call it spanking,” said Holden, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University and head of a newly formed organization aimed at eliminating corporal punishment in the United States. “Spanking is a euphemism that makes it sound like hitting is a normal part of parenting. If we re-label it hitting, which is what it is, people step back and ask themselves, ‘Should I be hitting my child?’ ”For centuries, of course, the answer to that question has been yes for a huge majority of families. We’ve been unsparing of the rod, spanking our children just as we were spanked by our parents. And there’s precious little evidence to suggest we feel much differently today. While the percentage of parents who say it’s okay to occasionally spank a child has declined marginally in recent years, that “acceptability level” still hovers between 65 percent and 75 percent nationally.And surveys that measure actual behavior reveal even higher rates of moms and dads willing to whack. Depending on how you ask the question, most surveys show that between 70 percent and 90 percent of parents in this country spank their kids at least once during childhood. In 2013 America, spanking a child is about as common as vaccinating one.But Holden and a growing number of children’s advocates still believe the time is right for a serious effort to endnhas been passed by 33 nations in Europe, Latin America and Africa (soon to be 34 when Brazil becomes the largest country to outlaw spanking in final action expected this year).

So far in this country, even limited anti-spanking laws have gone nowhere. A 2008 proposal to make it illegal to spank a child younger than 3 was greeted with howls of nanny-state overreach in the California Assembly before being withdrawn. In 2011, a bill targeting some of the more extreme physical discipline measures that have been considered “reasonable corporal punishment” — hitting with dangerous objects, punching with closed fists, shaking toddlers younger than 3 — was hooted down in the Maryland Senate.

“I had legislators telling me that they had not been spared the rod when they were young and look at them now,” said State Sen. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Montgomery), the bill’s chief sponsor. “It’s really entrenched in the culture. I do think we need a social movement against violence in the home.”

And that is just what most of the new paddling prohibitionists have in mind. Knowing how Americans would recoil at the idea of Big Brother stepping between the parental palm and the child’s bottom, their goal is to drive spanking out of the culture. They want to tarnish spanking’s image as a normal part of American life with a sustained behavior change campaign along the lines of the ones that cut smoking rates in half and made drunken driving a national taboo.

Continue reading here

President proclaims National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:14:09 +0000

As the New Year kicks off, President Barack Obama proclaims January “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month” as he reminds the nation that protecting human rights remains a founding principle of America and one of the nation’s top priorities.

The proclamation reads:

“This month, we rededicate ourselves to stopping one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. Around the world, millions of men, women, and children are bought, sold, beaten, and abused, locked in compelled service and hidden in darkness. They toil in factories and fields; in brothels and sweatshops; at sea, abroad, and at home. They are the victims of human trafficking — a crime that amounts to modern-day slavery.

“As Americans, we have long rejected such cruelty. We have recognized it as a debasement of our common humanity and an affront to the principles we cherish. And for more than a century, we have made it a national mission to bring slavery and human trafficking to an end.

“My Administration has been deeply committed to carrying this legacy forward — beginning with trafficking that happens on our own shores. We have strengthened protections so all workers know their rights, expanded efforts to identify and serve domestic victims, devoted new resources to dismantling trafficking networks, and put more traffickers behind bars than ever before. In the months ahead, we will continue to take action by empowering investigators and law enforcement with the training they need, and by engaging businesses, advocates, and students in developing cutting-edge tools people can use to stay safe. We will invest in helping trafficking victims rebuild their lives. And as one of the world’s largest purchasers of goods and services, the Federal Government will keep leading by example, further strengthening protections to help ensure that American tax dollars never support forced labor.

“Our commitment to stopping human trafficking does not end at our borders. As a leader in the global movement to combat this scourge, the United States has renewed sanctions on governments that harbor the worst offenders. We have partnered with groups around the world to help men, women, and children escape their abusers. And recognizing that no country can meet this challenge alone, we have aided others in addressing modern slavery’s root causes, and encouraged nations across the globe to pass comprehensive anti-trafficking laws, enforce them rigorously, and care for survivors.

“We know the road ahead is long, and change will not come easily. But as we renew our pledge to erase modern forms of slavery from the face of this earth, let us also draw strength from the movements of the past. We recall the words of the Emancipation Proclamation — that every life saved is “an act of justice,” worthy of “the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of an Almighty God.”

“We reflect on the Amendment that wrote abolition into law, the decades of struggle to make its promise real, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that has drawn nations together in the pursuit of equality and justice. These achievements once seemed impossible — but on this day, let us remember that they were not, and let us press on toward the future we know is possible.

“NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 2013 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, culminating in the annual celebration of National Freedom Day on February 1. I call upon businesses, organizations, faith-based groups, families, and all Americans to recognize the vital role we can play in ending all forms of slavery and to observe this month with appropriate programs and activities.

“In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.”

10th Annual Hawaii Conference

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:16:47 +0000

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