The Suffolk Journal

El Salvador woman receives pardon for miscarriage

Alexa Gagosz • February 12, 2015

When Carmen Guadalupe Vásquez Aldana had a miscarriage from a pregnancy after being raped in El Salvador, she was charged with aggravated homicide. She was 18 at the time, and sentenced to 30 years in...

Is billing rape victims for hospital charges ethical?

October 8, 2014

By Patricia Negrón Who pays to treat sexual assault victims when they go to the hospital? That may not usually cross people’s minds, maybe because we don’t like to think that it could happen to...

Burn, Steubenville, Burn

March 28, 2013

Joey Johnson Journal Staff ***TRIGGER WARNING*** In the media frenzy surrounding the controversial Steubenville, Ohio rape case, many people find themselves bashing not the rapists themselves,...