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Police: Man stabs wife to death while their 7 kids are home

This law enforcement booking photo from the Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff’s office shows John Leo Davis. Police in Goodyear, Ariz., say Davis is accused of fatally stabbing his wife after she confronted him about slapping one of their kids for playing video games. According to police, the couple’s seven children were in the family home Thursday, March 26, 2015, when the mother, identified as Michele Davis, 35, was killed. A 14-year-old daughter witnessed the stabbing and called 911. The husband also called 911, reportedly saying he’d lost his mind and stabbed his wife.(AP Photo/Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office)
Women excised from public life by Islamic State

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, north Syria. (photo credit: AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)
Jihadists force females to wear full-body robes, curtail their freedom of movement and study
Isis releases ‘abhorrent’ sex slaves pamphlet with 27 tips for militants on taking, punishing and raping female captives

File: A 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by Isis and forcibly married to a militant in Syria.
Violence kills a child every five minutes, most outside war zones – U.N.
A young Syrian Kurdish refugee boy carries an infant after crossing the Syrian-Turkish border, near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province September 23, 2014. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/Files
Jewish children threatened on Sydney school bus

This was the bus carrying Jewish-only children home when the incident took place on Aliso.
Cruise worker admits raping, beating ship passenger, attempted to throw overboard
Children tortured and raped by Assad’s forces – report
- It cites U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as saying that Syrian children have been subjected to “unspeakable suffering” during that time. Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Children have endured ‘unspeakable’ and ‘unacceptable’ suffering during Syria’s civil war, UN’s Ban Ki-moon says
Girl testifies stepfather’s punishment made her fear she would die
- This combination of photos released by the Delaware State Police shows Georgetown pediatrician Melvin Morse, 48, left, and his wife, Pauline Morse, 40. AP Photo: Delaware State Police
Melvin Morse was arrested in 2012 after his stepdaughter, then 11, told authorities she had been waterboarded on four occasions.
95-year-old Hawk Point woman beaten by grandson, police say

Mark Kerpash is wanted in connection with the assault of a 95-year-old Hawk Point woman. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department
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