The prevalence of circumcision in the United States is approximately 80% due to support from the country's medical community as a prophylactic health intervention against disease. The continent of Africa, similarly, has widely adopted the practice as a preventive measure against the spread of HIV. Why are so many American males circumcised? The medical community agrees: both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) claim the benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks, citing evidence that circumcision lowers a man's risk for HIV, urinary-tract infections and penile cancer. Read More...
A Nigerian woman known as Matina Agawua, has confessed to having slept with her biological son, from her previous marriage just to have a baby for her new husband. In an interview with The Nation, Agawua a native of Yelwata, in Nasarawa State, said when she lost her first husband, she decided to remain a widow for 13 years.
Martina Agawua revealed she lost her first husband to a herdsmen attack in Northern Nigeria and her first marriage produced a son. Read More...
Joeseph Mitchell The 911 call in the Joseph Mitchell case. In 2010, a North Carolina jury decided unanimously that Joeseph Mitchell was not guilty of murder and attempted murder due to the sleepwalking defense. However, they later admitted their hands were tied because the judge would not allow them to convict him of manslaughter instead of murder.
Mitchell strangled his four-year-old son to death and then attempted to kill his two older children while wearing a Halloween mask. Read More...