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BARRE, Vermont -- A Roxbury man is facing two life sentences for allegedly committing what Vermont State Police are calling "one of the more horrific sexual assault" crimes in recent memory. Casey Langlois, 24, has allegedly admitted to sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy more than a dozen times over a two-year period. Langlois is being held without bail after pleading not guilty in Vermont District Court in Barre Friday to two felony aggravated sexual assault charges. Both carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. The 11-year-old told a social worker and a state police trooper that Langlois had forced him to engage in sexual acts more than 100 times in the past two years. The series of assaults began when the boy was 9 years old, court papers said, with the last incident occurring Nov. 11 in a hay barn.
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Peru still keeps on the books an old piece of legislation that dates all the way back to 1583. Passed by the Third Provisional Council of Lima, it states, "If there is anyone among you who commits sodomy, sinning with another man, or with a boy, or with a beast ... Let it be known that it carries the death penalty." Sodomy has long been a serious offense in Peru. A person who has engaged in it is first dragged through the streets on a rope. Hanging comes next! Finally, the corpse is burned while fully clothed. This symbolizes the sodomite's total destruction.
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Panama doesn't mess around when it comes to homosexuals and homosexuality. The law declares: "If any one of these males who commit this vile practice against nature with other males, he shall be degraded, and shall remain in perpetual exile." The penalty meted out for homosexual behavior is castration. The law also covers people who aren't homosexual themselves but associate with homosexuals. "Guilt by association" brings a penalty of a shaven head, one hundred lashes, and banishment.
The law in Honduras doesn't prohibit homosexuality, yet neither does it condone the practice. Sodomy, however, is strictly banned regardless of whether it's homosexual or heterosexual.
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In Lebanon, only men are legally allowed to have sex with animals. But the gender of the animal is important--it must always be female. A man's having sexual relations with a male animal is considered a mortal sin and brings a death penalty for those who get caught.
According to Iranian law, Islamic religious laws "must be obeyed and carried out by all--without exception and without argument. There is no other right, no other duty but obedience." This Middle Eastern country's Retribution Bill details the punishments for sex-related crimes such as fornication, homosexual activity, prostitution, and being a pimp. Each of these is punishable by death. Public morality is strictly enforced. Any man or woman even accused of adultery is shot.
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Jibrin Babaji a 43-year old man, has been sentenced to death by stoning by a Shari'a court in Bauchi, Nigeria. His crime is sodomy, the report continued that the judge said: "Since you have admitted to have committed sodomy with (names withheld) this honourable court has found you guilty of sodomy... and hereby sentences you to death by stoning
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11/17/2004 9:27:17 AM
Foster father pleads guilty to child rape, victims sue state
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TACOMA, Wash. -- A man who became a foster father two years ago has pleaded guilty to charges that he raped, photographed and exploited young boys in his charge.
Meanwhile, the families of seven children who were placed with Ronald Harold Young and his wife Wendy have filed claims totaling more than $24 million from Washington state.
Young, 41, of Home, a mobile home repair worker, was initially charged with 54 offenses but pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of first-degree child rape, four of sexual exploitation of a minor and one each of second-degree child rape and possession of child pornography.
Those crimes involve six boys ranging in age from 6 to 13 who were placed by the state at his house on the Key Peninsula west of Tacoma after he and his wife, who worked long hours at a grocery store, became foster parents in July 2002.
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