
He confirmed it was a sheriff’s deputy-involved shooting. Foster was pronounced dead at the scene.Ĭalifornia Highway Patrol Officer Michael Nasir said that the CHP was not involved in the shooting, contrary to initial reports on social media. They attempted to “safely detain” Foster but during the encounter, deputies say he advanced toward them - still brandishing the knife, according to the LASD statement. Shortly after deputies had contacted Foster, he produced a knife. The road he was crossing is private and “cordoned off by a barbed wire fence,” according to the narrative provided by LASD. Homicide detectives and other law enforcement personnel were still on the scene investigating the murder at approximately 7:40 a.m., when Foster was seen crossing a dirt access road adjacent to where Ashley’s body was found. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Unit and Santa Clarita Valley Sheriffs Station law enforcement officials investigate a deputy-involved shooting from this morning in relation to a fatal stabbing that occurred overnight near the intersection of Bouquet Canyon Road and Spunky Canyon Road on Sunday, Jan. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Bender.She has been writing professionally for decades and is the author of “Canyon Country” by Arcadia Publishing. Martha Michael is a contributing writer for The Signal and serves as editor for three local publications.

If you still don’t get it, and you think the “F” word is just a rallying cry for women who assemble, march, picket, and bring messages such as “Men of quality do not fear equality,” it may benefit you to know it’s something nearly every ethnic group and political party would embrace … because the “F” word is Fairness. Due to shame and embarrassment, females do not attend school, in part because of the need for better sanitary supplies. According to Markle, 113,000,000 adolescent girls are at risk of dropping out of school because of the stigma surrounding menstruation. She made a case for the sad challenges to educating girls in India. The magic of Gloria Allred can only do so much with a system like that.īut seeing Bill Cosby go down in flames and Harvey Weinstein get prosecuted means the time for victim blaming may well be dissipating.Īctress Meghan Markle, now Duchess of Sussex, wrote a compelling article in Time Magazine last year based on her travels with World Vision. That means only six rapists are incarcerated. The website for RAINN, or Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, says that out of every 1,000 rapes, a total of 994 perpetrators go free. There was one good outcome of the 19th Amendment this week: The judge who gave only a six-month sentence to the Stanford swimmer in the assault case in NorCal was recalled. On local ballots Tuesday, women made up only about a third of candidates. While overrepresented as crime victims, females are underrepresented in government. They also say that in the U.S., 19.3 million women are victims of stalking vs. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence says that in murder-suicides involved with an intimate partner, 94 percent of the victims are female. And they are tasked with finding protection for the children too. The majority, by far, of victims who reach out to them for help are women. It offers support groups, peer counseling, court advocacy and a 24-hour hotline.

It’s been less than a year since the Santa Clarita Valley Domestic Violence Center announced it was merging with the Child & Family Center. A woman who chooses to be a mother, wife, and entrepreneur, while also not burning out, must make a friend of boundaries and balance.” “We stack this with a culture that can simultaneously put mothers and wives on a pedestal while also patronizing them or celebrating extreme self-sacrifice in those roles as defining the value of their offering or the character of the one giving it.

“A lot of what has traditionally been considered ‘women’s work,’ such as household labor and the emotional labor involved in tending social ties of a family can be less visible or valued traditionally in the broader culture than work that earns money,” says Santa Clarita resident Rebecca Kellogg, who owns an alternative wellness and personal development company.
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Even when working outside the home, women pack diaper bags, line up backup plans for when kids are sick, plus do the shopping and cooking. The Bureau of Labor & Statistics shows that mothers spend almost twice as much time with the children as men do. There are continued efforts to level the playing field when it comes to men and women attempting the same thing: bringing home the bacon and taking care of the family.
