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Bring this coupon for Half-Price Golf! 936-870-3889 Offer good through November 2002 TAMU 'Pecan Lathes CjoCf CCub 2001 Fairway Drive • Navasota, Texas 77868 10A Wednesday, September 4, 2002 NATH HE BATTALi | Bronze beauty BRIAN RL'FF Del Mar, Calif, native Barbara Stephens looks at a bronze piece at the 'Remembering September 11th' exhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library Monday exhibit runs through January 5, 2003. afternoon. The Prison programs treat female rapists Congratulations , 2002 Kappa Alpha Theta New Members! Lindsay Allison Lauren Johnson Abby Barnett Stacy Kelley Virginia Basham LeMoine Knox Lindsey Bayer Stephanie Miller Heidi Berlin Lauren Myers Elizabeth Blomdahl Kelly Nall lUizai^eth Coldewey Cara Cunningham ( icnny ('ramet Hilary Duncan Ariana Nizza % Leslie Norwood Caitlin O’Reilly ■■ Holly O’Reilly Jessica Paup | Courtney Potter Marina Salyer Rita Sandifer Lauren Shannon Amy Sh reeve Jill Epperly Elise Sims Rachel Evans Cheryl Smith Laura Fash Summer Stafford Becca Fatheree Rebecca Stokes Amber Ford Julie Taylor Lauren Fritz Tori Thompson Cameron Gill Jill Toler Courtney Haire Erin Wellen Emily Hampton Julie Whisenhunt Dinah Harriger Amy Elizabeth Williams Holly Henderson Lauren Wheat Sarabeth Hirschfield Corey Wood JoAnna Jackson NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tonya Payne got four years in jail for luring a 15- year-old boy into her trailer and raping him, exposing him to the AIDS virus. When she gets out this week, she says, she will be a changed woman — thanks to a sex offender treatment program Tennessee recently began offering to female inmates. “If 1 hadn't had the treatment, 1 would definitely classify myself as being at high risk to do it again,” Payne said. Payne is among five inmates at the Tennessee Prison for Women to graduate from the prison's first therapy program for female sex offenders, a two-year program that ended in July. Such programs are widely offered to men who commit sex crimes, but they have been almost unheard of for women. Texas and Kentucky are among the few states that pro vide counseling for female rapists. Payne went through two-hour sessions five days a week that included group thera py on topics such as anger management and victim empathy. She also received help with her history of sexual abuse and drug and alcohol addiction. Payne said counseling helped her come to terms with being sexually abused as a child by her stepfather, getting married at 13 and contracting HIV through casual sex. “I started looking at what in life made me who I was. 1 hadn’t dealt with it, Payne said. “I'm not going to say my old issues are what caused me to rape my victim. 1 just didn't like me.” “Our goal is no more victims." said Genella Phillips, an instructor ot the Tennessee prison. “We work to identify their belief systems, the consequences and strate gies to help them change their behavior.” Between 35 and 40 female sex offenders are held in Tennessee prisons at any given time. Some 3,000 men are imprisoned for sex crimes in the state. Nationally, there were 3(H) women serv ing time for rape in 2000 and 0(H) more for other sexual assaults, according to the U.S. Justice Department. The state of Texas recently completed its first 18-month program, treating 15 female sex offenders. Kentucky began its program in 1986 after legislators passed a law requir ing treatment for sex offenders. Pat Scholes, a specialist for the National Institute of Corrections, said the rarity of female sex offenders might explain why there are not many programs nationwide. L* understw ™ c access to ciuvtT- ibought of if l-ik1 after gradiu upon prison rtk- her community t cipate in folio* It s ixM a norm to define WMB offenders. ITierc s just not that much litcot/ aut there." she said. “It s just not cooffl® Phillips said women arc just a* caph as men of committing sex offenses, ep dally against children. “I don’t think pcoj women have much mor than men. They haven't way.” Phillips said. Treatment does not < — or in Payne's case She must register will sex offender and par counseling. Payne has a lot of catching up to do she returns to East Tennessee to live \oih^ mother. She has not seen her children now 16. 18 and 19 — since 1999. jj Now a grandmother to an 8-montlH* boy, Payne gave a broad smile as she la in a recent interview about holding the ^ for the first time. But her lips trembled* she thought of what she is not allowed to under the terms of her release. ‘Til have contact with my grandson' hut I won't bathe him,” she said. ^ grandmother, but not like 1 want to be. always have that harrier." 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Planned Parenthood’s refusal to turn over the records has stirred debate around the country and divided this farm town of about 10,000. It began in May, with the dis covery of a baby boy who had been dismembered by machines at the county garbage sorting center. Unable to identify the baby or establish the cause of death, sheriff's deputies turned to the town’s doctors and nurses to find out who the mother was. Two Storm Lake doctors’ offices and the hospital provided investigators with the names of expectant mothers who could not be accounted for. Yet when deputies showed up with a sub poena for the names and addresses of women who had undergone pregnancy tests, Planned Parenthood said no. The organization, which claims that doing so would vio late the privacy of the women, appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court. On Friday, the high court agreed to hear the case. “For many women, it’s the most personal test they've ever had done,” Thayer said. “They come in expecting the informa tion will stay here. Some women even use the back door. Some don't use their real names.” Buena Vista County Attorney Phil Havens said patients at the clinic cannot expect total priva cy because in most cases, they do not see a doctor. NEWS IN BRIEF Chris Tucker goes to Johannesburg with Colin Powell JOHANNESBURG, Soutf Africa (AP) - Secretary ® State Colin Powell may nav no interest in becoming America's first black P r ® 5 ' dent, but one young a says he's the perfect rno for the role. 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