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22

Must-read: “What Does Cleveland’s House of Horrors Reveal About Us?”


An excerpt from the same-named post by BlogHer’s Kim Pearson about the Anthony Sowell murders and his 11 women of color victims:

There will surely be investigations of whether and how the police and the health departments responded to information that they might have been given earlier in this case. I hope that there will also be more discussion about how we deal with the serious problems that led these women down the path that ended in the house of horrors on Imperial Street. There are many more women like these 11, no doubt with families in crisis, in neighborhoods that can’t provide the services they and their families desperately need. This is our challenge, and it won’t go away just by turning off the news.

Please read the original post which includes numerous references to others’ reactions, including Frank Lewis (Cleveland Scene), Connie Schultz (The Plain Dealer) and Zach Reed (Cleveland City Council Member).

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:32 pm November 22nd, 2009 in BlogHer, Blogging, Cleveland+, Crime, Culture, Gender, Government, Ohio, Politics, RIP, Social Issues, Women 

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