Justice

"No arrest was made in the case, even though authorities knew who set the fire. Out of fear and shame, some family members of the deceased refused to claim the ashes of their 'loved' ones. On the issue of identifying the victims, Major Henry Morris, a detective with the New Orleans Police Department said, 'We don't even know these papers belonged to the people we found them on. Some thieves hung out there, and you know this was a queer bar.' Churches were either silent or subtly suggested the victims deserved what they got, most refused the use of their facilities for a memorial service."—Daily Mail "Scandal of the New Orleans firebomb attack that killed 32: Forty years after […] officials finally apologize for their inaction" 22 June 2013 (link) via Le Show

"The pair was last seen by family on Dec. 16, when they left [Doris] Carter's house in a rural area north of Plant City. They were in [Kelly] Moriarty's car. Four days later, the car was found abandoned on State Road 62 in Parrish. It wasn't impounded until the next week. In the meantime, a leg washed ashore at 6990 Fourth St. S, pale and bent at the knee. It was cleanly cut at the thigh and the foot. Police speculated someone had gone to great lengths to dismember the body. […] On Jan. 27, the manager of the Bradenton apartment where Moriarty lived called Moriarty's emergency contact — her brother — because she hadn't paid rent or contacted the office in weeks. The brother and manager entered the apartment together. Nothing appeared disturbed, deputies said. But her brother found one thing odd: The Christmas tree was still up, and the gifts were under the tree, still wrapped. He filed a missing person's report with Bradenton police, and when officers visited Carter's family, they began to worry. On Jan. 28, Carter's daughter filed a missing person's report with the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office. […] "We loved and miss her tremendously," Moriarty's brother, Brenden, said in an email. He said the family hopes law enforcement officials across the Tampa Bay region work to find who is responsible for her death "and bring them to justice." His email did not discuss the pair's relationship."—Jessica Vander Velde Tampa Bay Times "Severed leg identified as missing Bradenton woman's" 27 March 2012 (link)

"For Nujood, the nightmare began at age 10 when her family told her that she would be marrying a deliveryman in his 30s. Although Nujood’s mother was unhappy, she did not protest. “In our country [Yemen] it’s the men who give the orders, and the women who follow them,” Nujood writes […] Nujood’s father asked the husband not to touch her until a year after she had had her first menstrual period. But as soon as they were married, she writes, her husband forced himself on her. He soon began to beat her as well, the memoir says, and her new mother-in-law offered no sympathy. “Hit her even harder,” the mother-in-law would tell her son."—Nicholas Kristof New York Times "Divorced Before Puberty" 3 March 2010 (link)