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A confessed rapist has received just five years' probation after Texas State District Judge Jeanine Howard said his 14-year-old, and allegedly promiscuous, victim "wasn't the victim she claimed to be." (WFAA)

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FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday Jan. 21, 2014, a Pakistani health worker gives a child a polio vaccine at the door way of his home, while going house to house checking on children who need the vaccine, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In an announcement Monday May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) says the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease and could ultimately unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate it, describing the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an "extraordinary event" requiring a coordinated international response.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, FILE)

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FILE-- In this file photo dated Wednesday April 24, 2013, a Somali child receives a polio vaccine, at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. In an announcement Monday May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) says the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease and could ultimately unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate it, describing the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an "extraordinary event" requiring a coordinated international response.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, FILE)