Child Abuse Laws
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Katrina Legarda, a well know Philippine lawyer talks about the new child abuse laws in the Philippines.
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Differential Response to Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect
Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Differential Response to Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect Source: Child Welfare Information Gateway During the past several decades, child protective services (CPS) agencies have been challenged by large volumes of child abuse and neglect reports, growing caseloads involving increasingly complex problems, and limited resources (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1997; Shusterman, Hollinshead, Fluke,...
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Parents and Politicians Battle NYC ACS Abuse
Global Features (Free subscription) | yesterday
July 24, 2008 Parents and Politicians Battle NYC ACS Abuse By Amadi Ajamu The New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) recently acknowledged that abuse and neglect complaints of children in foster care rose 12 percent last year (NY Post 7/21/08). Human rights advocates attribute these findings to a substantial increase in children being seized by ACS from families on false or flimsy...
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Convicted Child Molester Yet To Serve Any Time
Babble.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last summer, middle-school art teacher Aaron Mohanial was convicted of 13 counts of child abuse, molestation and lewd battery after a jury found him guilty of repeatedly raping a seventh-grade boy over a two-year period. He was sentenced to 43 years in jail. Now, a year later, Mohanial still hasn't seen the inside of a jail cell. Broward Circuit Judge Marc Gold, in a rare and surprising decision,...
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Convicted Child Molester Yet To Serve Any Time
Strollerderby (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last summer, middle-school art teacher Aaron Mohanial was convicted of 13 counts of child abuse, molestation and lewd battery after a jury found him guilty of repeatedly raping a seventh-grade boy over a two-year period. He was sentenced to 43 years in jail. Now, a year later, Mohanial still hasn't seen the inside of a jail cell. Broward Circuit Judge Marc Gold, in a rare and surprising decision,...
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"Every possible form of interaction between an adult and a child is perceived as yet another opportunity for child abuse."
Dr. Helen (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at the University of Kent and author of Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child has an article at PJM on the paranoia over photographing children: The assumption that pictures represent a significant threat to children has acquired a fantasy-like grotesque character. We rarely dare ask the question: what possible harm can
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Discipline -- or child abuse?
Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
---Quote--- An Idaho mother is facing child abuse charges, even though evidence clearly contradicts the accusations. Melissa Farrell and her children, including a 21-month-old restless girl, were observers at a 4th of July parade in Couer d'Alene. Farrell tells local television station KREM she...
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Language is key in child abuse trials
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Defendants in child abuse cases are more likely to be convicted if their attorneys use complex language to question victims, U.S. and Canadian researchers say.Law school professors Thomas Lyon of the University of Southern California and Angela Evans and Kang Lee of the University of Toronto studied the transcripts of 46 child sexual abuse cases, the University of Southern California reported Wednesday.The...
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Vicar in child abuse probe
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A VICAR from an Essex town has been suspended from his duties after being arrested in connection with child abuse allegations.
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Toledo man to walk against child abuse
Toledo Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mike Van Alstine, growth coordinator for the Toledo chapter of the National Exchange Club (NEC), pla...
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N. Ireland's Robinson Equates "Vile" Sodomy and Child Abuse
Queerty (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Iris Robinson’s at it again! The Northern Ireland politician caused a scandal earlier this year after suggesting gay people would benefit from ex-gay “reparative therapy.” She later “clarified” that remark by saying gay people are not ill. We’re just sinners. Not big on learning from mistakes, Robinson used a Parliamentary discussion last month to equate child abuse [...]
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Over 1200 Children - Victims of Child Abuse in 2007
International - Home (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Lawsuits and parental rights restriction lawsuits are being filed as a result of child abuse
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4-year-old's abuse called near-torture
Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
SPOKANE -- The stepmother of a 4-year-old Spokane girl who died after what police called "vicious child abuse" pleaded guilty Monday to homicide by abuse.
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Government To Decide Your Child’s Mental Health Status
Webloggin (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
You will soon have no rights over your own children: The government will be sending in specialists to evaluate your children medically, emotionally, physically, … for 5 medical conditions. “The federal definition of developmental screening for special education also includes what they call socioemotional screening, which is mental health screening,” Dr. Effrem said. “Mental [...]
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Jeffs, Four Followers Face Child Sex Charges
USA Today (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
July 22 - A Texas grand jury has indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four of his followers on charges of felony sexual assault of a child. An additional member of the FLDS church is charged with failure to report child abuse.
