Crime and Lawsuits

New York – A Step in The Right Direction: Rabbi Zwiebel At Agudah Convention Admits Child Abuse, Addiction, Other Community Problems Exist [audio]

Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

New York – Long criticized from within and without for being silent on real issues, the monolithic Agudath Israel organization, a pillar of America’s Orthodox Jewish right wing, now seems to have taken “a step in the right direction,” says VIN News Editor-in-Chief. VIN News, is referring to recently-appointed Agudath Israel of America Executive Vice President [...]

ABC says male-on-male kissing not okay, but domestic violence no problem

Gay Geeks.Org (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

After cancelling Adam Lambert for being too raunchy, Good Morning America instead decided to book Chris Brown, currently on parole for beating up Rihanna. Way to go with the American Values there, ABC.

The Colorado Cannibal

Providentia (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Legend has it that when Judge Melville B. Gerry handed down a death sentence on Alferd Packer, he used these words, "There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale Country but you, you voracious man-eatin' son of a bitch, you ate five...

'Pulp Fiction' co-writer taken to jail

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

"Pulp Fiction" co-screenwriter Roger Avary has been removed from a prison work furlough program and locked up, authorities say. Avary was sentenced in September to a year in jail and five years' probation for causing a drunken driving car crash that killed a...

• 'Pulp Fiction' Writer Roger Avary Taken Off Work Furlough, Jailed - The Huffington Post
• 'Pulp Fiction' writer taken off jail furlough - Examiner
• See the 10 articles on the same subject

Fight crime with health care legislation

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday

Those of us in law enforcement are getting pretty good at finding repeat, violent offenders and locking them up so they can't do any more harm for a while. That doesn't undo the pain victims endure. Far too many lives are still being lost to crime and violence in America.

Man charged in rollover crash asks for driving privileges back

Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

MINDEN (AP) -- A Minden man charged with four misdemeanors involving a rollover accident that left one man dead is asking a judge to restore his driving privileges.

New Jersey – Lakewood, and Orthodox Communuties End Silence On Child Abuse Thanks To Bloggers

Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday

New Jersey – Evidently, addressing child molestation in Orthodox communities is no longer a quiet process. From the back channels of private dialogue and in-house cleaning, it has in recent months swelled into a flash flood of popular debate. Panel discussions moderated by rabbis and led by victims’ testimony attract crowds in the hundreds from [...]

Whitney Houston and Brittany Spears share the Rock. (Not crack, basketball)

YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | yesterday

Phew. Finally, we get to do a story about Brittany Spears that doesn't involve singing, child abuse, or unshaven private parts. And a story about Whitney Houston that doesn't involve singing, crack abuse or unsavory crack dens. This Brittany...

Unravelling a Crime Network

Kmareka.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

This isn’t a game of ‘ain’t it awful’ because we all know that people do awful things. What we don’t understand well enough is the paralysis that afflicts people who have a responsibility to protect the powerless, and the network of complicity that arises around centers of power… Ireland’s police colluded with the Catholic [...]

Sandwich shop extends turkey day tradition

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Sadly, Thanksgiving's feast lasts but a few days, depending on how fast you plow through leftovers. But at Dave's Chillin-n-Grillin in Eagle Rock, a city district north of downtown, the traditional holiday meal is served every Thursday - on a bun. It's...

Dublin Abuse Report II possible.

Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Report: Murphy follow-up investigation planned | BreakingNews.ie...

The Irish Holocaust

Head Rambles (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Like most Irish, I have been following the fallout from the Murphy Report on the child sex abuse in the ‘Catholic’ Diocese of Dublin. To say that I am sickened by the whole affair is a gross understatement. Let’s just look at the facts to date. There was systematic and widespread child abuse for at least the last [...]

God forbid we do anything to damage our countries reputation.

Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

All through this recession our government keep telling us about certain actions by groups will damage Irelands international reputation abroad....

Why Tom Harris is wrong on Gary McKinnon

Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

A couple of days ago, Tom Harris published this posting in which he basically took Alan Johnson's line that Asperger's Sufferer Gary McKinnon should be hung out to dry and be extradited to the United States for trial. I think he's wrong, as I have posted before for both humanitarian and legal reasons, and here's why. Tom outlined what he saw as a series of myths in the debate about what should happen...

The Global Domestic Violence Epidemic

feminist blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

Since we're in the middle of the 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence , I thought today I'd take a look at domestic violence. It's certainly not something to be proud of that a quarter of American women are victims of domestic abuse, or that only half of such incidents get reported to the police. Or that a estimated 15-25% of married women have suffered marital rape -- which was legal in every...

Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel presents 2009 Child Advocate of the Year award

child abusewatch | yesterday

Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel presents 2009 Child Advocate of the Year award Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel presented Child AbuseWatch’s Child Advocate of the Year Award on Friday, November 13th, 2009. This was the first time that this honor has been awarded. The recipient, Vicki Tucci Esq, Circuit Director, Guardian ad Litem Program, 15th Judicial Circuit spoke of the importance of all aspects of the

No Townshend for NFL Super Bowl

child abusewatch | yesterday

Child AbuseWatch, the national child abuse prevention organization, today published an open letter to the National Football League and CBS. In the correspondence they asked the NFL to drop Pete Townshend from the Super Bowl half time entertainment line-up. The reason? Pete Townshend’s record as a sexual offender on the British Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR). Townshend was on the UK register

Dugard spokeswoman blasts plans for film on case

aasiada6w6 | yesterday

SAN FRANCISCO – A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her. In a statement Tuesday, family spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer called a plan to make a movie about Dugard's life "exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind." The statement came after Shane Ryan — the director...