http://www.wikio.com/search=child-abuse Wikio - child-abuse http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63145922 Whistleblower pressured to resign after accusing disciplinary council of failing to stop ward staff surfing website Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:03:18 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63145922 2008-07-05T23:03:18Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63137412 Dad Convicted For Feeding Kids Vegan Diet Blair Parker of Scottsdale could be sentenced to as much as 16 years in prison following Thursday's verdict, The Arizona Republic reported.... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:11:44 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63137412 2008-07-05T20:11:44Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63128825 Texas high court rules exorcism protected by law © 2008 The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday threw out a jury award over injuries a 17-year-old girl suffered in an exorcism conducted by members of her old church, ruling that the case unconstitutionally entangled the court in religious matters. Ina 6-3 decision, the justices found that a lower court erred when it said the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God's... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:28:12 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63128825 2008-07-05T17:28:12Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63127216 Kimberly Emelyantsev pleaded guilty June 20. She was originally charged with first felony murder for the death of Nikoli, her adoptive son of only several months. She pleaded guilty to a lesser felony charge and will face up to 15 years in prison when she is sentenced August 8. She stated that she dropped the boy [...] Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:52:30 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63127216 2008-07-05T15:52:30Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63113362 And across the country today, a 16-year-old Georgia boy is behind bars on suspicion of child abuse. Investigators in Lee County received a tip that he’d posted a video on the Internet of himself launching an 8-month old baby into the air by throwing his weight onto an inflatable pillow where the baby lay. Video shows [...] Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:00:26 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63113362 2008-07-05T13:00:26Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63111903 The anti-choice factions have been frothing at the mouth as of late emboldened by such things as Bill C-484, Bill C-537, and Bill C-338. Prime Minister Harper promised that a Conservative government would not legislate on abortion, but this is exactly what is happening, not just with Bill C-484, but with two other Conservative private member [...] Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:19:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63111903 2008-07-05T12:19:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63083790 An Arizona man has been convicted of negligent child abuse and reckless child abuse for feeding his three children an extreme vegetarian diet.Blair Parker of Scottsdale could be sentenced to as much as 16 years in prison following Thursday's verdict, The Arizona Republic reported. Parker's wife, Kimu, was convicted last year of intentional child abuse and given a mandatory 30-year sentence.The couple were charged in 2005 after their 3-year-old daughter suffered an apparent seizure. Doctors found that she weighed only 13 pounds and that her two older siblings were also emaciated -- with the 11-year-old girl the size of a 5-year-old and a son, 9, the size of a 3-year-old. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:07:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63083790 2008-07-05T03:07:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63065945 The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:51:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63065945 2008-07-04T21:51:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63056868 Barry Crimmins on Alito's dissent in the Supreme Court's recent death penalty decision : " Child abuse thrives when authoritarians rule -- authoritarians like Samuel Alito. Abused kids are already freaked out enough without having bloodthirsty men in robes boohooing their inability to take a life for an eye . Alito has inveighed against compassion at every turn but now we're supposed to believe that this pro-torture reactionary is thinking first of children? " Like me, Barry says having your attacker killed would have made things worse, not better. But he says it with greater length and passion. You should read it. (I wish, though, that he hadn't used the word "pedophiles" interchangeably with "child molesters". Although the two groups do overlap, it's hardly by 100%.) And speaking of the death penalty, the authorities still appear to want to proceed with an execution even though the guy probably isn't guilty . How George Bush lost Afghanistan . The Black Agenda has a candidate I could really get behind ...if she only had a prayer. Pruning Shears : " Here is where we get to the crux of the matter. I hate to put it in such stark and extreme terms, but the question Congress must now answer is, are you with the Constitution or with the President? The two have become irreconcilably opposed. " Dennis Perrin : " If Hitchens is truly serious about experiencing life on the business end of empire, we should arrange to break into his home in the middle of the night, force his family on the floor at gunpoint, yell at him in a language he does not speak, kick him a few times in the balls, hood him, and drag him off to a black site where the waterboarding isn't choreographed ahead of time (and no safety words -- he can save that for his dominatrix), with plenty of beatings, sleep deprivation, and sensory derangement mixed in (a long Waco-style audio tape would be a nice touch, complete with the screams of slaughtered rabbits). " (Also: " Our Special Specialness " as evoked by Obama.) (Thanks to Bruce F.) This otherwise pedestrian death notice/obit for Jesse Helms has an interesting URL. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:52:09 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63056868 2008-07-04T19:52:09Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63071012 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:21:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63071012 noreply@blogger.com (john) 2008-07-04T19:21:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63045499 Source: [b]Baltimore Sun[/b] Ex-Peruvian officer's setback Appeals court ruling puts Montgomery resident closer to deportation By Gus G. Sentementes | Sun reporter July 4, 2008 A former Peruvian military officer accused of war crimes in his native country is closer to being deported by U.S.... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:31:29 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63045499 2008-07-04T17:31:29Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63010854 Kudos, fatsos. Nutritional child abuse is more prevalent than we think. "Obese children, who are at increased risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, may not be getting the most appropriate test to screen for these conditions, a new Canadian study found. Results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... The authors studied 172 obese children, ages 5 to 17, who joined a program to help attain a healthy weight. All children had evaluation of risk factors for diabetes (or its precursor, prediabetes) and metabolic syndrome, including testing of blood sugar. Using the glucose stress test, the researchers found that 25 percent of the children met the diagnostic criteria for prediabetes. But when they relied on results of the fasting blood glucose test, as recommended by the American and Canadian diabetes associations, they found that only 8 percent of the children had prediabetes. 'A large proportion of the children with prediabetes would not have had their condition recognized,' Morrison said. " Stop the child abuse . Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:24:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63010854 2008-07-04T11:24:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63008879 Actor Chris Coghill joins the cast of EastEnders as child abuser Tony King. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:05:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=63008879 2008-07-04T11:05:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62995639 The Texas polygamous sect in the media spotlight recently when members' children were removed by the authorities on allegations of child abuse has launched a children's clothing line. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62995639 2008-07-04T08:30:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62990297 Trouble in the Jackson family Soap opera EastEnders will tackle the issue of child sex abuse in what could potentially be a controversial storyline, the BBC has announced. The plot will involve Bianca Jackson's 15 year old stepdaughter Whitney, played by Shona McGarty - pictured right - and her stepfather Tony who has not yet appeared on [...] Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:15:07 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62990297 2008-07-04T08:15:07Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62986007 Doctors found that three of his children were emaciated because they had been fed a misguided vegan diet. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62986007 2008-07-04T07:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62975789 Annette* is a small, lively woman in her early sixties. Married to an abusive husband -- who once threw boiling water on her, landing her in hospital -- she was not repeating the story with her alcoholic and drug-addicted son. Just as her husband was growing older and calmer, her son was getting increasingly violent. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:22:10 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62975789 2008-07-04T06:22:10Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62974820 Political Satirist Barry Crimmins has posted a powerful blog entry that discusses what a victim of child abuse feels about punishing the perpetrator. In his own words: Unfortunately the ominously shadowy Alito either doesn't care or knows nothing about what looms over child rape victims or he'd stop carrying polluted water for neo-cons and use his power to help shape a less oppressive and less brutal society. Child abuse thrives when authoritarians rule -- authoritarians like Samuel Alito. Abused kids are already freaked out enough without having bloodthirsty men in robes boohooing their inability to take a life for an eye. Alito has inveighed against compassion at every turn but now we're supposed to believe that this pro-torture reactionary is thinking first of children? To employ a term Sanctimonious Sam despises, spare me. Many people are so overwhelmed by the thought of child abuse that they'll do just about anything to change the subject when it is mentioned. The most common device these subject-switchers utilize is the ultimate decree. They'll say, "I think if someone gets caught abusing a kid, they should be rounded up and killed! Case closed!" Once you proclaim that you're in favor of executing pedophiles, what else is there to say? You have advocated sweeping them under the ultimate rug and that's that. Problem solved. The problem, that is, of having to discuss child abuse. Pronouncements of lynch mobsters notwithstanding, I wouldn't have wanted my rapist put out of his own misery and into mine. I started life without blood on my hands and I aim to keep it that way. Had the man who raped me on numerous occasions not died in prison while serving his third term for sexually abusing very young boys, I might have gone to see him. My personal revenge would have been to show him that I did not become what I resisted, that I hadn't grown into a cruel and heartless man. I would have told him that he inflicted a burden upon me that almost killed me, and not just when I was nearly asphyxiated during his savage assaults. I'd have told him of the encumbrance I dragged along with me for decades that, through hard work, I had managed to lighten. In short, I would tell him that although he inflicted a lot of pain upon me, he had not succeeded in ruining me. Then I would tell him that I was sorry that he had such a miserable and wasted life. Finally, I would ask him why he thought he had ended up doing the things he did. Maybe I would have discovered some context for the man, even if I had to sort it out of the manipulative lies for which pedophiles are deservedly notorious. I couldn't do any of this because by the time I figured out who had raped me, he was dead. The news of his demise did not cheer me. I just thought of the end of his awful life in a cruddy jail cell and wondered what led to such a waste. At least I didn't miss my chance to confront him because he had been killed in my name. People who support executing rapists of children fail to consider a crucial issue-- the age of the victims. The victim in one of the cases the Supreme Court examined was eight years old when she was raped. That would make her twelve or thirteen right now. She has enough of a challenge in front of her without having the state presuming it should kill on her behalf. When I finally dealt with the horrors of my childhood, I had enough brutality to reconcile without adding an execution to the list. Unlike the poor child in the aforementioned case, the perpetrator of the crimes against me was not a member of my family. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to deal with having had one of my parents' siblings killed to settle a score for me. I can imagine that such a state action could cause a very large schism in a family, a schism that (to one extent or another) would trace back to the victim. This would place yet another burden on the child -- in large part because adults wanted to make a grandstand play that would help distract everyone from considering how such a crime might have been prevented in the first place. Sorry we left you alone with that evil man but to make up for it, we had him killed! Almost everyone wants to avoid this subject and who can blame them? Breaking silence about child abuse is so damned disquieting. When, as an adult, I began dealing with what happened to me, I talked to close friends about it. A very few were just great and couldn't have been kinder. Numerous others had the same question for me. They'd ask, "Are are you talking to anyone about this?" I'd think, "Yeah, I thought I was talking to you. But clearly you believe I should only speak to people who are paid $150 an hour to hear about this shit. I guess you don't understand that it's tough for me to trust strangers -- particularly strangers who sit there and only say 'hmm' every 15 or twenty minutes. It can be kind of nerve-wracking. After you do that, it could be kind of nice to speak to a trusted friend." The "are you talking to anyone" people were a bargain compared to the lynch mob advocates, particularly for me. I'm hampered by prejudice because I oppose the death penalty for anyone. Even if I were to be murdered, I would not want my killer executed. You can't kill someone without making someone else into a killer. I cannot see how anyone could ever justify that. Even if I supported the death penalty, I wouldn't want child rapists killed simply because they were once children themselves. In all likelihood they were abused children. While most victims of childhood sexual assaults don't grow up to become pedophiles, the vast majority of pedophiles were sexually abused as children. Who knows what would have happened to me if I had been raped a few more times, or a few years later, and had been tricked into believing I'd been acting on my own initiative? Would my social contract have been completely voided? I can't say. Life gets pretty damned nuanced when you can consider yourself a lucky childhood rape survivor. I encourage everyone to read the entire piece by following the link. In a world of flotsom and jetsom, the courage and wisdom of this piece deserves and demands your attention if only for a moment. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:29:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62974820 2008-07-04T05:29:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62967365 A female member of a gang of drifters accused of helping to kill another woman in the group and torturing the dead woman's young son pleaded no contest Thursday to reckless homicide. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62967365 2008-07-04T04:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62951403 A BRITON suspected of committing more than a dozen child sex abuse offences in the UK dating back to 1989 has been arrested by Spanish police. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:19:46 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/child-abuse?rinfoid=62951403 2008-07-03T23:19:46Z