ARTICLES/INFORMATION/RESEARCH

Dissociation and the Fragmentary Nature of Traumatic Memories: Overview and Exploratory Study
Study of trauma and memory from Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard Medical School, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Volume 8, Number 4 October 1995.

Guidelines for Psychologists Addressing Recovered Memories
From the Canadian Psychological Association.

If We Really Want to Protect Children
by Andrew Vachss, Parade, November 3, 1996

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http://www.vachss.com/help_text/memory.html

Louisa, VA – Police say an 8-year-old girl snuck out of her grandparent’s home in the wee hours of the morning last Thursday. At about 3:00 a.m., the child walked to a neighbor’s home and reported that she had been abused. “She had bruises all over her,” Sheriff Donald Lowe said. “Her ear had been partially torn. She had blood on her.” In addition to the torn ear, the girl had a broken foot, bruising on her head, legs and arms, and it appeared as if some of her hair had been torn out.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/13/ronald-and-laura-jewell-accused-of-torturing-8-year-old-granddaughter/

Miami, FL – According to authorities, the 34-year-old fucktard approached a mother and child Sunday afternoon, punched the infant in the face a couple of times and attempted to pry her away from her mother. Witnesses to the attack jumped in and were able to rescue the woman and child from the strange man. The 4-month-old baby girl was transported to the hospital to be treated for facial injuries and two fractured clavicles.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/14/would-be-kidnapper-punches-baby-girl-in-the-face/

COPPELL, Texas – Police officers went to the home of Mayor Jayne Peters at the request of the city manager’s office after the she did not show up for a scheduled council meeting. Once inside, officers found the bodies of 55-year-old Jayne Peters and her 19-year-old daughter Corrine Peters. Both had been shot in the head.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/14/coppell-mayor-jayne-peters-and-her-daughter-found-shot-to-death/

A registered sex offender who had been ordered held without bail on charges that he raped a woman in Herring Run Park a decade ago is being sought after sheriff’s deputies in Baltimore County mistakenly released him from custody last month.

Police did not disclose they were searching for a man they consider dangerous until questioned by a reporter Monday. Only then did officials release a photo of the suspect, 34-year-old Ernest Clark.City police acknowledged that, despite linking Clark in 2006 to the attack through DNA evidence, detectives in the sexual assault unit essentially shelved the case after deciding the victim did not want to proceed with pressing charges.

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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-07-13/news/bs-md-suspect-mistaken-release-20100712_1_cold-case-warrant-apprehension-task-force-county-jail

Four years ago, a Pasadena man posing as a police officer snatched a 12-year-old girl from her southeast Houston townhome porch and spent the next several hours raping her before dropping her off 10 miles from home, police say. The crime remained unsolved until recently, authorities said, when DNA testing linked Kenneth Ray Pool with the 2006 attack.

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7106925.html

Award-winning director Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the United States and is free to leave says the Swiss Ministry of Justice.

CNN reports the request for extradition was denied because the U.S. did not supply all the legal information requested by the Swiss government, and because Polanski thought he would not be arrested in their country — despite an international warrant issued against him since 2005.

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http://www.examiner.com/x-36751-Canada-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m7d12-Roman-Polanski-wont-be-extradited-to-the-US-for-rape-of-a-child-Photos

WORCESTER —  More than two decades after being found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl, 54-year-old Henry O. Valerio was sentenced today to 25 to 40 years in state prison.

It was on March 21, 1990, that Mr. Valerio, formerly of Clinton, was convicted in absentia in Worcester Superior Court on three counts of child rape, assault with intent to rape a child and indecent assault and battery on a child, crimes that had occurred over a four-month period in 1987 in Clinton and Lancaster.

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http://www.telegram.com/article/20100714/NEWS/100719885/1116

After a 90-minute deliberation Tuesday, jurors decided to send Spring nurse Abigail Young to prison for 20 years because she failed to protect her 4-year-old daughter from a horrific and fatal beating allegedly inflicted by her handyman lover.

Emma Thompson died in June 2009 after a beating that left the preschooler with a fractured skull and ribs, a torn vagina and at least 80 bruises covering her body.

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7106771.html

Bradenton, Florida – Bradenton police have arrested 21-year-old Heather Lovett. She’s the owner of “Our Kids Home Daycare,” located at 1420 16th Street West in Bradenton. Lovett has been charged with child neglect.

Detectives say a 22-month-old female toddler who was in her care had to be rushed to the emergency room at Manatee Memorial Hospital. The child had multiple bruises on her head, face, neck and body. There was dried blood by her ears. The child had abrasions around her neck and injuries consistent with a sexual assault, according to a police report.

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http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/story.aspx?storyid=136578&provider=top

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) — A former YMCA counselor who was accused of sexually abusing four boys at a summer day care program in 1990 has agreed to turn himself in, almost 20 years after the fact.

43-year-old Michael Bond had fled to Thailand, but sources with the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office now confirm that he turned himself in to Atlanta Police and will soon be extradited to Louisville.

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http://www.fox41.com/Global/story.asp?S=12807078

While the number of cases overall has declined, child advocacy centers in West irginia are busier. The centers connect agencies that deal with child abuse and neglect cases in an effort to make investigations and prosecution more effective.

The centers saw more than a 25 percent increase in the number of children served last year than the year before. Chittenden said she doesn’t think that’s an indication that the statistics are wrong.

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http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=15668