The trauma and tragedy of the child sex-abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University has inspired a Virginia lawmaker to take legislative action. School coaches and athletic directors would be required to report child abuse or neglect to Virginia authorities under legislation proposed by Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William.
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The numbers are startling — in the past two years, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ office says it has arrested and charged 89 Orthodox Jewish men with child sex abuse.
It’s horrific and shocking, though in terms of effective law enforcement and honest dealings with the public, finally a good thing. Some background: The Brooklyn DA has been accused for years by child advocates of handling the insular, image-conscious Orthodox Jewish community with kid gloves over sex-abuse scandals. Those familiar with abuse survivors from within that community — myself included — have complained that Hynes is too fearful of retaliation from a politically powerful religious bloc to hold its sex abuse perpetrators to the same standard applied elsewhere in Brooklyn.
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UPDATE:(11/25/2011)– The baby Lisa command center, run by investigators, has been closed. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: (11/18/2011)– FOX News reported Friday that according to Irwin family attorney John Picerno, the handy man known as “Jersey” bragged to someone that he was paid $300 to kidnap baby Lisa Irwin. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: (11/14/2011)–There’s some new information in the search for missing baby Lisa Irwin. A metro man said he knows who was using Megan Wright’s phone when it received a call from a phone belonging to Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley the night the child disappeared. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE:(11/2/2011)–Deborah Bradley, whose 10-month-old daughter has been missing for almost a month, consumed a box of wine on the stoop of her home after Lisa’s father Jeremy Irwin left for his night job. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: (11/1/2011)– New York attorney Joe Tacopina announced Tuesday that a new Kansas City attorney will help represent the parents of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwin. John Picerno will join the legal team for Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE:(10/26/2011)– The local attorney for the parents of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwin said Kansas City police will re-interview her two young brothers this week. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE:(10/24/2011)– Kansas City police aren’t commenting about new video footage that shows a man leaving a wooded area near the home of a baby missing since early October. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE:(10/23/2011)– Baby Lisa’s family to media, “Don’t Blame Us.’ READ MORE HERE
UPDATE:(10/20/2011)– A 17-hour marathon search of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwin’s home wrapped up early Thursday morning. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE:(10/18/2011)– A search of a wooded area in the Northland in the case of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwin has prompted police to call for a no-fly zone of the area. Within the last hour Kansas City police vans, ones typically used to collect evidence at crime scenes, arrived at the search location.READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: (10/17/2011)– The mother of Lisa Irwin, an 11-month old Missouri girl missing for nearly two weeks, said in an interview she was drunk the night the infant disappeared. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE:(10/14/2011)– A private investigator who has been hired to come to Kansas City to assist in the search for missing baby Lisa Irwin said on Friday that a $100,000 reward has been setup for her safe return. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE:(10/12/2011)– Lisa Irwin’s Family Gets Help From Private Eye. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: (10/11/2011)– The mother of missing baby Lisa Irwin is preparing to be arrested in connection with her baby’s disappearance, according to a family member who says she thinks that an arrest is “inevitable.” READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: (10/10/2011)– Missing Baby Lisa: Police Stage ‘Break In” at Family’s Home. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: (10/9/2011)– The hunt is still on for missing Missouri baby Lisa Irwin, and her parents hope a reward trust fund they are creating will encourage new tips in the case. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: (10/6/2011)– The parents of a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl are no longer cooperating with authorities, and their claims that whoever took their daughter stole their cellphones hasn’t produce any leads, police said Thursday night. READ MORE HERE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police canceled an Amber Alert Tuesday evening for a missing 10-month-old girl, although the investigation and search for her continue.Police issued the alert for Lisa Irwin early Tuesday morning. The baby was last seen at 10:30 p.m. Monday asleep in her crib at her parents’ home in the 3600 block of North Lister Avenue. READ MORE HERE
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It’s a place for fun and exercise for families, but what happened to a 13-year-old boy at a popular Lansing recreational facility is something you’d never expect. The boy’s parents shared their son’s story, but they chose to hide their identities to help protect their son. They wanted to tell his story in hopes of bringing about change. Last March a Lansing mother dropped off her 13-year-old son at the Westside YMCA. He was going swimming. When she returned to pick him up, something was wrong.
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Penn State administrators and faculty may have remained silent about their suspicions that former coach Jerry Sandusky was molesting children, but in the wake of the scandal authorities in several states say they’ve seen an increase in the number of calls to their abuse hotlines. In Pennsylvania, the State Department of Public Welfare received more than double the average number of reports of child abuse in the week after the scandal broke. According to spokesperson Anne Bale, in an average five-day period the department receives about 2300 abuse reports to its hotline; the week of November 7-11, they got 4,832 calls.
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Texas Supreme Court Suspends Judge Who Beat Daughter on Tape
AUSTIN, Texas — Judge William Adams, who made national headlines after the release of a 2004 video of him beating his then-teenage daughter, has been suspended by the Texas Supreme Court. The reason for the action was not mentioned in an order of suspension that was made public Tuesday. Adams, a court-at-law judge in Aransas County, was roundly criticized when his now-adult daughter posted online a video of him beating her with a belt when she was 16.
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ADELANTO, CA — The mother of an 8-month-old baby boy has been arrested after the child was found underweight, and with a broken leg and bruises. San Bernardino County officials say the suspected child abuse was found when the baby was admitted to Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital for treatment.
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LOMA LINDA, CA — Two more women have come forward, claiming they were victims of sexual assault by a Loma Linda doctor. Ramon Fawzi Fakhoury, 35, was a part-time urgent care doctor at Loma Linda University Hospital. The alleged assaults began in July, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
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OHIO —- A Bowling Green man is being charged with an additional six (6) counts of rape of the child who is also his family member. Andrew S. Lemay, 22, is also being charged with pandering after he texted photos of himself and the 16-month-old child engaging in sex acts.
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PHOENIX (AP) — New details emerged Tuesday about the child abuse case against the mother of a missing 5-year-old Arizona girl, including allegations that the girl was kept in a bedroom closet, deprived of food and water, and beaten. A court document detailing the allegations was released minutes after the girl’s mother, Jerice Hunter, 38, had her first court appearance, during which she proclaimed her innocence. It included claims that Hunter told the girl’s siblings to lie about her disappearance.
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