Registered Sex-Offender Counts

This list contains the actual number of offenders that are publicly viewable in the official state. The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW), coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justice, is a cooperative effort between jurisdictions hosting public sex offender registries (“Jurisdictions”) and the federal government and is offered free of charge to the public. These Jurisdictions include the 50 states, U.S. Territories, the District of Columbia, and participating tribes. The Website provides an advanced search tool that allows a user to submit a single national query to obtain information about sex offenders; a listing of public registry Web sites by state, territory, and tribe; and information on sexual abuse education and prevention.

VIEW OFFENDER COUNT HERE:

http://www.familywatchdog.us/OffenderCountByState.asp

I looked at my father for the last time before he was finally laid to rest. And I said to myself, “I forgive you father”. I have forgiven him but I have not forgotten the turmoil, terror and abuse that I went through. My father was working away most of the time when I was growing up. But when he was home, he was violent. I remembered crying in the middle of the night listening to him beating up my mother. I could hear her sobs. And I wept because I could not do anything about it.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Musa3.html

Federal Judge Landya B. McCafferty brought six formal charges of child sexual exploitation against John Allen Wright (45) in Concord, Maine yesterday.  He was also transferred from state to federal jurisdiction.  Wright is accused of sexually exploiting three boys over a 10-month period, and video taping the incidents.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.examiner.com/sex-trafficking-in-national/rape-video-of-mute-6-year-old-what-is-proper-punishment-for-perpetrator

Violence Begins at Home; Effects of Domestic Violence on Children

• Witnessing violence between one’s parents or caretakers is the strongest risk factor of transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next.
• Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults.
• 30% to 60% of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household.

READ MORE HERE:

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/400691/inside-hubbard-house/2011-10-23/domestic-violence-did-you-know

Stafford County prosecutor Eric Olsen was miffed when he got a call in 2009 about Dion Darnell Waller, a man he’d prosecuted in Stafford for killing his infant daughter in 2001. The caller, a prosecutor in Indiana, told Olsen that Waller had been arrested in Allen County. The prosecutor wondered why someone who had killed a small child had served only six years in the Virginia prison system.

READ MORE HERE:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/102011/10232011/660242

For some time now our ethos at HAVOCA has been ‘Every Survivor has the right to become a Thriver.‘  These very words cause some pretty powerful reactions.  Visitors to the site appear to like the phrase, but are confused by it’s meaning.  The sentence represents a place where they want to be, but they are at a loss as how to get there.  Members of our site seem to suffer the same confusion.  Although they can associate with the words ‘victim’ and ‘survivor’ they tend to lose perspective of what it would be like to ‘thrive’. Some members even refuse to believe it is possible to thrive, almost as if surviving is all that is possible.  And why shouldn’t surviving be a good place to be?

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.havoca.org/HAVOCA_home.htm

A pregnant Shreveport woman whose 1-year-old daughter died Friday from injuries police say are consistent with abuse has been charged with killing the child.Alasundria Avery, 19, was booked into Shreveport City Jail the same day and charged with second-degree murder. Avery is eight months pregnant with another child, a friend says.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20111023/SPECIALPROJECTS12/110230367/Mother-charged-in-beating-death-of-1-year-old?odyssey=tab%7Cmostpopular%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

One in eight confirmed physical child abuse cases last year in Oklahoma were babies born exposed to illicit drugs.

Out of 128 cases, at least seven infants died of birth complications and dozens of others were sent home from the hospital with their drug-using mothers, according to a Tulsa World analysis. Several cases in which newborns died after going home with drug-abusing parents have sparked a renewed look at how to handle child safety in those situations.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20111023_11_A1_ULNSyd871409

BREAKING THE SILENCE

In response to the recently aired investigative news report on child abuse fatalities in the United States by the BBC, I want to call attention to the importance of child advocacy in the U.S. This issue deserves our attention now more than ever before. This multimedia, 22-minute story, entitled “America’s Death Shame,” began airing Monday, Oct. 17 on BBC World News affiliates, including PBS and NPR stations in most American cities. The focus of the broadcast is on the magnitude of child abuse — and particularly child-abuse-related deaths — in America.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/teresa-huizar/child-abuse-america_b_1025890.html

MORE STATISTICS HERE:

https://dreamcatchersforabusedchildren.com/abuse/statistics/

http://www.haltnow.ca/abuse/child-abuse/190-statistic-of-child-abuse.html

A true story about the shattered lives of a family of children who were abused and tortured, survival was all they knew…

For one child to be abused, it is a travesty. Yet, for a family of children to be abused, physically and mentally, on a daily basis for over 15 years, at the hands of various adults—caregivers, parents and guardians—is beyond words. Nevertheless, in this book, JoAnn found the words and strength to capture her childhood story of loss, suffering, hope and survival. Like the song, “Hot Peas and Butter,” she and her siblings would sing in the basement to brighten their darkest days, this resulting book is a moving tale of a child’s resilience in the face of unspeakable atrocities. As well, it is a tragic case study of violence in the home, serving as a heart-wrenching account of the vicious cycle of brutality and ignorance. Now an adult and mother herself, JoAnn’s struggle still continues today, as she comes to terms with her harrowing upbringing and the mixed feelings harbored towards her father, her deceased mother, and her step-mother. But, incredibly, in spite of everything, JoAnn has become a happy and spirited person—no longer the little girl, “trapped in the mirror.”

READ MORE ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hot-Peas-and-Butter-The-Children-in-the-Basement/219512131400536?sk=info

PURCHASE BOOK HERE:

https://www.createspace.com/3652846

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County has named a street after a 10-year-girl who died after chronic child abuse and launched a new poster to make people aware of an abuse hotline. Officials on Friday renamed a portion of a street “Nubia Way” after Nubia Barahona. Her decomposing body was found in her father’s truck along Interstate 95 in February. Her twin brother Victor was badly burned by a toxic chemical.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/miami-dade-names-street-after-child-abuse-victim-1928062.html

ERIE, Colo. — An Erie woman and her boyfriend face charges of child abuse, false imprisonment and crimes against an At Risk juvenile after police say they locked a 14-year-old boy inside a small room in their mobile home, often with no food. Amanda Jolliff, 36, and Richard Smith, 31, were arrested late last month after a neighbor called police when he found the frightened boy hiding under his porch.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-police-say-erie-boy-locked-in-room-fed-once-a-day-20111020,0,341238.story