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10-YO Boy Claims He Shot Father To End Abuse

Posted by Sandra On May - 19 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

Jeff Hall at a neo-Nazi demonstration and in military fatigues.

RIVERSIDE — Court documents reveal in chilling detail a 10-year old boy’s account of how he shot and killed his neo-Nazi father as he slept in bed. The documents outline the boy’s confession to police after the May 1 killing. Authorities say the boy recounted that he was tired of his father, Jeffrey R. Hall, beating him and his stepmother.

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Child Abuse Linked To Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia

Posted by Sandra On May - 19 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

Washington–University of Toronto researchers have found that childhood physical abuse is associated with significantly elevated rates of functional somatic syndromes such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities among women. “Women who reported they had been physically abused as children have twice the odds of chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple chemical sensitivities, and 65 per cent higher odds of fibromyalgia” said lead investigator Professor Esme Fuller-Thomson, who holds the Sandra Rotman Chair at U of T’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Department of Family and Community Medicine.

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6-Week Old Stabbed Repeatedly

Posted by Sandra On May - 17 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

Mother arrested for allegedly stabbing infant daughter

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A 6-week-old girl is in stable condition after she was stabbed numerous times. The child’s mother, 24-year-old Danielle Mailloux, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after Kern County deputies were called Sunday night to the 1300 block of Crawford Street.

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Couple Blames Evil Spirit For Child’s Injuries

Posted by Sandra On May - 17 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

Mug shots

HOUSTON– Two people are facing charges in a bizarre child abuse case that they claim involved a ‘spirit’ in the home. Ivan Dejesus Martinez, 21, is charged with injury to a child and Erica Candice Mendoza, 21, is charged with injury to a child by omission. The victim in the case is Mendoza’s two-year-old son.

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New Bill Would Protect Kids On Facebook

Posted by Sandra On May - 17 - 2011 1 COMMENT

Bill would force Facebook to change privacy settings

The Social Networking Privacy Act

A new bill proposed in California could force Facebook and other social networking sites to strip out personal information for children at a parent’s request. The bill known as the Social Networking Privacy Act would require Facebook and others to carefully police which pieces of information on individuals under age 18 are accessible to the public.

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‘I Raped A Child 100+ Times’

Posted by Sandra On May - 16 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

Jailing him for 12 years, Judge Esmond Faulks said that as a former prison officer, Pearce's time inside would be particularly onerous.

Ex-prison officer, 68, walks up to policeman to confess 20 YEARS after attacks

He admitted to between 100 and 200 rapes and a series of indecent assaults. Pearce, of North Broomhill, Northumberland, was a respected member of the community and worked at Acklington Prison in Northumberland during his career. In a statement setting out the effect of the abuse, the victim, now an adult, said: ‘This has affected my whole life.

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Vatican’s New Sex Abuse Guidelines: Reporting NOT Required

Posted by Sandra On May - 16 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

New Vatican guidelines aimed at fighting child abuse by priests tell Catholic bishops they should cooperate with police, but do not order them to report allegations to the authorities. “Sexual abuse of minors is not just a canonical delict but also a crime prosecuted by civil law,” says the letter to bishops around the world, using the Vatican term for a violation of church law.

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Mom Found Guilty Of Killing Baby In Microwave

Posted by Sandra On May - 16 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

DAYTON — As if she’d been struck, China Arnold shut her eyes tight and let her head drift backward as she heard the jury foreperson announce that she was guilty of aggravated murder in the killing of her 28-day-old daughter in a microwave oven. Then, as Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman explained what would happen next for the jury, Arnold put her head down and began to weep — silently at first, but then her soft sobs shortly became audible.

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Man, 63, Blames Girl, 4, For Rape

Posted by Sandra On May - 16 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

A 63-year-old Oak Harbor man admitted to raping two young children, but blamed his actions on the 4-year-old victim, according to a police report. Prosecutors charged Richard Tice Sr. in Island County Superior Court May 2 with four counts of first-degree rape of a child. He’s accused of repeatedly raping a 4-year-old girl and an 8-year-old girl.

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