Man Guilty of Child Abuse, Child Porn
PLATTE CITY, MO — A Platte County jury found a Platte City man guilty of child abuse and possession of child pornography following a week-long trial. After deliberation Friday, the jury recommended James Marquis, 44, spend up to 28 years in prison. “This defendant required a teenage girl to stand in the corner for approximately 10 hours a day for nearly a month. The jury correctly found that was cruel and inhuman punishment, for which he deserves a lengthy prison sentence,” Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd said in a news release. READ MORE HERE
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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