PRINTABLE PAGE Parent’s Fate Tied to Life-or-Death Decision for Son Ethics: Father who could face homicide charge won’t let doctors turn off baby’s life support. By Stuard Pfeifer, Times Staff WriterOriginally published in the Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2002…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Police: Abusive Dad Ruled House of Horrors by Ed Hayward and Franci RichardsonOriginally published in the Boston Herald, June 15, 2001 SALISBURY — Isolated from the outside world by their tyrannical father, the six McMullen children lived anonymously…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Welfare Ban for Drug Felons Harms Children, Study Says Poverty: A federal law that bars aid in such cases affects 37,825 women in California, 40% of national total. By Greg Krikorian, Times Staff WriterOriginally published in the Los…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Battling the Pedophiles; A Presidential Crackdown on Violators of the Young Originally published in Asiaweek, August 25, 1995 PHILIPPINES — Marlon, 12, started his life in Manila as an urchin. He roamed the streets and parks begging. One…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Case Helps Toughen Child Abuse Laws By Robert K. Gordon, News staff writerOriginally published in The Birmingham News, June 5, 2001 The case of Terri Burch, who came to school hungry, ragged, scarred and bruised, helped toughen the…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Pregnant 11-Year-Old Prompts Agencies Questions By Susan SilversOriginally published in the Connecticut Post, April 21, 2002 BRIDGEPORT — Did anyone suspect anything was wrong? A neighbor? A relative? And if so, why didn’t they do something? These are…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Judge Scorns Assisted Apology Kave, 75, gets 12-year term for impregnating little girl By Daniel TepferOriginally published in The Connecticut Post, November 16, 2002 BRIDGEPORT — At the end, 75-year-old Jimmie Kave just couldn’t seem to understand what…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Parents Sue Over Humiliation By Susan Jacobson, Sentinel Staff WriterOriginally published in the Orlando Sentinel, June 2, 2002 KISSIMMEE — A boy who was tied to a chair, pelted with wadded paper towels and threatened with hanging as…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Female sexual abuse: The untold story of society’s last taboo by Charlotte Philby Originally published by The Independent, August 8, 2009 Sharon Hall is a small, timid figure with wide brown eyes that dart nervously between the floor…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Man Accused of Hiding, Assaulting Family Faces Charge of Violating Restraining Order Originally published by The Associated Press, February 7, 2002 SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A Salisbury man accused of isolating his six children for six years and…