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Make-Up On My 4-Year-Old Doesn’t ‘Invite’ Pedophiles
I can admit that I was prepared for a little internet blowback from appearing on Good Morning America to talk about allowing my daughter to wear make-up. I understood that agreeing to the interview meant opening myself up to other people’s opinions and observations. But I did not expect commenters saying, ”This is one reason why pedophiles exist.”
No. That’s wrong. Pedophiles exist because disturbed people sexually abuse children. Pedophiles exist because they have a mental disease, pedophilia. And suggesting otherwise is victim-blaming. More »
Indiana Prosecutor Vows To Pursue Charges Against Co-Sleeping Parents
A County Prosecutor in Indiana has some strong warnings for parents whose children die due to co-sleeping. ”I’m not going to overlook that anymore as stupidity, I’m going to try to prosecute those cases,” said Jeffery Arnold, Delaware County Prosecutor. More »
Despicable Discipline: Girl, 9, Dies After Being Forced To Run For Three Hours
As punishment for eating a candy bar and lying about it, a 9-year-old’s grandmother and stepmother forced her to run for three hours straight. The little girl, Savannah Hardin, became severely dehydrated, had a seizure and died three days later.
Now her grandmother and stepmother are facing murder charges – as they should. Because I don’t care what the circumstance: no child should be disciplined in such a cruel manner. This is child abuse no matter how you slice it, and it is just heart-wrenching to know that a little girl has died so needlessly. More »
Foster Care 101: Child Protective Services Aren’t The Enemy
There’s a common refrain among parents that their kids cannot have another injury, “because the hospital is just going to call CPS.” I’m not sure where the rumor got started, but we all assume that one too many slips off the jungle gym will land your family with in-home visits. It’s often said as a joke. But that doesn’t stop a parent’s fear every time their child gets hurt that someone might assume they’re an unfit guardian. So I decided to talk to a friend who actually helps to make that call. She’s a hospital social worker, and it’s her job to decide if a child’s injury needs further investigation. Here’s what she had to tell me. More »
Cruel Parents Force 4-Year-Old Boy To Run Naked Through Frozen Streets
If you happened to spot a distressed 4-year-old running through the frozen streets of New York last month in his underwear, you weren’t imagining things. It actually happened. And here’s the sickening part: this poor boy’s parents actually forced him to strip down in the freezing cold – they even captured the whole thing on film – so that he’d develop a “masculine temperament” (those were his father’s words). More »
Child Abuse Affects More Kids Than SIDS, Frustrated Parents Just ‘Lose It’
SIDS tends to get the attention of media outlets and parenting blogs everywhere, with moms and dads of all stripes chiming in about the big co-sleeping debate. But despite everyone working themselves into a tizzy over controversial advertisements and confessions of co-sleeping, more children are abused every year than die of SIDs-related deaths. And these kids are being abused by their exhausted, frustrated parents.
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Father Charged With Locking Daughter In Dog Cage, Threatening To Electrocute Her
It is mind-blowing how some people are actually allowed to call themselves parents when they behave like this Ohio dad who allegedly taped up his daughter’s hands and feet, locked her in a dog cage and then threatened to electrocute her. According to reports, James Tapke, 41, has been charged with child endangering after punishing his 12-year-old daughter in such a cruel manner. More »
Mom And Baby Held Captive, Rescued After Facebook Status Update
This is the second time in one week that I’m saying this, but thank god for Facebook! Last week, a Chicago man was arrested for child abuse after posting a photo of his young daughter bound and gagged. And now a Utah woman used the social networking site to send a distress signal after she and her 17-month-old son were held hostage for nearly five days.
Hiding in a closet with a laptop, the woman signed into Facebook and updated her status to say that she and her son would be “dead by morning” if they were not rescued. More »
Father Posts Photo Of Bound Toddler To Facebook, Promptly Charged With Abuse
Facebook may be a total time-waster but it has definitely served some good in the case of Andre Curry, a 21-year-old Chicago man who’s been arrested after posting a photo of his daughter bound with duct tape.
“This is wut (sic) happens wen my baby hits me back,” wrote Curry. More »
Parents Ask Man To Beat Their Son After They Suspect Him Of Smoking
My children are only 6 and 2, so I can’t imagine what it’ll be like one day in the future when they do stupid things like drive too fast or drink too much at a party. It’s bound to happen – these teenage rites of passage – and I like to think that when the time comes, I’ll deal. Unlike this Irvine, California couple, who found a lighter in their 15-year-old son’s possession and assumed he’d been smoking. Rather than discuss it with the boy, they instead turned to Paul Kim, a member of their La Habra church, and asked him to discipline their child with a beating. More »
Children Who Witness Domestic Abuse Show Brain Activity Similiar To Soldiers In Combat
he abuse of children has always been noted to cause developmental problems and perhaps cause a lifelong impact, but new research places kids who witness domestic abuse right next to soldiers who have experienced combat. More »
Abusive Judge Caught Beating Daughter Finally Gets Suspended
William Adams – the abusive judge seen beating his then-teenage daughter with a belt in a gruesome video that went viral earlier this month – has been suspended by the Texas Supreme Court. It’s hardly a matter of justice being served just yet, but it’s a start. More »
For The Record, Lolita Was Not Sexually Precocious — She Was Raped
When I first encountered the literary classic Lolita, I was the same age as the infamous female character. I was 15 and had heard about a book in which a grown man carries on a sexual relationship with a much younger girl. Naturally, I quickly sought out the book and devoured the entire contents on my bedroom floor, parsing through Humbert Humbert‘s French and his erotic fascination for his stepdaughter, the light of his life, the fire of his loins — Dolores Haze. I remember being in the ninth grade and turning over the cover that presented a coy pair of saddle shoes as I hurried through the final pages in homeroom.
Although I remember admiring the book for all its literary prowess, what I don’t recall is how much of the truth of that story resonated with me given that I was a kid myself. Because it wasn’t until I reread the book as an adult that I realized Lolita had been raped. She had been raped repeatedly, from the time she was 12 to when she was 15 years old. More »
Pedophile Says Slutty Two-Year-Old Girl Seduced Him, Calls Her ‘Promiscuous’
Not too long ago, Albert Gaub ran a daycare with his wife in Montana entitled Cuddles and More. In 2010, the 72-year-old pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a little girl at the daycare who wasn’t even quite two years old when the attacks began. And when interrogated by police about his crime, Albert made the utterly ridiculous claim that the toddler came onto him first. More »
How To Answer Awkward Sex-Scandal Questions, By Penn State Staff
Don’t you just hate when you’re in the middle of a job interview and your prospective employer asks you about child molestation? Penn State Career Services has issued a letter to students with advice on how to address the whole sex-scandal issue during job interviews. More »
Jerry Sandusky’s Former Daughter-In-Law Gets A Restraining Order For Her Kids
Jerry Sandusky, formerly of Penn State and accused of sexually assaulting eight boys over a 15-year period, has just been barred from visiting his grandchildren unsupervised. His former daughter-in-law, Jill Jones, has sought out a restraining order in the wake of the charges that prevents her three kids from spending the night at their grandparents’ house. More »
10-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth In Mexico, Again
A 10-year-old girl from Puebla, Mexico gave birth to a baby boy after a 31-week pregnancy fraught with complications. The little girl was admitted to the Women’s Hospital on October 22nd after enduring “life-threatening” complications and seizures. Now officials are looking into if the 10-year-old was raped and by whom. More »
Penn State Students Care More About Their Coach Than The Rape Of Children
Penn State University, which in the throws of a sexual abuse scandal, endured a riot last night instigated by their students. After their beloved football coach Joe Paterno was fired, the students reacted by flipping over fans and taking down light poles. Although Joe Paterno is not the one being accused of sexually assaulting eight boys over a 15 year period, he did protect the man who did.
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Parents Demand Abusive Childrearing Book Be Pulled From Amazon
To Train Up A Child, a self-published parenting book by pastor Michael Pearl and his wife Debi Pearl, advocates the physical abuse of children as effective discipline.
The book has appeared in the homes of several children who have been abused to death, including 13-year-old Hana Williams who was found dead in the backyard, 30 pounds underweight, from hypothermia. Further investigations revealed that Williams’ parents starved her, beat her regularly, put her in a locked closet, and made her sleep outside in the barn in the cold. She also wasn’t allowed to use the bathroom in the house. To Train Up A Child was found in their home, as well as that of many other abusive parents, and now thousands of parents are asking that Amazon remove the book as soon as possible through a Change.org petition. More »
Defrocked: Our Beloved Priest Was Actually A Pedophile
After high school I travelled to Lille, France to become a jeune fille au pair. Much like my older sister who paved the way, this was to be my year off towards self-discovery. While in France, I received a devastating letter from my mother that would inevitably change the way I viewed religion, God and humanity for the rest of my life.
I recall my mother’s letter being very brief. It also contained a yellowed newspaper clipping. If memory serves, there was a shrouded image in the foreground – much like the darkened images they use on TV to protect witnesses – of the young boy who had accused Father Charles Griggs, my childhood priest, of sexual abuse. More »
