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Reported Child Abuse, Neglect Cases Continue to Rise


Society & Culture  (tags: child abuse )

Nancy
- 595 days ago - nwi.com
Four-month-old Eternity Brame's life was snuffed by a violent fist. Autopsy records indicate the little girl died of a lacerated heart and liver and a depressed skull fracture from several blows to her head, chest and back.
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Mary Zoglio (169)
Sunday April 20, 2008, 8:52 am
WOW SO SAD FOR THIS BABY,AGAIN A NOTHER BABYS LIFE LOST TO ABUSE,WHEN IS GOING TO STOP,WE NEED TO CHANGE THE LAWS,PLEASE HELP,NOTED THANKS NANCY...
 

Pamela Mendoza (126)
Sunday April 20, 2008, 1:23 pm
I am getting so tired of these little angels not getting a chance of life. There are things we can do. Get the laws changed . i think we need very strict and longer and tougher laws. People can do it. Is that not what voting is? Our laws need to be changed. There is no one that speaks up for these children. We need a person to represent these children that have more compasion than the courts and attorney's. I do not know about everyone else, but this is getting out of hand.
 

Tere M. (44)
Monday April 21, 2008, 4:52 am
I do agree Mary and Pamela. However, this should start at step 0, why bother to bring babies to this world if they are not going to be loved? ~
 

Past Member (0)
Monday April 21, 2008, 12:32 pm
How a slap brought police and social services in to tear a family ...But rather than examining my well-fed younger son and his unmarked, if rebellious brother, the police had called in social services and arrested us. ...
www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/060408slap.htm - Similar pages

School Says Police, Social Services Will Snatch Kids Of Late ParentsOct 5, 2006 ... Having social services and police grab children because their parents get stuck in traffic or only own one car is an absolute abomination ...
www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/051006snatchkids.htm -

sheriff runs sex slave trade
http://www.koco.com/news/15904129/detail.html
 

Past Member (0)
Monday April 21, 2008, 12:34 pm
Sex and Drugs at the UN

New York Post | June 1 2004

Three United Nations fieldworkers are publishing details of sex, drugs and corruption inside U.N. missions - despite an attempt by the world body to block their book.

"Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth" chronicles the experiences of a doctor, a human-rights official and a secretary in U.N. operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Liberia and Bosnia.

The controversial volume, due out next week, charges that some U.N. officials demanded that 15 percent of their local staff's salaries go directly to them instead; that Bulgaria sent freed criminals to serve as peacekeepers; and that incompetent U.N. security has cost lives.

Their first-person account of a decade in U.N. service also includes candid details of drug use - particularly a marijuana cocktail called "The Space Shuttle" - and casual sex.

"Almost a million civilians [whom] our peacekeepers were supposed to protect died in two genocides," said Dr. Andrew Thomson, one of the co-authors. "We didn't set out to write a scandalous book about the U.N., but this is a matter of historical record. Did the U.N. really think that none of us would come home angry and write about it?"

The book takes its title from an episode in Somalia in which Heidi Postlewait, an American secretary, seeks consolation with a local interpreter after a sniper attack.

"I can feel this pounding inside me and I can't wait. It has to be right now, not in 10 minutes, not five. Now," she writes. "An emergency. Emergency sex."


At one point, the former New York social worker has sex with a soldier at their Mogadishu base.

"After, we lay back naked, sweat drying, smoking cigarettes. Nice," she writes. "Then I spotted an observation tower not 50 feet away, where two soldiers with night-vision goggles were peeping down at us . . . I think they set me up."

Particularly galling to the fieldworkers is the murder in Mogadishu of a young American colleague, shot dead as he rode in a U.N. convoy.

Kenneth Cain, an American human-rights official, complains bitterly that the board of inquiry ignored failings in U.N. security.

"The board is stacked with U.N. officials who oversee security," he writes. "I don't trust these f- - -s for a second to truly investigate and hold one of their own accountable."

Bulgaria has denied that it sent freed prisoners as peacekeepers to Cambodia, but some of the other allegations in the book have been substantiated.

For instance, an inquiry into the bombing of the U.N. office in Baghdad last year found the whole U.N. security system to be "dysfunctional."

The U.N. hierarchy tried to block the book using a rule requiring that U.N. staff get approval before writing about their work. Permission was denied.

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Past Member (0)
Monday April 21, 2008, 12:36 pm
Child sex book given out at U.N. summit

Washington Times 05/10/02: George Archibald

Original Link: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020510-25256488.htm

A UNICEF-funded book being passed out at the United Nations Child Summit encourages children to engage in sexual activities with other minors and with homosexuals and animals.

As the delegations to the summit remain deadlocked on abortion, international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that support the U.S. delegation's anti-abortion stance circulated copies of pages from a UNICEF-funded book given to delegates from Latin America that promotes sexual activity and abortion among teens in their countries.

"Reproductive health includes the following components: Counseling on sexuality, pregnancy, methods of contraception, abortion, infertility, infections and diseases," says the Spanish-language book, whose title translates to "Theoretic Elements for Working with Mothers and Pregnant Teens."

An accompanying workshop book produced by the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) tells Latin American mothers and teens: "Situations in which you can obtain sexual pleasure: 1. Masturbation. 2. Sexual relations with a partner � whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. 3. A sexual response that is directed toward inanimate objects, animals, minors, non-consenting persons."

The book, which was distributed by the Mexican government with U.N. funding, suggests lesbian sex as an acceptable alternative for girls.

"Sexual relations with a partner: Here we should insist there is no ideal or perfect relations between two or several people," the book says. "The one that gives us the most satisfaction and that which is adopted to our way of being and the style of life we have chosen. This is why we encounter many differences among women. Some women like to have relations with men. And others with another woman."

UNICEF spokesman Alfred Ironside acknowledged U.N. funding for the book, but said it was produced by the Mexican government in 1999 and pulled from circulation "when the content was more carefully reviewed."

Mr. Ironside said he did not know how many of the books were circulated. "A very small number were produced � fewer than a thousand," he said. "It was pulled out of circulation when the content was more carefully reviewed."

"That book was a product of the Mexican government, supported by UNICEF financially as part of UNICEF's support to the Mexican government," Mr. Ironside said.

"We do everything we do in full agreement with the governments we support. We do not operate independently," he said.

He said the book was "intended as a training manual for people working with adolescent women to prevent teen pregnancy. That publication was a compilation of articles by different contributors and has a very clear disclaimer in the front that the views of the writers do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations."

The workshop book is being passed out by anti-abortion NGOs to persuade delegates from the large Latin American bloc of countries called the Rio Group to support the U.S. proposal to remove ambiguous language from the child-summit action document, which has been used in the past by U.N. agencies to promote abortion.

Delegations to the U.N. Child Summit remained deadlocked yesterday in closed-door negotiations over abortion and other hot-button issues that have held up final agreement on a U.N. action agenda to protect the world's children.

The U.S. delegation, praised by pro-family groups for standing firm to ensure the agenda does not sanction continued U.N. promotion of abortions, was attacked by NGO critics for a second day at an afternoon briefing, NGO members at the meeting said.

Douglas Sylva, an official with the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, called the briefing "an NGO feeding frenzy," in which the United States was attacked for its position on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; arms sales to allies; the Bush administration's support of capital punishment; and U.S. failure to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

"The fact that the United States is the only country besides Somalia that has not ratified [the] child's rights [convention] is shocking," said Paula Daeppen, director in Zurich for the Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas.

"We're supposed to be a moral leader of the world and child friendly," she said.

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, Texas Democrat, told the meeting she applauded the administration's work to protect children from pornography, exploitation and "child soldiering." But she said she disagreed with the U.S. delegation on some issues.

"There needs to be flexibility on life," she said � an apparent reference to the administration's strong anti-abortion stance. A person close to the congresswoman, who asked to remain anonymous, said her remarks were intended to urge "more flexibility on family planning."

Abortion is not mentioned directly in the draft child-summit document, but UNICEF, which organized the 187-country special session of the General Assembly, and the U.N. Fund for Population Activities, interpret the ambiguous phrase "reproductive health services" to include abortion.

A senior Canadian negotiator told delegates in earlier preparatory meetings that the term includes abortion, prompting the Bush administration to start pushing for the alternate term "reproductive health care."

European countries, with the exception of Spain, along with Canada, Japan and New Zealand oppose the U.S. position. Muslim nations and some African countries also support the United States.

The Rio Group, whose delegations say their predominantly Catholic populations don't condone abortion, said there is no danger the term "reproductive health services" will be used to promote abortions in Latin America.

 

Phyllis S. (0)
Monday April 21, 2008, 1:15 pm
Anyone who abuses a child should be given the death penalty!What kind of a person could hit such a small child with his fist? An insane person. That just might do it. Lock them up in the looney bin. But on the other hand, why waste taxpayers money. I'd gladly pull the switch!
 

William Eddy (0)
Monday April 21, 2008, 5:58 pm
I have been involved in dcf how they beleive the expert witness and a young and spend great effort to follow the expert for hie and place my stepdaughter with a man accused of molesting but the judge didn't read anything or watch the video made by the child protection team?? What is wrong when the truth is not allowed and perjury is protected??what price! national ,state and local cps bubgets are 1% for prevtion ,but the agency gets up to $8500. per child for removel??
 

William Eddy (0)
Monday April 21, 2008, 5:59 pm
I have been involved in dcf how they beleive the expert witness and a young and spend great effort to follow the expert for hie and place my stepdaughter with a man accused of molesting but the judge didn't read anything or watch the video made by the child protection team?? What is wrong when the truth is not allowed and perjury is protected??what price! national ,state and local cps bubgets are 1% for prevtion ,but the agency gets up to $8500. per child for removel??
 

Lynn Kane (54)
Monday April 21, 2008, 9:19 pm
Back in the 60's they had welfare workers who would show up unannounced at homes, check cupboards, the children, of course it was a bone of contention for the parents, but I sure in hell wish they would do that NOW! noted, thanks
 
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