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Family Members Charged in Missouri Child Sex Case

Five men from the same family are in custody in a stunning child sex crimes case in... more

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Doctors, five others held in Mexican stolen babies case - CNN.com

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Toddler Slaying Suspect Too Mentally Challenged To Be Executed??

Defense attorneys say a 19-year-old Indiana County man accused of fatally beating his... more

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Violence Against Women Increases 120% on TV

The Parents Television Council says in a new report that incidents of violence against... more

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Woman slams baby's head into ground

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Parental Alienation: A Mental Diagnosis?

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From an early age, Anne was taught by her mother to fear her father. Behind his back, her mom warned that he was an unpredictable and dangerous; any time he'd invite her to do anything—a walk in the woods, a trip to the art store—she would craft an excuse not to go. "I was under the impression that he was crazy, that at any moment he could just pop and do something violent to hurt me," says Anne, who prefers that only her middle name be used to guard her family's privacy. Typical of a phenomenon some mental-health experts now label "parental alienation," her view of him became so negative, she says, that her mother persuaded her to lie during a custody hearing when the couple divorced. Then 14, she told the judge that her dad was physically abusive. Was he? "No," she says. "But I was convinced that he would [be]." After her mother won custody, Anne all but severed contact with her father for years.

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If a growing faction of the mental-health community has its way, Anne's experience will one day soon be an actual diagnosis. The concept of parental alienation, which is highly controversial, is being described as one in which children strongly attach to one parent and reject the other in the false belief that he or she is bad or dangerous. "It's heartbreaking," says William Bernet, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, "to have your 10-year-old suddenly, in a matter of weeks, go from loving you and hiking with you...to saying you're a horrible, ugly person." These aren't kids who simply prefer one parent over the other, he says. That's normal. These kids doggedly resist contact with a parent, sometimes permanently, out of an irrational hate or fear.

Bernet is leading an effort to add "parental alienation" to the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association's "bible" of diagnoses, scheduled for 2012. He and some 50 contributing authors from 10 countries will make their case in the American Journal of Family Therapy early next year. Inclusion, says Bernet, would spur insurance coverage, stimulate more systematic research, lend credence to a charge of parental alienation in court, and raise the odds that children would get timely treatment.http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/childrens-health/2009/10/29/parental-alienatio... more

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Ringleaders jailed for life

The two men at the centre of Scotland's largest known child abuse network have been... more

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An Egregious Tragedy Has Taken Place

This is a story of egregious tragedy, not only for the loved ones involved but for all of us who exist in a social environment, infiltrated by murderous monsters. This horror may not have happened if we all considered our surroundings to be parallel to the darkness of dense jungles where meat eaters lurk behind the thickness of forestry waiting their next gorge. Without envisioning this comparable, life appears orderly and free of danger.

Within the food chain, hunger is the motivator to kill. It's not called murder but it is the same. Something must die in order to satisfy the needs of a predator. When a youngling is cut away from the protection of the herd, a beast of prey will spot, immediately the vulnerability of this life form and direct all its attention towards a capture. What happened to this child is the same. A monster, perhaps not even on its usual hunt, zeroed in on a little girl, alone, away from any protection and used its cunning to lure her into its clutches.

It didn't happen to my child but it did, to someone who lived in my community. His name was Adam Walsh and he was a year younger than my own. The Walsh's horrible story, could have been mine. I, many times frequented the same place as Adam and his mom and I forever shuddered to think it my child who was cut from the herd and open to attack.

We as a society should warn our children and ourselves that we are but one or two seconds from something so heinous that our lives would never recover. Whenever our children leave the safety of our sight, we should tell them, "Never allow a stranger to talk lies, in order to hurt you. Scream, cry, run and fight if need be, not to be taken by anyone.” Every child, every young person who falls victim to the savages amongst us, must be a reminder that we live in a jungle of predators but worse, these fiends look like us, so we have to be even more vigilant than jungle prey. I hope a capture will take place and we will have one less sick degenerate on our streets. But realize, it will not make us safer because somewhere there is another waiting, to take its place. Always be aware, it really is a jungle out there and constantly teach and learn this fact. thinkingblue

See full story here: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/somer-thompson-killer-serial-child-predator/story?id=8915179#This is a story of egregious tragedy, not only for the loved ones involved but for all... more

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Home alone while Mother drinks & snorts

A single mum was branded Britain's worst mother today after she left her four children home alone - so she could go on a 24-hour drinking binge.
The 22-year-old woman knocked back an entire bottle of wine even before she left her home for the drink-fueled tour of town centre bars and house parties.
The alarm was only raised when her eldest daughter was spotted hanging out of the window sobbing: 'Where's mummy?'
A worried relative broke into the house and found inside a one-year-old boy soaked in urine in his cot in a bedroom on his own.
A three-year-old girl had managed to dress herself and the most upset was the oldest girl.
The four-year-old had attempted to mix a feed for the youngest child, aged just three months, who was crying with hunger.
The youngest baby was in a travel cot with no blanket and was wet through and wearing a soiled nappy.
There was dried milk and sick all over his clothing.
He was said to be grey, docile and his forehead 'sunken.'
Police later arrived at the property in Blackburn, Lancs, to find it littered with empty beer cans and bottles
Today the mum, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the children, was warned by a judge she faced jail after she admitted four charges of child neglect.

Her case was adjourned at Preston Crown Court whilst a report by social services is prepared.
The children are now in care and the mum is only allowed supervised access.

After all the recent studies in child neglect & abuse how can this ever be excused, this creature left her own vunerable children to engage in an alcoholic/drug session. I will be waiting to see what the outcome of her case will be will we have yet another child service review the last five were not that helpful.
The UK needs to stop this now if a child is indeed at risk put them on the at risk registar straight away dont wait, if they need to be removed into care do so how can any child care professional sleep if we have another "Baby P" incident that they could have prevented just like his death.
Are children need our help & support let us not fail them again!.A single mum was branded Britain's worst mother today after she left her four children... more

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Report: Five Children Die Each Day From Abuse or Neglect

A new report out today found that on average, five children died from abuse or neglect every day in the United States between 2001 and 2007.

The report by the advocacy group Every Child Matters, estimated that more than 10,000 children died over the same time frame.

In 2007 alone 1,760 children died, a 35 percent increase over the death rate in 2001. And, due to poor reporting and record-keeping in many states, the actual number is estimated to be as much as 50 percent higher.

Texas was found to have the highest number of deaths, 228, attributable to child abuse in 2007, but Kentucky had the highest per-capita rate at 4.09 deaths per 100,000 children.

In the wake of these findings, lawmakers and celebrities joined forces on Capitol Hill today to urge Congress to increase funding to fight child abuse. "It's a failure of the United States of America but we have the opportunity and the resources, and I believe the will and the commitment to correct this," said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.

With negotiations over health care reform ongoing, Casey and Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., both urged lawmakers to include provisions to fight child abuse in any health care reform. "Within the Finance Committee health care proposal is Senate Bill 1267& the Evidence Based Home Visitation Act of 2009.

The data shows that among other things, the risk of child abuse and neglect dropped significantly for mothers and children involved in this program. There is no reason why we should not pass that as part of the health care bill," Casey said.

Kennedy emphasized the importance of getting parents access to adequate mental and psychological care. "One of the things that we have in this health bill, is mental health parity...The reason why that's so important in helping reduce child abuse and neglect is obviously children have parents and those parents if they are not mentally healthy...they are going to be more likely to take that out and have an environment where those kids are forced to grow up in really difficult and traumatic circumstances," he said.

Several members of the advocacy community agreed. "We need to pass comprehensive health reform that supports our nations families and includes crucial public health services like home visiting, like well child care, like prevention for all Americans," said CEO of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Michael Fraser.

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