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Perhaps you have seen the video of James Willie Jones, the Florida father who boarded a Green Lakes Middle School bus, threatening students who harassed his daughter. He’s come under fire, was arrested for disorderly conduct, and was forced by the politically correct in our country to apologize.
But, frankly, I think he did the world a service. While he faces disorderly conduct charges, the real disorderly conduct was the behavior of others, which brought him to this point. The man’s 13-year-old daughter has cerebral palsy and was repeatedly bullied by kids on the bus. And the “bullying” wasn’t just verbal. It was physical assault. These kids repeatedly slapped the girl’s head, twisted her ear, threw condoms on her head, and she had to go to the hospital because of stress. The bus driver did nothing (though he has to deal with kids who weren’t parented properly, if at all). And no-one ever disciplined the kids on the bus. They needed to hear this from someone:
“This is my daughter, and I will kill a [expletive] to back her. If anything happens to my daughter I’m going to [expletive] you up and everybody on this [expletive].”
I applaud this father for likely being the only man that ever spoke of meting out any form of discipline to these kids. It’s notable that the father and the kids on the bus are Black. And that’s because in Black America, the vast majority of kids are born to single mothers and never have a father in their lives. This girl is lucky that she not only has a father in her life, but a father that cares enough to risk his freedom to protect her. Sorry, but I think the criticism of this man is unwarranted, and he’s actually doing what a parent whose child is under attack should do–protecting his child.
I’m appalled at the storm of criticism he faces versus the absentee parents who taught their kids–the rest of the kids on the bus–that it’s okay to harass a disabled girl. It’s more of what I’ve been writing about on this site for years–the death of outrage. That the outrage is against this father, and not these kids and their sperm- and womb-donor “parents,” is the true outrage. As I’ve noted before. The outrageous are now the celebrated “outraged.”
Maybe Jones might have used different language, but it seems to me that this lingua franca of the street is the only thing they understand, and they’ve heard it plenty of times before. And since it got to this point, perhaps that language was expressly called for. What if the father had done nothing and “let the authorities handle it”? What if the bullying escalated and she was further physically attacked? Then, it might be too late. I applaud this father, James Willie Jones. The sad thing is that most people do not.
So, am I right? Do you agree with me that this father was forced to take matters into his own hands? How would you have handled it if this was your daughter? I definitely don’t think he should have apologized. For what? Protecting his family? You never apologize for that.
The kid of a father who would do this to protect his kid is a lucky kid, indeed. What used to be the norm is, sadly, all too uncommon. Most parents don’t care. James Willie Jones does.
And to me, that makes him a candidate for Father of the Year.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/27159/justifiably-angry-father-deserves-kudos-not-jail/#more-27159Perhaps you have seen the video of James Willie Jones, the Florida father who boarded... more
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by Phyllis Schlafly
Family courts routinely deprive men of their fundamental right to parent their own children by charging them with a wide variety of trivial offenses. Family courts generally uphold feminist demands to kick a man out of his own home, and take control of their children and his money, based on a woman’s unsubstantiated allegations. A major weapon in this ongoing battle between men and women who don’t get along is the Violence Against Women Act. This law was passed in 1994 as a payoff to the radical feminists for helping to elect Bill Clinton President in 1992.
The Violence Against Women Act shows the hypocrisy of noisy feminist demands that we kowtow to their ideology of gender neutrality, to their claim that there is no difference between male and female, and to their opposition to stereotyping and gender profiling. There is nothing sex neutral about this law. It is based on the proposition that there are, indeed, innate gender differences: men are naturally batterers and women are naturally victims. This law is not designed to eliminate or punish violence, but to punish only alleged violence against women. Most of the shelters financed by the Violence Against Women Act do not accept men as victims.
This law has been known from the getgo as “feminist pork” because it puts $1 Billion a year of U.S. taxpayers’ money into the hands of the radical feminists. They have set up shop in domestic violence shelters where they promote divorce, marriage breakup, hatred of men, and false accusations, while rejecting marriage counseling, reconciliation, drug-abuse treatment, and evidence of mutual-partner abuse. There is no accountability for the taxpayers’ money spent in these shelters. This law provides the woman with free legal counsel to pursue her allegations, but not the man to defend himself. He is on his own to find and pay a lawyer.
Contributing Editor, Phyllis Schlafly, is the Founder and President of Eagle Forum. Used with permission.by Phyllis Schlafly
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16 July 2009: Category: News Posted by: Toon
A demonstration was staged today outside Harrow crown court after M25 protester Geoff Hibbert was jailed for six months.
After already spending a month on remand in Wormwoods Scrubs Geoff is expected to be incarcerated for at least another ten weeks before becoming eligible for early release, his appeal has been lodged and is ongoing.
Judge Alan Greenwood drew gasps from the gallery as he concluded that these type of protests were not justified as there is; "no problem with family law" and that the sentence was a "deterrent" to future protests.
Rffj believe that if you are a UK citizen you now have no rights to carry out a peaceful protest under this police state, sponsored by a failing Labour government who have continued to erode our civil liberties with rafts of new legislation aimed at silencing those who dare to question.
In our criminal courts we regularly see shoplifters, burglers, muggers and fraudsters walk free or receive a token slap on the wrist despite having previous criminal records.
Yet here we see a hard-working peaceful father, who had no previous police record, criminalised and jailed for his first offence.
Geoff has spent over fifty thousand pounds in legal fees trying to secure a relationship with his daughter, he has not seen her for around two years.
He simply wished to highlight the injustice he encountered by staging a peaceful protest - after fully exploring every other legal avenue what other option was available to him?
Rffj pledge that the protests will continue with increased frequency and to ensure maximum disruption to the workings of family courts and all of their associated agencies, the war against fathers has reached a new level today, we must all stand together and fight the injustice then hit back hard after the treatment of our brother Geoff Hibbert by the state.16 July 2009: Category: News Posted by: Toon
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Many studies conclude modern western women are less happy than women of earlier generations, or in cultures with less feminist influence. hese analyses overlook the delicate topic that modern women are not happy being feminist whores. Gender equality aside, feminism is about portraying all women as the abused, trafficked, prostituted, exploited victems of all men. Under feminism, all married women are exploited whores, as are all single women in relationships with men regarded victemized whores being exploited and raped. Feminism causes women to go around competing with each other as to how abused and exploited they are.. bragging about domestic violence, and how many abusive husbands they have divorced. RadFem abuse and rape stories are about 95% FALSE, so anytime we hear a RadFem talking about domestic violence, abuse or rape, we can be pretty darn sure we are listening to a whore making up lies. It sucks for the 5% or so real victems of abuse or rape, because they have to carry around pictures and police reports to prove that thier story is true, and that they are not just a lying whore playing the feminist game.
In a feminist world all our wives, girlfreinds, mothers, daughters, sisters. etc.. are all abused, exploited, trafficked whores and prostitutes. Women with virtue or integrity or fidelity are irrelevant. A feminist whore that wants a divorce so her ex hubby will be forced to pay her so she can have multiple sex partners, has exactly the same legal standing in 'no fault' divorce as a wife of exacting fidelity or one that really was abused, mistreated or abandoned. No fault divorce takes no account of which party breaks the marriage contract nor which one is harmed by the breach.
Feminist whores could make a decent wife, if there were fewer incentives to divorce. A lowdown hooker whore leaves the john when he stops paying for sex or after she robs him. Feminist divorce courts are a scam with judges/lawyers as the 'pimps' who side with the whores to spit the cash. A decent whorehouse has some reputation not rob customers, but the divorce court whorehouse has the opposite reputation, and whores expect to be able to spit anytime with all hubby's money, and use the pimp/judges to strongarm style force him to subsidize her future whoredom with alimony and child support,
It pretty much sucks being a feminist whore, but not as bad as it sucks being a man who marries one..
.. lol ...
(this article is written for entertainment purposes, and any similarities with your reality are intentional)Many studies conclude modern western women are less happy than women of earlier... more
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The constitution and laws of the United States purportedly support marriage and parental rights, but in reality these precepts are undermined by whores of Radical Feminism that pervades our courts. "Whore" is a word that evolved from the prehistoric Germanic word 'hraz' meaning "one who desires" to the later christainized meaning "adulterer." The feminine of this, 'hrn', became 'hre' in Old English, the ancestor of Modern English word 'whore'. Modern meanings include: 1) A prostitute. 2) A person considered sexually promiscuous. 3) A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain. Promiscuous was long defined as lewd conduct or any sex outside of marriage, a similar meaning exists today for sex outside of a committed relationship. Whoredom was frequently the basis or grounds for a divorce, in accordance with biblical precepts. A very strict definintion of whore would be any sex outside of marriage, thus all prostitutes are whores, but not all whores prostitutes. An exceedingly strict view of prostitute would only exempt married persons who avail themselves to thier spouse with no conditions or restrictions, as many relationships exist where sex is often playfully bartered as a reward for something, such as a gift, cash, or mowing the lawn.. a practice even within marriage.
No fault divorce ignores grounds for divorce, so a woman seeking divorce for the desire to have sex outside of marriage (whoredom) has the same legal standing as an abandoned loyal, faithfu,l wife, or a woman who was abused, neglected or mistreated in a marriage. No fault divorce takes no account of which party violated the marriage contract, nor which party was injured by the breech of marriage contract. Radical feminism proclaims all women are the abused, exploited, coerced victims of all men, and in so doing has reduced all women to the status of trafficked whores and prostitutes, which is essentially the Radical Feminist definition of marriage. Radical Feminism diseminates propaganda to target and villify all men as abusers, with women a privildged victim class with special rights and benefits. This is exactly the same propaganda used by the Woman's Klan to justify slavery and often violent discrimination of blacks, who were portrayed as irresponsible, aggessive, hostile beasts, who basically needed to be beat down to protect 'white womanhood'.
The book Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice, was written by MARGARET HAGEN, PhD. She is an expert in this field, and teaches Psychology, Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychology at Boston University. Her book provides an excellent analysis of venal ’whores’, usually feminists, who work for the courts and provide biased, fabricated, and false testimony.
Many family courts consist of layers of lawyers, judges, therapists, counseling, visit centers and other venal whores who's livihood is spewing radical feminist ideology that advocates divorce and single parent motherhood as preferable to marriage, paternity, shared parenting, or fatherhood as it is alleged by our laws. In effect, whoremongering courts may easily reverse the intent and meaning of laws purporting to support marriage and fatherhood, by merely trotting out their favored whores, who provide biased, lewd , vulgar or unsupported testimony in favor of maternal custody over shared parenting. Child Custody, is the main determinant to the distribution of marital assets, the house, and the future income of both parents. Feminist whores consistently advocate sole or majority of custody to women, because this outcome results in financial benefits to the mothers, and funding to the other whores, whoremongers and thier feminist programs.The constitution and laws of the United States purportedly support marriage and... more
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Marriage represents a substantial risk to men. Investing in a family is likely the most substantial investment of time and effort a man can make. Women typically 'win' no-fault divorces, and walk away with everything including the house, the marital savings, the car, the children, and even his future earnings. Men prudently view marriage as a unilateral debt obligation that women may 'cash in' at any time, and leave men broke and distressed over the loss of children. Accumulation of marital assets such as home equity could be viewed as detrimental as it provides incentives for the wife to divorce. Renting, secret acounts, or concealment of finances may be viewed as a financial hedging strategy for divorce risk.
The decision to be a single custodial parent is largely a financial choice made by women who perceive a benefit from filing a divorce or declining a marriage. Marriage represents risk uncertainty to women, while government programs (Child Support Collections, ADF, etc) are a sure thing. The security of government programs is more attractive than the uncertainty of getting or staying married, they are a government divorce incentive system. In some jurisdictions, 80% or more of divorces are filed by women. This is opposite to feminist propaganda that portrays typical divorces as a 1950's era phenomenon of the husband running off with the cute young secretary. Women are divorcing to secure financial benefits for themselves. The U.S.C.B. reports (Pub. P60-230) that 83.1% of sole custodial parents are female, and this knowedge is the assurance to women that she can file with high confidence in the outcome. The divorce incentive system works for women because the expectation of winning most or sole custody.Marriage represents a substantial risk to men. Investing in a family is likely the... more
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By Calum Ross
Published: 10/02/2009
A TASKFORCE of councillors is to be established to monitor child protection services in Aberdeen following criticism from government inspectors.
The “child protection and corporate parenting governance forum” is to be established after last year’s damning reports from the Social Work Inspection Agency (SWIA) and HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE).
The panel, to be made up of 10 councillors and a social work official, will be chaired by council leader Kate Dean, to underline its importance, and will meet four times a year.
Councillors will be asked to rubber-stamp the plans at tomorrow’s full council meeting.
Independent councillor Marie Boulton last month moved that the local authority establish the panel as a matter of urgency, in the wake of failings identified by inspectors.
November’s HMIE report, published amid national furore at the tragic death of Baby P in London despite 60 visits from social work staff, found that youngsters in Aberdeen were being left in high-risk situations without the protection they needed.
Action plans to address the findings of SWIA and HMIE have now been sent to the government agencies in advance of reinspections later this year.
Far-reaching changes to the way social work is provided in the city have been overseen by programme director Philip Cotterill, a troubleshooter recruited to overhaul the department following the SWIA report last May.
He said in a report to tomorrow’s meeting that the new taskforce would “provide governance and oversight of the effectiveness” of the council in the delivery of services to children.By Calum Ross
Published: 10/02/2009
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Joel Lombard carries a stack of photographs, half an inch thick, in his billfold. In one, a ten-year-old boy leans over a hockey stick, grinning proudly in his bright red jersey. In another, a seven-year-old grips her soccer ball. These are Lombard's children, and over the past two years he has spent just under $30,000 in a custody battle to make sure he remained in their lives.
"I'm a great dad," Lombard says emphatically, his hazel eyes bright, as he sits in a booth at a greasy spoon in Inver Grove Heights. "I might be a bad business owner or a bad husband, but I'm a great dad."
When Lombard and the children's mother, Carol, decided to divorce two years ago, he was certain that the negotiations over the kids would go smoothly and result in a 50-50 split. He was shocked when his ex said she wanted sole custody.
Lombard's lawyer advised him not to move out of the house because that might disadvantage him in the fight. So Lombard lived in the basement for 11 months, until a judge awarded both parents equal time with the kids and ordered Lombard to move out.
But the struggle wasn't over. Lombard's ex-wife requested a custody evaluation from Washington County. The result was the same: equal time with the kids for both mom and dad. Next came a divorce trial, where the custody issue was finally settled.
Ultimately, Lombard got what he wanted. But he's not happy about how much time—and money—it cost him. "All you're doing is pissing away a college fund," Lombard says of dads who go through protracted legal fights over their children. "If he wants 50-50, he shouldn't have to fight for it. Because that's what's best for the kids."Joel Lombard carries a stack of photographs, half an inch thick, in his billfold. In... more
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Earlier this month a court in Toronto, Cananda, transfered full custody of three daughters ages 9 to 14 to their father after a long-term parental alienation campaign by their mother. She had worked for years to brainwash them to hate their father. Judge McWatt of the Superior Court of Justice found that this constituted emotional child abuse and banned the mother from all further contact with the children except for counselling programs, including a program to help the children recover from parental alienation syndrome.
Parental alienation involves the systematic and frequently repeated denigration of one parent by the other and blocking of access to the parent who is the target of denigration. This is more than the unfortunately common occasional badmouthing during or after a divorce. While any badmouthing by one parent of the other parent in front of the children is detrimental, occasional negative comments are not enough to constitute parental alienation. This is especially the case when the parents making such mistakes recognizes them as such and try to avoid repeating them, respects that the children should have involvement of both of their parents in their lives, and complies with court orders involving visitation, custody, and contact.
Parental alienation is a form of emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse against children. Courts in multiple countries, including the United States and Canada, have consistently viewed parental alienation as child abuse. The way it has been handled has varied widely, however. Some courts have wrongly sided with the alienating parent. Others have shown unending tolerance for the alienation campaign. In both scenarios, the courts are directly contributing to child abuse.Earlier this month a court in Toronto, Cananda, transfered full custody of three... more
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A rational analysis of the child support issue is more helpful in explaining the child support problem. Page 40 of The Law and Economics of Child Support Payments By William S. Comanor addresses the phenomenon of the 'Deadbeat Dad' starting with the well known example of the 'baby momma' on welfare scenerio, showing that since dads pay money to the state, and AFDC pays the mother there simply is no incentives for fathers to pay support thru the system, because every $1 paid contributes $0 additional benefit to the child, and only payments 'under the table' directly to the mother or child have any real benefit to the child.
The growing popularity of the concept of 'Child Support Civil Disobedience' reaches a similar conclusion. Many NCP's argue that all parents should and do have a responsibility to care for thier child, but that making these payments thru the state is the least responsible course of action, because doing so funds a corrupt and evil machine that feeds off of the destruction of families, and keeping parents away from thier children. This argument further holds that the only 'real' support a NCP gives a child is the time and money actually spent with, and on a child. In other words, the forced 'child support payment' to the state is viewed as having no benefit to the child, while 'direct' payments such as time and money spent durring 'visits', going on outings, buying the child clothing, schools supplies, etc.. is viewed as the only 'real' means to satisify a parent's moral obligation to support thier child.
The book by Comanor explains the 'Child Support Civil Disobedience' phenomenon thru an analysis of the difference between individual and collective consumption preferences. In a marriage, many 'collective' economic decisions are made by parents, which reflect not only the individual preference of each parent, but each parents concern for the 'collective' preferences of the household. Likewise, the amount each parent allocates to spend on the child is likewise dependant upon collective resources. The problem with child support payments is that it raises the income of the custdial parent, thus raising the consumption preference of that parent, so that only a portion of the NCP's child support payment is now allocated to the child. So, like in the welfare 'baby momma' scenerio, each $1 dollar of NCP support payment is no longer $1 going to the child, but rather a fraction gets apportioned to the child, with the remainder enhancing the consumption of the CP due to the increase income caused by the support payment. So the NCP views 'off the books' support payments as a dollar for dollar contribution to the child, while forced state run 'child support payments' are viewed as contributing little or nothing to the child.
In the case of a high conflict divorce, reasonable parents may conclude that none of thier 'child support payments' does anything at all to support thier child. The all Street Journal published a recent study showing the average legal fees for divorce to be about $78,000. In other words a $500/month child support payment by the NCP to the CP would take 13 years to payoff typical legal fees needed to 'win' the custody battle and resulting child support payment. Thus $1 of 'lawyer support' payment goes to creating the non-custodial parent = $0 benefit to the child. Considering these facts, the idea of 'Lawyer Support' civil disobedience has a much nicer ring to it.
The cost of typical custody dispute legal fees is also about the cost of sending a child to a decent college for 4 years, and for most parents it is not merely consumption 'preferences' but income restrictions that lead many parents to avoid making payments to the state or the CP. Legal fees change the consumption preferences and ability of parents and reduce expenditure on children accordingly.A rational analysis of the child support issue is more helpful in explaining the child... more
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And it seems the adoptive parents neglected to mention the fact to authorities or indeed to anyone. Hey, a child goes missing for ten years; it's the type of thing anyone could overlook, right?
But check this out:
The boy's biological father, Irvin Groeninger II, also expressed regret. The Indiana trucker was divorced when authorities took Adam and his siblings from their mother's home after alleged abuse. He says he was cleared of any wrongdoing and tried to get custody of his children, but child welfare officials terminated his parental rights.
"Basically, I have lost him twice," Groeninger said.
So it's another case of the state's dogged determination to separate children from their fathers. The parents got divorced and she got the kids. She abused the children badly enough that Adam was taken from her by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services. That agency then did what similar ones so often do - ignore the fact that there's a father who claims to be qualified to care for his son. They do that in order to place the boy in an adoptive home.
Now, set aside for a moment the fact that the department may have earned money for the state by placing Adam for adoption instead of handing him over to his father.
What also happened here is that, by forcing adoption on a child who didn't need it, the department denied adoptive parents to some child who did. Every single day in this country, there are far more children who need to be adopted than there are qualified adoptive parents (only about 50,000 "stranger" adoptions occur in this country each year).
So the current emphasis on adoption at any cost is worse than you think. It deprives fathers of their children, sure, but it also deprives needy children of adoptive parents.
In this case it looks worse still. When a child has been missing for ten years, what do you think happened?
Thanks to "Tex" for the heads-up.And it seems the adoptive parents neglected to mention the fact to authorities or... more
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On Jan. 1, Massachusetts adopted new child-support guidelines that will likely raise the amount paid by non-custodial parents, usually fathers.
Are the new guidelines excessive and unfair, as a lawsuit charges? Or were the old guidelines too stingy? How much child support is enough? How much is too much?
Fathers & Families, a Boston-based advocacy organization, says the payments under the new guidelines are excessive. Non-custodial parents, usually fathers, who must now make increased payments could be forced to work long hours or move to a distant community to find housing they can afford.
They will have less time to spend with their children, and may be left with a much lower standard of living than the custodial parents.
Fathers & Families immediately filed a lawsuit challenging the new guidelines.
In a press release announcing the guidelines, Massachusetts Chief Justice for Administration & Management Robert A. Mulligan said that the guidelines "address the dual goals of predictability and simplicity," and "will ensure the well-being of children across the state."
The issues raised in Massachusetts are echoed in other states, where child-support guidelines often seem, to fathers, to be unrealistically high. And to others, unrealistically low.
Dr. Ned Holstein, a physician and public-health consultant and the founder of Fathers & Families, says the guidelines will likely create a castle-and-a-shack situation-with the custodial parent living in relative comfort and the non-custodial parent struggling to afford minimally adequate housing.
"We believe that what's best for children is a two-condo solution, instead of a castle and a shack," Holstein said when I called to ask him about the lawsuit. In other words, the custodial and non-custodial parents ought to have similar standards of living. And both homes should be comfortable for the children.
Holstein's lawsuit-thrown out of federal court earlier this month, and now headed for state court-makes technical arguments about whether the adoption of the new guidelines was legal.On Jan. 1, Massachusetts adopted new child-support guidelines that will likely raise... more
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DCRally2009/Family Preservation Rally is a culmination of parents, grandparents, and extended family members coming together to celebrate the most precious gift of our lives and that is the gift of FAMILY .
DCRally2009/Family Preservation Rally is to focus on overcoming the societal pressures that interfere with family and its relationships. DCRally2009/Family Preservation Rally will celebrate Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Grandparenthood as we appeal nationwide for the recognition, respect and protection of this most sacred gift.
The children of our great nation are our future…We must strengthen the family and its relationships for the sake of our future.
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial July 18-19 2009.
We look forward to DCRally2009/Family Preservation Rally to celebrate the greatest gift of all….FAMILY!!!DCRally2009/Family Preservation Rally is a culmination of parents, grandparents, and... more
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CALGARY - Cops wrongly charged a Calgary dad with sexual abuse after his ex-wife coached their three-year-old daughter's complaint, a $900,000 lawsuit claims.
And the lawyer for the dad says his client has now effectively lost his daughter since the mom has taken her to their native China.
"He may have lost the child forever," lawyer Robb Beeman told the Sun yesterday.
Beeman said police should have done a more thorough investigation before charging his client with sexual assault two years ago.
"It's one of those situations where if the police had done even a cursory exam, the warning bells should have gone off big time," Beeman said.
His client's statement of claim says the man was charged after the three-year-old gave a statement that was coerced by her mom and a friend of the mother's.
The two women "repeated a series of propositions to (the girl) suggesting (her father) had engaged in sexual conduct," the court document alleges.
"(They) threatened punishment and promised reward in an obvious effort to compel (her) to repeat and adopt these propositions." The statement was made in Mandarin in the presence of a Chinese-speaking police officer.
"It's very obviously coached," Beeman said of the girl's statement. He said police should "know better than to let the friend of the mom do the questioning."
At one point during the interview, the friend, who was like an aunt to the child, told her if she didn't talk to police they wouldn't play with her any more, Beeman said. The lawsuit seeks damages for pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life and loss of reputation among others.
A statement of defence disputing the unproven allegations in the claim has not yet been filedCALGARY - Cops wrongly charged a Calgary dad with sexual abuse after his ex-wife... more
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(WHAS11) - A father says he's been stripped of his parental rights and now he's taking bold steps to get the word out about his case.
James Rhoades says he fathered a child with a woman he had an affair with. But since she's married to someone else, the courts won't recognize Rhoades as the dad. So now he's putting up billboards asking for help.
In the heart of St Matthews shopping district you'll see a billboard with a toddler looking down at you.
James Rhoades says the toddler is his son and he's doing everything he can to see him again.(WHAS11) - A father says he's been stripped of his parental rights and now... more
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The new Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines went into effect January 1. They are causing substantial increases in child support in almost all cases. Many payors will see increases of “only” 20%, but some will see a tripling of their child support order, even when they are poor and the recipient is wealthy. In high income cases, the child support order for one child could exceed $50,000 per year.
We are bringing a lawsuit in state court to stop the new Guidelines. We need your financial gifts to sustain our legal expenses. When we went to federal court on January 5, there was an outpouring of gifts, and we need you to rise to the occasion again by clicking here.
How much money is legitimately needed to support a child? Far less than the Guidelines require, in many cases. If a recipient and payor earn the same amount, when all factors are taken into consideration, the recipient will enjoy a standard of living almost double that of the payor. This holds true throughout the broad range of middle class incomes.
For details, see The linkThe new Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines went into effect January 1. They are... more
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A MAN staged a rooftop protest on top of Ashton police station to campaign for the right of dads to see their children.
Glen Macfarlane, 33, clambered on to the roof at 6am on Friday armed with a flask of tea and a placard which read ‘Please Help’.
It sparked a four-hour stand-off as officers tried to talk him down, but the dad refused to budge and demanded to see social services chiefs.
Mr Macfarlane, a self-employed joiner, wanted to highlight calls for improved access rights for fathers.
He claims to have suffered months of frustration over visits to his young son and said he was left with no option but to take such drastic action.
Mr Macfarlane, of Corporation Road, Denton said: "I took my ladder and scrambled up at 6am. No one noticed. Eventually I shouted ‘Good morning’ to a policeman. He glanced up and froze. He ran inside to raise the alarm."
Emergency services were called along with a family liason officer and later a member of social services who agreed to talk to him. Mr Macfarlane, who is estranged from the tot’s mum, has since been in contact with Matt O’Connor, the founder of pressure group Fathers 4 Justice, for advice.
He said: "I can’t begin to explain how horrible it was to be in that situation but when you have been driven to such lengths, it seems like the only option left."
He came down just after 10am and was arrested for causing a nuisance to the public and emergency services.
But the charges were later dropped and he was given a police caution instead. He added: "I’m not proud of what I did. I’ve never been in trouble before, but I have no regrets."A MAN staged a rooftop protest on top of Ashton police station to campaign for the... more
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Investigators: Trial could lead to loss of grandchild forever
SEATTLE -- The fate of a 3-year-old girl taken from her family and placed in foster care a year ago is about to be decided by the court system.
Last month, the KING 5 Investigators brought you the heartbreaking story of an Enumclaw toddler who was taken away from the only stable home she'd ever known and put in foster care.
AnneMarie Stuth of Enumclaw doesn't come into her granddaughter's empty room very often. Seeing her things is too painful.
“It’s a part of your heart and life gone,” said Stuth.
AnneMarie and her husband Doug helped raise their grandchild for the first two years of her life. Their daughter had the baby at 16 and needed their help.
“She was the center of our world," said AnneMarie.
The teen mom and her baby moved away from the Stuths when the child was 9 months old. Moving out didn't go well: A doctor found the teenager let the baby get dangerously thin.
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A judge is expected to rule on the fate of Doug and AnneMarie Stuth's grandchild, pictured here. She is now 3 years old.
Child Protective Services was called in and placed the child with the grandparents. They were seen as model caregivers: They didn’t have criminal histories, they both had good jobs and they rearranged their entire schedules so the baby didn’t have to be in daycare full-time.
A court appointed child advocate wrote several glowing reports about the job the grandparents were doing. He wrote, “(the baby) continues to thrive in the home", and "she's fortunate to have her grandparents as a safety net."
"We'd do anything for her," said Doug. “Our granddaughter always came first. She’s a little baby. She needs someone to protect her and take care of her and that’s what we did.”
But when the baby was two, the Stuths fell out of favor with the system.
The child's court advocate and state workers told the court the grandparents were selfish, hyper-critical, and undermined their own daughter's parenting.
The judge ordered they were no longer a placement option for the child.
The baby went into foster care.
The Stuths were devastated. They got reports that the little girl was distraught at daycare.
"She cries for me," said Doug. “You have no idea (how hard it is)."
The Stuths attended a trial Tuesday in juvenile court in Seattle. The state is trying to terminate the young mother’s parental rights. Through a witness, the assistant attorney general said the teenager wasn’t mature enough or motivated enough to care for her daughter.Comments 144| Recommend 64
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On Super Bowl Sunday in 1999, the year Adam Herrman went missing but no one reported it, one of his aunts says she saw the 11-year-old chained to a bathtub faucet at his Towanda mobile home.
It looked like he had handcuffs on, said his aunt, Kim Winslow. Winslow, now 48, said it was the last time she saw Adam.
Other close relatives of Adam's adoptive mother, Valerie Herrman of Derby, say they saw her abuse him over the years and that he was forced to sleep in a bathtub. In at least one instance, a relative reported alleged abuse to authorities.
Butler County sheriff's officers plan to bring in search dogs and ground-penetrating radar to help solve the mystery of what happened to Adam Herrman.
The Wichita-Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit received a tip about a month ago that the child had not been seen for nine years.
Detectives are investigating the case as if Adam were dead, even though they can't rule out that he is still alive, Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference Monday.
Warner Eisenbise, the Wichita attorney representing Herrman and her husband, Doug Herrman, Adam's adoptive father, said, "I firmly believe that they are innocent and had nothing to do with his death, if in fact he died."
But Eisenbise conceded that it is possible that the parents could be charged with failing to report a missing child.
Murphy released a fourth-grade picture of Adam, who authorities think disappeared from Towanda in the summer of 1999 when he was 11 or 12. Murphy asked the public to call with any information.
Relatives say Valerie Herrman, who is in her early 50s, had told them over the years that Adam was taken back into state custody. Recently, the adoptive parents have said through their attorney that Adam ran away and they did not report it.
Law enforcement agencies are bringing in search dogs from other states, Butler County sheriff's Detective Sgt. Kelly Herzet said.
"We're asking for all the resources we can ask for on this case," Herzet said.
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