A task force examining Minnesota’s child protection system spent its first meeting Monday discussing what critics say is its chief failing: a general reluctance to investigate reports of child abuse and neglect. The task force was created by Gov. Mark Dayton last month, in the wake of a Star Tribune report about a 4-year-old Pope County boy who was killed by his stepmother despite repeated … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2014
TX: He Beat Her And Murdered Her Son — And She Got 45 Years In Jail
BATTERED, BEREAVED, AND BEHIND BARS Arlena Lindley’s boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years? A BuzzFeed News Investigation. The first thing Latricia Chance saw when she walked up to the apartment that October morning was a toddler, alone and shoeless, eating cereal on the doorstep. It was her friend Arlena Lindley’s … [Read more...]
Domestic abuse ‘ordinary’ in U.S.
(CNN) -- The video of Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancee Janay Palmer unconscious and then dragging her body out of an elevator brought the topic of domestic violence to the nation's attention. Unfortunately, the series of events in this case -- the initial abuse, then the victim-blaming, and the NFL's response -- is not unique to the hyper-masculine culture of the NFL, but is a microcosm of what … [Read more...]
NH: Judge trying to REDUCE sentence for molester who assaulted girl, 7
A New Hampshire judge has caused fury in a small New Hampshire town after announcing that he plans to reduce the sentence of child molester who was convicted of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl to just five years. Carroll County Judge David Garfunkel initially ordered Joshua Baud, 31, sentenced to 10 to 20 years - with a minimum of seven and a half years behind bars. He announced on … [Read more...]
The Judicial Council’s 10/03/14 Written Response
Below is the Judicial Council's 10/03/14 response to CJE's 9/19/14 Demand Letter. Original 10/03/14 Response from the Judicial Council (PDF) … [Read more...]