In Broward County, Fla., Spate of Judges in D.U.I. Arrests MIAMI — Lawyers gawked from office windows last month when a BMW S.U.V. swiped a parked police cruiser in the parking lot of a courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, then slammed into a gate over and over again. A judge was at the wheel. As lawyers used smartphones to snap pictures of the morning spectacle, Judge Lynn D. Rosenthal became … [Read more...]
Georgia court may have given sex predator custody of child victims
ATLANTA, June 26, 2014 — According to court records, throughout 2011-2012, “Jane’s” children (then ages 2 and 7) repeatedly insisted and showed credible evidence to child psychologist Nancy McGarrah, Ph.D and Ann Shannon, LCSW, that that their father made suicidal and homicidal plans with them, that he routinely watched child porn with them and sexually assaulted them during overnight … [Read more...]
The ‘Silent Scandal’ of Courts Putting Children With Their Abusers
Sitting on a flowery couch, a 10-year-old girl recalls the first time her father raped her. She was three years old and tried to roll away, but there was little she could do when he pulled her towards him and took off her nightgown. “I often wonder what would have happened if I had either cut, or at least moved that scene,” said the filmmaker who shot and edited Small Justice: Little Justice in … [Read more...]
Sweeping child-welfare changes signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott
Gov. Rick Scott signed into law Monday a sweeping overhaul of Florida’s long-troubled child welfare agency, discarding a decade-old policy that favored the rights of parents over those of neglected and abused children — even as hundreds of infants and toddlers died gruesome and preventable deaths. The measure, approved unanimously by the Florida Legislature in May, contains major changes to … [Read more...]
Two-Parent Households Can Be Lethal
Domestic Violence and Two-Parent Households AFTER spending two years studying services for domestic violence survivors, I was surprised to realize that one of the most common barriers to women’s safety was something I had never considered before: the high value our culture places on two-parent families. I began my research in 2011, the year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … [Read more...]
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