Courts in the U.S. have sentenced thousands of children to live with a parent who abused them. The family court judges who reach this decision — and restrict or end the relationship of the parent who reported concerns of abuse — usually do so based on the opinion of a court-appointed expert. A quick look at how the family courts' multimillion-dollar expert industry operates reveals a system that … [Read more...]
Congress poised to approve $41 million to help clear backlog of untested rape kits
Congress is poised to approve $41 million sought by the Obama administration to examine untested DNA evidence collected from rape victims and held by state and local police across the country. No firm count exists, but recent discoveries in New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas and Detroit suggest that the nationwide total of untested kits never sent to laboratories and kept in police storage … [Read more...]
Protecting Abused Children from the Court System
U.S. judges routinely force abused children to live with their abusers. But after nearly a decade of trying, I have given up on the mainstream media doing any significant investigations into this ongoing human rights atrocity. My name is M.C. Moewe. I have worked at several newspapers but my last full-time job was in 2008 as the investigative reporter for the Daytona Beach News-Journal. My first … [Read more...]
Abuse Cases, and a Legacy of Skepticism
‘The Witch-Hunt Narrative’: Are We Dismissing Real Victims? Thirty years ago, Judy Johnson of Manhattan Beach, Calif., took her 2 1/2-year-old son, Matthew, to the pediatrician, fearing he had been sexually abused by his preschool teacher. By today’s standards, the medical evidence in Matthew’s case was inconclusive: He had a rash on his bottom and rectal bleeding. But at the time, his … [Read more...]
UT: FBI had two investigations into Josh Powell
SALT LAKE CITY — Josh Powell was investigated for the disappearance of his wife, Susan from their Utah home in 2009. What most people didn’t know, is that the FBI was also investigating Powell on suspicion of child porn after cartoon images of incest between mothers and children were discovered on his computer. That investigation was revealed Sunday by the Salt Lake Tribune after it studied … [Read more...]
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