Living in Lakeville, Minnesota, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki and David Rucki appeared to be doting and loving parents to their five children, Nico, Samantha, Gianna, Nia and Gino. But despite the happy moments their home videos captured, Sandra said she suffered years of emotional and physical abuse at David’s hand. She also claims he abused the children. “We’d lock ourselves in the bedroom because … [Read more...]

For the second year in a row, he put it all out there: the shame, the fear, the self-loathing, the pain, the dark details of his horrific, repeated rape. An Army veteran and attorney, Maryland Del. C.T. Wilson (D-Charles) stood before his colleagues in Annapolis, confessed that he “really, really” didn’t want to be there and told them why he doesn’t sleep much at night. Why he hoped his … [Read more...]

AB 2098 Testimony Assembly Judiciary Committee March 29, 2016 Rebecca Vail Hello, My name is Rebecca Vail and I would like to start by thanking you for allowing me to speak in regard to such an important subject. I am a survivor of the trauma forced upon me by the corrupt Sacramento County family court system. From the time I was 12 to 16 years old, I endured a string of 12 abusive … [Read more...]

Ashley Young knew her son was in danger of being hurt. She was wrong, it seems, about who would do the hurting. Young thought little Kenai Whyte’s father, Dave Whyte, was a danger to him — and she had good reason to think so. But prosecutors say it was Whyte’s wife, Marie Buie, who beat the child horribly on Jan. 31. The 3-year-old died two days later. [Read Full Article] … [Read more...]

California’s judicial disciplinary agency is too lenient and too secretive, an advocacy group charged Monday in a report submitted to the Legislature. The Commission on Judicial Performance, established in 1960 as the first agency in any state with the power to investigate judges for ethical violations, dismisses nearly 90 percent of the public complaints it receives and imposes discipline … [Read more...]