http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/abuse/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:22:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286400/posts America may be in the midst of a deep recession, and the nation may be facing unprecedented deficit spending and debt, but the White House will not reveal the cost to taxpayers of the European vacation that first lady Michelle Obama and the president’s two daughters, Malia and Sasha, took last month. Travel by an American first lady typically includes the military passenger jet that carries her and the children, Secret Service personnel to provide security, and a separate cargo plane to haul official vehicles. First Lady Michelle Obama’s tour of Paris with her children included a convoy of 20... cnsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286400/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:22:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286369/posts Erin Pizzey is a genial woman with snow-white hair, cherubic cheeks, and an easy smile. It wasn't always that way. The daughter of an English diplomat, she founded the world's first shelter for battered women in 1971. To her surprise, she discovered that most of the women in her shelter were as violent as the men they had left. When Pizzey wrote a book revealing this sordid truth, she encountered a firestorm of protest. "Abusive telephone calls to my home, death threats, and bomb scares, became a way of living for me and for my family. Finally, the bomb squad... enterstageright http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286369/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:04:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278907/posts Seventy-six percent (76%) of Americans say it is at least somewhat likely that a large amount of money in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan will be wasted due to inadequate government oversight. Nearly half (46%) say it is very likely, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Only 18% say it is not likely that taxpayer money will be wasted. Rasmussen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278907/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:43:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277092/posts Over the past year I have been going over articles about Asperger's syndrome. Asperger's syndrome is considered to be a highly functioning form of autism yet it is also considered to be a disability. Members of the autism community have worked for years trying to downplay the severity of the disorder. I first heard about Asperger's in 1998 while watching a documentary. Asperger's disorder was first invented by a German doctor named Hans Asperger. (the disorder was named after him.) Asperger did study on children who though they were bright were considered awkward. The world health organization began to use... MAINESTATEGOP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277092/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:30:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273391/posts At least $55 billion of U.S. stimulus funds that President Barack Obama promised would jumpstart the economy and put Americans back to work will likely be lost to waste, fraud and abuse, according to an investigation that reviewed thousands of programs nationwide. Already, at least $5.5 billion of the administration’s massive $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have gone to wasteful projects across the country, including a $3 million turtle crossing in northern Florida, the $10 million renovation of an abandoned train station that has been shut for three decades and 10,000 dead people getting Social Security stimulus checks.... Judicial Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273391/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:01:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273260/posts An Oklahoma state trooper who pulled over an ambulance with a patient inside and then scuffled with a paramedic had every right to make the stop since the vehicle did not have its emergency lights and sirens on, an attorney said Monday. Chicago Sun Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273260/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:32:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272730/posts One adult and three teenagers at a Boy Scout camp are accused of forcing a boy to drink human urine because they were "teaching him a lesson" for supposedly making racial slurs to another Scout, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office reported Monday.Investigators arrested Joseph Wendell Reid, 21, two 16-year-olds, and a 15-year-old, all from Ocala, last week on a charge of kidnapping.Officers allege the four held a 12-year-old boy against his will, first taping his mouth shut and then forcing him to drink urine, according to the Sheriff's Office.The four were attending Camp Shands at Baden Powell Road near Hawthorne,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272730/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:36:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269774/posts LACEY, Wash. -- A girl adopted from China has allegedly been sexually assaulted for years by both her adoptive mother and father, said Lt. Jim Mack of the Lacey Police Department. A 51-year-old man and his 47-year-old wife face multiple charges of rape as they are accused of sexually assaulting their adoptive daughter for at least the past four years, Mack said. Police said the alleged crimes may never have stopped if they didn’t have a chance encounter with the victim on Tuesday. Police were called to the girl’s Lacey school after a little boy exposed himself. While asking the... http://www.kirotv.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269774/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:09:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259907/posts (Some will wonder why I posted this here..it's a sign of slipping conservative values.) I read an astounding thing. For every case of parents abusing children, there are nearly 20 cases of children abusing parents. Parental abuse by children can run the gambit of physical abuse, mental abuse, financial abuse and emotional abuse. Associated Content http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259907/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 16:06:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257734/posts Video "Out of Order", a 2000 Chronicle (WCVB-TV) program, presents the injustice faced by men and fathers and the destruction caused to normal personal relationships today due to domestic abuse laws nationwide such as the MGL 209a restraining orders. Interviews of The Fatherhood Coalition leader Mark Charalambous, Harry Stewart, Dennis Watts and others. The Fatherhood Coalition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257734/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 12:34:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256988/posts James Quinn and his classmates called it the blackjack - five layers and 18 inches (46 cm) of leather, studded with coins and other metal objects. The priests at the school Quinn attended in rural Ireland in the 1950s each carried a blackjack and used it, along with bamboo rods and other objects, to dole out almost daily beatings to hundreds of children. "Whatever class you went to, you got a beating from whoever was in charge," says Quinn, now 70. "But knowing what other people went through, I know I was one of the lucky ones." Quinn was one... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256988/posts#comment Sat, 23 May 2009 18:51:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255745/posts To discuss the scandal of child abuse in the Catholic Church without factoring in the role of the Vatican is to miss the main point. Irish Catholics had been told in advance, by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in his Holy Thursday homily, that the contents of the report of the commission of inquiry published yesterday would “shock us all”. But we may doubt whether all were sufficiently prepared for what’s emerged. We are set for days of discussion of the different levels of culpability of priests, bishops, diocesan authorities, the institutional Church, society at large. Pope Benedict will likely issue... Belfast Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255745/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 20:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254678/posts DUBLIN — A fiercely debated, nine-year investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation. High Court Justice Sean Ryan on Wednesday unveiled the 2,600-page final report of Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse, which is based on testimony from thousands of former students and officials from more than 250 church-run institutions. aAP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254678/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 14:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253877/posts A Bakersfield father is accused of biting out one of the eyes of his small child and similarly mutilating the other eye, leaving the child blind. After attacking the child, 34-year-old Angel Vidal Mendoza Sr. quickly left his apartment in a wheelchair, entered a backyard of a nearby vacant home and attacked his own legs with an ax, severely injuring himself, Bakersfield police reported. The child, 4-year-old Angelo Mendoza Jr., later told police, "My daddy ate my eyes." Doctors at Mercy Hospital said it is unknown whether the child will regain vision in his right eye. Child Protective Services cannot... Bakersfield.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253877/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 14:08:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250573/posts A counter-terrorism expert researching extremism at U.S. mosques claims authorities in Nashville, Tenn., ignored his report of child abuse by teachers at a local mosque due to fear of retribution from Muslim organizations such at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Dave Gaubatz, a former Air Force special agent, told WND he informed the local prosecutor, the FBI and Sgt. Brooks Harris of the Metropolitan Police Department in Nashville of a 7-year-old girl who says teachers at the Al-Farooq mosque "hit the children" during Shariah, or Islamic law, lessons. Harris insists he was not initially given enough information to pursue the... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250573/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 04:48:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250104/posts Fox News is reporting that Obama now wants to block the release of detainee abuse photographs taken in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ACLU filed suit to have the photographs released and the Pentagon was about to comply with court orders. Obama met with his legal team to tell them that he does not feel comfortable with the release of those photographs because he believes it could endanger our troops and that the national security implications of releasing the photographs have not been fully presented to the court. At the end of the meeting, Obama directed his legal counsel to object... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250104/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 17:04:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250270/posts WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says the detainee abuse photos he wants to block from release are "not particularly sensational" and would do no good if published. He said he will not tolerate abuse of prisoners. But he also said Wednesday he had directed his legal team to fight the court-ordered release of the photos because he was concerned about how they might affect the safety of U.S. troops. Obama spoke on the South Lawn of the White House, not long after his decision to fight in court to block the photos' release was made public by aides. AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250270/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 21:03:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250224/posts WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will try to block the court-ordered release of hundreds of photos showing U.S. troops allegedly abusing prisoners, reversing his position after military commanders warned the graphic images could stoke anti-American sentiment and endanger soldiers. ... The White House announced Obama's decision Wednesday, after top military commanders in the two wars expressed fears that showing the pictures could put their troops at higher risk. ... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250224/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 19:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250105/posts US President Barack Obama has changed his mind and will now attempt to block the publication of photographs showing the abuse of prisoners by US soldiers. The US government had previously said it would not fight a court ruling ordering the release of the pictures. Mr Obama now believes the release of the photos would make the job of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan more difficult, White House officials said. The pictures were due to be released by 28 May, according to the court ruling. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250105/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 17:05:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237261/posts An Iraqi girl watches a U.S. soldier on a patrol in Baghdad's Sadr City. U.S. troops have been patrolling the Shiite stronghold since March 4, 2007 under a deal that allows them to enter the area without resistance. Adil al-Khazali, AP First, the CIA....now our military targeted in Administration and ACLU cross-hairs... Hat tip, Brutally Honest, from ABC News Political Punch: In a letter from the Justice Department to a federal judge yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237261/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:51:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236924/posts In a letter from the Justice Department to a federal judge yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Bush administration. ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236924/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:33:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236567/posts The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that a 'substantial number of photos' depicting abuse of prisoners at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan will be released. The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that a "substantial number of photos" depicting abuse of prisoners at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan will be released. The photos are being released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2004. foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236567/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:32:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236103/posts <p>Fraud: The government's $750 billion bank bailout was passed six months ago amid great hype. So far, a new government report claims, the program is rife with inefficiency and fraud. Surprised? You shouldn't be.</p> <p>In what Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky calls only a "first wave" of investigations, some 20 criminal probes have been opened for possible securities fraud, tax-law violations and insider trading, among other serious financial crimes.</p> Real Clear Markets http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236103/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:15:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234542/posts The group of anxious parents crowded around District Attorney George Skumanick Jr. as he sat behind a table in a courtroom here and presented them with an ultimatum. Photos of their semi-nude or scantily clad teenage daughters were stacked before him. Mr. Skumanick said the images had been discovered on cellphones confiscated at the local high school. They could either enlist their kids in an education program or have the teens face felony charges of child pornography. "We could have just arrested them but we didn't," said Mr. Skumanick in an interview.... But some legal experts say that here in... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234542/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:24:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234319/posts SANDPOINT — A Priest River man has been convicted of neglecting a pit bull terrier that was found earlier this year on a sidewalk, emaciated and unable to stand. Jesse Lee Voight was convicted of animal cruelty following a magistrate court trial on April 8. Voight’s roommate and the dog’s original owner, Jessie Bradley Gene Gray, was acquitted of the same charge that day. Gray testified he gave the dog to Voight after he adopted it. Judge Debra Heise ordered Voight to pay $300 restitution to the Priest River Animal Rescue and placed him on probation for two years, court... Bonner Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234319/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:14:14 GMT