http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/abuse/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:31:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418583/posts They advanced to the Church of Scientology's highest spiritual level, to "Operating Thetan VIII," a vaunted realm said to endow extraordinary powers of perception and force of will.(edit)Isene left first, a decision that emboldened Leavitt, who inspired Katz. Such departures are rare among the church's elite group of OT VIIIs, who are held up as role models in Scientology. The three each told the St. Petersburg Times that they had spent decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach the church's spiritual pinnacle. (edit)The three OT VIIIs said they want reform of leadership. They pointed to the revelations... The Saint Petersburg Times (Florida) / Tampa Bay.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418583/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:31:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417439/posts AMSTERDAM, Ohio -- Deputies found garbage wall to wall inside the Amsterdam home and now one parent is facing charges. The 10-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy are in the care of a foster parent tonight and the father is facing a charge of child endangerment. Sheriff Fred Abdalla said me he did not arrest the mother because she is pregnant with the couples third child. WTRF-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417439/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:08:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414415/posts GEORGETOWN, Del. – A pediatrition charged with sexually abusing his patients likely attacked more than 100 children at an office he had decked out with a merry-go-round and a ferris wheel, a state official said Wednesday. The volume of evidence seized from Dr. Earl Bradley's practice and home, including video tapes and computer files, makes it difficult to estimate the number of victims, said Alexis Slutsky, a deputy attorney general assigned to the state's Child Predator Task Force. "I'm comfortable in saying probably well over 100 potential victims," she said at a news conference with Attorney General Beau Biden and... AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414415/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:48:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412946/posts THEY SAT there together, the 12-year-old girl and the 38-year-old man, alone in a van in sprawling Fairmount Park. He made the first move, exposing himself to her, asking her to touch him and then to perform oral sex on him, she later told police. When she recoiled, clearly overwhelmed, he took her home. Philadelphia Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412946/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:53:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2411616/posts Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has apparently issued an ultimatum to four bishops embroiled in the Irish Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal — to either quit or be fired by the Vatican. IrishCentral.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2411616/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:11:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406614/posts The victim says she was molested by a Catholic priest in South Berwick when she was a girl. A woman who says she was abused by a Catholic priest in South Berwick when she was 11 has reached a $200,000 settlement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, the woman's attorney told the Portland Press Herald. The woman says she was abused by the Rev. James Vallely in 1976, when she was an altar server at St. Michael's parish. Vallely died in 1997, and the diocese has previously listed him as one of nine deceased priests who had credible abuse... MPBN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406614/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:38:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404843/posts DUNNELLON, Fla. -- A 53-year-old Dunnellon woman has been arrested after alledgedly hitting a man in the head with a raw steak. According to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the man told deputies that Elsie Egan repeatedly hit him with the uncooked meat and slapped his face after he refused a piece of sliced bread. The man said he wanted a bread roll. Egan denied hitting the man with the steak but did admit to slapping him, saying she did it "so that he could learn." The man told deputies that Egan was his live-in girlfriend. He declined medical... www.miamiherald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404843/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:43:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402919/posts As the news of golf superstar Tiger Woods' alleged multiple affairs spills all over the media, a fascinating - and disturbing - subplot to the story has become a revealing litmus test of societal attitudes toward gender and domestic violence. RealClearPolitics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402919/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396639/posts One of Ireland's best-loved priests, Father Brian D'Arcy, has called for the resignation of clergy who knowingly covered up for child sex-abuse priests. "This is not just in the Diocese, this goes right to the top in Rome," he said. IrishCentral.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396639/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:13:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392303/posts Reports that some federal stimulus payments apparently may have been stolen or squandered failed to dent President Barack Obama’s confidence that his program is working. Questions arose when a number of supposed recipients of the federal money turned out to be fictitious. The President urged people to “stop nitpicking every detail of my program. I am trying to deal with the worst national crisis since 1933. A few crumbs falling through the cracks is no big deal.” Some of the “crumbs,” for example, seem to have fallen into a nonexistent “crack” the Administration’s web site (Recovery.gov) labeled “Arizona Congressional District... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392303/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:16:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390066/posts An enraged Highland Park, Michigan father is accused of killing his son - as he begged for his life - after learning the teen may have sexually abused a toddler. Jamar Pinkney Sr., 37, irate over hearing his 15-year-old son Jamar Pinkney Jr. had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said. Michigan authorities filed a first-degree murder charge Wednesday against Pinkney Sr. in his son's shooting death Monday. Defense attorney Corbett O'Meara said... nydailynews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390066/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:52:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388698/posts By now you have most likely heard the news of President Barack Obama breaking protocol and bowing before the Japanese Emperor Akihito. This is something that U.S. Presidents do not do. It is something that Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Kings of other countries do not do. So why he did it remains a mystery. White house aides say Obama was simply following protocol; however, this is not protocol. It was not a simple bow to show respect, which would require a very slight tilt of the upper body. Instead, Barack Obama who stands 6' 2" practically bowed parallel to the... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388698/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:44:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387472/posts CHICAGO — A disturbing video released exclusively to Fox News by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals (MFA) shows a string of alleged abuses at one of the nation's largest pig farms, including footage of employees picking up baby pigs and tossing them like footballs. ("In other news, 1.2 million abortions occured in 2008. And now a word from our sponser, Mr. Clean.") Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387472/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379205/posts Media Release Thursday, October 29, 2009 The Blair Witch-hunt Project -- Abuse of Authority? Toronto Police Chief Blair's much touted "Project Safe City" is nothing more than a witch-hunt targeting firearms owners, seizing their private property without compensation and describing them as "criminals." Their crime? Allowing their Firearms Licenses to expire. In his latest "media event," he paraded out a valuable collection of firearms seized from a collector with an expired Firearms License. Using this event as his podium, he proceeded to make very inaccurate comments about the proposed federal Bill C-391 that is scheduled for second reading next week.... CSSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379205/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:18:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377484/posts Liberals + technology + going outdoors + entitlement mentality = taxpayer burden Transsylvania Phoenix http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377484/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:42:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366571/posts Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house — well, really the tent. The latest installment of the White House music series was too big for the East Room, so a high-wattage assortment of Latin musicians sent pulsating, can't-help-but-bob-along rhythms tumbling out of a giant tent on the mansion's South Lawn. As it happens, music of all sorts — rock, jazz, country, classical — has been busting out of the White House all year long. Presidents have long... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366571/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:36:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366029/posts A woman who claims to have been beaten up because she is overweight is campaigning to see discrimination against fat people outlawed. Marsha Coupe, 53 was attacked on a train by a woman who began verbally abusing her for her size. I was returning home one night on a train and a woman sat across from me started kicking me and said, Hey fattie! You should not be on the train, you need two seats, she said... Mail Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366029/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:06:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364762/posts A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly whipping women for wearing bras that they claim violate Islam as they are 'deceptive'. The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday. The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra. If they are found wearing , they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said. Al Shabaab, which seeks to impose a strict interpretation... Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364762/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:25:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363562/posts OKLAHOMA CITY — The mother of an Oklahoma boy who says he was locked in apartment closets over four years was charged Thursday with 29 counts of child abuse for allegedly torturing and imprisoning him. snip........ McCall was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in New York in 1996 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter and served six months jail time. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363562/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362986/posts Justice Department leaders are pressing ahead with reforms to prevent lapses by prosecutors in sharing evidence in criminal cases, a series of changes spurred by failures that led the federal government to take a highly unusual step earlier this year and abandon the conviction of former senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). The reforms come as new allegations emerge that cast doubt on the credibility of the key witness in the Alaska political corruption scandals, including the botched prosecution of Stevens. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer outlined...the fresh safeguards, such as new training programs for federal prosecutors on their evidence-sharing obligations... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362986/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:15:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2362308/posts A Palm Bay woman and her boyfriend were arrested Monday for child abuse after the couple went old school to punish their 8-year-old daughter for swearing. They washed her mouth out with soap. We don't know about you, but we would petition President Obama and Congress to make it mandatory for every parent to carry a bar of Irish Spring in their back pockets with all the profanity kids use today. NBC Miami http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2362308/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:07:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359660/posts Miguel Padilla ran away from a licensed group home in April 2008, but he didn't go far. Unknown to anyone at the time, the 17-year-old amputee made his way to a stand of trees near the main driveway. Using his one arm, he climbed into the branches, tied a makeshift noose to a limb and hanged himself. Nine days passed before a staffer found his body at the sprawling LeRoy Haynes Center in LaVerne, coroner's records show -- and then only by chance. "To our knowledge there was no search by LeRoy's or any other authority," said Dave Rentz, the... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359660/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:15:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359542/posts Number of reported child abuse cases increasesThe number of reported child abuse cases within the local school district increased by more than fifty percent. District officials say “heightened awareness” could be attributed to the increase. By Jonathan Friedman / Special to The Malibu Times Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:15 PM PDT The number of reported cases of child abuse in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District jumped from 77 in the 2007-08 school year to 123 in 2008-09, according to the Annual Child Abuse Report that the Board of Education reviewed at its meeting last week. One of the cases... Malibu Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359542/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:58:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356543/posts ONE top argument for national health insurance turns out to be based on a false assumption. We've long been told that it's the uninsured who are clogging hospital ERs. Turns out that it's actually Medicaid and other insured patients behind most misuse of emergency-room care. Which means that health-care "reform" would make the problem worse. ERs are indeed dangerously overcrowded; having worked in a busy city ER for more than a decade, I can tell you that the "extra" patients interfere seriously with basic care. But the solution doesn't involve giving more people insurance coverage -- it requires turning more... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356543/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:09:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356341/posts FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Oct. 6, 2009 – The woman she sees in her bleaker yesterdays is unrecognizable to her now -- almost a stranger. Domestic violence survivor, military spouse and playwright Carolyn Louise Herring Moore, right, goes over a scene with actress Jasmine Wilson at a play rehearsal in Fayetteville, N.C., Sept. 29, 2009. Moore wrote a play, "Women Shoptalk While Real Men Wait," about her experiences with domestic violence. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Victor J. Ayala  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Her fear is gone, and there is strength in its place. She is outgoing again and pursuing... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356341/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 00:17:34 GMT