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Canton, Ohio -- Father slammed newborn infant's head into floor; stands trial for turning baby's life into vegetative state

Unmarried and apparently unemployed loser Anthony Lawrence Sewejkis "faces up to 15 years in prison". The child faces a life blind, possibly deaf, unable to move, unable to feed himself, and unable to communicate.

"Detective Wright spoke with Sewejkis at the hospital, saying the father initially told him Hunter had fallen off the couch. He said Sewejkis talked of the stresses of being a parent. 'He became emotional' and talked of losing sleep and not getting enough parenting help from [the child's mother] 'because she was working so much,'... Finally, Sewejkis admitted he picked up the crying baby with both hands and struck the back of his head against the floor, Wright said, quoting Sewejkis as saying, 'I freaked. I f***ed up. I hurt the child.'" http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20120105/NEWS03/120105011

Children are more credible, so why are we more likely to believe practiced adult liars

"Children are conditioned to trust adults. And for some reason adults are conditioned to almost always believe other adults over children... The sad thing is that children are really more credible than adults because they are not trained liars... Do children lie? Yes. But they're not good at it... Why are we as a society inclined to believe the person that is a skilled liar over the person who is not?" http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120101/LOCAL/301019940

Albuquerque, New Mexico -- Father rapes 1-month-old baby and shedies

"Bernalillo County Sheriff's Deputies have charged Juan Galindo, 37, for the rape and death of his girlfriend's 1-month-old infant daughter." http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/man-charged-in-fatal-rape-of-baby

Everywhere -- it just doesn't end

Australia -- New child custody guidelines say shared custody and overnights are a mistake for infants and toddlers

"Separated parents should not share custody of babies or toddlers under two, according to guidelines released this week by a national infant welfare group. 'Prior to the age of two years, overnight time away from the primary care-giver should be avoided' ...The guidelines recommend that non-custodial parents, nine out of 10 of whom are fathers, should instead see children under two during the day, up to three times a week, gradually phasing in overnight visits after the second birthday. Families fighting custody battles in the Family Court should not share custody until the child is three, according to the guidelines..." http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/shared-custody-a-mistake-for-the-under2s...

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Katy, Texas -- Custodial father accused of emailing nude photos of 12-year-old daughter

Dastardly writes: "This UNNAMED DAD had CUSTODY. He lived with his daughter at his mother's house. WHY? What happened to the girl's mother? How and why did she lose custody? We know she's still alive because the grandmother took the photos to the girl's mother, and she turned them over to the police." http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2011/12/custodial-father-accused-of-emailin...

When will the insanity end.

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Wall Township, New Jersey -- Father gets court-ordered "timesharing", murders toddler by dumping her into a stream; head scratching by DYFS (CPS)

Murderer Arthur E. Morgan III, 27. "He had been arrested Nov. 8, 2010, in Eatontown on charges of criminal trespassing and contempt of court, but the allegations were administratively dismissed the following month... He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess cocaine and was sentenced to a year of probation in January 2008, according to the records..." http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/nj_man_accused_of_murdering_da.html

Question for the judge and the legislature: what benefit do you believe accrues to a two-year-old girl from spending time with an unmarried criminal man?

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Phoenix, Arizona -- Deadly child abuse cases reach record high

"It's a new record for Arizona and no one is happy about it. Seventy children died in 2010 from severe abuse... the third straight year of a rise of deaths related to child maltreatment... of the 70 children who died from maltreatment last year, Child Protective Services only knew about 18 of them and had launched investigations into five more. That means, 57 Arizona children were being abused and nobody knew it... 'We're missing something; we're not doing something right,' said Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery..." http://www.azfamily.com/news/Deadly-Child-Abuse-Reaches-New-Record-in-Arizona...

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Penn State -- Sandusky and everyone who did not report him: unspeakable

Tulsa, Oklahoma -- Father arrested this week for multiple counts of child abuse had charges in Kansas for aggravated incest of an 8-year-old daughter dropped two decades ago

"Court documents from Kansas show that the father arrested this week was charged with aggravated incest nearly two decades ago. In the 1993 court filing, Montgomery County prosecutors charged that the man 'willfully, wrongfully, unlawfully and feloniously engage(d) in an unlawful sex act' with his 8-year-old daughter. The girl's mother, who divorced the man and is not the woman arrested this week, is listed on the court filing as a witness..."

In the current case, "an application for exhumation of a body filed by [ther prosecutor's] office alleges that one of the nine siblings taken into emergency custody by the state because of "extreme physical and educational neglect" told investigators she and her younger sibling had been sexually abused by their father... One of the siblings told police that she had a baby at home in August 2010 that was delivered by her father..." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/06/search-for-infants-body-oklahoma_n_1...

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South Bend, Indiana -- Father beat his 10-year-old son to death; 14-year-old survived

"...35-year-old Terry Sturgis Sr... [murdered] his 10-year old son, Tramelle. He beat him to death. Investigators say Sturgis also beat his 14-year old son, who's now being treated for multiple injuries..." http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpps/news/national/midwest/ind-boy-beaten-to-death-d...

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Aransas County, Texas -- Father, a corrupt pro-abuser judge, outed by his adult daughter via youtube -- videotape of him beating her

The daughter writes: "2004: Aransas County Court-At-Law Judge William Adams took a belt to his own teenage daughter as punishment for using the internet to acquire music and games that were unavailable for legal purchase at the time. She has had ataxic cerebral palsy from birth that led her to a passion for technology, which was strictly forbidden by her father's backwards views. The judge's wife was emotionally abused herself and was severely manipulated into assisting the beating and should not be blamed for any content in this video. The judge's wife has since left the marriage due to the abuse, which continues to this day, and has sincerely apologized and repented for her part and for allowing such a thing, long before this video was even revealed to exist. Judge William Adams is not fit to be anywhere near the law system if he can't even exercise fit judgment as a parent himself. Do not allow this man to ever be re-elected again. His 'judgment' is a giant farce. Signed, Hillary Adams, his daughter." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl9y3SIPt7o

More: Judge William Adams has held that a child should be ignored when the child reports what a child psychologist has described as "horrific child abuse." http://i42.tinypic.com/35ku5x0.jpg and http://www.topix.com/forum/city/rockport-tx/TS7CCB70RHENQKER0

More: http://judge-william-adams.pissedconsumer.com/corrupt-judge-william-adams-ara...

More: http://www.aransascountytx.gov/courtatlaw/

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About those "nice guys"...

"Dangerous Instincts: Ex-FBI profiler explains dangers of that 'nice' neighbor... O'Toole worked as a profiler for the FBI for 30 years, headquartered in Quantico... the most dangerous criminals were often the ones who came across as the most harmless. That's how they were able to continue harming people. 'Over the years, I used to hear this all the time. Other investigators would explain to her why they had disregarded suspects: I just looked at him, man to man, and I could tell that he was a good guy'... It bothered her enough that she decided to write a book whose premise goes against everything humans want to believe about their hunches. Your gut instinct? It is wrong..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/dangerous-instincts-fbi-profile...

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Loudon County, Tennessee -- Unwed father giving visitation rights, raped 2-year-old son, and recorded it on video

"Edward William Crandall, 24, was sentenced to 44 years in prison on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011... guilty of aggravated child rape, sexual exploitation and aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. At the time of his arrest Crandall was not married but had visitation rights with his son, who lived with his mother..." http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/oct/31/loudon-county-father-gets-44-years-f... More at Dastardly http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2011/10/dad-raped-2-year-old-son-recorded-r...

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Houston, Texas -- Lohstroh son, now 17, once convicted of killing his abusive father Rick Lohstroh, nears the end of his childhood nightmare

"It was a crime scene that changed a 10-year-old boy's life..." http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/111024-nearing-finale-for-son-conv...

Father's rights groups readily blamed the mother and "parental alienation". In 2004, media widely reported the ignorant pollyanna spew from neighbors, co-workers, and casual acquaintances about whataniceguy Lohstroh was. The decision from the Court of Appeals, overturning that conviction, told a very different story. http://www.thelizlibrary.org/therapeutic-jurisprudence/lohstroh.pdf The media, still hyperventilating for the sensational, did not adequately bring out that this boy got and accepted his juvenile parole offer only because he should have been acquitted in the first place on the grounds of self-defense -- and the D.A. knew it. Copping to a plea saved his family the cost and misery of another trial. It's "sad" that he got a gun? What is "sad" is that this child's only choice was between another decade of being abused or ending it. There is no good damn reason that when he said he was scared, when he said he and his brother were being physically and sexually abused, when he said he did not want to go with his joint custody father, that he wasn't believed, and that the judicial and police power of the state would not allow him to have a peaceful childhood, that his fathers' ego wants and demands were considered more credible and more important. For what. They are not. See Myths and Facts about Fatherhood at thelizlibrary.org 

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Houston, Texas -- Custodial father beat 11-year-old daughter with belt, then handed her a gun and told her to commit suicide; she now is back with her mother; what idiots granted him custody

"Alejandro Galvan III handed his unnamed child, who was living with him in Wilmington, Houston, the lethal weapons during the incident on September 7 this year. The 29-year-old, who told police that he was 'frustrated', is also accused of beating his daughter all over her body - including her stomach, legs and buttocks with a belt..." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050891/Alejandro-Galvan-III-handed-d...

Illuminating commentary on how the bad outcomes of these child custody court decisions avoid clarity in the press, by Dastardly at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2011/10/custodial-dad-beat-11-year-old-daug...

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Huntington Beach, California -- Father flips out over child custody issues or dv restraining order or related; shoots and kills at least eight people in hair salon where his ex-wife worked

"...Scott DeKraai aka Scott Evans Dekraai... targeted ex-wife Michelle DeKraii aka Michelle Huff during his shooting rampage yesterday at the Salon Meritage of Seal Beach, police assert... In recent week, [licensed cosmologist] Michelle Dekraai had... couple's child... Michelle either attempted to, or had received, a restraining order against Scott DeKraai in recent days after he allegedly threatened to attack her... http://news.lalate.com/2011/10/13/scott-dekraai-targeted-michelle-dekraai-in-...

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Fort Pierce, Florida -- Father couldn't take crying from 1-month-old son, so he punched the baby in the head and dunked his head under water

"Mikey Martinez, 20, 345 E. Weatherbee Road, Lot 96, Fort Pierce, was arrested Sept. 28 by the Fort Pierce Police Department and charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse... two skull fractures and bleeding on the brain, besides suffering from pneumonia... When arrested, Mr. Martinez, 'immediately began to cry and stated, I didn't mean to, I have ADHD and it's my first baby'..." http://www.myhometownnews.net/index.php?id=85660

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Portland, Oregon -- Custodial father charged for beating 9-year-old daughter with belt; why did this repeat offender have custody of this child in the first place; why didn't the media question that

The child "told her grandfather on that... [Craig Hague] struck her with a belt four to five times, causing bruising so painful she had trouble sitting at her desk in school... mad at her for taking some jewelry to school that belonged to the father's girlfriend... Police say Hague later admitted that he struck his daughter and caused injuries..." http://www.kptv.com/story/15584077/police-say-man-assaulted-daughter-with-belt

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A worthy rant on the Charlotte, North Carolina case of the abused 15-year-old boy who killed his custodial father

"From what I can tell, it is an absolute travesty that the DA is prosecuting this case. This child was failed by those in authority at every turn. This abuser dad, CHRISTIAN HANS LIEWALD was CUSTODIAL. Meaning somebody in authority granted this violent freak custody and free access to torture this child. Others in authority failed to intervene after this child was abused again and again. And those names are being left out of the story, as the authorities scramble to pin all the blame on a poor 15-year-old who had a right to self-defense, just like anybody else. This boy was NOT ABLE to leave this home... What was this kid supposed to do... ALL THREE OF LIEWALD'S EX-WIVES have testified that he was physically abusive and violent. Including the boy's mother, who lost custody to this criminal. A mom who hadn't been allowed to see her son since he was six. WHY ARE WE NOT TOLD WHO SET UP THIS MURDER? WHY ARE WE NOT TOLD WHO FORCED THIS BOY INTO THE CLUTCHES OF THIS SICKO FATHER AND KEPT HIM THERE? WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE BEING PROTECTED?" http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2011/10/da-targets-battered-15-year-old-boy... Story at http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/09/30/2650991/da-teen-planned-to-kill.html

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