justice's posterous

"Ranging in age from 9 to 16, six sisters had been sexually abused by their parents virtually every day since they were toddlers... it grew more horrific as the people they counted on to rescue them -- police, child-welfare workers, their church pastor -- failed... A year after their parents were imprisoned for sex crimes spanning 20 years, the Dutro sisters -- Glenda Stripes, Amber and Sarah Dutro, Martha McKnelly, Frances Smith and Christina Moore -- are now suing the people and agencies they say failed to protect them as children by not following laws and procedures for handling child abuse..." http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20636740/antioch-sisters-suing-mi...

"The woman's Seattle attorney, David P. Moody, said his client endured 'near daily physical and sexual abuse after a botched child-abuse investigation by DSHS'..." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018144314_dshs05m.html

"Adam Croote, 23, whose own childhood was so wrenching that he was invited to the White House... pleaded guilty in March to attacking a child he was babysitting... When he was 2, his father killed his pregnant mother and left him alone with her body in Hinesville, Ga..." http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-28/poster-child-missing-kid...

Many people are commenting on this story, mostly going to astonishment that any parents would leave a registered sex offender babysit their children. Perhaps we should go further back. Perhaps Adam Croote shouldn't have been a "poster boy for missing children". What idiot decided that he should be raised by the same people who raised his murderer father? Perhaps if they had not made the maternal grandparents who "kidnapped" him into the bad guys, Croote wouldn't have turned into a multiple sex felon himself.

"...The California woman police say was shot dead by her estranged husband last week was reportedly denied an emergency restraining order just six days before her murder.... [Kim] Conover left behind 21-month-old twins... as well as two daughters, ages 12 and 15, from a previous marriage..." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mom-killed-husband-murder-suicide-as... More http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120418/articles/120419517

Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice, by Margaret Hagen

      "Let us be very clear about the true state of the psychologist's art. Psychologists do not know any more about behavior than the average man or woman in the jury box or the judge's robes. Psychologists do not know what causes behavior and they are entirely incapable of pinpointing some hypothetical event in the past that has led to the present state of an individual. They do not know what got done, how it got done, or whodunit. And not only are they unable to predict future behavior any better than the man or woman on the street, they are actually worse at it, blinded as they are by the illusion of their own expertise. Diagnostic categories are not validly established and diagnoses cannot be rendered reliably. Neither can therapy be reliably used to change the behavior of our citizens, juvenile or adult, violent or simply wayward.

        "Psychologists have no special ability to read into the soul-or mind or psyche-of another human with any more accuracy than the rest of us. Upon finishing graduate or medical school they are not given special soulographs or psychometers that let them plumb the depths of anyone's psychological being. There simply is no mental stethoscope, no matter how much our justice system wishes there were.

      "Clinicians are not trained to perform the myriad tasks the legal system asks them to perform because no body of knowledge exists to support such training. It is a sorry state of affairs, but it is the only state we've got."

-- Margaret Hagen, Whores of the Court, pp. 98-99
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"Is there some reason that anti-dv advocates just can't get it? Is there some reason that researchers and activists keep recommending this idiocy? It's a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad idea. Why..." Article at http://www.thelizlibrary.org/

"The boy's mother said she had been warning law enforcement and the court system for months that she and her son were being abused. Friday night, Oakland police notified the Stockton Police Department that a child arrived at Oakland Children's Hospital with life threatening injuries and the father's story was suspicious. police arrested the boy's father, Tushambi Evans, 28, and charged him with felony child abuse...

"'The baby would sit right here, he'd feed him, but the baby would throw it up and he's pick up the throw up and make the baby eat it'... Jamela Evans said she's known her husband since the sixth grade, but the abuse started after their son, Tushambi Evans Jr, was born. Jamela Evans said she left her husband last May, but through legal actions, he ended up with full custody of their son. Jamela Evans said she ran off with her son once, but was arrested for felony child kidnapping..." http://centralstockton.news10.net/news/crime/95664-2-year-old-life-support-af...

"...It's a sordid tale involving her father, Ronald Little, who was convicted of raping her mother at age 13, and who then turned his attention to the daughter. He molested her repeatedly as she was growing up and, through her teenage years, took pictures of the encounters so he could remember them. She was in her early 20s by the time police came to her door in 2010. Little, 65, admitted to those allegations and was sentenced Friday in federal court to 20 years in prison for producing child pornography. But that's just the start of what he stands accused of.

"Police and court records paint a picture of a man who continued to sexually assault little girls, including his own children, from 1969 until two years ago, when he was finally caught..." http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/24/3510455/child-abuser-who-raped-own-daugh...

"...an underworld of misogynists, woman-haters whose fury goes well beyond criticism of the family court system, domestic violence laws, and false rape accusations. There are literally hundreds of websites, blogs and forums devoted to attacking virtually all women (or, at least, Westernized ones) -- the so-called "manosphere,"... While some of them voice legitimate and sometimes disturbing complaints about the treatment of men, what is most remarkable is the misogynistic tone that pervades so many. Women are routinely maligned as sluts, gold-diggers, temptresses and worse; overly sympathetic men are dubbed "manginas"; and police and other officials are called their armed enablers...

"But some experts argue that men's rights groups have been remarkably successful... have taken over the way courts deal with custody issues, particularly when there are allegations of abuse, largely by convincing them that there is such a thing as 'Parental Alienation Syndrome' (PAS)... have 'been able to get custody evaluators, mediators, guardians ad litem and child protective service workers to believe that women and children lie about abuse.'... http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2...

"Two young children are still recovering from severe injuries, nearly a week-and-a-half after police say their father barricaded them inside their home and set the home on fire in Northglenn..." With his children inside his car, Bill Johnson rammed the vehicle into his estranged wife's car, parked at her friend's house. "'I can tell you that when our officers contacted the vehicle, all the children inside the car were safe', Northglenn Police Commander Jeremy Sloan said last week in a press conference after the fire..." The police officer let him go. The father drove back to his house with the children, barricaded them inside, and started the fire." http://www.9news.com/news/article/253521/222/Mom-Estranged-husband-tried-to-k...

"A new study of child murders... men and women are equally capable of killing children, but their motives for killing are very different. Men are more likely to kill their children in order to take revenge on ex-partners and to make them suffer... The study, Just Say Goodbye, draws on court documents to analyse cases where children have died at the hands of parents whose relationship has broken down...

"[E]ven more than violence, research shows that a history of obsessive controlling behaviour -- a sense of entitlement -- can be a pointer to a man's inability to accept the separation... vengeful enough to kill their children to punish her for the separation...

"[O]ften obscured is the father's attitude to the mother during and after the relationship, his sense of entitlement to control the family, extreme anger with the mother over separation, and threats to harm the children..." http://www.theage.com.au/national/child-killer-study-finds-diverse-motives-fo...

"Jason Lees, a popular private school teacher and successful international rugby referee, his wife Danielle Cara Sutton, a psychologist. Their two-year-old son a normal, well-adjusted boy. Their seemingly happy life together makes it even harder to understand what could have driven Mr. Lees to take his son to Brisbane's Story Bridge in the early hours of yesterday, throw him over the edge, before jumping himself... Local resident Craig Cooper told Fairfax media he witnessed the tragedy from his nearby balcony, describing a "blood curdling scream"... A few seconds later, he [Lees] jumped... The final journey of Mr Lees and his son began when he took the toddler from their home in Seven Hills... strapped him into the babyseat of his bicycle and rode the remaining couple of hundred metres to the outbound side of the bridge..." http://www.news.com.au/national/fathers-betrayal-of-an-innocent-boy/story-e6f...

WTF is wrong with the media?

"A 12-year-old boy is in custody for the suspected shooting death of his father, Paul Danielson, 46, of Swan Lake... Danielson was declared dead at the scene, and the boy was taken to the Bannock County Juvenile Detention Center where he was booked on a homicide complaint following an interview with detectives at the scene of the shooting. The boy was reportedly living with his father... Area residents were shocked... He was a great guy... You never expect a thing like this... a good guy and the boy idolized him..." http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_518a0776-5aa0-11e1-aba7-001871e3ce6c.html

"On Friday, the girl was reunited with her mother, Amanda Edwards, who flew in from Oklahoma. Police are still searching for the father, whose real name is Bradley Goodson, 32, of Texas. They say he abducted his daughter from Oklahoma and drove her to West Palm Beach. Edwards said it was either the seventh or eighth time Goodson has taken the child without permission... Goodson is wanted on a felony warrant in Oklahoma... has an extensive criminal history in Oklahoma and Texas. He has court-appointed visitation with his daughter..." http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/pb-west-palm-abduction-20120218,0,3...

What the hey? Phillip Monroe Smith is facing child sex abuse charges, but out on bond. Mother Kimberly Smith took off with the child to protect her. Now the idiot media blares that she's kidnapped the child and somehow the child is "in danger". Analysis at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2012/02/custodial-mom-demonized-as-kidnappe...

"It didn't start with Josh Powell: Dads who kill in situations involving custody/visitation...." http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2012/02/it-didnt-start-with-josh-powell-dad...

Neighbor... could hear that family fighting Tuesday night. 'We just heard loud ruckus -- you know -- banging. But we thought nothing of it because it happens all the time. They fight a lot'... things took a horrific turn, when a 9-year-old boy came banging on his door... crying very hard saying help, help, help... my mom, she's on the bed, she's bleeding... After reaching the home, authorities discovered that Iryin Vaughn, 25, drove himself and Iryana Vaughn, 2, in a blue 1998 Ford Explorer, Illinois license plate L320893 to Illinois..." http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/138918144.html

"GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) An explosion at a Washington state home has killed Josh Powell, the husband of a missing Utah woman, plus their two young sons, officials said Sunday... A Pierce County Sheriff's deputy and Graham Firefighters work around the smoldering remains of a house near Fredrickson, Wash. on Sunday, where the bodies of Josh Powell and his two sons were found. A lawyer for Josh Powell says he received a three-word email from his client just minutes before the explosion. It said, 'I'm sorry, goodbye.' ...Josh was upset after being ordered to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation recently, but he didn't see this coming. The explosion occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the two boys to the home for a supervised visit..." http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-05/husband-explosion-missin...

"The mother of twin 3-year-old girls killed Saturday in a murder-suicide had complained in Hanover County court documents of abuse by her husband and alleged he was mentally unstable. Kristina Hooper, the defendant in a divorce proceeding that began in late October, argued in court papers that Robert D. King, 40, 'has exhibited paranoid behavior, been verbally abusive' toward Hooper and had threatened 'to take away' Hooper's son from a previous marriage as well as the twins..." http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/jan/31/tdmet01-family-was-in-turmoil-...

Mitt Romney is a liar.