justice’s posterous

"The unidentified man surrendered to Palm Bay SWAT team members at about 6 a.m. and was taken to the Palm Bay Community Hospital after appearing under the influence of an unknown substance... The woman and the children, a 14-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, managed to escape the home during the overnight hours, police said." http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091117/BREAKINGNEWS/91117002/1006/news01/Dad+arrested+after+hostage+situation+ends+in+Palm+Bay
          Lucky them that they are still alive. Note to defense-minded apologists: neither the woman nor the children were able under these circumstances to make the 911 call. Had this "event" somehow been managed, and then reported after the fact, perhaps in a family law case or in connection with the seeking of a restraining order, how seriously would you have taken it?
          And get this idiotic media statment: "Investigators said it began as a fight between Christopher Lynch and his estranged wife. They said Lynch had two guns on him at the time of the standoff." http://www.wesh.com/news/21636380/detail.html  (First the media unidentifies him -- in case it's yet again just some "dad" -- see the floridatoday.com URL -- accused wrongly of domestic violence. And then another news source describes barging into someone else's home armed with two guns as a "fight".)

"A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show 'harmful material' to their children has come under fire after a US prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his eight- and nine-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography... one of the girls told a counsellor in June that her father made them watch adults having group sex and various other acts at his home in Amarillo. The parents of the girls, and their seven-year-old sister, are divorced and share custody." Where's the family court judge here? http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/924640/dad-escapes-charges-in-child-porn-case

The DCF (CPS) file of a few days earlier noted, despite a history of domestic violence, and a conviction, that "There is no safety concern." The caseworker decided that the father had a "loving relationship" with his children. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,553384,00.html?test=latestnews

"Children living with their only their mothers experienced maltreatment under the Harm Standard at a rate of 26.1 per 1,000 children. Children living with only their dads: 36.6 per 1,000."
 
"What about abuse as such? Children living with only their moms: 10.5 per 1,000. Children living with only their dads: 17.7 per 1,000."
 
PHYSICAL ABUSE: "Children living with only their moms: 6.4 per 1,000 children. Children living with only their dads: 10.5 per 1,000 children. Here's what NIS-3 states: 'When specific types of abuse under the Harm Standard are examined, it is apparent that the findings described in the previous paragraph stem from the disproportionate incidence of physical abuse among children in father-only households...'"
 
NEGLECT: "Children living with only their moms: 16.7 per 1,000 children. Children living with only their dads: 21.9 per 1,000 children."
 
EMOTIONAL NEGLECT: "Children living with only their moms: 3.4 per 1,000 children. Children living with only their fathers: 8.8 per 1,000 children."
 
SERIOUS INJURIES: "Children living with only their moms: 10.0 per 1,000 children. Children living with only their dads: 14.0 per 1,000."
 
MODERATE INJURIES: "Children living with only their moms: 14.7 per 1,000 children. Children living with only their dads: 20.5 per 1,000."
 
ALL MALTREATMENT: "...children living with only their moms: 50.1 per 1,000 children. For children living with only their dads: 65.6 per 1,000."
 
ALL ABUSE: "...children living with only their moms: 18.1 per 1,000 children. For children living only with their dads: 31.0 per 1,000."
 
For more information, see http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-look-see-at-nis-3-or-what-do.html and http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/statistics.html

Jon E. Pomeroy, and stepmother Rebecca A. Long are monsters. They deserve life; they are unlikely to get charged with anything having remotely close to a decent sentence.
      "Sheriff's deputies arrived at the Carnation home the evening of Aug. 13, 2008, after neighbors reported hearing a girl screaming. In court documents, the deputy sheriff who interviewed the 14-year-old described her as 'extremely skinny and pale' and found she weighed only 48 pounds. Their daughter told police she was allowed only about 6 ounces of water each day and was monitored by Long when she bathed to keep her from 'sneaking' extra water... The girl and her brother, 12, were forced to sleep on their parents' floor so she wouldn't sneak out to drink water, and the parents even blocked the door with a heavy dresser after the girl was caught sipping water from the toilet... In one instance, the stepmother duct-taped the girl's hands behind her back and dunked her head in the toilet as punishment." http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/08/custodial-dad-pleads-guilty-to-starving.html

"Phillip Garrido, who was distributing bizarre religious material with two girls in tow, seemed incoherent and mentally unstable, Lisa Campbell said. The girls wore drab-colored dresses, were unusually subdued, had unnaturally pale complexion and appeared robotic and rehearsed when they spoke, she said..." http://www.kcra.com/news/20608753/detail.html

"Phillip and Nancy Garrido now face 28 felony charges in connection with the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard... Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf is apologizing for his department's response to a 911 call about the Garrido home in 2006. He says a neighbor called authorities to alert them to people living in the backyard of the Garrido home. He says the deputy that responded didn't go into the backyard or even ask to. The deputy reportedly warned Garrido that it was a code violation to camp out in the backyard of a residential area.  More http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8431843&nwltr=GMADF_topstory_more

           "1. Domestic Violence is almost always a misdemeanor...
           "2. If you get a restraining order... you only get 3 attempts at service before the court will revoke the whole injunction...
           "3. If... judge decides that a 'no contact' order will supplant your restraining order, you are screwed...
           "4. If... he uses an email that does not have his name in it... the police will say they cannot prove it...
           "5.DCF will get involved and try to take your kids away...
           "6. [T]he police... will tell you it is your responsibility to protect yourself...
           "7. If you have an open DCF case... you are not doing enough to protect your children...
           "8. [I]t is standard for the divorce agreement to include shared custody...
           "9. The standard plea agreement for domestic violence is a 1 year probation and community service...
           "10. [Y]ou have to wait 11 days before you can file a charge of kidnapping... http://fldomesticviolence.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/10-stupidest-things-about-domestic-violence-laws-in-fl/

Remember the old joke about the convicted parent-killer who asks the sentencing court for mercy because "After all, judge, I am an orphan"? This one's no joke. It's bad enough that John Norris has been charged only with involuntary manslaughter for the July 9, 2009 death of Tasha Norris. "Since the shooting, the couple's two young children have been in protective custody. But that changed Wednesday. They have been moved to another location at the father's request. And that's not what the victim's family wants..." The official reply from this agency: "He has been charged, but he's not been convicted of the crime. He's their dad. They've lost their mother. We need to maintain whatever connection we can for children with their families." http://www.ksby.com/global/story.asp?s=10959468&ClientType=Printable

Excerpt: Ending The Culture of Violence Against Women: A Critical Healthcare Issue http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/23305
          "I saw a man with a knife holding a woman by her hair... A small crowd was gathering around them. 'It's okay,' he said to the onlookers. 'She's my girlfriend.' That seemed to stop everybody in their tracks...
          "In the District of Columbia alone, with less than 600,000 inhabitants, the Police Department received 31,215 'domestic-related crime calls.' That's one call every nineteen minutes... [but] approximately one-fifth of all rapes, one-quarter of all physical assaults, and one-half of all stalkings experienced by women will not be reported to the police...
          "It's curious how blind we become to our own culture...
          "The police officer who took my statement said they'd picked the man up before for similar crimes against women, but that he was always released with a warning. He said they'd contact me if it ever came to trial, but not to be surprised if I never heard from them again. I never did."

Ronald Holcomb has been sentenced to 80 years. http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/ http://www.bdtonline.com/cnhi/bdtonline/homepage/local_story_208205856.html?keyword=leadpicturestory