justice's posterous

"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/

"...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...

"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...

"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-...

"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

"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...

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.

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?

"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...

"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...

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/

"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...