National Child Abuse Prevention Month (April 2012)<\/p>\n
04\/2012<\/p>\n
April was first declared Child Abuse Prevention Month by presidential proclamation in 1983. Since then, April has been a time<\/p>\n
to acknowledge the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse.\u00a0 In Child Maltreatment<\/p>\n
2010 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, Administration on Children, Youth<\/p>\n
and Families, Children’s Bureau) it was reported that in FFY 2010 in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto<\/p>\n
Rico, an estimated 695,000 children were victims of child abuse; and 1,560 children died as a result of abuse or neglect. The<\/p>\n
majority of child abuse cases stemmed from situations and conditions that can be preventable when community programs and<\/p>\n
systems are engaged and supportive. A community that cares about early childhood development, parental support, and maternal<\/p>\n
mental health, for instance, is more likely to foster nurturing families and healthy children.<\/p>\n
A body of research has identified factors known to prevent and reduce child abuse and neglect. These factors\u2014including<\/p>\n
parental resilience, nurturing and attachment, social connections, knowledge about parenting and child development, and<\/p>\n
concrete supports for parents\u2014are outlined in Strengthening Families and Communities: 2011 Resource Guide, also developed by<\/p>\n
the Children’s Bureau.<\/p>\n
In recognition of the collaborations needed to help prevent child abuse and neglect, the NCTSN has compiled a list of<\/p>\n
resources for advocates and policy makers, children and adolescents, educators, families and communities, and mental health<\/p>\n
and child welfare professionals.<\/p>\n
Source of above information is below.
\nhttp:\/\/www.nctsnet.org\/resources\/public-awareness\/national-child-abuse-prevention-month<\/p>\n
Rape::POPE: Statutes of Limitations? NO WAY! Pedophile Priests must Pay!!
\nBy Karen Gallo Dunn<\/p>\n
Time canNOT erase the Crime of Pedophile Priestly Pigs! Perhaps if the Pedophile Priest was punished properly and exposed,<\/p>\n
the victim’s healing process could be expedited.<\/p>\n
Statute of Limitations Absurd! Time canNOT erase the CRIME!!!!!!!!! Papal apologies, comforting words for those who have<\/p>\n
suffered abuse, molestation, rape, and torment IS Front Page news? What about the ongoing psychological, physiological<\/p>\n
damage, alcoholism, drug abuse, mental incapacitation, etc., that some of the abused children confronted and continue to<\/p>\n
confront as an adult on a daily basis? All past abuse had to be squelched and hidden — buried deep down inside until it<\/p>\n
begins to eat them alive? Statute of Limitation does not ELIMINATE the dirty deeds against minors, children, teens, altar<\/p>\n
boys, etc., enacted by the Priests, Bishops, Cardinals, et al. Statue of Limitations be gone! Rev. pervert Paul Shanley has<\/p>\n
been abusing children since 1967. Why in this world would his abuse and molestation be tolerated and ignored because the<\/p>\n
“statute of limitations” has run out? He is NOW a lawfully protected priestly pig — “got away with it” rapist? Time does NOT<\/p>\n
eliminate the CRIME nor the long term pain and anguish of the abused. Immediate action is required to protect our innocent<\/p>\n
children. Who cares WHEN this tragedy occurred? Who cares HOW LONG AGO it happened? The FACT that rape, molestation, child<\/p>\n
abuse happened — IS what matters. Scars do NOT turn to dust. Residual harm continues and grows with time — it does not<\/p>\n
automatically disappear because time ran out to accuse and punish the perpetrator. Some victims NEVER recover. Is the Pope,<\/p>\n
Bishops and Cardinals stalling purposefully to eliminate justice? Do they set their Catholic Clocks and Watches on “Statute<\/p>\n
of Limitation Time?” NOW, they admit they knew about these filthy pedophiles for years and there are records on their sexual<\/p>\n
abuse activities. TRANSFER the guilty pedophile to another parish was the answer to solve criminal compliants from parents.<\/p>\n
On a daily basis, exposure of yet another perpetrating priest surfaces — WHY are we allowing them to get away with raping<\/p>\n
our innocent babies? We know who they are. Now take action: arrest, imprison, punish these molesters NOW. It is well known<\/p>\n
how Cardinal Law transferred these abusers to different locations providing priests with a fresh group of innocent children<\/p>\n
to rape, molest and continue their secret priestly sacraments of a pedophiliac. How dare the United States Law Enforcement<\/p>\n
protect these scoundrels? Does anyone care about the abused Children? Does anyone believe the abused Children. How many<\/p>\n
mothers out there sent their children to psychiatrists because they told the truth about a priest who was supposed to be<\/p>\n
above the law and holy? How many mothers ignored the reality of abuse and allowed others to be abused because they ignored<\/p>\n
their children’s truth? Admit it Mom — tell the truth — you knew about this abuse and covered it up — believing a man of<\/p>\n
the cloth — an ordained priest would never do such an atrocity or commit such a crime instead of believing an innocent child<\/p>\n
— your own flesh and blood????? This issue canNOT be buried any longer. The guilty must be punished and NOW is the time.<\/p>\n
There are NO excuses, reasons, forgiveness for these child molesters. Defrock the rapists now. Excommunicate the<\/p>\n
perpetrators. There should be NO exceptions, NO special treatment, NO red tape. Arrest, prosecute and punish those accused.<\/p>\n
Include all bishops and cardinals who knowingly provided the pedophile priests new playgrounds to continue their sick acts of<\/p>\n
child molestation. They are as guilty as sin because they did it intentionally with knowledge and full awareness that a<\/p>\n
Rapist is sick. A rapist disguised as a Priest is the worst using God as the reason to trick a child into rape, molestation<\/p>\n
and dirty acts. Do not forget Fr. ENEMA Scheufele, “The ENEMA” giving priest — the sacrament of “Altar Boy Enemas.” Forgive?<\/p>\n
Forget? Too Late to punish this pervert? These priests continue to rape our children for years and we ignore this action?<\/p>\n
What if these priests were clowns, ghetto dwellers, people of poverty, insane rapists? There is absolutely no difference. A<\/p>\n
man is a man and pig is a pig and rapist is a rapist and absolutely NO special treatment based on his costume, garb, collar,<\/p>\n
rosary beads, vows, etc., should be granted. Statute of Limitations be damned!! Get a grip America – Take action now. How can<\/p>\n
anyone justify Priestly Encounters of cruelty, sexual abuse and mind twisting sacrilegious acts? What attorney could possibly<\/p>\n
represent a child molester? Molesters prey upon the innocence of children — remember! — that child could be your baby,<\/p>\n
daughter, niece, granddaughter, son, grandson, nephew — your own flesh and blood and a dirty priest in the name of GOD takes<\/p>\n
advantage and molests and scrambles the child’s mind and psyche for life. NO defense acceptable! How many times is irrelevant<\/p>\n
— one rape is too much. One fondling is too much. Statute of Limitations be gone. This form of protection is ridiculous.<\/p>\n
Especially with the facts that the hierarchy is literally and specifically protecting these perpetrators. Bishops, Cardinals<\/p>\n
and the Pope are guilty as sin allowing this to continue and shuffling the dirty pitiful child-molesting priests to other<\/p>\n
parishes to allow them to continue their rape and abuse on innocent and unknowing parishioners and their children. STOP this<\/p>\n
NOW. Eliminate the “Statute of Limitations” when it allows child molesters a license to get away with ruining the lives of<\/p>\n
innocent Catholic angels and the statute of limitations is their shield of protection. Is the Pope for REAL?\u00a0 ZERO TOLERANCE<\/p>\n
IS THE ONLY ANSWER!!!!<\/p>\n
Source of Karen Gallo Dunn article below.
\nhttp:\/\/www.authorsden.com\/categories\/article_top.asp?catid=55&id=5870<\/p>\n
March 23, 2012
\nMarci A. Hamilton
\nAn Historic Turning Point for Reforming Statutes of Limitations for Child Sex Abuse: News From Massachusetts, and More<\/p>\n
Legions of victims of child sex abuse will tell you that when they were finally ready to talk to a prosecutor or a lawyer,<\/p>\n
the criminal and\/or civil statutes of limitations (SOLs) had already expired.\u00a0 Across the United States, one victim after<\/p>\n
another has been surprised by these cruel and arbitrary legal deadlines.<\/p>\n
For decades, states have been adjusting their child sex abuse SOLs in response to fresh stories of horror.\u00a0 At one time,<\/p>\n
states measured the SOL from the date of the abuse, giving victims only a few years in which to sue.\u00a0 Then, they set age 18<\/p>\n
as the moment when the clock started ticking.\u00a0 Now, we have a true 50-state experiment, with a wide variety of approaches<\/p>\n
among the states.<\/p>\n
There is one common theme, however:\u00a0 States are constantly working to extend their child sex abuse SOLs, because there is<\/p>\n
always a new victim with a compelling story that shows lawmakers the folly of having any SOL at all for the heinous crime of<\/p>\n
child sex abuse.<\/p>\n
The Situation in Massachusetts Regarding Child Sex Abuse Statutes of Limitations<\/p>\n
That was precisely what was happening in Massachusetts when in 1996, the legislature extended the criminal SOL for child sex<\/p>\n
abuse to the date that marks 15 years after the victim turns 16.\u00a0 But that SOL still shut down justice for too many victims,<\/p>\n
and so there was another extension, in 2006.\u00a0 That year, the Massachusetts Legislature voted to extend the criminal SOL to 27<\/p>\n
years after a victim turns 16.<\/p>\n
That extension, however, still cut out victims like Rosanne Sliney, whose uncle abused her beginning when she was five, and<\/p>\n
ending when she was 14.\u00a0 Another survivor, Kathy Picard, who came forward at age 32, also remains shut out by the SOLs\u2014just<\/p>\n
missing each SOL extension, by just one year each time.\u00a0 Like the vast majority of child abuse survivors, Sliney and Picard<\/p>\n
needed decades before they could come forward to talk about their abuse, and thus, they missed the state\u2019s arbitrary limits.<\/p>\n
Picard, along with other child sex abuse victims, is now campaigning hard to persuade Massachusetts legislators to eliminate<\/p>\n
the SOLs for child sex abuse altogether.\u00a0 Right now, Massachusetts\u2019s civil statute of limitations is only 3 years from either<\/p>\n
the victim\u2019s 18th birthday, or the discovery of the abuse.<\/p>\n
Massachusetts now has a bill pending that would eliminate the criminal and civil SOLs for child sex abuse, as well as beef up<\/p>\n
the penalties for the failure to report such abuse, and set new requirements for the training of mandated reporters.\u00a0 That<\/p>\n
bill, H 469, also called \u201cThe Protection from Sexual Predators Act of 2011,\u201d would, if enacted, help hundreds of victims in<\/p>\n
Massachusetts and, at the same time, identify for parents the hidden predators in their midst.\u00a0 It would also make<\/p>\n
Massachusetts the most recent state, after Delaware to pass groundbreaking legislation that includes elimination of both<\/p>\n
civil and criminal SOLs for all claims into the future.<\/p>\n
In an Increasing Number of States, the Tide Is Turning in Favor of Legislation to Abolish Child Sex Abuse Statutes of<\/p>\n
Limitations Entirely\u2014but the Catholic Bishops Are Fighting the New Laws<\/p>\n
Massachusetts would still have Sliney and Picard on the sidelines unless it adds a window, which would permit, for a limited<\/p>\n
number of years, those victims whose civil claims have expired a chance go to court.\u00a0 Similar statute-of-limitations window<\/p>\n
legislation was passed in Minnesota, California, Delaware, and Guam, and is now pending in New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,<\/p>\n
and Hawaii.<\/p>\n
Finally, the tide is turning in favor of such legislation.\u00a0 The Catholic Bishops have made the defeat of child sex abuse SOL<\/p>\n
reform a top priority in every state where it has been introduced, and particularly the window.\u00a0 While they have occasionally<\/p>\n
been able to recruit allies\u2014such as, for example, Agudath Israel in New York\u2014the bishops are still the ones who have taken<\/p>\n
the lead on fighting against child sex abuse victims, including incest survivors (such as Kathy Picard and Rosanne Sliney),<\/p>\n
who make up the majority of survivors.<\/p>\n
The Catholic Bishops have trotted out the same bag of arguments in each state.\u00a0 First, they say it isn\u2019t \u201cfair\u201d to let them<\/p>\n
be sued when \u201cmemories fade and witnesses die.\u201d\u00a0 Their narcissistic insistence that state legislators must put \u201cfairness\u201d to<\/p>\n
them ahead of justice for the victims speaks for itself.<\/p>\n
Moreover, that position is primarily intended to deflect legislators from focusing on two key facts: (1) eliminating the SOL<\/p>\n
does not change the burdens of proof, which rest first on the victim; if the victim doesn\u2019t have enough evidence to support<\/p>\n
the claim, no defense need be raised; and (2) the primary source of information on the abuse of children in organizations is<\/p>\n
typically material that is in the organization\u2019s own files, and this is particularly true for dioceses.\u00a0 Thus, the Bishops\u2019<\/p>\n
objection, despite its undoubted surface appeal, has no actual content.<\/p>\n
The Bishops\u2019 Claim That Churches Will Face \u201cBankruptcy\u201d Is Spurious<\/p>\n
Second, the Bishops always say that they will be \u201cbankrupted\u201d by such cases.\u00a0 If they mean that they will file voluntary<\/p>\n
bankruptcy in order to reduce the payouts to victims and to flush out all victims so that they can avoid further claims in<\/p>\n
the future, then they are right.\u00a0 But that would be their own choice, not a result of indigency.<\/p>\n
If the Bishops mean that they will not have enough resources to pay the claims, they are misleading the public and their own<\/p>\n
believers.\u00a0 The damages payments by the dioceses to victims so far have been paid by insurance (yes, they have insurance<\/p>\n
coverage for cases in which they have negligently supervised their employees who abuse children), and by the sale of property<\/p>\n
that is not devoted to religious use, such as office or apartment buildings, hotels, or empty lots.\u00a0 The largest payout in<\/p>\n
American history came from the Los Angeles Archdiocese, which had built an extravagant cathedral at a cost of over $189<\/p>\n
million just five years before. Thus, this argument, too, is a big fat red herring.<\/p>\n
It is a simple fact that the Bishops, regardless of what they say in public about \u201cfairness\u201d and money, just don\u2019t want the<\/p>\n
full truth to emerge into the sunshine.\u00a0 There are likely hundreds of unnamed priests who abused children in the New York<\/p>\n
Archdiocese alone.\u00a0 The hundreds of thousands\u2014indeed, likely millions\u2014of parishioners\u2019 donation dollars that have been spent<\/p>\n
on lobbying against the New York SOL window and modest extensions is, in all likelihood, motivated most by the Bishops\u2019<\/p>\n
consuming and poisonous fear of the truth.<\/p>\n
The Bishops have not turned the corner on the sexual abuse by their clergy\u2014far from it\u2014and they never will do so, unless they<\/p>\n
release the full truth of these matters, which is currently buried in their files.\u00a0 In fact, they cannot avoid the inevitable<\/p>\n
release of the information at issue, because the truth is also carved into the hearts, souls, and memories of their victims,<\/p>\n
whose voices are rising.<\/p>\n
Massachusetts May Be the Setting for a Key Child Sex Abuse SOL Turning Point<\/p>\n
The turning point appears to have come in Massachusetts, where Rep. Eugene O\u2019Flaherty did all he could to keep the SOL reform<\/p>\n
bill from making it out of his House Judiciary Committee.\u00a0 Yet, after he was attacked for choosing the pedophile\u2019s side<\/p>\n
against the safety of children, he not only backed off his original position, but resigned as Chair of the Judiciary<\/p>\n
Committee.\u00a0 The bill is actually going to the House floor.\u00a0 At last, a legislator so felt the heat of the victims\u2019 pent-up<\/p>\n
agony that he chose to cut and run.<\/p>\n
There are other legislators just like O\u2019Flaherty, in New York and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, who are still carrying the<\/p>\n
standard for the bishops against the victims.\u00a0 But they too will have to move aside\u2014or else embrace their role as protectors<\/p>\n
of the pedophiles.\u00a0 The incest victims, our most silent of survivors till now, are joining their voices to those of the<\/p>\n
organizational victims.\u00a0 They all deserve their day in court.<\/p>\n
Source of article by Marci A. Hamilton is below.
\nhttp:\/\/verdict.justia.com\/2012\/03\/23\/an-historic-turning-point-for-reforming-statutes-of-limitations-for-child-sex-abuse<\/p>\n
Marci A. HamiltonMarci Hamilton, a Justia columnist, is the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School<\/p>\n
of Law and author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children (Cambridge 2008). A review of Justice<\/p>\n
Denied appeared on June 25, 2008. Her previous book is God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University<\/p>\n
Press 2005), now available in paperback. Her latest book is Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law (Palgrave Macmillan 2011)<\/p>\n
(co-edited with Mark J. Rozell). Her email is hamilton02@aol.com.
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* O.K.\u00a0 folks this is my comment as it pertains to April being National Child Abuse Month,well it is more of a question really.
\nDo you think Child Abuse on any level,be it physical,sexual,mental, should have the protections of the Statute Of Limitations that many other crimes do ?
\nShould we place those who commit crimes on children in the same legal classification as motor vehicle theft,burglary,and larceny ?
\nSee because from where I stand,as far as heinous crimes go I do not !
\nLet me know…….<\/p>\n
Thank You
\nD.Lemur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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