14 years ago Lorinda Swain went to prison, and she’s been there ever since. Just a few days ago, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that she was entitled to a new trial, but the prosecutor decided that they are not going to charge her a second time. Convicted over a decade ago for child abuse,…
Month: May 2016
The statistics for child abuse are heartbreaking these days. You have only to google “child abuse” to see how many little ones will succumb to harm during their lifetime. But on the flip side of that coin, there are a horrifying number of parents and caregivers who are falsely accused of child abuse these days….
Police were called to a hospital in Flint recently, where a 4-year-old boy named Jordyn Mathena, was unresponsive, with burns all over his body. His mom had apparently found him in the shower, unconscious, and taken him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. But what shocked officers was not the fact that the…
John Dwight Scheiding, a 28-year-old Deputy with the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Department, is accused of having a sexual relationship with an underaged girl. He is facing charges of having child sexually abusive material, also known as child pornography, on an electronic device. According to information provided by the Grand Traverse Sheriff’s Department, the…
A competency hearing has been scheduled for 30-year-old Donald Bebee II, who is currently facing charges for child abuse. His most recent court hearing has been postponed until the results of the test are available. Bebee’s defense attorney requested that he undergo the competency testing in order to determine whether or not he is able…
Few topics have brought about such polarized opinions in recent weeks, as the transgender directive that the State of Michigan Board of Education proposed earlier this year. The directive aims to allow transgender students to use the gender specific bathroom that aligns with their personal beliefs. The meeting, which took place in Lansing, had…
We recently shared with you some very interesting information about recovered memory therapy, and whether or not it was possible to plant memories of abuse in a person’s mind during therapy. The current case in which this question has been a central issue, is Kathryn Salmi vs. Lale and Joan Roberts. In this article, we are…
In August of 2009, Kristi Roberts, who was at the time a 17-year-old living with her parents and older sister, went into therapy. According to her parents, they had discovered that an older neighbor who helped with the family’s gardening had molested her. Additionally, there was the incident at Bible camp, where a member of…