Category: Child Abuse

October 2, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Getting it wrong can have terrible consequences. When a Crime Scene Investigator gets it wrong, an innocent person might go to prison. When a doctor gets it wrong, you might be treated for a disease you don’t have (and the one you do have goes untreated!). And when a Child Abuse Pediatrician (CAP) gets it…

September 18, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Just in case you happen to have been living under a rock for the last few years – Larry Nassar is in jail for the rest of his life, and doctors are coming under increased scrutiny now that doctor/patient sexual abuse is under the spotlight on a national level. But the ripples from the Nassar…

September 11, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

For most parents, the idea of being accused of child abuse is too horrifying to contemplate. The idea that someone would think that your own children aren’t safe in your care, or that you don’t love your kids, is beyond heartbreaking. But what few people stop to consider when thinking about the horror of false…

August 29, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’re looking at the issue of how a growing number of highly visible cases of sexual assault by doctors is changing the way people interact with their medical caregivers. As the Nassar case shows, doctors are often treated as ‘untouchable’, which is why it was so hard for…

August 23, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

The Catholic church has come under increasing fire in recent decades for the horrifying number of priests being accused of sexually assaulting children. What makes the allegations worse is that in many cases, it seems other church authorities were aware of the abuses, but made every effort to cover them up instead of reporting them…

August 21, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Child abuse is a subject that has received a great deal of public interest and media attention in recent years. And in some ways that’s a really good thing. Instances of child abuse are rising, and the number of children in foster care needing stable homes is staggering. So it’s definitely a subject that needs…

August 7, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Take a look at anyone’s dating profile online and chances are you’ll find that most people aren’t as honest about themselves as they’d like you to believe. Whether it’s make up, lighting and angles used to make them look 20 years younger (and 20 Lbs lighter), or simple a profile pic from a couple of…

August 1, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Child sexual abuse, also called molestation, is one of the hardest accusations to defend against. Because it’s an emotional subject, and people are conditioned to believe the word of the victim and the cops providing testimony during the trial, it can be extremely difficult to get a fair trial. Anyone who is falsely accused is…

July 23, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

A child’s death is a tragedy. Every child’s life lost is a devastating blow to their loved ones and their community. But somehow, a child who dies as a result of child abuse almost seems worse. The ripples of pain are felt even by people living far away. People who never knew the family, and…

June 27, 2019 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

There are many reasons people are excited about the legalization of marijuana. Few minor cases clogging up the courts, less people behind bars for things that should never have been crimes in the first place, cops having more time to address real issues that make society unsafe… the list goes on. But the flip side…