Welcome back. We’ve been discussing Munchausen by Proxy syndrome, and how it’s suddenly come back into the limelight courtesy of HBO’s hugely popular limited series Sharp Objects. If you’re just joining us now, we recommend you spend a minute getting caught up here. But if you haven’t watched the show, or read the book yet,…
If you haven’t watched HBO’s Sharp Objects, then we recommend you stop reading right now – there are way too many spoilers ahead! But if you, like millions of others around the country, tuned in to see Gillian Flynn’s best selling novel brought to life on screen by Amy Adams, Chris Messina and Eliza Scanlen,…
Larry Nassar has become the symbol of everything that’s wrong with medical professionals, universities, and sex offender laws. His case has received wider media attention than the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State sex scandal, and has given birth to a nationwide fan club devoted to the Judge, Rosemarie Aquilina, who presided over his trial. But these new…
If you follow our blog, or even just read the local news, you already know something about the Female Genital Mutilation case that took Detroit by storm last year. It started with a single female doctor, 44-year-old Jumana Nagarwala of Northville, who was charged with performing genital cuttings on two young girls from Minnesota, aged…
Every now and again a book comes out that hits home so perfectly, that touches on issues everyone knows are wrong, yet no one knows how to change or address. And this book is a perfect example of that. Small Animals: Parenting in the Age of Fear is a book by Kim Brooks that addresses…
Welcome back. We’ve been discussing the difficult spot that victims of domestic violence and abuse are put in when they’re accused of failing to protect their children. As we mentioned in the previous article, people in abusive relationships are often viewed as abusers themselves, because they aren’t making an effort to protect their children. And…
People who’ve never been abused can’t understand why anyone would stay in an abusive relationship. It simply doesn’t make sense to their rational mind. But that right there’s the rub – it isn’t a rational thing. It’s so much more, so much deeper than that. And for parents, particularly mothers, who are trapped in abusive…
Welcome back, we’re glad you’re taking the time to read this information, even if it’s sometimes hard to hear. We understand that child abuse is a rough subject to talk about, and almost no one wants to read about how many years you can end up behind bars if you’re accused of hurting or neglecting…
When you hear about someone in the news being faced with “child abuse charges“, this could actually mean a lot of different things. The Michigan penal code contains many different criminal charges relating to child abuse that a prosecutor can choose from. Which charge they choose to bring depends entirely on the circumstances of the…
One of the greatest challenges people in certain professions face, is when someone else doing the same work is convicted of a work-related crime. When a cop is charged with excessive use of force, it changes the way people interact with other officers, even if they had nothing to do with the incident. If a…