How Far is Too Far? The United States Constitution protects a parent’s right to parent their own children, making the decisions they feel are best and raising their children with whatever beliefs and practices they consider to be the best for their family. But there are an increasing number of instances where these rights are…
Sentencing Set for Couple Accused of Caging Teenager Karen and Timothy Tolin, the Huron County couple who are currently up against some very stiff charges for keeping their adopted teenaged son caged, have accepted a plea deal for unlawful imprisonment.
On April 3, 2014, the Presque Isle County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to a home in Hawks where a baby was found unresponsive and not breathing. Ashton Robert Richardson, who was only three weeks old at the time, was rushed to Alpena Regional Medical Center, where he was discovered to have suffered from injuries to…
One-year-old Wyatt Rewoldt, was hospitalized and near death after suffering brain damage, allegedly at the hands of his father’s girlfriend. His mother, Erica Hammel, had early suspicions that the girlfriend was unfit to care for her son but a Google search on the girlfriend yielded no results.
Jamarion Lawhorn, the 12-year-old boy currently enmeshed in a tangled and tragic series of events in Kent County, has been found competent to stand trial by a forensic examiner. According to the exam, which ran to 33 pages and was conducted by Dr. Susan Tremonti of the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry, the preteen…
This past December the Associated Press (AP) reported that at least 786 kids have died of neglect or abuse over a 6 year period in the U.S. right in plain sight of child protective services. Many children were starved, beaten, or even drowned after the agencies determined these children were at risk.
A recent ruling by the Michigan Court of Appeals means that a Houghton County couple may actually have grounds for a malpractice suit against a counselor. The parents say the counselor implanted false memories of sexual abuse in their 17-year-old daughter’s mind.
Abigail Simon, the Catholic tutor who was convicted of sustaining a sexual relationship with one of her 15-year-old students, will be sentenced next month in the Kent County Circuit Court. She is facing ten or more years in a state penitentiary for her crimes. But as it turns out, she could have skipped the…
What started out as as an apparent cry for help from a mother trying to get her children out of an abusive home, turned into a cross-country search and has resulted in child abuse charges against both parents.
The words “child sexual abuse” are horrific all by themselves. But when you add phrases like “no obligation to inform”, “statute of limitations” and “let sleeping dogs lie”, you end up with a catastrophic scandal akin to the media storm that has rocked the Catholic Church over the last few decades.