The “Fracture Printing Interface” One of the hardest things a doctor does during their professional career is attempt to determine whether or not a hurt child has been abused, or simply had an accident. After all, a lot rides on their opinion. Families got torn apart. People go to prison. Children lose their parents. So…
Category: Child Abuse Defense
Charlie Bothuell, the now 13-year-old boy found hiding in his father’s basement after an 11 day statewide search, told horrifying tales of an isolated and abusive life. His story sparked an investigation into the lives of his father and stepmother which eventually led to charges of abuse and torture.
Abusive Situations Make You Vulnerable to False Allegations In the previous segment on tactics for preventing abusive situations for your children, we looks at some of the statistics reflecting the realities of child abuse in today’s world, and discussed why it is so important to be careful. Especially since you could find yourself the subject…
Don’t be One of the Falsely Accused! “Prevent child abuse” is one of the easiest things to say, and yet one of the most daunting and terrifying subjects to actually address. But it doesn’t have to be. A series of simple strategies can help you to avoid abusive situations for your kids, and even false…
Joseph Douglas Franks, 30, and Andrea Ashley Limon, 27, the Northern Michigan couple who were initially charged with torture and first degree child abuse, appeared in Circuit Court before Judge Thomas Power recently. They were both sentenced, and will now be spending a significant part of their future in prison for the child abuse conviction.
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.
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.
Kenneth Jehle, a 54-year-old former middle school special education teacher, has been arrested and charged with child abuse, for allegedly inappropriately touching a student. What is disconcerting is the fact that this is not a new phenomena in Jehle’s personal history.