A young Battle Creek boy remains in critical condition in the hospital, three of his siblings have been removed by CPS, and his mother is behind bars. This story has featured in many online news articles in the last few days, and the rumors circulation are getting stranger by the minute. So let’s take…
Category: Child Abuse
We have been following the case of Dr. Larry Nassar for many months now, since the very first allegations of sexual abuse of a minor were made public. It has been a long and difficult road for everyone involved, and now a new curve ball has been thrown into the mix. MSU, who cleared…
27-year-old Derrick Wardell Mason III, a resident of Durand, has been arrested for the alleged abuse of a 22-month-old girl. According to police reports, the child in question was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries in February, and the investigation has resulted in both Mason and the child’s mother facing charges. According to the Shiawassee…
Thank you for coming back to wrap up this two part series on myths and facts about child abuse with us. Although we are attorneys specializing in defending those accused of child abuse and neglect, we are also parents who understand that child abuse is a very real problem in today’s world. So on…
As attorneys who have spent decades defending parents and caregivers who have been falsely accused of child abuse, we encounter a lot of misinformation about child abuse in our daily practice. As a result, we thought it may be helpful to take a few minutes to discuss some myths and their correlating facts, when…
Cari Ann Wright’s case is a tragic one. She is accused of causing her 16-year-old daughter’s death through neglect and abuse. Hannah Warner, Wright’s teenage daughter, died as a result of malnutrition and complications resulting from neglect, which Wright recently admitted to in court. Unlike many teens her age, Hannah was confined to…
The Catholic Church has a long and rather tragic history when it comes to child sexual abuse. For as long as anyone can remember, many in the church have taken the stance that it is more important to protect the church as an institution, than to protect the individual people inside it. This has…
According to the Michigan State Police, a female driver from Mancelona was pulled over recently in Kalkaska County for travelling at 101 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone. However, as if the severe speeding wasn’t enough of an issue for the officers, it was what they discovered after the car was pulled…
What makes this case different from so many other similar cases, is the fact that this scenario is not new to him. Keck served many years in prison for the 1993 murder of his infant daughter, when he was 16 years of age. According to court documents, the initial incident took place on…
Thanks for joining us again. We know this is a very difficult, and very controversial subject to discuss, and that people have very specific views about what they believe is right or wrong. We also know that often the most important subjects are the ones that are hardest to talk about. So we are…