| Child abuse - a horrific offense | | Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:17:33 PM by Rose Martins | Child abuse is not a pretty picture. You read and hear stories of how a child's been abused that literally leaves your hair standing on end. Statistics are relatively high dispite child abuse laws that are aimed at preventing child abuse offenses.
 The most horrifying aspect of many child abuse cases and the prevention thereof, is that often the abuser is someone close to the family, making it difficult to perhaps prevent. Not every child abuse victim will recover. Some wait until adulthood to deal with being a victim of abuse and some just never quite recover.
Internet content security companies are now joining the fight against child abuse by means of integrating the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) Child Abuse URL List into its Content Security Gateway (CSG) product for ISPs.
The internet is a popular tool of child abusers, allowing them easy access to child porn sites and children who are innocently using the net. CSG incorporates ultra high-speed scanning technology that is designed to monitor up to 250,000 web page requests every second, check target sites against the IWF list, and decide whether to allow or block access depending on the result.
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| | | $1,000 goes to Exchange Club/Stephens Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:49:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | The BI-LO Charity Classic recently awarded the Exchange Club/Stephens Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse with $1,000, funds from the annual BI-LO Charity Classic. The donation was received at a news conference on Nov. 14, in Chattanooga. "We offer our many thanks to BI-LO's commitment to the Exchange Club/Stephens Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse and our community," said Carolyn Isbell, executive director. "We are very proud of our partnership with BI-LO and their generous support of our organization."The BI-LO Charity Classic, now in its 23rd year, has become the largest single-day charity tournament in the country, and has continued to grow each year. BI-LO distributes the funds raised in the tournament to nonprofit organizations throughout the Southeast. In its history, the BI-LO Charity Classic has raised more than $33 million for charity.With headquarters in Mauldin, SC, BI-LO operates a total of 308 supermarkets in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and Alabama under the BI-LO, Bruno's, Food World and Food Max banners.... | |
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| | | Rendell signs broader laws on child-sex abuse | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 12:49:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell on Wednesday signed a package of bills intended to toughen penalties for sex offenders who prey on children, including a measure that would make changes recommended by a Philadelphia grand jury that investigated abuse by Roman Catholic priests. The legislation would give alleged victims of child-sex crimes until their 50th birthdays to file criminal complaints, 20 years longer than current law allows. Employers and supervisors could be held criminally liable if they know of alleged abuse by employees who care for children but they fail to stop it, and caregivers would have to report suspected abuse regardless of whether the victim reports it. The grand jury recommended legislative reforms in a September 2005 report that documented alleged assaults on minors by more than 60 priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese since 1967.... | |
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| | | Provo mother charged with felony child abuse | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:49:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | A mother accused of aggressively shaking her baby has been charged with felony child abuse. Joanna Ramirez, 23, was charged Tuesday in 4th District Court with a second-degree felony of child abuse/neglect for allegedly shaking her 6-week-old baby boy to make him stop crying. She was granted a court-appointed attorney as she was unable to pay for her own, according to a financial affidavit she filled out in court. When Ramirez took the baby to the hospital on Oct. 13 she told police who were called to investigate the child's injuries that the baby had fallen off the bed on Sept. 25, according to a police report filed in 4th District Court. However, when a doctor at Primary Children's Medical Center told her about the lacerations on the right frontal lobe of the baby's brain, Ramirez changed her story, according to the police report.... | |
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| | | Provo Dad Arrested For Suspicion Of Child Abuse | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:52:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | A 24-year-old father may soon face charges in connection with the child abuse of his infant daughter. Police say officers received a call earlier this week that Joshua Smith's two-month-old daughter was having a hard time breathing. Paramedics arrived at the scene and took the baby to a local hospital. She was then transported to Primary Children's Medical Center and admitted to the intensive care unit with a fractured skull. Meanwhile, Smith was arrested and booked into jail, however, he was since been released. .... | |
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| | | Victims of child abuse lured thru text messaging | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:50:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | PERPETRATORS of child abuse have become more wily, using the latest technology to victimize vulnerable minors. According to Dr. Irene Baluyot, associate director for research and publications of the Child Protection Unit (CPU) Network, there has been an alarming increase in the number of child abuse victims lured through text messaging. We never thought there would be a trend like this three years ago, Baluyot told the Inquirer in an interview during the Child Abuse Prevention Year launch at the Asilo de San Vicente de Paul in Manila yesterday. Baluyot said the perpetrators usually got the numbers of their victims -- usually teenagers -- from television programs featuring text chat rooms or through random text messaging. The victim would then meet up with her textmate -- who she thinks is a fellow high school student -- and end up being abused by an adult male, said Baluyot, a child protection specialist at the Philippine General Hospitals Child Protection Unit.... | |
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| | | Child abuse charge filed | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 2:53:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Cole County Prosecutor's Office has charged a Jefferson City man with child abuse. According to a police probable cause statement, Benjamin J. Thompson, 28, shook a 13-month-old baby Oct. 29 at a residence in the 700 block of Cliff Drive, causing acute and chronic subdural hemotoma with retinal hemorrhages.Officers said Thompson gave different reasons for why the child had sustained the injuries, mainly claiming that the child had fallen while in his care.Medical personnel who examined the child told officers that the child's injuries were consistent with shaken-baby syndrome.Thompson is being held in the Cole County Jail. .... | |
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| | | Child abuse may alter victims' brain chemistry, study shows | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:54:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | CHICAGO - A new study on monkeys raised by abusive mothers suggests that growing up in an abusive household can alter brain chemistry in a way that makes some youngsters prone to mistreating their own children when they grow up. In other words, abuse is not just something that's learned from living with abusive parents, although that may have an influence, according to authors of the report, published in Thursday's issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience. Suffering through abuse also appears to permanently lower the brain's production of an important regulator of emotions called serotonin, said Dario Maestripieri, the study's lead author and an associate professor at the University of Chicago in comparative human development. Low serotonin can make people more prone to acts of rejection, impulsive aggression and violence.... | |
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| | | Alleged inappropriate discipline leads to child abuse charges against couple | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:50:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | A man and woman were arrested last week and charged with several counts of child abuse after the 8-year-old child of Emma Marie Williams, 28, of 30 Carl Henson Rd. showed up at school with several signs of a severe beating.Williams and her boyfriend, Adam Warren Conley, 29, were charged.The Macon County Sheriff's Office was first alerted to the abuse after the 8-year-old child showed up for class at one of the county's elementary schools with signs of abuse.An investigation into the abuse was immediately put into action on Oct. 16, but then the child retuned to school the very next day with even more severe signs of abuse. .... | |
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| | | Pope issues child abuse warning | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:51:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Pope has lectured bishops on the "urgent" need to prevent further child abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church and restore faith in the priesthood. In his first public comments on the subject since becoming pontiff last year, he voiced his dismay at the "heart-rending" sexual abuse cases that had caused "deep wounds" to their victims and the public. His remarks yesterday were delivered to a delegation of bishops from Ireland, where the Catholic Church has been severely hit by abuse scandals in the past 10 years. .... | |
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| | | Couple arrested for child abuse | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:48:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | MONTGOMERY, Ala. Police have arrested a couple and charged them with abusing the man's seventeen month old baby son. Police said the child suffered several beatings but should recover. Jake Ducote and his live-in girlfriend, Tiffany Taunton, brought the baby to the Jackson Hospital emergency room. Doctors didn't believe the couple's story that the boy had fallen through a window in a French door. Montgomery police spokesman Captain Huey Thornton said it is unclear when the abuse began but that the boy clearly suffered severe pain. He had fractures on both sides of his head and on the back of his head. He also had bruising on his face and ruptured blood vessels in his eyes. Officers questioned Ducote and Taunton. Thornton said the boy was assaulted by his father as punishment for not eating.... | |
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