| Wayne man charged in child porn case | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:49:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | WAYNE -- A 67-year-old township man faces charges of raping a girl and committing related abuses after police, acting on a tip, investigated his collection of child pornographic photographs, police said. Werner Doecks of Black Oak Ridge Road is charged with sexually assaulting the girl, taking photographs of her engaged in sexual acts and nudity, and sharing those photographs with others, Detective Capt. Paul Ireland said Wednesday. .... | |
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| | | In fish and pipelines, junk forecasts mean little; just deal | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 2:53:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | Thirty-four years ago, The Club of Rome's "Limits to Growth" book warned that if then-present trends in consumption and population growth continued, the Earth would be virtually stripped of resources within a century. That forecast was an uninformative truism, an extrapolation of recent trends that made no provision for changes in behavior or for new technology or for sheer chance. Today, "Limits to Growth" is a textbook example of a junk forecast. Writing in the Nov. 3 issue of the magazine Science, Canadian marine biologist Boris Worm and a team of biologists and economists are at it again. According to Worm and his associates, by the year 2050 most wild seafood stocks outside of Alaska will be exhausted unless fishery managers change their ways. Mimicking the Club of Rome, they base their conclusion on another simple extrapolation of current trends and give us another uninformative truism.... | |
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| | | U.S. must demonstrate a will to stop child pornography | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 6:54:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Im rather technically challenged and ignorant so I thought that we are helpless to stop the ooze of Internet child pornography except to install a filter or try to prosecute purveyors. Today I learned that child porn Web sites hosted in the U.K. are shut down within 24 hours of being reported, and that the U.S. puts out over half of the worlds Internet child pornography. Why? Why arent we shutting these sites down? Is it because Congress passes laws to protect our children and then the courts strike them down? Is it because groups like the American Civil Liberties Union fight for our rights to continue this behavior? Is anything wrong anymore? Or do our liberties extend to being able to kill, steal and destroy little children? Who considers England Victorian or a paragon of virtue or morality? Yet they are mobilized to shut down this filth.... | |
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| | | Is it plain mischief or AD/HD? | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:52:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | UNDIAGNOSED, Attention Deficit- Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) may appear like a failure in parenting, an unwillingness and/or disability to enforce discipline on a headstrong, extremely mischievous, seemingly uncontrolled child. And indeed, pediatrician Dr. Harland R. Gephart said, at a very early age, it would be difficult to separate simple, ordinary childish behavior from the manifestations of the more disturbing disorder. Gephart, medical director of the Center for Attention Deficit Disorders at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound and pediatrics professor at the University of Washington in Washington, United States, was in Manila recently for the third National Conference on AD/HD. Symptoms of AD/HD are symptoms of all children. All kids can be fidgety or overactive or distractible its a matter of degree.... | |
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| | | Child porn charges filed | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 6:54:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Northland business executive was charged Wednesday with three counts of possession of child pornography. Ronald E. Elmquist, 60, the president and CEO of QualServ Corp., a manufacturer and distributor of food-service equipment, was taken in for questioning and arrested Tuesday afternoon by North Kansas City police. His bond was set at $100,000. Clay County authorities said Elmquist's company-issued computer contained a video of a strip tease and a sex act performed by a 14-year-old girl. The hard drive also had other images of nude teenage and prepubescent girls engaged in various sexual acts, according to court documents. Authorities said a company technician found the images after Elmquist complained of pop-up ads and spyware on his laptop computer. "It is very disturbing that a 60-year-old man who is an executive of a major corporation would be engaging in such perverted behavior," Clay County Prosecutor Daniel L.... | |
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| | | More Than 100,000 Child Porn Images Seized In Md. | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 6:52:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | Federal prosecutors in Baltimore announced the indictment of four men on child pornography charges. As WJZ's Suzanne Collins reports, those indicted include 43-year-old James Watson of Pasadena, who's accused of possessing hundreds of thousands of pictures and video files depicting child pornography. Authorities seized 17 computers and external hard drives from Watson's home. "It's shocking because I had talked to him several times," said Watson's neighbor Marie Roe. "I'm thinking about the little children in the neighborhood."When asked about Watson's behavior Roe told WJZ's Collins, "He was very nice, [he] offered free crabs."Also indicted were 36-year-old Steven Buckley of Cordova, 43-year-old Robert Reeves of Forest Hill and 21-year-old David Mentzer of Joppa. Buckley's charges include the alleged exploitation of a girl younger than 12 to produce nude, sexually explicit photographs.... | |
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| | | Vancouver - Woman sentenced in child porn case | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:51:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | A 43-year-old Ridgefield woman was sentenced Thursday to one year in the Clark County Jail on a count of possession of child pornography with sexual motivation for keeping a videotape of her husband having sex with a young girl. Kristina L. Stallings was given credit for the 179 days she has spent in jail since her arrest. Stallings and her then-husband, Jerry Wayne Stallings, 42, were arrested in May after a woman acquaintance discovered a videotape of him having sex with the girl, who is now 8. Kristina Stallings had given the woman the tape for safekeeping a year earlier, but the woman had not watched it until just before the arrests. In July, Jerry Stallings pleaded guilty to raping and sexually exploiting the girl. He was sentenced in August to 331/2 years in prison, though the sentence can be reduced by 10 percent with good behavior.... | |
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| | | Dad to stand trial in abuse of son | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:50:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | BERKLEY -- A 35-year-old Berkley man accused of hog-tying his 5-year-old son for acting up was ordered to stand trial Wednesday on second-degree child abuse charges. Andrew Nierscher faces up to four years in prison after he allegedly tied his son to a chair, hog-tied him on the floor and then had someone snap pictures of the boy to remind the boy of his unruly behavior. Nierscher is out on bond, and all three of his children are in foster care. "This is clearly brutal," said Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Sara Pope-Starnes. "We don't treat animals this way, let alone children." But Shawn Coppins, Nierscher's attorney, contends it was someone else who tied the boy up. Coppins also believes his client was overcharged because the boy wasn't hurt and the alleged actions weren't brutal, inhuman and sadistic as the state law requires.... | |
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| | | NextSteps: Trusts can try to shape the behavior of beneficiaries | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 2:49:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | To our readers: This column is Part Two of our answer last week to a husband and wife who wanted advice on whether to disinherit their problem child totally, or, alternatively, set up a trust for him. The son had a long-standing drug and alcohol problem and had been in numerous scrapes with the law over a period of more than 20 years. Admit it or not, many families are faced with one or more difficult children whose problems run the gamut from substance abuse to criminal activity to laziness to an inability to handle money. Other reasons for parents wanting to restrict financial distributions to children can include protection of a child from claims that may be made as a result of an imprudent marriage and subsequent divorce, or claims made by creditors. Faced with these tribulations, parents must often decide whether to either 1) disinherit the child, which is an extreme decision at one end of the spectrum, or 2) restrict the flow of inherited money to that child to protect him from himself through the use of appropriately drafted trusts.... | |
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| | | Something Rotten in the Suburbs of 'Little Children' | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 2:49:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | In "Little Children," the arrival of a convicted child molester in East Wyndam, Mass., triggers outrage throughout the community. But in this movie's reverse code, Ronnie the pedophile (Jackie Earle Haley) is practically one of the good guys. We don't approve of his behavior, of course, but we empathize with a tormented soul who's hounded by high-minded citizens in a flurry of leaflets and sanctimony. And we understand who the real offenders are: people like Larry (Noah Emmerich), the obnoxious ex-cop who takes a bullhorn to Ronnie's house at night, and Mary Ann (Mary B. McCann), a frosty homemaker who denounces the pedophile before her regular gathering of playground moms. .... | |
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