Family Rights and Child Abuse News

Husband of Group Home Owner Arrested in Rape

by Mike Branom

He is charged in the assault of a mentally disabled woman.

The husband of group home owner was arrested Tuesday on charges that he raped a mentally disabled woman whose child is at the center of a court battle over abortion rights.

The Ledger (FL)

September 10, 2003

Taking a young life often means lesser sentence

by Ana M. Alaya

A review finds the average prison time was 11 years for those convicted in child homicide cases

Charles Brown, aka Tweety Bird, an unemployed airbrush painter in Salem County with 35 arrests, repeatedly punched his 18-month-old son because the child was crying. The judge sentenced him to eight years for the boy's death. With good behavior, he will be out in six years and nine months.

The Star-Ledger

August 24, 2003

CPS: 20 Years After Advocate's False Allegation, Is Virginia System Safer for Innocents and Unabused Children

Barbara Bryan, child/family justice advocate in the Commonwealth for years and now worldwide, observes changes in form but not substance.

Two decades after three middle school age Boy Scouts were felled by a repeat mandated vaccination, their once falsely accused mother notes no substantive features added to Virginia's child protective services (CPS) regulations to prevent the nightmare visited on them by government agents.<br><br>What is true in one state--that CPS and "family" courts are extraconstitutional and accept a reverse presumption: that the accused must prove innocence--is generally true throughout the United States and has been for years. Inducement of "more federal money" was too powerful a lure for counting the cost of liberty.

News Release Wire (VA)

August 19, 2003

Child porn swoop nets 90 police

by Martin Bright and Paul Harris

Hundreds of child welfare professionals, including police officers, care workers and teachers, have been identified as 'extremely high-risk' paedophiles by an investigation into internet porn.

The discovery came after US authorities passed on more than 7,000 names of UK subscribers to an American-based child porn website. When police examined a sample of the most dedicated users, they discovered that many worked with children. Investigators knew paedophiles targeted jobs which brought them into contact with children, but were shocked by how many British suspects had been undetected by the usual checks. The discovery that many were working in jobs of the highest sensitivity will send shock waves through the child protection world and lead to calls for even more stringent safeguards.

theguardian.com

October 19, 2002

DCF Worker Arrested For DUI

by NBC 6 News Team

MIAMI -- A DCF caseworker is under arrest, charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. But police say what she had in the back seat of her car is an even bigger outrage.

According to police, 56-year-old Mirla Pronga was found by officers, parked in the middle of the road along Biltmore Drive in Coral Gables on Thursday.

NBC News 10 (FL)

July 26, 2002