child abuse
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Michael Jackson’s Family Condemns Leaving Neverland Doc, Says There’s a ‘Public Lynching’ by Media and ‘Vulture Tweeters’
Leaving Neverland, the four-hour documentary chronicling the sexual abuse claims of Wade Robson and James Safechuck at the hands of Michael Jackson has rippled through the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, leaving a bitter chill as cold as the ice caps on Utah’s mountains. Several patrons reportedly walked out in the middle of the screening, and…
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Missing from the Immigration Discussion? How the U.S. Gov’t Has Failed to Prevent Child Marriages
In the midst of separate but simultaneously disturbing cultural conversations about both the United States’ immigration policies and the sexualization and victimization of underage girls by adult men, another startling report has emerged. According to the Associated Press, government data reveals that over the past decade, the United States government has approved the petitions of…
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Louisiana School Co-founder Accused of Making Student Eat Rat Feces, Stepping on Another Student’s Face
The horrifying story of T.M. Landry College Preparatory School is getting clearer and bleaker as more details of abuse come to light during a state police investigation. According to the New York Times, which broke the original story, Louisiana State Police have been looking more closely at abusive behavior that seemingly ran rampant at the…
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Milwaukee Daycare Says 8-Month-Old Got Bit by a Mosquito; Injuries Point to Abuse
Early Friday morning, shortly after dropping off her 8-month-old son to Harvest Learning Center daycare, Rahzeena Hamilton says the center called to inform her that her son had a severe allergic reaction to a mosquito bite. But when she arrived to pick up Judale Malone, she noticed it was anything but a mosquito bite. Milwaukee…
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Texas Deputy Accused of Sexually Assaulting 4-Year-Old Girl, Threatening to Deport Victim’s Undocumented Mother
A Bexar County, Texas, sheriff’s deputy is being accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl while threatening the girl’s mother with deportation in order to get her to stay quiet about the abuse, authorities revealed Sunday. Jose Nunez, who has worked with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Department for 10 years, was arrested early Sunday,…
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South Carolina Day Care Owner Accused of Striking 4-Year-Old With a Paddle Nicknamed ‘Bob’
A Pickens, S.C., day care director is facing serious charges after she allegedly beat a 4-year-old with a paddle she apparently called “Bob.” According to Fox Carolina, Margaret Sue Tennis, owner of the Carousel of Learning, was arrested by the local police department and is currently facing assault and battery charges. On Tuesday a judge…
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Devonte Hart’s Biological Aunt Fought for Custody and Was Denied: Report
In 2010, a Texas appeals court turned down an attempt by Devonte Hart’s biological aunt to adopt him and three of his siblings. The court ruled against her because she had violated an order that prevented the kids from having any contact with their mother. Court records obtained by The Oregonian show that Priscilla Celestine,…
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Neighbor’s Father Called 911 After Hart Child Jumped out of Window and Begged for Help Months Before Fatal Car Crash
The timeline of disturbing allegations against the Harts, the family of eight whose car was driven off a California cliff last month, goes back a decade, and authorities are uncovering more details about the lengths the Hart children went to for help. The latest revelation concerns an incident that took place four months before the…
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Survivor’s Remorse: On Junot Díaz and the Collateral Damage of Trauma
I began this week in tears. Early Monday morning, hot, torrential tears were flowing as if I were in the midst of my last heartbreak—or the one before that, or the one before that. I was reading Junot Díaz’s searingly confessional essay in the New Yorker about confronting and coping with his childhood rape. Like…
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HIV-Positive Maryland School Track Coach Sentenced to 105 Years in Prison on Child-Pornography Charges
A former Maryland middle school aide was sentenced to 105 years in prison on federal child-pornography charges. Back in January, Carlos DeAngelo Bell, who was also a high school track coach, pleaded guilty to coercing children to engage in sexually explicit conduct in order to produce the pornography from 2014 to 2016, the Washington Post…