Newport News man charged in death of 1-year-old
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Newport News police investigating child's death - Jul. 21
By Lauren King
The Virginian-Pilot
© July 23, 2010
NEWPORT NEWS
Police have charged a 22-year-old man in the death of a 17-month-old boy who was found dead Tuesday evening.
Darius Orlando Brown of Newport News was charged with murder and four counts of malicious assault, a Newport News police news release said. He was being held at the city jail.
At 4:34 p.m. Tuesday, police were called to the 600 block of Aqua Vista Drive and found the 17-month-old boy in a bedroom. He was unresponsive and had signs of trauma on his body, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the boy's cause of death was head trauma with blunt force abdominal trauma as a contributing factor.
The boy’s mother was not home at the time, police said. The boy and his 5-year-old sister were being cared for by Brown, the mother’s boyfriend.
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/07/newport-news-man-charged-death-1yearold
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Friday, July 23, 2010
Texas mom tells 911 she used wire to kill children
Texas mom tells 911 she used wire to kill children
July 22, 2010 - 4:07am
The photo provided Tuesday July 20, 2010, by the Irving Police Department shows 30-year-old Saiqa Akhter. Police say the Dallas-area mother suspected of strangling her two children, including her 5-year-old-son who died, will be charged with capital murder. Irving police spokesman David Tull says Akhter is in jail pending arraignment Tuesday July 20, 2010, a day after she called 911 and said she had done "something terrible" to her children.(AP Photo/Irving Police Department) By TERRY WALLACE
Associated Press Writer
DALLAS (AP) - A suburban Dallas woman accused of killing her two young children told a 911 operator that she first tried to poison them because they were autistic and she wanted "normal kids," then choked them with a wire until they stopped moving, according to the recorded call.
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July 22, 2010 - 4:07am
The photo provided Tuesday July 20, 2010, by the Irving Police Department shows 30-year-old Saiqa Akhter. Police say the Dallas-area mother suspected of strangling her two children, including her 5-year-old-son who died, will be charged with capital murder. Irving police spokesman David Tull says Akhter is in jail pending arraignment Tuesday July 20, 2010, a day after she called 911 and said she had done "something terrible" to her children.(AP Photo/Irving Police Department) By TERRY WALLACE
Associated Press Writer
DALLAS (AP) - A suburban Dallas woman accused of killing her two young children told a 911 operator that she first tried to poison them because they were autistic and she wanted "normal kids," then choked them with a wire until they stopped moving, according to the recorded call.
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CYFS destroys fathers and children
MENZ Issues: news and discussion about New Zealand men, fathers, family law, divorce, courts, protests, gender politics, and male health.
Fri 23rd July 2010
CYFS destroys fathers and children
Filed under: General,Sex Abuse / CYF — julie @ 6:34 pm
How far will a father go to protect his little girl?
Two months ago I wrote about a father who has been protesting outside Prime Minister John Key’s home, Social Minister Paula Bennett’s office and CYFS offices around the country.
He has been trying tirelessly to save his 3 year old daughter from her mother’s abuse and gang affiliation.
New Zealand like other western countries follows feminist ideology when it comes to heterosexual relationships and uses the presumption men=bad and women=good. If a man does something wrong it’s ‘men’s power’, ‘ the myth of men’s superiority’ and ‘Patriarchy’. When women do something wrong it’s ‘men made her do it’ because of ‘men’s power’, ‘the myth of men’s superiority’ and ‘Patriarchy’.
Men have received the blame from the very beginning of ‘girl power’ where girls were encouraged to compete with boys and cheered when they could do something better than a boy while boys were encouraged to build the girl’s self-esteem, go easy on them and protect them from hurting themselves. If the boys failed to do this, society came down on them like a ton of bricks. “Good girl, bad boy” was something this generation of children were raised with and in turn as adults, they have placed it into law and policy. The writing of our laws don’t look to be discriminative but the policies on how the laws are practised are.
This not only puts men at a disadvantage but children who have abusive mothers. Statistics show mothers to be the greatest abusers of children, then step fathers, then biological fathers. Regardless of why this is or what sort of abuse it is, the children that suffer aren’t capable of raising the alarm to their abuse. They rely on another adult to protect them. Knowing this, New Zealand has poured millions of tax paid dollars into advertising the need for adults to speak up for children and not ignore the problem. Politicians have vowed for society’s vote, to tackle the problem with a zero tolerance on child abuse.
Primary schools have social workers who look for child abuse, childcare centres and community groups are trained to know what to look for, nurses won’t let parents leave the maternity ward with their baby if there’s an inclination something isn’t right, police arrest parents under policy that won’t allow exceptions and judges prosecute. There’s so much put in place to protect children until it clashes with feminism.
CYFS feminist policies for fathers is evil. Not only is a child never to trust a father but a father cannot protect his child. In this case the mother has a ‘P’ addiction and spends her time using and dealing drugs with the gangs. Ordinarily CYFS would care and take the child from the mother but because of it’s policy against fathers and that the father in this case (as in quite a number) can take care of the child, the child’s welfare comes second to feminism.
The child is being physically abused and the father wants it stopped. He told CYFS their decision to place the child in the mother’s care was the worst decision they could make but CYFS didn’t care to listen. He proved her ‘P’ addiction and CYFS turned around and said the mother could smoke ‘P’ but only outside the house. The father took the child to the doctor to have her wounds cared for and CYFS put a protection and supervision order on the father so he could not see his daughter nor ask if she was OK. The police have arrested him while the mother is under their radar for drug dealing. The child has been present in drug busts of gang members homes. The mother has 3 children in her care and they have spoken out on video and CYFS refuses to acknowledge their cries for help. All this has been in the name of destroying a father.
Every single National politician has been contacted with the Prime Minister saying, get rid of this father and those that follow him because he is going to bring bad publicity on us. MP Paula Bennett has just ignored this father’s pleas to care for an abused child while she publicly tells society she cares deeply for children.
Yesterday the 22nd July 2010 CYFS finally uplifted the father’s little girl and 2 other children in this mothers care. As you can imagine, our father didn’t sleep well last night and yet he’s been having sleepless nights for the past 10 months.
Today being the 23rd of July, our father is at yet another CYFS meeting where they will try to negotiate everything but allowing him to raise his child in a loving family.
CYFS and the police are worried for the father’s safety as he has uncovered not just his child’s mother drug dealing but that of the gang association. It’s a huge drug ring that will protect many parent’s children. As well as this lots of CYFS social workers (I mean lots and lots more to come) have been either fired or left CYFS for drug use and other corrupt behaviour. You wouldn’t think one father could take on a whole system but it has happened. He has CYFS safe houses under surveillance where children are being abused and CYFS are begging for addresses.
Alongside our father are MRAs and others that care very much for the welfare of children and their parents who are being abused by the system.
Who’s to know what is yet to come and what else this father has hidden away. I guess there is no limit to how far a father will go for his little girl. May all little girls be so lucky and may society start seeing that men are important.
http://menz.org.nz/2010/cyfs-destroys-fathers-and-children/
Fri 23rd July 2010
CYFS destroys fathers and children
Filed under: General,Sex Abuse / CYF — julie @ 6:34 pm
How far will a father go to protect his little girl?
Two months ago I wrote about a father who has been protesting outside Prime Minister John Key’s home, Social Minister Paula Bennett’s office and CYFS offices around the country.
He has been trying tirelessly to save his 3 year old daughter from her mother’s abuse and gang affiliation.
New Zealand like other western countries follows feminist ideology when it comes to heterosexual relationships and uses the presumption men=bad and women=good. If a man does something wrong it’s ‘men’s power’, ‘ the myth of men’s superiority’ and ‘Patriarchy’. When women do something wrong it’s ‘men made her do it’ because of ‘men’s power’, ‘the myth of men’s superiority’ and ‘Patriarchy’.
Men have received the blame from the very beginning of ‘girl power’ where girls were encouraged to compete with boys and cheered when they could do something better than a boy while boys were encouraged to build the girl’s self-esteem, go easy on them and protect them from hurting themselves. If the boys failed to do this, society came down on them like a ton of bricks. “Good girl, bad boy” was something this generation of children were raised with and in turn as adults, they have placed it into law and policy. The writing of our laws don’t look to be discriminative but the policies on how the laws are practised are.
This not only puts men at a disadvantage but children who have abusive mothers. Statistics show mothers to be the greatest abusers of children, then step fathers, then biological fathers. Regardless of why this is or what sort of abuse it is, the children that suffer aren’t capable of raising the alarm to their abuse. They rely on another adult to protect them. Knowing this, New Zealand has poured millions of tax paid dollars into advertising the need for adults to speak up for children and not ignore the problem. Politicians have vowed for society’s vote, to tackle the problem with a zero tolerance on child abuse.
Primary schools have social workers who look for child abuse, childcare centres and community groups are trained to know what to look for, nurses won’t let parents leave the maternity ward with their baby if there’s an inclination something isn’t right, police arrest parents under policy that won’t allow exceptions and judges prosecute. There’s so much put in place to protect children until it clashes with feminism.
CYFS feminist policies for fathers is evil. Not only is a child never to trust a father but a father cannot protect his child. In this case the mother has a ‘P’ addiction and spends her time using and dealing drugs with the gangs. Ordinarily CYFS would care and take the child from the mother but because of it’s policy against fathers and that the father in this case (as in quite a number) can take care of the child, the child’s welfare comes second to feminism.
The child is being physically abused and the father wants it stopped. He told CYFS their decision to place the child in the mother’s care was the worst decision they could make but CYFS didn’t care to listen. He proved her ‘P’ addiction and CYFS turned around and said the mother could smoke ‘P’ but only outside the house. The father took the child to the doctor to have her wounds cared for and CYFS put a protection and supervision order on the father so he could not see his daughter nor ask if she was OK. The police have arrested him while the mother is under their radar for drug dealing. The child has been present in drug busts of gang members homes. The mother has 3 children in her care and they have spoken out on video and CYFS refuses to acknowledge their cries for help. All this has been in the name of destroying a father.
Every single National politician has been contacted with the Prime Minister saying, get rid of this father and those that follow him because he is going to bring bad publicity on us. MP Paula Bennett has just ignored this father’s pleas to care for an abused child while she publicly tells society she cares deeply for children.
Yesterday the 22nd July 2010 CYFS finally uplifted the father’s little girl and 2 other children in this mothers care. As you can imagine, our father didn’t sleep well last night and yet he’s been having sleepless nights for the past 10 months.
Today being the 23rd of July, our father is at yet another CYFS meeting where they will try to negotiate everything but allowing him to raise his child in a loving family.
CYFS and the police are worried for the father’s safety as he has uncovered not just his child’s mother drug dealing but that of the gang association. It’s a huge drug ring that will protect many parent’s children. As well as this lots of CYFS social workers (I mean lots and lots more to come) have been either fired or left CYFS for drug use and other corrupt behaviour. You wouldn’t think one father could take on a whole system but it has happened. He has CYFS safe houses under surveillance where children are being abused and CYFS are begging for addresses.
Alongside our father are MRAs and others that care very much for the welfare of children and their parents who are being abused by the system.
Who’s to know what is yet to come and what else this father has hidden away. I guess there is no limit to how far a father will go for his little girl. May all little girls be so lucky and may society start seeing that men are important.
http://menz.org.nz/2010/cyfs-destroys-fathers-and-children/
Malicious adults use drugs, alcohol to abuse kids (CPS/DCYF Included)
Malicious adults use drugs, alcohol to abuse kids
Sleeping pills, cough syrup, laxatives harm 160 children a year, study says
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by JoNel Aleccia
Health writer
msnbc.com
updated 7/22/2010 8:46:16 AM ET
:
Parents and caregivers who slip young, healthy children doses of common drugs — including painkillers, sedatives and laxatives — are fueling a dangerous but hidden form of child abuse, new research finds.
About 160 kids are hurt in the United States each year — and at least two die — after being forced to ingest antidepressants, cough and cold medicines, even drugs to treat high blood pressure. Many are given alcohol, marijuana or cocaine, according to the first large-scale study of the issue published in the Journal of Pediatrics.
“We believe that the malicious use of pharmaceuticals may be an under-recognized form and or component of child maltreatment,” said Dr. Shan Yin, who led the study conducted at the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver.
Yin, a medical toxicologist, analyzed more than 21.4 million calls to the National Poison Data System between 2000 and 2008. When he looked at cases of drug and alcohol poisoning coded as “malicious” in children younger than 7, Shin found 1,439 cases of kids who’d been exposed. Some 172 children were seriously injured and 18 died.
They included a 4-month-old girl killed in 2003 when a babysitter gave her a full bottle of decongestant, and a 5-year-old girl who died in 2006 after her mother gave her antidepressants and muscle relaxants.
“I just don’t know what goes on in the minds of people who try to harm their child,” said Yin, an emergency room doctor who has treated cases of abuse.
Parents may be angry, frustrated
Poison center records don’t include motives for the poisonings, said Yin. But he speculates that known causes for child abuse — punishment, frustration with the demands of parenting — may play a role in drug-induced harm.
“There’s a very wide spectrum, from frank homicides to people who are not trying to hurt their children,” he said. “Maybe they want them to go to sleep for an hour so they can go to sleep or go shopping.”
In some cases, an adult’s warped sense of amusement at seeing a child intoxicated could be the motivation.
“I think somebody might think it’s funny,” Yin said.
Sedatives were used in more than half the cases Yin studied, often in combination with other drugs. Pain relievers were found in 176 kids; laxatives were used in 67. The average age of the victims was 2, which is consistent with other types of child abuse.
While the number of documented malicious drug-abuse cases was small, Yin says his research is likely just a snapshot of a much larger problem. Abuse via malicious drug or alcohol abuse is not captured by current definitions of child maltreatment, which include physical, sexual and emotional use and neglect.
When it does occur, not all cases are reported to the nation’s poison centers, Yin said.
Clayton County Police Department
This undated photo released by the Clayton County Police Department shows William Allen Cunningham, who has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his two children. Prosecutors said Cunningham laced his children's soup with prescription drugs and lighter fluid in a scheme to extort money from Campbell's Soup Co. in 2006. The children, then ages 18 months and 3-years, were sickened but survived.
For instance, the poison center data didn’t include the case of William Allen Cunningham, a Georgia man who in 2006 poisoned his 3-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter by feeding them canned soup laced with hot peppers and lighter fluid and later with prescription antidepressants. Cunningham then tried to extort money from the Campbell Soup Co. by claiming the soup was tainted when he bought it.
He was sentenced to 100 years in prison last year, according to news reports.
Links to physical abuse
Poisoning likely is occurring in conjunction with other kinds of child abuse, including the nearly 150,000 cases of physical abuse reported each year, Yin said. He’d like to see comprehensive drug screening for children who show up in emergency departments with suspicious injuries.
Child abuse caused by poisoning is a rare but recognized harm, said Jim Hmurovich, president and chief executive of Prevent Child Abuse America, an advocacy agency. While he had yet to review the new study, Hmurovich said it points to the need for better child abuse prevention efforts.
“I don’t think it’s right at any time to give unprescribed medicine to a child,” he said. “Did the parent do it out of frustration? Did they do it at their wits’ end? If that’s the case, we need to be even more aggressive in terms of parent education.”
Yin said he hopes his study makes people think twice about using drugs to calm children.
“For parents, there’s a spectrum. I personally know friends who have given children Benadryl on a plane,” he said. “But any time you give a child a non-prescribed medication, you run the risk of harming the child.”
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Sleeping pills, cough syrup, laxatives harm 160 children a year, study says
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by JoNel Aleccia
Health writer
msnbc.com
updated 7/22/2010 8:46:16 AM ET
:
Parents and caregivers who slip young, healthy children doses of common drugs — including painkillers, sedatives and laxatives — are fueling a dangerous but hidden form of child abuse, new research finds.
About 160 kids are hurt in the United States each year — and at least two die — after being forced to ingest antidepressants, cough and cold medicines, even drugs to treat high blood pressure. Many are given alcohol, marijuana or cocaine, according to the first large-scale study of the issue published in the Journal of Pediatrics.
“We believe that the malicious use of pharmaceuticals may be an under-recognized form and or component of child maltreatment,” said Dr. Shan Yin, who led the study conducted at the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver.
Yin, a medical toxicologist, analyzed more than 21.4 million calls to the National Poison Data System between 2000 and 2008. When he looked at cases of drug and alcohol poisoning coded as “malicious” in children younger than 7, Shin found 1,439 cases of kids who’d been exposed. Some 172 children were seriously injured and 18 died.
They included a 4-month-old girl killed in 2003 when a babysitter gave her a full bottle of decongestant, and a 5-year-old girl who died in 2006 after her mother gave her antidepressants and muscle relaxants.
“I just don’t know what goes on in the minds of people who try to harm their child,” said Yin, an emergency room doctor who has treated cases of abuse.
Parents may be angry, frustrated
Poison center records don’t include motives for the poisonings, said Yin. But he speculates that known causes for child abuse — punishment, frustration with the demands of parenting — may play a role in drug-induced harm.
“There’s a very wide spectrum, from frank homicides to people who are not trying to hurt their children,” he said. “Maybe they want them to go to sleep for an hour so they can go to sleep or go shopping.”
In some cases, an adult’s warped sense of amusement at seeing a child intoxicated could be the motivation.
“I think somebody might think it’s funny,” Yin said.
Sedatives were used in more than half the cases Yin studied, often in combination with other drugs. Pain relievers were found in 176 kids; laxatives were used in 67. The average age of the victims was 2, which is consistent with other types of child abuse.
While the number of documented malicious drug-abuse cases was small, Yin says his research is likely just a snapshot of a much larger problem. Abuse via malicious drug or alcohol abuse is not captured by current definitions of child maltreatment, which include physical, sexual and emotional use and neglect.
When it does occur, not all cases are reported to the nation’s poison centers, Yin said.
Clayton County Police Department
This undated photo released by the Clayton County Police Department shows William Allen Cunningham, who has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his two children. Prosecutors said Cunningham laced his children's soup with prescription drugs and lighter fluid in a scheme to extort money from Campbell's Soup Co. in 2006. The children, then ages 18 months and 3-years, were sickened but survived.
For instance, the poison center data didn’t include the case of William Allen Cunningham, a Georgia man who in 2006 poisoned his 3-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter by feeding them canned soup laced with hot peppers and lighter fluid and later with prescription antidepressants. Cunningham then tried to extort money from the Campbell Soup Co. by claiming the soup was tainted when he bought it.
He was sentenced to 100 years in prison last year, according to news reports.
Links to physical abuse
Poisoning likely is occurring in conjunction with other kinds of child abuse, including the nearly 150,000 cases of physical abuse reported each year, Yin said. He’d like to see comprehensive drug screening for children who show up in emergency departments with suspicious injuries.
Child abuse caused by poisoning is a rare but recognized harm, said Jim Hmurovich, president and chief executive of Prevent Child Abuse America, an advocacy agency. While he had yet to review the new study, Hmurovich said it points to the need for better child abuse prevention efforts.
“I don’t think it’s right at any time to give unprescribed medicine to a child,” he said. “Did the parent do it out of frustration? Did they do it at their wits’ end? If that’s the case, we need to be even more aggressive in terms of parent education.”
Yin said he hopes his study makes people think twice about using drugs to calm children.
“For parents, there’s a spectrum. I personally know friends who have given children Benadryl on a plane,” he said. “But any time you give a child a non-prescribed medication, you run the risk of harming the child.”
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Former Foster Dad Sentenced for Sex Abuse
Former Foster Dad Sentenced for Sex Abuse
July 22, 2010
By Dan Corcoran
EUGENE, Ore. -- It is sentencing day for a local man who admits to sexually abusing three of his own foster children.
Joshua Thomas Friar will spend nearly 20 years in prison for what the victims' families call the ultimate abuse of trust.
It wasn't until Friar's sentencing Thursday that KEZI learned just how disturbing some of his actions were. Friar was entrusted to care for three young boys, only to betray that trust in so many ways.
"There could be no more intimate place where you could be in contact with a child than in a family setting behind closed doors," said Assistant District Attorney Eric Hasselman.
Behind closed courtroom doors is where Friar admitted to sexually abusing three of his foster children. That admission that has landed the 26-year-old behind bars for 220 months.
"We've looked at this case as being one that's particularly disturbing," said Hasselman.
Prosecutors say Friar was an employee at Jasper Mountain Treatment Facility working with young and often troubled children. That's where he met one of his victims, a 13-year-old boy who needed a home.
With Department of Human Services out of resources, Friar stepped up to be a foster parent. At that time, there were no red flags.
"There weren't any warnings that came up in a background check, anything would cause them to think that he was a danger to work around children," said Hasselman.
Over the next several months, two other boys, ages 9 and 11, were also placed in Friar's Springfield home.
It wasn't until November 2009, after the children had moved in with new foster families around Oregon, that any of boys spoke up about inappropriate contact.
Over the course of 18 months, Friar now admits to abusing the boys. Prosecutors say he violated the law in every conceivable sexual manner. Faced with a daunting legal battle ahead, Friar pleaded guilty to 6 of 28 counts of sexual abuse.
"People that are otherwise pillars of the community, but behind closed doors are committing criminal acts against children," said Hasselman.
The victims are all in therapy and trying to move forward. Friar did speak out in court Thursday. He did offer what he called his deepest apologies for breaking the trust of children that he loved. He said he'll work now on giving back to society instead of taking from it.
http://kezi.com/news/local/182308
July 22, 2010
By Dan Corcoran
EUGENE, Ore. -- It is sentencing day for a local man who admits to sexually abusing three of his own foster children.
Joshua Thomas Friar will spend nearly 20 years in prison for what the victims' families call the ultimate abuse of trust.
It wasn't until Friar's sentencing Thursday that KEZI learned just how disturbing some of his actions were. Friar was entrusted to care for three young boys, only to betray that trust in so many ways.
"There could be no more intimate place where you could be in contact with a child than in a family setting behind closed doors," said Assistant District Attorney Eric Hasselman.
Behind closed courtroom doors is where Friar admitted to sexually abusing three of his foster children. That admission that has landed the 26-year-old behind bars for 220 months.
"We've looked at this case as being one that's particularly disturbing," said Hasselman.
Prosecutors say Friar was an employee at Jasper Mountain Treatment Facility working with young and often troubled children. That's where he met one of his victims, a 13-year-old boy who needed a home.
With Department of Human Services out of resources, Friar stepped up to be a foster parent. At that time, there were no red flags.
"There weren't any warnings that came up in a background check, anything would cause them to think that he was a danger to work around children," said Hasselman.
Over the next several months, two other boys, ages 9 and 11, were also placed in Friar's Springfield home.
It wasn't until November 2009, after the children had moved in with new foster families around Oregon, that any of boys spoke up about inappropriate contact.
Over the course of 18 months, Friar now admits to abusing the boys. Prosecutors say he violated the law in every conceivable sexual manner. Faced with a daunting legal battle ahead, Friar pleaded guilty to 6 of 28 counts of sexual abuse.
"People that are otherwise pillars of the community, but behind closed doors are committing criminal acts against children," said Hasselman.
The victims are all in therapy and trying to move forward. Friar did speak out in court Thursday. He did offer what he called his deepest apologies for breaking the trust of children that he loved. He said he'll work now on giving back to society instead of taking from it.
http://kezi.com/news/local/182308
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Mothers For Justice - Social Services LIE to Adoptive Parent
http://givemykidsback.blogspot.com/2010/07/mothers-for-justice-social-services-lie.html
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