Topic: Child Abuse
The Love That Replaces Violence and Abuse
February 15, 2015 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen February 14, 2015 Working for peace in the world is a thankless task. Peace is elusive, as violence seems to grow despite all the great work of so many peacemakers. The terrible violence with unbridled savagery that we see today on our television screens shows humans descending to the lowest depths of horror. […]
Read More...Child Abuse in Jails
January 28, 2015 ·
Child abuse in jails January 26, 2015 1:44 am by FR. SHAY CULLEN THE front page of a widely circulated tabloid said it all in just one message in extra large bold letters: “Kids made to perform sex acts in detention.” Sensational indeed but true, very shockingly true. That is just one of the many violations […]
Read More...PNP secret torture chambers exposed
December 15, 2014 ·
PNP secret torture chambers exposed December 13, 2014 10:33 pm by FR. SHAY CULLEN Who would ever imagine that a secret torture squad attached to the Philippine National Police would use a crudely made “wheel of fortune” to select the torture technique they would use on their victims? Torture is outlawed by […]
Read More...Secret Torture Chambers Exposed
December 15, 2014 ·
Secret Torture Chambers Exposed Fr. Shay Cullen Who would ever imagine that a secret torture squad attached to the Philippine National Police would use a crudely made wheel of fortune to select the torture technique they would use on their victims? Torture is outlawed by international convention and the Philippine Penal Code yet in 2009 […]
Read More...No more hiding
November 11, 2014 ·
by Trish Kaye Lleone It took me thirty years to accept what happened to me and to go on full disclosure. No one in my family knew that I was being raped for years until I was 19. But even then, nothing happened so I’d lost hope and thought that I deserved what happened to […]
Read More...Healing through emotional expression therapy
October 3, 2014 ·
We have all had some disappointment, sadness, hurt or emotional pain in our lives. Some has remained with us a lifetime. It is this emotional pain that we carry through life unresolved and something we want to forget, get over and banish from our memory. We want to forget. But it is something that is always deep within.
Read More...Texas woman executed for starving child to death
September 22, 2014 ·
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas woman was executed Wednesday evening for her role in the torture and starvation death of her girlfriend’s 9-year-old son.
Read More...Voices: Beating a child bloody is not 'cultural'
September 22, 2014 ·
I was at a local park with my biological father in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, where we lived. He’d given me instructions to stay within a specific area, where he could see me while he played ball. But I didn’t listen.
Read More...When is punishment child abuse? #tellusatoday
September 22, 2014 ·
As a pediatrician, I am required to report child abuse, or any reasonable suspicion of child abuse, and failure to do so would be a crime. But the cases are not always black and white. Human beings are making these judgments so they will never be perfect (“Whippings part of Adrian Peterson’s childhood”).
Read More...NFL star Adrian Peterson arrested for child abuse
September 17, 2014 ·
13 September 2014 Last updated at 09:07 Adrian Peterson’s attorney said his client regretted the incident and insisted he was a loving father An American football player has been arrested in Texas for allegedly hitting his young child with a tree branch. Adrian Peterson, who plays for NFL side Minnesota Vikings, turned himself in to the authorities […]
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