Child Abuse by Any Standard
November 3rd, 2011
By Tom Carter A very disturbing report and a video have surfaced this week showing a Texas judge, William Adams, brutally beating and cursing his 16-year-old daughter Hillary in 2004. The girl, who has ataxic cerebral palsy, was being disciplined for having downloaded music and games that weren’t available legally. The judge has been relieved of […]
Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: beating, child abuse, corporal punishment, cursing, judge, William Adams
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The Catholic Paradox
May 21st, 2009
An excerpt from a report today in the Philadelphia Inquirer: For more than a half century, thousands of children in church-run orphanages and reform schools in Ireland were severely abused by priests and nuns, a government commission said yesterday in the first official accounting of a scandal that has wrenched the deeply Roman Catholic nation. […]
Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Catholic Church, child abuse, Ireland
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