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Pediatrician Accused of Victimizing 103 Children Over 10 Year Period .pdf [775kb]
A Deleware grand jury indictment accuses Dr. Earl Bradley, 56, of victimizing
103 children. The charges range from rape and sexual exploitation
to endangering child welfare and assault.
View the CNN Video - Pediatrician Accused of Sexually Abusing Patients
Sex Crimes and the Vatican
In Sex Crimes and the Vatican O’Gorman explores four separate cases internationally of widespread clerical abuse, putting the Roman Catholic Church on trial for the reckless endangerment of children. ’Is the Church in default of its obligation as a signatory to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child?’
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Questions arise over how kidnapper went undetected
For 18 years, Phillip Garrido managed to elude detection as he pulled
off what authorities are calling an unfathomable crime, kidnapping
and raping 11 year old
Jaycee Dugard, keeping her as his secret
captive for nearly two decades and fathering two of her children.
Recent Deaths Highlight Child Abuse
Problem Five children killed, two
mothers charged. Evidence of past abuse problems in both cases
are causing some to question whether these children could have
been saved.
Bryanna
Harris was killed with an overdose of methadone.
S.C. case looks on child obesity as child abuse.
But is it?
With childhood obesity on the rise across the
USA, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Gray's attorney says it could open the door to
more criminal action against parents whose children have
become dangerously overweight.
Alexander Draper was
removed from his mother's care because he weighed 555 pounds
at age 14. |