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• DV Victim Languishes in Jail For Refusing to Give Up Her Son’s Safe Location

  Published: July 24, 2007, 9:36 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Divorce, Visitation, Hague Convention Kidnapping International Child Custody

  to Canada to escape domestic violence by the father, according to her. For that, she has been convicted of kidnapping, and faces a sentence of up to three more years in prison. She has already served eighteen months for refusing to disclose where the boy is safely hidden. The boy’s father has denied any abuse. He claimed he had

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• Parenting Responsibility Made Complicated

  Published: August 2, 2007, 11:07 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Visitation

  Dad is murdered. Mother is convicted of the crime and sentenced to jail. Mother’s sister and brother in law are appointed guardians of seven year old child. Legal custody is shared by guardians and Dad’s parents, who live in another state. Court orders guardians not to take child to visit Mother in jail. Guardians later move for

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• Brooklyn Teenager Charged for Leaving Baby to Save Dinner, Since Baby Nearly Drowned

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:40 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  A teenaged Brooklyn mother was caring for her own eleven month old baby as well as her boyfriend’s two year old sister. She was alone, bathing the babies and trying to make dinner at the same time. The dinner was burning. So she allegedly left the babies, unsupervised, in the tub for a few minutes to tend to dinner. And her eleven

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• Mandatory Arrests in Domestic Violence Police Calls Reportedly Lead to More Murders of Intimate Partners

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:47 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse

  violence remains a stubborn problem that refuses to go away despite society’s efforts. Unfortunately, some perceived solutions haven’t panned out. For example, about twenty years ago, many states devised a procedure they thought couldn’t miss. Mandatory arrest on all domestic violence calls which summoned the police.

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• Appeals Court Refuses to Block Inlaws from Pursuing Termination of Son’s Wife’s Parental Rights and Adoption by Parents of Son Mother Did Time for Killing

  Published: August 15, 2007, 10:48 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Adoption, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  Widowed Mother sentenced to jail. Mother gives temporary custody of her children to late minister-husband’s parents. Mother’s sentence is almost discharged. Husband’s parents move to terminate Mother’s parental rights and to adopt the children. The reason Mother was incarcerated was her conviction for killing her

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• Florida Court Asks New York Court to Unseal Adoption Records To Identify Victims in Criminal Abuse Case

  Published: August 25, 2007, 8:39 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Adoption, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  faces criminal charges of abuse and neglect in Florida. And the Florida court can now request that the New York courts unseal the normally confidential adoption records. The records are needed to nail down the identities of the victims, nine of whom are now disabled adults in the care of the state of Florida. The whereabouts of two others

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• Three Year Old Goes from Protective Custody to Home - to Die Shortly Afterward

  Published: September 2, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  A 3 year old child, previously taken into protective custody by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), was released to his mother - only to die two months later. There was a court hearing on whether to release the little boy, but neither the boy’s non-lawyer advocate nor his caseworker attended. They weren’t aware of

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• Parental Alienation Expert Attacks Florida’s New Keeping Children Safe Act

  Published: September 9, 2007, 7:46 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Visitation, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  to Children). For example, reporters of any type of child abuse, not just sexual child abuse, are protected by anonymity. The legislative intent was to encourage witnesses and those with well-founded suspicions to come forward to protect children by protecting the reporters’ anonymity. Are there some false reports of child abuse?

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• OH: Not One But Two Parents Charged With Felony Custodial Interference

  Published: September 19, 2007, 11:20 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  released from prison for domestic violence. Now both parents face charges for felony interference with custody. Read more in this Logan [OH] Daily News article: Woman, ex-husband arrested after

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• TN Judge Reprimanded for Disregarding Appellate Court’s Order and Upholding Custody Award to Allegedly Abusive Father

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Miscellaneous, Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  already made a finding of abuse by the father. But the story doesn’t end there. The mother appealed the custody award. And won. An appellate court reversed the trial judge’s ruling, and remanded to the trial court. Only, reportedly, the trial judge obstinately refused to alter its custody award in accordance with the

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• US Pitches the Hague Convention against Child Abduction to India

  Published: October 14, 2007, 12:31 am

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Hague Convention Kidnapping International Child Custody

  Fifty-five children of American / Indian unions have gone missing in India. That is why the US is asking India to join the many other countries tht have joined the Hauge Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. If India did sign on, it would expedite case resolutions and tend to “assign” cases to the proper

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• Texas Shoes Draw Attention to Domestic Violence Awareness Month

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:16 am

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse

  need this month to serve as Domestic Violence Awareness month. In Texas, shoes are hanging from the trees by a county courthouse - one pair for every person who died there of domestic assault in the preceding year. One hundred twenty-six people. In Walker County alone. The special events coordinator of the “In Their Shoes” event

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• FL DCF Director: FL Foster Care Needs an Overhaul

  Published: October 28, 2007, 8:42 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency Or Dependency

  On top of being abandoned, abused or neglected. The director would attempt to minimize the trauma by keeping families intact. The director would greatly reduce the number of cases where children are removed from the home. Instead the director would provide services in the home on an intensive and accelerated basis, with closer supervision

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• Beware Cyberstalking … From Your Ex

  Published: November 4, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: Miscellaneous, Domestic Violence Amp Abuse

  use computers that their abuser does not have access to. And to have their home computer “cleaned” after the abuser’s access is cut off. Cyberstalking is a crime in Florida and many other states. Read many good prevention and protection tips in this Emerald Coast article: Cyberstalking; it’s frightening, it’s

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• Domestic Violence Can Strike Anyone … Even a Law School Dean

  Published: November 8, 2007, 11:12 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse

  notions about victims of domestic violence. But they often aren’t correct. For example, one victim of domestic violence is sharing her story. And she doesn’t fit any of the preconceptions. She is the Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law. Arkansas has one of the highest rates in the US of homicides resulting from

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