May 19, 2013

Ex-Miami Dolphins Player Mark Duper Beats Son Unconscious …Twice

Mark Duper

*Smh. We get upset with our kids for sure, but ex-Miami Dolphins’ Mark Duper took it to a whole ‘nother level recently, knocking his 17-year old son, Marcus out…twice, during several altercations in the family home. Of course he has been arrested. Duper has been quoted as saying that the issue in his household was a “family matter,” [...]




The Socialist’s Journal: Discipline and Abuse

Trevor Brookins

*Last week Creflo Dollar, leader of a popular televised Christian ministry, was arrested on charges of child abuse. Dollar allegedly choked his teenage daughter prompting her to call the police and assert that this was not the first incident of its kind. Dollar does deny attacking his daughter. But he is emblematic of a group [...]




The Socialist’s Journal: Legislating Morality

Trevor Brookins

*In the wake of the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University blame has been placed to varying degrees on the principle actors. One of main themes to come out of this blame game is the difference between what people are obligated to do legally versus what human decency and their morals dictate. Probably the [...]




Video: MSNBC’s Goldie Taylor Opens Up About Child Sex Abuse

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*The Penn State child abuse and sex scandal has certainly sparked much needed conversation about sexual abuse, inspiring celebrities to come out about their own experiences. MSNBC pundit, Goldie Taylor shared her own story of sexual abuse on Monday’s “Last Word.” In preview of the show, she tweeted earlier that she felt “ashamed that I [...]




Search for 5-Year-Old Missing Girl Jhessye Shockley Shrouded in Mystery

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*The family of missing Arizona five-year-old Jhessye Shockley are outraged because they claim that the media is not giving enough coverage of the missing girl, who disappeared on Oct. 13.  Meanwhile, white, blue-eyed Lisa Irwin has been on the news headlines and magazine covers since her disappearance on Oct. 4, while Jhessye’s family claims her [...]




The Socialist’s Journal: Judge William Adams

trevor brookins

*I support physical punishment of children. But what we saw in the instance of local Texas judge William Adams, and his daughter Hillary, was over and beyond physical punishment. It was not only abuse, it was child abuse by someone paid to prevent actions just like it. Corporal punishment is a useful tool for disciplining [...]




Update: Father Jailed for Beating Son on Video

Devery Michael Broox, 25, uploaded a video of himself disciplining his son and was arrested Monday, September 26, 2011

*The story we reported last week on the unidentified father of a child that was disciplined on camerafor the world to see, was a story by Jasiri X for Worldstarhiphop.com on Sept. 26. Essentially, he agreed with the treatment the man’s son was given, but he neglected to let us in on the father’s arrest. (more…)  




Woman in Duke Lacrosse Controversy Convicted for Child Abuse

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*In Durham, North Carolina, Crystal Mangum, the woman who authorities said falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape four years ago, has been found guilty by a North Carolina jury of misdemeanor child abuse and damaging property. A Durham County jury on Friday convicted Mangum of contributing to child abuse or neglect, injury [...]




Girl Escapes Horrific Abuse from Father

Scott Bass

*A 14-year old girl escaped from her father’s horrific abuse earlier this week in Phoenix.  Her father, Scott Bass and his wife Andrea Bass were both arrested and charged with unlawful imprisonment, child abuse, and kidnapping. She escaped through the bathroom window where she had been living for the last couple months. While she was on the [...]