Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts

Monday, 18 November 2013

[Watch] The Tragic Abuse of This AirForce Veteran


Air Force veteran Robin Temple has been through the ringer. Her story of her dealings with the government as well as the hand she’s been dealt in life is quite tragic. Her body is a mess.
She’s endured and describes in great detail a living Hell of substandard medical treatment, misdiagnosis and botched procedures. Included in her experiences are being comatose on life support, having a colostomy, a double mastectomy, two huge hernias, having a tumor on a supposedly previously removed ovary, her bladder being accidentally cut in half, intestinal damage, loss of half of her left kidney, a lumpectomy and the death of her lower abdominal muscles.
Ms. Temple also suffers from PTSD, and reveals claims that she was raped by a military superior and falsely imprisoned as a result of reporting it. She says she spent 115 days in solitary confinement in a mental hospital while being administered heavy doses of medication in order to attempt to force her to recant.
As we know there are usually two sides to every story, but fifty percent of what this lady has gone through is still 100% Hell. While this forum provides no opportunity to hear from her alleged rapist or the doctors involved, there is no denying the physical evidence of her body.
Her words are also very compelling. She is understandably bitter, and she has written a poem about her experience called “I’m not your soldier.” Make sure you listen to the end, it says it all.

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Saturday, 17 August 2013

Shocking Video of Police Beating A Woman

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Two Quad Cities police officers attacked and beat a female shoplifter who was sitting in a store’s security office. 
Keep in mind the cops in the video are still on the job, after some unspecified disciplinary action.
Decide for yourself after watching the entire beating if these so-called men should be allowed to continue to wear a badge.
Just as concerning is the fact that her little girl was in the room for the beginning of the beating before a woman grabbed the child and took her out, but two other people were in the room, a woman and a man, neither of which tried to intervene and stop these two abusive cops.

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Thursday, 15 August 2013

Seventy-eight children in custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services are missing.

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Seventy-eight children in custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services are missing.
Thirty-eight of them have been missing for more than three months.

“That is ridiculous,” said Michelle Zettee, of Midwest City, a former volunteer with the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program. “There needs to be some accountability here … When DHS has a child removed from his or her parents — especially when the reason for the removal stems from allegations of neglect rather than abuse — I feel that DHS should have as much responsibility to provide adequate supervision and ensure the child’s safety as they are attempting to require from the child’s parents.”

Program administrators believe these children are runaways.
"Our system is broken. The Department of Human Services is a mess. It's terrible for kids.We still have children dying. We still have children being moved around. The more we ignore the reality of this, our children are going to pay." said Rep. Richard Morrissette, D-Oklahoma City, a frequent critic of DHS who has called for the agency to be broken up into three separate parts to better focus its resources on children and families.
Other state child protective organizations are not without fault. According to USA Today, "All 50 states have failed to comply fully with federal child-welfare standards designed to protect kids from abuse and neglect, according to reviews (held) since 2002 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
Much of this is due to minimal training and overworked social workers who are poorly compensated. The California state child protective services organizationis under investigation. Another website provides information on the number of children killed while in the foster system, with states just not keeping track of runaways.
Sadly, many runaways tend to become victims of human trafficking and prostitution. A recent case in point is a 16 year old girl who ran away from an Albany juvenile facility and was considered “fresh meat” before she left the bus station. She fell victim to a sex trafficking ring that forced her into prostitution and turned her into a heroin addict.
government study indicates the majority of female runaways are approached within 48 hours of running away, by sex traffickers. Below is an excerpt from that study.
Researchers have found that the majority of prostituted women had been runaways; for example, 96 percent in San Francisco (Silbert & Pines, 1982), 72 percent in Boston (Norton-Hawk, 2002) and 56 percent in Chicago (Raphael & Shapiro, 2002). Among prostituted youth (both boys and girls), up to 77 percent report having run away at least once (Seng, 1989). Experts have reported that within 48 hours of running away, an adolescent is likely to be approached to participate in prostitution or another form of commercial sexual exploitation (Spangenberg, 2001); however, no definitive published research substantiates this claim.
Sadly, many runaways have been throw away children, where parents have pushed them out of the house for one reason or another. In most cases, these children have been abused.
For more information on this topic and to find out how you can help, there are several not-for-profit and volunteer agencies that help homeless youth, such as San Diego Youth Services and Youth Services of Oklahoma City.
An organization, savehomelessyouth.org, was created to help homeless youth go back to school and learn how to get jobs. They are holding a walk in San Diego in October. Please consider signing up, volunteering or donating.

Video Below
Adopted children beaten, starved and locked up. It is unimaginable child abuse and deputies say it happened in Oklahoma -- all while the parents pocketed thousands of dollars.



Source: NewsOk.com

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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

A Little Girl's Courage- We need to protect our children.

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A Little Girl's Moment Of Courage Captured On Camera Is The Reason We Need To Look After Each Other

Terrified and fearful for her future, 11-year-old Nada al-Ahdal fled her family in her hometown in Yemen to stay with her uncle nearby. Why? Well, her incredibly gut-wrenching description of her experience— and that of millions of girls across the world —is too powerful for me to try to put into words.
Look into her eyes and let her explain to you herself. At 1:38, she asks a question that the whole of humanity needs to answer.




The story of brave little Nada Alahdal who RAN AWAY FROM HOME because she would would rather die than be forced into child marriage. She speaks so eloquently about her ordeal.

A video, posted on YouTube, shows an 11-year-old Yemeni girl called Nada al-Ahdal recounting how she escaped her parents who wanted to force her to marry. Nada comes from a modest family and is one of eight siblings. Fortunately for her, her uncle Abdel Salam al-Ahdal, a montage and graphics technician in a TV station, decided to take her in when she was three years old, to live with him and his aging mother, away from her parents.

Nada was not an only child at home. Her uncle had also taken his other nephew under his wing, as the boy's own father couldn't afford his son's medical requirements. Abdel Salam was thus responsible for bringing up two children. He personally took care of keeping them, and his frail mother, clean and well-fed.

Nada grew up in this caring environment, went to school, and learned English during the summer vacation. She has her own Facebook page, was a gifted singer, and took part in musicals. However, her happiness was cut short when someone came to ask her parents for her hand in marriage. The man, a Yemeni expatriate living in Saudi Arabia, did not care about the girl's age. Her parents were happy because the prospective groom worked abroad and was rich.

Abdel Salam tells NOW: "When I heard about the groom, I panicked. Nada was not even 11 years old; she was exactly 10 years and 3 months. I could not allow her to be married off and have her future destroyed, especially since her aunt was forced to marry at 13 and burnt herself. I did all I could to prevent that marriage. I called the groom and told him Nada was no good for him. I told him she did not wear the veil and he asked if things were going to remain like that. I said 'yes, and I agree because she chose it.' I also told him that she liked singing and asked if he would remain engaged to her."

The groom recanted the engagement and told the girl's parents he did not want their daughter anymore. Nada's parents, looking forward to a hefty bride price, were disappointed.

Nada had an 18 year-old sister who had been engaged many times. Her parents accepted each new proposal and took a partial downpayment for a bride price. They would then postpone the marriage until the groom had enough money, eventually ending each engagement, not returning the money. The same story would start all over again with another suitor, and so it was that she had had nine fiancés.

After Abdel Salam succeeded in warding off Nada's first husband-to-be, her parents came from Zubaid on a visit to Sana'a and asked for their daughter to stay with them until mid-Ramadan. Abdel Salam agreed only to learn from the parents days later that Nada had disappeared.

At one point Nada escaped and tried to return to her uncle. When she got back to Sana'a, she was scared he would take her back to her mother. He found out afterwards that Nada's mother wanted to marry her off again but did not tell him as she feared he would "scare away" the suitor as he had done the first time around.

Abdel Salam took Nada and went to the Ministry of the Interior's family protection department. He explained to them what had happened and they carried out investigations with Nada, her uncle, and her parents. They discovered that there had been no kidnapping and that the parents wanted to marry their daughter against her will. The case ended with Nada's father apologizing for fear of being sentenced for wrongful accusations and saying that he trusted his brother with bringing up his daughter.

In a message sent to NOW, Nada addressed every mother and father seeking to marry off their daughters, saying: "I am a child and I want to realize my dreams. My aunt was forced to get married so she burned herself to death, and I saw pictures of her with burns. Let me realize my dream. I want to go to school, become a star, and help other children. I am not thinking about marriage, I don't want to now. I want to say to fathers and mother, 'let us realize our dreams, do not kill them'."