Sentences with phrase «by child abusers»

She didn't know that Kik was one of the worst of them all in terms of its adoption by child abusers, according to a 2017 investigation that dubbed it the «de facto app for grooming children online.»

Mystic River is the story of three Boston boys, one of whom is abducted by child abusers, a crime that he relives again and again, every day for the rest of his life.

Alcoholism is not caused because by child abusers, who are not sentenced to the longest possible jail terms.

Not exact matches

Oregon Live reports that the state has banned gun ownership by anyone convicted of domestic violence since 2015, but the law did not apply to abusers who were not married to, had no children with, or did not live with their victims.

Given that the vatican is populated by mentally ill delusional liars, I can think of many worse things, such as the abuse of innocent children and protecting their abusers, than its destruction.

Finally, has «The Church» completed its investigations into child abuse by priests, and turned over all evidence and probable abusers to the appropriate civic authorities?

As you may know, Sovereign Grace Ministries, an association of Reformed church plants, is facing a significant lawsuit that alleges church leaders covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person.

They, along with other church staff, will be subjected to a criminal check by the police every three years in order to catch potential child abusers.

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

If the state's investigation does not turn up enough evidence to make a case, the suspected abuser may retaliate by causing further injury to the child.

The suspected abuser — who was reported by his or her minister — may well take out his or her anger on the innocent child.

Pastor Tim Challies has argued that «thinking biblically» about the SGM lawsuit — which alleges that the leadership of SGM covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person — means keeping quiet about it in order to avoid «gossip.»

If your religious leader has not warned you of God's word banning Christians from using mind - altering pharmakia drugs, you are being misled and also have child abusers in your church being known of by your leaders and kept secret from the police.

Wills is even better on the Atonement, a doctrine now widely rejected by liberal Christians because of its alleged reliance on an image of God as patriarchal child - abuser.

Maybe there's lots of folks out there not bothered by that behavior, but that doesn't affect my feelings towards child abusers and their enablers.

Rather they have been happy to suggest, - more often by subtle implication and spin than with straightforward candour - that (i) the priesthood is fairly riddled with abusers, (ii) there is an international culture of cover - up in the Church which (iii) goes right to the top of the Church, and (iv) that Catholic institutions such as celibacy and hierarchy are to blame — even that Catholic teaching of children about its sexual morality is a form of intellectual abuse of large numbers of children.

The measure, first introduced years ago by Margaret Markey, a New York State Assembly Democrat, would extend the statute of limitations for civil suits against alleged sexual abusers of children and against institutions that fail to act against such abuse under their roofs.

A companion bill sponsored by Markey would eliminate the current statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions of alleged child sex abusers.

Of course, that is not a view ascribed to by pornographers, child abusers or young people themselves.

The nineteen reforms in the 63 - page package are the result of extensive research by the Department of Social Services into all CPS functions, and fall into five categories: Increasing CPS Powers to Help Children; Improving the Quality of Reporting to the Statewide Central Register («SCR»); Punishing Abusers and Protecting Children; Modernizing the Child Welfare System; and Other Critical Reforms.

A law that significantly strengthens prosecution of repeat child abusers has been passed by both houses of the legislature.

She also noted that «millions of children» are affected by violence in the home and that three adult women are killed daily, and that even elderly females fall prey to abusers.

Most of the cases of sexual abuse in the study were severe, and children tended to respond by accommodating their abusers.

The abuser may use the children as another tool of manipulation, either by threatening to keep the children from you, pitting your children against you or making you feel like you must stay «because of the kids.»

Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC in Wales, said: We know that in a large number of cases, attacks are carried out on children by abusers who have first groomed them for this purpose.

The case asks the Court to hear and overturn a ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee) that makes mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse vulnerable to federal claims brought by an alleged abuser.

The law now allows a judge to grant the petitioner of a protective order exclusive care, custody, or control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by the victim, the abuser, or a minor child in the household; the law also allows a judge to order the abuser to stay away from the pet in both temporary and final domestic violence protective orders.

Peter Saunders, founder of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood said, «Abusers will get off on this stuff and the other thing we know beyond question is that videos [sic] games end up being played by children and, scarily, the proliferation of salacious and abusive images is actually encouraging violence and abuse.And we know that abuse in all its forms is escalating on this planet so why not help to tackle it constructively rather than sensationalise and make money out if it?»

From his earliest work, dated to the late 1990s and inspired by the writings of Charles Fourier, an 18th - century utopian thinker, and the drawings of Henry Darger, an outsider artist and writer who produced a voluminous illustrated manuscript about pre-pubescent Amazons leading a rebellion against child abusers, Chan has been fascinated by the contrast between ideal visions and the violent, sexually charged feelings and sensations that inspire them.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 31F (6)(in force since April 2014) gives the family court judge some power to act as intermediary where a witness is to be in examined by a party (eg in the case of an alleged abuser cross-examining a child witness).

This is because certain abusers, such as parents, by law may have access to a victim's (child's) records.

Sometimes children are being abused and it is important to protect them appropriately from an abuser, but to escalate tensions by falsely accusing a parent of such an unspeakable act is monstrous in itself.

The child can associate me to a teacher or parent who uses rewards (often times inappropriately), may think that they have to behave in a certain way to «earn» something from the gift box by coming to their therapy sessions or in the worse case scenario, the gift itself may remind children who have been violated of their abuser who gifted them in order to do something «special».

Many domestic violence victims complain of their concerns being sidelined and ignored by the court, dismissed as inconsequential when it comes to shared parenting, even though the children are the best weapons an abuser has to ensure access to his or her previous victims.

She ruminated about how her children were building their own prisons and she was tormented by the ease in which the abuser destroyed young, innocent lives unabated.

Of course, the harsh restrictions don't stop abortion from happening, and horror stories abound: of 4 million unsafe and illegal abortions occurring per year; of women being killed and mutilated after botched back - alley procedures; of pregnant victims of rape and incest — like, recently, an 11 - year - old girl in Paraguay who was raped by her stepfather — being forced to carry their abusers» children to term.

In 1994, he was given the Distinguished Child Abuse Professional Award by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and in 2004 he was given the Significant Achievement Award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.

It is a tactic used by abusers and their supporters to stop investigations of domestic violence and child abuse complaints and instead give custody to the abuser and little or no contact to the safe protective mother.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary

WHEREAS, the newly revised, 2006 edition of «Navigating Custody and Visitation Evaluations in Cases with Domestic Violence: A Judge's Guide,» published by The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, includes a strong statement condemning the use of PAS which it calls a «discredited» syndrome that favors child abusers in custody determinations;