2 results for month: 01/2011
Darkness of Child Sex Abuse Leads to Suicide
Bill Zeller, a Princeton Ph.D candidate and renowned internet programmer, died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a suicide attempt. He was 27.
Zeller stunned everyone with a 4,000-word suicide note detailing a childhood of physical and sexual abuse which he had never before disclosed to anyone.
Presumably, Zeller's sexual abuse was not captured on film for the entire pedophile world to share and celebrate repeatedly in perpetuity. Sadly, most child pornography defendants minimize the impact of their criminal behavior on victims who can never escape this constant reminder of their initial abuse and exploitation. Unfortunately, many judges agree ...
Life After Death: Survivor Benefits for Posthumously Conceived Kids
Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that children born though in virto fertilization long after their father died cannot be denied Social Security survivor benefits solely because they could not inherit under state law.
"It goes without saying that these technologies were not within the imagination, much less the contemplation, of Congress when the relevant sections of the act came to be, and that they present a host of difficult legal and even moral questions . . . . We [] cannot help but observe that this is, indeed, a new world." U.S. Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry said in Capato v. Commissioner of Social ...