The trail of an international child-porn ring led to a tiny house in the woods outside St. Louis
This excellent article by journalist John H. Tucker appeared in a St. Louis paper, the Riverfront Times, last year. It's well-worth reading and illustrates how Internet technology facilitates the spread of criminal child pornography networks to even the smallest towns and villages.
The newspaper's cover story provided an account of the FBI's recent dismantling of "Lost Boy," an international, members-only online bulletin board operated by about three dozen child pornographers. The federal crackdown represented, at the time (in 2009), the largest disruption of a child ...
Lessons from Penn State: Training Mandated Reporters
From a special edition of Centerpiece, the official newsletter of the National Child Protection Training Center:
The recent child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, in which multiple, well-educated professionals declined to report clear evidence of maltreatment, is not an
isolated instance. Twenty years of research documents what every child protection professional in America already knows—that most people most of the time won’t report even
clear evidence of maltreatment or otherwise intervene to save a child.
Although less clear, the Penn State ...
Masha Allen Redux – Pedophile Adoption in Ohio
Apparently the adoption industry learned nothing from the international uproar surrounding Masha Allen's adoption by a child molester six years ago. Masha's tragic adoption still reverberates as Russia continues to grapple with US-Russia adoptions.
Now, in Ohio, a disturbing new case involving the alleged rape of three boys by their adoptive father, who also allegedly prostituted one of the boys to two other men, recently was exposed and occurred “despite safeguards designed for adoption agencies and prospective parents.”
Thanks to Marley at The Daily Bastar...
CA Family Courts Helping Pedophiles Get Child Custody
According to this article in SF Weekly,
Looking out for the children who find themselves in the middle of bitter divorces is the most important function of the state's family courts, and arguably one of the most significant duties of the judiciary as a whole. Yet evidence has mounted in recent years that it is a responsibility in which family court officials are sometimes failing dramatically.
Interviews with dozens of parents, activists, lawyers, judges, children, and former family court employees, as well as a review of hundreds of pages of family and criminal court ...