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Sexual Abuse

A Brief Synopsis of Child Sexual Abuse from Onset to Adult Life

Sexual abuse often involves a manipulative process that entraps the child in a secret relationship designed only to provide for the sexual gratification of the perpetrator. [...] Given that the grooming and manipulation often occurs subtly over time, and with a trusted figure, the child finds him or herself stuck in a situation without comprehending how they got there. They feel complicit in the now clearly abusive events and fearful for not only the threats that have been imposed, but that they will be blamed and held responsible too.    (full text)


PAS Parental Alienation Syndrome

Allegations of Child Abuse
Divorced Parents
Excerpts

"The mother, who is required by law to report abuse, finds herself virtually in the dock--quizzed, examined, doubted--treated, she feels, as though she were a perjurer, as though her only objectives were to selfishly punish her daughter and ex-partner. She is disbelieved by judges, lawyers, child protective services and experts, categorized as an angry, unbalanced woman trying to bring another innocent man down with malicious fabricated allegations." (Women's Credibility Doubted in Many Family Courts, http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/701)

"That statement would have once shocked me, but no more. Nor am I surprised when I read that a family court judge has awarded custody of a 3-year-old girl to the father who has violently beaten her mother. I do not even lift an eyebrow when a 2-year-old boy, who comes home from unsupervised visitation with his dad, has a diaper filled with his own rectal blood and that same child is later turned over to his father on a full-time basis. And when a mother is thrown into jail, denied the right to ever see her children again, because she brought up the issue of child abuse in a family court, I'm sickened, but not shocked." (Biases Court Systems Hurt Mothers, http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/641)

Links: Investigating Child Sexual Abuse Allegations: Do Experts Agree on Anything

Sacramento case looking for others with similar cases for possible class-action:
  • Cases finding PAS with no consideration of whether the abuse allegations are true or false.
  • Cases where protective parents were openly referred to as hysterical and vindictive because they were trying to litigate abuse allegations with no evidence or consideration of whether the abuse allegations were true or false.
  • Cases where the protective parents were openly threatened with the loss of custody if abuse allegations are pursued who did not refrain from pursuing the issue, and who have since lost custody.
Any case to be considered MUST have admissible documented evidence of judicial bias.

Write to: Rachel Allen Public, Relations Director, California National Organization for Women
prdir@canow.org 926 J St Suite 424 Sacramento, CA 95814 415-302-0159 Fax:415-276-4761


Shaken Baby Syndrome
New Scientific Evidence Refutes Existence of Shaken Baby Syndrome
Glueck and Cihak, the Medicine Men, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004
Full text at http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/28/100609.shtml
"Hundreds of people are in jail based on unjust convictions for causing the so-called "shaken baby syndrome." New scientific work reveals that people convicted of causing the shaken baby syndrome are probably innocent. It turns out that the syndrome, strictly defined, is based on medical inferences recently proven faulty. If a baby dies suddenly and the cause of death is found to be bleeding inside the skull without other injuries, it's become standard practice for doctors to diagnose these observations as the "shaken baby syndrome" and for police to assume that severe shaking of the baby severely harmed and killed the baby. Based on this presumption, police usually suspect the last person alone with the baby as having killed the baby. This person is often accused of murder - even when medical and other evidence points elsewhere. [...] Several doctors created the concept of the shaken baby syndrome in the 1970s. They suspected that shaking a baby too hard, even without the baby's head hitting anything solid, could cause injury and bleeding inside the skull severe enough to induce death. Unfortunately, although this diagnosis was simply a hypothesis without medical proof, it became accepted medical wisdom [...] Dr. Ronald Uscinski, MD, a neurosurgeon practicing in the Washington DC area, reviewed the syndrome in the current issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (http://www.jpands.org/vol9no3/uscinski.pdf). In his address to the associations' annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, in mid-October, he observed, 'Whenever we pick up an infant, we always support the head. Why? We know intuitively that the infant's neck is too weak to support its own head. Therein lays a truth. If a baby's neck is that weak, that's where we should look for injury from shaking. Yet, by definition, none of these infants supposed to suffer from shaken baby syndrome has such a spinal cord injury. Could shaking harm a baby? Yes, I think so. But the damage would first be to the chest or cervical spine; it would not be an isolated head or brain injury.' ..."

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (BSBP)
" 'Mama/M.A.M.A.' is a groundbreaking film that examines Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a bizarre form of supposed child abuse in which a mother pretends her child is ill - or actually makes her child sick- in order to get the sympathy and praise of the medical community. The film scrutinizes the scientific research surrounding the allegation and, in so doing, questions the very diagnosis itself. Our investigation found that the illnesses supposedly caused by over a hundred "Munchausen Mothers" were in fact the side effects of potentially toxic drugs -- drugs that were never approved for pediatric use. Also, by conducting an experiment with an astonishing result, we demonstrate that the use of laboratory tests as the sole evidence with which to convict a mother needs to be reevaluated. Finally, the film traces the origins of the diagnosis and shows how no one has questioned the dubious science that has led to twenty-five years of tearing mothers and their babies apart..." (Movie full synopsis at http://www.munchausenmovie.com/ Join the Forum)


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