tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48744301172226068082024-03-18T00:46:17.470-07:00What Every Parent Should Know About Child Protection ServicesINFORMATION ALL PARENTS NEED TO KNOWJessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.comBlogger1541125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-12033807645666882024-03-15T17:09:00.000-07:002024-03-15T17:09:21.540-07:00What Really Happened on Royal Canadian Air Force Station Lincoln Park, in Calgary Alberta, Canada...<p> <span style="color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Base / Station: Calgary (Currie)</span></p><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 15px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Later Renamed RCAF Station Lincoln Park</li></ul><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Province:</span> <a href="https://rcaf.info/rcaf-stations/alberta-rcaf-stations/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Alberta</a></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Dates of Operation or Period of Information: 1940-64</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Integral Units:</p><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 15px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">No. 3 Service Flying Training School</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">post-war storage depot… possibly</li></ul><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Aircraft Flown:</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Commanding Officers:</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Financial Impact:</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Date / Reason for Closure:</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Current Status: runways no longer exist, but several hangars form part of Currie Barracks.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="339" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QNE5WLoRTAE" width="408" youtube-src-id="QNE5WLoRTAE"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><br /><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: initial; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNE5WLoRTAE">Link</a><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-61150129779537603372024-03-12T19:33:00.000-07:002024-03-12T19:33:23.052-07:00AZ Senator introduces bill to change how DCS investigates group homes<p> <span style="color: initial;">By: Jennifer KovaleskiPosted at 6:16 PM, Jan 22, 2024 and last updated 10:18 PM, Jan 22, 2024</span></p><p>PHOENIX — An Arizona lawmaker introduced legislation giving the Department of Child Safety more authority to investigate allegations of abuse involving group home employees after the agency said current laws don’t allow them to look into these cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>“What can we do better? What have we learned from this? And then what things in the statute can we put in to make sure that it never happens again?” said bill sponsor Senator T.J. Shope (R) of Casa Grande.</p><p><br /></p><p>The proposed new law comes after an ABC15 Investigation found DCS failed to make sure a diabetic child in their custody received his life-saving medication at a group home and a scathing state audit also found an overall lack of oversight in group homes and the agency was slow to investigate in other cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jakob Blodgett, 9, died a day after Christmas two years ago after Maricopa County investigators said employees at a Phoenix group home let him refuse his insulin.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Jakob's case is obviously a wakeup call, for many folks, especially myself and others who've been watching this agency for some time, and we do know that it's troubled,” said Shope who chairs the Health and Human Services Committee with direct oversight over DCS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shope and other state lawmakers on the committee grilled the new head of DCS about the state audit’s findings and what the agency is doing to better protect kids with medical conditions during more than five hours of testimony at its sunset review hearing in early January.</p><p><br /></p><p>"What about children who have diabetes? Do you have people on staff who are readily able to handle a child who is a type one diabetic?” asked Senator Justine Wadsack, (R) Tucson.</p><p><br /></p><p>“That’s always been an ongoing issue or priority at DCS, our ability to provide the services for all children,” said David Lujan the new head of DCS during the hearing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lujan also told lawmakers an opinion it received from the Attorney General’s Office found, under current law, DCS does not have the authority to investigate allegations of abuse or neglect by group home employees.</p><p><br /></p><p>“That statute essentially says we are authorized to investigate cases where it’s the family members, people in the house who are committing the abuse or neglect,” Lujan said. “Legal advice we received that a group home employee does not meet that definition.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead, currently, those cases involving allegations in group homes are handed off to local law enforcement for review as was the case with Blodgett. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office still has an active investigation looking into his death.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a result, DCS never completed its own child fatality report into Blodgett's death which would have detailed what went wrong to potentially prevent another tragedy. Shope said he hopes Senate Bill 1067 will change that.</p><p><br /></p><p>“I would say this is a good first step,” said Shope. “I am a little concerned that it only covers abuse. I'd like to see us move in the direction of where we would talk about some form of neglect within these group homes, I'm going to continue pressing upon that to make sure that something that happened to Jacob doesn't happen to anybody else.”</p><p><br /></p><p>SB1067 in its current version only allows DCS to investigate allegations of abuse in group homes and not allegations of neglect. The bill goes before the Senate Health and Services Committee on Tuesday.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shope said he has been working with Lujan on the bill and it also came out of the state audit’s findings regarding oversight in group homes.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the sunset review hearing in January, Arizona lawmakers recommended reauthorizing DCS for only four years. Lawmakers historically have extended state agencies for eight years at a time.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/az-senator-introduces-bill-to-change-how-dcs-investigates-group-homes">Link</a><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-71556891614839049382023-10-29T18:52:00.002-07:002023-10-29T18:52:59.939-07:00CPS Miranda Rights: New Law Protects Your Rights in 2023<p> CPS Miranda Rights: New Law Protects Your Rights in 2023</p><p><br /></p><p>Under a new law, CPS Investigators will now have to advise parents of certain rights upon first contact, or risk ALL collected evidence from being automatically excluded.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 10 CPS Miranda Rights that they must read to you out loud, which are:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. You have the right not to speak with any agent of the Department without legal counsel present.</p><p>2. You have the right to receive assistance from an attorney.</p><p>3. You have the right to a court-appointed attorney if you are indigent, the parent of the child, and the Department files suit for conservatorship, termination of rights, or to require you to participate in services.</p><p>4. You have the right to record any interaction or interview with the Department, but you are advised that you may have to turn it over to the Department, law enforcement, or another party if ordered by the Court.</p><p>5. You have the right to refuse to allow the Investigator to enter the home or interview the child without a court order.</p><p>6. You have the right to have legal counsel present before allowing the Investigator to enter your home or interview the child.</p><p>7. You have the right to withhold consent to the release of any medical or mental health records.</p><p>8. You have the right to withhold consent to any medical or psychological examination of the child.</p><p>9. You have the right to refuse to submit to a drug test.</p><p>10. You have the right to consult with legal counsel prior to agreeing to any proposed voluntary safety plan.</p><p><a href="https://matthewharrislaw.com/cps-miranda-rights-under-new-law/?fbclid=IwAR2HtWauelzBPBiRs_QnQrFj0I8zrYin1c2yfxODqQfnxaTsi86UljpXNIQ">https://matthewharrislaw.com/cps-miranda-rights-under-new-law/?fbclid=IwAR2HtWauelzBPBiRs_QnQrFj0I8zrYin1c2yfxODqQfnxaTsi86UljpXNIQ</a><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-38662731623433805172023-05-19T05:52:00.005-07:002023-05-19T05:52:39.426-07:00Fetanyl<p> Today I need to talk about something that is very important and hits very close to home right now. A close family friend has passed away two day ago due to a Fentanyl overdose. She was 25 years old, and now she is gone. So I thought this blog topic should be What Every Parent Should Know About Fentanyl Abuse.</p><p>What is Fentanyl? It is a narcotic that is used to treat severe pain. It is a controlled substance and the risk for addiction is high. It can cause respiratory distress and death when taken in high doses or when combined with other substances, especially alcohol, or other illicit drugs such as cocaine and heroin.</p><p>Side Effects of Fentanyl Use</p><p>The side effects associated with fentanyl can emerge, with greater severity, in individuals who abuse this drug. For this reason, it is helpful to consider some of the most common side effects, which include but are not limited to:</p><p>Confusion</p><p>Chest pain</p><p>Convulsions</p><p>Blurred vision</p><p>Black stools</p><p>Labored breathing</p><p>Irregular heartbeat</p><p>Fainting</p><p>Feeling of a tight chest</p><p>Dizziness or lightheadedness</p><p>Decrease in urine flow</p><p>Cough</p><p>Dry mouth</p><p>Fever or chills</p><p>Loss of appetite</p><p>Mood changes</p><p>Pounding in ears</p><p>Pale skin</p><p>Back pain or side pain</p><p>Nervousness</p><p>Tingling or numbness in the hands, lips, or feet</p><p>Ulcers, sores, or white spots in the mouth</p><p>Sneezing, sore throat, or sunken eyes</p><p>Swelling in the calves, ankles, feet, and hands</p><p>Fatigue</p><p>One of the most common side effects of fentanyl abuse is the onset of addiction (to be clinically accurate, addiction per the DSM-5, would be called an opioid use disorder). When the body continues to receive fentanyl, it naturally makes adjustments. One adjustment is to build tolerance, which then requires the person to take more fentanyl in order to achieve the desired high.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a great danger implicit in tolerance — as the fentanyl intake rises, so too does the risk of harmful side effects. The body wants to promote survival but once drugs are introduced, and drugs are foreign substances to the body, the system gets turned into a potential engine of personal destruction.</p><p><br /></p><p>More Rare Side Effects</p><p>The side effects that are considered rare for individuals who use fentanyl for therapeutic purposes under the control of a doctor may be brought out by abuse of fentanyl. Some of the less common side effects include but are not limited to:</p><p><br /></p><p>Problems walking and balancing</p><p>Clumsiness</p><p>Stomach or abdominal</p><p>Headache</p><p>Muscle jerking or twitching</p><p>Less responsiveness to stimuli</p><p>Hallucinations (visual, audio, and tactile)</p><p>Severe constipation</p><p>Extreme sleepiness</p><p>Abnormal thoughts</p><p>Slowed or fast paced heartbeat</p><p>Trembling</p><p>Seizures</p><p>Signs of Fentanyl Overdose</p><p>When a person uses fentanyl as part of a medically supervised pain management plan, there is little risk of overdose. However, fentanyl abuse exposes a person to an ongoing risk of overdose. The most common signs of fentanyl overdose are slow breathing or acutely shallow breathing. If the following symptoms arise and persist, it may be necessary to seek medical attention:</p><p><br /></p><p>Shallow or slowed breathing</p><p>Depression; feeling empty or discouraged</p><p>Loss of strength</p><p>Muscle stiffness</p><p>Lack of interest in activities</p><p>Back pain</p><p>Diarrhea</p><p>Signs of Fentanyl Withdrawal</p><p>When a person stops using fentanyl or considerably reduces the familiar dose, withdrawal symptoms emerge. The following are some of the most common fentanyl withdrawal symptoms may include:</p><p>Restlessness</p><p>Yawning</p><p>Chills</p><p>Irritability or anxiety</p><p>Runny nose or watery eyes</p><p>Sweating or chills</p><p>Muscle pain</p><p>Overall weakness</p><p>Stomach cramps</p><p>Widened pupils</p><p>Joint pain</p><p>Backache</p><p>Fast breathing</p><p>High blood pressure</p><p>Increased heart rate</p><p>Nausea</p><p>Vomiting</p><p>There is a general advisement in the addiction treatment community that an individual should not attempt to stop using narcotics suddenly. The opioid withdrawal process can be particularly uncomfortable, and suddenly stopping the use of narcotics can trigger severe withdrawal symptoms to emerge. Rehab programs that offer medication-assisted therapy will provide eligible clients with substitution therapy in the form of drugs like methadone or Suboxone (buprenorphine).</p><p><br /></p><p>It is called substitution therapy because the person is safely transitioned to the treatment medication without fully detoxing from narcotics. Some individuals will remain on an opioid substitution therapy for months or even years. Other individuals will eventually reach full detoxification (i.e., no opioids or opiates in the body).</p><p>Help is available </p><p>SAMHSA National Helpline</p><p>Confidential free help, from public health agencies, to find substance use treatment and information. Learn more</p><p>1-800-662-4357</p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-24477812660424477572023-05-04T02:18:00.003-07:002023-05-04T02:18:33.605-07:00Arizona Child Support Guidelines 2022<a href="Arizona%20Child%20Support%20Basics-%20Income%20Based%20Model%20Arizona%20calculates%20child%20support%20using%20an%20income%20based%20model.%20As%20the%20name%20suggests,%20it%20takes%20both%20parents’%20incomes%20into%20account%20to%20determine%20if%20and%20how%20much%20child%20support%20should%20be%20paid.%20The%20logic%20is%20that%20each%20parent%20should%20pay%20the%20same%20amount%20of%20financial%20support%20as%20if%20the%20family%20were%20still%20living%20together,%20which%20may%20then%20be%20apportioned%20depending%20on%20how%20much%20time%20the%20child%20spends%20with%20each%20parent.%20%20Child%20support%20calculations%20are%20actually%20usually%20done%20by%20a%20computer.%20However,%20certain%20factors%20may%20be%20considered%20depending%20on%20your%20family’s%20unique%20needs.%20For%20example,%20child%20support%20could%20be%20higher%20if%20the%20child%20has%20special%20medical%20expenses%20from%20a%20medical%20condition.%20Or,%20child%20support%20may%20need%20to%20be%20reduced%20if%20a%20parent%20is%20incarcerated%20or%20becomes%20disabled.%20%20What%20Counts%20As%20Income%20For%20Child%20Support%20Purposes?%20When%20both%20parents%20work%20at%20salaried%20positions,%20it%20can%20be%20pretty%20simple%20to%20determine%20their%20respective%20incomes.%20But%20when%20one%20or%20both%20parents%20have%20variable%20income,%20rely%20largely%20on%20tips,%20receive%20monthly%20support%20from%20a%20family%20member%20or%20new%20partner,%20etc.,%20it%20can%20affect%20what%20the%20court%20views%20as%20monthly%20income.%20Income%20from%20rental%20properties%20and%20business%20interests%20must%20be%20included%20for%20child%20support%20purposes%20as%20well.%20Even%20income%20like%20disability%20benefits%20and%20worker’s%20compensation%20must%20be%20included%20for%20a%20parent’s%20child%20support%20obligations.%20Even%20certain%20work%20benefits%20will%20be%20assigned%20a%20cash%20value%20to%20use%20for%20child%20support%20calculations.%20%20Surprisingly,%20income%20from%20overtime%20work%20is%20often%20exempted%20by%20the%20family%20court%20for%20child%20support%20purposes.%20The%20courts%20want%20parents%20to%20have%20the%20option%20to%20work%20overtime%20at%20their%20jobs%20without%20worry%20about%20increasing%20child%20support.%20If%20the%20parent%20used%20to%20work%20overtime%20when%20the%20family%20was%20a%20singular%20unit,%20the%20parent%20is%20not%20obligated%20to%20continue%20working%20similar%20overtime%20hours%20after%20a%20custody%20division.%20This%20is%20to%20ensure%20that%20the%20parent%20will%20still%20have%20enough%20time%20to%20have%20a%20meaningful%20relationship%20with%20the%20child%20after%20splitting%20households.%20%20Deductions%20For%20Children%20From%20Other%20Relationships%20It%20isn’t%20uncommon%20for%20our%20clients%20to%20pay%20%28or%20receive%29%20child%20support%20for%20two%20or%20more%20children%20from%20separate%20relationships.%20Arizona’s%20Family%20Courts%20recognize%20that%20all%20of%20a%20parent’s%20children%20must%20be%20considered%20when%20calculating%20child%20support,%20as%20one%20child’s%20financial%20support%20can’t%20come%20at%20the%20detriment%20of%20another’s.%20If%20a%20parent%20is%20already%20paying%20child%20support%20for%20a%20child%20from%20another%20relationship,%20this%20amount%20will%20be%20deducted%20from%20that%20parent’s%20income%20for%20calculating%20their%20child%20support%20obligation%20for%20their%20other%20child.%20This%20deduction%20can%20be%20substantial%20if%20this%20parent%20is%20the%20only%20one%20financially%20supporting%20this%20child.%20However,%20receiving%20child%20support%20will%20not%20count%20as%20income%20for%20the%20purposes%20of%20calculating%20another%20child’s%20support.%20%20Financial%20Support%20As%20a%20Child%20Gets%20Older%20In%20Arizona,%20family%20law%20judges%20realize%20that%20a%20child’s%20need%20for%20financial%20support%20can%20change%20over%20time.%20In%20general,%20it%20is%20expected%20that%20expenses%20for%20a%20child%20will%20increase%20as%20they%20grow%20older.%20In%20Arizona,%20a%20child’s%20support%20can%20be%20increased%20by%2010%%20the%20day%20they%20turn%2012%20years%20old.%20If%20the%20parent%20is%20paying%20support%20to%20one%20more%20than%20one%20child%20from%20the%20same%20relationship,%20the%2010%%20increase%20will%20be%20prorated%20for%20each%20child%20that%20has%20reached%20their%2012%20birthday.%20%20Medical%20Insurance%20It%20usually%20makes%20sense%20for%20the%20children%20to%20only%20be%20on%20one%20parent’s%20health%20insurance%20policy.%20This%20will%20usually%20be%20the%20parent%20assigned%20more%20parenting%20time,%20if%20applicable.%20If%20so,%20that%20should%20be%20acknowledged%20in%20child%20support%20calculations.%20The%20child%20support%20order%20will%20indicate%20which%20parent%20will%20insure%20and%20be%20credited%20for%20the%20child’s%20healthcare.%20The%20amount%20that%20parent%20pays%20each%20month%20in%20health%20insurance%20will%20be%20prorated%20for%20the%20children%20who%20which%20support%20are%20paid.%20Whatever%20the%20parent%20pays%20in%20medical%20insurance%20can%20be%20credited%20as%20part%20of%20their%20child%20support%20obligation.%20That%20parent%20will%20still%20be%20credited%20if%20the%20insurance%20obligation%20is%20paid%20by%20someone%20else,%20such%20as%20a%20new%20spouse.%20%20Childcare%20Arizona’s%20childcare%20guidelines%20allow%20parents%20to%20add%20childcare%20expenses%20to%20their%20basic%20child%20support%20obligation.%20The%20person%20receiving%20the%20child%20support%20expenses%20cannot%20be%20a%20dependent-%20for%20example,%20one%20parent%20can’t%20claim%20their%20new%20stay-at-home%20spouse%20as%20a%20dependent%20but%20reimburse%20them%20for%20childcare%20expenses%20during%20their%20parenting%20time%20with%20the%20child.%20The%20childcare%20services%20must%20be%20appropriate%20considering%20the%20family’s%20financial%20situation-%20for%20example,%20one%20parent%20shouldn’t%20hire%20a%20private%20nanny%20versus%20a%20public%20daycare%20provider%20if%20both%20parents%20make%20less%20than%20the%20state%20median%20income.%20%20Arizona%20Child%20Support%20Tax%20Exemption%20Guidelines%20A%20major%20issue%20for%20parents%20who%20split%20custody%20of%20one%20or%20more%20children%20is%20who%20will%20claim%20them%20for%20tax%20exemption%20purposes.%20Sometimes,%20one%20parent%20will%20consistently%20claim%20them,%20or%20the%20parents%20might%20switch%20off%20years%20of%20claiming%20them.%20However,%20Arizona’s%202022%20child%20support%20guidelines%20don’t%20allow%20a%20parent%20who%20is%20failing%20to%20pay%20child%20support%20to%20take%20advantage%20of%20the%20tax%20benefits%20for%20raising%20their%20children.%20The%20court%20can%20take%20away%20a%20parent’s%20right%20to%20parental%20tax%20benefits%20if%20the%20other%20parent%20can%20show%20a%20history%20of%20consistent%20failure%20to%20pay%20support.%20The%20amount%20the%20parent%20is%20entitled%20to%20will%20be%20deducted%20proportionately%20for%20the%20amount%20of%20child%20support%20they%20failed%20to%20pay.%20%20Other%20Considerations%20Child%20support%20is%20an%20important%20matter%20in%20Arizona,%20and%20it’s%20highly%20important%20that%20you%20make%20your%20monthly%20payments%20in%20a%20timely%20manner.%20Once%20child%20support%20is%20owed,%20there%20is%20nothing%20you%20can%20do%20about%20it.%20Child%20support%20arrearages%20can’t%20be%20discharged%20in%20bankruptcy.%20Failure%20to%20pay%20your%20child%20support%20could%20result%20in%20a%20wage%20garnishment,%20that%20will%20automatically%20deduct%20a%20portion%20of%20each%20of%20your%20paychecks%20and%20pay%20your%20monthly%20support%20and%20arrearages.%20If%20you%20have%20a%20child%20from%20another%20relationship%20or%20another%20dependent,%2050%%20is%20the%20most%20your%20paychecks%20can%20be%20garnished.%20If%20you%20have%20no%20other%20dependents,%20this%20goes%20up%20to%2060%.%20An%20additional%205%%20can%20be%20tacked%20on%20if%20you%20fall%20more%20than%2012%20weeks%20behind%20on%20your%20child%20support%20payments.%20%20In%20some%20instances,%20a%20parent%20may%20be%20credited%20for%20travel%20expenses%20up%20to%20100%20miles%20for%20parenting%20time.%20The%20court%20will%20consider%20the%20parent’s%20conduct%20in%20making%20that%20travel%20necessary%20when%20deciding%20whether%20or%20not%20they%20should%20be%20credited.%20%20Unless%20otherwise%20ordered%20by%20the%20court,%20one%20parent%20cannot%20fulfill%20their%20child%20support%20obligations%20with%20gifts%20in%20lieu%20of%20cash,%20such%20as%20clothing,%20toys,%20and%20school%20supplies.%20%20A%20third%20party%20who%20is%20given%20custody%20of%20the%20child%20in%20question%20is%20entitled%20to%20receive%20financial%20support%20from%20both%20parents,%20unless%20one%20or%20both%20have%20signed%20away%20their%20parental%20rights.%20%20More%20information%20about%20Arizona’s%202022%20Child%20Support%20Guidelines%20can%20be%20found%20at%20Azcourts.gov%20–%20Arizona%20Child%20Support%20Guidelines."></a><p> One of the most complicated things about family law is that it is constantly changing. Not only do family laws vary from state to state, but they can also change with each passing year. And while Arizona has always been a pioneer by not participating in Daylight Savings Time, our family laws occasionally change just like other states. Arizona has come out with new child support guidelines for 2022, with the most interesting changes being seen in childcare costs and tax exemptions. Read on to learn more about Arizona’s 2022 Child Support Guidelines.</p><p>Arizona Child Support Basics- Income Based Model</p><p>Arizona calculates child support using an income based model. As the name suggests, it takes both parents’ incomes into account to determine if and how much child support should be paid. The logic is that each parent should pay the same amount of financial support as if the family were still living together, which may then be apportioned depending on how much time the child spends with each parent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Child support calculations are actually usually done by a computer. However, certain factors may be considered depending on your family’s unique needs. For example, child support could be higher if the child has special medical expenses from a medical condition. Or, child support may need to be reduced if a parent is incarcerated or becomes disabled.</p><p><br /></p><p>What Counts As Income For Child Support Purposes?</p><p>When both parents work at salaried positions, it can be pretty simple to determine their respective incomes. But when one or both parents have variable income, rely largely on tips, receive monthly support from a family member or new partner, etc., it can affect what the court views as monthly income. Income from rental properties and business interests must be included for child support purposes as well. Even income like disability benefits and worker’s compensation must be included for a parent’s child support obligations. Even certain work benefits will be assigned a cash value to use for child support calculations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Surprisingly, income from overtime work is often exempted by the family court for child support purposes. The courts want parents to have the option to work overtime at their jobs without worry about increasing child support. If the parent used to work overtime when the family was a singular unit, the parent is not obligated to continue working similar overtime hours after a custody division. This is to ensure that the parent will still have enough time to have a meaningful relationship with the child after splitting households.</p><p><br /></p><p>Deductions For Children From Other Relationships</p><p>It isn’t uncommon for our clients to pay (or receive) child support for two or more children from separate relationships. Arizona’s Family Courts recognize that all of a parent’s children must be considered when calculating child support, as one child’s financial support can’t come at the detriment of another’s. If a parent is already paying child support for a child from another relationship, this amount will be deducted from that parent’s income for calculating their child support obligation for their other child. This deduction can be substantial if this parent is the only one financially supporting this child. However, receiving child support will not count as income for the purposes of calculating another child’s support.</p><p><br /></p><p>Financial Support As a Child Gets Older</p><p>In Arizona, family law judges realize that a child’s need for financial support can change over time. In general, it is expected that expenses for a child will increase as they grow older. In Arizona, a child’s support can be increased by 10% the day they turn 12 years old. If the parent is paying support to one more than one child from the same relationship, the 10% increase will be prorated for each child that has reached their 12 birthday.</p><p><br /></p><p>Medical Insurance</p><p>It usually makes sense for the children to only be on one parent’s health insurance policy. This will usually be the parent assigned more parenting time, if applicable. If so, that should be acknowledged in child support calculations. The child support order will indicate which parent will insure and be credited for the child’s healthcare. The amount that parent pays each month in health insurance will be prorated for the children who which support are paid. Whatever the parent pays in medical insurance can be credited as part of their child support obligation. That parent will still be credited if the insurance obligation is paid by someone else, such as a new spouse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Childcare</p><p>Arizona’s childcare guidelines allow parents to add childcare expenses to their basic child support obligation. The person receiving the child support expenses cannot be a dependent- for example, one parent can’t claim their new stay-at-home spouse as a dependent but reimburse them for childcare expenses during their parenting time with the child. The childcare services must be appropriate considering the family’s financial situation- for example, one parent shouldn’t hire a private nanny versus a public daycare provider if both parents make less than the state median income.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arizona Child Support Tax Exemption Guidelines</p><p>A major issue for parents who split custody of one or more children is who will claim them for tax exemption purposes. Sometimes, one parent will consistently claim them, or the parents might switch off years of claiming them. However, Arizona’s 2022 child support guidelines don’t allow a parent who is failing to pay child support to take advantage of the tax benefits for raising their children. The court can take away a parent’s right to parental tax benefits if the other parent can show a history of consistent failure to pay support. The amount the parent is entitled to will be deducted proportionately for the amount of child support they failed to pay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other Considerations</p><p>Child support is an important matter in Arizona, and it’s highly important that you make your monthly payments in a timely manner. Once child support is owed, there is nothing you can do about it. Child support arrearages can’t be discharged in bankruptcy. Failure to pay your child support could result in a wage garnishment, that will automatically deduct a portion of each of your paychecks and pay your monthly support and arrearages. If you have a child from another relationship or another dependent, 50% is the most your paychecks can be garnished. If you have no other dependents, this goes up to 60%. An additional 5% can be tacked on if you fall more than 12 weeks behind on your child support payments.</p><p><br /></p><p>In some instances, a parent may be credited for travel expenses up to 100 miles for parenting time. The court will consider the parent’s conduct in making that travel necessary when deciding whether or not they should be credited.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless otherwise ordered by the court, one parent cannot fulfill their child support obligations with gifts in lieu of cash, such as clothing, toys, and school supplies.</p><p><br /></p><p>A third party who is given custody of the child in question is entitled to receive financial support from both parents, unless one or both have signed away their parental rights.</p><p><br /></p><p>More information about Arizona’s 2022 Child Support Guidelines can be found at <a href="Arizona Child Support Basics- Income Based Model Arizona calculates child support using an income based model. As the name suggests, it takes both parents’ incomes into account to determine if and how much child support should be paid. The logic is that each parent should pay the same amount of financial support as if the family were still living together, which may then be apportioned depending on how much time the child spends with each parent. Child support calculations are actually usually done by a computer. However, certain factors may be considered depending on your family’s unique needs. For example, child support could be higher if the child has special medical expenses from a medical condition. Or, child support may need to be reduced if a parent is incarcerated or becomes disabled. What Counts As Income For Child Support Purposes? When both parents work at salaried positions, it can be pretty simple to determine their respective incomes. But when one or both parents have variable income, rely largely on tips, receive monthly support from a family member or new partner, etc., it can affect what the court views as monthly income. Income from rental properties and business interests must be included for child support purposes as well. Even income like disability benefits and worker’s compensation must be included for a parent’s child support obligations. Even certain work benefits will be assigned a cash value to use for child support calculations. Surprisingly, income from overtime work is often exempted by the family court for child support purposes. The courts want parents to have the option to work overtime at their jobs without worry about increasing child support. If the parent used to work overtime when the family was a singular unit, the parent is not obligated to continue working similar overtime hours after a custody division. This is to ensure that the parent will still have enough time to have a meaningful relationship with the child after splitting households. Deductions For Children From Other Relationships It isn’t uncommon for our clients to pay (or receive) child support for two or more children from separate relationships. Arizona’s Family Courts recognize that all of a parent’s children must be considered when calculating child support, as one child’s financial support can’t come at the detriment of another’s. If a parent is already paying child support for a child from another relationship, this amount will be deducted from that parent’s income for calculating their child support obligation for their other child. This deduction can be substantial if this parent is the only one financially supporting this child. However, receiving child support will not count as income for the purposes of calculating another child’s support. Financial Support As a Child Gets Older In Arizona, family law judges realize that a child’s need for financial support can change over time. In general, it is expected that expenses for a child will increase as they grow older. In Arizona, a child’s support can be increased by 10% the day they turn 12 years old. If the parent is paying support to one more than one child from the same relationship, the 10% increase will be prorated for each child that has reached their 12 birthday. Medical Insurance It usually makes sense for the children to only be on one parent’s health insurance policy. This will usually be the parent assigned more parenting time, if applicable. If so, that should be acknowledged in child support calculations. The child support order will indicate which parent will insure and be credited for the child’s healthcare. The amount that parent pays each month in health insurance will be prorated for the children who which support are paid. Whatever the parent pays in medical insurance can be credited as part of their child support obligation. That parent will still be credited if the insurance obligation is paid by someone else, such as a new spouse. Childcare Arizona’s childcare guidelines allow parents to add childcare expenses to their basic child support obligation. The person receiving the child support expenses cannot be a dependent- for example, one parent can’t claim their new stay-at-home spouse as a dependent but reimburse them for childcare expenses during their parenting time with the child. The childcare services must be appropriate considering the family’s financial situation- for example, one parent shouldn’t hire a private nanny versus a public daycare provider if both parents make less than the state median income. Arizona Child Support Tax Exemption Guidelines A major issue for parents who split custody of one or more children is who will claim them for tax exemption purposes. Sometimes, one parent will consistently claim them, or the parents might switch off years of claiming them. However, Arizona’s 2022 child support guidelines don’t allow a parent who is failing to pay child support to take advantage of the tax benefits for raising their children. The court can take away a parent’s right to parental tax benefits if the other parent can show a history of consistent failure to pay support. The amount the parent is entitled to will be deducted proportionately for the amount of child support they failed to pay. Other Considerations Child support is an important matter in Arizona, and it’s highly important that you make your monthly payments in a timely manner. Once child support is owed, there is nothing you can do about it. Child support arrearages can’t be discharged in bankruptcy. Failure to pay your child support could result in a wage garnishment, that will automatically deduct a portion of each of your paychecks and pay your monthly support and arrearages. If you have a child from another relationship or another dependent, 50% is the most your paychecks can be garnished. If you have no other dependents, this goes up to 60%. An additional 5% can be tacked on if you fall more than 12 weeks behind on your child support payments. In some instances, a parent may be credited for travel expenses up to 100 miles for parenting time. The court will consider the parent’s conduct in making that travel necessary when deciding whether or not they should be credited. Unless otherwise ordered by the court, one parent cannot fulfill their child support obligations with gifts in lieu of cash, such as clothing, toys, and school supplies. A third party who is given custody of the child in question is entitled to receive financial support from both parents, unless one or both have signed away their parental rights. More information about Arizona’s 2022 Child Support Guidelines can be found at Azcourts.gov – Arizona Child Support Guidelines.">Azcourts.gov </a>– Arizona Child Support Guidelines.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://azfamilylawlawyer.com/arizona-child-support-guidelines-2022/">SOURCE</a><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-33718218497985255232022-12-05T22:41:00.000-08:002022-12-05T22:41:40.416-08:00Attorney Vincent W. Davis<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dybd4WnTchP1qlqrcBSDcvJh8ojlYv3LNB6BDtG8k9tz_R5kFw6okDXIn_gQAiWsSVwd0Ct1iAHUW0L5wCUaQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-79780295196358019852022-12-05T22:38:00.000-08:002022-12-05T22:38:28.354-08:00Attorney Vincent W. Davis<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzCBEV-YKs1WysUsOXTb2-vHD_RHoYgCMWbhYV3Rnf80nkyTW4QmltNT_mmNg2bk34TwdPOup6j8mfxKBcxcQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-20866325509394070312022-10-27T19:55:00.002-07:002022-10-27T20:02:47.106-07:00INVESTIGATING DOZIER: Christopher Sholly<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkwRtjcQSfJQ5nh-WpiMtfSrqCEzXgs7z-fWsTE35klQCx3BPE3qAqYWq3WhGSaYzTUuFwRRvsQZZDGZJWgUuudpySDlT-Eq3c6MDLyTP8Z1kpWIhxDnYHLxjZzuGtI-XjWt2mr1TiIP76VhxL23xVOIb7JTErDovJaqQTn7hMKZUrnqidDjDeiRLvSQ/s960/fb_img_1550243971858-01.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="602" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkwRtjcQSfJQ5nh-WpiMtfSrqCEzXgs7z-fWsTE35klQCx3BPE3qAqYWq3WhGSaYzTUuFwRRvsQZZDGZJWgUuudpySDlT-Eq3c6MDLyTP8Z1kpWIhxDnYHLxjZzuGtI-XjWt2mr1TiIP76VhxL23xVOIb7JTErDovJaqQTn7hMKZUrnqidDjDeiRLvSQ/s320/fb_img_1550243971858-01.webp" width="201" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>SO MANY OF the Dozier related posts on Finding Florida have been about the school itself. I’ve written about the dark history, the structures & our experiences BUT I’ve only really spoken of the victims, in generalities. This was never done on purpose; It was mostly out of respect to the victims, those who survived & those who did not, & of course the families of both groups. It may have also been a way to avoid getting too close & personal; At the end of the day I’m a mom of a 9-year-old & an Auntie to a 5-year-old, both boys. To look at them knowing that boys of the same age were forcibly plucked from their homes & placed into an environment that would change, if not end their lives makes me physically ill. Whatever the reason, it’s time to talk about the MOST important part of this entire endeavor, the reason why I’m willing to continue this uphill battle:</p><p>THE BOYS…</p><p><br /></p><p>A MOTHER’S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE</p><p><br /></p><p>IT WAS A late December night when I would get a call that would again change the direction that I was going. I answered & heard “Jenn, It’s Dawn Chase.” I was floored. I had seen her son’s story & had felt compelled to send her an email a couple of months before. The problem was that the open letter that she had posted on the website was written years before. I knew I was taking a chance using the contact info that had been attached to it but what did I really have to lose at that point? Thankfully, she did happen to see my email!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>DURING THAT CALL, I told her about what I was trying to do & what had happened so far. I also told her about how I had gotten her son’s name to begin with. He had been the very last name on a list of about 15 other boys that another former Dozier boy had given to me. This list was different than the others…The Boys on this list had ALL served time at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in the 2000’s & EVERY single one of them could attest to the abuse that was happening at the school. These Boys were “Game Changers!” NOT only would they be able to back up the claims of the Whitehouse Boys that had been there in the 50’s & 60’s BUT they could also offer proof that the abuse NEVER stopped. Marianna didn’t care about changing OR righting the wrongs of the past; They just wanted it ALL to go away, whatever the cost may be. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s a pretty safe bet that there were kids being beaten until the very day that Dozier closed its doors in 2011.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A LIFE INTERRUPTED</p><p>HIS NAME IS Christopher Sholly. He is a son, a brother, an uncle, an aspiring model…And yes, he is also yet another unfortunate victim of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Chris’s story runs a bit broader though as Dozier would be only one of many stops in Florida’s Juvenile Justice system; ALL would fail him miserably. What started as a couple of tees having a fight at school would result in a 13-year-old boy becoming entangled in Florida’s corrupt Juvenile Justice System for the next 4 years; ONLY ending when he would be herded into the dark abyss of adult prison life. There would be NO trying out for his high school sports team, NO nervous fidgeting while he attempted to ask a girl to homecoming OR prom. He wouldn’t even have the luxury of celebrating the remaining birthdays of his teenage years at home with his family. All of the things that most of us take for granted.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>IT WOULD BE the Fall of 2004 when Chris would 1st come into contact with the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys. Near completion of his program at the Jackson Juvenile Offenders Center (JJOCC), he was looking forward to finally going home & getting on with his life. Claiming that they needed to free up spots for Juveniles that were considered “flight risks”, Chris was sent to Dozier.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>HE WAS ASSURED that his credits from the JJOC program would transfer with him, So he believed that he would complete his remaining time at AGDSB & be released on schedule. By now, we ALL know that Dozier doesn’t offer happy endings. Chris would be NO exception.</p><p><br /></p><p>FROM THE MOMENT he stepped foot onto the campus, he was taunted, severely beaten & verbally assaulted. When he wasn’t being personally abused, he had to witness others receive the same treatment. But Chris did his best to stick it out, knowing he was only a matter of weeks from getting his life back. It would be when he started to fear for his life that he would finally say something.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>DURING A PHONE call with his mom, Chris had the courage to tell her what was happening at the school. His mom, doing what most loving moms would do, immediately went to authorities. The Florida Department of Children & Families (DCF) was called in to “investigate.”</p><p>And….</p><p><br /></p><p>NOT ONE FREAKING thing happened! Now maybe a proper investigation was done & it was decided that this was just another case of a pissed off “juvenile delinquent” throwing around claims of abuse to get back at everyone for locking him up. That’s just got to be the case, right??</p><p><br /></p><p>snip-it_1550453885844-014603900807843925996.jpegsnip-it_1550454135114-015759183280756400775.jpeg</p><p><br /></p><p>IF THAT THOUGHT crossed your mind, I can assure you that you couldn’t be more wrong! As it turns out, the DCF caseworker assigned to investigate the claims of abuse was conveniently related to a Dozier staff member. But NOT just ANY staff member …It was THE staff member accused of abuse.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>RETALIATION</p><p>IT MAKES ME sad to think about what so many children are now privy to at such a young age. It goes way beyond a child finding out that “Santa’s NOT Real” OR discovering that NOT all fairytales will have a happy ending. It’s realizing that the “Boogeyman” not only exists BUT takes the form of a man who is given too much power & has too much evil & hate inside. Being in such a position could be a good thing, if you decide to use that power to impact a child’s life positively. Obviously, most of the Dozier staff made a very different choice OR we’d all be hearing an entirely different story today. Yet, how powerful can you possibly be when your chosen victim is a child?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>THE ANSWER IS quite simple; Beating a 13-year-old unconscious OR breaking his bones does NOT make a king BUT a coward. These real life “Boogeymen” would finally meet their match in the form of a teenaged boy. He may have been scared to death of not getting to go home OR worse, NOT making it out of the system alive, yet he decided to stand up for what was right.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“BUT I’M NOT AN ADULT”</p><p>IN SPITE OF the extreme retaliation that he would face, Chris would continue to report the abuse to his mom during their phone calls. She, in turn, began a crusade to get her son out of Dozier. Dawn spent her days reaching out to ANY official that she thought could help. She wasn’t going to stop until her boy was either transferred to another facility OR was sent home. Chris would eventually be transferred out of Dozier, though it wouldn’t be in a positive way. With approximately 6 years left until Dozier would finally close its doors for good, they weren’t about to allow another blemish to mark their record. The superintendent came up with a plan to keep that from happening; File assault charges on Chris stating that he had assaulted a guard & this time, they would make sure that he wouldn’t step foot inside another juvenile facility…This time he would be charged as an adult.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>EVEN WITH THE evidence & witness testimony supporting Chris’s version of events, the corruption ran too deep…At just 17 years old, Chris became a child inmate sent to serve his sentence in a VERY adult prison.</p><p><br /></p><p>ALTHOUGH I DID my best to tell Chris’s story, I barely scratched the surface of what he’s gone through. Fortunately, he kept a detailed journal documenting what he went through & with the help of his mom, compiled entries, letters & other important info…They then made ALL of the content public. If you’re interested in hearing his account, here is the link:</p><p><a href="https://christophersholly.blogspot.com/2007/04/christopher-shollys-diary-abused-in.html?m=1">https://christophersholly.blogspot.com/2007/04/christopher-shollys-diary-abused-in.html?m=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>♤Please Consider Helping In The Fight For Justice By Signing The 1st Petition:</p><p><a href="https://www.change.org/p/jenn-moslek-re-investigation-of-the-arthur-g-dozier-school-for-boys">https://www.change.org/p/jenn-moslek-re-investigation-of-the-arthur-g-dozier-school-for-boys</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>http://www.whitehouseboys2007.com</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYT5NSQ0LJrQ1gg_UG1H3ZIh-EBE3-sL7meO74DLW1FnysmgujEfuUG9Vd7qpPtFj0sl6UTd1Mi7yR83E6Zz1q1gVtbxCahF-3TDR4KK-P1dchsxWJHBK1E3SdzZwl4opkNBgwJ-REE4weSOquyAvKQBx-9aF02ldn1WHe9_dT_hVdfyQkcIWDf8fgQ/s300/20190216_1341501205733663665082807.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Nurses named him Daniel as he recovered at a hospital. The Safe Haven for Abandoned Babies Act, now known as Daniel's Law, was enacted to prevent these kinds of dangerous and often fatal abandonments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Under the law, instead of abandoning a baby up to sixty days old in dangerous circumstances, a person can surrender their unharmed newborn baby at a designated location. They can give their child a chance at a happy, healthy life with a loving family.</p><p>Daniel's Law is intended to save babies. It is not intended to hurt or punish anyone. It provides a safe option for mother and baby.</p><p>You should know:</p><p><br /></p><p>The law applies to infants up to 60 days old.</p><p>If the baby has been harmed in some way, the immunity from prosecution may not apply.</p><p>A person who abandons a newborn cannot be prosecuted for abandonment if he or she takes the unharmed baby to staff or an employee of a Safe Haven. Safe Havens are defined as a hospital or hospital outpatient facility, law enforcement agencies, fire stations, emergency medical services (EMS) stations, or a house of worship during the time the church or synagogue is staffed. The receiving “safe haven” should complete this form. </p><p>DSS will have legal custody of the child and will place the child in a foster home.</p><p>DSS will immediately pursue family court action to free the child for adoption.</p><p>The hospital will provide medical care and contact DSS.</p><p>The person leaving the child will be asked to provide medical information about the baby’s parents and, if possible, the name of the baby’s parents. This will help the medical personnel treat the baby for any health problems.</p><p>The person leaving the child does not have to reveal his or her identity. </p><p>If you are pregnant and confused or frightened about what to do with your baby or know someone who is pregnant and in crisis – there are people who can help – the Department of Social Services, your local health department, and your local hospital.</p><p><br /></p><p> *One baby in 2020 was initially reported as a Daniel’s Law baby, but birth mother went through the relinquishment process which meant it was no longer classified as Daniel’s Law.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://dss.sc.gov/child-well-being/daniels-law-safe-haven-for-babies/">Resource</a><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-14133537877203522092022-08-11T16:50:00.002-07:002022-08-11T16:50:41.755-07:00<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjessicalynnhepner%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02M1MPAAe2E8NCwGcWjg58SK9FBThQX8rCwTXsT2xZinFF221tSCA7DkBjBigukHnfl&show_text=true&width=500" width="500" height="458" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-9433801179115808212022-07-10T04:24:00.000-07:002022-07-10T04:24:35.890-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwrEL4zvBIQhBYSHCXKJOHw4dY8zGwmmHh4KVa1szBDDj4kHNVnHqnZQrnF_gOU-19uRQdpP7XHcv6wdog_-g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-27902596090643902912022-05-28T15:54:00.004-07:002022-05-28T16:05:07.812-07:00Child Abuse Prevention Resources<p> Ok after reading more in this morning's news about a child who was abused and was likened to a concentration camp survivor,<a href="https://lawandcrime.com/crime/parents-of-ohio-stepmom-are-now-charged-with-helping-abuse-boy-who-was-likened-to-concentration-camp-survivor/?fbclid=IwAR0SFxmX1Ivscz5al2SLTiotK5Y7nbW35U4Zoq8WgcjMYyJNoeMsndjVP4E"> https://lawandcrime.com/crime/parents-of-ohio-stepmom-are-now-charged-with-helping-abuse-boy-who-was-likened-to-concentration-camp-survivor/?fbclid=IwAR0SFxmX1Ivscz5al2SLTiotK5Y7nbW35U4Zoq8WgcjMYyJNoeMsndjVP4E</a> this story literally makes me sick. what kind of people are in this world that does stuff like this to innocent children. If a parent finds themselves in a situation where they feel they are not capable are taking care of a child then by all means own that shit and turn that child over to Child Protection Services or a family relative, or in other cases give the child to the other parent. And to the strip parents that come into a relationship where children are treated that child like it was your own. To treat a child like a piece of garbage because they are not from you is unacceptable. I know there is a special place in hell for those who do such horrific things to children. </p><p>Parents and step-parents once again I am going to post some resources for parents who might be struggling, to use them. Reach out and ask for help. No child deserves to be tortured or abused.</p><p><br /></p><p>National Child Abuse Prevention Partner Organizations</p><p>Series: Related Organizations Lists</p><p>Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway</p><p>National organizations were selected by the Children's Bureau to serve as partners in the national child abuse prevention initiative.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alliance for Strong Families and Communities</p><p>1825 K Street, NW</p><p>Suite 600</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20006</p><p>Phone: (202) 997-2559</p><p>Email: atempleman@alliance1.org</p><p><a href="https://www.alliance1.org">https://www.alliance1.org</a> link(opens in new window)</p><p>Rooted in the historic cause of advancing equity for all people, the Alliance is a national strategic action network driven by members aligned through shared ownership and a common vision to achieve a healthy and equitable society. Members provide and lead an array of programs such as counseling, education and enrichment, child abuse prevention, adoption, foster care, workforce development, neighborhood revitalization, and civic engagement and advocacy.</p><p>nadid: 30356</p><p>American Academy of Pediatrics</p><p>345 Park Boulevard</p><p>National Headquarters</p><p>Itasca, Illinois 60143</p><p>Phone: (202) 247-8600</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 433-9016</p><p>Fax: (202) 393-6137</p><p>Fax: (847) 434-8000</p><p>Email: kidsdocs@aap.org</p><p><a href="https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/Child-Abuse-and-Neglect/Pages/Prevention.aspx">https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/Child-Abuse-and-Neglect/Pages/Prevention.aspx</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>General Scope: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is a national, nonprofit membership organization of pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists that produces professional training materials and public education materials on pediatric topics including child maltreatment. Its mission is to attain optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.</p><p><br /></p><p>Training Specific: The Council on Child Abuse and Neglect external link(opens in new window) is dedicated to improving the care and outcomes of infants, children, and adolescents through the prevention, identification, management, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.</p><p>nadid: 11077</p><p>American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children</p><p>590 Avenue of the Americas</p><p>14th Floor</p><p>New York, New York 10011</p><p>Phone: (614) 827-1321</p><p>Toll-Free: (877) 402-7722</p><p>Fax: ( 614) 251-6005</p><p>Email: apsac@apsac.org</p><p><a href="https://www.apsac.org/">https://www.apsac.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>General Scope: The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), now in partnership with The New York Foundling is a nonprofit, national organization focused on meeting the needs of professionals engaged in all aspects of services for maltreated children and their families. Especially important to APSAC is the dissemination of state-of-the-art practice in all professional disciplines related to child abuse and neglect. The New York Foundling, whose mission offers an expansive array of services for under-served children, families, and adults with developmental disabilities provides the resources necessary to rebuild lives and rebuild families.</p><p><br /></p><p>Training Specific: Find Training and Events Calendarexternal link(opens in new window) for information about APSAC and national and State-level partner events.</p><p>nadid: 11141</p><p>American Psychological Association</p><p>750 First Street, NE</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20002</p><p>Phone: (202) 336-5500</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 374-2721</p><p><a href="https://www.apa.org/">https://www.apa.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The American Psychological Association (APA), based in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA’s mission is to advance the creation, dissemination, and application of psychological knowledge and practice to benefit society and improves people’s lives. The APA Violence Prevention Office (VPO) coordinates APA’s activities related to violence and injury prevention, and treatment on topics associated with child maltreatment, trauma, media violence, and youth violence. The office collaborates with other national associations, national collaboratives, and federal agencies to promote the contributions of psychology and psychologists to the understanding and prevention of violence.</p><p>nadid: 25972</p><p>American Public Human Services Association</p><p>1300 17th Street</p><p>Suite 340</p><p>Arlington, Virginia 22209</p><p>Phone: (202) 823-3200</p><p>Phone: (202) 682-0100</p><p>Fax: (202) 289-6555</p><p><a href="https://www.aphsa.org/">https://www.aphsa.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>General Scope: The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) is an organization of individuals and agencies concerned with human services. APHSA's mission is to promote, develop, and implement public human service policies that improve the health and well-being of families and children. As a major affiliate of APHSA, the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators (NAPCWA) represents administrators of State and local public child welfare agencies working to meet the goals outlined in APHSA's mission statement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Training Specific: The website of APHSAexternal link(opens in a new window) provides training information on Leadership and Practice Development of Human Services Professionals. The Leadership and Practice Development Department (LPD) works to support and enhance the capacity of state and local human service agencies to improve outcomes by implementing new policies and effect major program reforms.</p><p>The National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA), an affiliate of APHSA, provides a national forum for the discussion of staff development and training issues at the Federal, State, and local levels. To learn more, please visit the NSDTAexternal link(opens in a new window).</p><p>nadid: 11143</p><p>Annie E. Casey Foundation</p><p>701 St. Paul Street</p><p>Baltimore, Maryland 21202</p><p>Phone: (410) 547-6600</p><p>Fax: (410) 547-6624</p><p><a href="http://www.aecf.org">http://www.aecf.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The Annie E. Casey Foundation works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.</p><p>nadid: 11142</p><p>ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center</p><p>4016 Oxford Street</p><p>Annandale, Virginia 22003</p><p>Phone: (703) 256-2084</p><p><a href="https://archrespite.org/">https://archrespite.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p><a href="https://archrespite.org/contact">https://archrespite.org/contact</a>-usexternal link(opens in new window)</p><p>The mission of the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center is to assist and promote the development of quality respite and crisis care programs; to help families locate respite and crisis care services in their communities; and to serve as a strong voice for respite in all forums.</p><p>nadid: 11103</p><p>Be Strong Families</p><p>1555 Sherman Avenue</p><p>#103</p><p>Evanston, Illinois 60201</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 805-2505, ext. 5</p><p>Email: info@bestrongfamilies.net</p><p><a href="https://www.bestrongfamilies.org/">https://www.bestrongfamilies.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p><a href="https://www.bestrongfamilies.org/contact">https://www.bestrongfamilies.org/contact</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Be Strong Families partners to develop transformative conversations that nurture the spirit of family, promote well-being, and prevent violence. It is internationally known as an innovator in using structured, small group conversations called cafés to facilitate transformation and healing within families.</p><p>nadid: 28799</p><p>Capacity Building Center for States</p><p>9300 Lee Highway</p><p>Fairfax, Virginia 22031</p><p>Toll-Free: (844) 222-0272</p><p>Email: capacityinfo@icfi.com</p><p><a href="https://capacity.childwelfare.gov/states/">https://capacity.childwelfare.gov/states/</a></p><p>The Center for States supports public child welfare agencies in effectively initiating and sustaining change and innovation to achieve improved system, organizational, and program performance. As a result, the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth, and families will be significantly enhanced. The goals for the Center for States include building capacity for increased effectiveness of public child welfare agencies through strong national expertise in child welfare and change management to help build and/or sustain the ability of agencies to perform well; to work in partnership with the Centers for Tribes and Courts to support States and other jurisdictions across the country; to create new and lasting partnerships with States, jurisdictions, Tribes, courts, and the Children's Bureau's Regional Office staff that reflect a shared focus on meeting the unique and individual needs of States and jurisdictions; to use a collaborative and systematic approach to build State and territory capacities across the five domains of resources; infrastructure; knowledge and skills; culture and climate; engagement and partnership.</p><p>nadid: 27469</p><p>Center for the Study of Social Policy</p><p>1575 Eye Street NW</p><p>Suite 500</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20005</p><p>Phone: (202) 371-1565</p><p>Fax: (202) 371-1472</p><p>Email: info@cssp.org</p><p><a href="https://cssp.org/">https://cssp.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p><a href="https://cssp.org/about-us/connect/contact-us/">https://cssp.org/about-us/connect/contact-us/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The mission of the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is to develop and promote public policies and practices that support and strengthen families and help communities produce equal opportunities and better futures for children.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Center coordinates the national Strengthening Families initiative which is being implemented in over half of all States. Strengthening Families engages early childhood programs and other unusual partners in preventing child abuse and neglect by building five, research-based, Protective Factors that are shown to be correlated with reduced incidence of child abuse and neglect. The Strengthening Families National Network provides tools, peer support, technical assistance, and other resources for States implementing Strengthening Families. For more information about this initiative, please see CSSP's Strengthening Families Curriculumexternal link(opens in a new window).</p><p>nadid: 18682</p><p>Chapin Hall Center for Children</p><p>1313 East 60th Street</p><p>Chicago, Illinois 60637</p><p>Phone: (773) 256-5100</p><p>Fax: (773) 753-5940</p><p>Email: webmaster@chapinhall.org</p><p><a href="https://www.chapinhall.org/">https://www.chapinhall.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Chapin Hall is a research and development center focusing on policies, practices, and programs affecting children and the families and communities in which they live. The Center devotes special attention to children facing significant problems such as abuse or neglect, poverty, and mental or physical illnesses, and to the service systems designed to address these problems.</p><p>nadid: 11160</p><p>Child Welfare Information Gateway</p><p>Children's Bureau/ACYF</p><p>330 C Street, S.W</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20201</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 394-3366</p><p>Email: info@childwelfare.gov</p><p><a href="https://www.childwelfare.gov/">https://www.childwelfare.gov/</a></p><p>Child Welfare Information Gateway connects professionals and the general public to information and resources targeted at the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to programs, research, laws and policies, training resources, statistics, and much more.</p><p>nadid: 17904</p><p>Child Welfare League of America</p><p>Headquarters</p><p>727 15th St. NW Suite 1200</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20005</p><p>Phone: (202) 688-4200</p><p>Fax: (202) 833-1689</p><p>Email: cwla@cwla.org</p><p><a href="https://www.cwla.org/">https://www.cwla.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p><a href="https://www.cwla.org/about-us/contact/">https://www.cwla.org/about-us/contact/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the oldest national organization serving vulnerable children, youth, and their families. CWLA provides training, consultation, and technical assistance to child welfare professionals and agencies while also educating the public on emerging issues that affect abused, neglected, and at-risk children. Through its publications, conferences, and teleconferences, CWLA shares information on emerging trends, specific topics in child welfare practice (family foster care, kinship care, adoption, positive youth development), and Federal and State policies.</p><p>nadid: 11165</p><p>Childhelp</p><p>6730 N. Scottsdale Rd</p><p>Suite 150</p><p>Scottsdale, Arizona 85253</p><p>Phone: (480) 922-8212</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 4AC-HILD</p><p>TDD: (800) 2AC-HILD</p><p>Fax: (480) 922-7061</p><p><a href="https://www.childhelp.org/">https://www.childhelp.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Childhelp is dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. Childhelp's approach focuses on prevention, intervention, and treatment. The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Childhelp's programs and services also include residential treatment services; children's advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes; child abuse prevention, education, and training; and the National Day of Hope, part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month every April.</p><p>nadid: 11162</p><p>Children's Trust Fund Alliance</p><p>PO Box 15206</p><p>Seattle, Washington 98115</p><p>Phone: (206) 526-1221</p><p>Fax: (206) 526-0220</p><p>Email: info@ctfalliance.org</p><p><a href="http://www.ctfalliance.orge">http://www.ctfalliance.org </a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Children's Trust Funds Alliance initiates and engages in national efforts that assist state Children's Trust and Prevention Funds in strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect. This includes promoting and supporting a system of services, laws, practices, and attitudes that supports families by enabling them to provide their children with a safe, healthy, and nurturing childhood.</p><p>nadid: 11127</p><p>Children’s Bureau Learning and Coordination Center at Kauffman and Associates, Inc.</p><p>165 S Howard Street</p><p>Suite 200</p><p>Spokane, Washington 99201</p><p>Phone: (301) 442-7720</p><p>The Children’s Bureau Learning and Coordination Center (CBLCC, formerly CANTASD) provides logistics and strategic communication services to support peer learning, meeting and events, and multimedia resource development on issues relevant to the full spectrum of child welfare. The CBLCC also supports several constituency groups, including the Federal Interagency Work Group on Child Abuse and Neglect and the Prevention Partners national network, and develops content for the National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect.</p><p>nadid: 30221</p><p>Circle of Parents</p><p>P.O. Box 17982</p><p>Richmond, Virginia 23226</p><p>Phone: (540) 847-8483</p><p>Phone: (804) 308-0841</p><p>Email: Circleofparentsac@gmail.com</p><p><a href="http://www.circleofparents.org">http://www.circleofparents.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The mission of the Circle of Parents is to prevent child abuse and neglect and to strengthen families through friendly, supportive, mutual self-help parent support groups and children's programs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Currently, the Circle of Parents national network represents a partnership of parent leaders and 26 statewide organizations in 25 States and Puerto Rico. The organization was formed after a successful collaborative project of Prevent Child Abuse America and the National Family Support Roundtable, which was made possible by the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Circle of Parents website provides links to information about the program model, its state network member organizations, training and technical assistance to its membership, parenting resources, and more.</p><p>nadid: 12066</p><p>Darkness to Light</p><p>1064 Gardner Road</p><p>Suite 210</p><p>Charleston, South Carolina 29407</p><p>Phone: (843) 965-5444</p><p>Toll-Free: (866) FOR-LIGH T8663675444</p><p>Fax: (843) 571-0902</p><p><a href="https://www.d2l.org/">https://www.d2l.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Darkness to Light is a primary prevention program whose mission is to engage adults in the prevention of child sexual abuse; reduce the incidence of child sexual abuse nationally through education and public awareness aimed at adults, and provide adults with information to recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.</p><p>nadid: 11459</p><p>Doris Duke Charitable Foundation</p><p>650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor</p><p>New York, New York 10019</p><p>Phone: (212) 974-7000</p><p>Fax: (212) 974-7590</p><p><a href="http://www.ddcf.org/">http://www.ddcf.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Child Abuse Prevention Program is to protect children from abuse and neglect to promote their healthy development.</p><p><br /></p><p>The program awards grants to organizations to improve parent-child interactions and to increase parents' access to information and services that help prevent child maltreatment before it occurs.</p><p>nadid: 12065</p><p>FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP)</p><p>800 Eastowne Drive</p><p>Suite 105</p><p>Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514</p><p>Phone: (919) 493-1584</p><p><a href="http://friendsnrc.org/">http://friendsnrc.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) is a program authorized by Title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act that provides Federal funds to a lead agency in each State designated by the Governor to provide leadership for and support to child abuse prevention programs and activities in the State. FRIENDS assists CBCAP State Lead Agencies to meet the requirements of their funding through the development of written resources and the provision of training and technical assistance.</p><p>nadid: 26332</p><p>Futures Without Violence</p><p>100 Montgomery Street</p><p>The Presidio</p><p>San Francisco, California 94129</p><p>Phone: (415) 678-5500</p><p>Toll-Free: (866) 678-8901</p><p>Email: info@futureswithoutviolence.org</p><p><a href="https://FuturesWithoutViolence.org">https://FuturesWithoutViolence.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Futures Without Violence is a health and social justice nonprofit with a simple mission: to heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and to create healthy families and communities free of violence tomorrow. From domestic violence and child abuse to bullying and sexual assault, our groundbreaking programs, policy development, and public action campaigns are designed to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world. Striving to reach new audiences and transform social norms, we train professionals such as doctors, nurses, judges, and athletic coaches on improving responses to violence and abuse. We also work with advocates, policymakers, and others to build sustainable community leadership and educate people everywhere about the importance of respect and healthy relationships.</p><p>nadid: 30264</p><p>Infant Massage USA</p><p>PO Box 7745</p><p>Nashua, New Hampshire 03060</p><p>Phone: (978) 225-0093</p><p>Email: Linda.Storm@InfantMassageUSA.org</p><p><a href="http://www.infantmassageusa.org/">http://www.infantmassageusa.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Infant Massage USA® provides comprehensive, evidence-based four-day training for people in many career fields, i.e: OTs, PTs, Nurses, Home Visitors, Early Intervention, etc. Our Certified Educators of Infant Massage (CEIMs) work with parents to provide instruction on how to massage their babies. Through the instruction, massage helps to improve the physical and emotional well-being of babies, enhances parent-infant bonding, and facilitates long-term, positive emotional development in families.</p><p>nadid: 25975</p><p>National Association for the Education of Young Children</p><p>1313 L St. NW</p><p>Suite 500</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20005</p><p>Phone: (202) 232-8777</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 424-2460</p><p>Fax: (202) 328-1846</p><p>Email: help@naeyc.org</p><p><a href="http://www.naeyc.org/">http://www.naeyc.org/</a> external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the leading membership association for those working with and on behalf of children from birth through age 8.</p><p><br /></p><p>NAEYC convenes thought leaders, teachers and other practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders and sets standards of excellence for programs and teachers in early childhood education. NAEYC members include teachers, paraeducators, center directors, trainers, college educators, families of young children, and the public at large. Membership is open to all individuals who share a desire to serve and act on behalf of the needs and rights of all young children.</p><p>nadid: 12062</p><p>National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)</p><p>5 Hanover Square</p><p>Suite 1401</p><p>New York, New York 10004</p><p>Phone: (917) 746-8300</p><p>Fax: (212) 785-1713</p><p>Email: pnp.representative@napnap.org</p><p><a href="http://www.napnap.org">http://www.napnap.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) is the professional association for pediatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) and other advanced practice nurses who care for children. Established in 1973, we are the only national organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care for infants, children, and adolescents, and to advancing the PNP's role in providing that care. NAPNAP has a Child Maltreatment & Neglect Special Interest Group (CMN SIG) which is for members whose practice focuses on subspecialty practice in the field of child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, and child neglect evaluation. The aim of this SIG is better communication and cooperation among involved practitioners. NAPNAP also recently published NAPNAP's Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Screening, Early Intervention, and Health Promotion, 2nd Edition. In it, is a section on Child Maltreatment which has information on Child Abuse and Neglect for School-Age Children.</p><p>nadid: 26333</p><p>National Center for Children in Poverty</p><p>475 Riverside Drive</p><p>Suite 1400</p><p>New York, New York 10115</p><p>Phone: (646) 284-9600</p><p>Fax: (646) 284-9623</p><p><a href="http://www.nccp.org">http://www.nccp.org</a>/external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America's low-income families and children. Using research to inform policy and practice, NCCP seeks to advance family-oriented solutions and the strategic use of public resources at the State and national levels to ensure positive outcomes for the next generation.</p><p>nadid: 11134</p><p>National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome</p><p>1433 N 1075 W</p><p>Suite 110</p><p>Farmington, Utah 84025</p><p>Phone: (801) 447-9360</p><p>Fax: (801) 447-9364</p><p>Email: mail@dontshake.org</p><p><a href="http://www.dontshake.org/">http://www.dontshake.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>General Scope: The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome (NCSBS) offers information on the shaken baby syndrome, shaken baby syndrome prevention programs, and training for professionals and parents nationwide.</p><p><br /></p><p>Training Specific: The Online Training Center external link(opens in a new window) offers, among others, three training modules: the Period of PURPLE Crying program overview, Basic Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS/AHT) education, and Childcare Providers Intro to SBS/AHT.</p><p>nadid: 11208</p><p>National Children's Alliance</p><p>516 C Street, NE</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20002</p><p>Phone: (202) 548-0090</p><p>Toll-Free: (800)239-9950</p><p>Fax: (202) 548-0099</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/">https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>General Scope: The National Children's Alliance (NCA) is a nonprofit membership organization that provides training, technical assistance, and networking opportunities to communities seeking to plan, establish and improve Children's Advocacy Centers. These Centers further the goal of serving abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for victims and their families.</p><p>Training Specific: A wide range of training opportunities may be found in the NCA Learning Center. external link(opens in new window)</p><p>nadid: 11023</p><p>National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Exploitation</p><p>P.O. Box 17770</p><p>Atlanta, Georgia 30316</p><p>Phone: (678) 904-2880</p><p>http://www.preventtogether.orgexternal link(opens in new window)</p><p>The National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Exploitation (NSVRC) is a coalition that coordinates and collaborates among a wide variety of organizations and individuals committed to prevention. NSVRC’s mission is to create a unified effort to promote the healthy development of children and youth and end their sexual abuse and exploitation.</p><p>nadid: 29858</p><p>National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association</p><p>100 West Harrison Street</p><p>North Tower, Suite 500</p><p>Seattle, Washington 98119</p><p>Phone: (206) 774-7250</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 628-3233</p><p><a href="https://nationalcasagal.org/">https://nationalcasagal.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>https://nationalcasagal.org/contact-us/external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children is a network of 933 community-based programs that recruit, train, and support citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. Volunteer advocates empowered directly by the courts offer judges the critical information they need to ensure that each child's rights and needs are being attended to while in foster care.</p><p>nadid: 11021</p><p>National Exchange Club Foundation</p><p>3050 Central Avenue</p><p>Toledo, Ohio 43606-1700</p><p>Phone: 419.535.3232</p><p>Email: development@nationalexchangeclub.org</p><p><a href="http://www.nationalexchangeclub.org/foundation-2/">http://www.nationalexchangeclub.org/foundation-2/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The National Exchange Club Foundation(NECF) was established when the National Exchange Club, an all-volunteer service organization adopted the Prevention of Child Abuse as its National Project. Today, NECF helps local Exchange Clubs develop and maintain community-based child abuse prevention programs, as well as supporting Exchange's Program of Service projects, which include Youth Programs and Community Service, among others.</p><p>nadid: 11033</p><p>National Family Preservation Network</p><p>1070-1 Tunnel Road</p><p>Suite 10-347</p><p>Asheville, North Carolina 28805</p><p>Toll-Free: (888) 498-9047</p><p>Fax: (208) 543-6080</p><p>Email: director@nfpn.org</p><p><a href="https://www.nfpn.org/ex">https://www.nfpn.org/</a> external link(opens in new window)</p><p>General Scope: The mission of the National Family Preservation Network (NFPN) is to serve as a primary national voice for the preservation of families through Intensive Family Preservation and Reunification Services (IFPS & IFRS).</p><p>nadid: 11304</p><p>National Family Support Network</p><p>770 P Street, NW</p><p>Unit 931</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20001</p><p>Phone: (415) 730-5310</p><p>Email: info@nationalfamilysupportnetwork.org</p><p><a href="http://www.nationalfamilysupportnetwork.org">http://www.nationalfamilysupportnetwork.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Founded in 2011, the National Family Support Network (NFSN) is a membership-based organization comprised of statewide networks of two or more Family Support and Strengthening programs, such as Family Resource Centers, working together within a collective impact framework to ensure coordinated quality support for families. The mission of the NFSN is to promote positive outcomes for all children, families, and communities by leveraging the collective impact of state Networks and championing quality Family Support, and Strengthening practices and policies.</p><p>nadid: 27481</p><p>National Fatherhood Initiative</p><p>12410 Milestone Center Drive</p><p>Suite 600</p><p>Germantown, Maryland 20876</p><p>Phone: (301) 948-0599</p><p>Fax: (301) 948-6776</p><p>Email: info@fatherhood.org</p><p><a href="https://www.fatherhood.org">https://www.fatherhood.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The National Fatherhood Initiative works to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers.</p><p>nadid: 11197</p><p>National Indian Child Welfare Association</p><p>5100 SW Macadam Avenue</p><p>Suite 300</p><p>Portland, Oregon 97239</p><p>Phone: (503) 222-4044</p><p>Email: info@nicwa.org</p><p><a href="https://www.nicwa.org">https://www.nicwa.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) functions as the only Native American organization focused specifically on issues of child abuse and neglect and tribal capacity to prevent and respond effectively to these problems. NICWAprovide workshops and training programs, using culturally appropriate NICWA developed resources, including training materials, curricula, and books. NICWA also offers technical assistance and training on child care, family preservation, and substance abuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Training Specific: NICWA has developed training on a variety of topics related to American Indian child welfare that are available via on-site training, training institutes, or ICWA online training courses. For more information, please see http://www.nicwa.org/training/.external link(opens in new window)</p><p>nadid: 11020</p><p>National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)</p><p>10065 Old Grove Road</p><p>Suite 210</p><p>San Diego, California 92131</p><p>Phone: (858) 527-1860 ext. 4140</p><p>Email: wvusendek@hotmail.com</p><p><a href="https://www.npeiv.org/">https://www.npeiv.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) embraces a national, multi-disciplinary, and multicultural commitment to the prevention of all forms of interpersonal violence. NPEIV believes it is a basic human right to be safe at home, safe at school, safe in the community, and safe when interacting with the institutions of our society. It is NPEIV's mission to work towards eliminating all forms of interpersonal violence, for all people, in all communities, at all stages of life. Please refer to NPEIV's website at: https://www.npeiv.org/external link(opens in a new window). for more information on NPEIV and its activities.</p><p>nadid: 25974</p><p>National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC)</p><p>2394 Mt. Vernon Road</p><p>Suite 210</p><p>Dunwoody, Georgia 30338</p><p>Phone: (703) 225-2320</p><p>Toll-Free: (877) 432-3411</p><p>Fax: (703) 934-3740</p><p>Email: Help@FatherhoodGov.Info</p><p>https://www.fatherhood.gov/</p><p>The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) supports the Administration for Children and Families Office of Family Assistance's (OFA) efforts to assist States and communities to promote and support Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Primarily a tool for professionals operating Responsible Fatherhood programs, the NRFC provides access to print and electronic publications, timely information on fatherhood issues, and targeted resources that support OFA-funded Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage recipients. The NRFC website also provides essential information for other audiences interested in fatherhood issues.</p><p>nadid: 19982</p><p>National SafeCare Training and Research Center (NSTRC)</p><p>14 Marietta Street</p><p>Room 233</p><p>Atlanta, Georgia 30303</p><p>Phone: (404) 413-1283</p><p>Email: safecare@gsu.edu</p><p><a href="https://safecare.publichealth.gsu.edu/">https://safecare.publichealth.gsu.edu/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>SafeCare is an evidence-based, behavioral parent-training model. SafeCare aims to prevent child neglect and abuse among parents of children 0-5 by targeting three skills that are proximal antecedents to maltreatment: positive parenting, home safety and supervision, and child health care. SafeCare is delivered in-home and includes approximately 18 sessions, with 3 modules that address the target skills (Parent-Child Interaction, Home Safety, and Child Health). The program uses behavioral strategies and teaching methods (e.g., observational learning, reinforcement, behavioral assessments, skill practice to mastery criteria) to ensure parent skill development. The National SafeCare Training and Research Center (NSTRC) at Georgia State University provides training and support for systems and agencies around the world to adopt SafeCare and deliver it to families. NSTRC was established in 2007 with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation at Georgia State University. There are currently over 100 accredited SafeCare agencies in the United States and international settings.</p><p>nadid: 29867</p><p>Nurse-Family Partnership</p><p>1900 Grant Street</p><p>4th floor</p><p>Denver, Colorado 80203</p><p>Phone: (303) 327-4240</p><p>Toll-Free: (866) 864-5226</p><p>Fax: (303) 327-4260</p><p>Email: info@nursefamilypartnership.org</p><p><a href="http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/">http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The Nurse-Family Partnership represents an approach to the long-established service strategy of the home visiting model that improves the health and social functioning of low-income, first-time mothers, their babies, and families.</p><p><br /></p><p>The NFP is affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the National Center for Children, Families, and Communities(NCCFC) in the School of Nursing.</p><p>nadid: 12064</p><p>Parents As Teachers</p><p>2228 Ball Drive</p><p>St. Louis, Missouri 63146</p><p>Phone: (314) 213-8500</p><p><a href="http://www.parentsasteachers.org">http://www.parentsasteachers.org</a>/external link(opens in new window)</p><p>https://parentsasteachers.org/contactexternal link(opens in new window)</p><p>Parents as Teachers helps organizations and professionals work with parents during the critical early years of their children's lives, from conception to kindergarten.</p><p><br /></p><p>Parents as Teachers develop curricula that support a parent's role in promoting school readiness and the healthy development of children. Providers are offered practical, hands-on applications for parents in real-world situations.</p><p>nadid: 11873</p><p>Predict-Align-Prevent</p><p>1452 Hughes Road</p><p>Suite 200</p><p>Grapevine, Texas 76051</p><p>Phone: (941) 445-3949</p><p>Email: info@predict-align-prevent.org</p><p><a href="https://www.predict-align-prevent.org/">https://www.predict-align-prevent.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Predict-Align-Prevent, (PAP) is on a mission to stop child maltreatment before it happens. Through geospatial risk analysis, strategic alignment of community initiatives, and implementation of accountable prevention programs, we discover practical solutions to the fundamental problems of child maltreatment, preventing the suffering and death of little children due to abuse and neglect.</p><p>nadid: 30223</p><p>Prevent Child Abuse America</p><p>228 S. Wabash</p><p>10th Floor</p><p>Chicago, Illinois 60604</p><p>Phone: (312) 663-3520</p><p>Fax: (312) 939-8962</p><p>Email: info@preventchildabuse.org</p><p><a href="https://preventchildabuse.org/">https://preventchildabuse.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>https://preventchildabuse.org/contact-us/external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) is committed to promoting legislation, policies, and programs that help prevent child abuse and neglect, support healthy childhood development and strengthen families. Working with State chapters, PCCA provides leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at the national and local levels.</p><p>PCAA's research team external link(opens in new window) provides a link between research and practice by developing and evaluating prevention strategies, and by disseminating information about child abuse maltreatment and its prevention across the country.</p><p>nadid: 11034</p><p>Public Consulting Group – Children and Youth Services</p><p>148 State Street</p><p>10th Floor</p><p>Boston, Massachusetts 02109</p><p>Phone: (919) 426-5271</p><p><a href="https://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/human-services/children-and-youth/">https://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/human-services/children-and-youth/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p><a href="https://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/contact-us/">https://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/contact-us/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Public Consulting Group – Children and Youth Services work together with State and local agencies and the social services sector to help and heal children, youth, and families who have experienced adversity. PCG partners with these organizations to provide consulting and operational support to promote and protect children and families. Together, we work towards transforming the systems that support and protect children, youth and families.</p><p>nadid: 30285</p><p>Raising the Future</p><p>250 W First Street</p><p>Suite 250</p><p>Claremont, California 91711-3475</p><p>Phone: (909) 621-6184</p><p>Toll-Free: (855) 427-2736</p><p>Fax: (909) 621-0614</p><p>Email: Parentsanonymous@parentsanonymous.org</p><p><a href="https://www.raisingfuture.org/program/parents-anonymous">https://www.raisingfuture.org/program/parents-anonymous</a>/external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Parents Anonymous, a program of Raising the Future, is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Parents Anonymous operates numerous programs and initiatives, including an international network of accredited organizations that implement groups and complementary children and youth programs based on a mutual support-shared leadership model. In addition, Parents Anonymous provides many services, including specialized training, customized technical assistance, public awareness, outreach strategies, and evaluation services to States, counties, and community-based organizations on a wide range of topics related to children and families.</p><p>nadid: 11030</p><p>Saint Francis Ministries</p><p>509 E. Elm Street</p><p>Salina, Kansas 67401</p><p>Phone: (785) 825-0541</p><p>Phone: (202) 431-3532</p><p>TTY: (800) 423-1342</p><p>https://saintfrancisministries.org/external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Saint Francis Ministries is a non-profit, faith-based organization dedicated to the protection, nurturing, and healing of children and families in body, mind, and spirit. Services offered to encompass family preservation, foster care, therapeutic foster care, adoption, residential care, international ministries, and community outreach services.</p><p>nadid: 29798</p><p>Search Institute</p><p>3001 Broadway Street N.E.</p><p>Suite 310</p><p>Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413</p><p>Phone: (612) 376-8955</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 888-7828</p><p>Email: info@searchinstitute.org</p><p><a href="http://www.search-institute.org">http://www.search-institute.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Search Institute conducts research to identify what children and adolescents need to become caring, healthy, and responsible adults and provides resources to apply this knowledge and to motivate and equip others in ensuring young people are valued and thrive.</p><p>nadid: 30357</p><p>Social Current</p><p>1825 K Street NW</p><p>Suite 600</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20006</p><p><a href="https://www.social-current.org/">https://www.social-current.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>https://www.social-current.org/contact/external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Formed by the union of The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the Council on Accreditation, Social Current brings together a network of human/social service organizations and partners. Leveraging the collective experience of the field and research, the newly created organization focuses on amplifying the work of the social sector through collaboration, innovation, policy, and practice excellence. Social Current offers access to the intellectual capital of thousands of professionals within their network through peer groups, learning opportunities, collective advocacy, individualized consultation, tools, and resources that address the sector’s most critical challenges. Social Current also offers a compilation of live webinars and self-paced and instructor-led courses external link(opens in new window) that address issues related to organizational excellence, advancing equity, and population health and well-being. While most of the courses are free, some involve a cost.</p><p>nadid: 30138</p><p>Stop It Now!</p><p>351 Pleasant Street</p><p>Suite B319</p><p>Northampton, Massachusetts 01060</p><p>Phone: (413) 587-3500</p><p>Toll-Free: (888) 773-8368</p><p>Email: info@stopitnow.org</p><p><a href="http://www.StopItNow.org">http://www.StopItNow.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Stop It Now! prevents the sexual abuse of children by mobilizing adults, families, and communities to take action before a child is harmed. Stop It Now! provides support, information, and resources for adults to take responsibility for creating safer communities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Visit the Online Help Center at StopItNow.org for guidance and resources to prevent child sexual abuse.</p><p>nadid: 11136</p><p>The Full Frame Initiative</p><p>308 Main Street</p><p>Suite 2A</p><p>Greenfield, Massachusetts 01301</p><p>Phone: (413) 773-3400</p><p>Fax: (413) 773-3322</p><p>Email: info@fullframeinitiative.org</p><p><a href="http://fullframeinitiative.org/">http://fullframeinitiative.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The Full Frame Initiative (FFI) is a national nonprofit organization that works to break cycles of poverty and violence through systems change. FFI has discovered the common DNA among the organizations that effectively serve people with multiple challenges and lasting change occurs when people are supported in the full-frame of their lives. Many more organizations would choose to operate with a Full Frame Approach, but they are stymied by rules, regulations, and other barriers present throughout the social service system. In partnership with practical visionaries in government, nonprofits, philanthropy, and communities, FFI removes systemic barriers to full-frame practice, allowing more people and communities to thrive.</p><p>nadid: 27479</p><p>The U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children</p><p>175 West Mark Street</p><p>Maxwell Hall, 2nd Floor</p><p>Winona State University</p><p>Winona, Minnesota 55987</p><p>Phone: (614) 834-7946</p><p>Email: wvusendek@hotmail.com</p><p><a href="https://endhitting.org/">https://endhitting.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>The U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children works to bring together individuals, groups, and organizations to create a unified voice calling for, and working toward, the end of all forms of physical and emotional punishment against children, especially in schools and homes. The U.S. Alliance envisions a country where children are loved, valued, respected -- and never hit.</p><p>nadid: 29948</p><p>UNICEF</p><p>3 UN Plaza</p><p>New York, New York 10017</p><p>Phone: (212) 686-5522</p><p><a href="http://www.unicef.org/">http://www.unicef.org/</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>UNICEF (UN Children's Agency) Social Norms and Protection of Children from Violence, Child Protection, Programme Division. UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. UNICEF promotes the strengthening of all components of child protection systems - human resources, finances, laws, standards, governance, monitoring, and services.</p><p>nadid: 25976</p><p>ZERO TO THREE</p><p>1255 23rd Street NW</p><p>Suite 350</p><p>Washington, District of Columbia 20037</p><p>Phone: (202) 638-1144</p><p>Toll-Free: (800) 899-4301</p><p><a href="http://www.zerotothree.org">http://www.zerotothree.org</a>external link(opens in new window)</p><p>Zero to Three's mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf. Zero to Three is dedicated to advancing current knowledge, promoting beneficial policies and practices, communicating research and best practices to a wide variety of audiences, and providing training, technical assistance, and leadership development.</p><p>nadid: 11037</p><div><a href="https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=Custom&RS_ID=21">https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=Custom&RS_ID=21</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Prevent Child Abuse in Arizona</div><div><a href="https://pcaaz.org/">https://pcaaz.org/</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Prevent Child Abuse America</div><div><a href="https://preventchildabuse.org/">https://preventchildabuse.org/</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Child Abuse Prevention Families Forward Virginia</div><div><a href="https://www.familiesforwardva.org/child-abuse-prevention-resources">https://www.familiesforwardva.org/child-abuse-prevention-resources</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-60809844474663010752022-05-23T20:50:00.001-07:002022-05-23T20:50:26.580-07:004Chan /x/ Board - Epstein's employee exposes all that happened (repost)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyHt1k-RrGfmHBFL89Ik-Dpl0l5QCU5iEHNzJaLmWBE_JkyHEeQNeNRKBFclD6PT0sEgC3w8DJgXXtI21E5Hw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLsCoqwpvCw&t=777s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLsCoqwpvCw&t=777s</a></div><p></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-52912870186282799432022-05-03T15:50:00.000-07:002022-05-03T15:50:13.243-07:00Mom arrested after shooting 2 sons in their beds, officials say<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWeQJvBR7oW66aXIu7EQ7PI5n3HhdJAe0ew-bLkAxMm9XXDwp2kbSucxWW0WQV1qN-Jiq4RE3kXzFSuQCMfi10RTz-MqPSEv2LYb3qwFsYk1wmbDZG0efppuA4RR8Uw5zH90UrFE7_TIrnQhahL56pUPZgWlxhUHB58hi6NN282pHaxXKWOJudPu4Tig/s1200/FIPMGLEOWFHXHAR53LWNJJUCWA.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWeQJvBR7oW66aXIu7EQ7PI5n3HhdJAe0ew-bLkAxMm9XXDwp2kbSucxWW0WQV1qN-Jiq4RE3kXzFSuQCMfi10RTz-MqPSEv2LYb3qwFsYk1wmbDZG0efppuA4RR8Uw5zH90UrFE7_TIrnQhahL56pUPZgWlxhUHB58hi6NN282pHaxXKWOJudPu4Tig/s320/FIPMGLEOWFHXHAR53LWNJJUCWA.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Trinh Nguyen, 38, is facing multiple charges after authorities say she shot her two sons, 13 and 9, and tried to shoot her neighbor. As the boys are not expected to survive, it's anticipated Nguyen's charges will be upgraded to homicide.(Source: Bucks County District Attorney's Office)<p></p><p>By Kali O'Rourke</p><p>Published: May. 3, 2022 at 3:02 AM MST|Updated: 12 hours ago</p><p>UPPER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. (Gray News) - A Pennsylvania mother is facing charges after authorities say she shot her two sons and tried to shoot her neighbor. The boys are not expected to survive.</p><p>Trinh Nguyen, 38, was arrested in a church parking lot at 11:30 a.m. Monday, hours after the shooting at her home in Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania. She faces three counts of attempted homicide, according to Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub.</p><p>The incident began when police were dispatched to Nguyen’s home at 7:05 a.m. for a report of an armed subject, said the district attorney’s office in a news release.</p><p>Nguyen’s 22-year-old neighbor told police that she handed him a box of photos and asked him to give it to her ex-husband, his co-worker. She then allegedly pulled a gun on him and tried to fire it twice, but the gun did not fire.</p><p>The neighbor wrapped Nguyen in a bear hug and disarmed her before she fled the scene, according to the news release.</p><p>When police checked Nguyen’s home, they found her two sons, ages 13 and 9, in their beds with gunshot wounds to their heads. Both boys were taken to the hospital, with at least one of them undergoing surgery.</p><p>Unfortunately, the boys are not expected to survive. They were being kept on life support Monday night until their organs could be donated, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.</p><p>Nguyen’s charges are then expected to be upgraded to two counts of homicide.</p><p>The news release says that when law enforcement found Nguyen at the church, she was also taken to the hospital because she seemed to be under the influence of drugs. Police believe she may have tried to kill herself, the Inquirer reports.</p><p>Authorities did not comment on a motive for the shootings, but court records indicate that Nguyen had more than $11,000 in unpaid rent. The family had been ordered to leave their home by Tuesday, according to the Inquirer.</p><p>Nguyen was denied bail at her arraignment.</p><p>The case is being investigated by Bucks County Detectives and Upper Makefield Township Police.</p><p><a href="https://www.kold.com/2022/05/03/mom-arrested-after-shooting-2-sons-their-beds-officials-say/?fbclid=IwAR1D3vxmFFXbfzjeHuHBvbrfGUZL1qwu3rsgb1N6z5R0DP4oUAr_coeegp0">https://www.kold.com/2022/05/03/mom-arrested-after-shooting-2-sons-their-beds-officials-say/?fbclid=IwAR1D3vxmFFXbfzjeHuHBvbrfGUZL1qwu3rsgb1N6z5R0DP4oUAr_coeegp0</a></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-33471079149320039812022-04-24T09:39:00.001-07:002022-04-24T09:39:25.849-07:00RIP Ame Deal<p> </p><h1 class="fdn-content-headline uk-margin-remove" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: AvalonWeb, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 44px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px !important;">Finding the Girl in the Box: As Ame Deal's Living Hell Ended, It Began for Police Officer</h1><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">It was a case that decimated a family, shocked a city, haunted hard-nosed cops, helped overhaul a broken child-welfare system, and consumed legal teams for six years. It made executioners of stand-in parents, turned a little girl into a prisoner, and a prisoner into a corpse. Her tormenters, in turn, became the prisoners of the state, and now the condemned.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Yet the case began like so many others: an emergency call to something seemingly very different.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Police Officer Albert Salaiz was the first to respond to the call of an injured child in southwest Phoenix.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Salaiz had joined the Phoenix Police Department in 2000 after a long career in the Air Force, flying politicians to Europe. He was working patrol again, after a stint on a squad that took on violent crime syndicates </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">That morning, July 12, 2011, Salaiz left the Estrella Mountain precinct to tell county prosecutors what he knew about a high-profile home invasion involving rival drug gangs, a big shootout and gangsters posing as SWAT teams.</span></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Then came the injured-child call. Salaiz was a couple of blocks away, so he went. How could he not? A child in danger. On his beat. All the natural instincts of a veteran cop kicked in.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><div class="uk-position-relative fdn-content-image-right contentImageRight" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 27px; margin-top: 18px; max-width: 50%; position: relative !important; width: auto;" uk-lightbox=""><a class="uk-display-block uk-position-relative uk-visible-toggle" data-caption="<span>Albert Salaiz, shown here at another date in his Phoenix PD patrol car, was the first police officer on the scene the day Ame Deal was found murdered.</span>
<em>Courtesy Albert Salaiz</em>" href="https://media2.phoenixnewtimes.com/phx/imager/u/original/9884560/aj_salaiz_patrol_car.jpg" rel="contentImg_gal-9878749" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; display: block !important; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; position: relative !important; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Albert Salaiz, shown here at another date in his Phoenix PD patrol car, was the first police officer on the scene the day Ame Deal was found murdered. - COURTESY ALBERT SALAIZ"><span class="fdn-button-enlarge uk-position-absolute
uk-position-top-right uk-hidden-hover" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.667); border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; color: #222222; font-family: AvalonWeb, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; height: 0px !important; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; right: 0px; top: 0px; width: 0px !important;"></span><img alt="Albert Salaiz, shown here at another date in his Phoenix PD patrol car, was the first police officer on the scene the day Ame Deal was found murdered. - COURTESY ALBERT SALAIZ" height="225" src="https://media2.phoenixnewtimes.com/phx/imager/u/blog/9884560/aj_salaiz_patrol_car.jpg?cb=1642614517" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><div class="fdn-caption-block uk-margin-auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; flex-direction: row; line-height: 1; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; max-width: 300px; padding: 4px 9px; width: 299.989px;"><div class="fdn-image-caption" style="color: #434343; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.1;">Albert Salaiz, shown here at another date in his Phoenix PD patrol car, was the first police officer on the scene the day Ame Deal was found murdered. </div><div class="fdn-image-credit" style="align-self: flex-end; color: #666666; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3; margin-right: 4px;">Courtesy Albert Salaiz</div></div></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">When he got there, Salaiz instantly recognized the house. He’d been there a week or two earlier to respond to reports of kids throwing rocks. He’d seen a large gaggle of children there.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">This time, he sprinted from his patrol car to the front door. Just when he reached it, the door suddenly swung open and a Rottweiler charged him. He thought the dog was sure to bite him.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He remembers a woman telling him “Don’t shoot the dog!” The dog backed down.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Salaiz’s adrenaline was pumping. It didn’t strike him until later: The woman was more concerned about the dog that the hurt child he was there to help.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He vaulted a wall and rounded a corner.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">That’s when he saw her.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">A girl was prone on a carpet in the garage, curled up with her legs near her chest. She had “claw-like hands,” Salaiz recalled.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“Then it hit me. I knew this girl,” he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“I never, to this day, will forget what she looked like. That image is ingrained on my mind.”</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He’d seen her on the rock-throwing call earlier.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">And he already knew she was dead. You just know.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">But what Officer Salaiz didn’t know that morning was that Ame Deal’s life ended before it began. She never was granted any real chance to live.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"><br />Ame Deal was found dead on July 12, 2011,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> two weeks shy of her 11th birthday.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">She suffocated in a padlocked plastic storage box, soaked in her own urine and sweat.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The last of her killers was sentenced Thursday in Courtroom 5A in Maricopa County Superior Court. John Allen will join his wife, Sammantha, on death row. The Allens are the first married couple in Arizona sentenced to death.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The Allens had turned Ame’s prison into her tomb. With Thursday’s verdict, Ame’s death has entombed the Allens in state prison. Salaiz remains a prisoner to his memories.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">In a sense, the Allens themselves had been trapped by a violent, domineering, insular household, with four children when they were just 22 years old. Later, John Allen would tearfully tell the sentencing judge he was sorry and the death was an accident.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Already, three other family members were serving prison sentences from 10 to 24 years for their roles in the torment of Ame, who came to be remembered as "the girl in the box."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The brief and hellish life of Ame Deal was recounted over six years in police and news reports, in court records and action.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“In my entire career, I can’t say I’ve ever seen a worse case,” Judge Erin O’Brien Otis said during Thursday’s court action, admonishing John Allen. “This was one of the most unnecessary deaths of a child I’ve ever seen.”</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The girl who wound up in that box was born on July 24, 2000, in Pennsylvania to David and Shirley Deal. It was their third child but, despite legal documents to the contrary, David Deal insisted the girl was not his.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">By the time the couple ended up in Texas with David’s large, roving, extended family, Shirley couldn’t take the stress and abuse in the chaotic home anymore. She abandoned her daughter.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The Deals continued to bounce around the country. They stayed for a time in Minnesota, Utah, and different parts of Arizona. Always in the poor parts of town. Always schooled at home. Always keeping to themselves. Always leery of new members of the family. Always disciplining the gaggle of children in their own special way.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">In Utah, the state investigated the family for possible child abuse. Those suspicions didn’t follow the family to Arizona.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">By the time the Deals replanted themselves in a house near Broadway Road and 35th Avenue, Ame’s cousin Sammantha Allen was caring for her. It was Sammantha’s 20th home in 18 years. She had never gotten past fourth grade.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">She took all her cues from her mother, Cynthia Stoltzmann, who was Ame’s legal guardian.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“Her world was small and very isolated and it was dominated by her family,” said her defense attorney, John Curry. “That’s all she knew. That’s all she knew.”</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Sammantha knew discipline was a fact of life. And it was harsh. But that’s how you grew up. So when Ame came along, nobody in the house questioned her punishment.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">Punishment is the wrong word for it.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> It came from a wooden paddle named “butt-buster.” Or routine belt lashings. Or when the family made Ame walk barefoot for 15 minutes on the pavement in 114-degree heat, until neighbors saw the fright flash in Ame's blue eyes. Or when John Allen made her put her hands and feet on the floor and arch her back unnaturally for three hours at a time.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">When she complained it hurt and collapsed, he’d lift her into the arch again.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Family disciplinarians sometimes made Ame eat hot sauce, but she got used it. So they forced her to eat dog feces.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Ame was treated differently from the half-dozen other kids in the fetid, overcrowded house. Other kids were put in a small chair for a timeout; Ame was sent to the storage box.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The box was a plastic locker 31-by-12-by-14 inches. It had latches to secure the lid. As Ame neared her 11th birthday, she stood just 48 inches tall.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">On July 11, 2011, someone in the house said Ame had gone to the freezer and taken a Popsicle without permission.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">When the Allens crammed Ame in the box, nobody thought twice. Everybody knew, family members later told police, “Ame lies. Ame steals. Ame needs to be punished.”</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Ame weighed less than 60 pounds. She was hungry. She didn’t get the same food the others got. She wasn’t one of their own. Not one of the tribe. Not deserving.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">And besides, Ame had been in the box many times before. John Allen would roll and throw the box around with Ame locked inside. Sometimes they’d throw the box, Ame and all, into the swimming pool. Other times, Cynthia Stoltzmann would sit on it while Ame whimpered inside.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The night of July 11, the Allens stuffed Ame into the locker and snapped down the latches.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">She’d been known to push on the lid with her feet to get air. The only airways were some small holes under the handles. Otherwise, it was airtight. They put the box in the garage where there was no air-conditioning. The mercury never dipped below 95 that night.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Sammantha warned her husband that the girl could escape. John went to a gate in the back yard, grabbed a padlock, locked the box, and took the key.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The couple had planned to go to bed and check on Ame in an hour. They didn’t.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“I just didn’t get up,” John later told police interrogators.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He could have saved Ame’s life, but it meant so little to him he never had a reason for killing her, county prosecutor Jeannette Gallagher would later explain in court.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The morning after the padlocking, around 8 a.m., when the family went to take Ame out of the box, she wasn't moving. She wasn't breathing.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">About half an hour later, someone called 911.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">Officer Salaiz was the first cop on the scene. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He and other police officers and firefighters arrived to a house that reeked of urine. Used tampons and cockroaches littered the floors. Salaiz doesn’t remember the filth and stench, only what he saw first.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Ame lay on a blue carpet next a wet urine stain. Her lips were the color of the carpet. Her skin was starting to discolor. Her body was twisted unnaturally in the position of a kid play-acting like a dead dog.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Ame wasn’t acting. She was dead.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">And treated worse than any junkyard mongrel. Her body was already stiffening. It looked like one of those body casts of ancient Pompeii residents buried in ash. It looked like she’d been trying to push the lid off her plastic coffin.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Salaiz remembers John Allen standing above Ame as a woman tried CPR. Somebody was talking about a hide-and-seek game gone awry. The girl had locked herself in the box. Herself.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Not much later, Salaiz’s sergeant rolled up and asked him what happened.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“I told my supervisor, ‘They fucking killed her.’ He got pissed. ‘You can’t be saying that. You don’t know that for a fact,’ ” Salaiz recalled.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He went to get an initial statement from John Allen, who sat on a swing, acting “like nothing happened.”</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Allen said he and his wife went to bed at 1 a.m. as Ame, a 12-year-old and his 3-year-old daughter played hide-and-seek. The next morning they found Ame in the box, dead. The story struck Salaiz as odd. A 3-year-old playing hide and seek at 1 a.m.? Not likely.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Odder still was Allen’s demeanor.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“The was no emotion from him or the grandma, either. That’s what bothered me. There was no emotion,” Salaiz said. “I’d never seen anything like that.”</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He had been a cop 11 years.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He went to hear the 12-year-old’s story. She was a few doors down the street. As he walked toward it, Cynthia Stoltzmann walked toward him.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“She said, ‘Yeah, they found Ame dead,’ and she keeps walking past me,” Salaiz recalled.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">He didn’t think at the time: How could she know that Ame was dead, minutes after paramedics declared it?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">The 12-year-old had the look of a scolded child who didn’t want to be there, and really didn’t want to talk. She stood, stiff as board, never looking Salaiz in the eye, as he asked her what happened.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">She told the same story, except for one detail. She went to bed at 9.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“I felt the 12-year-old ... knew what happened. She knew about the box,” Salaiz said.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">determined that Ame died of asphyxiation, after suffering heat exhaustion and dehydration. Forensic investigators with the office ruled it a homicide.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">But long before those results, on the morning Ame died, John Allen wrote out his thoughts in a spiral notebook.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“Ame found passed away in box. They (the kids) were playing hide-and-go-seek. We believe she fell asleep and suffocated,” he wrote.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDW4sZtujKvxF3xf7HanqQkJ87dkLk59vtJTddC2qrynKLz0Zlgi-9c0qK9WJYYstRy1XIQ5Zcy-XCrGpL9AcFNHU_UUNlcwD-mtP--bbzJWyGJ9bam6JgM8i0bzJKATI8Hn6yHS9yc76ed0JWhUUtRiYONqvGX_efApDErBxL3eIBIs7wROtA5Pe3g/s2000/ame-deal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1769" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDW4sZtujKvxF3xf7HanqQkJ87dkLk59vtJTddC2qrynKLz0Zlgi-9c0qK9WJYYstRy1XIQ5Zcy-XCrGpL9AcFNHU_UUNlcwD-mtP--bbzJWyGJ9bam6JgM8i0bzJKATI8Hn6yHS9yc76ed0JWhUUtRiYONqvGX_efApDErBxL3eIBIs7wROtA5Pe3g/w395-h447/ame-deal.jpg" width="395" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghnvc082ECRY-Q5IeLxGsJkuirv4kvEfTcqBbI94TtGmfkFYpYZdWF3L513Q1L87vFuovIW_sUiKzro8KUKq7qM-ETWWRfhShn3UQarXhbQuVDmHDCq-sA-i35IELMGYFCC9YXksdNyccoZGKWHgEZeywlBtrPqItKMi2Cs6HX_vn-wIFKDEOloMrLDw/s440/Samantha_and_John_Allen_mugshots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="440" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghnvc082ECRY-Q5IeLxGsJkuirv4kvEfTcqBbI94TtGmfkFYpYZdWF3L513Q1L87vFuovIW_sUiKzro8KUKq7qM-ETWWRfhShn3UQarXhbQuVDmHDCq-sA-i35IELMGYFCC9YXksdNyccoZGKWHgEZeywlBtrPqItKMi2Cs6HX_vn-wIFKDEOloMrLDw/w484-h180/Samantha_and_John_Allen_mugshots.jpg" width="484" /></a></div> The pieces of shit responsible for Ame Deals Death.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-tortured-death-of-ame-deal-and-her-horrid-family-9878749</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Serif12, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-11103617161670722362022-04-24T08:05:00.003-07:002022-04-24T08:05:18.333-07:00 Stop The Execution of Melissa Lucio in Texas<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 22.0065px;">We have until April 27 to stop the execution of Melissa Lucio. Take action on social media today.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWLXeRZbRjWvN9Z-Uane0M0FsggM1FYGWHuqBVfwUeZr_KTzguQP-ecVHw2I1nrez8_7wTX4b_vgwvLGGv6uXm9Y9K35Oe49YOsmHjTy8-ogzODiJnQjiSE2i7k0oCZ1RivZN7TTZO1rmMRkrLsi_2YAkRH2EZJXe6Y8dXjWIz4D7GAYYZzmWXWu_EA/s691/screenshot-innocenceproject.org-2022.04.24-08_02_52.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="691" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWLXeRZbRjWvN9Z-Uane0M0FsggM1FYGWHuqBVfwUeZr_KTzguQP-ecVHw2I1nrez8_7wTX4b_vgwvLGGv6uXm9Y9K35Oe49YOsmHjTy8-ogzODiJnQjiSE2i7k0oCZ1RivZN7TTZO1rmMRkrLsi_2YAkRH2EZJXe6Y8dXjWIz4D7GAYYZzmWXWu_EA/s320/screenshot-innocenceproject.org-2022.04.24-08_02_52.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="intro-desc" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; padding-bottom: 30px;"><h3 class="small-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.647em; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.321; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-transform: inherit;">Melissa faces execution on April 27 for a crime that never occurred.</h3></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Melissa Lucio is facing execution on April 27, 2022, in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah — a crime that never occurred. Mariah died two days after accidentally falling down a steep flight of stairs and Melissa has maintained her innocence on death row for more than 14 years.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a class="internal-link" href="https://es.innocenceproject.org/texas-debe-detener-la-ejecucion-de-melissa-lucio-una-madre-inocente/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(67, 104, 232); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">La historia de Melissa en Español</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nearly one in three exonerated women were wrongly convicted of harming children or other loved ones in their care and nearly 70% were wrongfully convicted of crimes that never took place at all — events that were accidents, deaths by suicide, and fabricated — according to data from the </span><a class="external-link" href="http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/detaillist.aspx" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(67, 104, 232); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">National Registry of Exonerations</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Help prevent an irreversible injustice. Add your name to stop Texas from killing Melissa.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.647em; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.321; margin: 60px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Melissa’s story</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Born in Lubbock, Texas to a Catholic, Mexican-American family living below the poverty line, Melissa’s earliest memories are of her mother struggling to escape the blows of her partner. Older relatives began to sexually assault and abuse Melissa from the time she was 6 years old.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As a child, she was repeatedly sexually abused, and became a child bride at the age of 16 with the hopes of escaping her abusive environment. Unfortunately, her life did not get easier. At the time of Mariah’s accident, Melissa had 12 children between the ages of 2 and 15 and was pregnant with twins she would ultimately give birth to in prison and have to give up for adoption. She struggled at times to provide for her family, but was a caring mother, who did her best given her incredibly difficult circumstance. </span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.647em; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.321; margin: 60px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">No evidence of abuse</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The State of Texas presented no physical evidence establishing that Melissa ever abused Mariah or any of her children. In fact, thousands of pages of Child Protective Services records show that Melissa’s 12 children never said she was violent with them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet in 2008, Melissa was convicted based on statements she made to law enforcement in Cameron County after more than five hours of coercive interrogations that began the same night her youngest child died and continued until 3:00 a.m. the next day. After hours of relentless, aggressive interrogation in the presence of armed detectives, she broke down and told investigators what they wanted to hear to make the questioning stop: “I guess I did it. I’m responsible.” She was pregnant with twins the night of the interrogation. </span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.647em; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.321; margin: 60px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">False confessions — a leading cause of wrongful conviction</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Coerced false confessions are a leading cause of wrongful conviction and even more prevalent among women wrongly convicted of killing a child, like Melissa. As a survivor of lifelong sexual abuse and domestic violence, Melissa was especially vulnerable to police coercion, but at trial she was prevented from presenting any evidence that would have explained why she falsely confessed during the interrogation. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lacking solid physical evidence, Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos presented her conciliatory statement to the jury as a “confession” to homicide and sought the death penalty, a “win” he thought would help him get re-elected. Today, the former district attorney is serving a 13-year federal prison sentence for bribery and extortion.</span></p><h3 class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.647em; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.321; margin: 60px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Texas must investigate this innocence claim</span></h3><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Cameron County’s new district attorney, the courts, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, and Gov. Abbott must undertake a meaningful review of Melissa’s innocence claim, the coercive tactics used in her interrogation, and the tragic circumstances of Mariah’s accidental death, before an irreversible injustice occurs.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.647em; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.321; margin: 60px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Take action now</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"> </p><ol style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: my-awesome-counter 0 !important; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; list-style: none !important; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="background: none transparent !important; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; counter-increment: my-awesome-counter 1 !important; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.667; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 35px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="external-link" href="https://p2a.co/b3yj043" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(67, 104, 232); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Make sure everyone on Twitter knows her name: Tweet now</i></a></li><li style="background: none transparent !important; border-top: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; counter-increment: my-awesome-counter 1 !important; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.667; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 35px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="internal-link" href="https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/urge-saenz-to-withdraw-execution-melissa-lucio?p2asource=petition_02272022" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(67, 104, 232); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">If you live in Texas, call D.A. Saenz and urge him to withdraw the execution date:</a> 956-300-3881</li><li style="background: none transparent !important; border-top: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; counter-increment: my-awesome-counter 1 !important; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.667; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 35px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="internal-link" href="https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/grant-melissa-lucio-clemency/?p2asource=petition_03302022" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(67, 104, 232); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">If you live in Texas, contact Gov. Abbott now</a>: 956-446-2866</li><li style="background: none transparent !important; border-top: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; counter-increment: my-awesome-counter 1 !important; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.667; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 35px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.bonfire.com/store/save-melissa-lucio/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(67, 104, 232); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Purchase Save Melissa Lucio gear</a>.</li><li style="background: none transparent !important; border-top: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; counter-increment: my-awesome-counter 1 !important; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.667; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 35px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="internal-link" href="https://innocenceproject.org/social-media-toolkit-stop-execution-melissa-lucio-texas/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(67, 104, 232); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Share on all social platforms using this social media toolkit.</a></li></ol><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 1.059em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 60px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Help prevent an irreversible injustice. Add your name to stop Texas from killing Melissa. </span></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-18013537763770023922022-04-15T04:53:00.003-07:002022-04-15T04:53:19.930-07:00Parental Substance Use as Child Abuse<h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-top: 18px;">Parental Substance Use as Child Abuse</h3><p class="topicDescription" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 9px;">To better understand this issue and to view it across States, download the <a href="https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubpdfs/parentalsubstanceuse.pdf" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #275c8a; text-decoration-line: none;">PDF</a> (540 KB) of this publication.</p><div class="subTags" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="italicDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Current Through July 2019</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><label style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 8-201(2), (25)</label><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;">The term 'abuse' includes physical injury that results from permitting a child to enter or remain in any structure or vehicle in which are found volatile, toxic, or flammable chemicals or equipment that is possessed by any person for the purpose of manufacturing a dangerous drug, as defined in § 13-3401.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;">'Neglect' or 'neglected' is defined as the following:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Permitting a child to enter or remain in any structure or vehicle in which are found volatile, toxic, or flammable chemicals or equipment that is possessed by any person for the purposes of manufacturing a dangerous drug, as defined in § 13-3401</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">A determination by a health professional that a newborn infant was exposed prenatally to a drug or substance listed in § 13-3401 and that this exposure was not the result of a medical treatment administered to the mother or the newborn infant by a health professional</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;">This subdivision does not expand a health professional's duty to report neglect based on prenatal exposure to a drug or substance listed in § 13-3401 beyond the requirements prescribed pursuant to § 13-3620(E). The determination by the health professional shall be based on one or more of the following:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Clinical indicators in the prenatal period, including maternal and newborn presentation</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">History of substance use or abuse</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Medical history</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The results of a toxicology or other laboratory test on the mother or the newborn infant</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">A diagnosis by a health professional of an infant under age 1 with clinical findings consistent with fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol effects</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;"></p></div><div class="subTags" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><label style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 13-3623(C)</label><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;">The terms 'endangered' and 'abuse' include, but are not limited to, circumstances in which a child or vulnerable adult is permitted to enter or remain in any structure or vehicle in which are found volatile, toxic, or flammable chemicals or equipment that is possessed by any person for the purpose of manufacturing a dangerous drug in violation of § 13-3407(A)(3) or (4).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a violation committed under circumstances described in this subsection does not require that a person have care or custody of the child or vulnerable adult.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;"></p></div><div class="subTags" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><label style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 13-3620(E)</label><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px;"></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">A health-care professional who, after a routine newborn physical assessment of a newborn infant's health status or following notification of positive toxicology screens of a newborn infant, reasonably believes that the newborn infant may be affected by the presence of alcohol or a drug listed in § 13-3401 shall immediately report this information, or cause a report to be made, to the Department of Child Safety. For the purposes of this subsection, 'newborn infant' means a newborn infant who is under 30 days of age.</span> </p><p style="text-align: center;">https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/laws-policies/state/?CWIGFunctionsaction=statestatutes:main.getResults</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-57590971356061810952022-04-15T04:51:00.004-07:002022-04-15T04:51:41.349-07:00Infant Safe Haven Laws<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;">Infant Safe Haven Laws</p><p style="text-align: center;">To better understand this issue and to view it across States, download the PDF (356 KB) of this publication.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Current Through September 2021</p><p style="text-align: center;">Infant's Age</p><p style="text-align: center;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 13-3623.01</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">A newborn infant may be relinquished. The term 'newborn infant' means an infant who is 30 days old or younger.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Who May Relinquish the Infant</p><p style="text-align: center;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 13-3623.01</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The child may be relinquished by the parent or an agent of the parent.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Who May Receive the Infant</p><p style="text-align: center;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 13-3623.01</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The child may be left with a designated safe haven provider. A safe haven provider includes any of the following:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">A firefighter who is on duty</p><p style="text-align: center;">An emergency medical technician who is on duty</p><p style="text-align: center;">A medical staff member at a general hospital or a rural general hospital</p><p style="text-align: center;">A staff member or volunteer at any of the following organizations that posts a public notice that it is willing to accept a newborn infant:</p><p style="text-align: center;">A licensed private child welfare agency</p><p style="text-align: center;">A licensed adoption agency</p><p style="text-align: center;">A church</p><p style="text-align: center;">Responsibilities of the Safe Haven Provider</p><p style="text-align: center;">Citation: Rev. Stat. §§ 13-3623.01; 8-528</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">If a parent or an agent of a parent voluntarily delivers the parent's newborn infant to a safe haven provider, the safe haven provider shall take custody of the newborn infant if both of the following are true:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The parent did not express an intent to return for the newborn infant.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The safe haven provider reasonably believes that the child is a newborn infant.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The safe haven provider shall immediately transport the infant to a hospital for a physical examination.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">If the infant is left with a private child welfare or adoption agency and the agency has the ability to place the infant for adoption, the agency shall inform child protective services that it will take custody of the infant within 24 hours. If the agency cannot place the infant for adoption, it shall inform child protective services that it will not take custody of the infant.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">If an infant is left with a church and the church is affiliated with a private adoption agency, the provider must immediately inform child protective services that an infant has been left at the church, the location of the hospital where the church transported the infant, and whether a private adoption agency will take custody of the infant.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">If the church is not affiliated with a private adoption agency or the agency cannot place the infant for adoption, child protective services shall contact the next private adoption agency on its rotating list of agencies until it contacts an agency that agrees to take custody of the infant. The adoption agency must take custody of the infant from the hospital within 24 hours.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">If an infant is left with a firefighter, emergency medical technician, or a hospital staff member, the safe haven provider shall immediately contact child protective services to inform it that an infant has been left and of the location of the hospital where the safe haven provider transported the infant.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Immunity for the Provider</p><p style="text-align: center;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 13-3623.01</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">A safe haven provider who receives a newborn infant is not liable for any civil or other damages for any act or omission by the safe haven provider in maintaining custody of the newborn infant if the safe haven provider acts in good faith without gross negligence.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Protection for Relinquishing Parent</p><p style="text-align: center;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 13-3623.01</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">A person is not guilty of abuse of a child solely for leaving an unharmed newborn infant with a safe haven provider.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">A parent or agent of a parent who leaves a newborn infant with a safe haven provider may remain anonymous, and the safe haven provider shall not require the parent or agent to answer any questions.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Effect on Parental Rights</p><p style="text-align: center;">Citation: Rev. Stat. § 8-528</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">These protocols apply only to an unharmed newborn infant who is 30 days of age or younger and who is not alleged to have been neglected or abused. If an infant who is transported to a hospital is older than 30 days or has been harmed, the hospital shall contact the department, and the department shall take custody of the infant.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The term 'custody' means legal authority to act on behalf of a child, including the following:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The duty and authority to make decisions that affect the child, including medical decisions</p><p style="text-align: center;">The authority to file a petition for termination of parental rights </p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p> https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/laws-policies/state/?CWIGFunctionsaction=statestatutes:main.getResults</p><p><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-55758212480147371632022-03-28T14:50:00.004-07:002022-03-28T14:50:56.113-07:0010 mysterious disappearances, deaths of Arizona children<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlf3WI7N-v2QStzUebrfhPK7Lea5jL7gRfFLntTASvd5BnBrlDz0T6qlhQ06-QociSXe_WCPrTXQ60GV1CENhNqleCAGlxmbNR2DCGqfOgBMbUT0pVRcOEVtHo3IRNERQH-Ct8CCQsV1I92TrzsvRb26bvzQ2cMRx0AqO1DfXdujJ-fT5e50Oi6wRWSA/s1280/download.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlf3WI7N-v2QStzUebrfhPK7Lea5jL7gRfFLntTASvd5BnBrlDz0T6qlhQ06-QociSXe_WCPrTXQ60GV1CENhNqleCAGlxmbNR2DCGqfOgBMbUT0pVRcOEVtHo3IRNERQH-Ct8CCQsV1I92TrzsvRb26bvzQ2cMRx0AqO1DfXdujJ-fT5e50Oi6wRWSA/s320/download.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>By: Ashley LoosePosted at 8:00 AM, Jan 03, 2022 and last updated 7:07 PM, Jan 03, 2022</p><p>Arizona is no stranger to high-profile murder cases and disappearances involving children, but there are numerous unsolved cases that may not have received as much attention over the decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>ABC15 is taking a look at some of the children who have been reported missing in our state and related cold cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>Analissa Monares-Leon, killed in 2007</p><p><br /></p><p>Analissa Monares-Leon</p><p>88CRIME</p><p>Analissa Monares-Leon</p><p>Analissa Monares-Leon was asleep inside her Tucson home on Oct. 10, 2007.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shots were fired at the home, striking the 6-year-old girl. She later died from her injuries at a hospital.</p><p><br /></p><div class="article-top-contain" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative;"><div class="headline-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 35px;"><h1 class="Page-body ArticlePage-headline" data-bsp-plugin="Module65142" itemprop="headline" style="font-size: 46px; left: 0px; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px; padding: 35px 0px 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Arizona children</h1></div></div><div class="left-column" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; padding-bottom: 60px; width: calc(100% - 340px);"><div class="Page-body ArticlePage-lead" data-bsp-plugin="Module65142" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;"><div class="Wheel wheel-one-item" data-bsp-plugin="Module7326" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="carousel-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="carousel--main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="carousel--ratio-div" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; padding-bottom: 343.125px; width: 610px;"></div><div class="carousel--content-wrapper" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 343.125px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 610px;"><div class="ImageLazyLoadContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="background-color: pink; box-sizing: border-box;"></div><img alt="Missing Children" class="Image" data-src="https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5349ed8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1600x900+0+150/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F76%2Fe2%2F3cc6ab734c62b8e3ecc08f89a9a0%2Ffrigerio-collage-do-not-delete-copy-4-3.png" src="https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5349ed8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1600x900+0+150/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F76%2Fe2%2F3cc6ab734c62b8e3ecc08f89a9a0%2Ffrigerio-collage-do-not-delete-copy-4-3.png" style="border-radius: 2px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="carousel-caption-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="copyright" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><div class="credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3px;">Photo by: Phoenix Police, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Yuma PD</div><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; max-height: 300px; overflow: hidden; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">Missing children, cold cases in Arizona</div><div class="caption-button" style="bottom: -10px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Page-body ArticlePage-byline" data-bsp-plugin="Module65142" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; left: 0px; margin-top: 17px; overflow: hidden; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;"><div class="Page-body ArticlePage-authorTexts" data-bsp-plugin="Module65142" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; left: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;"><div class="Page-body Longform ArticlePage-authorName" data-bsp-plugin="Module65142" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; display: table-cell; font-size: 15px; left: 0px; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 7px; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="accent">By:</span> <a href="https://www.abc15.com/about-us/staff/ashley-loose" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Ashley Loose</a></div></div></div><div class="published" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; display: inline-block; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="accent">Posted at</span> 8:00 AM, Jan 03, 2022</div><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;"> </span><div class="last-updated" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; display: inline-block; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="accent">and last updated</span> <span class="last-updated-date" data-bsp-plugin="Module61755">7:07 PM, Jan 03, 2022</span></div><div class="Page-body ArticlePage-articleBody" data-bsp-plugin="Module65142" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; left: 0px; line-height: 30px; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;"><div class="RichTextArticleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="RichTextArticleBody-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Arizona is no stranger to high-profile murder cases and disappearances involving children, but there are numerous unsolved cases that may not have received as much attention over the decades.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">ABC15 is taking a look at some of the children who have been reported missing in our state and related cold cases.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b>Analissa Monares-Leon, killed in 2007</b></p><figure class="Figure" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><div class="Figure-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="Analissa Monares-Leon" height="474" src="https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/008861b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/384x474+0+0/resize/384x474!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5b%2F8e%2F3dc9cf224bbda7ab9ec57f649ebf%2Fscreen-shot-2021-12-22-at-7.14.24%20AM.png" style="border-radius: 4px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="384" /><div class="Figure-credit" itemprop="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">88CRIME</div></div><figcaption class="Figure-caption" itemprop="caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #4d4d4d; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; padding-bottom: 15px;">Analissa Monares-Leon</figcaption></figure><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Analissa Monares-Leon was asleep inside her Tucson home on Oct. 10, 2007.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Shots were fired at the home, striking the 6-year-old girl. She later died from her injuries at a hospital.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">"My baby girl loved nature and butterflies were her favorite, purple and yellow, her favorite colors," <a class="Link" href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/tucson/name/analissa-monares-leon-obituary?pid=96488302" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">an obituary reads</a>. "So any time we see butterflies or the colors purple and yellow, it's just her saying hi and any breath taking moment that nature gives us is a blessing from God that tells us to love life for every moment that it gives us."</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Officials are offering a <a class="Link" href="https://88crime.org/homicide-victim-analissa-monares-leon/" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">$2,500 reward for information</a> leading to an arrest in the case.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b>Jackie and Cynthia Leslie, last seen in 1974</b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicLd9DKIBA4_Rq_Vne2A-M7EF9l6AyVKKoLznKvVNQ7N77AxV7o9pcP-kSyu2fFM--p7n3cg_LTTVnHBQIxaELrxZCL4iqAUrMjaWwoqBiGWZZLMo_a-W8-uEcRPyFKbTIGdZ-xoeZt45LUn38_8p6nh7JLmWLws8oTTWj09GC9d1XbgV5u5ONBiFkMA/s1280/download%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicLd9DKIBA4_Rq_Vne2A-M7EF9l6AyVKKoLznKvVNQ7N77AxV7o9pcP-kSyu2fFM--p7n3cg_LTTVnHBQIxaELrxZCL4iqAUrMjaWwoqBiGWZZLMo_a-W8-uEcRPyFKbTIGdZ-xoeZt45LUn38_8p6nh7JLmWLws8oTTWj09GC9d1XbgV5u5ONBiFkMA/s320/download%20(1).png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Jackie, 13, and Cynthia, 15, were last seen walking together near Baseline and Power roads on July 31, 1974.<p></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Arizona children</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Missing Children</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Photo by: Phoenix Police, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Yuma PD</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Missing children, cold cases in Arizona</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">By: Ashley LoosePosted at 8:00 AM, Jan 03, 2022 and last updated 7:07 PM, Jan 03, 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Arizona is no stranger to high-profile murder cases and disappearances involving children, but there are numerous unsolved cases that may not have received as much attention over the decades.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">ABC15 is taking a look at some of the children who have been reported missing in our state and related cold cases.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Analissa Monares-Leon, killed in 2007</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Analissa Monares-Leon</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">88CRIME</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Analissa Monares-Leon</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Analissa Monares-Leon was asleep inside her Tucson home on Oct. 10, 2007.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Shots were fired at the home, striking the 6-year-old girl. She later died from her injuries at a hospital.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">"My baby girl loved nature and butterflies were her favorite, purple and yellow, her favorite colors," an obituary reads. "So any time we see butterflies or the colors purple and yellow, it's just her saying hi and any breath taking moment that nature gives us is a blessing from God that tells us to love life for every moment that it gives us."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Officials are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Jackie and Cynthia Leslie, last seen in 1974</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Cynthia and Jackie Leslie</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">National Center for Missing and Exploited Children</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Jackie (left) and Cynthia (right) Leslie</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Jackie, 13, and Cynthia, 15, were last seen walking together near Baseline and Power roads on July 31, 1974.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Recent Stories from abc15.com</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">According to the Doe Network, a nonprofit group of volunteers dedicated to the search of missing persons, the sisters were headed to a friend’s home located a few blocks from their home in the Desert Sands Mobile Home Park in Mesa.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It’s reported that they told their mother they were going to babysit but were really going to a party. Reports conflict on whether the pair made it to the party.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">According to KGUN9, ABC15’s sister station in Tucson, family says there have been numerous reports of sightings and even a message from a psychic, saying they were alive.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Searches were conducted in the nearby area, but no signs of the teenagers were found. They have not been heard from since.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Jesse Florez, last seen in 2001</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH594XQm10qxCYOJ-8Bd7DQ21fZzro4fns6dA8Lsrji8WzDdcBCirT-5HYUTbi-dE3IQaV5sV44f-6PHsaifjhnA5kxYo9ubzRlW7DfSbdP9eWB5ZJ4P1seNm3W7EfONQij6-DkWs8GC9xpGB6PbsmXetoqvIpa_AMOfldssJjRoNgNepIT8-RfZAnrQ/s1280/download%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH594XQm10qxCYOJ-8Bd7DQ21fZzro4fns6dA8Lsrji8WzDdcBCirT-5HYUTbi-dE3IQaV5sV44f-6PHsaifjhnA5kxYo9ubzRlW7DfSbdP9eWB5ZJ4P1seNm3W7EfONQij6-DkWs8GC9xpGB6PbsmXetoqvIpa_AMOfldssJjRoNgNepIT8-RfZAnrQ/s320/download%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Around 6 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2001, 14-year-old Jesse Florez left his home near 51st Avenue and Indian School Road to meet a friend to go to a party.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">However, police say, Florez hasn’t been seen since.</span><p></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released an <a class="Link" href="http://api.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/936029/1" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">age-progression photo</a> of Flores to show what he may look like at age 31.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">He had a black mole on the corner of his right eye and had two ear piercings.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><a class="Link" href="https://www.phoenix.gov/policesite/Documents/089115.pdf" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Anyone with information</a> is asked to contact Phoenix Police Department</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"></p><figure class="Figure" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></figure><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Brian Richard Bleyl, last seen in 1981</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfk7MI7wn2P1RC8hlGyXBB0-OrjCzB0DC9Tvwssc6dyZqHWu0uHGdo8JOaBWg8EDKjYOBmKeCbv-I5eSUgL63pLvgF72c8uctwsw0WQ5oEqMa_fCPfGHb2YkclbnlbaUYGX9dSwHgjk_5uo9QXZLkPkVebikM1UbMQqOPDygEQFNMHdJ5o1UnOrTaNg/s644/download%20(3).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="514" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfk7MI7wn2P1RC8hlGyXBB0-OrjCzB0DC9Tvwssc6dyZqHWu0uHGdo8JOaBWg8EDKjYOBmKeCbv-I5eSUgL63pLvgF72c8uctwsw0WQ5oEqMa_fCPfGHb2YkclbnlbaUYGX9dSwHgjk_5uo9QXZLkPkVebikM1UbMQqOPDygEQFNMHdJ5o1UnOrTaNg/s320/download%20(3).png" width="255" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Twelve-year-old <a class="Link" href="https://www.phoenix.gov/policesite/Documents/088021.pdf" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Brian Richard Bleyl</a> left his home near 9th and Myrtle avenues in Phoenix around 3 p.m. on Feb. 28, 1981. Bleyl rode his bicycle to work a newspaper route in the area.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Bleyl didn’t return, but his bicycle was located and witnesses reported seeing him near an apartment complex.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><a class="Link" href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/end-of-an-ordeal-6425746" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Several years later</a>, a man was charged with abducting and murdering Bleyl, and a jury acquitted him before he died in 1994. No other suspects or persons of interest have been identified.Bleyl’s body has never been located, but foul play is believed to have played a part in his disappearance.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Anyone with information is asked to contact Phoenix Police Department.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b>Abduction and assault of 4-year-old girl in 1999</b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0z4lv4sij7_V-mjDcM8n2irsu007MMofepZjNNfPuCZsrKTdbw2DKYuz9hRWEOx5q2gL8riGucyx6LADLXWgIUPWEfdPZS3YtkFdC3-qUJzr6Iaiu8NDNj-k8UEiSpUNTjNBfE7_eHgu9zrvm-eUZZdK-eVxEYoEIdT40N6-C-nn3oP7Do4qCUeNyaw/s252/download%20(4).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="178" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0z4lv4sij7_V-mjDcM8n2irsu007MMofepZjNNfPuCZsrKTdbw2DKYuz9hRWEOx5q2gL8riGucyx6LADLXWgIUPWEfdPZS3YtkFdC3-qUJzr6Iaiu8NDNj-k8UEiSpUNTjNBfE7_eHgu9zrvm-eUZZdK-eVxEYoEIdT40N6-C-nn3oP7Do4qCUeNyaw/s1600/download%20(4).png" width="178" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Chandler police say a 4-year-old girl was abducted from an apartment complex playground on March 27, 1999.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><a class="Link" href="https://chandlerazpd.gov/cold-case/juvenile-victim/" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">The incident</a> occurred around 8 p.m. in the area of McQueen Road and Galveston Street.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Fortunately, the girl was located about a mile away at another apartment complex. However, the girl has been violently sexually assaulted and was left there by her attacker.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Police say she was found “badly bleeding” and needed “major surgery” to repair the trauma she suffered during the assault.The abductor was reportedly seen leaving the first apartment complex with the girl on a red or dark-colored bicycle. He had also been seen at the playground previously.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">The suspect is described as a Spanish-speaking man who was in his late teens to mid-twenties. He was 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and about 140 pounds.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">A computer-generated photo was created to show what witnesses say the suspect looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b>Amberly Ann Mendoza, killed in 1996</b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRbhTnglFlXevi9QrYUF3vJp8dpdyStHVXcK7o2KfAlXFz7D5YYJ5tw_GUiR2gQWe2op3VP1HHCBLIMzSUrc0Iwpsq6fWGNaF8kOyC9683haHXcvR6Kwf4AKTxAIK_EgC5ir-saZZHHbIEfyD_xafZhDbXVXr3mUasB6WWYBihexALtshcLU7xnPylew/s914/download%20(5).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="914" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRbhTnglFlXevi9QrYUF3vJp8dpdyStHVXcK7o2KfAlXFz7D5YYJ5tw_GUiR2gQWe2op3VP1HHCBLIMzSUrc0Iwpsq6fWGNaF8kOyC9683haHXcvR6Kwf4AKTxAIK_EgC5ir-saZZHHbIEfyD_xafZhDbXVXr3mUasB6WWYBihexALtshcLU7xnPylew/s320/download%20(5).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Sometime between the hours of 11:30 p.m. on March 8 and 10:45 a.m. on March 9, 1996, someone entered 10-year-old Amberly Ann Mendoza’s Yuma home.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">The girl was sexually assaulted and murdered in her bedroom. Her mother reportedly discovered what had happened when she went to wake her up for breakfast.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><a class="Link" href="https://www.amberlysplace.com/about-amberlys-place.html" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">An advocacy center</a> with a crisis response team was established years later in honor of Amberly.Officials say <a class="Link" href="https://www.yumaaz.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/264/637309082652400000" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">the case remains unsolved</a> and anyone with information is asked to call Yuma Police Department.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b>Randy Parscale, last seen in 1979</b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4DOoG8zq3AcDppojINAwMGrbrOelD0Tk3YCUAbEOj__5-u971RxeGSgdjAHZpMm_LpKWjudA3dDD0Go5aX_vCGNn8OA86x1_7XH6GsHcjjf3ZU8LeMbfdYxtNrIhLAu1Gm1LzhDrHHZwC9fzkRKCvjSjUwt5_DUpdTSYQLEIgiD-sG9buotp4f0UQJQ/s488/download%20(6).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4DOoG8zq3AcDppojINAwMGrbrOelD0Tk3YCUAbEOj__5-u971RxeGSgdjAHZpMm_LpKWjudA3dDD0Go5aX_vCGNn8OA86x1_7XH6GsHcjjf3ZU8LeMbfdYxtNrIhLAu1Gm1LzhDrHHZwC9fzkRKCvjSjUwt5_DUpdTSYQLEIgiD-sG9buotp4f0UQJQ/s320/download%20(6).png" width="256" /></a></div><br /><b><a href="https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP6494">https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP6494</a><br /></b><p></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><a class="Link" href="https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP6494" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Randy Doyle Parscale Jr</a>., 10, went hiking with his family in April 1979.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">They were at Peppersauce Canyon, located near Oracle, Arizona, when he became separated from their group.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">He was never located.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b>Mindi Chambers, last seen in 1982</b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7Ky5bTBDcNQn__q3GiYlrmagVpIkF_fCRLIP3MaNE24DcPsJ6gs87cHiscIkVLA4_crvB4r9pE9qZANx1fpiPTuc4fua8iPkQzPxFKpy8z3xGZRd0CQF4407qQeRw43fMEDAdJvQkoQZ0mgz03vAsQneUmZWSaw9m9T-wutr7rxHQf94R52CisnWzw/s496/download%20(7).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7Ky5bTBDcNQn__q3GiYlrmagVpIkF_fCRLIP3MaNE24DcPsJ6gs87cHiscIkVLA4_crvB4r9pE9qZANx1fpiPTuc4fua8iPkQzPxFKpy8z3xGZRd0CQF4407qQeRw43fMEDAdJvQkoQZ0mgz03vAsQneUmZWSaw9m9T-wutr7rxHQf94R52CisnWzw/s320/download%20(7).png" width="252" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Mindi Chambers, 17, was last seen walking her step-sister to school in the East Valley on Oct. 19, 1982.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><a class="Link" href="https://www.mesaazpolice.gov/crime-safety/cold-cases" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Mesa police</a> say she wasn’t reported missing until April 1995, but some reports say it may be because family suspected she ran away from home.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">According to the <a class="Link" href="http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2638dfaz.html" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Doe Network</a>, a nonprofit group of volunteers dedicated to the search of missing persons, she left behind her purse, ID, and other belongings. Days before her disappearance, she had reportedly told police her father had molested her and she was placed in the care of her stepmother.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Police say one of her high school friends may have information about her disappearance. Anyone with information asked to contact police.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b>Dorothy Mildred Clitheroe, last seen in 1973</b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypAXGFyqJpKWrggut5ervlztzD14X5NguPU9v6qHyWQhxLDkCQrZW7dmx-i-33ESo5bDxWvaXkOH-lKt6vE_0aeeGIxNsAy_nn0sBJvSaj5Ozqh201l3tBKcQ4nep6l_EVAum-XZc-Rs3NNt-IKWIgfmnMjzMiXyQ2AU6VaoDWagqQF6RxRkoag0Iew/s810/download%20(8).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypAXGFyqJpKWrggut5ervlztzD14X5NguPU9v6qHyWQhxLDkCQrZW7dmx-i-33ESo5bDxWvaXkOH-lKt6vE_0aeeGIxNsAy_nn0sBJvSaj5Ozqh201l3tBKcQ4nep6l_EVAum-XZc-Rs3NNt-IKWIgfmnMjzMiXyQ2AU6VaoDWagqQF6RxRkoag0Iew/s320/download%20(8).png" width="259" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Fourteen-year-old Dorothy Mildred Clitheroe was last seen around 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 20, 1973.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><a class="Link" href="https://www.phoenix.gov/policesite/Documents/Dorothy%20Mildred%20Clitheroe%20revised%20bulletin.pdf" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">Phoenix police</a> say she was seen walking toward the bathroom area at Cortez Park near 35th Avenue and Dunlap Road.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">She hasn’t been seen since.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b>Alan ‘AJ’ Hoover, killed in 2015</b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC9Pm2giity1fKpaUO2m53WYDs2WVwlynuzHFteyR9nbB4LAPnKeb3pc3OVOxAD4j-xHpJIQ0P3BeQ0XWO4oErfX-fqbTQgIWjotZLEdSc-v2jHTNuf5KAWNDTXRXBKhZHz3lMNtHxdQGrmosc5FOg494rVWBHdGc-aiLhyOIF6541QoBwa-IYfc0qSA/s636/download%20(9).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC9Pm2giity1fKpaUO2m53WYDs2WVwlynuzHFteyR9nbB4LAPnKeb3pc3OVOxAD4j-xHpJIQ0P3BeQ0XWO4oErfX-fqbTQgIWjotZLEdSc-v2jHTNuf5KAWNDTXRXBKhZHz3lMNtHxdQGrmosc5FOg494rVWBHdGc-aiLhyOIF6541QoBwa-IYfc0qSA/s320/download%20(9).png" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Alan ‘AJ’ Hoover, 16, was <a class="Link" href="https://silentwitness.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/15-1903-Flyer-AJ-Hoover-Homicide.pdf" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">shot and killed</a> on Jan. 7, 2015.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">The incident occurred at a home near 24th Street and Cactus Road, and it’s believed multiple teenagers were around when the shooting occurred.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">Police say they <a class="Link" href="https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/north-phoenix/a-year-later-no-new-leads-in-shooting-death-of-alan-aj-hoover-silent-witness-asking-for-help" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">interviewed witnesses</a> and those who were present at the time of the shooting, but no motive or suspects were identified.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;">"He had a heart of gold and would do anything for anyone, no questions asked," the family said in an online <a class="Link" href="https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/phoenix-az/alan-hoover-6273699" style="color: #005687; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;">obituary.</a></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px;"><a href="https://www.abc15.com/news/state/10-mysterious-disappearances-deaths-of-arizona-children">https://www.abc15.com/news/state/10-mysterious-disappearances-deaths-of-arizona-children</a><br /></p></div></div></div></div>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-24395211070779992142022-03-28T14:27:00.004-07:002022-03-28T14:27:41.586-07:00UPDATE: Tucson police investigating suspicious death of 9-year-old<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5HVrRvyyOhRAeUpPJmt6ZV7Rv_hNa-z8b-4wju-S844DenQFzLekcitknS7U_ycktb7L4Y56H0u4cSixv92lHTRp80h2EAYSfF_EbLXn5LdTvfQJnvxJxLdYmhI6pLzdzbh4kBLrP3yt8NAcmz77862Et_fSpvOj5EgYhFbaRxi5qNoxJMY24g5td_A/s1200/BXMTTO4ZOVHNZBKTROPIFFDC2M.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5HVrRvyyOhRAeUpPJmt6ZV7Rv_hNa-z8b-4wju-S844DenQFzLekcitknS7U_ycktb7L4Y56H0u4cSixv92lHTRp80h2EAYSfF_EbLXn5LdTvfQJnvxJxLdYmhI6pLzdzbh4kBLrP3yt8NAcmz77862Et_fSpvOj5EgYhFbaRxi5qNoxJMY24g5td_A/s320/BXMTTO4ZOVHNZBKTROPIFFDC2M.webp" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Sandra Kraykovich, 38, and Elizabeth Kraykovich, 64, are facing child abuse charges after Sandra's 9-year-old child died at a Tucson apartment complex on Tuesday, March 22. As of March 25, the charges are not related to the child's death.(Tucson Police Department)</p><p>By KOLD News 13 Staff</p><p>Published: Mar. 24, 2022 at 4:07 PM MST|Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 4:26 PM MST</p><p>TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Tucson police are investigating the recent death of a 9-year-old child.</p><p><br /></p><p>The TPD said officers were called to the scene early Tuesday, March 22, by Tucson Fire after they responded to an unresponsive child at an apartment complex in the 8200 block of East Golf Links Road.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite life-saving efforts, the 9-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.</p><p><br /></p><p>While on scene, officers noted concerns regarding living conditions and child welfare.<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px;">Detectives from the Child Physical Abuse Unit conducted an investigation. After interviews, detectives charged the mother and grandmother in the home with child abuse, a Class 2 felony.</span></p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The mother is 38-year-old Sandra Kraykovich.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">According to police records, the mother called 911 on March 22 due to her child being unresponsive. After officials pronounced the child dead, “large amount of bugs began to cover her face”. There was “enormous amounts of lice in her hair”.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">An older sibling told investigators that mouthwash had been used to try to treat the lice.Sandra Kraykovich said her child suffered from anemia and had been sick since Tuesday, March 15. The child had been vomiting, along with having a fever, headache, difficulty breathing and balance issues.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The mother said she had considered taking her child to the emergency room, but decided against it when she returned home and found her child sleeping.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">When police checked the mother’s phone, she had messaged her boyfriend on March 14 and March 15 saying she needed to take her daughter to the emergency room.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">On March 21, Sandra Kraykovich sent another message to her boyfriend that read, “OMG babe. Listen I’m in my room and my mom was called me. (Name redacted) was asking if I could check on her to make sure she isn’t dying.”The boyfriend urged the mother to take the child to the emergency room, but she didn’t.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Elizabeth Kraykovich, the child’s grandmother, messaged Sandra Kraykovich, her daughter, earlier that the child “can’t go to the ER with her hair but that’s left up to me cause your not home.” The grandmother, who is retired and cares for the children when their mother is at work.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Other messages indicated the child was also sick on March 8, two weeks before her death. Elizabeth Kraykovich messaged her daughter, complaining the other kids won’t help and accusing her daughter of being more interested in doing things with her boyfriend than taking care of her sick child.Investigators said the home was “dirty” and in a “general state of disarray.” Sandra Kraykovich told investigators that she knows, if she had gotten her daughter medical care, she would still be alive. She told them she should have gotten help, but didn’t because of the lice infestation.Sandra Kraykovich is being held on a $50,000 bond in the Pima County Jail.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The grandmother also said the child was not feeling well and on Monday, March 21, said she was out of breath and her throat hurt. The child was given ibuprofen. She was in court on the morning of Friday, March 25, and was released to pre-trial services. She is due back in court on April 4.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Two older siblings were in the home and but have since been removed. They were involved in the care of their younger sister, and they also had lice.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Tucson police said the child abuse charge is not related to the child’s death at this time, and that possible charges related to the child’s death will be determined after all reports and the autopsy results have been reviewed.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.kold.com/2022/03/24/tucson-police-investigating-childs-suspicious-death/">https://www.kold.com/2022/03/24/tucson-police-investigating-childs-suspicious-death/</a><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-52378205525480254752022-03-28T14:23:00.000-07:002022-03-28T14:23:00.519-07:00Police: Infant’s remains found inside a Phoenix McDonald’s<p> <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px;">By </span><span class="author |" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px;">Arizona's Family Digital News Staff</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px;"> and </span><span class="author |" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px;"><a class="text-decoration-none" href="https://www.kold.com/authors/DCC/" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; width: 930px;"><div class="article-body | article w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 930px;"><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">PHOENIX (ARIZONA’S FAMILY/GRAY NEWS) - Phoenix police confirmed Monday morning that the remains of an infant were located over the weekend inside a McDonald’s.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Phoenix Police Sergeant Philip Krynsky says detectives are actively working to investigate, <a href="https://www.azfamily.com/2022/03/28/police-investigating-after-an-infants-remains-were-found-near-phoenix-business/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0072ed; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Arizona’s Family reported.</a></p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">No further information has been released. However, Krynsky says he expects to have an update later on in the day Monday.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Copyright 2022 Arizona’s Family via Gray Media Group, Inc. 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Campbell Avenue.</p><p>Fellowship of men and women who maintain sobriety through sharing experience, strength, and hope.</p><p><br /></p><p>CO-ANON</p><p>(480) 442-3869 | website</p><p>Opens in a new windowA fellowship for family and friends of someone who is chemically dependent on cocaine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cocaine Anonymous - AZ</p><p>(520) 326-2211 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Co-Dependents Anonymous</p><p>Fellowship of men and women who maintain sobriety from cocaine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Co-Dependents Anonymous (CODA)</p><p>(888) 444-2359 | website</p><p>Opens in a new window12-step self-help group for people who are working on healthy relationships.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debtors Anonymous</p><p>1-800-421-2383 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>12-step program for people who have debt and cannot stop spending.</p><p><br /></p><p>Depression and Bi-Polar Support Alliance</p><p>(800) 826-3632 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Offers education and support groups to people with depression and bi-polar disorder.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gamblers Anonymous</p><p>570-7879 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Self help group for compulsive gamblers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Narcotics Anonymous</p><p>881-8381 | website</p><p>Opens in a new window12-step program where people manage their addiction to narcotics.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nicotine Anonymous</p><p>(469) 737-9304 | website</p><p>Opens in a new window12-step support group for people wishing to stop using nicotine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overeaters Anonymous</p><p>(505) 891-2664| websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>A 12-step group for people who wish to stop compulsive eating.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sex Addicts Anonymous</p><p>1-800-477-8191 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>12-step recovery program providing support for people with compulsive sexual behaviors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Survivors of Incest Anonymous</p><p>websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>12-step program for non-offending adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Survivors of Suicide</p><p>emailOpens in a new window</p><p>Support group for family and friends of people who have committed suicide.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mental Health Resources</p><p>Depression and Bi-Polar Support Alliance</p><p>(800) 826-3632 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Offers education and support groups to people with depression and bi-polar disorder.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mental Health Association of Arizona (MHAAZ)</p><p>480-982-5305 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Provides information and advocacy concerning mental health resources.</p><p><br /></p><p>National Alliance on Mental Illness of Southern Arizona (NAMI)</p><p>(520) 622-5582 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Offers support groups for people diagnosed with mental illness and their families.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Community Resources</p><p>American Diabetes Association</p><p>(520) 795-3711 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>333 W. Ft. Lowell Rd., Suite 23</p><p>Provides educational resources on diabetes.</p><p><br /></p><p>American Cancer Society</p><p>(800) 227-2345 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>333 W. Ft. Lowell Rd., Suite 23</p><p>Provides educational resources on cancer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center</p><p>(520) 626-6016</p><p>Information and education on medications and preventing poisoning accidents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Catholic Community Services</p><p>(520) 623-0344 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p><br /></p><p>DIRECT Center for Independence</p><p>(520) 624-6452 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Offers information, referral and support services for individuals with disabilities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Information & Referral Helpline</p><p>1-800-352-3792 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Information on community resources.</p><p><br /></p><p>Literacy Volunteers of Tucson</p><p>(520) 882-8006 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Tutors people to improve reading and writing skills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sex Trafficking Help</p><p>websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Offers a variety of volunteer opportunities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Summer Sun Respite</p><p>Click hereOpens in a new window for resource guide.</p><p><br /></p><p>Volunteer Southern Arizona</p><p>(520) 881-3300 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Offers a variety of volunteer opportunities.</p><p><br /></p><p>LGBTQIA+ Resources</p><p>A Place to Talk</p><p>(520) 375-9039 | Email: aplacetotalkservices@hotmail.com</p><p>Counseling services for individuals who identify in the LGBTQ communities.</p><p><br /></p><p>El Rio Health - Transgender Medicine</p><p>(520) 670-3909 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Healthcare for pediatric and adult transgender and gender non-conforming communities. Care includes gender-confirming hormone therapy and referral to specialists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lighthouse Project AZ</p><p>(520) 909-0754 | Email: lighthouseproject.tucson@gmail.com</p><p>LGBTQI collaboration between the University of Arizona Southwest Institute for Research on Women, SAAF and Our Family Services to support unstably housed LGBTQ young adults.</p><p><br /></p><p>Petersen HIV Clinic (Banner UMC)</p><p>(520) 626-8598 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Provides specialty care, advocacy, counseling, early intervention, education, referrals, and prevention services related to HIV.</p><p><br /></p><p>PFLAG Tucson - Parents, Friends, Families and Allies, United with LGBTQ People to Move Equality Forward</p><p>websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Promotes the health and well-being of LGBTQ persons and their families and friends through support, education and advocacy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pride Guide - Tucson</p><p>websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>A resource list of services targeted to the LGBTQIA+ communities throughout Arizona.</p><p><br /></p><p>Primavera</p><p>(520) 623-5111 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>LGBT-friendly shelter service.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rainbow Churches</p><p><br /></p><p>Grace St. Paul's Episcopal ChurchOpens in a new window</p><p>St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal ChurchOpens in a new window</p><p>Sister Jose Women's Center</p><p>(520) 909-3905 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Trans-women friendly shelter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF)</p><p>Crisis Line: (800) 553-9387 | Office Line: (520) 628-7223 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>HIV, AIDS and Hep C testing; resources and support for individuals living with HIV/AIDS; prevention and support for survivors of violence against LGBTQIA+ individuals; support groups; youth drop in center and more!</p><p><br /></p><p>Southern Arizona Gender Alliance (SAGA)</p><p>Address: 2030 E. Broadway Blvd, Suite 106 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Support, advocacy and information for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Southern Arizona Senior Pride</p><p>(520) 312-8923 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>LGBTQIA social meetings and support for 55+</p><p><br /></p><p>Trans Lifeline</p><p>(877) 565-8860 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Crisis hotline specific for transgender individuals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network (TIHAN)</p><p>(520) 299-6647 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Brings together religious, secular, corporate and non-profit organizations to support people living with HIV as well as to raise awareness and build knowledge and understanding around HIV/AIDS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Government Resources</p><p>Arizona Center for Disability Law</p><p>(520) 327-9547 | website</p><p>Opens in a new windowProvides protection and advocacy for people with psychiatric, cognitive, physical, mental and sensory disabilities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)</p><p>(520) 205-8600 | website</p><p>Opens in a new windowState’s health insurance program for people with a low income.</p><p><br /></p><p>City of Tucson Parks and Recreation</p><p>(520) 791-4873 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Conducts recreational classes and special events throughout the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pima County Public Library Information Line</p><p>(520) 791-4010 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Phone services which give short answers to reference questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Social Security Administration</p><p>1-800-722-1213 | websiteOpens in a new window</p><p>Oversees the Social Security System.</p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-30586907017563313342022-03-25T19:20:00.004-07:002022-03-25T19:20:47.515-07:00Safe Havens<p> <span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;">safe
haven </span></p><p><i style="color: #70757a; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">noun</i></p>
<p style="line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0.2in;">
<span style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #70757a;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">plural
noun</span></span>: <span style="color: #3c4043;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>safe
havens</b></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ol>
<li><p style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">a
place of refuge or security.</span></span></span></p>
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<li><p style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">temporary
refuge given to a persecuted person or group.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #70757a;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"refugees
poured in and found safe haven</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">List of safe haven resources:</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.mass.gov/baby-safe-haven">https://www.mass.gov/baby-safe-haven</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.tsne.org/safe-havens-interfaith-partnership-against-domestic-violence-and-elder-abuse">https://www.tsne.org/safe-havens-interfaith-partnership-against-domestic-violence-and-elder-abuse</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/cps/safehaven">https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/cps/safehaven</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://safehavenshelter.org/">http://safehavenshelter.org/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhsaccelerator/downloads/pdf/DHS%20Safe%20Havens.pdf">http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhsaccelerator/downloads/pdf/DHS%20Safe%20Havens.pdf</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.kcpd.org/crime/victim-resources/safe-haven-for-newborns/">https://www.kcpd.org/crime/victim-resources/safe-haven-for-newborns/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.tn.gov/dcs/program-areas/child-safety/safe-haven-law.html">https://www.tn.gov/dcs/program-areas/child-safety/safe-haven-law.html</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.safehaventc.org/">https://www.safehaventc.org/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.volusia.org/services/public-protection/fire-services/fire-safety-information/programs/safe-havens-for-newborns.stml">https://www.volusia.org/services/public-protection/fire-services/fire-safety-information/programs/safe-havens-for-newborns.stml</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.claycountygov.com/community/public-safety/services/community-engagement/florida-safe-haven-law">https://www.claycountygov.com/community/public-safety/services/community-engagement/florida-safe-haven-law</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.nysna.org/‘safe-havens-care-all’">https://www.nysna.org/%E2%80%98safe-havens-care-all%E2%80%99</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://dcf.vermont.gov/prevention/safe-havens/guidelines">https://dcf.vermont.gov/prevention/safe-havens/guidelines</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://211la.org/resources/service/safe-havens-abandoned-newborns-13">https://211la.org/resources/service/safe-havens-abandoned-newborns-13</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.safehavennv.org/">http://www.safehavennv.org/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://humanservices.arkansas.gov/learn-about-programs/programs-for-children-families/arkansas-safe-haven/">https://humanservices.arkansas.gov/learn-about-programs/programs-for-children-families/arkansas-safe-haven/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://dcyf.ri.gov/programsinitiatives/safe-haven">https://dcyf.ri.gov/programsinitiatives/safe-haven</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.miamidade.gov/global/service.page?Mduid_service=ser1527785990185257">https://www.miamidade.gov/global/service.page?Mduid_service=ser1527785990185257</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/coneyisland/patient-information/safe-haven-site/">https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/coneyisland/patient-information/safe-haven-site/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://breakingground.org/our-housing/midwood">https://breakingground.org/our-housing/midwood</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dcyf/documents/dcyfpolicy1181.pdf">https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dcyf/documents/dcyfpolicy1181.pdf</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://rosenet.org/686/Safe-Haven-Infant-Protection">https://rosenet.org/686/Safe-Haven-Infant-Protection</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Child_Protection/Child_Safety/Resources/baby_moses.asp">https://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Child_Protection/Child_Safety/Resources/baby_moses.asp</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.nhsresearchscotland.org.uk/research-in-scotland/data/safe-havens">https://www.nhsresearchscotland.org.uk/research-in-scotland/data/safe-havens</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://saveabandonedbabies.org/">https://saveabandonedbabies.org/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-54568947245343627872022-03-18T21:36:00.004-07:002022-03-18T21:41:40.353-07:00RIP 6-year-old Nicole Snyder and 3-year-old Jasmine Snyder.<p><br /></p><p>‘We starved them so they would die’: Mother Turns on Girlfriend, Admits They Starved ‘Hated’ Young Daughters & Buried Them [Court]</p><p><br /></p><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;">The mother of two dead Pennsylvania children testified Wednesday at a preliminary hearing that the children were purposely starved to death.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During a hearing at the Laramie County Court in Williamsport, defendant Marie Snyder admitted that she and her girlfriend, Echo Butler, purposely <a href="https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lycoming-county/trailer-of-horrors-lycoming-county-marie-snyder-echo-butler-ronald-michele/523-d810f964-24c5-4e27-a44c-25d7251e7e68" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004c9b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">starved and abused Snyder’s two daughters until their deaths</a>. The victims have been identified as 6-year-old Nicole Snyder and 3-year-old Jasmine Snyder.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.crimeonline.com/2022/01/08/young-girls-secretly-buried-in-backyard-were-starved-choked-restrained-before-their-deaths-report/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004c9b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As CrimeOnline previously reported</a>, investigators allege that the girls were also regularly pushed into walls and choked before they died. They were buried in the yard of a rural Hepburn Township home.<br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What prompted the abuse? The mother’s girlfriend allegedly told police she “hated” the victims. <br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In September, child welfare investigators began an investigation into allegations that a 7-year-old child was being neglected. While agents were visiting the child’s home, they questioned the child’s mother, Snyder, about the location of her other children: Nicole and Jasmine. <br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Two months later, in November, <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" href="https://www.crimeonline.com/2021/11/07/remains-found-believed-to-be-sisters-who-havent-been-seen-since-2015/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004c9b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">authorities found human remains buried in the yard of the mother’s residence</a>, which she shared with Butler. Investigators later identified the remains as belonging to Nicole and Jasmine Snyder.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police subsequently interviewed Marie Snyder, Butler, and Butler’s mother and determined that the girls likely died from physical abuse and starvation.<br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Butler reportedly told investigators that the children were “bad.” Butler admitted that she would “knee or push” the girls’ bodies into walls. She would also “choke” Nicole until the girl’s eyes would roll back into her head, according to court documents. <br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Both the girls’ mother and Butler allegedly starved the girls, feeding them only tiny portions of food and “two sips of water,” according to the court records. The girls were allegedly forced to eat by themselves in a dark room while other members of the family would have full meals and better food.<br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As punishment, the girls were forced to have cold baths or were required to stand in a dark room or corner, at times restrained.<br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Authorities believe that Nicole died in May 2016. In the days preceding her death, she was allegedly “pale, unable to stand on her own and her hair was falling out,” court records state. Echo admitted that she buried Nicole in the backyard.<br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jasmine is believed to have died in 2017.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj00QUV9s2NyIgef8HSq0D-3MhhkLJi1sy3Hm-CeHYaKet5YRPhD0bZZGLA9ByrtwFTpM5KbKiiDZzkfeX6uhefBmVj2oych_JQNiJQ-mA_rSjx0k-MujAu9liY28W_BTWdijfDEscND72W8l48QQiwq8mPRsZh2O4xw8KUx7iMHY-2JtEAk3DvEVGyKA=s940" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="940" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj00QUV9s2NyIgef8HSq0D-3MhhkLJi1sy3Hm-CeHYaKet5YRPhD0bZZGLA9ByrtwFTpM5KbKiiDZzkfeX6uhefBmVj2oych_JQNiJQ-mA_rSjx0k-MujAu9liY28W_BTWdijfDEscND72W8l48QQiwq8mPRsZh2O4xw8KUx7iMHY-2JtEAk3DvEVGyKA=w498-h290" width="498" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.crimeonline.com/2022/03/18/we-starved-them-so-they-would-die-mother-turns-on-girlfriend-admits-they-starved-hated-young-daughters-buried-them-court/?fr=operanews">https://www.crimeonline.com/2022/03/18/we-starved-them-so-they-would-die-mother-turns-on-girlfriend-admits-they-starved-hated-young-daughters-buried-them-court/?fr=operanews</a><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874430117222606808.post-31117429692794753792022-03-10T01:06:00.003-08:002022-03-10T01:06:58.416-08:00ARS 13-3623 – Child Abuse – Arizona Law & Penalties<p> ARS 13-3623 is the Arizona statute that defines the crime of child abuse. People commit this offense if, under certain circumstances, they cause a child to suffer physical injury, allow a child to be injured, or allow a child to be placed in a situation that endangers the child’s health or well-being. A violation of this law can lead to a Class 2 felony charge punishable by up to 10 years in state prison.</p><p><br /></p><p>The language of ARS 13-3623 states that, for a conviction under this law, a prosecutor must prove that a defendant committed child abuse and acted either:</p><p><br /></p><p>intentionally or knowingly,</p><p>recklessly, or</p><p>with criminal negligence.</p><p>Examples</p><p><br /></p><p>allowing a child to stay in a building in which people are using flammable chemicals to manufacture a dangerous drug.</p><p>knowingly hitting a child where the act causes serious physical injury.</p><p>leaving a child in a car on a hot day with the windows rolled up.</p><p>Defenses</p><p><br /></p><p>People accused of child abuse can challenge the accusation with a legal defense. A few common defenses include the parties showing that:</p><p><br /></p><p>they were acting within their legal rights to discipline the child,</p><p>they were falsely accused, and/or</p><p>a child was injured by something other than abuse.</p><p>Penalties</p><p><br /></p><p>A violation of ARS 13-3623 is a felony offense (as opposed to a misdemeanor). Depending on the facts of the case, child abuse can be charged as either a:</p><p><br /></p><p>Class 2 felony,</p><p>Class 3 felony,</p><p>Class 4 felony,</p><p>Class 5 felony, or</p><p>Class 6 felony.</p><p>A Class 2 felony is the most severe charge and is punishable by custody in state prison for up to 10 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this article, our Phoenix Arizona criminal defense attorneys will discuss what the law is under this statute, defenses available if charged, the penalties for a conviction, and related crimes</p><p><br /></p><h2 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 35px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">1.How does Arizona law define “child abuse”?</h2><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Under Arizona law, people are <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">guilty of child abuse</span> if they, under certain circumstances, do any of the following:</p><ol class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">cause a child to suffer physical injury,</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">allow a child to be injured, or</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">allow a child to be placed in a situation that endangers the child’s health or well-being.<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">i</span></li></ol><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">To secure a conviction under this law, a prosecutor has to show that the defendant committed child abuse and he/she did so either:</p><ul class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;">intentionally or knowingly,</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;">recklessly, or</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;">with criminal negligence.<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">ii</span></li></ul><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">A few definitions here are helpful:</p><ul class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;">“<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">knowingly</span>” means that a person is aware or believes that their conduct is of a nature or that a particular circumstance exists,<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">iii</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;">“<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">recklessly</span>” means that a person commits an act although aware of, and in grossly conscious disregard to, a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm to some person,<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">iv</span>and</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;">“<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">criminal negligence</span>” is a when a person acts while failing to perceive that the act may result in a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm.<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">v</span></li></ul><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">For purposes of this law, a “<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">child</span>” means a person who is under the age of 18.<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">vi</span></p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Note that a person is guilty of child abuse even if he/she <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">is not</span> the parent or guardian of the “victim.”<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">vii</span></p><h2 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 35px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2. Are there defenses to child abuse charges under ARS 13-3623?</h2><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Criminal defense lawyers draw upon several legal strategies to defend against charges brought under this statute. A few common ones include the attorneys showing that:</p><ol class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">the defendant was lawfully disciplining his/her child.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">the defendant was falsely accused.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">a child was injured by something else other than abuse.</li></ol><h3 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 40px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2.1 Lawfully disciplining a child</h3><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Parents have the right to discipline their children using “corporal punishment.” They can even use an object (such as a belt or paddle) as long as the discipline was reasonably necessary and appropriate to maintain discipline.<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">viii</span></p><h3 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 40px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2.2 Falsely accused</h3><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Unfortunately, people get falsely accused of this crime all of the time. For instance, a child may give a false accusation to gain attention or because they want to get placed out of their home. Further, one parent may falsely accuse another parent in order to win a custody dispute. A defense, then, is for accused people to show that they were <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">unjustly blamed</span>.</p><h3 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 40px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2.3 Other cause of injury</h3><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Children often get hurt or become endangered in a variety of different ways (for example, through playing or acting out of curiosity). Therefore, defendants can try to establish their innocence by showing that the “victim” was injured by something <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">other than abuse</span>.</p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 35px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">3. What are the penalties?</h2><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The penalties for child abuse will depend on the specific facts of a case.</p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">If a defendant commits child abuse under circumstances likely to cause death or serious injury to the child, then the crime is charged as either a:</p><ul class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Class 2 felony</span>, if the defendant acted <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">intentionally or knowingly</span> (a Class 2 felony is punishable by up to 10 years in <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://corrections.az.gov/prisons" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073e5; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">prison</a>),</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Class 3 felony</span>, if the defendant acted <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">recklessly</span> (a Class 3 felony is punishable by almost four years in prison), or</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Class 4 felony</span>, if the defendant acted with <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">criminal negligence</span> (a Class 4 felony is punishable by almost three years in prison).</li></ul><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">If a defendant commits child abuse under circumstances <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">other than those</span> likely to produce death or serious injury, then the crime is charged as either a:</p><ul class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Class 4 felony</span>, if the defendant acted <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">intentionally or knowingly</span>,</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Class 5 felony</span>, if the defendant acted <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">recklessly</span> (a Class 5 felony is punishable by up to a year-and-a-half in prison), or</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Class 6 felony</span>, if the defendant acted with <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">criminal negligence</span> (a Class 6 felony is punishable by one year in prison).</li></ul><h2 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 35px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">4. How can people report instances of child abuse?</h2><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">People can always report instances of abuse, or make abuse referrals, to a peace officer or a law enforcement agent.</p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Reports of child abuse can also be made to the <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://dcs.az.gov/report-child-abuse" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(52, 138, 202); box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS)</a> or by calling the statewide child abuse hotline phone number at <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1-888-sos-child</span>. People can call this number in instances of child abuse, child maltreatment, and/or child neglect.<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">ix</span></p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Note that <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://pcaaz.org/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(52, 138, 202); box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Prevent Child Abuse Arizona</a> is an Arizona organization dedicated to promoting child abuse prevention.<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">x</span></p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Note, too, that if a child abuse case gets started in the Arizona court system, <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://dcs.az.gov/resources/faq/question-court-appointed-special-advocate-casa-program" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(52, 138, 202); box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)</a> is an organization that helps advocate for a child’s needs.<span class="fn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">xi</span></p><h2 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 35px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">5. Are there related offenses?</h2><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">There are three crimes related to child abuse. These are:</p><ol class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">endangerment – ARS 13-1201,</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">custodial interference – ARS 13-1302, and</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">assault – 13-1203.</li></ol><h3 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 40px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">5.1 Endangerment – ARS 13-1201</h3><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Per <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://www.shouselaw.com/az/defense/laws/endangerment/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(52, 138, 202); box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">ARS 13-1201, endangerment</a> is the offense where people recklessly put someone at risk of imminent death or physical injury.</p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Depending on the facts of a child abuse case, it is possible for a defendant to face charges of both:</p><ul class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;">child abuse, and</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: disc;">endangerment.</li></ul><h3 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 40px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">5.2 Custodial interference – ARS 13-1302</h3><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Per <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://www.shouselaw.com/az/defense/laws/custodial-interference/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(52, 138, 202); box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">ARS 13-1302, custodial interference</a> is the offense where people commit an act in relation to a child and do so without legal authority. Some prohibited acts under this statute include:</p><ol class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">taking a child from another’s lawful custody, and</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 24px; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">denying a parent access to their child.</li></ol><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Unlike with child abuse, a person does not have to act with a specific criminal state of mind to be guilty of custodial interference.</p><h3 class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: normal; margin: 40px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">5.3 Assault – 13-1203</h3><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Per <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://www.shouselaw.com/az/defense/laws/assault/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(52, 138, 202); box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">ARS 13-1203, assault</a> is the crime where people intentionally or recklessly cause physical injury to someone, intentionally place another person in fear of physical injury, or knowingly touch someone with the intent to injure or provoke them.</p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Unlike with child abuse, assault is a misdemeanor offense in Arizona.</p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Note that sexual assault is a separate crime set forth under <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://www.shouselaw.com/az/defense/laws/assault/sexual-assault/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(52, 138, 202); box-sizing: inherit; color: #348aca; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">ARS 13-1406</a>.</p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="nitro-offscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.36px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.shouselaw.com/az/defense/laws/child-abuse/">https://www.shouselaw.com/az/defense/laws/child-abuse/</a><br /></p>Jessica Lynn Hepnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430193881598834882noreply@blogger.com0