Mother drowned toddler for revenge..

A court has heard a New South Wales woman deliberately drowned her 17-month-old daughter to get revenge on the child's father.

The 27-year-old is accused of drowning the toddler in a Wollongong suburb in July 2009.
Her lawyer told a Supreme Court jury in Sydney that the woman had a "depressive illness" at the time.

But she is standing trial for murder after the Crown rejected her guilty plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

In his opening address, crown prosecutor Michael Fox said the child drowned after her mother put her face down in the bath and left the water running while she sat in another room.
He said the woman then dressed her dead daughter and put her on a bed where she slept beside her.

The jury was told the woman did not call an ambulance or mention the child's death to anyone for two days and in that time tried to commit suicide.

The court heard the woman had a troubled relationship with the child's father and that days before the
baby's death she found out that he was taking another woman on a holiday.

Mr Fox said the woman sent her former partner a text that read: "Enjoy your trip to the snow, it's the last weekend you will be happy."

He said she feared losing custody of her daughter.

Defence barrister Dina Yehia SC said her client was a caring and loving mother who became isolated and depressed before the toddler's death.

The barrister said she was suffering from an "abnormality of the mind" that affected her ability to know right from wrong.

The woman sat quietly in the dock avoiding the gaze of the jurors who sat within metres of her.

Original Article,

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/14382615

Lower Milford Mom Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Infant Son

Anyone that knows me, knows that I very rarely believe what I read about child abuse, due to the fact that I know (Insert your local child services name here), gets Title IV Federal Funding to protect abused children, which has turned into 'incentives' to produce abused kids for the millions of dollars involved.. so with that said... Do I believe this woman did this? I don't know.. but SOMEONE ABUSED THAT CHILD, and if it is her.. my only wish is that her and I meet in a dark alley one day with no one else around... If it wasn't her.. then whomever it was.. here's your invitation, contact me and I'll come meet you to 'get couch your side choke of the storycouch BS'  (smile), ok all joking aside who ever did this to this baby- deserves to live a long life of others doing the same to them!

LEHIGH COUNTY, PA -- Updated 8:30am:

A local woman charged with attempting to kill her 6-month-old son has pleaded guilty to felony aggravated assault.

Chelsie Grant, 19, of Lower Milford, was arrested in February for systematic abuse of her six-month old son, including twisting and breaking the baby's arms, choking him and shoving objects into his throat.

Grant, who waived her preliminary hearing in late February, pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of felony aggravated assault that can carry a sentence of a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 20 years. Grant originally was charged with one count of attempted homicide and two counts of felony aggravated assault.

According to the criminal complaint, Grant brought her son to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest on Jan. 12, claiming his father had abused the boy. Emergency room doctors confirmed the boy had several injuries, including a right elbow dislocation and fractures of both arms and legs.

Despite claiming at first that the boy's father caused the injuries, she later confessed to abusing her son. When confessing, Grant reenacted the abuse with a doll. The complaint says Grant "placed one hand on the child's chest and used the other hand to pull the arms of the child as far as she could several times in each direction. She then grabbed the ankles of the victim and twisted them in both directions and pushed both legs up toward the chest of the child and pulled them down forcefully several times."

She also admitted to shoving spoons and paper down the baby's throat.

According to assistant district attorney Anna-Kristie Morffi, Grant’s son is living with his paternal grandparents. Those close to the case say that it is too soon to tell if the boy will have any permanent effects from the abuse.

Original Article: http://uppersaucon.patch.com/articles/lower-milford-mom-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-murder-of-baby?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl15%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D178649

Grant remains in custody at Lehigh County Prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 11.
Related Topics:Chelsie Grant and Lower Milford Child Abuse

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Wait a second, wait a second... WTF?

Employee Sold More Than Just Burgers

"Wendy's Drive-Thru Worker, Juan Antonio Rosa, Gets Nearly 22 Years For Selling Child Porn"

After I posted the blog above I continued to read the 'AOL News' and I find out this dick-shit-lower than low life scum of the earth is selling kid porn out of a Wendy's drive through? And he has 2 kids? (shaking my head) these stupid fucks are really putting all of the spiritual work I've done on myslef to the test... FUCK THAT- I'd glady bash this mother fuckers head in too with a brick (along with the above abuser), and then ask the universe for forgivness!

Original Article: http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/07/13/wendys-drive-thru-worker-gets-nearly-22-years-for-selling-child/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl26%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D178657

Believe None of What You Hear and Half of What You See

In my 50 some-odd years on this planet, I still catch myself ALMOST getting caught up in the moment- half cocked about to go off on some alleged pedophile, or some poor soul with an amazing story of being victimized!

Then I catch myself just in time and I have a reality check- everyone here on this planet is living in their own PERCEPTION OF REALITY!

It matters not how much someone's perception of reality can be justified... what matters most is FACTUAL REALITY as this post will prove... not all of what you hear is in fact REALITY AS IT IS OR WAS!

So, the message here is- don't go off halfcocked and write someone off as a (insert whatever label you want here), until you have un-arguable, un-taintable, un-fabricatable, factual details to come to your own intellectual opinion with.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A Chicago man who spent more than 30 years behind bars before DNA evidence helped overturn his conviction in the rape and killing of a 3-year-old girl was released from prison late Friday, just hours after prosecutors dropped the case against him.

An Illinois appeals court in March had ordered a new trial for 50-year-old Andre Davis after tests found that DNA taken from the scene of the 1980 killing of Brianna Stickle wasn't his. The girl was attacked in Rantoul, about 20 miles north of Champaign.

Davis was released from the super-maximum security prison in Tamms in far southern Illinois around 7:30 p.m., said Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kayce Ataiyero. Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz had decided earlier in the day not to pursue charges against him.

Judy Royal of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University, which represented Davis, said he was the longest-serving of the 42 people exonerated by DNA evidence in Illinois.

"Mr. Davis served 32 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn't commit," Royal said. "Tamms is a difficult place to do time. He's hoping to rebuild his life, with the support of his family."

It wasn't immediately known if Davis' family was at the prison when he walked out. Davis' father was traveling to Tamms on Friday afternoon and couldn't be reached for comment.

Reitz said that while she didn't doubt the results of the DNA tests, she decided not to retry Davis because of the difficulty in taking a 32-year-old case to trial – not because of those tests.

"After 30 years, witnesses are either deceased, missing or no longer credible to testify," said Rietz, who has been state's attorney in Champaign County since 2004. "Based on the age of the case and the current state of the evidence, we elected to dismiss."

She noted that Davis was twice convicted by juries. His first conviction was overturned because of a mistake made by a bailiff during jury deliberations

Rietz said any further steps in the investigation of Briana's death will be up to police. Rantoul Police Chief Paul Farber did not return a call regarding the status of the investigation.

Davis was arrested shortly after Briana was found on Aug. 8, 1980, in a house on the street where she lived with her mother and stepfather in Rantoul.

According to trial testimony, Davis – who was 19 at the time – was visiting his father in Rantoul. He spent the day the girl died drinking at the home where she was eventually found with the two brothers who lived there. At some point the brothers left, leaving Davis there alone.

Briana's stepfather, Rand Spragg, said he left the girl playing in the family's front yard and last saw her sitting under a tree.

The family later searched for her. She was found in the brothers' home, naked and under bed clothes in a utility room. She died that night at a local hospital.

DNA testing wasn't available in 1980. But in 2004, Davis requested that evidence gathered at the scene of Briana's death be DNA tested.

According to the tests, blood and semen found at the scene weren't from Davis. That led to the March appellate court decision.

Friday's planned release caught Davis' attorneys off guard. Most were on vacation, expecting that he might be released next week.

Royal, who works closely with Davis' lead attorney, Jane Raley, didn't represent him. She wasn't sure what plans Davis had, but she said that after so many years he was fortunate that family members were still alive to greet him and help him acclimate to life outside prison.

"A lot of times when people are incarcerated for lengthy periods of time, family members die," Royal said. "That is one good thing, that he will have their support."

 "I think it's difficult for him to know exactly what to do," she added, noting that the Center on Wrongful Convictions works with the people it helps free to aid in their adjustment. "I know that he's very intelligent and he has been assisting in the preparation of his appeal for years and giving some good suggestions in that regard."

Attempts to reach members of Briana's family were not successful.

Original Article..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/07/andre-davis-released_n_1655914.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D176662

In closing, this poor man's life was ruined- God only knows how many relationships that were.. are no longer able to be in his life...

I wish him the best and will be sending him healing vibes to move on from this kind of insanity!

Parent Alienation Coaching and Beyond, Now Available

I've spent the last twelve (12) years desperately researching and learning everything there is available to learn about Parent Alienation, and Parent Alienation Syndrome.

First and foremost, I know without any doubt in my mind that "Parent Alienation" and the resulting "Parent Alienation Syndrome" are the work of abusers!

Prior to the term[s] "Parent Alienation", or "Parent Alienation Syndrome" the dynamics of dysfunction and devastation that takes place between two people who have a history of a loving relationship, has been labeled many, many, times before Richard Gardner labeled it "Parent Alienation Syndrome."

Some of the "other labels" that helped me understand the dysfunctional dynamics associated with "Parent Alienation", and or "Parent Alienation Syndrome", when it's being used in reference to the symptoms a child displays are:

(1) Trauma Bonds

(2) Stockholm Syndrome

(3) Cognitive Dissonance

(4) Attachment Disorder

(5) Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)

(6) Dissociative Identity Disorder  (DID)

(7) I Feel Like a Child Syndrome

(8) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

(9) Delayed Stress Syndrome

(10) Adult Child Syndrome

(11) Adult children of alcoholics

(12) Domestic Violence by Proxy

(13) Learned Helplessness

(14) Emotionally Unavailable

(15) The Ego

(16) Personality Disorders: Psychopath, Narcissist, Co Dependent

(18) Defence Mechanisms: Rationalization, Identification, Displacement, Projection, Regression, Reaction Formation, Repression, Denial....

(19) Parts Integration

(20) Enmeshment

(21) Inner Selves

The list goes on and on...


The depths of understanding such abuse was noting short of exhausting!

I was very lucky in that I had someone by my side to support me emotionally and physically so that I could totally focus on understanding how my babies were turned against me..

And now, a dozen years later, after studying under Tony Robbins, Cloe Madanes in their team effort coaching program Robbins - Madanes Coach Training, as well as studying under Hu Dalconzo in his Holistic Life Coaching program, "Holistic Learning Centers", I've combining everything I've learned through training, research, and life experiences and put it all together to help others crawl out from under the devastation and pain that abusers (both emotional & physical) leave their victims in!


My Personal Empowerment Coaching, covers all aspects of Parent Alienation, and Parent Alienation Syndrome... in addition to empowering anyone that has had any of the above issues in their lives, or in the lives of someone you love!

Contact me at HaveUmistakenMe@aol.com and give me the short version, and I'll give you a number so we can talk in depth!

Tonya Thomas Killed Four Kids, Then Herself In Port St. John Shooting, Florida Authorities Say

PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. — A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself Tuesday called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities said.


Thirty-three-year-old Tonya Thomas fatally shot her four children, who ranged in age from 12 to 17, said Lt. Tod Goodyear, a spokesman for the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.


Three of the children had gone to a neighbor's front door before dawn to say their mother had shot them. The mother then called the children back to the house and killed them, Goodyear said.


"From what the neighbors said, she was very calm. She walked out and called them back. They turned around and walked back to the house," Goodyear said.


The neighbor then heard gunshots and called 911.


Another neighbor told deputies that Thomas sent a text message in the middle of the night saying she wanted to be cremated with her children.


"He didn't see the text until he woke up this morning," Goodyear said.


Deputies identified the children as Pebbles Johnson, 17; Jaxs Johnson, 15; Jazlin Johnson, 13; and Joel Johnson, 12.


The shooting happened in Port St. John, about 15 miles west of Cape Canaveral in an area known as the "Space Coast" because it is the home of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the location of numerous famed shuttle launches.


A spokesman for the Department of Children and Families wouldn't immediately comment on whether the family had a history with the agency.


Dispatch records released Tuesday show that authorities responded to Thomas' house on three successive days in April.


In the first visit, on Easter Sunday, Thomas reported that her son had thrown a bicycle through a window at the house. The next day, Thomas called to report that her son had kicked and punched her when she tried to wake him up for school. The following day, child welfare investigators visited the house to look into allegations of inadequate supervision of the children.


Records also showed that Thomas was arrested in 2002 on a misdemeanor battery charge for striking the father of her children. The charge was later dropped. Two years earlier, she filed a domestic violence complaint against Joe Johnson, but that was dismissed after a hearing.


Jamie Hudson, whose mother lives two doors down from the family, said the boys in the family were known to shoot BBs at a home across the street and had threatened to set it on fire.


"It has been an ongoing problem on our street with them," Hudson said.


Goodyear said Jaxs Johnson had recently been arrested on a domestic violence charge. He said he didn't know if the boy had been accused of hitting his mother or causing damage at the house.


A pastor at the church the family attended described it as "normal stuff."


"I think he was punching some walls or something," said Jarvis Wash, pastor of the Real Church in Rockledge, Fla.


Wash said the family attended services last Sunday but had been absent for a few weeks before that.


"I don't know what could have happened in the past couple of days," Wash said. "It's a tragedy to the church and the community."

Original article

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/tonya-thomas-shooting-florida_n_1518544.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D161070


My Two Cents:

I need to know more about this case!

Breaking News: Federal Appeals Court to Decide Case in New York City

by Leon Koziol.Com

The United States Court of Appeals in New York City released its weekly calendar today which includes the case of John Parent v State of New York. This is a consolidated test case seeking to establish a privacy limit for parents and families subjected to abusive divorce, custody and support practices in state domestic relations courts. It is being argued by Dr. Leon R. Koziol, a parental advocate who spent more than 23 years in federal and state courts litigating civil rights cases on behalf of minorities, women and victims of government abuse.

It comes in the wake of the Founding Fathers March on Capitol Hill this past week and is set for Friday of Father’s Day weekend. Whether the June 15^th date means anything for long discriminated fathers is already the subject of widespread speculation. Regardless, civil rights activists across New York’s metropolitan area are already organizing a rally at the Foley Square court in lower Manhattan. Although oral arguments are not scheduled, this is the date set to begin deliberations, and it affords Family Court victims an opportunity to express their support.

The plaintiff, John Parent, is not a real person. Like the case of Roe v Wade, it is a fictitious name allowed by a lower federal court on a sealed record to protect privacy interests. The name is also employed to represent the concerns of “parents similarly situated”. In this manner, the high cost and complexities of a class action lawsuit were avoided. In short, you may be an interested party to this action, and your personal and financial support is crucial to its success. The lawsuit and appeals brief can be found on line at www.leonkoziol.com. Today’s news was received with guarded optimism given the uphill battle. However, Dr. Koziol had this to say:

“Shared parenting and family retention are the final frontier of civil rights to be defended under the American Constitution. When parents raise their children, they exercise virtually every human right contemplated by that venerable document. And so, this is where I draw my line against further invasions of family privacy. I will not back down.”

The case deals with a full range of parenting interests, including child alienation, attorney misconduct, oppressive collection practices and equal protection violations. A “separate but unequal” doctrine of custody laws is being challenged because it mandates superior and inferior classifications among separated paternal and maternal family units even when it harms parent-child relationships. Litigants are needlessly forced to fight over power and money awards which produce lucrative controversy for lawyers. Debtor prisons and other barbaric practices inflict greatest injury to minority fathers. The case is being defended by the U.S. Justice Department, New York Attorney General and law firms on behalf of named lawyers and municipalities.

See Complaint and Appeals Brief (Click Here)

Confessions Of A Divorce Kid: The Awkward Baseball Game

Andy Cambell writes:

When the game ends, win or lose, which parent will I go to first?


It might seem like a small-potatoes dilemma for a white suburban child of divorce. But awkward baseball games -- and all the divorce politics that come with them -- are some of my most vivid memories, mostly because they were the most stressful events of my young life. I mean, I could win a baseball game any time, but I had the emotional scarring and heart-breaking of two sets of parents to worry about.


Indeed, baseball games had so little to do with baseball, and so much to do with the divorce. It was as if two warring factions were meeting on the battlefield, and their tactics involved one-upping each other with better juice boxes at post-game snack time. My affection was the spoil of war.


They had their tactics, and I had mine. I took mental note of how many breaks I took with each parent, how many high fives I doled out and at what volume I called step-mom, "Mom." If I was on the mound, I made grinning glances at each of up to four parents between pitches. Seventh-inning stretch involved sitting and talking with each group for such precisely equal amounts of time, it made our supposedly "equal" visitation schedule look like it was organized by, well, children.


I'm not saying I had horrible parents. On the contrary -- both sets molded me into the all-around bad ass I am today. Sure, there were times when one parent would put me in the middle of an argument that wasn't mine to have. But overall my folks had no idea what stress-induced havoc they were wreaking on my young brain.


The awkward baseball game is a prime example of where divorced parents can go very right or horribly wrong with their children. I know that most divorce kids, like me, think about their parents' feelings way more than is readily apparent. I would try not to offend anyone, which weighed on me so heavily it would often bring me to tears.


And that's why the best divorced parent is the one who can see how hard it is for their kids to worry about such frivolous things. The best parent is the one who cares so much about their child that they don't care where the kid sits; one that will love their kid just the same even if he sits with the "other" parent at a thousand seventh-inning stretches.


The best parent is the one who can see that I'm not super excited about my game-winning shot to left-center. My dad approaches the field -- the first parent to see me after my big game -- and pulls a move that should be in every divorced parent's handbook.


"Awesome game, Andy, you kicked butt out there," he says with a smile. "Go say hi to your mother -- I'll be around if you wanna play catch before you go. If not, no problem, we'll play catch on Thursday."


Thanks, pops. Weight lifted.


My two cents...


Kudos dad!! This dad did what most 'good' parents (male or female) would do... however, if there was parent alienation going on... this dad would have risked being shut out of his son's life.. and the kid would have thought that dad didn't want to go to his games, or be a part of the child's life- because that would have been what the child would have been brainwashed into believing!


Sad huh?


Dominating, controlling, covert or overt abusive parents- open your eyes! Do you see what you're doing to your children?


Oh yeah, for a moment I had a brain fart... alienators don't give a rats ass about the kid[s] or anyone else it's all about them!


Young adult children, or adult children of abuse... maybe your absent parent was forced out of your life - by the dominating, controlling, selfish abusive parent and the equally abusive corrupt courts!


If you think you may have lost out on an absent parent's love because of the 'other' dominating, controlling, self centered, 'only worried about them self parent'... take a look at this web site and ask for a free session...

www.NoItsNotPersonal.com

Kudos to all the great parents out there... you know who you are!

Original article below

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-campbell/confessions-of-a-divorce-_3_b_1446808.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl29%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D154986