The Worst Offender

It is in my opinion that this woman made a mockery of our humanity and civic laws as she was sentenced to a possible maximum of four years and eight months and will probably serve half that time in prison.  Also, I consider this case a violation of natural, universal and man made law and should have received a harsher punishment for her actions against her own biological child.

Details of the Napa Valley, California case can be read at the following:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/mistie-atkinson-incest-pleads-no-contest-california_n_1533908.html

In lew of the presidential elections process, something keeps having me think of Rick Santorum.  I don't know why but I thought he produced a list of Republican sex offenders once but I cannot find any trace of it anymore.  I may have got the name wrong.  However, with the hard work of other WWWers I found two lists, one for Republicans and the other Democrats of offenders, particularly ones who have victimized children.

For the Republican list is long but from a credible source:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1709387

For the Democrats the list is old as found on The Political Graveyard site, adjacent to the Rumormillnews:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/noframes/read/151648

Regardless of who's political side your on, the innnocent should be defended.

Republican or Democrat or neither, would you allow it in home or on the street?

Children And Psychiatric Medications

It is a shame when animals start to eat their own and while the field of psychiatry is often revered as a healthy entity, the truth of the matter is that it a for profit industry capitalizing on the vulnerable and now the young.  Here is a video done by the Citizen Commission on Human Rights International.  It a non profit mental health watchdog group and activists who are informed and accurate with concerns of the mental health institutions.  If in doubt of psychiatric care, please look over their site.  Despite the fact that the organization was founded by Church of Scientology, who are most popularly known from Tom Cruise's attack on Brooke Shield's use of psych meds, the message is debatable.  However, the quick fix is not to shove medications into child to pacify their behaviors, mental abilities or comprehension.  Each child should be looked at independent of doctors opinions, each should have a choice and voice on what they want and while adults in their lives need to explore other methods of coping, understanding and readjusting to their young.   

This video concerns labels children acquire and how mental health is eager to consider them/program them for a life filled with medication.

• "If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." ~ C.G. Jung Integration of the Personality 1939
• "We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."  ~ Stacia Tauscher
• "A child is a curly dimpled lunatic."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."  ~ Frederick Douglass
• "Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare." ~ Ed Asner

Pentagon Employees Purchased Child Pornography

According to CNET, NSA contractors and other Pentagon officials have been recognized as purchasing and downloading child pornography over the internet.  A newspaper article from the Boston Globe have reported the alleged criminal behaviors of those with high-level security clearance working for government agencies such as National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  An undisclosed number of people who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to Polisite.com.    


The investigation was conducted designated as Operation Flicker.  The story is currently being reported by CNN and Foxnews.  Ironically, ICE (Immigration and Customs) had been investigating who had paid money over the internet to access child pornograpy and the sweep collected information on 5,000 people in 60 sting operations and involving 18 child porn sites in the Foxnews.com article. Several dozen worked for the Pentagon intelligence services. 


Sadly, according to reports the ICE division had given their reports to officials in 2006.  While just a few days ago, reports of an ex-Pentagon official receiving the maximum sentence for child pornography.  Military.com reports that reserve officer, Scottie Lee Martinez, 38 was given 80 years by Judge Jerome B. Friedman.  Martinez had plead guilty to producing child pornography and abusive sexual misconduct with a minor.  

• Martinez admitted that in 2009 he produced sexually explicit images of two minors, ages 5 and 11. He also admitted that he molested a child, who was between 7 and 9, at Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland, between 2001 and 2004.
• Martinez's crimes came to light when an Air Force officer discovered child pornography on a computer network at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, and it was traced to Martinez's computer. Martinez had been stationed in Norfolk before leaving for Qatar.
• At the time of his arrest, Martinez was a Navy Reserve lieutenant commander serving as a senior intelligence officer with the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions.

More on the full story:

http://corruptauthority.com/federal-government-pentagon-drops-the-ball-on-investigating-employees-downloading-child-porn-despite-security-risk/

Justice Prevails Against Perversion

In due respect to the person, Jackie Zudis who came forth to disclose the abuse of her captive, George Joseph England of California and Florida, the Federal government has intervened on a case that was unable of prosecution for the expiration of the statute of limitations in a child sexual abuse case stemming from the 1974.  A man bought a five year old Vietnamese girl from her mother, brought her to California, sexually abused her, impregnated her multiple times, abused her friends and performed acts of bestiality on them, stole the identity of a dead 11 month infant, fled to Florida and served 14 months in federal prison for passport fraud is now to be convicted to a sentence of possibly 30 years for transporting a child from Asia to California and Florida with intent for a minor to engage in sexual acts.  Here's a bullet list from the Examiner.com:

• 1972 England bought a Vietnamese five-year old girl, Jackie Zudis (Thi My Lan Nguyen), from her mother and subsequently brought her to California
• 1972-1986 England nearly daily sexually abused Zudis, her friends, and several other young girls
  • Sex acts included forced bestiality on Zudis, repeated rapings of the girls, spying on the girls through a hole drilled in the bathroom wall
  • Zudis was impregnated 8 or 9 times, the first by the time she was 13.  That baby was given up for adoption, but she was coerced to abort the rest.
• 1977  England was convicted in California of molesting three of Zudis' friends 
• 1977 England fled the state prior to sentencing and settled shortly after in West Palm Beach, Florida.
  • He stole the identity of Stephen Arthur Seagoe, a baby born the year after England who died at 11 months
  • He took Zudis with him and continued to rape and molest her for another 9 years
• 1981 Zudis was pregnant at age 13.  It was too late for an abortion, but a social worker investigated the case.  England lied that the girl had gotten pregnant at a party.
• 1986  Zudis, now 18, threatened suicide if the molestations didn't cease. She had already attempted to take her life several times. Three years later, she married, was later divorced, then remarried and divorced again.
• 1995  Zudis cut off all relations with England
• April 2005  Zudis went to the FBI with her story and England's alias.
  • The warrant on England was updated with the false name
• May 2005  England was arrested on two counts of passport fraud to which he pleaded guilty
  • He served 14 months in federal custody
• June 2006 England was taken to Orange County, CA to be sentenced for the child molestation counts
  • In addition to the three girls already identified as victims, prosecutors brought up the continuous abuse of Zudis for many years,victimizing and grooming more than a dozen other girls, including a 10 and 6-year old who were photographed nude and molested over 50 times each in three months.
  • Zudis had witnessed England performing oral penetration of a six month old whom he was babysitting
  • England possessed over 60 graphic child porn films on his computer at the time of his arrest.
• September 2006  England was sentenced to only 3 years in prison with early parole rights based on California's lenient law from 1977
  • Zudis was not able to charge him with the sexual molestation crimes against herself, since the statute of limitations on these offenses had run out
• September 2006  England appealed his case, stating that he was a deranged sex offender needing psychological counseling
• November 2007 The appellate court upheld the convictions and ordered England to complete his sentence
• December 2009  England came up for parole and was released in March 2010
• March 2010  The day before his parole, England was served with additional charges of transporting Zudis as a minor across state lines for sexual activity
• January 5, 2010 England was convicted in Florida of five federal counts of transporting a minor across state lines for sexual activity

It took the federal jury an hour to find the defendant guilty of five federal counts, who will be sentenced in March, 2011 according to Palm Beach Post.

Here is the Federal Bureau of Investigation Miami press release on the case.

http://miami.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/mm010611a.htm

Federal Report Shows Drop In Child Abuse

In recent years, the decline of child sexual abuse has been dramatically down since the 1990's.  In the much publicized media of priest molestations and the ramifications of prosecution and civil suits, the obvious message is that it will not be tolerated by society.  The campaign against child abuse has been strong since emergence of horror stories of maltreatments.  In Netfamily.org, they attribute the statistics of 58% decline on child sexual abuse since 1992 to 2008.  Statistics are relatively the same for child neglect as the highest form of child abuse at 78% for the newest findings reported by the federal report.  The Washington Post reflects on David Finkelhor's suggestion that the decline might be attributed to cuts in spending for investigations.

POV

If neglect is the higher rate for child abuse, the systematic neglect of our nation's monetary state might increase these statistics as many parents are overburdened with the prospects of just putting food on their plates.  Many parents work two jobs, struggle at the grocery stores, have bills collecting and no relief in sight.  If a parent is ill equipped than the child generally suffers.  It may be an emerging trend and in my opinion many are not truthful about their own economic positions in life, perhaps living beyond their means but will the children suffer for this generations compulsions of reckless spending, from government to households.

An Era of Change

Elizabeth Smart's father, Ed had told Matt Lauer that she wants to be a voice for other victims and will pursue law school in hopes of being a prosecutor.  Shortly after the verdict was read in the trial against Brian David Mitchell, she said, "she was proof that there is life after a painful past."  With the support of her family, Elizabeth Smart has made the shift from victim to survivor.  The crime that occurred with the abduction of Elizabeth from her bedroom is rare in contrast to the numbers of children victimized by most child abusers.  As newer statistics show that about 90 % of child victims knew their perpetrators in some form or fashion.  Therefore, the other 10 percent is often the concept of random crimes and often confused with the regular violence against children.

Some child abductions have become parental custody issues, which complicates the legal proceedings for many victims of child sexual abuse as confusion in the system occurs.  Parents abusing their children with manipulation is often the undercurrent of those kids who are suffering from family sexual abuse.  National statistics have shown that CSA has declined over the years since the onset of awareness during the Eighties.  According to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (ncjrs.gov), estimate a 40% decline since 1992 to 2000 in the article written by David Finkelhor and Lisa M. Jones.  Leaders on Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention have helped and made small strides to a now commonly known epidemic.  The researchers of the last few decades have become extremely knowledgeable and more or less have let child victims arise from the battle fields.

An article from Connectwithkids.com addresses stranger abductions.  For those who want to learn about instincts in criminal confrontations, The Gift of Fear by leading securities expert, Gavin de Becker is another great resource.  Statistical information and support can also be found at The National Center for Victims of Crime website.  The first and foremost, healing must come from family or families of choice in support, for harmful secrets must come to light.  Elizabeth Smart's tribulations have been an inspiration for many others to see that truth and justice can prevail.