Federal Violence Against Women Act Faces Its Own Death or Resurrection in...
The federal Violence Against Women Act, in effect in the US since 1994, will expire this year if not reauthorized by Congress. The Act has passionate advocates … and fervent detractors. Although the...
View ArticleApril is Child Abuse Awareness Month
Across the nation this April, communities are promoting events to raise awareness of Child Abuse during Child Abuse Awareness Month. Awareness is the first step toward prevention. Child abuse is a...
View ArticleMan Under Restraining Order of Protection Threatens Woman’s Life If She...
A Utah Man with a domestic violence restraining order of protection against him figures out the perfect solution to his problem. All he needs is for the Woman who obtained the domestic violence...
View ArticleFlorida Gets Tough on Those Who Look the Other Way From Child Sexual Abuse
Following on the heels of the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, Florida has just passed the most potent legislation in the nation, called the Protection of Vulnerable Persons Act, designed to...
View ArticleSome People Think Dating / Marrying a Law Enforcement Officer is the Ultimate...
Danger can lurk in the most unlikely of places. Just ask Ex-Girlfriend. Her Ex-Boyfriend is a deputy with our own Palm Beach County, Florida Sheriff’s office. They didn’t go the distance. So, come...
View ArticleEx-Husband Arrested for Photographing Ex-Wife in Her Bedroom – Via...
Texas Husband and Wife have Children together. Husband and Wife divorce in 2003. Husband and Wife continue to co-parent their Children, conduct exchanges of the Children at their homes and remain on...
View ArticleFamily Court Allegedly Takes Children Into Child Protective Custody Because...
New Jersey Husband and Wife have four Children together. They are not getting a divorce when they were drawn into a family court case. They were happy and shared a similar mindset. They both joined in...
View ArticleOlder Girlfriend Charged With Manslaughter for Allegedly Hitting and Killing...
Boyfriend and Girlfriend have been dating for about a year. Boyfriend is seventeen and in high school. Girlfriend is twenty-five. Boyfriend allegedly abuses Girlfriend. Girlfriend has an iPhone. The...
View ArticlePassenger Secretly Films Public Transit Riders and Then Posts The Videos on...
New York City Woman rides subway. (But it could just as readily be a bus in any city.) Fellow Passenger admires Woman. Actually, he does a little bit more than that. Passenger carries his coffee cup...
View ArticleAttorney Charged with Murdering Girlfriend and Violating Domestic Violence...
Boyfriend and Girlfriend meet at a university sporting event. Their relationship evolves and they move in together. Fast forward. Girlfriend presses criminal assault and harassment charges against...
View ArticleDomestic Violence or Mercy Killing? Husband Shoots Wife of Forty-Five Years
Husband and Wife, both in their 60s, have been married for 45 years. Wife develops a life-threatening medical condition. Wife is being cared for in the intensive care unit of a hospital. Husband enters...
View ArticlePolice Officer Charged With Thirty Counts of Stalking a Woman He Dated On and...
Indiana Boyfriend and Girlfriend have on-again, off-again dating relationship over several years. Last year, however, something changes, at least with Boyfriend. While in a club, Boyfriend becomes...
View ArticlePoor Economy Hurts Kids … Severely
A recently published study finds a startlingly clear correlation between (suspected) child abuse, and mortgage delinquencies and home foreclosures across the US. From 2000 through 2009, (suspected)...
View ArticleCollege Student Obtains Stalking Restraining Order of Protection Against …...
Daughter is attending college in Ohio, roughly six hundred miles away from her Parents’ Kansas home. Apparently not far enough. Daughter contends that Parents are extremely controlling and...
View ArticleAn Unconventional Case of Child Abuse
Michigan Mother publicizes Son’s cancer to raise money. Only Son doesn’t really have cancer. Mother supports the illusion by shaving Son’s head … and drugging his food with powerful narcotic...
View ArticleNational Child Abuse Prevention Month Aims to Break the Cycle of Abuse and...
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. A good time to recall that “[y]ears of scientific studies have shown that research-based child abuse prevention programs can give struggling parents the...
View ArticleStalking: The New Domestic Violence … Dating Violence and … Repeat Violence
The domestic violence realm is increasingly occupied by perpetrators of stalking … by people who may be thought of as “serial stalkers”. Take, for instance, this New York Stalker. Back in 2008, Stalker...
View ArticleNationwide Protests Against Sexual Violence During April, Sexual Assault...
Earlier this month, students at Columbia University in New York City held a protest against sexual violence. Roughly 800 of them. They were participating in “Take Back the Night”, an annual event since...
View ArticleAllegedly Abused Child Deported By Canada Based on Ruling on Mother’s Hague...
Last October I posted about an unusual case in Mexican Mother Wins Return of Daughter Who Runs Away to Canadian Aunt Because of Alleged Abuse. Mother was awarded custody of Daughter in her parents’...
View ArticleThe Internet Levels the Playing Field: Now Women Are Almost As Likely as Men...
Statistically, women are far more likely to be victims of domestic violence, including stalking, than men are, and men are far more likely to be perpetrators of domestic violence than women are....
View ArticleCouple’s Spat Ends With Second and Third Degree Burns for Both and Criminal...
Thirty year old New York Girlfriend and fifty-nine year old Boyfriend are dating. Boyfriend and Girlfriend have a spat. So Girlfriend allegedly pours sulfuric acid on Boyfriend, also getting some on...
View ArticleHusband Allegedly Tries to Drive Wife to Her Death
California Husband and Wife have an argument. Husband wants to drive off in his van. Wife stands in front of the van to block Husband’s way. Husband drives forward anyway, forcing Wife onto the hood of...
View ArticleFormer Husband Allegedly Murders Ex-Wife, Her Divorce Attorney and Several...
Arizona Wife obtains domestic violence restraining order of protection against Husband. Wife divorces Husband, who is now seventy-three years old, in 2008. Husband and Wife’s divorce is reportedly...
View ArticleHusband and Wife Face Termination of Their Parental Rights for Chaining Their...
Texas Husband and Wife have two Sons, ages five and eight. Wife and one Son are members of the Cherokee Indian Nation. Husband and Wife allegedly chain their five year old Son to his crib-bed...
View ArticleDisorderly Conduct Charges Against Noted Geek Husband and Physician Wife,...
Connecticut Husband and Wife’s marriage is breaking up. Husband is a geek, I mean technology columnist for none other than the erudite New York Times and correspondent for CBS News. Wife was a plastic...
View ArticleBoyfriend Dies of Wounds Inflicted By … Running Into Knife Held by Girlfriend
Twenty-three year old Boyfriend and seventeen year old Girlfriend live together. Boyfriend has criminal record, including an arrest for resisting arrest. Girlfriend reportedly tells Boyfriend that she...
View ArticleJailed Boyfriend Allegedly Phones Girlfriend A Dozen Times After Being Served...
Louisiana Boyfriend is in jail after being arrested on home invasion charges. While in jail, Boyfriend is served with a temporary domestic violence restraining order of protection sought by Girlfriend....
View ArticleInsufficient Physical Evidence Hangs Jury Sitting in First Degree Case...
Florida Husband and Wife separate. Wife is now dating another man. Husband refuses to bow out gracefully, continuing to call Wife against her wishes. Months later, as Wife gets to her job at a medical...
View ArticleStepfather Allegedly Turns on Stepdaughter of Nine Years, Suddenly Beating...
StepDad of nine years and eighteen year old Daughter are arguing. StepDad becomes livid. StepDad allegedly hefts a boot and suddenly begins to beat Daughter with it. Over and over again. StepDad...
View ArticleMother Murders Baby … and Then Takes Body Shopping and Visiting Friends For...
Twenty year old Mother has three month old Baby. Mother is drinking at the home of a friend. Baby is crying and Mother can’t get him to stop. So Mother allegedly smothers Baby. The next morning Mother...
View ArticleHusband Files for Divorce; Wife Allegedly Hacks Off His Private Part
California Husband and Wife’s short marriage breaks down. Husband files for divorce. Wife does not take this well. Wife cooks Husband’s dinner and reportedly drugs it. Husband passes out. Wife...
View ArticleArizona Girl Suffocates for Taking a Popsicle Without Permission
Ten year old Arizona Child lives with her Aunt, her legal guardian, her two adult Cousins and her Grandmother. Child weighs just fifty-nine pounds. Child takes a popsicle without permission. When her...
View ArticleLast Year’s Domestic Violence in New York City Shoots Up Twelve Percent
New York City reports an alarming 12% spike in domestic violence cases last year. Domestic violence against wives, girlfriends and ex-partners climbed by an even more troubling 17%. Domestic violence...
View ArticleAuthorities React Swiftly and Aggressively to Alleged Cyberstalking of...
Forty-eight year old New York Man falls for twenty-eight year old Woman. Man allegedly e-mails Woman, texts her and posts on her Father’s Facebook page for work. All told, seven lovestruck...
View ArticleMother Alleged to Have Murdered Her Eight Year Old Son Defends It as...
Mother and Father have eight year old Son. Son is autistic. Mother is a multi-millionaire businesswoman who reportedly retired to care for Son. Mother takes Son to posh New York hotel. During their...
View ArticleFather Allegedly Decapitates His Disabled Seven Year Old Son
Louisiana Father and Mother have lived together for about ten years. The police have been summoned to their home on more than one occasion, and as recently as about a month ago. They have a seven year...
View ArticleMother Performs Do It Yourself Circumcision on Her Baby … With a Box-Cutter
Oregon Mother has three month old Baby. Mother reads the Old Testament and decides that she wants Baby to be circumcised. But Mother fears Baby is too old for a doctor to agree to perform the...
View ArticlePoliticians Compete for … Lack of Jurisdiction Over Misdemeanor Domestic...
County in Kansas suffers budget cuts, which in turn leads to budget cuts to County prosecutor’s office. As a result, the County prosecutor’s office proclaims that it will no longer prosecute municipal...
View ArticleParents Plead Guilty to Interference with Custody for Allegedly Abducting...
New York Husband and Wife have seven Children together. One of their Children reportedly arrives at school with one eye bloodshot. This apparently precipitates a report of alleged child abuse to New...
View ArticleFlorida Mother-in-Law Allegedly Shoots Son-in-Law When He Comes to Pick Son...
Florida Husband and Wife are divorcing. Not amicably. They have one Son, who is three years old. They are reportedly battling over custody and timesharing. Husband arrives at Grandmother’s house to...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Charge “Reduced” to Dinner and Bowling
Husband allegedly pushes Wife onto couch. And places his hands on her throat. Husband also allegedly pulls his hand back aiming to deliver a blow … but doesn’t. Husband is arrested on a misdemeanor...
View ArticleStalking Is Now As Easy as Turn Slight Left and Continue Straight On …
Technology generally benefits society. But, unfortunately, new technology has equipped domestic abusers and stalkers with an extremely powerful tool … GPS devices. Before the ubiquity of the GPS, a...
View ArticleIf You Think Your Divorce Case or Child Custody Case is Rough, Consider This …
Just about everyone thinks their divorce case or child custody case is an unpleasant experience to go through. And, truthfully, no matter how hard we attorneys work to insulate our clients and their...
View ArticleThe Violence Against Women Act Is a Casualty of the Fiscal Cliff
Amidst all the issues being hotly debated down to the wire in and around our federal legislaturate at last year’s end, one that was overshadowed was the looming expiration of the Violence Against Women...
View ArticleIf You Are Disabled, You Are Not Shut Out: The Domestic Violence Courts and...
People who are disabled often feel that they have inadequate access to the family courts and divorce legal system, as well as the domestic violence court system. Leaving them feeling vulnerable and...
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