Back in April of this year there was an article titled Female Sex Killers: The Devious Predators that I wanted to talk about briefly. With the Cantu case going on it has hopefully attracted enough attention that people will slowly begin to understand that female offenders are not as rare as once thought. Now if you say women who kidnap, rape and kill young children are rare that would be correct. If you change the words and say women who sexually abuse children you will find it much more common. The article stated:
"Though rare, such predators are more common than the general public knows," Dr. Schurman-Kauflin told Investigation Discovery. "Why? In most instances, when a female rapes and kills a victim, the act is done in conjunction with a male partner. As such, when caught, the females play innocent and blame the male. This strategy has proven highly effective over the years because people are hesitant to believe that a woman could rape and murder. But it does happen, and sometimes, the female will act alone."
With the Garrido case also making headlines now and apparently law enforcement is charging both of them I expect we will see if this happens in that case also.
Of the many interviews that she has conducted, Dr. Schurman-Kauflin said that the only offender who ever made her feel uncomfortable was a female sex killer who bragged about the pleasure she felt whenever she drew blood with a knife. That same offender also told Dr. Schurman-Kauflin that given the opportunity, she would kill again.
"These offenders are a unique breed in that they have a real taste for hurting helpless victims," Dr. Schurman-Kauflin said. "They enjoy the feeling they get when using objects to rape. In fact, female rape killers will often use jagged instruments when they attack. These women are especially brutal with female victims, and will almost always mutilate the genitalia. Such women have told me that they chose to hurt their victims so viciously because it turned them on. Like their male counterparts, it was sexually exciting."
This again shows that violence and sexual assaults are a human issue rather than a gender specific issue.
According to Dr. Schurman-Kauflin, it is the gender of these "super predators" that allows them access to almost any type of victim.
"To capture their prey, these women use a rouse to trick their victims who are always smaller in size," Dr. Schurman-Kauflin said. "They use their gender as a cover for their evil intentions because most people find it hard to believe that the fairer sex could rape and kill a child. However, children are not their only victims. Such offenders have been known to target adults since everyone is less wary of a woman."
This is also true of female offenders who do not kill. How many people are wary of a female babysitter for example?
According to Dr. Schurman-Kauflin, the female predator will go to emotional extremes when they are caught and will do anything from attempting to seduce an investigator, to acting out in an almost psychotic way. While they will be more receptive when talking to other female killers, they will lie and give self-serving confessions.
"They will be flamboyant and spin tales of their own horrific abuse in order to garner sympathy," Dr. Schurman-Kauflin said. "However, make no mistake, such women are devious and know exactly what they are doing. They use the rarity of their crimes to hide the truth of what lies beneath their façades. These types of crimes are actually becoming more common, so parents must become educated about this newer predator that is stalking their children. As awareness grows, expect to see the discovery of more of these types of crimes. When society realizes what has been hiding in its midst, an innocence will be lost, but protection will be gained." (emphasis mine) - Read the entire article here
The term psychopathy comes to mind. The above also applies to other types of female offenders in some cases.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Female Sexual Predators
I wanted to post a few excerpts from a recent article that ran in the Independent and comment on them. The article is titled "Women are ruthless sexual predators too".
MARTIN'S* mother began sexually abusing him by showing him "where babies come from". When he was seven she tied him up to the electrics, tortured him and told him he was going to die.
From the age of five to 13 he was the subject of horrific abuse and beatings. When he reached puberty, the abuse stopped. Shortly after, he became embroiled in crime and has spent most of his life in and out of prison. This is the story Irishman Martin, now 35, told the UK support group, Survivors Swindon, for the first time.
As I have previously posted this sexual abuse of prepubescent children by a female offender seems to be much more common than many may think. Previously I posted some results from a study that was titled "The Long-Term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse by Female Perpetrators: A Qualitative Study of Male and Female Victims" and one of those results stated:
The average age of onset of the female sexual abuse was age 5 and ended, on average, at age 12, with the average duration being 6 years.
And Martin's case seems to fit that as well.
Steve Bevan, founder of Survivors Swindon, says: "Women commit sexual crime, from inappropriate touching to sadistic torture and rape. That is a fact."
Sadly it is a fact that is often denied or minimized by some, which causes even further harm.
Dr Bunting, author of Females Who Sexually Offend Against Children says, "There is no safe gender, just offenders. Female sexual offenders are just as capable of perpetrating terrible, evil and sordid acts as men are."
This message needs to be spoken more often.
Robert Shoop, a law professor at Kansas State University and author of Sexual Exploitation in Schools, says: "Society doesn't view a boy having sex with an adult female as rape, although legally it is. Our society doesn't see it as a child being harmed. The idea that society has historically said that women are to be protected from sex, but boys are supposed to enjoy it and look for the opportunity, I think is wrong-headed and is a vestige of our past inequalities."
He is correct and it is one reason, though not the only one, why people both male and female who have been abused by a female do not come forward.
The problem, she said, is that female offenders do not see themselves as the "monsters in the media". She is very concerned about the lack of measured awareness among the public and the implications this has for victims of female sexual abuse. One victim who was sexually abused by a female told Hilary: "No women sexually abuse. I think I must be crazy."
And this is another one of the reasons why victims of female abusers do not come forward. And to make it worse when they do come forward they are often disbelieved. Another female researcher/clinician has stated something similar to this (and is quoted on the front page of this site) when she stated "And female sex offenders use more intrusive levels of sexual behaviors than men. They are more likely than men to abuse strangers. And they are less likely than men to acknowledge guilt or to feel sorry or guilty, Strickland said."
Dr Lisa Bunting of the NSPCC says acceptance is the first step: "It may be uncomfortable to think that women with traditionally more nurturing and caring roles may commit child abuse, yet it is clear from my research that we all need to be alert and aware that child sex abuse is not just committed by men."
It is a long slow first step for many to take but hopefully more and more people will take it.
Cultural historian Professor Joanna Bourke is writing a book which investigates why the female sexual perpetrator's voice has been muffled "under the deafening patois about the male perpetrator". The female rapist falls out of history, she says, despite the role she has played in inflicting sexual suffering, but her sexual abuses are often not labelled as such. The female abuser is seen as a man.
Her book explores how women are being placed outside the symbolic order; the brutal female is as much a reality as the male and the scars they leave are forged deeper in the face of disbelief. - Read the entire article here
MARTIN'S* mother began sexually abusing him by showing him "where babies come from". When he was seven she tied him up to the electrics, tortured him and told him he was going to die.
From the age of five to 13 he was the subject of horrific abuse and beatings. When he reached puberty, the abuse stopped. Shortly after, he became embroiled in crime and has spent most of his life in and out of prison. This is the story Irishman Martin, now 35, told the UK support group, Survivors Swindon, for the first time.
As I have previously posted this sexual abuse of prepubescent children by a female offender seems to be much more common than many may think. Previously I posted some results from a study that was titled "The Long-Term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse by Female Perpetrators: A Qualitative Study of Male and Female Victims" and one of those results stated:
The average age of onset of the female sexual abuse was age 5 and ended, on average, at age 12, with the average duration being 6 years.
And Martin's case seems to fit that as well.
Steve Bevan, founder of Survivors Swindon, says: "Women commit sexual crime, from inappropriate touching to sadistic torture and rape. That is a fact."
Sadly it is a fact that is often denied or minimized by some, which causes even further harm.
Dr Bunting, author of Females Who Sexually Offend Against Children says, "There is no safe gender, just offenders. Female sexual offenders are just as capable of perpetrating terrible, evil and sordid acts as men are."
This message needs to be spoken more often.
Robert Shoop, a law professor at Kansas State University and author of Sexual Exploitation in Schools, says: "Society doesn't view a boy having sex with an adult female as rape, although legally it is. Our society doesn't see it as a child being harmed. The idea that society has historically said that women are to be protected from sex, but boys are supposed to enjoy it and look for the opportunity, I think is wrong-headed and is a vestige of our past inequalities."
He is correct and it is one reason, though not the only one, why people both male and female who have been abused by a female do not come forward.
The problem, she said, is that female offenders do not see themselves as the "monsters in the media". She is very concerned about the lack of measured awareness among the public and the implications this has for victims of female sexual abuse. One victim who was sexually abused by a female told Hilary: "No women sexually abuse. I think I must be crazy."
And this is another one of the reasons why victims of female abusers do not come forward. And to make it worse when they do come forward they are often disbelieved. Another female researcher/clinician has stated something similar to this (and is quoted on the front page of this site) when she stated "And female sex offenders use more intrusive levels of sexual behaviors than men. They are more likely than men to abuse strangers. And they are less likely than men to acknowledge guilt or to feel sorry or guilty, Strickland said."
Dr Lisa Bunting of the NSPCC says acceptance is the first step: "It may be uncomfortable to think that women with traditionally more nurturing and caring roles may commit child abuse, yet it is clear from my research that we all need to be alert and aware that child sex abuse is not just committed by men."
It is a long slow first step for many to take but hopefully more and more people will take it.
Cultural historian Professor Joanna Bourke is writing a book which investigates why the female sexual perpetrator's voice has been muffled "under the deafening patois about the male perpetrator". The female rapist falls out of history, she says, despite the role she has played in inflicting sexual suffering, but her sexual abuses are often not labelled as such. The female abuser is seen as a man.
Her book explores how women are being placed outside the symbolic order; the brutal female is as much a reality as the male and the scars they leave are forged deeper in the face of disbelief. - Read the entire article here
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Female Killer
Here is another terrible case that demonstrates that humans are capable of being cruel and sadistic regardless of their gender:
Angela Simpson, 33, told FOX affiliate KSAZ from prison that she murdered Terry Neely because he was a snitch. The victim, Terry Neely age 46, was wheel chair bound.
Allegedly Simpson told the interviewer that she had lured the victim to her apartment by promising him sex and drugs and when he arrived she imprisoned and tortured him for over 3 days. Simpson allegedly beat the victim with a tire iron, pulled out some of his teeth, and strangled him. Add to all that she dismembered his body, dumped it in a trash container outside of a church and set it on fire. The autopsy showed that a 3 inch long nail had been hammered into the victims head as well.
Even worse Simpson is alleged to have told the reporter that she has no remorse for her actions that she enjoyed killing the victim. - Read the entire article here
You can view the uncut interview of her at http://www.azfamily.com/video/localnews-index.html?nvid=391054&shu=1
Angela Simpson, 33, told FOX affiliate KSAZ from prison that she murdered Terry Neely because he was a snitch. The victim, Terry Neely age 46, was wheel chair bound.
Allegedly Simpson told the interviewer that she had lured the victim to her apartment by promising him sex and drugs and when he arrived she imprisoned and tortured him for over 3 days. Simpson allegedly beat the victim with a tire iron, pulled out some of his teeth, and strangled him. Add to all that she dismembered his body, dumped it in a trash container outside of a church and set it on fire. The autopsy showed that a 3 inch long nail had been hammered into the victims head as well.
Even worse Simpson is alleged to have told the reporter that she has no remorse for her actions that she enjoyed killing the victim. - Read the entire article here
You can view the uncut interview of her at http://www.azfamily.com/video/localnews-index.html?nvid=391054&shu=1
Friday, September 18, 2009
Abusive Mother sentenced
I wanted to post this story about a mother who was sentenced to 99 years for slicing off the penis and genitals of her 5 week old baby. Apparently the mother tried to blame it on the dog and her lawyers requested probation for her. Here are a few excerpts:
TX - A Houston mother was sentenced to 99 years in prison on Monday for severing her infant son's genitals in a 2007 attack she blamed on the family dog.
Harris County jurors deliberated about two hours on Monday before sentencing Katherine “Katie” Nadal, a former Anahuac cheerleader, the maximum allowed for the charge of serious bodily injury to a child. Nadal, 28, was also fined $10,000. She will have to serve 30 years before becoming eligible for parole.
Prosecutors had asked jurors to sentence Nadal to life in prison. Her lawyers asked for probation.
Assistant District Attorney Tammy Thomas gave her closing arguments with a picture of the child, smiling for the camera, displayed on the courtroom's big-screen television. Doctors testified the boy will need many more surgeries and hormone treatment for the rest of his life. - Read the entire article here
TX - A Houston mother was sentenced to 99 years in prison on Monday for severing her infant son's genitals in a 2007 attack she blamed on the family dog.
Harris County jurors deliberated about two hours on Monday before sentencing Katherine “Katie” Nadal, a former Anahuac cheerleader, the maximum allowed for the charge of serious bodily injury to a child. Nadal, 28, was also fined $10,000. She will have to serve 30 years before becoming eligible for parole.
Prosecutors had asked jurors to sentence Nadal to life in prison. Her lawyers asked for probation.
Assistant District Attorney Tammy Thomas gave her closing arguments with a picture of the child, smiling for the camera, displayed on the courtroom's big-screen television. Doctors testified the boy will need many more surgeries and hormone treatment for the rest of his life. - Read the entire article here
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Violent female perpetrator study
I wanted to post the abstract of another interesting study that was done on female perpetrators and their victims. You can find the entire study HERE.
The violent female perpetrator and her victim
Ghitta Weizmann-Heneliusab, Vappu Viemeröb, Markku Eronenac
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between violent female offenders and their victims as well as the putative differences in the motives and specific psychological factors among three groups of female offenders: women who have victimised someone closely related to them, those who have victimised an acquaintance and lastly women who have victimised a stranger. More than half (N=61) of all violent female offenders hospitalised or incarcerated in Finland during the year of study were interviewed and assessed by Structured Clinical Interview II for DSM-IV (SCID-II) and Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). In 34% of the cases the victims were persons close to the offender, in 41% the victims were acquaintances and in 25% strangers. The victims in homicide offences were more often both male and closer to the perpetrator than in assault offences. Although motives were related to interpersonal problems, self-defence and long-term physical or psychological abuse were reported by only a few women, even for the small proportion of women whose victims were intimate partners. The most frequent reason for offences stemmed from confrontational situations in connection with alcohol use. Women who victimised acquaintances and strangers were also more likely to have a history of criminality and substance abuse than women who victimised those in close personal relationships. The latter were also more likely to have an antisocial personality disorder (PD) and psychopathic characteristics. There were, however, no significant differences found between those who had experienced physical or psychological abuse in childhood or adulthood and those who had no adverse experiences. These findings suggest that the violent behaviour by females leads more often to the death of the victim, when the victim is closely related to the perpetrator. The commonly-held view that violent female offending occurs primarily as a consequence of precipitation by the victim was not supported.
The violent female perpetrator and her victim
Ghitta Weizmann-Heneliusab, Vappu Viemeröb, Markku Eronenac
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between violent female offenders and their victims as well as the putative differences in the motives and specific psychological factors among three groups of female offenders: women who have victimised someone closely related to them, those who have victimised an acquaintance and lastly women who have victimised a stranger. More than half (N=61) of all violent female offenders hospitalised or incarcerated in Finland during the year of study were interviewed and assessed by Structured Clinical Interview II for DSM-IV (SCID-II) and Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). In 34% of the cases the victims were persons close to the offender, in 41% the victims were acquaintances and in 25% strangers. The victims in homicide offences were more often both male and closer to the perpetrator than in assault offences. Although motives were related to interpersonal problems, self-defence and long-term physical or psychological abuse were reported by only a few women, even for the small proportion of women whose victims were intimate partners. The most frequent reason for offences stemmed from confrontational situations in connection with alcohol use. Women who victimised acquaintances and strangers were also more likely to have a history of criminality and substance abuse than women who victimised those in close personal relationships. The latter were also more likely to have an antisocial personality disorder (PD) and psychopathic characteristics. There were, however, no significant differences found between those who had experienced physical or psychological abuse in childhood or adulthood and those who had no adverse experiences. These findings suggest that the violent behaviour by females leads more often to the death of the victim, when the victim is closely related to the perpetrator. The commonly-held view that violent female offending occurs primarily as a consequence of precipitation by the victim was not supported.
Friday, September 11, 2009
30 day sentence for sexual assault
This article shows that even a female offender at the age of 54 can sexually assault a 15 year old boy and allegedly drug his girlfriend so she could do so:
Her family watched as the 54-year-old Beaverton woman who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor third-degree sex abuse in a Clatsop County Courtroom last week was sentenced Tuesday.
Sue Ann Close occasionally looked back at her family as Clatsop County Circuit Court Judge Philip Nelson sentenced her to 30 days in jail and two years of probation. She will be required to register as a sex offender, be given credit for time served and will be allowed to use alternative sanctions - like wearing an electronic ankle monitor or working on a work crew - for the remainder of her sentence. She was assessed more than $500 in fines and fees, and ordered to pay $5,000 as a compensatory fine for the victim. Close was ordered to have no contact with the victim.
Clatsop County Senior Deputy District Attorney Dawn Buzzard said Close had sex with a 15-year-old boy while visiting Seaside during Spring Break 2008.
"This woman did not only take the trust of others from me, she took my sense of safety," said the victim, who with his father participated in the sentencing hearing by telephone.
Buzzard said Close gave the boy's girlfriend sleeping pills so she wouldn't be aware of what she intended to do, then she had sex with the boy. Close contended that she only kissed the victim passionately to satisfy her sexual feelings. She said she'd made a mistake and had only comforted the victim in her bed, Buzzard said.
During the hearing, the victim said he was only a 15-year-old boy. He was so scared he locked himself in a bathroom and called his father, but he was too scared to tell him what had happened.
Before leaving Seaside, Close suggested the three cut their hands and make a "blood pact" not to tell anyone what had happened - although all the while, the boy's girlfriend was unaware of what the pact was about.
Buzzard said that afterward Close threatened suicide and her husband made a 9-1-1 call and said she had a knife.
Close's voice broke as she apologized to the boy and his family. She said she made poor decisions.
"They were the wrong decisions," she said. "I will never be able to tell anybody how sorry I am - but I am." - Read the entire article here
Her family watched as the 54-year-old Beaverton woman who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor third-degree sex abuse in a Clatsop County Courtroom last week was sentenced Tuesday.
Sue Ann Close occasionally looked back at her family as Clatsop County Circuit Court Judge Philip Nelson sentenced her to 30 days in jail and two years of probation. She will be required to register as a sex offender, be given credit for time served and will be allowed to use alternative sanctions - like wearing an electronic ankle monitor or working on a work crew - for the remainder of her sentence. She was assessed more than $500 in fines and fees, and ordered to pay $5,000 as a compensatory fine for the victim. Close was ordered to have no contact with the victim.
Clatsop County Senior Deputy District Attorney Dawn Buzzard said Close had sex with a 15-year-old boy while visiting Seaside during Spring Break 2008.
"This woman did not only take the trust of others from me, she took my sense of safety," said the victim, who with his father participated in the sentencing hearing by telephone.
Buzzard said Close gave the boy's girlfriend sleeping pills so she wouldn't be aware of what she intended to do, then she had sex with the boy. Close contended that she only kissed the victim passionately to satisfy her sexual feelings. She said she'd made a mistake and had only comforted the victim in her bed, Buzzard said.
During the hearing, the victim said he was only a 15-year-old boy. He was so scared he locked himself in a bathroom and called his father, but he was too scared to tell him what had happened.
Before leaving Seaside, Close suggested the three cut their hands and make a "blood pact" not to tell anyone what had happened - although all the while, the boy's girlfriend was unaware of what the pact was about.
Buzzard said that afterward Close threatened suicide and her husband made a 9-1-1 call and said she had a knife.
Close's voice broke as she apologized to the boy and his family. She said she made poor decisions.
"They were the wrong decisions," she said. "I will never be able to tell anybody how sorry I am - but I am." - Read the entire article here
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Teacher rapes student
This story pretty much speaks for itself. Probation for a "rape" conviction seems to me to be an awful light sentence:
NY - A Queens public school teacher pleaded guilty to second-degree rape charges Tuesday for having sex with a 14-year-old student.
Melissa Weber, 28, was sentenced to time served, 10 years probation and has to register as a sex offender for the next 20 years.
The social studies teacher had sex with the male student seven times in an empty second-floor classroom at Middle School/Intermediate School 8 in Jamaica between April 13 and May14. - Read the entire article here
NY - A Queens public school teacher pleaded guilty to second-degree rape charges Tuesday for having sex with a 14-year-old student.
Melissa Weber, 28, was sentenced to time served, 10 years probation and has to register as a sex offender for the next 20 years.
The social studies teacher had sex with the male student seven times in an empty second-floor classroom at Middle School/Intermediate School 8 in Jamaica between April 13 and May14. - Read the entire article here
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Domestic Violence Article
I wanted to post part of a recent article written by Linda G. Mills, J.D., M.S.W., Ph.D. I think it is wonderful to see these kind of posts begin to appear in the popular culture publications. I also want to applaud her for stepping up and showing character by posting the article when it is bound to draw some heavy criticism of her. The article is titled:
Everything You Need to Know About Domestic Violence But Were Afraid to Ask
As feminists, we have been taught to defend women, regardless of what they do, to be understanding of the reasons they act the way they do, and to get women help when they need it. We are taught to judge the men who hurt them harshly. Indeed, to shun them. We are also quick to reject those who do not conform to a "feminist mindset." All of these impulses are laudable, and as a feminist, I often agree with them. Sisterhood teaches us that women (and the few good men who adhere to our beliefs) should stick together because in a world of male power, we will always get the short end of the stick.
The problem with this one - dimensional thinking is that gender dynamics are no longer so black and white. The large majority of women aren't housewives at men's beck and call and men are no longer the sole breadwinners. Much has changed since the 1960's and the birth of feminism.
Prepare yourself for these recent research findings:
Many feminist scholars and policy makers have asserted that when approaching domestic violence, these now well-established research findings should be overlooked, repressed, or disbelieved. Perhaps even more disturbing is the public's ignorance of the changing and more nuanced reality of domestic violence.
The fact that she knows this and went ahead and posted her piece anyway speaks, to me anyway, volumes about her character. People should be concerned with the truth and only the truth even if that truth may not be pleasant or agree with ones beliefs.
After 20 years as a scholar and an advocate in the field, and having survived a violent relationship myself, my own observation is that as feminists we have been too slow to understand this problem fully and to address both partners in a humane and holistic way. We have missed an important opportunity to be helpful to women - and men - and it is time we correct this injustice. - Read the entire article here
Bravo Dr. Mills and thank you for writing that piece. Hopefully more and more people and professionals will come around.
Everything You Need to Know About Domestic Violence But Were Afraid to Ask
As feminists, we have been taught to defend women, regardless of what they do, to be understanding of the reasons they act the way they do, and to get women help when they need it. We are taught to judge the men who hurt them harshly. Indeed, to shun them. We are also quick to reject those who do not conform to a "feminist mindset." All of these impulses are laudable, and as a feminist, I often agree with them. Sisterhood teaches us that women (and the few good men who adhere to our beliefs) should stick together because in a world of male power, we will always get the short end of the stick.
The problem with this one - dimensional thinking is that gender dynamics are no longer so black and white. The large majority of women aren't housewives at men's beck and call and men are no longer the sole breadwinners. Much has changed since the 1960's and the birth of feminism.
Prepare yourself for these recent research findings:
- Given the chance to escape their abusers, many women - at least one study reports 50 percent - return to their abusers after a shelter stay
- Men and women abuse each other at similar rates, although men's injuries are often less serious and they are much more reticent to report them.
- Women frequently strike out at their partners, and not simply in self-defense; in 24% of violent American marriages, the woman is the only abuser.
- Studies of dating violence reveal a disturbing trend about girls' relationship violence: When only one partner is violent, it is more likely - some studies have shown twice as likely - to be the female partner.
- The popular conception of domestic violence in which the female victim lives in terror of her controlling abuser only represents a small fraction of American couples struggling with violence today.
- Violent partners often learn these patterns of relating in childhood from their mothers, fathers and siblings - in time, these experiences influence young people to become the next generation's victims and abusers.*
Many feminist scholars and policy makers have asserted that when approaching domestic violence, these now well-established research findings should be overlooked, repressed, or disbelieved. Perhaps even more disturbing is the public's ignorance of the changing and more nuanced reality of domestic violence.
The fact that she knows this and went ahead and posted her piece anyway speaks, to me anyway, volumes about her character. People should be concerned with the truth and only the truth even if that truth may not be pleasant or agree with ones beliefs.
After 20 years as a scholar and an advocate in the field, and having survived a violent relationship myself, my own observation is that as feminists we have been too slow to understand this problem fully and to address both partners in a humane and holistic way. We have missed an important opportunity to be helpful to women - and men - and it is time we correct this injustice. - Read the entire article here
Bravo Dr. Mills and thank you for writing that piece. Hopefully more and more people and professionals will come around.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Abusive Mother
This is another case in which just plain cruelty and torture are involved. She broke his leg and left him without medical attention for two days. As someone who has had broken legs in the past I know how painful they can be and to have them for two days with no help? And admitting that she has tortured him in various different ways since he could walk calls for more than a 9 year sentence I would think:
IL - An Aurora woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison for breaking her 3-year-old son's leg in a fit of rage, officials said Thursday.
Estela Ramirez-Placido, 24, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery to a child and domestic abuse in June and was sentenced by Kane County Associate Judge T. Jordan Gallagher.
Prosecutors said the abuse happened April 23, 2007, when Ramirez-Placido became "enraged" at the toddler for soiling his pants.
After cleaning the boy, Ramirez-Placido began to hit him. When he fought back, she held him against a wall by the neck and punched him in the stomach until he fell to the floor. According to the charges, she then knelt next to the child and twisted his leg until it snapped.
The boy went without medical attention for two days, at which point Ramirez-Placido's boyfriend convinced her to take him to a hospital, where she acknowledged responsibility, according to the state's attorney's office.
Prosecutors said the mother further acknowledged to police that she had abused the boy since he was able to walk, and was responsible for a burn mark, scars, bruises, bite marks and scratches covering the boys body, including his genitals. - Read the entire article here
IL - An Aurora woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison for breaking her 3-year-old son's leg in a fit of rage, officials said Thursday.
Estela Ramirez-Placido, 24, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery to a child and domestic abuse in June and was sentenced by Kane County Associate Judge T. Jordan Gallagher.
Prosecutors said the abuse happened April 23, 2007, when Ramirez-Placido became "enraged" at the toddler for soiling his pants.
After cleaning the boy, Ramirez-Placido began to hit him. When he fought back, she held him against a wall by the neck and punched him in the stomach until he fell to the floor. According to the charges, she then knelt next to the child and twisted his leg until it snapped.
The boy went without medical attention for two days, at which point Ramirez-Placido's boyfriend convinced her to take him to a hospital, where she acknowledged responsibility, according to the state's attorney's office.
Prosecutors said the mother further acknowledged to police that she had abused the boy since he was able to walk, and was responsible for a burn mark, scars, bruises, bite marks and scratches covering the boys body, including his genitals. - Read the entire article here
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Female Pedophile teacher
Another case of a female pedophile. This one was a teacher and abused one of her elementary school students:
WA - There was no debate over Jennifer Rice’s sentence. Under state statute, the only prison term possible for the former Tacoma school teacher, convicted of sex crimes involving a 10-year-old student and his older brother, was 25 years to life in prison.
Prosecutors contended that Rice had a sexual relationship with the 10-year-old boy for several months while she was a teacher at Tacoma’s McKinley Elementary School. The ordeal came to light in August 2007, when Rice sneaked the boy out of his home and drove him to Ellensburg. The two had sex at a rest stop before she returned him to his home, court documents alleged.
During the course of the investigation, detectives learned Rice also had sex twice with the boy’s older brother in July 2007. The boy was 15 at the time. - Read the entire article here
WA - There was no debate over Jennifer Rice’s sentence. Under state statute, the only prison term possible for the former Tacoma school teacher, convicted of sex crimes involving a 10-year-old student and his older brother, was 25 years to life in prison.
Prosecutors contended that Rice had a sexual relationship with the 10-year-old boy for several months while she was a teacher at Tacoma’s McKinley Elementary School. The ordeal came to light in August 2007, when Rice sneaked the boy out of his home and drove him to Ellensburg. The two had sex at a rest stop before she returned him to his home, court documents alleged.
During the course of the investigation, detectives learned Rice also had sex twice with the boy’s older brother in July 2007. The boy was 15 at the time. - Read the entire article here
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