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added 2007 Sun May 27 4:10:54 by STONERS
A woman whose malnourished, developmentally disabled 22-year-old daughter was found wearing only a T-shirt and four soiled diapers has pleaded no contest to second-degree abuse of a vulnerable adult.
added 2007 Thu May 10 20:23:01 by STONERS
A teenager who was impregnated by her father claims in a lawsuit that she reported his sexual abuse to Planned Parenthood but that the agency didn't tell authorities.
added 2007 Mon May 7 2:41:24 by tehranchik
Human rights groups in Israel have accused the security services of routinely mistreating Palestinian detainees.
added 2007 Thu May 3 2:20:05 by kriicket
An Elba man is facing charges after hospital personnel notified police of two infants brought in to an Opp hospital with injuries including skull fractures, broken arms, and
added 2007 Mon Apr 23 17:05:58 by SarrahA
CHEVY Chase has made us laugh since his first routines on "Saturday Night Live" in 1975, but behind the clownish faÃ;§ade are horrific memories of a childhood of beatings and psychological torture by a mentally ill mom and twisted stepdad.
added 2007 Mon Apr 16 21:11:54 by bubba2
The grisly images captured by the HSUS team the last few days have brought home how horrible this hunt really is. Many killed pups were almost entirely covered with white fur so they were just 2 weeks old. As sealers raised their clubs, the pups made a pathetic stand, rearing their tiny heads back & crying. But the clubs smashed down every time
added 2007 Sun Apr 15 21:45:07 by STONERS
The nation's sixth-largest Roman Catholic diocese is headed to trial this week in a $150 million lawsuit accusing church officials of recklessness for employing a youth minister who raped and sodomized teenagers.
added 2007 Fri Apr 13 16:51:41 by SarrahA
Actress Salma Hayek is urging women to take control of their lives and help others in an effort to end domestic violence.
added 2007 Thu Apr 12 1:02:01 by nakedtruth
One of the most persistent claims you hear from apologists of the current runaway administration is that "civil liberties haven't been diminished. But what about a professor and former marine who finds himself on the infamous "no fly" list for, of all things, criticizing the Bush administration's abuse of power? Well it happened.

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added 2007 Wed Apr 11 22:31:08 by populist
A federal bankruptcy judge is threatening the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego with contempt for allegedly attempting to hide assets to avoid payment to clergy sexual abuse victims.
added 2007 Sun Apr 8 0:57:58 by tomboy501
Earlier this week, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones announced that he once snorted a mixture of his father's ashes and cocaine. Richards and his publicist later claimed that he was just kidding. But if he did snort his dad, would that have been unhealthy? Only if he made a habit of it, experts say.
added 2007 Fri Apr 6 19:52:46 by STONERS
A week has passed since spring breakers bolted for the beach and other vacation hot spots.But gas prices, which spiked in the days before the break, still are increasing. And high gas prices are spiking drivers' tempers.
added 2007 Mon Apr 2 15:04:57 by zaph22
A 33-year-old woman was arraigned Sunday on charges alleging she offered to let an undercover investigator take pornographic photos of her 7-year-old daughter and have sex with the girl, authorities said.
added 2007 Sun Apr 1 9:16:27 by TechnologyExpert
Catherine Crier has some really good monologues at the end of her show and this was one of them. She takes a look at Bush's abuse of power. Video at Site.
added 2007 Mon Mar 19 18:12:59 by jovial
The first Guantanamo detainee to be formally charged under the new military commission rules, David Hicks, has alleged in a court document filed here that during nearly 5 years in American custody he has been frequently beaten during interrogations, and that as a result he "cooperated" with his interrogators.
added 2007 Sun Mar 18 23:06:36 by pagey
A landmark national survey of thousands of children in India has found that almost half of them have suffered some form of physical, sexual or economic abuse.
added 2007 Fri Mar 16 22:30:04 by STONERS
Two senators who watched Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confess to planning the Sept. 11 attacks and other plots said Friday that his allegations of mistreatment by U.S. captors should be taken seriously and investigated.
added 2007 Fri Feb 23 22:42:08 by Neophile
A game tester shares an incredible tale about the working conditions he endured during the development of a game.
added 2007 Sun Feb 11 20:37:48 by bhartzer
A new study, conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited at the request of Liz Claiborne Inc., has unsettling conclusions which show the newly developed information technology is often used to abuse teens.
added 2007 Wed Jan 31 7:25:41 by PinkyPie
Social workers are placing obese children on the child protection register alongside victims thought to be at risk of sexual or physical abuse.
added 2007 Sat Jan 27 3:47:22 by Uncle Dave
When she saw me on my bike with my bumper sticker for Nixon, she put me on the ground, flattened me out and gave me a bloody nose,
added 2007 Tue Jan 23 16:42:22 by Aidenag
Israel's attorney-general recommended Tuesday that President Moshe Katsav be indicted on charges of rape and abuse of power, a stunning accusation against the country's ceremonial head of state.
added 2007 Wed Jan 17 4:11:00 by catstevens
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, returning to her hometown of San Francisco, strongly warned today that President Bush "should not abuse his power" with regard to troop escalation in the Iraq war and said it is the duty of Congress to "exercise oversight over his power.''
added 2007 Mon Jan 15 3:32:05 by ninjaboy
It was standard practice to lock the disturbed or distressed residents in their rooms for hours...Sometimes when we came to unlock the doors, the residents had fallen on the floor. Often they were sitting in their own urine.
added 2007 Thu Jan 11 13:04:16 by ninjaboy
Sniffing, or huffing, glue, paint, cleaning fluids, and nail polish remover may appear relatively harmless, but it is physiologically no different from other forms of drug abuse.
added 2006 Sun Oct 29 23:53:04 by unknown user
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added 2006 Wed Sep 13 18:12:54 by Mellecita
Tammy Grimes, founder of Dogs Deserve Better, was arrested September 11, 2006 for helping a dying chained dog named Doogie who could not stand in East Freedom, Pennsylvania.
added 2006 Mon Aug 7 8:55:03 by the.blue.dog
279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison -- and make clear that many of those responsible have yet to be held accountable.