child abuse

Any of you guys heard of this form of abuse where a parent locks a child into a closet and leaves them there for long periods of time and is there a more precise term? Of special interest would be families where there are other siblings who are not abused in this way.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7930380.stm Riiiiiiigghhhttt.... so, the Vatican says it's OK to pronounce excommunication on the child's mother and the doctors who were saving the child's life and health. But not a word about the rapist scum who abused her.:mad:

In the past year we in Britain had a steady flow of horrific finds from a former care home on the island of Jersey. The allegations stand (or otherwise) on their own, but it turns out that virtually every piece of physical "evidence" was bogus. The police and media between them managed to...

From todays Snide and Moaning Herald: (linakge) . . . and of course the risks of HBV infection are entirely inconsequential when compared with the "big question marks" that concern the idiot grandfather. MtD (Who needs his HBV vaccination redone, come to think of it)

(I can't find another thread on this, which is surprising, but if I'm wrong, feel free to merge, mods.) Just your average Texas story. Fundamentalist polygamist Church of Latter Day Saints church forces teenage girls into marriage. Girl squeals. Feds bust in. Children removed. No violence so...

You'll have to suffer through Nancy Grace to hear the story: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/03/27/ng.killer.too.obese.for.jail.cnn WTF?

See the BBC. I'm no "hangin's too good fer 'em" type, not by a long chalk, but abuse of 13 young children over a period of years by someone in a position of power (over them) seems like it deserves more than community bloody service.

Snipped from the article: ================================================================== A daily menu consisting of e.g. 15 burges with fried, several kilos of chocolate and 5 liters of cola has resulted in her weigth exploding. Breakfast consists of white bread, chips and a couple of liters...

Prostitutes must have a special place in Heaven. Prostitutes. male or female, are products of abuse by our societies. These young people come out of homes where physical, mental and sexual abuse has occurred. They are basically forced from their environment to the streets. The societal...

Recently, there have been several discussion about whether or parents raising their children to understand and hopefully believe in the same religion they do constitutes child abuse. Dawkins has articulated this point of view, so it tends to come up in threads about him such as this one...

Here's an update on the mother who swung her 4 week old child like a baseball bat at her boyfriend during an argument. It's seems that "alleged" is no longer the proper word in this case: Mom pleads guilty to using baby as a weapon POSTED: 12:45 p.m. EST, March 6, 2007 ERIE, Pennsylvania...

I don't even know where to start... I am the parent of a child who attended the preschool and was diagnosed as having been sexually molested. I am the parent who decided to hire an archaeologist to look for tunnels under the preschool building. Even though others have it for sale, I leaglly own...

Quite an interesting snippet here, referring to a Newsnight (respected UK investigative news show) story about the child abuse implications of outdated religious beliefs and good old fashioned credulous superstition. After the whole Satanic abuse hoaxes, I tend to be extra wary of reports like...

..for simply have sex with an underage boy who probably loved every minute of it? (Bill O'Reilly was talking about some of these women today...and how he disagreed and debated Geraldo Rivera on this subject) Isn't the idea of locking away pedophiles is that it has been determined that the child...

Randi's commentary mentioned "Satanic Panic" and the McMartin circus. About 20 months ago I put the definitive report regarding "Occult Crime" on the 'net in several places. I received the report in 1990 (seven copies) from the California DoJ as a "thank you" for the time I spent researching for...

Here we go again: Why, oh why do people like this have children? It's crimes like this that makes bringing back torture seem like the right thing to do. (No, I'm not advocating that, just venting some frustration)