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  • Michigan to Start Compensating Those Wrongfully Convicted of Abuse?

    Imagine this. Your three year old daughter, whom you love with all your heart, trips and falls down the basement stairs. She bumps her head at the bottom, and being a concerned parent, you take her to the emergency room and you’re told she’s fine. For a few days, everything is normal, and suddenly she…

  • What Does Michigan Law Say About Spanking? Part 2

    In the introductory article in this two part series, we discussed the fact that spanking is not illegal in Michigan. We also looked at how corporal punishment differs from child abuse in the legal definition, and talked about some cases of Michigan parents who were charged, but not convicted, of child abuse after spanking their children.…

  • What Does Michigan Law Say About Spanking? Part 1

    Spanking is a very controversial issue. There are many people who argue in favor of spanking their children, and just as many who believe that it is a form of abuse. For many people, they grew up being spanked by parents who loved them and wanted them to learn the error of their ways, which…

  • Foster Care: What Are The Long Term Effects?

    When kids are taken from their homes by CPS workers, they are viewed as having been ‘rescued’ and will now be placed with a ‘loving family’ that will care for them. Sometimes it really does happen this way. But few people stop to think what really happens to those kids. They are all presumed to…

  • Mom Sentenced To Prison For Accidentally Smothering Baby

    Although this incident took place in the Upper Peninsula where our firm doesn’t often practice, we would still like to share it with you as it is a situation that could happen anywhere. In this case, the tragedy took place in Ishpeming, to a mother of eight. According to court records, 37-year-old Nicole Christensen was…

  • Appeal Filed by Mom Who Got High While Pregnant

    30-year-old Melissa Lee Jones is currently behind bars in the St. Joseph County Jail, having been convicted of First Degree Child Abuse. Ultimately she is assigned to serve out her time at Huron Valley Complex, a women’s prison, where there are a number of people incarcerated for exactly the same reason. But what is interesting…

  • Woman Arrested in Florida After Kidnapping Her Two Daughters

    It seems strange to think that a person could be charged with kidnapping when the children they are accused of taking were their own. After all, how could it be kidnapping when you took your own kids? Aren’t they your kids, that you can go anywhere with? The answer is no, because when the court…

  • Foster Parent Charged For Sexually Assaulting a Minor

    61-year-old Jackie Lee Pittman, a licensed foster parent and Macomb County Adoption Board member, is accused of raping a teenaged girl. Although there are no foster children currently living with Pittman since his wife passed away from cancer four months ago, the allegations are said to stem from an incident that took place in July…

  • Woman Charged For Giving Alcohol To a Toddler

    64-year-old Deborah A. Holloway of Muskegon has been charged with child abuse for allegedly giving alcohol to a child that she was caring for. Based on the fat that she has a substantial criminal record, Holloway may end up behind bars for more than a decade, if convicted. According to Muskegon County Chief Assistant Prosecutor…

  • Missing Port Huron Boy Found, Father Arrested

    39-year-old Douglas Edwin Ball Jr., a resident of Port Huron, MI, is facing very serious charges for the alleged kidnapping of his young son and the possible murder of his son’s mother. Authorities say that there are still many details that they have to work out, and the case is still under investigation, but the…