Tag: Child Abuse Defense Lawyer
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Running From The Cops With Your Kids in The Car is a Bad Idea!
A deputy from the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department noticed a vehicle driving with a broken headlight near Three Rivers. ‘Fix it’ tickets are pretty routine, and the officer tried to pull the car over to let the driver know they had a headlight out. But the driver had other ideas. Instead of stopping, the…
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How The Welfare System Makes it Harder For Battered Mothers to Seek Help! (Pt 1)
The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform has a very interesting, and honestly very sad story, about a policy California enforces that sounds unpleasantly like something you’d find right here in Michigan. The story tracks a mother named Ingrid Archie who was subject to regular assault from her domestic partner. Archie did everything she could…
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Are CPS Workers Now Also Mandatory Reporters For Animal Abuse in Michigan?
When people think of the words “CPS worker” and “mandatory reporter” they tend to think in terms of child abuse. Specifically, the fact that CPS workers are mandatory reporters themselves, and the fact that when a mandatory reporter calls in report suspect child abuse, it’s a CPS worker that shows up to investigate. But a…
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Mom Charged With Abuse For “Unneccessary Medical Treatments”! (Pt 1)
Actual cases of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, where a parent is accused of seeking or administering unnecessary medical treatments to a child to get attention are incredibly rare. That’s not to say that they don’t happen, just that they don’t happen very often. So when medical staff claim that a parent (usually the mom) is…
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Can Education Reduce Child Abuse Numbers in Michigan?
April was child abuse prevention month, and all over Michigan nonprofits and other organizations came together to raise awareness and funding to combat child abuse. Then, just a few short weeks ago, the Kids Count report was released, and we saw that the numbers for child abuse in Michigan have actually gone up in the…
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“Freezer Mom” Back in Court, Accusing Another of Pedophilia!
Remember ‘freezer mom’? The Detroit woman who starved and abused her children to death, and then hid their bodies in a chest freezer by the front door of her apartment until they were discovered during her eviction? Well, it appears her antics haven’t ended yet. She was recently back in court for a misconduct issue…
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MCTF to Host Discussion Panel on Substance Abuse and Child Abuse
It has long been known that substance abuse and child abuse tend to go hand in hand. Parents trapped in a cycle of drug or alcohol abuse often make poor parenting choices – sometimes as a result of the substance they ingested, sometimes because of a lack of that very substance they’re addicted to, and…
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Do Parents Get Into Trouble With CPS When Their Kids Break The Law?
Do you remember the Jamarion Lawhorn case? The young boy from Kent County who, after years of living in a violently abusive home, stabbed another little boy on a playground in the hopes that he would be electrocuted. Young Jamarion had no idea that Michigan didn’t have a death penalty, so he may have to…
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Rare Medical Condition, or Child Abuse? How Can You Tell? (Pt 1)
This question has been the source of more controversy than you can imagine over the years! As doctors, medical experts, prosecutors and defense attorneys fight it out in courtrooms across the nation, this question is the one that they keep coming back to, over and over. Is it child abuse? Or is it a rare…
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Why Would a Child Lie About Being Molested? (Pt. 1)
Asking why a child would lie about something, ordinarily, is like asking why dogs chase their tails, or why people like ice cream. Just because. Kids lie to get what they want. They lie to avoid getting into trouble. They lie to see if they can get away with it. Sometimes, they lie for reasons…