From Scott Thompson, CNN
Judge William Adams, who made national headlines after the release of a 2004 video of him beating his then-teenage daughter, has been suspended by the Texas Supreme Court.
The reason for the action was not mentioned in an order of suspension that was made public Tuesday.
Adams, a court-at-law judge in Aransas County, was roundly criticized when his now-adult daughter posted online a video of him beating her with a belt when she was 16.
The video also showed the judge cursing and berating Hillary Adams.
Adams was punishing the girl for using the Internet "to acquire music and games that were unavailable for legal purchase at the time," Hillary Adams wrote on the web posting.
The video is punctuated by cracks of the man's belt and the girl's screams and cries.
At one point in the 7 1/2-minute video, the man says to his near-hysterical daughter, "What happened to you, Hillary? Once you were an obedient, nice little girl. Now you lie, cheat and steal."
He yells at her, "You want to put some more computer games on? You want some more?"
"Are you happy?" he asks her. "Disobeying your parents? You don't deserve to f---ing be in this house."
He also berates the girl's mother for allowing a "f---ing computer" in the house.
"I wanted to show my father, 'Hey, I think you were in some denial about the way you are treating me and my mother.' And maybe showing him this would make him see something he didn't before," Hillary Adams, now 23, told CNN.
Earlier this month, William Adams released a statement to explain his side of the story.
"If the public must know, just prior to the YouTube upload, a concerned father shared with his 23-year-old daughter that he was unwilling to continue to work hard and be her primary source of financial support, if she was going to simply 'drop out,' and strive to achieve no more in life than to work part-time at a video game store," the judge said in a statement.
Adams handles family-related and juvenile court issues for the county court system.
Source http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/23/justice/texas-beating-video/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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'Sesame Street' Composer Accused of Cuffing 4-Year-Old, Taking Sex Pics
A Grammy-winning composer who worked on “Sesame Street” has been charged with making and distributing child pornography -- after allegedly handcuffing a 4-year-old girl, naked, and taking pictures.
59-year-old Fernando Rivas appeared in a South Carolina federal court yesterday -- where he pled "not guilty," according to the Charleston Post & Courier.
Rivas was arrested back in April -- after FBI agents raided the composer's home and, according to court docs, the feds claim they discovered a collection of photographs ... depicting a 4-year-old girl naked and “restrained in handcuffs and other bondage-type devices."
According to the report, cops say Rivas -- who also taught music at a local Charleston school -- admitted to officers that he took the pictures of the little girl and emailed them to two other sickos.
Rivas remains on house arrest after posting $300,000 bail.
Source http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/22/sesame-street-composer-fernando-rivas-child-porn/
59-year-old Fernando Rivas appeared in a South Carolina federal court yesterday -- where he pled "not guilty," according to the Charleston Post & Courier.
Rivas was arrested back in April -- after FBI agents raided the composer's home and, according to court docs, the feds claim they discovered a collection of photographs ... depicting a 4-year-old girl naked and “restrained in handcuffs and other bondage-type devices."
According to the report, cops say Rivas -- who also taught music at a local Charleston school -- admitted to officers that he took the pictures of the little girl and emailed them to two other sickos.
Rivas remains on house arrest after posting $300,000 bail.
Source http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/22/sesame-street-composer-fernando-rivas-child-porn/
Sunday Journal: For social worker, biggest lie didn't come from 'hoodlum children'
By Derry Smith
Driving a child to the Florida School for Boys in Marianna was not in the job description when my mother accepted the position of social worker for the Pinellas County Juvenile Justice System in 1959.
Fresh out of college, she felt privileged to join the department. She intended to work toward improving the future for kids who lived with neglectful or abusive parents. What she learned was that Florida's state and county agencies didn't have much compassion for kids.
Children, some as young as six, were arrested for such petty crimes as trespassing and taken away from their homes. Typically, parents weren't punished for neglecting or even abusing their children.
As a juvenile guardian for the court, my mother would hear tales from kids about the horrendous punishment they had to endure at the hands of foster parents. When she took these revelations to her supervisors she was chastised for believing "lies."
The Marianna School for Boys was a threat that was part of the protocol when working with disobedient kids. And her charge, Jackie, had been threatened many times. He knew first-hand about the place, being a seasoned attendee by the time he was 11 years old.
Jackie lived with a mother who showed no interest in him. She didn't keep him fed or clean. The truant officer visited regularly, and the neighbors called the police often about the boy trespassing in their yards and stealing fruit. His mother finally gave up custody, and the state put him in a foster home. Within a month Jackie ran away. The authorities caught up with him. My mother was the social worker who interviewed him.
"The foster mother doesn't feed me," he told her. "I only eat if there's something left after her own kids do."
Again my mother reported the complaint to supervisors. Her report was met with indifference.
"Children lie," she was told as before. "Especially hoodlum children."
Her orders to escort Jackie to Marianna came as a "gift." She understood that the state had an expense account for traveling to the School for Boys and she was expected to use it.
Her supervisor informed her of the nicest hotel in the area and the best places to eat. She made the reservations and, accompanied by my father, left on a Friday. With the blessing of her boss they intended to make a weekend of it. It wasn't until they sped north with Jackie in the back seat that she realized this would be no blissful vacation.
He was small for 11, and his freckled face lacked childish wonder. His haggard eyes seemed too old for tears, and this may be why he didn't cry. He begged to be taken somewhere else. Anywhere else.
"Please don't take me there," he said. "They're mean. They beat you."
My mother looked at the child, his brown bangs almost in his eyes.
"You've survived this place before," she said. "And I bet if you cooperate, the guards won't beat you."
But still he begged.
"It's only an eight-month sentence," she said. "Use it as an opportunity to turn your life around."
She had no advice for what he said next.
"The big kids. They chase the little kids," he said quietly. "And when they catch ya' they blow ya'."
"They blow you?"
My mother assumed he spoke of oral sex. After listening to more description she realized he meant sodomy.
"I seen 'em even kill dogs that way," he concluded.
She felt sick to her stomach.
She contemplated not taking him. He wasn't handcuffed. He ate lunch with my parents in a restaurant outside of Tallahassee, and she waited for him to run away. But he didn't. Instead he tagged along behind her like a wounded animal, begging her not to leave him.
My mother didn't ask any more questions. She didn't say much either. She was young and inexperienced and stuck with a system that didn't care. She listened to his pleas, knowing she could do nothing for him.
When she returned to work on that Monday, it was only to hand in her resignation.
Derry Smith lives in St. Petersburg. She shares her stories on her blog, storiesonthenines.org.
Source http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/sunday-journal-for-social-worker-biggest-lie-didnt-come-from-hoodlum/1201820
Driving a child to the Florida School for Boys in Marianna was not in the job description when my mother accepted the position of social worker for the Pinellas County Juvenile Justice System in 1959.
Fresh out of college, she felt privileged to join the department. She intended to work toward improving the future for kids who lived with neglectful or abusive parents. What she learned was that Florida's state and county agencies didn't have much compassion for kids.
Children, some as young as six, were arrested for such petty crimes as trespassing and taken away from their homes. Typically, parents weren't punished for neglecting or even abusing their children.
As a juvenile guardian for the court, my mother would hear tales from kids about the horrendous punishment they had to endure at the hands of foster parents. When she took these revelations to her supervisors she was chastised for believing "lies."
The Marianna School for Boys was a threat that was part of the protocol when working with disobedient kids. And her charge, Jackie, had been threatened many times. He knew first-hand about the place, being a seasoned attendee by the time he was 11 years old.
Jackie lived with a mother who showed no interest in him. She didn't keep him fed or clean. The truant officer visited regularly, and the neighbors called the police often about the boy trespassing in their yards and stealing fruit. His mother finally gave up custody, and the state put him in a foster home. Within a month Jackie ran away. The authorities caught up with him. My mother was the social worker who interviewed him.
"The foster mother doesn't feed me," he told her. "I only eat if there's something left after her own kids do."
Again my mother reported the complaint to supervisors. Her report was met with indifference.
"Children lie," she was told as before. "Especially hoodlum children."
Her orders to escort Jackie to Marianna came as a "gift." She understood that the state had an expense account for traveling to the School for Boys and she was expected to use it.
Her supervisor informed her of the nicest hotel in the area and the best places to eat. She made the reservations and, accompanied by my father, left on a Friday. With the blessing of her boss they intended to make a weekend of it. It wasn't until they sped north with Jackie in the back seat that she realized this would be no blissful vacation.
He was small for 11, and his freckled face lacked childish wonder. His haggard eyes seemed too old for tears, and this may be why he didn't cry. He begged to be taken somewhere else. Anywhere else.
"Please don't take me there," he said. "They're mean. They beat you."
My mother looked at the child, his brown bangs almost in his eyes.
"You've survived this place before," she said. "And I bet if you cooperate, the guards won't beat you."
But still he begged.
"It's only an eight-month sentence," she said. "Use it as an opportunity to turn your life around."
She had no advice for what he said next.
"The big kids. They chase the little kids," he said quietly. "And when they catch ya' they blow ya'."
"They blow you?"
My mother assumed he spoke of oral sex. After listening to more description she realized he meant sodomy.
"I seen 'em even kill dogs that way," he concluded.
She felt sick to her stomach.
She contemplated not taking him. He wasn't handcuffed. He ate lunch with my parents in a restaurant outside of Tallahassee, and she waited for him to run away. But he didn't. Instead he tagged along behind her like a wounded animal, begging her not to leave him.
My mother didn't ask any more questions. She didn't say much either. She was young and inexperienced and stuck with a system that didn't care. She listened to his pleas, knowing she could do nothing for him.
When she returned to work on that Monday, it was only to hand in her resignation.
Derry Smith lives in St. Petersburg. She shares her stories on her blog, storiesonthenines.org.
Source http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/sunday-journal-for-social-worker-biggest-lie-didnt-come-from-hoodlum/1201820
Felony child abuse charges lead to suspension for physical therapy assistant - Washington
OLYMPIA ¾ The license of a Douglas County physical therapy assistant has been immediately suspended by the Board of Physical Therapy and the Department of Health. Andrew Paco Lopez (PT60045837) was criminally charged with first degree child abuse. He cannot practice in Washington until the charges are resolved.
Lopez was arrested in September 2011 and charged in Douglas County Superior Court with first degree child assault. Charging documents say Lopez was directly caring for his nine-week old when the child suffered multiple fractured ribs and brain trauma.
The Board of Physical Therapy and the Department of Health say Lopez cannot practice safely as he poses an unacceptable risk to the public’s health, safety, and welfare. His inability to control his actions and/or emotions presents an immediate danger to the public who expect treatment in a safe care environment.
Lopez has 20 days to respond to the charges and ask for a hearing. Legal documents are online; click the link to “Provider Credential Search” on the agency home page (www.doh.wa.gov) or call 360-236-4700.
The Board of Physical Therapy protects public health and safety in Washington. It licenses and disciplines physical therapists and physical therapy assistants using standards of practice.
Lopez was arrested in September 2011 and charged in Douglas County Superior Court with first degree child assault. Charging documents say Lopez was directly caring for his nine-week old when the child suffered multiple fractured ribs and brain trauma.
The Board of Physical Therapy and the Department of Health say Lopez cannot practice safely as he poses an unacceptable risk to the public’s health, safety, and welfare. His inability to control his actions and/or emotions presents an immediate danger to the public who expect treatment in a safe care environment.
Lopez has 20 days to respond to the charges and ask for a hearing. Legal documents are online; click the link to “Provider Credential Search” on the agency home page (www.doh.wa.gov) or call 360-236-4700.
The Board of Physical Therapy protects public health and safety in Washington. It licenses and disciplines physical therapists and physical therapy assistants using standards of practice.
Parents of Adolf Hitler Campbell lose custody of newborn Hons
A New Jersey couple who lost custody of their first three kids after giving them Nazi-inspired names has been denied the right to take home their fourth child, a newborn boy they named Hons.
Heath and Deborah Campbell's other children - Adolf Hitler Campbell, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell - are in foster care. On Monday, the Campbells went to family court in their hometown of Flemington, N.J,. in a bid to regain custody of Hons, who they say was taken from them by state child welfare officials hours after Deborah gave birth on Thursday, reported myfoxphilly.com.
Hons is still in the hospital, but the couple has been barred from seeing the baby, they told FOX. Heath Campbell said police came into the nursery and took Hons without a court order.
“They kidnapped my kid,” Campbell said. “I’ve been sleeping with his little blanket from the hospital.”
The state took custody of the couple’s other children nearly two years ago, saying there were in danger because of previous violence in the Campbell home, The Associated Press has reported. The Campbells have been fighting to get their children back ever since, claiming the violence charges are fabricated. It wasn't clear whether the latest court hearing involved all of the children or just the newborn.
The Campbells came into the spotlight in 2009 when a supermarket refused to ice a birthday cake for their now 4-year-old son Adolf Hitler.
Heath Campbell defended the children's names and told myfoxphilly.com on Monday that his reverend approved of him naming his new son Hons.
The Campbells have denied that they are neo-Nazis.
Read more on myfoxphilly.com.
Source http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/22/8952917-parents-of-adolf-hitler-campbell-lose-custody-of-newborn-hons
Heath and Deborah Campbell's other children - Adolf Hitler Campbell, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell - are in foster care. On Monday, the Campbells went to family court in their hometown of Flemington, N.J,. in a bid to regain custody of Hons, who they say was taken from them by state child welfare officials hours after Deborah gave birth on Thursday, reported myfoxphilly.com.
Hons is still in the hospital, but the couple has been barred from seeing the baby, they told FOX. Heath Campbell said police came into the nursery and took Hons without a court order.
“They kidnapped my kid,” Campbell said. “I’ve been sleeping with his little blanket from the hospital.”
The state took custody of the couple’s other children nearly two years ago, saying there were in danger because of previous violence in the Campbell home, The Associated Press has reported. The Campbells have been fighting to get their children back ever since, claiming the violence charges are fabricated. It wasn't clear whether the latest court hearing involved all of the children or just the newborn.
The Campbells came into the spotlight in 2009 when a supermarket refused to ice a birthday cake for their now 4-year-old son Adolf Hitler.
Heath Campbell defended the children's names and told myfoxphilly.com on Monday that his reverend approved of him naming his new son Hons.
The Campbells have denied that they are neo-Nazis.
Read more on myfoxphilly.com.
Source http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/22/8952917-parents-of-adolf-hitler-campbell-lose-custody-of-newborn-hons
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