Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
C. Henry Kempe (birth name Karl Heinz Kempe; April 6, 1922 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – March 3, 1984 in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii) was an American pediatrician and the first in the medical community to identify and recognize child abuse.
Marie-Aurore-Lucienne Gagnon, [1] simply known as Aurore Gagnon (31 May 1909 – 12 February 1920), was a Canadian girl who was a victim of child abuse.She died of exhaustion and blood poisoning from some 52 wounds inflicted by her stepmother, Marie-Anne Houde, and her father, Télesphore Gagnon.
The murder of Elisa Izquierdo occurred in November 1995 in Manhattan, New York City. [3] Izquierdo was a six-year-old Puerto Rican–Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse conducted between 1994 and 1995.
Michael Lee Porter (stepfather) was charged with sexual assault and first-degree murder, but in February 2007, he pleaded guilty to enabling child abuse and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. [ 7 ] Raye Dawn Smith (biological mother) was convicted on July 18, 2007, of enabling child abuse and was sentenced to 27 years in prison. [ 8 ]
Fictional victims of child abuse, physical, sexual, and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or a caregiver. Child abuse may include any act or failure to act by a parent or a caregiver that results in actual or potential harm to a child and can occur in a child's home, or in the organizations, schools, or communities the child interacts with.
Confronted with this horrifying piece of news, Gail, refuses to believe it is true, and orders Mrs. Hall to leave. Mrs. Hall notifies the police, who take Amelia into protective custody and assign her a social worker, Ruth Walters, who takes Amelia to a children's home.
I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sex Abuse is a 1983 book edited by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton and marked Bass's first published non-fiction work. [1] It was published by Harper and Row and contains a collection of numerous child sexual abuse testimonials from a wide range of original source material including book ...
The documentary follows the stories of five former child actors who were sexually abused by multiple predators. Much of the film focuses on Marc Collins-Rector, who was convicted of child sexual abuse, and co-owned and operated Digital Entertainment Network, with Brock Pierce also owning a minor share. DEN produced brief online videos during ...