White House Demonstration and Lobbying Day in May

Subject:     White House Demonstration and Lobbying Day in May
Date:     Sun, 7 Apr 2013 23:41:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:     CA Protective Parents Association <cppa001@aol.com>
Reply-To:     cppa001@aol.com

 Dear Friends,

WHITE HOUSE DEMONSTRATION AND LOBBYING DAY

There have been a few questions about our Mothers' Day march and Monday lobbying day at Congress.

The march will take place on Sunday Mothers' Day from 11 am to 3 pm, the day after the Battered Mothers Custody Conference. We will start with a silent vigil at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, then march around the White House, down 17th Avenue, across Constitution Avenue and up 15th Avenue, ending back in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Ave. After the march, we will have a speak- out with a megaphone. If you have an active case, participate in a way that would make you feel safe. We will have many wonderful banners. Feel free to bring signs with PVC pipe to hold them up, since wooden stakes are prohibited for obvious reasons. We wear white clothes, and Mothers of Lost Children white t-shirts will be provided at no cost at the Battered Mothers Custody Conference on Saturday. You can see pictures and videos of previous marches bringing attention to this egregious human and civil right issue. www.mothers-of-lost-children.com and http://www.mothersoflostchildren.org/

On Monday May 13, we will visit the US Senate and Congress. We will go as a group and we will have appointments with aides from one of the important subcommittees of the Senate Judiciary Committee. We will meet in front of the Senate Hart Building on the corner of Constitution Avenue and Second Streets by the historic Sewall-Belmont House, headquarters of the suffragists. We will provide packets and lobbying training on Saturday at 4:30 at the BMCC. Feel free to write a one page summary of your case if you want. We want to keep on the general issue, not specific case, when we talk to the aides because we need our representatives to understand that this happens all over the country. You are welcome to make appointments with your own US Senators and Congress member for that day also, if you wish.


NATIONAL SCANDAL: Family Courts Give Children to Identified Pedophiles
DAVIS ENTERPRISE
Does mandated reporting keep children safe
By Special to The Enterprise
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What: 19th annual Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference, "National Scandal: Family Courts Give Children to Identified Pedophiles"
When: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, April 27
Where: Veterans' Memorial Center, 203 E. 14th St., Davis
Cost: Free
Info: www.issb.us

By Connie Valentine

April is dedicated nationally to child abuse prevention and sexual assault awareness. These titles long ago lost their power to shock. Child abuse and sexual assault continue to be national scourges with full media coverage.

After the Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal at Penn State University, we are acutely aware that athletic coaches, teachers, priests, rabbis, Boy Scout leaders, psychiatrists, juvenile court referees, foster parents and men - most sex offenders are male and 90 percent know their victims - from just about any profession can be child sexual predators.

There is some good news. At the Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference in the midst of Hurricane Sandy last October, researcher David Finkelhor, Ph.D., announced that child abuse had declined between 2007 and 2011. He showed multiple statistics to prove his statement.

But statistics are tricky. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website shows a substantial increase in the number of reported child abuse and neglect cases (from 3.2 million to 3.4 million) and number of children involved (from 5.9 million to 6.2 million). During those years, the child population remained stable (74 million versus 73.9 million).

The big difference was a decline in substantiated child victims (794,000 versus 681,000). It sounds like an impressive drop in child abuse, but the drop is only in the number of children who were believed by adults in the system. This could be called "decline by disbelief."

A total of 6.2 million children came to the attention of child welfare services in 2011, yet only 11 percent were believed. That is quite a winnowing process. More than half of reports were made by mandated reporters of suspected child abuse and neglect. Are large numbers of mandated reporters making questionable reports of suspected abuse? I doubt it. The process is nerve-wracking and the stakes are high.

For those 681,000 child victims who were fortunate enough to be believed, there was a large jump in the rate of physical abuse (from 10.8 percent to 17.6 percent) and sexual abuse (7.6 percent to 9.1 percent).

Is the trend similar in California? Yes. The total number of child sexual abuse cases in California also rose between 2007 and 2011 from 38,465 to 40,638, and substantiation rates plunged from 17.2 percent to 9.9 percent. Only half as many children were believed in 2011 as in 2007.

This is a big problem for children who speak out. Mandated reporting does not keep them safe.

Things go particularly badly for children who report that a parent is abusing them. It turns out that family court judges and professionals are trained to be highly skeptical of allegations of abuse. The parent reporting abuse to family court is frequently punished by having custody changed to the alleged sex offender, sometimes even when sexual abuse has been substantiated. If the abuse is not substantiated, the child has little or no chance of protection and is not likely to be believed in the future.

To find out more about research into how and why this is happening and how children are affected, please come to the 19th annual Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference, "National Scandal: Family Courts Give Children to Identified Pedophiles" from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Veterans' Memorial Center, 203 E. 14th St. in Davis.

There is no cost and no registration for the event, unless you are a therapist and wish to receive continuing education units. Visit www.issb.us for more information.

- Connie Valentine is a Davis resident and member of the Incest Survivors Speakers Bureau, which sponsors the conference.


GREAT LOST IN THE SYSTEM UPDATE

Be sure to watch Fox11 Los Angeles this Monday night to hear about a surprising turn in Damon's situation. He is the teen who has been in hiding from his father after he reported sexual abuse and was placed with his identified abuser. The series is called Lost in the System and is a model of excellence in reporting. http://www.myfoxla.com/category/248760/lost-in-the-system

NEED INFORMATION

Wendy Murphy need information on Los Angeles, California attorney Lisa Meyer, attorney Leslie Shear, child's attorney Amir Pichvai, fathers' attorney Fahi Takish Hallin from Harris Ginsberg. You can contact her at wmurphylaw@aol.com.

Justice for Some: An Exposé of the Lawyers and Judges Who Let Dangerous Criminals Go Freeby Wendy Murphy http://www.amazon.com/And-Justice-Some-Dangerous-Criminals/dp/1400105145  http://wendymurphylaw.com/

OTHER EVENTS

April 14, 2013 in DC: Meet and walk or run with Mark Moseley http://www.wmzq.com/cc-common/communities/ at the 10th Annual Race (and Walk) to Stop the Silence to bring awareness about and support programming toward the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse (www.dcrace.org). The race is held in partnership with the Washington Redskins Alumni Association. For information and registration see: www.dcrace.org. (For special discounts for military, first responders, students and others, or questions, contact Pamela Pine at ppine@stopcsa.org.)

August 9 - 11, 2013 The 16th Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference, DoubleTree near Bradley International Airport, 16 Ella Grasso Turnpike, Windsor Locks, CT
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
 
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