Because of Grace Campaign Is a Non-Profit Cause
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This is a campaign.
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Supporting and fighting for the safe child act to be passed in Pennsylvania. SB1400 and hopefully in other states.
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Fighting to make tougher laws in how the justice system protects children or the lack of protection.
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Fighting to protect parents who are trying to protect their children from the other parent when there is solid evidence and proof of abuse.
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Protect children not predators
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This campaign (Because Of Grace campaign) is about holding family court judges and CYS accountable for supporting abuse and failing to protect children and keeping them with the most important bond and first line of defenses. Judges seem to be immune and it's time for change.
By Tommy Simmons, The Greeley Tribune
Weld County District Attorney's Office
Katrina Kennedy-Flores.
26-year-old Weld County mother Katrina Kennedy-Flores was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in jail, in addition to five years of supervised probation, after she pleaded guilty in October to misdemeanor child abuse.
She was arrested in May after a 16-minute video surfaced of her yelling at her 2-year-old son. According to an arrest affidavit, she was angry because she thought the boy lost her cell phone charger. Police say the crime took place April 30.
The affidavit describes how Kennedy-Flores can be seen slamming a booster chair into the child’s playpen, then on or near the child himself.
The affidavit also said she can be heard swearing at the child, as well as yelling, “I’m going to kill you.”
The report details the bruises on the child’s arms and legs, as well as two dark spots on his forehead that appeared to be bruises as well.At her sentencing, Kennedy-Flores offered tearful pleas to the court not to separate her further from her child and her family. She felt some good had come out of the case.
“I kind of think of this as a blessing,” she said. “It’s brought my sister closer to me and a lot of people are closer who want to be there for my child.”
An elderly man accused of molesting three children in August 2016 will serve three years in prison.
Thomas James Higgs, 73, of South Pinehurst Avenue in Salisbury, was arrested and charged on Aug. 13, 2016, on multiple counts of sexual abuse and sex offense, after the three children in the case came forward to their parents. The charges are the only ones Higgs has faced in Maryland, according to the state's online case search.
On Monday, Jan. 23, the judiciary case search shows Higgs entered an Alford Plea to a sexual abuse of a minor charge in one of three cases pending against him in Wicomico County Circuit Court. In exchange, the remaining charges were dropped, the case search shows.
Des Moines Register and Tribune Co.
The principal and school nurse at the West Des Moines alternative high school where 16-year-old Natalie Finn begged for food had reported months before she died of starvation that they suspected child abuse, a state senator said in an exclusive interview.
Sen. Matt McCoy told Reader's Watchdog he’s also learned that West Des Moines police went several times last summer to the West Des Moines home of Natalie's adopted mother, Nicole Marie Finn, after being told her adopted children were being abused.
But school officials and officers both had difficulty getting child-protective workers to take their concerns seriously — until late last summer, when a worker and police pushed their way into the Finn house Aug. 16, McCoy said.
One of the Finns' neighbors, Becca Gordon, previously told Watchdog that she alerted authorities May 31 that Natalie had been begging for food and appeared to be neglected. But Gordon said no one from human services ever followed up with her.
Natalie suffered cardiac arrest and died Oct. 24 from emaciation. Her adopted parents, Nicole and Joseph Finn, have pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges in Natalie's death and the alleged torture of two younger siblings, 14 and 15, who had to be hospitalized when discovered by authorities.
Two Department of Human Services workers lost their jobs in the wake of the case, McCoy said.
McCoy, a ranking Democrat on the Legislature's Oversight Committee, said he has asked to convene oversight hearings on the Finn case and another abuse case involving 18-year-old Malayia Knapp of Des Moines that Watchdog reported last week.
"What I want to understand, and what I really wish I could do, is sit down with the two employees who were fired over this," McCoy said, releasing more to Watchdog this week of what he learned in recent briefings with Human Services. "I want to know more about what was the culture at the department. And is that the same culture that allowed that kind of abuse to happen at Malayia Knapp’s house?"
McCoy already has introduced legislation this session that would require quarterly welfare checks on home-schooled children who are not working with local school districts.
In a letter Wednesday to state Sen. Michael Breitbach, the Republican chairman of the oversight committee, McCoy said he also has concerns about how parents are being vetted before being allowed to adopt children from state care and how seriously Iowa’s Department of Human Services is taking abuse reports from mandatory reporters.
What if I told you, someone who molstered a young child pled guilty to a lesser sentence to avoid a higher sentence? Does that make sense??? It doesn't to me. but thats what is happening everyday! And this person gets a slap on the wrist and now has kids of their own. Yep that's our justice system!
Nov. 13--TROY -- A charge of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with child against Priscilla Sophi Vanzile, 19, of 198 Willow St., Apt. C-3, Troy, has been bound over to court, according to Magisterial District Judge Jonathan Wilcox's office in Troy. Vanzile is also charged with indecent assault on person less than 13 years old, contact/communicate with minor -- sexual offenses, aggravated indecent assault (complainant less than 13 years old), and corruption of minors in connection with a reported incident March 16 in Troy at her residence, according to court papers. The victim was a juvenile female, the papers note.
Meanwhile, Vanzile's then boyfriend/current husband, Kevin Michael Vanzile, 18, same address, was arrested and arraigned this week in connection with the incident
City child welfare workers had previously found cuts, welts and bruises on several children living in the Queens home where a 5-year-old boy was found dead Sunday, while also uncovering signs of sexual abuse and evidence that the kids didn’t have enough food or clothing, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Yet all six of the children remained in the home, where tragic little Michael Guzman was found unresponsive in his bed over the weekend.
The city Department of Investigation is now probing the Administration for Children’s Services’ handling of the case
Did you know that alot of people who have molested a child are NOT on Megan's law? They we charged with the crime and have a record. But are free to have kids of their own and be around other kids and are not on Megans law sometimes because they pled guilty to a lesser sentence but none the less they still pled guilty to something and I feel they should be on Megan's Law and they should stay away from children and even their own! Laws need to change!!!.