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By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Douchebags
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 9:52AM
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​Reader J responds to Edelwina and Steven Leschinsky Tortured 3 Adopted Girls With Excruciating Punishment. She worked in a group home and has seen first-hand the longterm damage done by parents who torture their children...

By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 1:08PM
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​Dale R. Hickman and his wife Shannon are members of the Followers of Christ, an Oregon City, Oregon church that believes all illness and injury can be cured by simply having faith in God. Which means their children tend to die a lot...

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Douchebags
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 8:03AM
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​Timothy Hammerstone, a 22-year-old pedophile from Bartow, Florida, proves that perverts can reach out to kids anywhere -- even if their scam has a very short shelf-life. First he got himself a job at Disney's Hollywood Studios, presumably to be close to kids...

By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse
Monday, Aug. 30 2010 @ 1:17PM
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​To the outside world, Edelwina and Steven Leschinsky were a nice, church-going couple who opened their home by adopting three sisters from Russia. But if you asked the girls, they might prefer to be living in an orphanage during Stalinist times...

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Sex crimes
Thursday, Aug. 26 2010 @ 6:00AM
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​Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: Yes, there really is a molester named Chester. He's charged with raping one girl and masturbating in front of another in Missouri. He also has sex crimes charges awaiting him in Wisconsin. The Riverfront Times has the story.

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Sex crimes
Wednesday, Aug. 25 2010 @ 11:00AM
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​In February, a 14-year-old Minnesota girl confessed that 37-year-old James Carle Spencer had repeatedly molested her. They'd had intercourse at least 10 times, she said, and Spencer had otherwise molested her some 70 to 90 times...

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By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse
Friday, Aug. 20 2010 @ 12:02PM
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​Four-year-old Payton Wesley Ettinger's life was as tragic as it gets. At just two months old, he was severely beaten by his father, Martin Ettinger. Payton ended up with brain damage. His shitbag dad would plead guilty and end up getting a 5-year sentence in Michigan...

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Sex crimes
Thursday, Aug. 19 2010 @ 6:08AM
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​Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: A girl says she was forced to have sex with other kids beginning at age 5, and that the grandmother would sometimes pay children to perform sex acts. Her punishment was even worse. Seattle Weekly has the story.

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Heroes
Wednesday, Aug. 18 2010 @ 3:10PM
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​On today's installment of Occupation: Man, we bring you North Carolina Trooper Jack Thorpe, roving hero of the highway. Our tale begins when a 14-year-old girl texted her mother, saying she and her brother were being abused by their stepmother...

By Chris Parker in Child Abuse, classroom creepiness
Wednesday, Aug. 18 2010 @ 9:00AM
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​Call me new-fashioned but I'd like to think we've outgrown the serious ass-whupping as a means of disciplining kids. This makes middle school assistant principal Charles Plummer a Weird Teacher Watch throwback who believes giving your son a black eye is a teachable moment...