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  1. South Carolina magistrate rips into Saylor Hayes’ parents, denies them bond

    Tragic Saylor Hayes’ parents will remain behind bars after a South Carolina magistrate ripped into the couple Saturday,…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #autism #Childabuse #Drownings #intellectuallydisabled #SouthCarolina #UnitedStates #Us #USNews #USA
    newsbeep.com/720528/

  2. Saylor Hayes autopsy results released days after parents arrested, extradited

    The 5-year-old non-verbal autistic girl found dead on her South Carolina vacation died of injuries consistent with drowning,…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #Childabuse #court #Death #Missingpersons #SouthCarolina #UnitedStatesofAmerica #USNews
    newsbeep.com/us/837339/

  3. Saylor Hayes autopsy results released days after parents arrested, extradited

    The 5-year-old non-verbal autistic girl found dead on her South Carolina vacation died of injuries consistent with drowning,…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #Childabuse #court #Death #Missingpersons #SouthCarolina #UnitedStatesofAmerica #USNews
    newsbeep.com/us/837339/

  4. Saylor Hayes autopsy results released days after parents arrested, extradited

    The 5-year-old non-verbal autistic girl found dead on her South Carolina vacation died of injuries consistent with drowning,…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Childabuse #court #Death #Missingpersons #SouthCarolina #UnitedStates #Us #USNews #USA
    newsbeep.com/719156/

  5. Former judge and university lecturer pleads guilty to two counts of possessing child abuse material

    A former judge and university lecturer has pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child abuse material. Alan…
    #Australia #alanboulton #AU #Austrlia #childabuse #court #guilty #lecturer #monash #plea #university
    europesays.com/australia/88113/

  6. #FaithHealing #Idaho #ChildAbuse #superstition

    "Deadly ‘faith healing’ exemption: Idaho remains the only state shielding parents from prosecution for replacing medical care with prayer or spirits—even if their child dies

    'Every parent of any child who willfully omits, without lawful excuse, to furnish necessary food, clothing, shelter, or medical attendance for such child, is guilty of a misdemeanor,' reads the 1887 edition of Idaho territory statutes, published before statehood.

    The statutes included no mention of spiritual belief as a 'lawful excuse.' Three years later, the state constitution explicitly put limits on Idaho’s freedom of religion. It would not excuse 'acts of licentiousness,' polygamy or other practices 'inconsistent with morality or the peace or safety of the state.'

    It wasn’t long before the law came down on members of the Followers of Christ, a faith-healing sect that arrived in Idaho in 1899 and remains active in the state. From 2015 to 2025, the sect’s congregations in Idaho experienced 15 preventable deaths of children, according to ProPublica’s reporting."

    geneticliteracyproject.org/202

  7. Dear Small: An Audio Excerpt

    Dance For Me is the book that has sold the best – across the various platforms including the UK version of Amazon, it’s accumulated over two point five thousand reviews since it’s publication in 2014. While my writing has shifted in the last twelve years, this remains one of my favorite stories. And an excerpt that still makes me emotional. The audio version of this book is available on the Hoopla app (free library app).

    In the book, Maelea had a friend.  

    Her friend was a mouse.  His name was Small.  

    Even as the author,  I’m not quite sure whether Small was ever real or just imaginary, but the hope he represented for this girl was very real. My story and Maelea’s are different. I was never sold; I didn’t grow up as a sustenance farmer along the Mekong River in Cambodia. But, as a survivor of long-term sexual abuse, there are pieces of Maelea that resonate deeply. Manufacturing hope when my body didn’t have the resources to cope anymore is one of those pieces.

    While this piece does not highlight specific scenes of abuse, it can still be triggering if your past includes abuse of any kind. The Holding Room has many resources if you feel like something’s pressing on a rather tender bruise.

    ********   ******    *******

    Dear Small,

      I’ve been calling you.  I’ve called you every day I’ve been in here.  You didn’t answer but when I finally cried myself to sleep, I dreamed of you. You rode a white horse. It was a small horse, because you’re small, and also because you had to fit through the door.  The door that you’re looking for.  You’re looking for the door that gets into this room, aren’t you?  This place must have a million rooms in it—a hundred at least!  And there are lots of places to hide a key.  You’re really brave,  going into where the people are. 

    If they see you, they will trap you. 
    They will kill you. 

    But you don’t care because you are my friend, and you want to set me free.  So, you go from room to room, trying to be quiet, trying to stay hidden. You must have to wait a long time when you see a desk, because you don’t have fingers to open them.   Or,  no.  Wait.  You’re a brave, rodent prince.  You’re very smart.  You know how to use your claws to jerk open drawers.  It’s dangerous because you have to climb on top of the furniture, and so it’s harder to hide quickly if a door should open. 

    But you have to.

    Sometimes, I bet you get scared.
    And you think to yourself,  “I can’t do this.” 
    And you almost stop.

     It’s okay that you do, I don’t blame you for being scared.  In fact… it makes me feel like I understand you even better, because I’m scared, too.  You almost give up the quest.  But you don’t.  You don’t give up because you know that finding the key means saving your friend’s life.  My life.  And you love me so much, you risk your own life to find a key.  Day after day, night after night, you scurry in and out of little holes in the wall, looking for something shiny, something made to unlock a door.

     When you find it, you can rescue me. Last night, in my dream, you really did find it: you found the Master’s key!  It was big and gold. It was heavy, it was hard for you to pull up out of the drawer.  You didn’t give up, though.  You kept trying and trying until… you got it!  You grip it between your teeth and scurry down the side of the desk.  You must have been very excited.  What you had tried so long was almost done!   I could see you, in my dream, running from room to room, the silver key dragging along behind you.

    You had to find a hole.

    I’ve searched for a hole, Small.  

    I’ve looked and looked. I’ve got down on my knees and combed every last inch of the wall.  I can’t find one. 

    But you’re smarter than me.

    Sure enough,  in my dream, you found a small, hidden hole that led into this room where I am, and you came riding through it with your furry head held high, your whiskers blowing from how fast you rode. 

     You are my hero. 

    And it was a good dream.

    You are my friend.  Every time I see you race along the edge of the wall, I get excited because you’re my friend.  Friends are happy to see each other.   I mean,  I think they are.  I’ve never really had a friend.  My sister is my friend, I guess, but she’s so little.  I couldn’t tell her about this place.  I couldn’t tell her about you.  You’re the only one I talk to.  You’re the only one I can tell everything to.  You’re here in this place too, after all.  You see everything, too.  I think that’s why I get excited when I see you:  I know I can talk to you because I know you understand. 

    Sometimes I imagine sitting with you.  We would be outside, sitting on a frayed blanket.  I imagine the grass and the Sun.  I almost can’t even remember what the Sun feels like anymore.  But, in the picture in my head, my skin is warm and nothing hurts.  Not my head, not my arm, not my legs, not my heart.  A basket of fish sits between us. Your rodent nose would scrunch up to sniff it.  The steam rising from the freshly baked goods would make both of us happy.  I’d laugh because my stomach would be growling, the way it does right before it knows it’s going to be given something wonderful.  We’d eat and you’d tell me funny stories. I bet you know a lot of funny stories.  I’d laugh until my sides hurt because you’re such a good storyteller.   And in the stories you’d tell me, there would always be a very scary bad guy, one worse than all the others in all the other stories I’ve ever been told.  Because you’ve seen the real monsters, so you’d know what they really look like, what they really act like.  The only difference between your stories and real life is that your stories have happy endings. 

     In real life, there aren’t happy endings, are there, Small?

    I know because I’ve been calling you and you haven’t answered.  You should be able to hear me;  I screamed your name over and over and over last night.  I screamed it so loud, it echoed around these walls and rang in my own ears. 

    SMAALLL! 

    I yelled. 

    But you didn’t answer.

    SMAAALLLL!

    I clawed at the walls until my fingers bled, trying to help you, trying to make you hear me. 

    But you still didn’t answer.

     No one hears me, do they, Small?

    Friends want to see each other.  I want to see you.  I’ve waited for you,  I’ve called for you, I’ve dreamed of you and I’ve looked for you.  But I haven’t seen you, and I don’t know why.  Is it because you don’t want to be my friend?  Or is it because you aren’t even real?   

     I don’t think you’re real.

    When I got here, I was a little girl.  When I was put in this room, part of me was still a little girl.  I thought you rode a white horse.  I thought you went from room to room looking for a key because you wanted to rescue me.  I thought you wanted to rescue me because you loved me.  But if you loved someone, wouldn’t you answer them when they needed you? 

    It’s easier to believe you aren’t even real than to believe you don’t love me.  It’s easier to believe there isn’t a key at all to this door than to believe I won’t ever see it.  It’s easier to be alone than to have friends that don’t really care at all.  It’s easier to believe hope is dead than to believe it won’t ever become truth. 

     When I talk to you,  when I look for you,  when I call for you…. It’s like holding my breath, waiting for a burst of sunlight to shine through the darkness.  When  the sunlight never comes,  it makes the hurt worse.  When I talk to you, when I look for you, when I call for you… in those moments, hope is the only thing keeping me alive, Small.  When you don’t answer, when I can’t see you,  when hope dies, a  little piece of me dies too.  If I keep believing, if I keep hoping, soon, all of me will be dead. 

     I don’t know if you’re real or not anymore.  If you are,  I hope you can understand why, even though it hurts me deep in my heart,  I have to say one more thing,  I have to let go,  I can’t hope anymore.  I hope you’ll understand why I have to say… to say… goodbye.

    #abuse #audio #blogging #books #cambodia #childAbuse #hope #humanTrafficking #women #Writing
  8. Yarning circles raise concerns about repetition of Stolen Generations
    By Jodie Hamilton

    A research project is using yarning circles to hear community-based solutions to the rising number of Aboriginal children in child protection.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/sol

    #Children #ChildAbuse #ParentingChildren #Welfare #IndigenousCulture #Carers #JodieHamilton

  9. The Tobacco Industry Reaps Double Benefits From Children 

    To date, the tobacco industry has not accepted its responsibility for the high number of child labour in tobacco plantations in its supply chain. Child labour in tobacco plantations has the potential to be exposed to short-term and long-term health risks, one of them is the threat of Green Tobacco Sickness (GTS), which is which is a variety of health disorders caused by exposure to nicotine in tobacco leaves both during the harvesting and processing of tobacco........Continue reading.... By […]

    onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026

  10. This is shameful!

    "Survivors fighting Bessborough apartment plans prepared to chain themselves to diggers

    Cork City Council has granted permission for 140 apartments, a decision that is currently being appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála, with a decision due by July 9"

    echolive.ie/corknews/arid-4187

    #Bessborough #mastodaoine #CorkCity #cork #MotherAndBabyHome #survivor #ChildAbuse #Ireland #900babies #IrishHistory #MagdaleneLaundries

  11. Wednesday, May 13, 2026

    She told us we're Russian: Abducted Ukrainian teen on meeting Putin's notorious children's commissioner -- Inside a Ukrainian mission to liberate territory from Russian occupation -- Ukrainian drones strike Russian gas facility over 1,500 kilometers from border -- EU 'frustration' at failed defense industry ramp-up ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  12. Friday, April 24, 2026

    Human rights activists count 7 torture chambers detaining Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff -- Russian overnight strikes on Odesa residential buildings kill married couple, injure 15 -- 12 Russian FSB officers killed in drone strike on command post in occupied Donetsk -- Russians in Tuapse in disbelief after Ukrainian drones bring the war home ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  13. Sunday, April 5, 2026

    How Western-made materials for cigarettes wind up in Russian missiles that strike Ukraine -- US hearing exposes links between Russia’s energy sector and abduction of Ukrainian children -- Ukraine strikes Russian fuel train, confirms damage to multimillion-dollar Orion drones in occupied regions -- Ukraine restores nearly half of power generation wiped out by Russia ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  14. "Kendra Duggar’s arrest came days after her husband, Joseph Duggar, was arrested on charges in Florida for lewd and lascivious behavior against a child under 12. He is accused of molesting a girl when she was nine years old during a family trip to Panama City Beach."

    By the way, In 2014, Michelle Duggar released robocalls warning that LGBTQ people pose a danger to children.

    #KendraDuggar #JosephDuggar #Duggars #ChildAbuse #SexualAbuse #children #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA #Arkansas
    /2

  15. "Arkansas police have arrested Kendra Duggar, the wife of the reality TV personality Joseph Duggar, on misdemeanor child abuse charges, in the latest scandal to envelop the family featured on TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting."

    ~ Roque Planas

    #KendraDuggar #JosephDuggar #Duggars #ChildAbuse #SexualAbuse #children #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA #Arkansas
    /1

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  16. The reason I think #MatriarchalCommunism is the next (or first!?) truly civilized "phase" (if we survive this) is because the rise of primative #accumulation and #capitalism, including the #enclosures of #public #land transfomed into #private, the development of #wage #labor following the #crisis of european “need” for expanding #markets and labor, and the witch trials and murders (10s of thousands of basic #sisters, daughters, and #grandmothers) created or deepened (while adding 100% incrs of intensity of #misogyny) the line between men/male and women/female (less than), while hitherto, communities included #identities and #labor performed independently or in #untraditional #families.
    Previous to “Oh shit the world is round!” the #complementary #division of labor for #families in the structure meant women's #work was valued, #compensated with #trade and #respect. #Euro-Colonialist states and the church’s (both #Protestant and #Catholic) #insatiable #desire for #freelabor and #profit purposefully created #genders #races and #childabuse. Before, there were territories and natural boundaries. after the violent and terrifying rise of #privateproperty in #Europe they demanded heirarchies binaries to separate who profits from who labors and who slaves
    But what if #We #ridetogether #rideordie

  17. It's great to see Senator Hawley questioning Zuckerberg at the trial. The two-year-old video has received 2.3 million views and asks fundamental questions to one of the oligarchs who feeds the Trump regime and about his dangerous tool for hate speech, Instagram.

    What has changed since then? Zuckerberg has become more powerful.

    youtu.be/pX2zvfD6GCY?si=0N8tCv

    #Zuckerberg #Hawley #ChildAbuse #Instagram #Meta #Trump #USPol #Oligarchy #Disinformation

  18. Saturday, December 27, 2025

    [Vlog] Why Russia sent Ukrainian children to North Korea, explained -- Ukraine in 2025: A year in photos -- Russia's mass missile attack targets Kyiv ahead of upcoming Trump-Zelensky meeting -- Russia attacks sea port, energy, and railway infrastructure across Ukraine ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  19. Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
    On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

    We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

    Relevant links:
    collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Deta

    orangeshirtday.org/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mich

    umista.ca/

    7generations.org/what-is-every

    #IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

  20. Tuesday, December 2, 2025

    Why Trump's peace plan is unlikely to end Russia's war in Ukraine -- Putin claims Russian capture of Pokrovsk, Vovchansk as Kyiv warns of Kremlin propaganda blitz amid peace talks -- Ukrainian Special Forces hit Russian Shahed drone launch site in occupied Crimea -- Ukraine denies Russian occupation of Klynove in Donetsk Oblast ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  21. Friday, November 28, 2025

    Putin demands Ukrainian troops withdraw before ceasefire, as Witkoff set to visit Moscow -- In bomb-shelter classrooms, Ukrainian university students turn to weapons engineering -- US to discuss Ukraine security guarantees AFTER peace deal signed, Rubio tells allies -- Occupation authorities to send 400 Ukrainian children to Russia for mandatory 'exchange' program ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  22. new CEO of the favourite #bank of both the #crypto industry as well as #GeorgeSantos was just arrested for child sex stuff and maybe even child slavery (“buying or selling of children” is allegedly among his charges).

    Reminder that Evolve Bank & Trust was:

    - george santos & andy ogles campaigns' bank
    - #FTX debit card provider
    - #synapse bankruptcy disaster banking partner
    - hacked by #russia
    - a venezuelan money laundry

    and those are the confirmed offences. one assumes there are at least a few bodies that have not floated to the surface yet.

    #uspol #evolvebank #evolvebankandtrust #AndyOgles #tnpol #tennessee #nypol #nyc #Venezuela #Grindr #uspolitics #CSAM #ChildAbuse #tnpol #a16z

  23. Lives disrupted and stunted by ongoing climate disasters

    "Unicef-commissioned report shows being unable to finish high school – and the associated wage loss – is the most significant impact of increasingly frequent disasters on young people. Experts and advocates fear the lifelong consequences facing young people are being overlooked in disaster responses as what were previously known as “one-in-a-hundred years” disasters increase in frequency and severity."

    "Unicef Australia is calling for the government to create a policy framework to support young people during and after natural disasters. “[We need] a better plan around the things that children need, around education and having enough supports to help them with their mental health if they’re traumatised by an event."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #PlanetaryHealth #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #intergenerationalJustice #inequality #YoungPeople #children #parenting #ChildAbuse #bushfires #floods #disasters #HeatStress #MentalHealth #trauma #HotOcean #FoamAndBlooms

  24. Friday, August 8, 2025

    This is child trafficking: Russia launches catalog of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color — Inflicting ‘serious losses,’ Ukraine strikes Russian radar systems, landing craft in Crimea — Over 70% of Ukrainians reject Russian peace plan, support for US proposal remains divisive — What it’s really like being Black in Russia … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  25. Wednesday, July 2, 2025

    Ukraine shows footage of Bober drones hitting Russian air defenses, fighter jet in Crimea — Ukraine’s new interceptor UAVs are starting to knock Russia’s long-range Shahed drones out of the sky — Germany still weighing Taurus missile supply to Ukraine — [vlog/video] Why Norway is investing billions in Ukraine’s victory … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  26. I’ve loved Sarah Silverman for three decades, since her brief turn as Wendy Traston on The Larry Sanders Show. For the last several years, she’s opened her eponymously titled podcast with, “Hi, this is your friend, Sarah.”
    I’ve almost felt like she was a friend, a trusted friend.
    That is, until she broke my heart with one single, tasteless, totally inexplicable joke. Now, my trust has been shattered.
    medium.com/prismnpen/asking-sa

    #LGBTQ #ChildAbuse #SexualAbuse #SarahSilverman #MichaelTait

  27. @ktdoggett

    People dont realize, these are all new men, new far right republicans, new pastors every day, new Trump activists, more and more.

    Also, no drag queens arrested. Because men in arranged authority abuse their authority, thats what fascism is.

    Because men in arranged authority are abusing their authority, demanding obedience, are abusing their authority, thatscwhat fascism is.

    No matter what lies the NYTimes tells you.

    #gop #republicans #pastors #maga #childAbuse

  28. Film: #MohawkMothers Taking Message to #SupremeCourtOfCanada

    Posted on October 17, 2024, #MohawkNationNews

    "The Mohawk Mothers and the Independent Special Interlocutor For #MissingChildren and #UnmarkedGraves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian #ResidentialSchools went officially to #Ottawa to deliver an application to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case against #SocieteQuebecoisesDesInfrastructure, #McGillUniversity, #RoyalVictoriaHospital, City of #Montreal Attorney General of Canada and Attorney General of Quebec. No. 500-09-030847-248 SCM No. 500-17-120468-221. They made a public declaration on the steps of the Supreme Court of Canada at 1.00 pm on Oct. 16, 2024 which is covered in the following film..."

    Link to original post and videos:
    mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024

    #IndianResidentialSchools #TruthAndReconciliation #FirstNations #FirstNationsCanada #TeiohatehTwoRow #Kahnistensera #SupremeCourtOfCanada #NativeAmericanGenocide #Genocide
    #StolenChildren #ResidentialSchools
    #Assimilation #ChildAbuse

  29. #Kahnistensera / #MohawkMothers File in #SupremeCourtOfCanada in Search for #UnmarkedGraves of Their Children

    Posted on October 15, 2024, Mohawk Nation News

    "After the 'opening words that come before' at the rally, these were the words of a Mohawk #KnowledgeKeeper: 'We find ourselves in the ongoing violation of the #TeiohatehTwoRow, which is the agreement made between us in the beginning of our relationship. We have tried to alert the #Crown that there is a violation going on which places both of us in rough waters. Today we stand in front the Supreme Court of Canada facing a political violation by the people of #Canada that we wish to discuss so that we may get #justice"

    Source and videos:
    mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024

    #NativeAmericanGenocide #Genocide #UnmarkedGraves #StolenChildren #ResidentialSchools #Assimilation #ChildAbuse

  30. CW: The article contains disturbing child abuse, resulting in death. #TriggerWarning.

    The placement was approved by both #BritishColumbia Ministry of #Children & Family Development & the family service’s department of the boy’s First Nation, but the report says the ministry did not complete #BackgroundChecks or visit the home before the siblings were moved there.

    Charlesworth said the lack of communication, #DueDiligence & #DueProcess would “prove to be a massive error” because those in charge of the boy’s safety could have learned the woman had prior involvement with the ministry over physical #abuse of her child & there were documented concerns about her partner’s “conduct with children.”

    aptnnews.ca/national-news/b-c-

    #BCpoli #ChildAbuse #BCNDP #ChildWelfare #ChildrenInCare #ChildrensRights #ChildrensSafety #BCgovernment #BCNewDeathParty #PreventableDeaths #FailureToProtect #SocialWelfare #ChildrensWelfare #IndigenousChildren #EveryChildMatters

  31. Imprisoning A Child is A ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of The Law, Yet Police Freely Violate The Law, 77% Of Detentions In UP

    Despite the Supreme Court calling the detention of children ‘a flagrant violation of the law’, right-to-information data reveals at least 79 such detentions, 61 from Uttar Pradesh alone over five years. Juvenile justice law clearly says that no child in conflict with the law can be placed in a police lock-up or jail.

    #ChildImprisonment #ChildRights #ChildAbuse #IllegalDetentions #prisons #policing #law #justice #UttarPradesh #haryana #delhi #CAA #JuvenileJusticeAct #NCPCR #NHRC #UNCRC #HumanRights #RTI #india

    article-14.com/post/imprisonin