NY – DA: Infant was subject to sex abuse

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JIM KINNEY, The Saratogian
12/02/2006

WILTON — A 2½-year-old Saratoga Springs girl was subject to sexual abuse at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend starting at one week of age, Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III said.

‘I was upset, hurt and mad,’ the little girl’s biological father said Friday afternoon. ‘I just can’t see how anybody can do this to a little child.’

In his 18 years in the district attorney’s office, Murphy said, this is the first case he’s handled of an infant being abused in this way.

‘This victim is completely helpless,’ Murphy said. ‘The birth father did the right thing in this instance.’

CA – She can’t forgive Mahony’s inaction

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By John Spano
Times Staff Writer
December 2, 2006

Mary Dispenza Esfahan was 7 when her parish priest raped her in the auditorium of the Catholic school she attended in East Los Angeles, she recalls. At the time, her mother, who worked in the parish, was chatting with kitchen workers in the next room.

Eventually, Dispenza became a nun and a teacher at her old school, St. Alphonsus, often meeting with students in the auditorium where she remembers being molested. It was 43 years before Dispenza allowed herself to release repressed memories and confront what had happened in that room. The priest was George Neville Rucker, who has been accused of molesting 38 girls.

“To face the abuse would have caused me to face the church that I loved, the work that I loved, the faith that I loved,” Dispenza said in a recent interview.

MA – Sex offender ban is a distraction

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By Boston Herald editorial staff
Saturday, December 2, 2006

We’re as edgy as anyone over the idea that convicted sex offenders are living and working in proximity to young kids. But the effort by the Marlboro City Council to pass an ordinance effectively banning them from living within city limits misses the point.

    The ordinance, vetoed by the mayor on Thursday, would have prevented a convicted sex offender from living within 2,500 feet of a school, day care center or any place where children gather, such as playgrounds or parks.

    We understand exactly why Marlboro – and other communities in Massachusetts and across the U.S. – are inspired to such dramatic acts. The idea of some pervert spying from his apartment window while innocent children play next door – or worse – is horrifying.

   

SC – Anderson Police Arrest Man in Internet Sting

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(Columbia) – Attorney General Henry McMaster said Thursday the Anderson Police Department arrested a 34-year-old Belton man was arrested in an undercover Internet sting.

Police arrested 34-year-old Joseph Donovan Watt of 141 Blount Road in Belton. Watt was charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor, and one count of attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Investigators say Watt began communicating with an undercover Anderson police officer online in October. The officer posed as a 12-year-old girl. Investigators say Watt arranged to meet with the “girl” in Anderson, where he was arrested Thursday.

Watt’s bond was set at $50,000.

Self Esteem: A Necessary Component of Survival by Stephanie Gagos

From the moment we are born we learn to see ourselves through the eyes of our caregivers. If they look at us with unloving eyes, we will most likely grow to see ourselves as unlovable; if they see us as bad, rotten no good children, we will believe this is so. If their actions toward us are violations through – verbal, physical, emotional or sexual abuse – we will believe that we are at fault and deserving of such treatment. We will believe, at first, that there is something wrong with us -some flaw or damage on our part that makes them angry and provokes them to treat us in these ways. As children, we cannot comprehend that it could possibly be their fault, because we love them and depend on them for survival. We are also taught that adults know best and in our eyes they become omnipotent, leaving us with feelings of shame and inadequacy.

This distorted sense of self becomes all that we know. As we grow older we continue to reinforce these beliefs formed in childhood. We continue the abuse by abusing ourselves and/or allowing others to abuse us. Often, it does not matter if, intellectually, we understand that our abusers were wrong and that we were the victims; the damage is often so deep, the beliefs of unworthiness so engrained, that a massive effort is required to actively create and reinforce new beliefs. Aligning ourselves with people who love us and see us for who we really are will help, but without changing how we SEE and FEEL about ourselves, we will continue to feel empty and find that no matter what we have, something is always missing.

WE are what we are missing.

Dead Bones by Stephanie Gagos

At night
I am reminded
Of your
Steely touch
Grasping
My small body

Your hands
Are dead
Bones
Forever
Pressing
Against my
Skin

Reminders of
Unspeakable
Violations

I pray
For them to
Crumble into
Dust

I PRAY
FOR THE MEMORY
OF YOU
TO END

By: Stephanie Gagos
www.myvoiceoftruth.com
www.letterstomyabusers.com
stephanie@myvoiceoftruth.com

Professional Stuffing of our minds by Jennifer

This stuff that the professionals are stuffing in your mind is a bunch of shitfilled clap trap. It’s garbage.

You are NOT giving your father power. Being in pain, suffering is not giving anyone power. That means if a person with a broken back is still in pain years after a car accident that they’re letting the car hurt them. BULL. Now I’m not saying you’re wrong…… I’m saying the professionals have taught you bull. It’s bull you’re letting anything. As if you have power enough to ‘let’ someone but not stop them! How stupid is that! That’s what the pedophiles say… AND THEY’RE LIARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And they’re wrong if they tell you you’re self destructive at heart. THEY ARE SO WRONG. Learning self destruction does not make a person self destruction… it just means YOU WERE TAUGHT IT. And why the f*ck! haven’t the professionals told you ONCE how smart you were to learn as a little girl!?????????????? And that it’s not your fault that you learned the lies????????? Why are they f*cking telling you about that!!!!!!!! (Not yelling at you……. but I am screaming out against those who are WRONG! the professionals.) They don’t know squat! if they’re telling you these lies! LIES LIES LIES! Idiots if they think this garbage. Not you… no you’re not an idiot for learning this. You were just a little girl… and emotionally stunted by incest, and NOW THEY MUST PROTECT YOU FROM MORE WRONG IDEAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

MD – Rabbi Sentenced In Internet Sex Sting

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By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 2, 2006; Page B03

A Maryland rabbi caught in a television sting operation was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison yesterday for trying to solicit sex from a 13-year-old boy over the Internet.

David A. Kaye, 56, told the judge that he traveled to Herndon for what he thought would be sex with a boy “as a cry out for help to fight my personal demons.” Sobbing as he acknowledged his father, who sat in the courtroom in a wheelchair, Kaye said his conviction had made him face “the reality of who I am. . . . I know I need help. I pray that God allows me to get that help.”

Kaye’s attorney, Peter D. Greenspun, said the rabbi, who was featured last year on the “To Catch a Predator” series on “Dateline NBC,” kept his sexuality secret and spent thousands of hours chatting online in search of liaisons.

Healing Traumatic Experiences through True Compassion by CJ Martes, International Healer and Author

You possess an amazing survival instinct as a human being on earth.

These basic instincts can allow you to survive some very difficult

situations or even avoid personal physical injury. As human beings we

have a tremendous ability to overcome enormous obstacles and even

survive intense trauma.

Overcoming an especially difficult situation or time in your life can

either make you feel stronger or even more often, it can go the other

way toward greater woundedness.

Surviving traumatic events can make us feel more drained, wounded,

helpless and weak. When this happens, we must work through the pain to

heal. Otherwise we can be stunted by a wound that never heals.

We fail to heal our pain whenever we lack the proper insight to fully

resolve something, are unwilling or afraid to face our buried

emotions, or lack the confidence to continue the healing process.

We all have free will. This freedom allows us to choose the mental

view we will have of any obstacles that become a part of our lives. We

can either view them as a trauma or its opposite, a needed growth

opportunity moving. Growth moves us steadily toward greater compassion

in our life.

SC – Anderson Police Arrest Man in Internet Sting

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(Columbia) – Attorney General Henry McMaster said Thursday the Anderson Police Department arrested a 34-year-old Belton man was arrested in an undercover Internet sting.

Police arrested 34-year-old Joseph Donovan Watt of 141 Blount Road in Belton. Watt was charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor, and one count of attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Investigators say Watt began communicating with an undercover Anderson police officer online in October. The officer posed as a 12-year-old girl. Investigators say Watt arranged to meet with the “girl” in Anderson, where he was arrested Thursday.

Watt’s bond was set at $50,000.