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Seven children in protective custody in Santa Cruz County child-sex case with neurosurgeon, nurses

mercurynews.com

by Michael Todd

May 22, 2017

The relationship between former Santa Cruz neurosurgeon James Kohut, and nurses Emily Stephens and Rashel Brandon is becoming clear: the trio allegedly worked together to force children into sexual acts, such as sodomy, oral copulation and intercourse.

On May 9, a Watsonville resident gave police a video, shot in March, of the two nurses having sex with children as young as 3 years old in a Scotts Valley motel. The evidence triggered allegations that Kohut also had forced girls and boys to have sex with him multiple times since Jan. 1, 2016, according to court documents.

Doctor, nurses charged in California with child sexual abuse

santamariatimes.com

May 22, 2017

California authorities say a brain surgeon and two nurses have been charged in a child sex abuse ring involving seven victims under 13.

Watsonville police Capt. Jorge Zamora said Thursday that Dr. James Kohut, Emily Stephens and Rashel Brandon have been arrested and charged with sex crimes with children. Zamora said the children have been placed in protective custody. It was unclear if the suspects are represented by lawyers.

Justina Pelletier: Child Protective Services and Medical Child Abuse

decodedscience.org

by Gina Putt

May 22, 2017

Is medical child abuse essentially different than physical abuse, sexual abuse or neglect? The case of Justina Pelletier, a teenager with a mysterious medical history who was hospitalized and subsequently placed in protective custody.

The doctors at Boston Children's Hospital rejected her existing diagnosis, and diagnosed her as having a psychosomatic illness instead - that's an illness in which symptoms come from your mind, rather than an underlying disease process. The Department of Children and Family became involved when the parents disagreed with the new diagnosis. Justina spent nearly a year in a state psychiatric hospital, then went to a group home before being returned to her family.

Trial date set for former CPS worker involved in Klapheke case

reporternews.com

by Brooke Crum

May 22, 2017

While a trial date was set Wednesday for one former Child Protective Services worker involved in the 2012 Tiffany Klapheke child death case, new evidence has postponed the trial of former regional director Martha "Bit" Whitaker.

Gretchen Denny, who is accused of tampering with physical evidence in the 2012 death of 22-month-old Tamryn Klapheke, has a pretrial hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 2 in 350th District Court. Jury selection is expected to begin Nov. 13. Meanwhile, Whitaker will have another status hearing at 1 p.m. Aug. 17.

Texas House votes to bar vaccinations of new foster children, even to prevent cancer

dallasnews.com

by Robert T. Garrett

May 22, 2017

House members voted Wednesday to bar doctors from vaccinating new foster children, even against cervical cancer and head and neck cancers caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV.

The ban was part of an ongoing push in the name of parents' rights by members of the House Freedom Caucus, a dozen GOP rebels who left their mark on a broadly popular bill that would prod Child Protective Services to make a variety of improvements.

Senate passes religious protections for child welfare agencies

texastribune.org

by Marissa Evans

May 21, 2017

Texas senators voted 21-10 on Sunday to give child welfare providers protection from legal retaliation if they assert their "sincerely held religious beliefs" while caring for abused and neglected children in foster or Child Protective Services custody.

House Bill 3859 would allow faith-based organizations to place a child in a religion-based school; deny referrals for abortion-related contraceptives, drugs or devices; and refuse to contract with other organizations that don't share their religious beliefs. If a faith-based group refuses services to children or prospective homes on religious grounds, they would be required to refer the child or parent to a different organization that can help them.

Study Shows Damage To 'The Seat of The Soul' After Aluminum-Adjuvanted Vaccination and Glyphosate

collective-evolution.com

May 17, 2017

"What basically seems to have happened - aluminium was not bioavailable, traditionally, in the world's biota until the Industrial Revolution, and so, it just had no place in any biochemical reaction that was normal."

"It shows up in so many products. Again, it's great stuff to make airplanes and computers out of, but it shows up in our food, it shows up in our water, it shows up in our air, it shows up in our medicines, including vaccines, it shows up in our antacids, and various things we take into our bodies. So we increasingly have this compound that is not part of any normal biochemical process, on Earth, for anything, that now can only go in and do havoc, which is exactly what it does. It causes all kinds of unusual biochemical reactions in the body, including in the brain."

Digging Into The History Of Hanford's Radioactive Waste Tunnels

kuow.org

by Anna King

May 16, 2017

One week ago workers found a tunnel filled with radioactive waste caved in at the Hanford nuclear site in southeast Washington. State officials and tribes are calling for quick cleanup action.

Historian Michele Gerber wrote a 64-page report on the history of the PUREX plant 24 years ago. PUREX is short for the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant. And now, its tunnels are infamous since the cave-in was discovered. The plant was built from 1953 to 1955 and opened "hot" in January 1956.

Ex-social worker guilty of calling in false child abuse reports in Grayson County

courier-journal.com

by Deborah Yetter

May 10, 2017

A former state social worker has been convicted of filing false child abuse complaints against two people in her Grayson County community - one a former close friend and the other, the pastor of a church she attended.

Beth Bond, 40, who also has pleaded guilty to similar offenses in Hardin County, was convicted Monday in Grayson District Court on four counts of official misconduct and four counts of falsely reporting an incident, Grayson County Attorney Clay Ratley said.

Prosecutors Drop Charges Because It Ain't Rape When An Illegal Alien Does It

downtrend.com

by Brian Anderson

May 5, 2017

In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, Maryland prosecutors have dropped rape charges against two illegal aliens who raped a 14-year-old girl in a high school bathroom. As messed up as that is, the reason is even worse.

Back in March, illegal aliens Jose Montano and Henry Sanchez pulled a 14-year-old girl into the boys bathroom of a Rockville, MD high school and took turns raping her. The victim says she was repeatedly raped and sodomized. Police found blood and semen at the scene. Making matters worse, the two rapist are 17 and 18 years old and for some reason in 9th grade with children.

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