-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors
from backlash_ology Domestic violence: Identifying the deadly silence. Kessmann JR Tex Dent J 2000 Oct;117(10):42-7 "affects 3 to 4 million individuals every year in this country alone (6, 7, 14). Millions more are affected due to the children and family who witness the abuse. Each year 3.3 million children witness domestic partner abuse and 50 to 70 percent of the perpetrators also abuse their children (7, 1). Domestic violence is a leading cause of serious injury to women, killing as many as 4,000 women each year (14, 2). Twenty-five percent of the murders in this country are related to domestic violence (14). Domestic violence represents the largest segment of unreported crime in the United States (2)." From: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA. Tough Talk - D.A. Steve Cooley says he'll take his investigation of Cardinal Mahony's pedo-priests "wherever it leads." by Ron Russell "...Cooley tells New Times that his office intends to go beyond merely prosecuting a few priests accused of abusing children to pursue criminal misconduct within the nation's largest Roman Catholic Archdiocese "wherever it leads." Asked if that means Mahony himself may conceivably become the target of a criminal probe, the district attorney pointedly replies, "No one is above the law." http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2002-07-11/faultlines.html/1/index.html Domestic violence: Articles, fact sheets, and other informative resources http://www.mincava.umn.edu/vaw.asp#A101090100 Man guilty of bigamy, molestation, spouse abuse By Gwendolyn Crump -- Bee Staff Writer 7/11/02 "A 48-year-old man was convicted Wednesday in Sacramento Superior Court of bigamy, spousal abuse and molesting a daughter of one of three women he was living with....Gonzalez testified he believed in the former Mormon tenet of plural marriages but denied the rapes and molestation....The prosecution said that Gonzalez told people he was a bishop with the Mormon Church and was later excommunicated when the church learned of his multiple wives, but that was never substantiated.... In Utah last summer, Tom Green, a man with five wives and 30 children, was sentenced to five years in prison in Utah's biggest polygamy case in nearly half a century. Green was convicted last month of child rape for impregnating one of his wives-to-be when she was 13 in the mid-1980s. http://www.sacbee.com/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20020627-595079.htm June 27, 2002 Judge strikes law citing 'terrorist' groups By Ben Barber A U.S. law authorizing the State Department to designate groups as "terrorist" and which allows those who support them to be prosecuted has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge, throwing U.S. anti-terrorism strategies into disarray http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16514 Panel: People listed in 'spy files' should be allowed to review reports By The Associated Press 07.06.02 DENVER — A panel of three former judges is recommending that people included in the Denver Police Department's "spy files" should have 60 days to see what those reports say about them, The Denver Post reported this week. Police have confirmed that the department's intelligence bureau has more than 3,400 surveillance files, including some on protesters who were not known to have been involved in illegal activity. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
