Tag Archives: Christian Child Abuse
Dec. 13 Capitol Hill hearing on child abuse: time to revisit HR 911 (now HR 3126)
The LA Times reported that the Senate Health Education Labor and Pension committee will have a hearing on child abuse brought on by the horrific sexual abuse scandal at Penn … Continue reading
Lester Roloff’s Obituary – Jack Patterson Update
I have come across a pile of recent – as in the last 10 years recent about Lester Roloff. I have done a lot of reading about this granddaddy of … Continue reading
New Bethany, Redux
Several new documents have become available in the ongoing nightmare that is New Bethany Home. I am attaching a disturbing first person account of abuse at the hands of Mack … Continue reading
H.R. 911 Petition – selected comments
Several months ago I set up a petition on the Care 2 website to gather signatures in support of HR 911. I wanted to share some recent comments to the … Continue reading
H.R. 911 Update, the petition and a trip to D.C.
Many of you have already signed the petition urging the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee to schedule a hearing on HR 911 – the Stop Child Abuse in … Continue reading
Urge Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pension committee to take up HR 911
I wrote a post a week or two ago about the House passage of H.R. 911 sponsored by Rep. George Miller of California. Here is a mini review: H.R. 911, … Continue reading
Child protection bill passes house, some Republicans balk
What congressman wouldn’t vote for a bill called the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act (HR 4247)? No one of course, right? But handful of Republicans not only voted … Continue reading
History of Violence: Christian boarding schools and the trial of Jack Patterson
Dr. Jack Patterson, founder of the Christian boarding school, Reclamation Ranch, goes on trial for aggravated child abuse March 10 in Blount County Alabama. The trial comes two years after … Continue reading
