What about when MOM is the abuser?

On Monday October 6, 1997 the BBC aired a show called The Sexual Abuse by Women of Children and Teenagers. I wanted to post complete transcripts of the show and this is part 6 of that. Be warned that some of the content can be disturbing and graphic.





Warning: This programme contains explicit descriptions of attacks and the emotional and physical damage they have caused, which some viewers may find distressing.




Children's home

Narrator:
More than 40 people are now alleging abuse including sexual abuse at this former children's home in Aberdeen. The orphanage was run by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth. The complaints the police are now investigating were until recently dismissed as impossible. They range over a period of 30 years in which individual nuns are alleged to have abused.

Boy:
I was about 7 or 8 at the time and she was in charge of our group, and just one day out of the blue she came along and asked me would I like to learn the time. And I just said yes, I'd like to learn the time. She told me that her watch was inside her breasts underneath her cassock which they used to wear. So I put my hand in - obviously I was fondling her breasts to look for the watch and I found it and while I was doing that- pulling the watch out - she would put her hand next to my penis and she would just gently squeeze it and that would get me excited. I could tell she was getting excited cause her face was pure red an d her speech was pretty excited speech.

Narrator:
This sort of incident happened on several occasions but the boy felt powerless.

Boy:
I knew it was wrong to do it, but I just did it because I had to do it or I got punished.

Female abusers acquire positions of trust

Narrator:
Some children aren't just at risk from the people they live with; they are vulnerable targets when they leave their homes. Out in the community female sexual abusers can manoeuvre with even more ease than men into positions of trust with authority over lost of children.



Dawn Read and Christopher Lilley:

Narrator:
Dawn Read and Christopher Lilley worked together as qualified teachers at a nursery in Newcastle. About 120 two to four year olds passed through their classes. Their mothers suspected nothing.

Mother:
I really liked her. She just came across really as a nice person, always laughing, smiling and wanting to talk to you, and just made us feel at ease.

Narrator:
It took two years for trusting parents to find out that their children were being repeatedly sexually abused at the nursery. Lilley and Read were never tried in court, making the parents determined to stand up in public and draw attention to the abuse.

Mother:
My daughter was sitting at the lunch table and said she didn't want her lunch, so Dawn got a knife and fork and took my daughter to the toilet which was in the classroom and sat her on the floor and inserted the knife and fork into her vagina. Chris was there and they were both laughing.

Narrator:
What did your daughter tell you about that, about how she felt?

Mother:
Well she said it hurt and there was blood and that they had to get a towel when she got washed, and the towel had blood on. But they seem to have done it a few times.

Narrator:
This child was one of more than 20 others who went on to tell their mothers what Dawn Read had done to them. At first they couldn't grasp what they were hearing.

Mother:
I'm angry with her. I can't understand where she was coming from when she was doing this to the children. I can't believe, as a mother I trusted her and I can't believe that a woman would let people trust her and then go out and misuse that trust.

Narrator:
Dawn Read and Christopher Lilley persistently misused parents trust at the nursery and at other addresses in Newcastle.

Interviewer:
What were they asking you to do?

Girl:
Pull my pants down. If I had a dress, lift my dress up.

Interviewer:
Did anyone take any photographs of you?

Girl:
Yeah, there was a camera man there.

Interviewer:
Tell me about that.

Girl:
He was just like taking pictures when they were being nasty to her and everything. I was like crying and just a lot of upset like. Screaming and saying I wanted to go back to the nursery and me mam and everything. And they wouldn't take any notice and they'd be laughing at me.

Interviewer:
When you had to join in with them, what did you have to do?

Girl:
I can remember when Chris put his privates into mine.

Interviewer:
And what was Dawn doing while Chris was doing this?

Girl:
Looking at the other children, being rude to the other children.

Interviewer:
She was being rude to the other children? What was she doing to the other children?

Girl:
Making them lift their dresses and take their clothes off.

Mother:
Medically there was tearing of the tissues, bleeding trauma, extensive damage to the hymen. She has since underwent STD tests for sexually transmitted diseases. She has also had an HIV test.

Narrator:
Dawn Reed and Christopher Lilley were never brought to justice because the judge thought the child witnesses too young to be heard in court. There was an outcry on behalf of the children. The parents formed a protest group to support each other and publicise fully Reed and Lilley's abuse. Some children are still showing signs of trauma.

Mother:
She was always trying to make play with herself and I used to think that's just what children do. I did ask the health visitor a couple of times and she said "She's just exploring her own body and a lot of children do this". But as she started to get older it didn't just settle with her. I've had a lot of counselling about it because I've got a fear of her growing up to being an abuser herself. What the therapist said was that a child who comes from a loving home who is being abused doesn't necessarily go on to be an abuser. But that's not to say it can't happen.

I wanted to look at two recent cases that share one thing in common. Mother's selling their children to other people knowing those people are going to be sexually abusing them. One case has a male abusing the child, the other case has a female abusing the child:


LANCASTER, Pa - A 25-year-old woman was sentenced Friday to at least two years in prison for having sex with a preteen Columbia boy, who was being pimped by his mother.

Ashley L. Banks of York was charged last year with having a four-month sexual relationship with the 12-year-old boy. In August, she pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault, a felony, and misdemeanor corruption of minors.

Banks had sex with the boy on a "nightly basis" from August 2005 to December 2005, according to a police affidavit filed by Columbia Detective Daniel Bell. She paid the boy's mother in exchange for the sexual encounters, the affidavit says.

The mother was charged in July 2007 with pimping the boy. A Lancaster County jury found that woman guilty in September of three offenses, including criminal conspiracy to rape of a child. She is to be sentenced Dec. 2. - Read the entire article here


BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A 46-year-old upstate New York woman will be sentenced for selling a 12-year-old girl to a man for sex as payment for the woman's back rent.

Linda O'Connor of Norwich and her landlord, Dean Sacco of Jersey City, N.J., were both convicted in August by a federal court jury of sex trafficking and producing child pornography. - Read the entire article here


What parent, male or female, would ever agree to do this to their own children? These cases are just more examples that giving birth or being a biologcal donor does not make a person a parent. Cases like this happen to often.

I am reprinting this story here with the kind permission of the Victim. Thank you David for your courage and strength in telling your story so others can benefit from it:

By
David
A Survivor

When my folks divorced I blamed myself. Eleven year old boys don't reason like an adult. I thought there must be something wrong with me because Dad took my older sister with him but never invited me to go. I was left to be raised by my mother but her work kept her away from the house too many hours so a neighbor girl was hired to baby-sit all my waking hours. In the 50's child abuse was a hush-hush subject with nowhere to turn for help. How a 14 year old girl could conceive the cruel and perverted acts done to me is hard to understand.

My mind was totally controlled by her after being forced to repeat this poem to her several times a day:

"Every day, I will obey, whatever you say, sweetly, completely, immediately, without questioning, crying or complaining, or I will be severely punished."

Resistance became impossible and I endured horrible physical and sexual abuse. Do you know what a little boy does after he is tied spread-eagle and naked to a table and whipped with a fishing pole? Anything he is told!

I learned helplessness mastering fear humiliation, shame, pain and terror. I cried myself to sleep nights, unable to change my situation. I withdrew to my inner feelings and did what ever was necessary to just exist. My memories are difficult to dwell upon even after having told and written my entire story in a book. It is still hard sharing the embarrassing things which I long to forget.

One public and very humiliating experience happened in a store as no one who witnessed it attempted to stop my babysitter from baring my backside and spanking me with other shoppers watching. I totally lost control of bodily functions and messed myself in public. That was the day that I first began considering suicide.

Wounds and scars over time lessen but the inner hurt stayed with me for years and years. My mind, emotions, and sexual orientation of life were confused and misguided. The abuse continued for 5 years and ended only when we moved away. Then I was able to persuade my mother that I was old enough to be a latchkey kid.

Years went by with graduation, college, marriage, children and a busy life. I tried to bury my past but many things triggered horrible memories which would not go away. I found the courage twice to discuss what had happened. Once with a doctor who told me that I should have been man enough not to let someone do those things to me. I wasn't a man, I was a little boy. The other time was to a minister who told me to just forget it all and get on with my life.

Amazingly, I never turned to drugs, alcohol, or crime and did not become an abuser myself. I turned to God and stayed busy helping others in order to avoid dwelling on things I never wanted to face again. I hid my childhood horrors from my children and my wife even though she knew something was terribly wrong.

After 40 years of hiding the hurt, I realized that I would have to deal with this because too many things triggered memories that gave me insomnia, and flashbacks. Suicide seemed my best option so I made plans, and wrote out my last will while trying to determine the best time when my family would be able to cope with my final decision.

On an internet chat room, for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse, a stranger gave me some life-changing advice encouraging me to write out my story, call a hotline and to read it anonymously. Blocking my phone number, so it could not be traced, I read it as my final act so someone would know why I was ending my life. I was amazed at the compassion and confidentiality I found with the counselor on the phone. An invitation was given to me to come and speak with the therapist. I was so afraid that I would be "Baker Acted" that I hid my car and would not tell my name.

First, I met weekly with a counselor named Kelly Ballentine until she moved to a different job and then I began therapy with Meredith Murphy. It took me a long time to face and find victory in each of the traumatic and horrible experiences as I relived them It was a very emotional and difficult season in my life but the wisdom, and compassion of a trained counselor guided my thinking and helped me to find peace, joy and victory. I was never told what to do but was coached and guided into making the decisions I chose that led me to total healing.

With Meredith's guidance I made the decision to write my story in a book entitled "It Had To Be Told, So He Told It To Me!" That entire story is available at either of the email addresses below. My desire is to help others who have been abused to begin their own journey and find healing and fulfillment in life.

I have written many poems and articles which have been posted on internet sites to help others. Meredith even gave me an opportunity to speak at a Sexual Assault Awareness Day event in our community. My speech ended with the nine recommendations that follow entitled: "If You Have Been Abused"If You Have Been Abused:

1) FACE IT
Stop denying, hiding and ignoring it.

2) FOCUS ON IT
Deal thoroughly with it.

3) FOLLOW A QUALIFIED COUNSELOR'S ADVICE
Don't try to be your own emotional physician.
Let wise, trained counselors help you.

4) FEEL IT
Stop suppressing the memories.
Let it out of your heart.
Hurts can become scars you can live with.

5) FIGHT BACK
If the statute of limitations is over
and you cannot do something to prosecute,
do something to prevent it from being repeated!

6) FIX IT
Healing often is hastened by expressing it.
Some people paint, some write poetry, some get on
"Safe Chat Lines." See a Therapist; Do something!

7) FORGIVE IT
(This is hard!)
Forgive those whose choices permitted
or caused it to happen.
Forgive the person who did the abuse.
This does not clear them, it heals your heart.
Forgive yourself for not telling sooner!
You are NOT to blame!

8) FIND A WAY TO HELP OTHERS
This is a world-wide problem and you can help others who
have suffered similar things. Look for hurting people!
Reach out to someone else!

9) FREQUENTLY CELEBRATE
Celebrate each accomplishment on your journey to healing!

Wishing you - "Joy On Your Journey!"
~ David



For additional information,
help or available resources


Email:

ItHadToBeTold@gmail.com (David)
HeToldItToMe@gmail.com (Meredith)

Another installment of the weekly article round up:





GLENS FALLS - A Glens Falls woman was jailed Thursday night after she chased her ex-boyfriend into a bathroom and threatened to harm him, police said. Fataima A. Moseley, 20, was arrested shortly after the 8 p.m. incident at a Union Street apartment, said Glens Falls Police Sgt. Keith Knoop.


She was accused of violating an order of protection a man had against her by chasing him until he ran and locked himself in a bathroom, then threatening him and trying to break down the door, Knoop said. - Read the entire article here





KY - A man is recovering after he was stabbed in the chest outside of his Lexington home late Thursday night. Police say the victim and the female suspect were in an argument at the home Corral Street.


Then, police say the suspect left and returned with a knife, stabbing the man in the middle of the chest as he sat on the sidewalk. Police arrested Warnetta Mayfield, 65, at the scene. Officers say she waved the knife at an officer but dropped it when officers told her to. - Read the entire article here





VALPARAISO - A Chesterton woman is facing nine charges, five of them felonies, in connection with a Tuesday stabbing. Janery Santana, 30, goes before Judge William Alexa today on charges that include felony aggravated battery, battery, criminal recklessness and possession of marijuana.


She has been held in Porter County Jail on $50,000 bail. According to court records, police went to the house where she and the victim lived and found the victim kneeling on the garage floor at 2:30 a.m., his T-shirt torn and drenched with blood.


He had at least four lacerations on his head and a purple bruise under his left eye. His head was covered with lumps. - Read the entire article here





TROY - At 2:05 p.m. two females entered the HSBC at Broadway and Third Street and robbed it by passing a note to a teller. Troy Police arrested Sheila Davis, of Albany, at the intersection of Fourth and First streets. Another female is being questioned in the crime by Troy detectives.


"This is a desperate crime by desperate people," said Sgt. David Dean, a police spokesman. "It's highly unlikely to get away with bank robbery, this is especially true in Troy." - Read the entire article here





KY - A Louisville woman convicted earlier this year in a child sex assault case was sentenced Friday to the maximum punishment -- six years in prison -- after she violated the terms of her probation by continuing to have sex with her victim.

Irene Gomez, 39, had been free on a 20-year sentence of intensive supervised probation when she was re-arrested in September on suspicion of having sex multiple times with the same man she had sexually abused when he was a minor. - Read the entire article here


BILLINGS - Days before a former Billings woman was to be sentenced on federal bank fraud charges, she began a crime spree that ended three felonies later in Colorado. On Thursday, more than two years after skipping her sentencing, Noah Kathleene Robins, 23, appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull.

Wiping away tears, Robins apologized. "I was a liar. I was a thief. I manipulated people on a daily basis," she said. "I was a very self-destructive person." Robins said she had no logical explanation for her behavior but said poor decisions snowballed. She was ashamed and embarrassed by her "reckless behavior," she said. - Read the entire article here


KENOSHA, Wis. — A 38-year-old Kenosha woman has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for prostituting her then-15-year-old daughter. Authorities say she charged men $25 to $45 for sex with her 15-year-old daughter and tried to sell her 14-year-old daughter into prostitution as well.

Her older daughter asked for the harshest sentence possible. The woman apologized for her actions in court Monday. - Read the entire article here


WESTPORT — Police have charged a local health care worker with beating a handicapped woman who was once in her care. Mandy Blake, 31, of 50 Charlotte White Road was charged with assaulting the wheelchair-bound local woman, who was not identified. Detective Jeff Majewski said that Ms. Blake is accused of appearing at the victim's home during her health care worker's brief daily break, refusing to leave, arguing about a financial matter, then grabbing the victim by the arms and "punching her about the head" before leaving. - Read the entire article here

On Monday October 6, 1997 the BBC aired a show called The Sexual Abuse by Women of Children and Teenagers. I wanted to post complete transcripts of the show and this is part 5 of that. Be warned that some of the content can be disturbing and graphic.





Warning: This programme contains explicit descriptions of attacks and the emotional and physical damage they have caused, which some viewers may find distressing.



Louise:

Narrator:
The violence that often accompanies the abuse is also unexpected of a woman. Victims often report excessive force equivalent to if not greater than that of a man. This was the experience in a Newcastle taxi a year ago of a 15 year old girl. Her 33 year old aunt held her down and forced her to submit to oral sex by the driver as payment in kind. Angered by that and other sexual attacks by her aunt Paula Belisle, the victim has decided to speak out publicly about the abuse.

Louise:
I was sitting watching the telly and I thought she was going into the toilet because she went out in the passage, She came back in and she had this chair leg cause it was on top of the electrical rad and then she just come over on the settee and put her hand over me mouth and pulling me pants down had her legs over my legs and she's got like big fat legs, you know what I mean, well really really tight on my legs and I couldn't move. She had a hand on me shoulder and a hand on me mouth and everything - just one hand though, and she was shoving the chair leg up us really really hard and I couldn't hardly scream because she had her hand over me mouth. It was very painful, it was like I was having a bairn [baby]. And I was just crying - I was really upset I didn't want me own aunty to do it to us. I thought men were animals, but women are just as bad - especially my own aunty doing that. I hate her. If I had the chance I'd kill her. I can't stand her.

Narrator:
Paula Belisle is now on probation. Louise says she has since threatened to kill her for going to the police.

Michelle Elliott:
Women are supposed to be the gentler sex, women are supposed to be incapable of cruelty in a sense, and I would like as a woman to believe that. Unfortunately my experience with the survivors tells me that many of their abusers have been very sadistic to them. Cruelty that is almost unimaginable South Wales

Narrator:
In the early hours of one morning in South Wales last year the authorities drew up in a quiet street to a neat looking terrace house, looking to arrest a male abuser. Nothing prepared them for what they found. Child Protection Officers were to stumble on a den of professional paedophiles, but a den in which the mother was the prime abuser.

Margaret Harris:(South Wales Probation)
It had all the appearances of a normal sort of terrace house from the outside, in a very ordinary community - a very proud community. And as you went in the front door it changed dramatically. The house was full of rubble and rubbish from floor to ceiling. The walls had been taken away right through to the point that you could see bare wires hanging down as though the house was still under construction. It gave the appearance of a house that was just designed really to completely disorientate the children. In the room where the family actually lived - that was where they videoing the children - they used two different cameras. The room where the computer was kept was full of rubbish and yet in this corner in a particular corner which had been sectioned off from the rest of the room was the most sophisticated equipment that you could imagine. There was a kitchen area where in the larder there were videos - pornographic videos. Hardly any food, just videos upon videos upon videos. We also then found under the floorboards home-made videos of the abuse of the children. They did what would almost be construed as a professional video, which we assumed would be for selling.

Narrator:
The husband had filmed the videos, but his wife did the abusing. She took a lead role, sometimes reading from scripts, acting out scenes. Most of them involved her daughter videoed between the ages of eight and thirteen.

Margaret Harris:
The older child was naked. Mother was naked. They strung up the older child and tied her, gagged her and string her up from a hook in the ceiling and beat her something like 100 times in about four minutes. They then laid her on the bed and further abused her. All the time mother was doing this, father was videoing the actual abuse. At the end of it all, at one point when the child was lying on the bed almost unconscious, mother and father sat on the edge of the bed and had a cup of tea together. I think that portrays very graphically the awful nature of this. To give it the name sexual abuse belies what actually happened in that house. It was torture. It was the most abhorrent torture I have ever seen.

Narrator:
The mother used the Internet to feed her fantasies. Links to the North of England and the United States were stark evidence of leading female involvement in the sort of network of abusers normally associated with men. The father was taken away and jailed for life. The mother got a lesser 15 year sentence. Without the exceptional video evidence the authorities say because she was a woman she may not have been implicated at all.

Margaret Harris:
Often when children are trying to tell us what's happening to them, we are dependent on their stories and I do wonder with this child, if we hadn't found the videos, and this child had simply told us what had happened it would have been beyond belief, and I do worry that no on would in fact have believed her. And I wonder therefore how many other children has this happened to, where they've either been too afraid to tell or if they have tried to tell they felt they weren't being believed and have held back. Because what we know we know from the videos. The children still haven't talked i n full about the horrors that they encountered.

Narrator:
Half the women in a recent survey of 50 convicted female sexual abusers said they derived sadistic pleasure from inflicting pain on victims. The research showed neither class nor age were barriers to their behaviour.

Jacqui Saradjiam:
In my research I've come across women of any age from young teenagers to grandmothers, from any class - from women who barely had a house to live in during their life to women with very large houses. And from any level of education - women who can barely read and write to women who've got degrees. We can't make assumptions about the type of woman who will sexually abuse a child.

On Monday October 6, 1997 the BBC aired a show called The Sexual Abuse by Women of Children and Teenagers. I wanted to post complete transcripts of the show and this is part 4 of that. Be warned that some of the content can be disturbing and graphic.





Warning: This programme contains explicit descriptions of attacks and the emotional and physical damage they have caused, which some viewers may find distressing.



Lucy:

Narrator:
Lucy Jenner had a single mother. Lucy took the place of a husband in the bed she had to share every night.

Lucy:
She would lock the door and after a certain time she would snap on the lights. Sometimes I tried to pretend to be asleep and it wouldn't happen, but it didn't make any difference. My mother would be behind me and I would be facing the wall. My mother would be around me and she pulled up a chair and she would say that she loved me and various other things and she would penetrate me vaginally and rectally with whatever she had.

Narrator:
There was lasting damage, causing pain and bleeding even today a legacy of the abuse she'd endured.

Lucy:
I think mainly it was the abuse that affected my bowel. I have a rectal prolapse which was a direct result of being penetrated with objects whatever when I was a child and was sexually abused by my mother.

Disbelief the biggest trauma

Narrator:
The biggest trauma for some victims though is disbelief. A survey of 127 survivors by the children's charity Kidscape showed 86% were not believed at first when they named a woman as their abuser.

Jacqui Saradjiam:
The fact that we are not expecting women in our society to do this - not expecting that women our society do this actually has profound effects on the victims, often making the experience go on much longer than it would have done in other cases, but also making them feel more stigmatised, more different, more betrayed, more powerless.



Sandra & Lesley:

Narrator:
For 20 years no one saw what Sandra and Lesley Wilson endured. their mother started to abuse them aged 5 and six, and continued even after they were married. When they threatened to go to the police she threatened to abuse their children. Sandra and Lesley's mother was accompanied by their father in the abuse, but it was she who took the lead.

Sister:
Mother always used to come in the bedroom and drag us out of bed. She never had any clothes on. You knew what was going to happen. I was made to do things. I was frightened. I was crying. I was told to shut up and I just had to get used to it.

Sister:
You'd know when my mum was being really nice - you knew something was going to happen - you were going to get raped. It felt like it was every night - 2 or three times a week they both raped me.

Interviewer:
Who started these sessions? Who was the dominant partner?

Sister:
My mother. My mother always came to get me.

Sister:
My dad was at work. I was cleaning the bath out and everything. All of a sudden my mum come in the bathroom and she pushed me flying, she grabbed my hair and dragged me into the bedroom and she made me do things you know to her satisfaction.

Sister:
I couldn't understand how your own mother... You've got no one else to turn to. If it's your dad doing it at least you've got some chance - your mother to try and talk to if she's a good mum. But when you've got your mother doing it as well what chance have you got? No one's going to believe you. There was no escape.

Narrator:
Sandra and Lesley's father John Wildman was eventually sent to prison for 22 years. Maureen Wildman died shortly after being charged. It's her abuse the girls say hurt them most.

Michelle Elliott:
Those survivors who tell me they have been sexually abused by both a woman and a man always tell me that it was more traumatic to be sexually abused by a woman - they feel more betrayed, they feel very angry, they feel the woman should have cared for them, should have loved them instead of abusing them. For some reason they expected it almost of the man, but never of the woman.

Sometimes I see/read about cases that just go so far beyond terrible and this is one of them:


WAYNESVILLE, NC - Police arrested Tabitha Ann Rich, 21, of Waynesville, on five felony charges, including the maiming without malice and first-degree sex offense. She is in jail on a $110,000 bond.

Investigators allege she put her 2-and-a-half-year-old son Zachary in boiling water on Oct. 20, according to court papers, causing second- and third-degree burns on his buttocks and scrotum. Those burns prompted the child abuse and maiming charges.

Rich beat her son and sexually abused him between Oct. 17 and Oct. 20, causing bruising to his head and a black eye, according to arrest warrants. She also burned the bottom of his left foot with a cigarette, authorities said. - Read the entire article here


Other reports indicate that prior to putting the baby into boiling water she had placed something inside the baby's rectum which required surgery to remove it and a colostomy bag to be put in place. Children's Services had recently been at the home to check on a report that the baby had bruises on him but they apparently dismissed it as he got them falling off his trike.

So when someone comes along and tells you that a woman or a mother is more nurturing, caring, understanding, protective, or any other number of stereotypes just think of this story to remember that women are just as capable of the same range of violence, hate and autonomous behavior as men. People are people.

Another installment of the weekly article round-up:


McKINNEY, Texas — A suburban Dallas mother accused of dropping her infant daughter from a balcony in her home twice was convicted Thursday of attempted capital murder, aggravated assault and injury to a child.

Jurors in the trial of Padmaja Sivaray Enjeti, 38, of Plano, began deliberations Wednesday afternoon. She could face up to life in prison in the sentencing phase of the trial. - Read the entire article here



LAWRENCE - A Douglas County jury convicted a 37-year-old Lawrence woman of second-degree murder in the beating death of a 62-year-old man in February.

The jury deliberated 4½ hours before finding Shanna R. Friday guilty in the death of Jerry L. DeShazer. During the week-long trial, Jerod E. Buffalohead, 36, testified that he saw Friday hit DeShazer in the head and face with a bottle during a drunken argument in Lawrence. - Read the entire article here



OHIO - A woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for having sexual relations with a 12-year-old boy. Timi Robertson, 36, was scheduled for a bench trial in Richland County Common Pleas Court before Judge James DeWeese, but instead pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery.

In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dismissed three counts of rape against Robertson. Robertson was declared a Tier III sex offender, which requires her to register with the sheriff's office every three months wherever she maintains a residence. Robertson originally faced a sentence of 25 years to life in prison. - Read the entire article here



LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas woman who threatened to kill two federal labor relations board attorneys in charge of litigating cases against her company has been convicted of making threats against a federal employee and witness tampering.

After a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Roger L. Hunt, 53-year-old Lori Irish was convicted Thursday of five counts of threats against a federal employee, two counts of threats made in interstate commerce and one count of witness tampering, said U.S. Attorney Greg Brower of Nevada. - Read the entire article here



DALLAS — A woman who killed her 10-month-old daughter by cutting off her arms with a kitchen knife is being released from the state mental hospital where she'd been sent after being found not guilty by reason of insanity, authorities said Friday.

Dena Schlosser, 39, will be released within the next month into outpatient treatment because her doctors believe she's mentally stable, Collin County prosecutor Curtis Howard said. A court order issued after a hearing Thursday found "convincing evidence" that her needs and the "safety of the community" can be met with outpatient services. The order requires her to see a psychiatrist once a week, take medication, be on a phsycian-approved birth control and not have any unsupervised contact with children. - Read the entire article here



CLEVELAND - An 18-year-old Cleveland woman convicted in the stabbing death of a neighborhood rival will be sentenced to prison today in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Lesleye Holliman pleaded guilty to murder last month for killing 15-year-old Demesha Sharp near East 140th Street and Darley Avenue. Holliman faces a life prison sentence with parole eligibility in no less than 15 years.

Holliman's mother, Yulonda, and grandmother, Annetta, also kept onlookers at bay during the attack by using pepper spray and a stun gun, according to police reports. - Read the entire article here




GRAND ISLAND — A Grand Island woman was convicted Monday of intentionally abusing her infant daughter. A Hall County District Court jury found Ingrid Aguirre, 21, guilty of child abuse committed knowingly and intentionally in a Monday morning verdict after a five-day trial last week. - Read the entire article here




WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Florida woman convicted of murdering her ex-boyfriend's mother should receive the death penalty for her crime, a jury recommended to a circuit court. The panel recommended 9-3 that Circuit Judge Sandra McSorley sentence Rhonda Norman, 36, to death for the home-invasion murder of her former boyfriend's mother, Jane Tackaberry.

Norman told police the August 2006 killing and a throat-slashing injury to Tackaberry's 6-year-old son Elijah, were an act of revenge to hurt Tackaberry for alleged sexual infidelity. - Read the entire article here



CALGARY - A woman convicted of second degree murder for her role in the torture and death of a Calgary prostitute has been sentenced life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years. In April 2006, Rochelle Friars was confined and tortured in a Beltline-area crackhouse before her body was dumped in a landfill.

Sarah Ann Rowe pleaded guilty to murder, while two other women were both convicted of manslaughter in the case. Because of time already served, Rowe will be eligible for parole in 2018. - Read the entire article here



PRINCETON — A Mercer County woman who was granted a new trial after the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals reversed her 2006 conviction on sexual assault charges pleaded guilty Wednesday in Mercer County Circuit Court.

Mindy Keesecker, 37, formerly of Princeton appeared before Judge David Knight for a jury trial, but she instead entered guilty pleas to separate counts of sexual assault, first degree.

Keesecker was convicted in 2006 after being arrested and charged in connection with a sexual relationship she had in 2005 with a then 15-year-old boy she supervised with a church group. - Read the entire article here

On Monday October 6, 1997 the BBC aired a show called The Sexual Abuse by Women of Children and Teenagers. I wanted to post complete transcripts of the show and this is part 3 of that. Be warned that some of the content can be disturbing and graphic.





Warning: This programme contains explicit descriptions of attacks and the emotional and physical damage they have caused, which some viewers may find distressing.



Chris:

Narrator:
Chris Roberts, seen here in the 1980's in a foster home, was removed from his own home because of physical abuse by his father. What the authorities didn't even consider at the time was that his mother might be sexually abusing him.

Chris:
There's no way you can describe how unpleasant it was. You couldn't put it into words. Imagine your worst nightmare come true; it probably doesn't even come close to it. The earliest memory would be when I was probably about two and a half or three years old. Beatings, physical and sexual abuse, mental abuse, from both my mother and father. My mother would keep us away from playschool and my other two brothers from school and use us for her sexual perversions whilst our father was at work. When I was three I remember I was put into a children's home.

Narrator:
But Chris's abuse was not to end there. On the weekly visits they were allowed to the home, his parents continued the abuse.

Chris:
The supervision order wasn't enforced. We'd be taken into a play room and our father would ram a chair up against the door and the abuse would carry on - on the property of the children's home.

Interviewer:
What sort of abuses happened in the home?

Chris:
At this point in time my mother had lost a set of twins ... can I stop for a minute please? [breaks down].

Narrator:
Chris was told he was to blame for the twins death. His feelings of guilt helped ensure he would submit to yet more abuse.

Chris:
There were many forms of abuse - physically, mentally and sexually. I had a mixture of mentally and sexually would be putting pornographic magazines into the children's home where we'd be made to sit and look at the magazines whilst performing sexual acts with our mother, and our father joining in as well.

Narrator:
Approximately one in every hundred girls in the population and one in every hundred boys in the population are sexually abused in their childhood by a woman. And that's a vast number of victims that we are avoiding if we are not looking at the issue of women as sexual abusers.

Victims trapped in the custody of their mothers as children, often only speak out after they've escaped. When they do, much of their testimony shatters the myth that women only sexually abuse if coerced by men.

Another installment of the Weekly Article Round Up:


ERIE. PA - A judge said Carrie L. Dana, 29, failed the community by repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old boy at her Erie residence in 2007. Bozza sentenced Dana to a total of 15 to 30 years in a state prison. Sentencing requirements dictated much of the penalty.

The defense unsuccessfully argued at trial that Dana did not have sex with the boy, and that, if she did have sex with him, she acted under duress because the boy was obsessed with her- Read the entire article here


FLA - Lillian Glaubman of Miami has been sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison for running a fraudulent business involving public kiosks that charged for Internet access. She also has been ordered to pay more than $18 million to roughly 737 victims of the scheme. - Read the entire article here


WIS - A 45-year-old woman who stabbed her husband in the head, chest and back when she discovered he was having an affair will spend no time in jail, according to a court records released Friday. Maria O. Hernandez, of 1404 S. Eighth St., pleaded no contest to a reduced charge Tuesday and was sentenced to two years probation by Judge L. Edward Stengel. A 90-day jail term was stayed, meaning she does not have to serve it if she successfully completes probation. - Read the entire article here


WIS - Laura Lee Janzig pleaded guilty to criminal defamation in Superior, Wisc. for allegedly false e-mail she wrote to members of the Superior School District alleging that a local teacher was having sex with her students and videotaping it. The accused teacher was put on administrative leave and was investigated by the local police department. - Read the entire article here


SC - A Georgetown woman was convicted of unlawful conduct towards a child after she beat her 12-year-old daughter with a pool stick for not taking care of her three siblings, according to a press release from the solicitor's office for the 15th Judicial Circuit.

Helenia Dawn Jacobs, 33, was given a three-year suspended jail sentence last week. The press release said Jacobs left the 12-year-old in charge of her younger siblings in February. Her 1-year-old sibling was left unattended, turned on the bathtub faucet and flooded the master bedroom. - Read the entire article here


AUSTIN – A woman has been charged with child endangerment, a state jail felony, for allegedly beating her 4-year-old daughter before throwing her into the path of an oncoming vehicle, police said. The driver of the approaching Chevrolet Suburban did not strike the child.

Aurelia Gallardo, 24, faces up to 20 years if convicted. Bail was set at $25,000. When the incident happened Tuesday, Ms. Gallardo and her three children were waiting for a city bus. - Read the entire article here


DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - A suburban Philadelphia woman has been found guilty of first-degree murder for shooting another member of her church. Bucks County authorities say 66-year-old Mary Jane Fonder of Springfield Township shot 42-year-old Rhonda Smith on Jan. 23. Prosecutors say Fonder had romantic feelings for the pastor at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church and was jealous Smith was getting attention from him. - Read the entire article here