Georgia Child Rape Case Has Some Problems (Part
II)
 Background:
An 11-year-old Georgia girl claims that an 8-year-old
and two 9-year-old boys kidnapped and raped her,
and they have been criminally charged. While the
girl sounded credible during the brief CNN interview,
there are several elements of the case which call
her account into question. To learn more, see my
blog post
Georgia
Child Rape Case Has Some Problems (Part I).
I read
this article and watched the video tape and
almost fell off my chair. In the story, one of the
boys' fathers said that if there was sex between
his son and the girl, it was consensual.
When asked for a response, incredibly, Police
Chief Michael Wilkie of Acworth (pictured) told
CNN that because children that young cannot legally
consent to sex, "we have to go with the charges
we have"--in other words, the rape charges. So let's
say that the 11 year-old girl and one of the boys
did have consensual sex. Because children cannot
legally consent to sex, that means that the
girl has been raped and the boy is a rapist?
Even though they're both children? Even
though the girl is considerably older than the
boy?
The full story is below. The video link is
here.
Three boys, 8 and 9, charged with raping 11-year-old
girl
CNN, 11/19/07
MARIETTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Three boys, ages 8
and 9, were charged Monday with raping an 11-year-old
girl last week, court officials and police said.
"Never in my 20-plus years of law enforcement
have I conceived of something like this," Police
Chief Michael Wilkie of Acworth, Georgia, told CNN.
Clad in blue jumpsuits, the two 9-year-olds and
one 8-year-old appeared in court in Cobb County,
north of Atlanta, on Monday afternoon and were ordered
to remain in custody until a further hearing. Family
members were in court for their appearance, which
was closed to reporters.
Wilkie said the girl told investigators she was
raped Thursday evening. She was examined by doctors
after her family reported the allegation late Saturday,
and investigators questioned her extensively on
Sunday, he said.
The father of one of the boys told The Associated
Press that no force was used against the girl, and
said the allegations have been leveled because the
accuser "didn't want to get in trouble with her
parents."
But Wilkie said children that young cannot legally
consent to sex, "so we have to go with the charges
we have"...
To read more and to discuss this issue on my
blog, click
here.
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'My Boyfriend's Ex Had Her Child 2 Months 'Premature'--He
Was Young and Didn't Realize She Was Already Two
Months Pregnant When She Met Him'A letter
from Tracy, a reader. Sad to say, I'm not even surprised.
Tracy writes:
Dear Glenn:
I was sitting in the Atlanta airport stuck overnight
due to layovers, while I was there I saw you on
TV and scribbled your name down, hoping I wrote
it down correctly. My family needs some help,
I have done everything I can to help my boyfriend
Curt, but everywhere we turn there is just another
door slammed in our face.
Curt, the father of my son and unborn child coming
in March, is the best father you could ever ask
for. He is my best friend. You could not ask for
a better person to be with. Well, he met the wrong
women when he was in his early 20s. She told him
she was pregnant a few months into the relationship,
and he started working three jobs so she would not
have to work.
It's too bad for him he was working so hard,
he missed appointments, etc, but he was there for
the birth. This lady had her child two months "premature"
at 7 lbs and some odd oz. Curt stuck by her
side and, being young and not knowing anything about
pregnancy, did not realize this woman was taking
him for a ride--she was already two months pregnant
when she met him.
She knows who her child's father is, yet he is
stuck paying support. He could not get a drivers
license, open a bank account, get a loan, or a job
until he had caught up on his back support.
He has been blackballed for unpaid support.
It's all caught up now and has been for eight years,
but it still shows on his credit report.
We both have to work and when we are short that
at the end of the month and have to send the child
support out to child that is not his, and our kid
has to go without, it hurts. I don't know
how he just keeps paying it--if I were in his shoes
I would have let them put me in jail.
He keeps on paying her, the courts tell him too
bad. THEY HAVE NEVER EVEN LOOKED AT
THE DNA TEST. He paid for the test out of
his own pocket. The child is not his, she has even
told him who the father is.
What's really not fair is for that child, he
is growing up hating Curt for not being around when
he has his own dad out there that does not even
know he has a child. If that man is like my
boyfriend, when he finally does find out he is going
to be so upset that he has missed watching his little
boy grow.
Curt just wants this support stopped, I want
to be able to go buy our kids what they need and
not have to worry about supporting other people's
kids. Every year they fight to have Curt's child
support increased.
To discuss this issue on my blog, click
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'Single Mothers by Choice' Behaving Badly (Part
I)
 A
few weeks ago I debated the issue of
"Single
Motherhood by Choice" on the BBC. The producer
emailed the guests the 2006 London Times
article
Focus: Going solo (6/4/06), and among those
I was debating was Viki Matten, who is discussed
in the piece as an early pioneer in the "Single
Motherhood by Choice" movement.
The article unintentionally reads like a laundry
list of bad behavior by "single mothers by choice."
A couple examples:
1) "[Former Spice Girl] Geri Halliwell
(pictured) last month gave birth to a daughter,
Bluebell Madonna, conceived during a six-week fling
with the screenwriter Sacha Gervasi. Early on in
the pregnancy Halliwell fell out with Gervasi --
apparently when he questioned whether the hasty
conception had been an accident. The hapless 40-year-old
was then reportedly reduced to hanging around London's
exclusive Portland hospital hoping to catch a glimpse
of his baby, having found himself superfluous to
Halliwell's requirements."
2) "Some women, of course, don't want to stop
at one child. Clare, a 35-year-old criminal law
paralegal from Berkshire, has done a 'double Geri',
resulting in Charlie and Mia. She got pregnant by
her then lover in 2003. Shortly after the baby was
born, the relationship fell apart. She then plotted
with her best friend to set up her unsuspecting
ex a second time.
"I seduced him in a pub car park when I knew
I was at my most fertile,' she says. 'I put on a
little floral dress and a bit of makeup. I had a
lucky shot, and that was it.'"
To discuss this issue on my blog, click
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'Single Mothers by Choice' Behaving Badly (Part
II)Background: A few weeks ago I
debated the issue of
"Single Motherhood by Choice" on the BBC.
The producer emailed the guests the 2006 London
Times article
Focus: Going solo (6/4/06), and
among those I was debating was Viki Matten, who
is discussed in the piece as an early pioneer in
the "Single Motherhood by Choice" movement. A poll
of 5,000 women conducted for That's Life!
magazine in the United Kingdom found that 42% of
women say they would lie about contraception in
order to get pregnant, regardless of the wishes
of their partners. Reading this article, I can believe
it.
In this blog post and in
Part I, I'm pointing out some of
the appalling behavior of some of the women in the
article. A couple examples:
1) "[Men] are often handed a maintenance
bill for a child they didn't know they were going
to have. One woman, who admitted to pursuing a man
purely for his sperm and now receives a 346.50 GBP
monthly 'bonus' from him, says: 'It means he can't
get a mortgage, but I don't care, he wasn't very
nice to me -- if he'd behaved better I might have
let him stick around.'"
2) "According to Lucy Beresford, a psychotherapist
at the Priory hospital in Roehampton, southwest
London, more and more women are resorting to sometimes
dubious tactics to achieve motherhood.
"'You could call them 'sperm catchers',' she
said. 'This is being driven by career women in their
mid-to-late thirties who find that having a baby
is rising to the top of their 'to do' list. It is
happening increasingly. If they haven't a partner,
they've got the basic kit and they decide to go
it alone'...
"'Sperm donation is messy and legally fraught,'
said a 34-year-old advertising executive who is
privy to such discussions. 'They've changed the
law so that the donor can potentially come back
to haunt you. Adoption takes for ever. The old-fashioned
option -- a one-night stand, is the least complicated
way of getting pregnant. It's quick, you get to
view a prototype and it's free'...
"One woman, who did not want to be named, said
she found that 21st century metro-man is now frustratingly
aware of 'shared responsibility' when it comes to
sexual encounters, and her attempts at impregnation
became farcical as she attempted to find a man who
would mate au naturel."
To discuss this issue on my blog, click
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Postcards from Splitsville (Part I)
The drawing above was taken from Kara Bishop's
www.postcardsfromsplitsville.com. Bishop works
with Children of Divorce, a class run by Tucson,
Arizona-based Divorce Recovery. The class did an
art project that included "sending away" the frustrations
of divorce. The website is a place where Kara says
"children can share their divorce-related feelings
anonymously and parents can get a new perspective
on how this life-changing experience impacts their
children's lives." Kara can be reached at
Kara@PostcardsfromSplitsville.com.
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A Sad but True Commentary on Modern American Families
New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli's
recent cartoon above says a lot about modern families.
To discuss this issue on my blog, click
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Fathers & Families News Digest, 11-27-07
 Below
are some recent articles and items of interest from
Fathers & Families' latest News Digest.
On the home front: Soldier custody battle (WHOTV.com,
11-20-07)
Suspect arrested in playground killing of NYC orthodontist
(Associated Press, 11-20-07)
Mom's boyfriend may face new charges in boy's death
(The Day, 11-21-07)
Divorce rates falling locally and across the US
(Kansas City Star, 11-21-07)
High Court backs custody battle dad (UTV, 11-22-07)
Lehigh County to give parents extra time for child
support, if commitment is made (The Morning
Call, 11-22-07)
New ways of making deadbeats pay up (Daily
Herald, 11-23-07)
New Convention on child support targets parents
(Associated Press, 11-23-07)
Hogan 'shocked' by divorce (Fox23, 11-25-07)
Mom flees with 3 sons (San Gabriel Valley
Tribune, 11-26-07)
To discuss this issue on my blog, click
here.
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From 1900: Another Example of How Our Society Never
Valued Women or Saw Them as Human
 Feminists
often portray the pre-feminist (pre-1970) era as
one in which women were not valued or seen as being
fully human. To cite one example of thousands, just
this week the National Organization for Women wrote
on their website: "Are women human? Do women deserve
full human rights? The U.S. Senate isn't sure."
My belief is that while 1960s/1970s feminists
had plenty of legitimate grievances, their insistence
that society never valued women is false. In reality,
men made enormous sacrifices to provide for their
wives and children--a testament to the average man's
respect for women. In my column
Hate My Father? No Ma'am! (World Net Daily,
4/8/02), I wrote:
"[There has been a] successful feminist re-writing
of the pre-feminist past as a virtual dark ages
where men lived like nobles and women were their
serfs...Tens of millions of male blue collar workers--who
put their bodies on the line in the coal mines and
steel mills so their wives and children could live
in safety and comfort--have been turned into oppressors.
Their wives and children, for whom these men sacrificed
so much, have been turned into their victims..."
While reading one of Bill James' baseball books
recently, I stumbled upon another small but real
example of how society viewed women 100 years ago.
It concerns an incident involving George Davis (pictured),
a turn-of-the century star baseball player, some
of his teammates, and a devastating apartment fire.
Davis, then a player with the New York Giants,
was on the way to the Polo Grounds with two of his
teammates on April 26, 1900 when they saw smoke
rising from an apartment building a couple of blocks
away and rushed to the scene. It was a major fire
which left 45 families homeless. According to the
New York World's article the next day:
"George Davis, Captain of the New York ball team,
with 'Kid' Gleason and 'Mike' Grady of the same
nine, had been among the first on the scene and
had worked like Trojans in carrying down the helpless.
They saw Mrs. F Van Lieben on the top floor of No.
304.
"'There's a woman up there!' Capt. Davis exclaimed.
He went up the ladder like a squirrel. The heat
within blistered his face but he reached the woman
and carried her down. She had nearly fainted
from terror...
"Firemen Roach, Arene, Browning, and Gulick rescued
Mrs. Sturges and her three daughters, cut off by
flames on the fourth floor of No. 306. Bicycle Policeman
Sturden rescued two girls from the third floor of
No. 306. Mrs. Tibbetts and a three year-old child
were taken from the fourth floor down the front
fire-escape by 'Kid' Gleason and Capt. Davis.
"Mike Grady and Fireman Frederick Bluemmertt of
Hook and Ladder No. 23 took Mrs. Pease in safety
from the third floor. Bluemmertt's hand was badly
cut by crashing glass and he was taken to the J.
Hood Wright Memorial Hospital.
"Interviewed about it on the scene, Davis told a
reporter that 'I didn't do much. I just went up
the ladder the same as the rest of the boys and
helped to carry down women and children. Once I
thought I was going to be cut off by the flames
and be prevented from reaching a child that was
holding out its arms to me. But I got through to
the little one and reached the ground without either
of us being hurt. I didn't do half as much as Grady
and Gleason. We were on our way to the Polo Grounds
for preliminary practice before tackling the Bostons
when we were attracted by the fire.'"
Three major league baseball players spontaneously
risked their lives to save women and children (mostly
girls), without a thought for their own safety,
as did numerous firemen and policemen--hardly exemplary
of men not valuing women and girls.
To read more and to discuss this issue on my
blog, click
here.
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Windex Commercial--Dad's an Idiot and His Pain Is
Funny
 Background:
TV often portrays men and fathers as idiots--to
learn more, click
here.
Brandweek Magazine editor
Todd Wasserman discussed the problem
of 'Dad as Idiot' advertising in his recent column
The Surviving Dads Of Ads.
In this Windex commercial, dad is an idiot and
his wife/mommy cleans up after him.
The man is also in pain, which is, of course,
slapstick funny.
To watch the commercial, click
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To discuss this issue on my blog, click
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New Movie Starring Keira Knightley Focuses on Pain
Caused by False Rape Accusation
 The
new movie Atonement, starring Keira Knightley
(pictured), focuses on the destruction wrought by
a false sexual assault accusation. The movie trailer
can be seen
here. The film's release date is December 7.
A description of the film's plot from Wikipedia
is below (warning, plot spoilers):
"The film is at first set in the UK in the 1930s.
13-year-old Briony has a crush on Robbie, who is
in love with Briony's sister Cecilia. Through her
window, she sees Cecilia jump into a fountain in
the presence of Robbie, which Briony understands
as a flirtation between them.
"Robbie asks Briony to give a letter to Cecilia,
thinking it's an apology he's written. Briony reads
it, but it's not an apology; it's a sexually explicit
letter that Robbie had also written but never intended
on showing to anyone. Briony thinks Robbie is a
pervert. She later discovers Cecilia and Robbie
having sex in the library (they did this after finally
confessing their love for each other). That same
night, Cecilia's and Briony's cousin Lola Quincey
is sexually assaulted by Paul Marshall, a guest
staying at the house. Briony assumes Robbie was
the culprit, and pretends to have seen him do it.
As a result Robbie is arrested and convicted..."
To read more and to discuss this issue on my
blog, click
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His Side with Glenn Sacks Radio Commentary:
Child Support and Ex-Offenders
  My
recent
His Side with Glenn Sacks radio
commentary for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles
discusses
one of the child support system's more insane
aspects--the way it saddles ex-offenders
with impossible debts as they exit prison
and try to reintegrate into society.
To listen to the commentary, click
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To learn more, see my co-authored column
New Justice Department Report's Recommendations
Could Reduce Prisoner Recidivism (Chicago
Sun-Times, 10/26/07).
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Child Support Enforcement's Endless Errors
(Part I): Agency Demands Man Pay Ex-Wife
CS for Child He Has with New Wife
 "Bungling
cases isn't anything new at Friend of the
Court. In recent years Action News has repeatedly
showed you how Friend of the Court has accused
honest men of being deadbeat dads even when
they had proof they were paying child support
or didn't owe a penny."
Critics of divorced fathers and so-called
"deadbeat dads" are often unaware of the
many problems with the way child support
is set and enforced. One of these problems
is the phenomenal amount of errors Child
Support enforcement agencies make. I'll
be running stories about them as part of
my series called "Child Support Enforcement's
Endless Errors."
According to the Detroit TV station WXYZ's
news report Friend of the Court (11/10/06):
"It's a system designed to protect children
from the hardships of divorce, but one family
says Wayne County Friend of the Court made
life miserable instead.
"The Wayne County Friend of the Court
is a place with a history of botching simple
cases and turning them into a maddeningly
confusing mess.
"No one knows that better than Ruth and
Dale Akers, who married 6 years ago and
had a baby named Dale IV.
"But then they got a notice from Friend
of the Court saying their son wasn't theirs.
Instead, it said, he belonged to Dale's
ex-wife and Dale owed child support.
"Bungling cases isn't anything new at
Friend of the Court. In recent years Action
News has repeatedly showed you how Friend
of the Court has accused honest men of being
deadbeat dads even when they had proof they
were paying child support or didn't owe
a penny.
"Terrance Hale said Friend of the Court
misspelled his name and had him paying support
for a newborn named Marjae to a stranger
named Toni Etters.
"'All they could tell me is this is your
kid because the computer says it's your
kid,' he said...
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kit to help you win shared
custody. The DVDs,
audio CD and electronic
files summarize the best
scientific research available
collected over decades.
Scientific research has
proven that children do
far better with near equal
time with both parents with
minimal conditions.
This video set was developed
to educate parents, judges,
lawyers, psychologists and
other divorce professionals.
Most judges are doing exactly
what is worst for children
with sole-custody.
Submitted as evidence this
will maximize your chances.
Divorce Reform groups call(508)
381-1450 to use as fundraiser.
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Help for Michigan Dads
Michigan family law
attorney Mindy L. Hitchcock
has experience fighting
for noncustodial parents
against Michigan's abusive
FOC. Her
holistic approach to
divorce gets results for
her clients while avoiding
the scorched earth approach
to law that leaves families
emotionally and financially
devastated.
Lady4Justice.com
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You Just Won't Be Satisfied, Too
Much Ain't Enough
From Alex Gregory, in the
New Yorker.
To discuss this issue on my blog,
click
here.
Unfortunately, Most Parents Can
Relate to This
 The
piece is satirical, of course, but
I think many parents have felt the
same kind of disappointment that
the dad in this Onion article
felt.
Child Unimpressed With Aurora Borealis
After Whole Day Of Tekken 3
The Onion
November 17, 1999
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN--A wide-eyed
gaze of childlike wonderment over
the incomprehensible majesty of
creation was not elicited Monday,
when 7-year-old Kenny Meier, son
of local high-school science teacher
Stan Meier, was unmoved by the Aurora
Borealis after spending an estimated
12 hours playing Tekken 3.
"I have never forgotten the magic
night that my own father, like his
father and his father's father before
him, gently woke me, bundled me
up in a warm blanket and quietly
led me outside to see the Northern
Lights for the first time," said
the elder Meier, dejectedly sipping
a cup of hot cocoa on the back porch
as his uninterested son ran back
inside to his Sony PlayStation.
"It was a moment I'd always looked
forward to sharing with my own son."
"Well, so much for that dream,"
added Meier, heading to the kitchen
to pour the boy's untouched mug
of cocoa into the sink.
The shimmering curtain of iridescent
light known as Aurora Borealis is
fabled in story and song as one
of nature's most beautiful and awe-inspiring
phenomena. For Kenny, however, it
paled in comparison to Tekken 3's
3-D graphics and impressive 64-bit
motion-capture animation, inspiring
him to say, "I'm cold, Dad. Can
we go back in now?"
The Northern Lights occur when
the Earth's magnetic field interacts
with the "solar wind"--charged particles
blowing away from the sun. The resultant
luminescent display, visible in
most northern latitudes during the
winter months, stretches from 40
miles above the Earth's surface
in its lowest fringes to upwards
of 600 miles above the Earth.
Though the sheer immensity of
the glowing nocturnal spectacle
makes it one of the most glorious
sights in all of nature, the Aurora
Borealis nonetheless fell far short
of Tekken 3, Kenny said, due to
its lack of interactive combat-mode
features, substandard two-dimensional
interface and undynamic, non-action-packed
graphics...
To reads more and to discuss
this issue on my blog, click
here.
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Are You the Target of Parental Alienation?
Parental alienation cases are among
the most difficult and complicated
in family law.
J. Michael Bone, Ph.D., is an
expert on parental alienation. If
you're a target parent, he can help
you get back into your children's
lives. Bone has worked as a custody
evaluator and as a therapist and
knows how to help the court find
the truth. His services are available
throughout the U.S. Dr. Bone can
be reached by phone at (407) 645-0662
or by email by clicking
here.
www.jmbconsulting.org
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Help for Colorado Dads
As someone who has personally
experienced the heartbreak
of divorce and family breakup,
Brett W. Martin, Esq.
works to advance the interests
and concerns of fathers
in domestic and family law
litigation. Personal attention
is given to clients to help
them through a very difficult
time in their lives.
www.brettwmartin.com
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His Side with Glenn Sacks Radio Commentary:
Boston Red Sox Pitcher Curt Schilling & His Dad
My
recent His
Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentary
for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles
discusses Boston
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's bond with his late
father. Schilling says that in every game he starts,
he reserves a seat for his dad.
To listen to the commentary, click
here.
To learn more, see my blog post
Curt
Schilling: 'My Father Was the Glue That Held My
Family Together'.
His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentaries
are broadcast daily on KLAA AM 830, a 50,000 watt
talk station in Los Angeles and Orange County. KLAA
AM 830 is owned by Arte Moreno, owner of the Los
Angeles Angels of Anaheim. KLAA hosts include Glenn
Beck and Michael Savage.
From 2003-2005,
His Side with
Glenn Sacks ran in a syndicated talk show
format in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, Seattle,
and other cities. To listen to show archives, click
here.
To discuss this issue on my blog, click
here.
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How to Win Shared Custody
Here are the litigation
secrets to winning shared
physical & legal custody
from Boston trial lawyer
Nick Palermo, Esquire
who has won
these cases for 24 years.
It costs $5,000 or more
in legal fees to gain the
knowledge and guidance contained
in this $10 handbook--The
Ten Essential Elements to
Winning Joint Shared Physical
and Legal Custody.
www.TenEssentialElements.com
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Sounds Like the People Who Run Our Child Support
Enforcement Agencies...
 "Idiots.
Utter, unbelievable, jaw-dropping, unpardonable
idiots. It is beyond farce, past comprehension,
criminally irresponsible and beneath contempt.
"All those lectures from government and authorities
about keeping our personal data safe; every statement
ever made about the security of the proposed NHS
database of everybody's personal medical records;
each claim that the Children's Database containing
all their personal details will somehow make our
kids safer; and of course each and every promise
about the safety of the national identity register
-- exposed as quite, quite worthless. Because as
soon as you put it on a computer, a bloke in an
office can download it and stick it in an envelope
and send your most personal details and mine and
our children's across the country with a dodgy courier.
"It is shocking, it is risible, it is hilarious.
Someone gave a disc containing confidential data
about 25 million people to a bloke on a bike? And
he lost it?"
In
Second-class and lost in the post (London
Times, 11/21/07), columnist Alice Miles details
how the UK government lost two computer discs containing
the personal information of all families in
the UK with a child under 16. The disks contain
Child Benefit data which includes the name, address,
date of birth, National Insurance number and, where
relevant, bank details of 25 million people.
I'm sure there will soon be a well-deserved,
Night of the Long Knives-style purge of those connected
to the scandal. Perhaps the axed employees can get
jobs working for child support enforcement agencies--given
the agencies' relentless bureaucratic bungling,
they'd fit right in...
To read more and to discuss this issue on my
blog, click
here.
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An
11-year-old Georgia
girl claims that
an 8-year-old and
two 9-year-old boys
kidnapped and raped
her. According to
CNN, "Three boys,
ages 8 and 9, were
charged Monday with
raping the 11-year-old
girl."
