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• How Do You Get 634 Years in Prison?

  If there's ever a time when a judge should be justified in throwing the book at a criminal it's when a kid has been hurt.  When a kid has been sexually abused by some sicko? I suspend all of my righteously liberal let's be reasonable here mantras . . . string 'em up. But six hundred thirty four years in prison? Read More... Posted Apr 05 2009, 03:32 PM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: law, texas, crime, child abuse, justice, Jeanne Sager, judge, crime stories, hurting kids

• No Worker's Comp For Son of Woman Murdered

  Taneka Talley was stabbed to death at her job---she was a clerk at the Dollar Store in Fairfield, California. Now the company is denying worker's compensation benefits to her surviving eleven-year-old son. The boy's grandmother, who won custody, is fighting the case, and her lawyer says, "They're saying (the killing) didn't arise out of her employment, except that in this case she wouldn't have been killed if she hadn't been at work. This person didn't know her, just walked into the store and picked her out." See, the murder was... Read More... Posted Dec 05 2008, 05:33 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: racism, mother, Murder, crime, Kelly Mills, justice, son, benefits, survivor, company, single mom, killing

• If You Like Bar Fights, Don't Read This

  My oldest kid would give herself time outs. We briefly thought that we should consider taking her to a kiddie shrink for this. We didn't because, to quote the old joke, we needed the eggs. It was just so useful to have her sit herself down when she was about to hit or bite or stomp off in a snit. Her younger brother, however, is the complete opposite. Getting him into time-out is like wrestling an alligator.  According to an expert, that's because we're doing it wrong.   Read More... Posted Jun 30 2008, 12:01 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: discipline, time out, Slate, justice, they say, Kazdin

• Can You Leave Your Kid In a Locked Car?

  Oh lordy, this is a doozy. A woman in Illinois parked at a Wal-Mart to put some money in a Salvation Army can. Her two-year-old was asleep, so she left the toddler in the vehicle, locked the car and walked with two of her kids and a neighbor's child about 30 feet to make the charitable contribution. When she returned to the car an officer arrested her for child endangerment and obstruction of justice. She goes to court next week. The case has sparked responses ranging from passionate defense of the mom's actions to accusations that she's a bad mother... Read More... Posted Mar 05 2008, 03:01 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, cars, crime, child safety, Wal-Mart, carseats, arrest, justice, charitable giving, good mothering, endangerment

• If You Thought the Pink Ladies Were Tough...

  I saw this story a couple days ago in a few places, and I just love it. A group of women in India--wives and mothers mostly--call themselves the "gulabi gang," or pink gang. They have uncovered corruption in grain distribution to the poor, and beat down men who attacked or abandoned their wives. And when I say "beat down," I mean it. Like, with sticks. First they try talking, and if that fails, it's gulabi gang kicking ass. In an area rampant with discrimination against the poor and women, the gulabi gang get things done.  The leader, Sampat Pal Devi, is a mother of five... Read More... Posted Nov 30 2007, 07:05 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: crime, india, poverty in America, feminism, gulabi gang, justice, misogyny