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« Reply #130 on: April 30, 2021, 10:59:41 pm »
Ghislaine Maxwell appears in photo with bruise under her eye

Lawyers for former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday provided a photo of their client from jail with a bruise under her eye, which they argued likely resulted from continuous overnight flashlight surveillance.

Defense attorney Bobbi C. Sternheim argued in a letter to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that Maxwell's bruise "may be related to the need for Ms. Maxwell to shield her eyes from the lights projected into her cell throughout the night."

According to ABC News, Sternheim said that Maxwell was unaware of the bruise until she "caught a reflection of her aching eye" in a nail clipper.

The attorney argued that the Metropolitan Detention Center questioned Maxwell about the bruise, "threatening to place her in the [Special Housing Unit] if she did not reveal how she got it."

In response, U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan asked prosecutors in an order later Thursday to explain the use of flashlight checks, which Maxwell's defense team argues is disturbing her sleep and limiting her ability to prepare for trial.

The trial for Maxwell, who has pleaded not guilty to charges related to her alleged assistance in Epstein's sex trafficking of minors, is scheduled for a July 12 start date.

Is Ms. Maxwell being subjected to flashlight surveillance every 15 minutes at night? Or any other atypical flashlight surveillance?" Nathan asked in the order Thursday, ABC noted. "If so, what is the basis for doing so?"

Maxwell's lawyers have repeatedly sought to get Maxwell released from jail ahead of her trial, though an appellate court on Tuesday turned down the 59-year-old's appeal of three previous orders denying bail.

Last month, Maxwell was denied bail for a third time after prosecutors argued she continued to pose an "extreme flight risk."

Maxwell appeared before a New York judge in person for the first time last week, where she entered a not guilty plea for a recently added charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, as well as an additional sex trafficking charge.

The close confidant and onetime girlfriend of Epstein, who killed himself in jail while awaiting trial in August 2019, now faces a total of eight counts in connection with allegedly aiding him in his sex trafficking scheme.


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They said they had her under a brutal security protocol.

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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
« Reply #131 on: April 30, 2021, 11:57:23 pm »
Ghislaine Maxwell appears in photo with bruise under her eye

Lawyers for former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday provided a photo of their client from jail with a bruise under her eye, which they argued likely resulted from continuous overnight flashlight surveillance.

Defense attorney Bobbi C. Sternheim argued in a letter to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that Maxwell's bruise "may be related to the need for Ms. Maxwell to shield her eyes from the lights projected into her cell throughout the night."

According to ABC News, Sternheim said that Maxwell was unaware of the bruise until she "caught a reflection of her aching eye" in a nail clipper.

The attorney argued that the Metropolitan Detention Center questioned Maxwell about the bruise, "threatening to place her in the [Special Housing Unit] if she did not reveal how she got it."

In response, U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan asked prosecutors in an order later Thursday to explain the use of flashlight checks, which Maxwell's defense team argues is disturbing her sleep and limiting her ability to prepare for trial.

The trial for Maxwell, who has pleaded not guilty to charges related to her alleged assistance in Epstein's sex trafficking of minors, is scheduled for a July 12 start date.

Is Ms. Maxwell being subjected to flashlight surveillance every 15 minutes at night? Or any other atypical flashlight surveillance?" Nathan asked in the order Thursday, ABC noted. "If so, what is the basis for doing so?"

Maxwell's lawyers have repeatedly sought to get Maxwell released from jail ahead of her trial, though an appellate court on Tuesday turned down the 59-year-old's appeal of three previous orders denying bail.

Last month, Maxwell was denied bail for a third time after prosecutors argued she continued to pose an "extreme flight risk."

Maxwell appeared before a New York judge in person for the first time last week, where she entered a not guilty plea for a recently added charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, as well as an additional sex trafficking charge.

The close confidant and onetime girlfriend of Epstein, who killed himself in jail while awaiting trial in August 2019, now faces a total of eight counts in connection with allegedly aiding him in his sex trafficking scheme.


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They said they had her under a brutal security protocol.

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« Reply #132 on: June 02, 2021, 10:35:07 am »
There's a war on the innocence of children.

Parents' fury at NYC's woke Dalton School after first-graders are taught about **** during Sex-Ed classes that also instruct kids they can't be hugged 'without consent'
Justine Ang Fonte, the health and wellness teacher at the Dalton School, allegedly showed students a video last fall from the sex education series AMAZE
Fonte's classes also reportedly included lessons on gender identity and consent
Lessons allegedly instructed children that their parents and grandparents should not touch them without asking permission
Fonte reportedly told parents that she does not use the word '****' in class after they complained to school administrators


Parents at an elite private school in New York City are furious that first-graders have been shown sex education videos that appear to include information about ****.

Justine Ang Fonte, a health and wellness teacher at the Dalton School, allegedly showed students a video last fall from the free sex education series for children called AMAZE, in which a cartoon boy asks about erections.

Fonte's classes also reportedly included lessons on gender identity and consent, instructing children that their parents and grandparents should not touch them without asking permission.

Fonte has told parents that she does not use the word '****' in class after they complained to school administrators but were told they had misinterpreted the lessons, the New York Post reported.
   
Fonte, the health and wellness and the Dalton School, allegedly showed students a video last fall from the free sex education series AMAZE





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« Reply #133 on: July 13, 2021, 11:57:42 am »
Gay Mens Choir coming for your kids


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« Reply #134 on: September 27, 2021, 04:55:40 pm »

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/september/boy-scouts-church-lawsuit-abuse-bankrupcy-liability.html








Boy Scouts’ Bankruptcy Leaves Churches Liable for Abuse Suits






Top denominations and thousands of churches are reconsidering whether to keep hosting scout units.


Amid the Boy Scouts of America’s complex bankruptcy case, there is worsening friction between the BSA and the major religious groups that help it run thousands of scout units. At issue: the churches’ fears that an eventual settlement—while protecting the BSA from future sex-abuse lawsuits—could leave many churches unprotected.

The Boy Scouts sought bankruptcy protection in February 2020 in an effort to halt individual lawsuits and create a huge compensation fund for thousands of men who say they were molested as youngsters by scoutmasters or other leaders. At the time, the national organization estimated it might face 5,000 cases; it now faces 82,500.

In July, the BSA proposed an $850 million deal that would bar further lawsuits against it and its local councils. The deal did not cover the more than 40,000 organizations that have charters with the BSA to sponsor scout units, including many churches from major religious denominations that are now questioning their future involvement in scouting.

The United Methodist Church—which says up to 5,000 of its US congregations could be affected by future lawsuits—recently advised those churches not to extend their charters with the BSA beyond the end of this year. The UMC said these congregations were “disappointed and very concerned” that they weren’t included in the July deal.

Everett Cygal, a lawyer for Catholic churches monitoring the case, said it is unfair that parishes now face liability “solely as a result of misconduct by Boy Scout troop leaders who frequently had no connection to the parish.”

“Scouting can only be delivered with help of their chartered organizations,” Cygal told The Associated Press. “It’s shortsighted not to be protecting the people they absolutely need to ensure that scouting is viable in the future.”

Officials of several other denominations—including the Southern Baptist Convention, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)—have advised their churches to hire their own legal counsel if they fear possible sex-abuse litigation.

The Presbyterian Church said its national leadership can’t act on behalf of member churches because they are separate corporations. The leadership of the Evangelical Lutheran church also said its congregations were on their own, legally speaking, and must decide for themselves whether to continue any relationship with the BSA.

“As a result of the bankruptcy, the congregation cannot confidently rely on the BSA, the local council, or their insurers to defend it,” the Lutheran church warned. “The congregation needs to make sure that it has sufficient insurance and that its own insurance will cover them.”

The Boy Scouts, in a statement provided to the AP, said its partnership with chartered organizations, including churches, “has been critical to delivering the Scouting program to millions of youth in our country for generations.” It said negotiations with those organizations are continuing, and it hopes to conclude the bankruptcy proceedings around the end of this year.

Negotiators face a challenging situation.

According to lawyers representing different parties in the bankruptcy case, the Boy Scouts have suggested chartered organizations have some protection from liability for abuse cases that occurred after 1975, due to an insurance arrangement that took effect in 1976. The BSA has said there’s little or no protection, however, for the many pre-1976 cases, and the best way for organizations to gain protection for that era would be to make a substantial financial contribution to a settlement fund.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints took such a step last week, agreeing to contribute $250 million to a compensation fund in exchange for a release from further liability. The denomination, widely known as the Mormon church, pulled its units out of the BSA on Jan. 1, 2020, after decades as the biggest sponsor.

One key distinction: The Latter-day Saints have a centralized governing structure, making possible a contribution covering its vast former network of scout units. The remaining faith-based charter organizations are more decentralized, complicating the question of how contributions to the compensation fund would be mandated and organized.

Jeremy Ryan, a lawyer representing United Methodist churches, said his clients believe there is some pre-1976 insurance available to them under policies the BSA and its local councils held at the time.

Cygal, the lawyer representing Catholic churches, made a similar argument but said some chartered organizations eventually may have to make an appropriate financial contribution “to put an end to this dispute once and for all.”

Another complication in the negotiations: differing views on how much blame lies with the churches.

Some of the churches argue that they merely provided a venue for a local scout unit to meet, while scout leaders were responsible for hiring decisions that might have led to sexual abuse. Some lawyers for the plaintiffs disagree, saying church leaders were often actively involved in those decisions.

“The Scouts had plenty of fault due to their negligence, but the local institutions had plenty of fault also,” said Christopher Hurley, whose Chicago law firm says it represents about 4,000 men who filed claims in the bankruptcy.

“It’s just not OK to pass the buck on this,” Hurley added. “Everybody’s got to suck it up and make a fair contribution to get justice for these guys.”

Richard J. Mathews—an attorney who advised the Boy Scouts for 11 years, including in the midst of its abuse crisis—has spoken out for years about the importance of churches adopting vigorous prevention protocols and insuring themselves against child sexual abuse cases.

Mathews told Church, Law, and Tax in 2017 that he thinks churches “don’t recognize the danger and how widespread the problem is. We all think it’s never going to happen to us.”

But churches can be particularly susceptible. Predators often seek out trusting environments where their behavior may be overlooked. And courts end up finding churches liable for not adequately screening or monitoring those working with children.

“Because victims of child sexual abuse generally allege that the organization (church) is responsible for their injuries on the basis of negligent selection, retention, or supervision of the perpetrator, many such cases have been lost due to the failure to implement appropriate safeguards in the selection and supervision of employees and volunteers who work with children,” Matthews said.

“This even applies to other children volunteers (e.g., youth staff). Therefore, screening, background investigations, reference checks, and interviews before the individual’s involvement are essential.”

Stephen Crew, whose Oregon-based law firm represents about 400 plaintiffs, said he sympathizes with faith-based chartered organizations who “worry about being hung out to dry.”

“But survivors also have a lot of anxiety,” said Crew. “And the problem now is that the insurance companies are balking at everybody.”

A third lawyer for plaintiffs, California-based Paul Mones, blamed the churches’ predicament on the BSA, saying its initial bankruptcy strategy failed to properly anticipate the impact on chartered organizations.

“For decades, the religious organizations have been the backbone of the BSA,” Mones said. “They did not sign up thinking they’d have any kind of liability ... and all of a sudden they’re being told, ‘You’re going to get sued.’ It’s a hot mess.”

Some church leaders, such as United Methodist Bishop Ruben Saenz Jr., have been blunt in their dismay over the bankruptcy fallout.

“This is a very sad and tragic matter that has occurred within our nation and the Church,” Saenz said in a recent letter to the clergy he oversees in Kansas and Nebraska. He said there might be 110 abuse claims in the bankruptcy case potentially connected to UMC churches in his region.

Saenz said the BSA might struggle to move forward post-bankruptcy without participation of the UMC, the biggest active sponsor of Scout units.

But due to BSA positions in the case that are detrimental to the UMC, Saenz wrote, “We simply cannot currently commit to the relationship with the BSA as we have in the past.”

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« Reply #135 on: October 08, 2021, 07:11:30 am »

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/october/hillsong-church-brian-houston-frank-abuse-coverup-court.html








Hillsong Founder to Plead Not Guilty to Abuse Coverup







Brian Houston will go to court in Sydney over alleged child abuse by his late father.


Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston will plead not guilty to illegally concealing alleged child abuse by his father, his lawyer told a court on Tuesday.

Houston did not appear at Sydney’s Downing Center Local Court when his charge was mentioned before a registrar for the first time. His lawyer told the court Houston would be pleading not guilty to the charge of concealing a serious indictable offense of another person, his late preacher father Frank Houston.

The case will next be before the court on November 23.

Police will allege that Frank Houston indecently assaulted a young male in 1970.

Court documents allege that Brian Houston believed his father had committed the crime. Police will allege that the younger Houston failed to disclose information to police that could help secure the prosecution of his father.

Since being charged, Houston has stepped down from the board of Hillsong, the church he founded with wife Bobbie in Sydney in 1983. Now a global empire, the church says 150,000 people in 30 countries attend its services and 50 million people sing its songs each week.

Houston, 64, was in the United States in August when detectives served his Sydney lawyers with a notice for him to appear in court.

He said in a statement at the time he welcomed the “opportunity to set the record straight.”

Houston returned to Sydney last month and was released from 14 days’ hotel quarantine last week.

An Australian government inquiry into institutional responses to allegations of child sex abuse found in 2015 that Houston did not tell police that his father was a child sex abuser.

The inquiry found that Houston became aware of allegations against his father in 1999 and allowed him to retire quietly rather report him to police. His father confessed to the abuse before he died in 2004 at age 82.

Hillsong Church has said repeatedly that it has not been involved in this matter, as Frank Houston never worked for the church, and has defended Brian Houston’s response.

“Upon being told of his father’s actions, Brian Houston confronted his father, reported the matter to the National Executive Assemblies of God in Australia, relayed the matter to the governing board of Sydney Christian Life Centre, and subsequently made a public announcement to the church. Brian sought to honor the victim’s multiple requests not to inform the police,” the church said in a statement in July.

“As a recent development, charges have officially been filed against Brian Houston,” the church said at the time. “We are disappointed that Pastor Brian has been charged, and ask that he be afforded the presumption of innocence and due process as is his right. He has advised us that he will defend this and looks forward to clearing his name.”

Hillsong, known for chart-topping worship music and megachurches across the globe, became its own denomination in 2018. Last year, Brian Houston announced an investigation of its New York City campus, where pastor Carl Lentz had stepped down over infidelity.

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« Reply #136 on: October 16, 2021, 01:56:11 pm »
Ohio mayor tells ENTIRE school board to resign or 'face child pornography charges' after teachers gave children writing prompt to 'write a sex scene you wouldn't show your mom'

-Hudson, Ohio Mayor Craig Schubert delivered the harsh ultimatum on Monday
-Threatened charges against entire school board if they don't resign
-Parents are outraged over book of writing prompts given to kids aged 17
-Prompts include raunchy sexual themes such as 'an X-rated Disney scenario'
-'Write a sex scene you wouldn't show your mom' another prompt urges
-Schubert claimed that the material amounted to child pornography

A mayor in Ohio has threatened the city's entire school board with criminal charges unless they resign over highly sexual writing prompts that teachers gave to underage students.

Hudson Mayor Craig Schubert delivered the harsh ultimate during a school board meeting on Monday, garnering loud applause from outraged parents who also spoke out on the topic given to children aged 17.

At issue are the highly inappropriate writing prompts distributed to students in the Liberal Arts II writing class at Hudson High School, including 'Write a sex scene you wouldn't show your mom', 'Describe your favorite part of a man's body using only verbs' and 'Write an X-rated Disney scenario'.

'It has come to my attention that your educators are distributing essentially what is child pornography in the classroom,' fumed Mayor Schubert during public comments.

'I've spoken to a judge this evening and she's already confirmed that. So I'm going to give you a simple choice: either choose to resign from this board of education or you will be charged,' the mayor added.


The mayor then rose from the microphone and stormed out of the meeting, to loud cheers and applause from parents in the audience.

It was unclear whether the inappropriate written material given to schoolchildren truly violates child pornography laws as the mayor claimed, but nevertheless parents in the district were outraged.

Ohio law does prohibit sending 'harmful' or obscene material to, or sharing it with, a minor, though this statute usually refers to sexting or sending obscene images.

The relevant statute exempts obscene material that is presented for 'bona fide' educational purposes, leaving the legal questions around the controversy murky.

The offensive prompts were given to students in the book 642 Things To Write About, which contains many innocuous writing prompts as well as some that are highly sexualized and inappropriate for minors.

The writing class that the book was assigned in is offered in association with Hiram College for college credit, but is taught at the high school, officials said.

Parent Monica Havens told the school board meeting she found out about the inappropriate writing prompts from a friend, the Plain Dealer reported.

'I asked my daughter if she had been reading a book with inappropriate stuff in it and she said yes,' said Havens, who was formerly a public school teacher for 11 years.

'I can't even wrap my brain around as a teacher, I don't care if it's for college credit, these are minors,' Havens said.

'When these topics are encouraged and read by adults, that is pedophilia,' said the outraged mother.

'This is grooming, and all of you need to be replaced,' Havens told the school board, telling the members: 'You have dedicated yourself to woke social justice.'

Havens claimed that the book had been on the curriculum for six years, accusing the board of 'sleeping on the job.'

'You have allowed the sexualization of our youth and grooming material to be approved for classroom content,' Havens said.

'Each and every one of you should be ashamed,' she added.

A police officer from the nearby city of Stow also addressed the board, calling for cameras to be installed in every public school classroom.

'Police officers wear body cameras to monitor their behavior, and they have brief interactions with the public. You guys have our kids all day and we don't know what's going on in the classrooms,' Dirker said.

Administrators at Hudson High School have already issued an apology over the controversy, saying they were unaware of of the inappropriate prompts and are working to collect the books.

Hudson High School Principal Brian Wilch said at Monday's meeting: 'There are times we need to take a step back, reflect and get better.'

'We did not exercise our due diligence when we reviewed this resource and we overlooked several prompts that were not appropriate. We felt terrible. You can't unsee them,' he said.


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« Reply #137 on: October 17, 2021, 10:59:31 am »
Loudon County Virginia School Board Covered up the **** of 14 Year Old Girl by Boy Wearing Skirt who entered girl's bathroom
They also arrested her father who tried to speak at the school board meeting and now the boy wearing the skirt has **** another girl.


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« Reply #138 on: November 22, 2021, 02:29:32 am »
Producer of “Hunger Games” talks about Hollywood ****





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"5.5 million Children are Trafficked Around the World" every year."
Although this is a fictional movie, the director made an emotional appeal recently, encouraging the mass sharing of this, as a lot of the storyline IS ACTUALLY TAKING PLACE IN REALTIME!

IMDb:n (Supernatural Thriller) A homeless teen answers the voice of a child calling out for help and is sent on a journey to find a human trafficking network run by the child's killer.


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« Reply #139 on: January 11, 2022, 02:15:31 pm »
This was happening when I was in foster care. My brother was put into a psychiatric hospital at the request of his foster mother. She said he was hiding food in his room. Since when is that a reason to put a child in a psychiatric hospital? He was very abused and given shock treatment in that hospital and was there a long time, years.
DCFS director held in contempt following WGN Investigates report on long hospitalizations


CHICAGO - DCFS director Marc Smith has been held in contempt following a WGN Investigates report that showed hundreds of children were in psychiatric hospitals longer than necessary due to the organization not having anywhere else to house them.

WGN reported in 2021 that 356 children statewide were hospitalized beyond the time it was medically necessary, with the average stay 55 days longer than the doctor recommendation.

Of the children hospitalized, 18 percent were under the age of 10.

Now, Cook County judge Patrick Murphy is holding DCFS director Marc Smith in contempt of court for his agency’s failure to find appropriate placements for cases.

Beginning Wednesday, DCFS will be fined $1,000 a day, every day until the DCFS complies with the judge’s order.


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« Reply #141 on: January 14, 2022, 06:28:00 pm »

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/january-web-only/complementarians-egalitarians-gender-compromise-culture.html







Gender Questions Should Send Us to Scripture









When it comes to the topic of gender roles, it all comes down to biblical interpretation.


Many questions have recently been raised about complementarianism. We are keenly aware of the many stories of pastoral and spousal abuse—some of whom are noted complementarians. Such stories make many people wonder if complementarianism is simply a form of power grab, an attempt to hold onto male authority in order to exercise their selfish will.

Cultural questions have been raised as well. Is the complementarian vision merely a product of white western culture—deriving from a patriarchal ethos and an American vision of the good life, entirely sundered from biblical witness?

Or others have suggested the complementarian view solely represents the worldview of the Republican party, constituting a backlash to societal changes in the 1960’s. Or as one historian initially proposed, perhaps we have been more influenced by John Wayne than Jesus of Nazareth?

All of the questions posed above are excellent, and we need to be open to critique and revision. I hope none of us would claim that we are perfect in our interpretation or implementation of what the scriptures teach on the relationship between men and women.

There is always a danger that we have reacted to or imitated the society around us. We are all influenced by culture and should receive any critique that returns us to scriptural witness in good faith. We should listen charitably to brothers and sisters who view things differently—and none of us should be above reforming and nuancing our views.

The matter is complex, however, and egalitarians must also be able to answer the questions that are posed to them. They are not immune to cultural forces either.

The feminism of the 1960’s has shaped society in profound and enduring ways—both for good and for ill. The sexual revolution has transformed our culture’s conception of what it means to be a man and a woman. This shows up in the acceptance of same-sex marriage and transgender identity, among other things.

Nor can we discount the influence of the mainstream media and major universities, many of which are guided chiefly by leftist ideology. Those who relax the complementarian norm are often celebrated in these spaces as open-minded by a social elite.

In other words, there are social and cultural forces operating on both sides. No one is exempt, and no one inhabits a neutral space when it comes to gender dynamics.

Every argument for every perspective should send us back to the biblical witness. The word of God still pierces our darkness and can reshape how we think and live. The Bible can and should still be heard, believed, and followed—even though we are all fallible and culturally situated.

Of course, every reading of the biblical text on male-female issues represents an interpretation and is subject to critique. But since there are cultural arguments, forces and pressures on every side, we must always return to the scriptures to decipher their meaning—and I believe that meaning can be retrieved.

At the end of the day, it should come down to whoever offers the most plausible and persuasive reading of the biblical texts in question. The complementarian view isn’t nullified by saying Trump and Republicanism and the egalitarian reading isn’t contradicted by crying out feminism and liberalism.

Yet I worry that in some circles, cultural arguments receive precedence over scriptural ones—as if they alone have the final say on the truth or falsity of a particular biblical interpretation.






Thomas Schreiner is the James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.




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