Maryclaire Dale’s article “Kindergarten kidnapper tells girl, ‘I’m not a monster’”, appears in the Bucks County Courier Times and it tells the people of Bucks County how a woman kidnapped a kindergartener from school. In Philadelphia during January of 2013, a girl was taken from her kindergarten classroom and “sexually tortured during a bizarre overnight ordeal.” The girl was an 8-year-old and she had been abducted by “former day care worker Christina Regusters”, who was 22 years old. Christina was sentenced to 40 years to life. The judge called the crime, “a horror show” because the 8-year-old girl was found “shivering under playground equipment” half naked. Christina took full responsibility for what happened and as she was charged with “kidnapping, sexual assault and other charges” …show more content…
Maryclaire gave a lot of details about how the girl was abducted and she explained what happened to the kidnapper. When Christina Regusters kidnapped the girl, “she posed as three different people to trick the blindfolded child into thinking a man committed the sexual assault.” She took full responsibility for what she did, so she “did not testify at trial.” She also did not report that anyone else was involved. Also, Maryclaire described how the judge thought of it as, “a horror show, being taken away from a parent, stripped naked, placed under a bed and tortured.” No child should have to go through this. In the article, it gave a brief background on the kidnapper which is also a strength. Christina told a psychiatrist that, “she had been abused and neglected as a child and raped during a 2012 home invasion.” The only weakness this article had was not giving enough information as to why Christina Regusters did this to the 8-year-old girl. Also, there was not a lot of information stating if the kidnapper already knew the 8-year-old prior to the kidnapping and why she chose this little girl out of everyone else in the
Have you ever watched the show "Toddlers and Tiaras" before? To sum up "Toddlers and Tiaras" it's a TV show that gives us a view on how child beauty pageants really are. The author of the article "Toddlers and Tiaras" Skip Hollandsworth is an award winning journalist who is currently the executive editor in Texas Monthly Magazine. Hollandsworth uses a lot of ethos, pathos and logos throughout the article to prove his point, which is how child beauty pageants are affecting little girls (around the age of six years old) mentally. Ethos means credibility, Pathos means to produce emotion and finally Logos means logic or facts. Throughout the article Hollandsworth explains and describes how these "beauty pageants" are affecting little girls (around the age of six) mentally and how they become insecure of themselves.
“There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander,” according to Louise Penny, author of A Fatal Grace. In this case, however, there was no bystander. That is the reason that this case’s verdict was so hard to reach. Seven years and $15 million later, that verdict was reached. It was the influenced words of the children versus the words of the accused. (The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials: A Commentary, Douglas Linder)
This paper will shed light on the abductions of three young women by Ariel Castro. Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus were held captive for over a decade in Ariel Castro’s home located in Cleveland, Ohio. These women were all raped and beaten during their years of captivity by a man that they each had known or come in contact with prior to being abducted. After their rescue Ariel Castro faced charges for the rape and kidnapping of these women, he later pled guilty to these charges. After pledging guilty to the charges Ariel Castro hung himself one night in his jail cell. Each one of these girls maintained a since of hope that
Child abuse is an extremely sensitive subject to many people. But to many people from McMartin Preschool, it is something that will stick with them forever. According to The World Book Encyclopedia, child abuse is “a term that generally refers to mistreatment of a child by a parent of another adult” (Zigler). It could also be “limited to life-threatening physical violence, including severe beating, burns, and strangulation” (Zigler). The horrific McMartin Preschool Trial was crazy and disgusting, leaving children scarred, parents angry, and the accused wronged.
In the twenty first century statistics have proven that stranger abductions are feared most by parents but rarely happen, and the number one abduction that occurs is, parental abduction. “Over 800,000 children are reported missing in the United States each year. Child abduction is a tragedy that devastates parents and touches all of us,” writes Jenny Wanderscheid in her online article. The United States has feared abductions for over decades, but many people misjudge the stereotypical “abduction”.
In November of 1980 A young girl, 12 years old, named Christine Weller went missing. She would later prove to be one of Olson's first murder victims. Christine was abducted from her home in Surrey, BC. Her mutilated body ...
For the last month I've spent every day researching, scrutinizing and simply pondering trying to figure out why a father would kidnap and rape his own daughter or why anyone would rape a three-year-old girl and how DNA evidence and rape kits may lead to wrongful convictions. It's been hard to find information with very little access to anything or anyone closely related to this case. The case within itself seems vile and ignoble.
On Sunday, January 14, the world was shocked with devastating news of one of the most inhumane reports of child abuse ever seen. In what appeared to be a normal home in Perris, Calif., 13 children, ranging from ages two to 29, were held in a hostile environment under conditions unsuitable for human life. The kids are now safe and undergoing treatment in order to alleviate the pain caused by the traumatic experience and emotional grief that they had thought would be their fate forever.
In life, there are many crimes people can commit, but one of the worst ones is child molestation. It is seen as one of the worst crimes even to murders and psychopaths in prisons. World Childhood Foundation has created an unsettling image to show the public what these monsters see and what a gruesome crime it is. Childhood is meant to fun and full of encouragement, but when a child is molested it scares them for life.
In conclusion, the United States has done many things to help prevent more kidnappings and abduction from occurring. Some tactics that kidnappers use on their kidnap children are brainwashing, hypnosis, and physical abuse. Mind control can be a powerful method to turn children from the real truth. But the real miracle that made the Amber Alert law get passed was the return of Elizabeth Smart. She was kidnaped and was held against her will for 9 months. Elizabeth's parents were pushing delegates to pass the Amber Alert law when Elizabeth was returned home to the family after being gone for so long. Now Elizabeth is a sophomore and working hard in school and also on the harp in hopes of one day attending Julliard the School of Music.
Bilich, here are some facts and statistics about child abduction: during child abduction cases about 32 percent of the kids are seriously injured. Just within the United States, every 40 seconds a child is missing or abducted. In 80 percent of abductions by strangers, the first contact between the child and the abductor occurs within a quarter mile of the child’s home. It is best to act quickly because 74 of abducted children who are abducted are ultimately dead within three hours of abduction. About 74 percent of the victims of non-family child abductions are girls. Phoenix, Arizona is the kidnapping capital of the United
85 year old Anna Bracket living alone in a condominium complex opened her door letting into her home to girls ages 14 & 15 who stabbed her 28 times because they wanted to steal her car. The reason I used a little bit of this article is because usually our first thought is “why” a kid would commits such a horrific act and “what” drove them to do it.
Child abduction, domestically or by a stranger, has many negative effects. These effects are dire issues that need to be addressed on a great level. Child abduction does not just affect the involved family. Most of the public has misconceptions about child abduction, therefore, not many people outside of the police or the family of the abducted care about children getting taken. Television shows and fictional stories have done nothing to combat this. Child abduction is not just a private family matter.
In the few years of discussing about crimes, there is an important fact that is not recognized by the world: Children and youth are vulnerable to be victimized than an adult can. Not just more likely to be offenders, young people are also more likely to be the victims of an abuse attack in many different ways.
This Child abduction paper ties in with the book "The Night" because innocent kids are taken and being separated from their parents and some are being killed, the rest are being used as sex slaves or workers, the parents can't really do anything about it either same as if your child gets abducted if you don’t know who took them then it isn't much you could do. (child find.)