UPDATE: Last night, May 20th, the body of Nichole Kristine Cable was found just miles from her home. Continue to keep Nichole and her family in your hearts, pray even if you've never prayed before. The perpetrator is still out there somewhere. As more information becomes available, I will update you all accordingly.
Thank you so much for your support.
Tuesday 14th May 2013.
At the beginning of 2012, I was overweight and not as fulfilled in my life as I could be. I made the decision to lose weight and allow myself to live a little. Throughout the year I lost 70 lbs and with the help of Alan O’Mahony my personal trainer, recovered much of the fitness I had as a youngster playing hockey on a regular basis.
Knowing that my motivation is stronger when focusing on others’ needs, I decided to work towards a charity fitness challenge. As an avid reader, I had been reading “Missing Persons” by Nicci Gerard (Penguin, 2012) which explores the emotional upheaval brought about when a family member disappears. Gerard was able to convey the helplessness and constant weeping wound-type emotions with such poignancy that i was really touched.
In my work as a criminal defence solicitor, I come across missing youngsters and encourage them to get a message home but this was the first time I had considered the other side of the situation. By coincidence, I saw the Missing Person Cycle Challenge advertised on Twitter and had no hesitation in signing up.
I am a complete novice at cycling and under no illusions that it will present a real challenge both physically and logistically in fitting all the training in but if Nicci Gerard has only captured a small proportion of the support required by these families, it will be time well spent.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/22429826 Click for report
7th May 2013 Tuesday
A neighbour, Charles Ramsey, tells reporters: “We had to kick open the bottom of the door”Three young women who vanished about a decade ago in the US state of Ohio have been found and are in hospital in a fair condition, officials have said.
Amanda Berry disappeared aged 16 in 2003, while Gina DeJesus went missing at the age of 14 a year later.
They and Michele Knight, 32, who vanished in 2002 at the age of 20, were found in a house in the city of Cleveland, police confirmed.
Three brothers have been arrested in connection with the case.
Cleveland police said the suspects are Hispanic, aged 50, 52 and 54, and one of them had lived at the house on Seymour Avenue.
Gina DeJesus’ uncle said they were in shock but very grateful for her discovery.
“In all this time, 10 years, nobody never figured nothing about where she was at and this has come to an end and it’s right here on Seymour,” he said.
Meanwhile, a doctor confirmed the three women were being kept in hospital for observation.
“This isn’t the ending we usually hear to these stories,” said Dr Gerald Maloney in a brief news conference outside Metro Health hospital in Cleveland. “We’re very happy.”
Speaking amid cheers from spectators, he added the women were able to speak to hospital staff but he declined to give further details.
The BBC’s Jane Little says it was assumed the girls were dead, and the mother of one victim said she believed her daughter had been sold into slavery.
At least one of the women is reported to have a baby.
‘Here a long time’
In a frantic call to police released to the news media, Ms Berry identified her captor as Ariel Castro. She said she had escaped after he had left the house.
Continue reading the main story
After disappearing a decade ago at the age of 16, Amanda Berry (right) is finally reunited with her sister (left).Local news stations say Mr Castro is one of the men in police custody.
“I am thankful that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive,” Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said.
“We have many unanswered questions regarding this case and the investigation will be ongoing.”
A neighbour said he had seen a woman screaming for help at the front door of the house.
Charles Ramsey said he suggested the woman open the door and exit, but she told him it was locked.
“We had to kick open the bottom,” he said. “Lucky on that door it was aluminium. It was cheap. She climbed out with her daughter.”
Photos of Berry (left) and DeJesus were distributed widely after they went missing
Mr Ramsey then sheltered the woman, who said there were others in the house.
Ms Berry was last heard from when she called her sister on 21 April 2003 to say she would get a lift home from work at a Burger King restaurant.
In 2004, Ms DeJesus was said to be on her way home from school when she went missing.
Their cases were re-opened last year when a prison inmate tipped off authorities that Ms Berry may have been buried in Cleveland. He received a four-and-a-half-year sentence in prison for the false information.
Amanda Berry’s mother, Louwana, died in March 2006, three years after her daughter’s disappearance.
Although much is still not yet known about this case, it recalled a series of recent high-profile child abduction cases.
Jaycee Lee Dugard was 11 years old when she was dragged into a car as she walked to a bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe, California in 1991.
She was discovered in August 2009, having spent 18 years held captive in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in Antioch, some 170 miles from South Lake Tahoe. She had two children.
In Austria, Natascha Kampusch was abducted on her way to school at the age of 10. She was held for eight years by Wolfgang Priklopil in the windowless basement of a house in a quiet suburb of Vienna.
She managed to escape in 2006 while Priklopil was making a phone call. He committed suicide hours after she had fled.
Elizabeth Smart was 14 when she was taken from the bedroom of her Utah home in June 2002 and repeatedly raped during nine months of captivity.She was rescued in March 2003 less than 20 miles from her home. Her abductor, Brian David Mitchell, was jailed for life in 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22430145
For more info please check the BBC and other Media.. thank you.. Good things do happen….
5th May 2013 Sunday
Below another couple email alerts of stories for you to enjoy.. and do what we can..
Painted pink for Missing People
Many people know that our son Andrew went missing aged 14 in 2007 and we have been searching for him ever since.
My wife would describe the experience of having a child missing from the family as like having a knife stuck in you; it hurts constantly and until you know what happened, it stays there, agitating the wound. If you only knew, even if it was knowing the worst, then the knife would at last be pulled out and the wound could begin to gradually heal. It would be less painful but always leave a scar.
It is families like ours that are supported by the charity Missing People, both in practical terms through publicity campaigns and in emotional terms through support days and counselling services.
Missing People started a fundraising campaign in Yorkshire using Glenys’ and Andrew’s pictures on 11th March 2013. Radio adverts, internet banners, newspapers, the Big Issue and other advertising spaces were used over a period of 3 weeks for this campaign.
I decided to help get the campaign off to a flying start by being sponsored to dye my hair pink – pink because it is the logo colour of the charity. To begin with I added an incentive that if I had over £500 in sponsorship I would also shave one half of my head to look even more ridiculous. I am delighted that the total is now almost £1,000 and that Stacey’s barber shop, where Andrew used to go, is helping me out with this.
I have also painted the charity’s phone number on my fingernails in pink. 116 000 is the free number that works anywhere in Europe if someone is missing. In the UK, Missing People gives advice and support. One of the things I really want to get across to people is to put that number in your phone address book and if you have children make sure they have it in their phone too. I hope you will never need it, but if someone you love is missing it could be a lifeline. If you are a young person and finding things tough and thinking about leaving, use that number to talk it through with a trained staff member or volunteer at Missing People. Many children and young people in particular who go missing end up being cold, lonely, hungry, frightened and abused – talking things through first could be all the difference to your well being. It never crossed our minds as parents to talk about what to do if you are lost or feel you want to run away, so please get that phone number down.
April 18th 2013
In 2010 we started the process of creating a website to enable us to publicise the unidentified cases that for us in the UK Missing Persons Bureau represent the other side of the coin. We deal on a weekly basis with cases involving unidentified individuals, and sadly the majority are deceased. Not all of these cases are from the UK, and many are identified relatively quickly thanks to the efforts of those investigating the cases. But others take much longer (some cases date back as far as the 1960s) and we work with the professionals to assist in these challenging cases.
The Bureau’s role is to ensure that all relevant actions have been completed, so that we know that every opportunity to identify who the individual may have been has been explored. We manage the collection of DNA, fingerprints and dental records as these are the most reliable means of identifying people. The last thing we want is to make a mistake, and for a family to be told incorrectly that we have found their loved one, whilst another family waits for news. We also search our database of missing people for cases that may be a match, and ensure the investigating officers are given the relevant details.
We also know that often it is members of the public who provide the breakthrough in these cases. Previously, Missing People publicised some of these cases through their own website, but this service had to be withdrawn to enable them to focus on the vital work they do supporting families and missing people themselves. It was at this time I became determined to ensure this valuable opportunity to resolve cases in the UK wasn’t lost forever.
Our suggestion to set up a website was met by some with trepidation. Colleagues asked if it was perhaps too gruesome to have a website showing images of dead people. Others suggested that families of those missing would find it too distressing. I understand both of these points, but feel passionately that we have to use every opportunity to identify these individuals, so we can close a difficult chapter in the lives of those closest to the deceased. We must also consider that those who knew the person best may not have seen any original publicity. Many of these unidentified individuals may have been travelling, may have gone missing a long way from home or have family and friends who live outside the UK. Without a website like this, how will these families be able to assist us with identifying who they are?
It has taken two long years, but I am really proud to be able to say that last month we succeeded in launching our website. Thanks to the efforts of many in our team, I feel we have produced a site which allows those missing someone to assist us in the search. We have been careful with the images we show, using artist’s impressions and photographs of belongings and tattoos to prompt people’s memories, rather than photographs of the person. However, I do understand that for many it will be difficult to view the details of these cases, and I am grateful to our partners in Missing People for being available to provide support for emotions this may stir up.
We have already had several suggestions about who some of these people may be, and even if we only identify one person as a result of this site, I will feel the hard work to get here has been worth it. Please visit www.missingpersons.police.uk, and see if you might be able to help us resolve a case for a family missing a loved one.
By Louise Vesley,
Police Liaison and Support Officer at the UK Missing Persons Bureau
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Doors open, candles burn bright.
As soon as I was asked to write a small piece on Missing People I jumped at the opportunity and, feeling passionate about a cause I was thinking – Easy!!
Looking at the charity as an outsider a few years back, well it wouldn’t have looked simple! I had never heard of Missing People. I thought I had never met a missing person, or a person who knew a someone who had gone missing.
I thought I didn’t know why someone would go Missing, or if they had– surely they would show up after a day or two, right?
The situation is different now, and I’ve realised it’s strange how Doors Open and Candles burn Bright – Doors Close and Candles go Out.
2008
On the morning of the 16th Dec 2008 a door opened – and closed. I was sitting in a small room alongside Sir Richard Branson, I was thinking how am I going to get through the next few minutes talking to Fiona Phillips on the GMTV Day Break sofa about my documentary which was being shown that night.
I was watching the TV and a lady was on before me with a couple of kids and a gentleman talking about her sister who she hadn’t seen for over 8 months. My interview went well and went back to the green room – Branson was on his way out shook our hands and said to the lady and gentleman – “I hope you find your Sister”.
I stayed back and got talking to them both along with their small children. She explained to me that they were not her kids and that she was helping look after them; that her sister had been Missing for over 8 months and that no one had seen her or heard from her in all that time.
I felt sad for them all, but my adrenalin was going, I was in my own little bubble at the time and never really took much notice. Anyhow, she said she was getting help from the Missing People charity and handed me a business card with the name of Ross Miller – Missing People.
I placed it in my wallet said my goodbyes and got a car to my next interview.
Doors Closed – Candles Out!!
2010
I cleaned my bedside cabinet out, found my old wallet, proceeded to empty it and found Ross Miller’s business card.
I don’t know why but this lady came back to me in my mind and the anguish, hurt , pain, confusion, emptiness, the dark void, the rush , the anger , and guilt that I tried to imagine took me to give this Ross guy a ring!
After speaking to Ross I decided to have a meeting with him at Missing People not knowing what to expect, I walked out of there with such a burning light within me and vowed to help The Charity, The Missing, their families and friends in whatever way I could.
As a runaway at the age of 15 years, I didn’t know I WAS MISSING – you sometimes don’t.
As a teen I returned home after a week and I still don’t know what it’s like when someone you love goes missing – Only the ones left behind will truly know.
Together with Missing People WE CAN and ALWAYS WILL keep the Door Open and Candles burning bright – ready for the missing to come home.
By Sleep Artist Lee Hadwin
Passionate supporter and fundraiser for the charity Missing People
Please click to read about Lee’s auction, which Lee is using to support the charity and anyone affected by a disappearance
From ABC Local News>
HOUSTON (KTRK) — An Amber Alert remains in effect for a missing 14-year-old girl. We are now getting a look at the 33-year-old man she is believed to have taken off with. They say he was a man who they had trusted.
Harris County deputies say they’ve not yet found Haylie White, 14, or Jacob West, 33, Both have been missing since Tuesday afternoon. Investigators say Haylie was last seen with West leaving her northwest Harris County home.
“She’s not answering, not texting,” said Haylie’s mother Jan Nixon. “She erased her Facebook (profile).”
It’s been more than 24 hours since Nixon saw her daughter Haylie.
Nixon said, “She’s not thinking about everybody that loves her.”
Nixon says Tuesday afternoon Haylie left her house with West, a former neighbor she is romantically involved with who has his own daughters around Haylie’s age.
Haylie’s father Jimmy White said, “To be honest with you, she was involved with him behind my back. I just neglected to see it. Now that I see it, she needs help. Both of them need help.”
Much to Nixon’s dismay, the two climbed into West’s 2005 silver GMC Envoy and took off with no idea where they’d end up.
“I tried to pull her leg to get her out of the truck, but she wouldn’t get out,” Nixon said. “She just kind of laughed at me.”
Now scared for their daughter’s safety, Haylie’s parents struggle to get her back home, using fliers, phone calls and pleas on television.
“If you’re watching, Haylie, please come home, because we need you here,” White pleaded.
They hope anyone who sees their daughter helps to return her.
“I just want her home,” Nixon said.
Haylie is 5 feet tall and weighs 120 pounds. She has short brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a tie-dyed shirt and blue jeans.
West is said to be driving a 2005 silver GMC Envoy with the Texas license plate #AT42794. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds. He has brown eyes and short brown hair.
The Amber Alert is still active, and the FBI is involved in the search.
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Correction: The correct way spelling of Haylie is right in this post, unlike in prior posts.
(CBS/CBS Houston) HOUSTON – Authorities are now searching for a 14-year-old Texas girl who is believed to be with a 33-year-old male neighbor with whom she is romantically involved.
An Amber Alert was issued Tuesday afternoon for Haylie White, who was reportedly taken from her uncle’s north Harris County home that day by neighbor Jacob West, according to CBS affiliate KHOU.
“We were up most of the night hoping to get a phone call,” said the girl’s uncle, Dana Nixon, told KHOU. “The longer it goes, the more concerned we get.”
Nixon told the station White moved into his home last week because her family was trying to keep her away from West, who lives next door to her mother.
“We basically told him she was moving in here, we did not want him in the picture, it was inappropriate,” said Nixon.
Authorities say West ignored the family’s requests and continued to pursue the teen girl. Tuesday afternoon she was taking a walk with family and jumped into his car.
“She hopped in the guy’s truck and took off,” said Nixon. “I think he is manipulating her.”
The teen’s mother, Jan Nixon, told ABC affiliate KTRK that Haylie stopped answering her phone and erased her Facebook profile.
Haylie is approximately five feet tall and 120 pounds with short brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a tie-die shirt and blue jeans.
West is a white males, approximately six feet two inches tall and 220 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. He was driving a 2005 silver GMC Envoy with Texas License Plate #AT42749.
Jacob West The Alleged Perpetrator (11 hours ago)
INFORMATION IS SKETCHY STILL AND AS IT COMES IN BTH WILL BE TRYING TO BRING IT TO YOU AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
PLEASES RE-BLOG HALLIE’S PHOTO AND THE DETAILS . THE MORE EYES ON HER THE MORE CHANCE WE HAVE AT BRINGING HER HOME. THE MORE CHANCE WE HAVE OF EXPOSING THE PREDATOR.
PLEASE HELP BRING HALLIE HOME!
HALLIE WHITE AGE 14
…Amber Alert…
The following message is transmitted at the request of the Harris County Constable`s Office Precinct 4.
This is a child abduction alert issued by the Texas Amber Alert Network.
Harris County Constable`s Office Precinct 4 has issued an amber alert for missing 14 year old Hay lie White. She is 5 feet tall and 120 lbs. She is white and has short brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a tie-dyed shirt and blue jeans. She was taken from her home this afternoon by the suspect, 33 year old
Jacob West.
Jacob West is a 33 year old white male and is driving a 2005 silver GMC Envoy, Texas license plate #at42794. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 lbs. He has brown eyes and short brown hair.
PHOTO OF JACOB WEST POSTED FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSED ONLY!
If you have any information regarding this abduction, contact the Harris County Sheriffs Office at 281-376-3472.
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Names and ages of the 26 people gunned down at a Connecticut elementary school Friday December 14, 2012 in the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history:
In sincere remembrance of the children and adults who lost their lives in this senseless tragedy BTH offers up Emmylou Harris’s song” Long May You Run.”
Rest In Peace
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Rachel Davino, 29
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Dawn Hochsprung, 47
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Lauren Rousseau, 30
Mary Sherlach, 56
Victoria Soto,27
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6
In Our Prayers & Thought’s Today,Tomorrow, and always ~
Source: Connecticut State Police
It has happened again in the Unites States of America. More of this country;s babies are taken down and out before they have had a chance to live. Adults given charge of these children also losing life.
We had not posted yesterday. the day of the massacre in New Town Connecticut as an act of silence in respect for the victims.
Too Many Children Are Being Taken
BTH is a non-political blog dedicated to bringing attention to missing children nd Adults, as well as the safety of children and adults. is always a constant concern to us here at BTH. This post will veer from this protocol a bit and will be done in three parts. We will post the victims names when released to always honor and remember this tragedy is about them as a second [art. A third part will be an open editorial about gun control. BTH will take a firm and open stand on this issue. We speak for children here and we will be using BTH;s platform to do so because this is about the safety of our children. Number 1, then the safety of all of us comes in to play.
This will not be the time, this post, for an open a discussion about the need for this country to get a good grip on gun control and to become more conscious of mental health issues That being said the details are already leaving us with many concerns again with equation of Mental Illness + the person “snaps” + access to guns. We are going to learn in days to come that in hindsight there were warning signs ignored, symptoms that were not addresses,Access to guns,by someone who has no legal right to own a gun. Connecticut has very strict guns laws reportedly the strictest in the country, Registered hand guns with certificates is the law. It also being reported the guns were owned legally by the perpetrator’s mother who was also found deceased in another location, the family home.
Some how the laws were still not strict enough. Some how we have to do more than just talk about for a few days post a tragedy.
But today It is the victims we want to focus on, and we will remember. Today we can do nothing to bring these precious children home.
The victims names have not been released as of yet with this writing, except for the school principal & the school psychologist who also lost their lives. Once the full list of victims has been released we will post their names, for it is the victims we want to remember and take away this bloodshed.
The first thing we want to address in the teachers and staff who helped to save the lives of those who were saved . They may train for lock downs but if you put yourself in their position and have to deal with a lock down and 30 plus children there is not enough training possible. Praise everything holy for their training and presence of mind to keep the children safe. Our hearts go out to the children who survived, families of all the victims, and to the community of Newtown Connecticut. As President Obama said the day of the shooting, that times like this make you want to hug your children just a little tighter. Tell your family that you love them. Please do so yourself, hug those you love just little closer… because you can.
To repeat what is being said all over other blogs and news casts will not be this post. We at BTH are grieving for the children and adults. as you, and our world is grieving. Together we mourn the loss of our children, teachers, and staff who were shot down in a place all our children and faculty should be feel is the second safest place in this world. Home being first, an elementary, primary grade school. should be the second safest place to be.
We also are not g going to speak about the mass murderer. No name will mentioned here by us at BTH in keeping with our policy to not speak of the perpetrators. We will not use the person’s name. This will be done again out respect for the victims as well as not to aid in making his name a household name.
Ending on the thought that good can and will conquer evil, that we as a community, a country, and a universe working together can make a difference. We can find a way to stop this epidemic of mass murders of our children, friends, and family in this country.
May God Bless the Memories of the Victims & God Speed to each.
We wish the surviving children who are processing losing classmates, the community and the state much
peace & strength.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.
We are thinking about people, children and adults who are missing from their loved ones still as this holy of all holidays approaches. We think of the families that are gathering yet know there is a big hole in their lives and hearts that cannot be filled with no amount of Christmas cheer. Our hearts break for those missing, and families and friends. With our collective voices here at Bring Them Home (BTH) we ask that your prayers and requests be for some sense of solace to be theirs this Holiday season of 2012.
Thinking of those missing still, the reason that has brought our hearts and minds together here on this same page. I am reminded by a title of an unusual Christmas song that has nothing to do with the factions of missing people & children, but the title “Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?” (by Band Aide) has been with me in this concept of our missing since hearing a few days ago. Ironically in a strange (and maybe not so strange) twist of conversations this is the first Christmas music I had heard this season.. It was not long at all before I was thinking of all our missing children.
All missing persons yes, but in particular missing children who will not be home safe in their own beds this Christmas Eve dreaming of sugar plums dancing in their heads. We here BTH are aware of families who are still (God & This Universe Bless them!) holding out hope every year by putting gifts for their missing child under their tree. Storing up years of past Christmas memories and gifts to be shared when that one Christmas wish comes true, the missing child is back in the folds of their family’s love.
This is not a feel good post, we know. It also not a proactive post. Nothing much we are asking of you BTH Champions. It is just what it looks like, a sad editorial regarding the tragedies that can and have fallen on really good people.
We, who admittedly wears our heart on our sleeves over this cause asks this of you; that you do one thing this Christmas season in terms of our missing, No matter what your beliefs are we are confident that you have energy and prayers to be shared concerning the missing from our world. Please do so……
,,,,and ask yourself the same question we are asking…
Do They Know Its Christmas Time?
Nobody longs for a safe and loving family more than a child in foster care. As a CASA volunteer, you are empowered by the courts to help make this dream a reality. You will be the one consistent adult in these children’s lives, vigilantly fighting for and protecting their fundamental right to be treated with the dignity and respect every child deserves. You will not only bring positive change to the lives of these vulnerable children, but also their children and generations to come. And in doing so, you will enrich your life as well
The National CASA Association is a network of 946 programs that are recruiting, training and supporting volunteers to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courtroom and other settings. Read more about us.
CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and advocate for abused and neglected children, to make sure they don’t get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or languish in inappropriate group or foster homes. Volunteers stay with each case until it is closed and the child is placed in a safe, permanent home. For many abused children, their CASA volunteer will be the one constant adult presence in their lives.
Independent research has demonstrated that children with a CASA volunteer are substantially less likely to spend time in long-term foster care and less likely to reenter care. Read more evidence of effectiveness.
Last year, more than 77,000 CASA and guardian ad litem (GAL) volunteers helped 234,000 abused and neglected children find safe, permanent homes. CASA volunteers are everyday citizens who have undergone screening and training with their local CASA/GAL program.
CASA volunteers listen first. Then they act.
Volunteers get to know the child by talking with everyone in that child’s life; parents and relatives, foster parents, teachers, medical professionals, attorneys, social workers and others. They use the information they gather to inform judges and others of what the child needs and what will be the best permanent home for them.
Judges appoint CASA volunteers to represent the best interests of children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. Each year, more than 600,000 children experience foster care in this country. Because there are not enough CASA volunteers to represent all of the children in care, judges typically assign CASA volunteers to their most difficult cases. Read the stories of young people whose lives were changed by the support of a CASA volunteer.
In 1977, a Seattle juvenile court judge concerned about making drastic decisions with insufficient information conceived the idea of citizen volunteers speaking up for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courtroom. From that first program has grown a network of more than 946 CASA and guardian ad litem programs that are recruiting, training and supporting volunteers in 49 states.
Read more about the history of the CASA movement. (Connection magazine, 1.82 MB PDF).
http://www.casaforchildren.org/site/c.mtJSJ7MPIsE/b.5301303/k.6FB1/About_Us__CASA_for_Children.htm
The primary source of National CASA’s funding is the federal government, through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Additional support comes from Jewelers for Children, individuals and other private funders. Read more about National CASA’s partners.
For United Kingdom Advocacy program see following post UK’s Barnaardo’s Believe In Children Advocacy
Below is the agency in the United Kingdom dedicated to advocating for the child in cases of children protection, family counseling groups, along with other circumstances involved. The advocates are there to take in the child’s point of view and thoughts.
Please note: The UK & the USA programs are different programs. Please do not confuse services provided between the two country’s agencies.
There is a growing recognition of the importance of advocacy for children and young people when plans are being made for their lives.
Appreciating the views and feelings of the young person helps them feel involved and can help everyone make better decisions. Working like this is not just good practice, it is also a legal requirement. The Children Act says young people must be treated with respect and this means (amongst other things) that young people must be listened to.
If a local authority is deciding what should happen to a child or young person they have to find out how they feel and what they want. They have to tell the child or young person what is happening and why.
Listening to children is at the heart of all Barnardo’s work, but our work in advocacy especially shows Barnardo’s commitment to giving children and young people a voice.
Barnardo’s advocacy work covers the areas of child protection conferences, family group conferences and the provision of independent sessional advocates. We also run training for childcare professionals and offer consultancy work for those wanting to set up or maintain advocacy services. Barnardo’s also provides an advocacy service for children in custody covering 13 units across the North and Midlands areas in England.
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/our_projects/advocacy.htm
Bring Them Home has made the choice to fill up empty days here on this blog when no active alerts are in place. We have opted to use informational material as one way to do this. to provide you the advocate & parents with information needed to keep our children, women & men safe. The following information is designed to let us be aware of what to look for. The thought that if we keep all their “actions & characteristics out in the open there will be no safe place for predators to hide.
Our intention is to inform you, not offend you. Albeit the nature of this material is sensitive, it is well written.
Have low self esteem.
Even though a lot of abusers might appear to be ‘tough”, “strong”, and “confident”, more often than not they really suffer from low self-esteem. They may feel that they fall short in the area of their own sex stereotype and so they overcompensate with hyper-masculinity. If they are emotionally “needy”, and they have become dependent on their partner, the thought of losing that partner feels threatening and thus behaviors of controlling and jealousy follow.
Rush in to relationships
Many victims dated or knew their abuser for less than six months before they were engaged or living together. Abusers can come on like a whirl-wind claiming “love at first sight”, and using flattery such as “you are the only person I could ever talk to”, “I have never felt loved like this by anyone”. They may need someone desperately, and will pressure the other partner to commit to a relationship before they are truly ready.
Are excessively jealous
An abuser will always say that jealousy is a sign of love. Jealousy has nothing to do with love; it’s a sign of possessiveness and lack of trust. In a healthy relationship, the partners trust each other unless one of them has legitimately done something to break that trust.
Exhibit controlling behavior
Often at the beginning, a batterer will say that this behavior is because they are concerned for your safety, a need for you to use time well or to make good decisions. Abusers will be angry if you are “late” coming back from the store or an appointment; you will be questioned closely about where you went, who you talked to. At this behavior gets worse, the abuser may not let you make personal decisions about the house, your clothing, or going to church. They may keep all the money; or may make you ask permission to leave the house or room.
Have unrealistic expectations or demands
Abusive people will expect their partner to meet all their needs: the perfect partner, lover, and friend. They say things like “if you love me, I’m all you need and you are all I need”. They may expect you to take care of everything for them; emotionally, physically, and sometimes economically. However, this is not natural or healthy in a relationship. Instead, partners in healthy relationships encourage each other to pursue their dreams, to have friends and interests outside of the relationship and take pride in their partner in these things.
Use isolation to keep you centered on them
The abusive person tries to cut the partner off from all resources. If you have same-sex friends, you are a “whore”, a “slut” or “cheating”. If you are close to family, you are “tied to the apron strings”. The abuser will accuses people who are supportive of causing trouble, and may restrict use of the phone. They will gradually isolate you from all of your friends. They may not let you use a car (or have one that is reliable), and may try to keep you from working or going to school. Some abusers will try to get you into legal trouble so that you are afraid to drive or go out.
Believe in male supremacy and the stereotyped masculine role in the family.
Abusers are often obsessive about appearing to be “the man of the house” and they tend to hold very high and rigid rules about how they get act because they are “the man” – often leading them to feel the need to dominate and control and to expect their word and their needs to be catered to at all times, including in the bedroom. The abuser sees you as unintelligent, inferior, responsible for menial tasks, and less than whole without the relationship. They will often tell you that no one else would want you or that you are nothing without them. They will remind you of their “provider role” – everything they have done for you.
Use of force during sex
This kind of person may like to act out fantasies where the partner is helpless. They let you know that the idea of rape is exciting. They may show little concern about whether you wants to have sex, and use sulking or anger to manipulate you. They may start having sex with you while you are sleeping, or demand sex when you are ill or tired. They may want to “make up” by having sex after they have just been physically or verbally abusive to you.
Have poor communication skills
Some people talk with their words, while others talk with their fists (actions). Batterers typically have trouble with discussing “feelings”, especially very strong ones like anger or frustration. Some may feel that “having feelings” and talking out problems goes against the stereotyped male role that they have bought into (see above). Without the skills or self-permission to express themselves in constructive ways (ie in a way that feels uncomfortable or where they feel inadequate), they often lash out with violence.
Use drinking and battering to cope with stress.
Abusers in general have a higher incident of drug and alcohol abuse than non-batterers. This doesn’t mean that drugs or alcohol CAUSE the abuse, rather it lowers inhibitions making an already frustrated and violence-prone person more likely to fall back on violence as a crutch, especially when confronted with their lack of communication skills and any feelings of inadequacy.
Blame others for their actions
Commonly, batterers use the actions of others as excuses for their own behavior. They blame the person who made them angry, as if that person were pushing some magic button that released violent behavior. How often have victims heard “why did you make me do that”? If your partner is chronically unemployed, someone is always doing them wrong or is out to get them. They may make mistakes and then blame you for upsetting them so that they can’t concentrate on their work. They may tell you that YOU are at fault for almost anything that goes wrong. Abusive people will might say, “you made me mad” and “I can’t help being angry”. Although they actually make the decision about how they think or feel, they will use feelings to manipulate you. Abusers see themselves as the “victim” in the relationship, and do not take responsibility for their own feelings or behaviors.
Are prone to hypersensitivity
Abusers are easily insulted, and may take the slightest setback as a personal attack. They will rant and rave about the injustice of things that are really just a part of living, such as having to get up for work, getting a traffic ticket, or being asked to help with chores.
Present two sides to their personalities
Often the most frustrating thing for the victim, many abusers are excellent actors. They may appear to function well at work, with friends and family, etc. Sometimes only the battered spouse is aware of the true “nature of the beast”. This often makes it difficult for a victim to reach out for support from friends and family, because those persons may try to talk the victim out of thinking that their spouse is a batterer. Often a victims friends and family will go on and on about “what a great guy you’ve got there” – because the batterer has successfully hidden their violence at home. It’s even MORE frustrating for the victim when members of their support system try to turn the tables and say things like “well, just don’t make him mad”. They’re putting the blame on the VICTIM and not on the offender where it belongs! When this happens, the violent partner gets backup from the very people the victim NEEDS for support and they too fall into the trap of myths about the nature and causes of family violence!
Exhibit cruelty to animals or children
This is a person who punishes animals brutally or is insensitive to their pain. They may expect children to be capable of things beyond their ability. They may tease children and younger brothers and sisters until they cry. They may be very critical of other people’s children or any children you bring into the relationship. Your partner may threaten to prevent you from seeing children you have no biological rights to, or punish children to get even with you. About 60% of people who beat their partner also beat their children. Of course the OPPOSITE of this can be true also. Abused women often say that they stay “for the sake of the kids, because he’s a great father to them.” Unfortunately, one parent abusing another is one of the greatest risk factors for child abuse as well as for children to sink into depression, anxiety disorders and other mental and physical illnesses. Abuse also models the role of violence to the children as THEY grow up and into relationships of their own.
Re-psoted from:
If you suspect abuse DON’T WAIT until you can “prove” child abuse — make a report whenever your worries about the safety of a child turn into suspicions that the child is being abused or neglected. If the abuse is happening right now, call now.
When seeking to report child abuse, it is important to remember these points:
AND DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT PUTS YOUR LIFE AT RISK. YOU CANNOT HELP ANYONE IF YOU TOO ARE NEEDING HELP!
In & Out of State – Statewide numbers only
Should you need to report in another state or the particular state does not have a hotline, you may need to contact the out-of-state reporting number or the specific county in which the abuse occurred. If you do not find the number you need below, call information and ask for the Child Abuse Reporting number (or the Police or Sheriff’s Department) in the County and State the abuse occurred in.
Alabama – Report by County – 334-242-9500
Website: http://www.dhr.state.al.us/page.asp?pageid=304
Alaska – 907-269-3400(out of state) or
Division of Family & Youth Services Regional Office 800- 478-4444 (in state)
Website: http://www.hss.state.ak.us/ocs/default.htm
Arizona – 888-SOS-CHILD – 888-767-2445
Website: http://www.de.state.az.us/dcyf/cps/
Arkansas – 800-482-5964
Website: http://www.state.ar.us/dhs/chilnfam/child_protective_services.htm
California – Report by County Los Angeles 800-540-4000 (in state)
916-445-2832 (out of state)
Website: http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/FindServic_716.htm
Colorado – Report by County
Division of Child Welfare Services 303-866-5932
Website: http://www.cdhs.state.co.us/cyf/cwelfare/cwweb.html
Connecticut – 800-842-2288
800-624-5518 (TDD/hearing impaired, in state)
800-842-2288 (nationwide)
Website: http://www.state.ct.us/dcf/HOTLINE.htm
Delaware – 800-292-9582
302-577-6550 (out of state)
Website: http://www.state.de.us/kids/
District of Columbia – 202-671-7233 (nationwide)
Website: http://cfsa.dc.gov/cfsa/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=520663&cfsaNav=|31319|
Florida – 800-962-2873 (nationwide)
800-453-5145(TDD/hearing impaired, in state)
Website: http://www5.myflorida.com/cf_web/myflorida2/healthhuman/childabuse/
Georgia – Report by County Division of Family & Children Services DCFS
706-227-7000 (Clarke County) 478-553-2350 (Washington County)
Website: http://www2.state.ga.us/Departments/dhr/dfcs/index.html
Hawaii – Report By Island
808-832-5300 Child Protective Service Hotline
Website: http://www.state.hi.us/dhs/
Idaho – Report by Regional Office Child Protective Services
(Boise) 800-600-6474(24hour)
Care Line 860-926-2588 (business hours)
TDD hearing impaired 208-332-7205
Website: http://www2.state.id.us/dhw/facs/index_facs.htm
Illinois – 800-252-2873 (in state)
217-524-2606 (out of state) TTY Hearing impaired 800-358-5117
Website: http://www.state.il.us/dcfs/child/index.shtml
Indiana – 800-457-8283 (in state) 800-800-5556 (24 hour)
317-233-0800 (all counties)
Website: http://www.in.gov/fssa/families/protection/dfcchi.html
Iowa – Child Abuse Hotline 800-362-2178
Website: http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/reportingchildabuse.asp
Kansas – 800-922-5330 (24 hour hotline)
Website: http://www.srskansas.org/services/child_protective_services.htm
Kentucky – 800-752-6200 Child/ Adult Abuse hotline
Website: http://cfc.state.ky.us/help/child_abuse.asp
Louisiana – Report by Parish/County
225-342-6832 (business hours only)
State Office of Community Services 225-342-2297
Website: http://dss.state.la.us/departments/ocs/child_welfare_services.html
Maine – 800-452-1999
207-287-2983
Website: http://www.state.me.us/dhs/bcfs/protection.htm
Maryland – 800-332-6347 (in state, Report by county)
410-361-2235 ( Baltimore 24 hour)
410-822-3107 (State Police)
Website: http://www.dhr.state.md.us/cps/
Massachusetts – 800-792-5200
617-232-4882
Website: http://www.state.ma.us/dss/ChildAbuse/CAN_Overview.htm
Michigan – 800-942-4357
517-373-3572
Website: http://www.michigan.gov/fia/0,1607,7-124-5452_7119-21208–,00.html
Minnesota – Report by County 651-291-0211
Website: http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/CFS/Programs/ChildProtection/default.htm
Mississippi – 800-222-8000
601-359-4991 (out of state)
Website: http://www.mdhs.state.ms.us/fcs_prot.html
Missouri – 800-392-3738
573-751-3448 (out of state)
Website: http://www.dss.state.mo.us/dfs/csp.htm
Montana – 866-820-5437
406-444-5900 (out of state)
Website:
http://www.dphhs.state.mt.us/about_us/divisions/child_family_services/child_family_services.htm
Nebraska – 800-652-1999
402-595-1324 (out of state, business hours only)
Website: http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/cha/chaindex.htm
Nevada – 800-992-5757
775-684-4400 (out of state, business hours only)
Website: http://dcfs.state.nv.us/page24.html
New Hampshire – 800-894-5533 / 800-852-3388
603-225-9000 (out of state)
Website: http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/DHHS/BCP/default.htm
New Jersey – 800-792-8610 (nationwide, 24/7)
800-835-5510 (TDD/hearing impaired)
Website: http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/dyfs/index.html
New Mexico – 800-797-3260 (24/7)
505-841-6100 (out of state, 24/7)
Website: http://www.state.nm.us/cyfd/index.htm
New York – 800-342-3720
518-474-8740 (out of state)
Website: http://www.ocfs.state.ny.us/main/cps/
North Carolina –Report by county- Raleigh 919-733-3055
Stokes County 336-593-2861, Emergency 800-627-2851
Website: http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/dss/c_srv/cserv_protect.htm
North Dakota – Report by Regional Office
West Central Human Service Center 701-328-8888 or 888-326-2662,
24 hour crisis lines 701-328-8879 or 888-326-2112
Prevent Child Abuse Alliance 701-222-6622
Website: http://www.state.nd.us/humanservices/services/childfamily/cps/
Ohio – Report by County
Franklin County 24 hour child abuse hotline 614-229-7000
Website: http://jfs.ohio.gov/ocf/
Oklahoma – 800-522-3511 (nationwide, 24 hours)
Website: http://www.okdhs.org/dcfs/
Oregon – 800-854-3508 ext.2402 (in state, business hours only)
503-378-5414 (TTY, hearing impaired)
503-378-6704 (nationwide, business hours only)
Website: http://www.dhs.state.or.us/abuse/children/child_protect/
Pennsylvania – 800-932-0313
717-783-8744 (out of state)
Website: http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/ocyf/cw/abuse/abuseHome.asp
Rhode Island – 800-RI-CHILD (800-742-4453) (nationwide, 24 hours)
Website: http://www.dcyf.state.ri.us/chldwelfare/child_welfare.shtml
South Carolina – Report by County (in state)
803-898-7318 (out of state, business hours only)
National child abuse hotline 800-422-4453
Website: http://www.state.sc.us/dss/
South Dakota – Report by County
Local toll 605-773-3227
Fax: 605-773-6834
Website: http://www.state.sd.us/social/CPS/
Tennessee – Report by County
Toll free 877-237-0004
Website: http://www.state.tn.us/youth/cps/index.htm
Texas – 800-252-5400
512-834-3784 (out of state)
512-832-2020 (after hours)
Website: http://www.tdprs.state.tx.us/
Utah – 800-678-9399 (nationwide)
Website: http://www.hsdcfs.utah.gov/default.htm
Vermont – Report by County (business hours only)
DFC Central Office 802-241-2131
802-863-7533 (out of state, after hours)
800-649-5285 (in state, after hours)
Website: http://www.state.vt.us/srs/cabuse/tnrpt.htm
Virginia – 800-552-7096
804-786-8536 (out of state)
Website: http://www.dss.state.va.us/family/cps.html
Washington – toll free 800 END HARM or 800-363-427
Website: http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/ca/safety/prevAbuse.asp?1
West Virginia – 800-352-6513
Website: http://www.wvdhhr.org/oss/children/cps.asp
Wisconsin – Report by County
608-266-3036 (nationwide, business hours only)
Website: http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/Children/CPS/index.HTM
Wyoming – State Department of Family Services 307-777-3570
Prevent child abuse 307-637-8622
Website: http://dfsweb.state.wy.us/menu.htm
If you suspect abuse DON’T WAIT until you can “prove” child abuse — make a report whenever your worries about the safety of a child turn into suspicions that the child is being abused or neglected. If the abuse is happening right now, call now.
When seeking to report child abuse, it is important to remember these points:
AND DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT PUTS YOUR LIFE AT RISK. YOU CANNOT HELP ANYONE IF YOU TOO ARE NEEDING HELP!
If you are suffering domestic abuse, there are many informed and experienced organisations who care and want to help. Some of these are listed below.
In case of emergency, call 999 for police or an ambulance.
The websites and helplines below can offer help and advice on how to stay safe and how to get access to emergency refuge accommodation. They can also offer advice if you are worried about the safety of someone close to you.
A free, confidential service for anyone concerned about children at risk, including children themselves. The service offers counselling, information and advice.
If you’re based in Northern Ireland and you need to talk to someone in confidence call the 24 hour helpline run by Women’s Aid, a voluntary organisation providing services for women and children in Northern Ireland.
Confidential support 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing distress or despair, and feelings that could lead to suicide.
If you’re based in Scotland and you need to talk to someone in confidence call the 24 hour Domestic Abuse Helpline run by Scottish Women’s Aid, the lead organisation working towards the prevention of domestic abuse in Scotland.
The national free support and information service for women, children and men in Wales who are experiencing or who have experienced abuse at the hands of someone close to them. To talk to someone in confidence, call the 24 hour helpline.
If you need to take legal action, you can apply for an emergency injunction (court order). For more details visit one of the following websites:
Offers an advice line with free legal advice for women by women and a sexual violence helpline. Rights of Women is a voluntary organisation committed to informing, educating and empowering women about their legal rights.
A confidential freephone helpline for all men experiencing domestic violence by a current or ex-partner. This includes men in heterosexual or same-sex relationships.
There are many people and organisations who care and who want to help. The websites below are a selected few of the organisations that you can trust to offer information or support if you or someone close to you is suffering from domestic abuse.
If you’re in an abusive relationship you need to know your options before you can act. The websites below can help explain these to you.
Rape Crisis Centres across England and Wales provide a range of specialist services for women and girls that have been raped or experienced another form of sexual violence, whether as adults or children. See the website for details of local centres.
Refuge is a national charity that provides emergency accommodation and support for women and children experiencing domestic violence. Some of the refuges are for women of specific cultural backgrounds.
Victim Support is a national charity for victims and witnesses of crime in England and Wales and offers a free and confidential service, irrespective of whether or not a crime has been reported.
The key national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children with a network of over 500 domestic and sexual violence services across the UK.
Men are victims of violence at the hands of both female and male partners. The websites and helplines below address their specific concerns and explain the options available.
The Mankind Initiative is a national charity that provides support for male victims of domestic abuse. It runs a helpline and can provide referrals to refuges and local authorities where appropriate.
A confidential helpline offering support, information and practical advice to men experiencing domestic violence.
The websites and helplines below offer support and advice on the specific concerns of gay men and women who have experienced domestic abuse.
Telephone helpline for lesbians, gay men and bisexual or transgendered people experiencing domestic violence. The helpline is operated by workers from these communities and ensures caller privacy.
The LLGS operates an information, support and referral service for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people and is staffed with volunteers from these communities.
Older people have their own particular issues regarding domestic abuse and safety in the home. The following website can offer support and advice.
AEA is a nationwide charity working to protect and prevent the abuse of vulnerable older adults. It also provides support within Ireland.
The following sites are aimed at specific communities of women and children who may be suffering domestic abuse or made homeless by the threat of abuse.
A voluntary organisation that provides holistic services to Black and Minority Ethnic women and children who are suffering abuse or are made homeless through a threat of domestic abuse in Wales.
A UK charity offering free legal advice and support to disadvantaged Chinese people living in the UK. Their Women’s Support Project helps women who are experiencing family or marital difficulties and provides access to services including housing and legal help.
JWA provides a freephone helpline, practical and legal advice and a confidential counselling service for Jewish women facing domestic violence. It also runs a secure refuge in London for women of all levels of religious observance and their children.
NAWP provides emergency accommodation and housing support services to South Asian women and their children fleeing domestic violence. It also offers counselling services and rights-based advice.
SWS run a resource centre in West London that provides advice, counselling and self-help support services to Asian and African-Caribbean women experiencing violence and abuse.
The WAITS Domestic Violence Project provides support and advocacy for women who have experienced domestic violence, with a focus on Black and Minority Ethnic women and Chinese women. Based in West Midlands and offering support to the local community.
If you’re an adult caring for children, the websites below can offer the following support:
Barnardo’s helps children, young people and their families over the long term to overcome the most severe problems like abuse, homelessness and poverty. Use the website to find an office near to you.
The NSPCC is dedicated to ending cruelty to children in the UK. The free 24 hour helpline provides information and advice for anyone concerned about a child’s safety. The Asian Helpline and Cymru/Wales Helpline can be accessed via the main helpline number.
Parentline Plus is a national charity providing help and support to anyone caring for children, for families living together as well as apart. It runs a freephone helpline and has a community of parents supporting each other through forums and blogs.
YoungMinds is a national charity committed to improving the mental health of children and young people. It provides a free telephone helpline offering information and advice to any adult with concerns about the mental health of a child or young person.
Gingerbread is a national charity that works for and with single parent families to improve their lives. The charity provides a freephone helpline for advice on issues affecting single parents.
Reunite is a UK charity that specialises in international parental child abduction. The advice line offers practical impartial advice and support to parents and family members who have had their child abducted or who feel their child may be at risk of abduction.
The following websites are exclusively for children who may be suffering from problems including domestic abuse or neglect.
Free, 24 hour telephone helpline for children and young people who need to talk about any problems they may be experiencing, including family issues, neglect and bullying.
Free, 24 hour telephone helpline for children and young people who need to talk about any problems they may be experiencing, including family issues, neglect and bullying.
Website for children and young people to inform them about domestic violence, help them identify whether it’s happening in their home and provide indirect and informal support.
If you have experienced domestic violence and need help with practical matters, see the websites below for advice and information on housing, money and legal entitlements.
Refuge is a national charity that provides emergency accommodation and support for women and children experiencing domestic violence. Some of the refuges are for women of specific cultural backgrounds.
Shelter is a charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing. It gives advice, information and advocacy to people in housing need based in England and Scotland.
The Citizens Advice service offers free information and advice on legal, money and other problems. Go to the website for online advice or to find your nearest office.
CICA is a government organisation that can pay money to people who have been physically or mentally injured because they were the blameless victim of a violent crime. The free service enables you to find out if you qualify and apply for compensation online
A government organisation that offers free, confidential and independent advice on your legal rights if you are resident in England or Wales.
The IAS is an independent UK charity providing representation and advice in immigration and asylum law. Services are free to people who are eligible and advice is provided confidentially. Go to the website to find your local IAS office.
NCDV helps survivors of domestic violence obtain an injunction, free of charge. It works in close partnership with the police, solicitors and other support agencies to help survivors obtain speedy protection.
The websites below explain what help is available to those who are responsible for domestic violence and who want to change.
Respect is the UK membership association for domestic violence perpetrator programmes and associated support services. It runs a helpline offering information and advice to people who are abusive to their partners and want help to stop.
Good Mid October Everyone!
Its been almost 3 months since Bring Them Home (BTH) was born here at WordPress.
We thought this would be an appropriate time to touch base with all BTH’s followers & Advocates. (In case you need to know if you reblog posts from BTH or more YOU are an advocate)
BTH would like to thank you all for your devotion to the missing children & adults in our world. You have proven to be passionate about the intent of this blog and for this cause and what it is attempting to be part of. Please keep up the excellent work, these children, adults and their families need you.
Its obvious and with great gratitude that we are not having to post an active alert everyday and that is a sign of hope. Hope that we as a world can stamp out all adults & child abductions. This is the same direction we hope to see the rest of BTH’s first year.
Becoming clear is that BTH’s blog is quiet on too many days of the week when there is not active alerts which we are thankful for. Therefore it has been on our minds to find a way to fill this space and the time that it sits quiet. We have thought about many things and ideas, and although we have decided on a path to follow to this end we would very much like your input on this. We would like ideas.
Thinking about why BTH came about and the fact that children and adults are not only abducted which take their sense of safety away forever they are also abused every minute in each country. This is a major epidemic in both the UK & The USA we think it’s the perfect topic and the many threads attached to abuse. This is where we will take BTH on days when there are no alerts. Posts about abuse of both children and adults. In all its forms.
By exposing out in the open on blog posts those who victimize we can become more familiar with how victims are left vulnerable and wide open to danger. Some topics we’d like to address are; how children and adults alike are getting safely out of an abusive life, learning the ways that they are being threatened, the ways that are being used to trick, ways predators are lurking and lying in waiting for our children & women. We need to learn these things so that they are losing power – those doing the victimizing are not the ones feeling safe. A feeling every law-abiding adult & child has a right to know, safety. But too few do know it and live it.
The predators, the abusive parent, an older brother or sister, the schools, the coaches, the churches, they all have been a guilty demographic in this epidemic. Bringing these people out in the open to expose their identities and modus operandi will be BTH’s newest intentions. To be shared like anything else is, despite that the content will not be the most favorable or comfortable to read We will bring those who victimize out in the open. Out of the shadows where it might give our women & children a chance.
In the next few days and in the future BTH will be posting stories of abuse in the news, information on how to keep your family safe from abductions like the Family Secret Code. Resources for both country’s as well. Common information that will help empower an adult but more importantly also will empower children. We will post and discuss teen runaway issues which sets the vulnerability up the very moment the teen runs.
We hope you will join and support this effort to use this blog for the good of our people. We will not be posting photos of predators or anything that might in their warped minds glorify themselves. BTH feels strongly on this issue. Just the facts which can help go towards the safety and empowerment we here at BTH are striving for. If you have any suggestions or feedback please do not hesitate, we are most interested to have you share with us.
Thank you again from BTH! To all those who believe we can make a difference with just one reblog at a time we are right there with you in that belief.
Be Part of The Change ~ BTH
Update regarding Sandusky, PENNState USA Football coach.
KNOW THIS FACE! What does your childs coach look like?
( Been folowing the trial? The Verdict came down yesterday)
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Headed to prison for the rest of his life, Jerry Sandusky leaves behind a trail of human and legal wreckage that could take years to clear away.
Warning! Some content may be grahic
Victims face a lifetime of healing. Penn State is laboring under severe NCAA penalties. And at least four civil lawsuits have been filed against a university shamed by scandal, with more likely to come.
If Sandusky felt any remorse or pity for anyone but himself, he didn’t show it at his sentencing Tuesday. Instead, speaking in court for the first time since his arrest last November, the former Penn State assistant football coach delivered a disjointed and defiant monologue in which he denied committing “disgusting acts” against children and cast himself as the victim.
Sitting behind him were the actual victims – the young men who testified that Sandusky serially molested them when they were children, using his position of influence and authority to gain their trust and then violate their innocence.
“I am troubled with flashbacks of his naked body, something that will never be erased from my memory,” said a victim who was 13 when Sandusky lured him into a Penn State shower and forced him to touch the ex-coach. Another victim told Sandusky he suffered from “deep painful wounds that you caused and had been buried in the garden of my heart for many years.”
Sandusky, 68, was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 boys, a scandal that brought disgrace to Penn State and triggered the downfall of his former boss, Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno.
While the criminal case against Sandusky is over, the fallout will persist. With Penn State facing enormous civil liability, the university has said it wants to “privately, expeditiously and fairly” settle with Sandusky’s victims.
Ben Andreozzi, an attorney for one of them, said Tuesday the university will need to do more: “It’s important they understand before we get into serious discussions about money, that there are other, noneconomic issues. We need apologies. We need changes in policy. This isn’t just about money.”
An investigation commissioned by Penn State and led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh concluded that Paterno and other top officials covered up allegations against Sandusky for more than a decade to avoid bad publicity.
After the report came out last summer, the NCAA fined Penn State a record $60 million, barred the football team from postseason play for four years, cut the number of scholarships it can award, and erased 14 years of victories for Paterno, stripping him of his standing as the winningest coach in the history of big-time college football.
Two university administrators, Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, are awaiting trial in January on charges they failed to properly report suspicions about Sandusky and lied to the grand jury that investigated him.
Given the chance to speak before learning his sentence, Sandusky chose to focus on himself.
“In my heart I did not do these alleged disgusting acts,” he said.
He described instances in which he helped children and did good works in the community, adding: “I’ve forgiven, I’ve been forgiven. I’ve comforted others, I’ve been comforted. I’ve been kissed by dogs, I’ve been bit by dogs. I’ve conformed, I’ve also been different. I’ve been me. I’ve been loved, I’ve been hated.”
About the only thing that didn’t come out of his mouth was an apology. Mental health professionals say it’s not unusual for sex offenders to avoid taking responsibility, either in a bid to get out of legal trouble or because they’re in psychological denial. Prosecutor Joe McGettigan dismissed Sandusky’s comments as “a masterpiece of banal self-delusion, completely untethered from reality.”
Sandusky had easy access to children through The Second Mile, the charity for troubled youths he founded in the 1970s. One question left unanswered is how many more possible victims have come forward since Sandusky’s arrest last November – and how many have kept quiet.
Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston attorney who represents a 40-year-old man who says he was molested by Sandusky as a 16-year-old high school football player, said he believes Sandusky’s pedophilia goes back decades, and urged the attorney general’s office to consider another criminal prosecution.
“In all probability, he sexually molested hundreds of children over the course of decades,” Garabedian said. “He was cunning, clever and conniving.”
A spokesman for state Attorney General Linda Kelly declined comment on whether Sandusky could face additional charges, citing an ongoing grand jury investigation. But the statute of limitations would likely bar prosecutors from going after Sandusky for older crimes. Current Pennsylvania law allows them to file charges until a child victim’s 50th birthday – but only for cases involving victims born Aug. 27, 1984 or later.
With Sandusky’s lawyers preparing an appeal of his conviction and sentence, it might be wise for prosecutors to line up additional alleged victims – but only if they are willing to go through a high-profile trial, said Kristen Houser of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape.
“This case looks like it’s over as of today, but you never know where things will take a turn,” she said.
Associated Press writers Genaro C. Armas in Bellefonte and Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia contributed to this story
Jerry Sandusky was involved in a tri-state child porn ring and helped a now deceased youth football school coach arrange to have sex with a child prostitute, according to a newly released email.
Sandusky is expected to spend the rest of his life in jail after being convicted of 45 counts of sex abuse.
The New York Daily News reports that on Monday, Greg Bucceroni, a self-described former child prostitute, sent an email to officials at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn.
In the message, Bucceroni said he was associated with a child sex ring that included Sandusky and former Poly Prep football coach Phil Foglietta. The email said that, in 1979, Bucceroni was originally expected to have sex with Sandusky, but, because of time constraints, he was introduced to Foglietta instead.
Foglietta was introduced to us as Coach Phil who coached youth football in NYC. Foglietta agreed to pay $200.00 for child sex and followed us back to a Philadelphia hotel, myself (sic)ad another child prostitute then engaged coach Phil in child sex.”
Twelve alumni of Poly Prep have filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming they were raped and abused by Foglietta, the Wall Street Journal reports. The suit claims school officials knew about Foglietta’s crimes and covered them up, “continuing to publicly celebrate Mr. Foglietta as an upstanding member of the school.”
The Atlantic points out that the feds are already investigating whether Sandusky may have shared child porn with others.
It’s unclear whether the suspected child porn ring being investigated by the feds is the same as the one mentioned by Bucceroni.
BTH”s Thoughts:
Although this particular news story is hardly something we could call credible it brings an awful feeling to this blogs gut. Even just thinking that this is a possibility is too much. The threats that children are faced with everyday when we consider them safe are more than worrisome.
This news today is a reminder that we must we have no choice but to vet anyone your child is with. Even that could not be enough. Look at Sandusky, any one of us could have let our child go with him, God Forbid. And someone like Coach Joe Paterno who was seen as a God in Penn state WE thought was a uquestinable credible resource. If we questioned whether Sandusky was safe we would believe the COACH, right? I hear a collective scream of NO! But the COACH is GOD in that community, why not trust his opinion?
kThis is what we must, we have to keep in mind when our children our out of sight. It takes work to check everyone out.But no one said parenting was easy, nor did they say loving someone is always easy. It’s a thing we would rather not think about. Definitely do not want to upset our children by discussing with them this issue. But we must -We Havr To.
Do you have a safe word in your family? This is maybe the easiest preventive tool a family could use. A safa word is one that you all know is the CODE word. Bit NO ONE ELSE knows it. You know the story, someone comes to say your child’s school,. maybe even an officer of the law, dressed like one. They say that you the parent have been in an accident and that the chid need to go with. Really? This is when your child does not budge until that CODE word is expressed by the officer. Simplle,
Today remember this story about Sandusky, Vet anyone your child is iin contact with, and please create that Safe Code Word. Protect our precious assets.
With a deeply heavy heart BTH is sadly bringing the report that April Jones appears to have not only been abducted but also murdered. (in case you missed an update) Update link at bottom of this page.
You are welcome to save this badge for April Jones to your own social media, or you can just reblog this post. As long as you are somehow displaying it, there will be a sign of solidarity of prayers for April’s mum. We are trying to honor April’s mum’s request to pass this badge along to as many of your hearts as can be accomplished. Join April’s mum & family in the vigil to still bring this angel home to them.
The entire world of compassionate people, those of us who participate here with BTH, and all the investigative team members, we all are looking to help bring this precious angel home to her mum. Somehow. Anyhow.
Please keep the candle lit until April is home with her family. Let us not abandon This Vigil . There are many ways you can display this badge for April; be it on your blog, your Facebook page, or even in your emails. Please just display it.
You may also use the link below to get to this badge even without a Facebook account. How ever you do it, and we do hope you do, we at BTH would like to thank you on behalf of April’s’ mum & family.
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UPDATED INFORMATION: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19848654
5 October 2012
By Carl Yapp BBC Wales
The scale of the search for five-year-old April Jones since she went missing from near her mid Wales home is daunting.
Machynlleth is a small market town, but it is surrounded by hundreds of miles of forests, forest tracks, hills, marshland and farmland.
Expert teams have been combing areas of thick forest around the the town.
Search teams gathered once again at first light on Friday to continue the hunt.
It’s posing a challenge to the people searching out there”
End Quote Gareth Jones, Machynlleth mayor Describing the terrain
Hundreds of volunteers have been helping the hunt during the week. Although police announced on Friday – at the same time that they said that Mark Bridger had been arrested on suspicion of murder – that they now no wanted only professionals to take part, some volunteers continued to join in.
The patch is rural and remote and popular with rally drivers and mountain bikers.
Machynlleth mayor Gareth Jones said: “It’s a very well known area for rallying and mountain biking and that’s the reason why it’s popular because of its vastness and its difficult terrain.
“It poses a challenge and it’s posing a challenge to the people searching out there.
“That’s why the police are asking for people with specialist knowledge to come here to assist – otherwise it could be more of a liability.”
April Jones has been missing since Monday nightThe town is surrounded by hills: the Wylfa, Pen yr Allt, and the 14,800-acre (6,000 hectare) Dyfi Forest, which is said to contain about 200 miles of forest tracks.
There are also rivers, a lake on top of one hill, and a number of abandoned mines between Machynlleth and Corris.
“There’s a lot of terrain to search,” Mr Jones said.
Abandoned mines
“Even though we are a small population it’s a big area.
“I would imagine the more people they’ve got available the less time it’s going to take. I know they’re working day and night in long shifts to cover all the area so they’re doing their utmost. I’m sure that they’ll be as quick and thorough as possible.”
Rhydian Mason, from Machynlleth, who is one of the search volunteers, said the terrain ranged from boggy marshland and rocky ranges to farmland.
“I’m not an expert,” he said. “I’m just a local person helping out.
“But yesterday we thought we covered quite a big patch, between the Wynford Vaughan Thomas viewpoint (near Dylife) and the far side of Dylife, but you come back here where the coordinators are and you look at it on the map where you’ve been and it’s nothing, which means we need to go again.
“If you were to search every nook and cranny it could take weeks.”
Dyfed-Powys Police have asked anyone with information to contact a dedicated hotline on 0300 2000 333.
To BTH: Followers and supporters. Don’t lose hope, be mindful and prayerful of this 4th day of this investigation. Help BTH do what we hope for. Spread this news, spread this childs face by rebogging. Lets get it out this keep this out in the open so these predators have NO WHere to hide. Please do not forget to reblog. Mo matter what your opinion is about reblogging this child needs your help now.
Police searching for missing five-year-old April Jones say they are “very heartened” by more than 2,500 calls in response to their latest appeal.
They said the search would continue through the night despite poor weather forecast for Machynlleth, in mid Wales.
Detectives have renewed an appeal over suspect Mark Bridger’s movements, after being given more time to question him.
The search for April is nearing the end of its fourth day since she went missing on Monday evening.
‘Right priority’
Superintendent Ian John, of Dyfed-Powys Police, told reporters at 17:30 BST on Thursday that the search teams would not be deterred by the heavy rain.
Det Supt Reg Bevan urged anyone who has had contact with Mark Bridger to make contact with police.
“A massive police-led search has continued thoughout the day in Machynlleth and will continue throughout the night regardless of the weather,” he said.
“We are utilising eight specialist police search teams led by five specialist police advisers with the support of the national police search centre.”
Supt John also praised the public’s response.
“Following the appeals for information that we’ve made, we’ve received over 2,500 calls from the public,” he said.
“All these calls need to be answered and that’s being done by all 44 police forces around the country.
“All of this information needs to be analysed and I’m sure you can imagine the operation that’s going on in and around our force area to process that information and make sure that everything is being given to the right priority and what we need to follow up is being followed up.
Volunteers gather to search in the village of CorrisHe also praised the hundreds of people who had volunteered to help with the search, gathering at the local leisure centre each day.
“I’ve had the privilege of going over there and thanking them for the support they’re giving in this difficult operation.
“I also want to turn to April’s family,” he said.
“I’m sure we’re all feeling for them at this terrible time – also the friends and extended family.
“I just want to remind everybody that’s why we’re here tonight in the pouring down rain in Machynlleth is to focus on the search and do everything we can to bring this operation to a conclusion.”
A special area in the foyer of Ysgol Gynradd Machynlleth to demonstrate support for April JonesEarlier on Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron said it was every family’s nightmare and urged anyone with information to speak to police.
Mr Cameron, whose late son Ivan had cerebral palsy, said the fact that April has the condition only made it worse.
At an earlier news conference on Thursday, Det Supt Reg Bevan, of Dyfed-Powys Police, who is leading the inquiry, renewed his appeal for information.
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“In particular we are looking to trace the movements of Mark Bridger between 6.30pm on Monday and 3.30pm on Tuesday and any sightings of him between these times.
“In addition, if anyone had contact with him between these times, we would urge you to come forward.
Mark Bridger and his blue Land Rover Discovery – registration L503MEP“By contact I mean any contact – including face to face, telephone, text or social media.
“We also need information regarding the movements of the blue Land Rover Discovery registration L503 MEP between Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon.”
Meanwhile a special area has been created in the foyer of April’s school to show its support.
The school, Ysgol Gynradd Machynlleth, said after a request from April’s mother all pupils created small individual heart-shaped messages, and some classes also made artwork for her family.
The school has also set up an open book for parents, pupils and staff to leave “messages of support for April, Coral, Paul, Jasmine and Harley during this traumatic time”.
April was last seen wearing this purple knee-length coatApril’s mother has made a plea for people to wear pink ribbons to support the search.
Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones said: “As a dad I have thought about little else since the news came through. It’s very difficult to imagine what April’s parents are going through, there’s been a lot of support from the community, it’s been absolutely incredible”.
Hundreds of local people responded to a fresh call for people living within a 10 to 15 mile (16-24km) radius and with a good local knowledge of the area, to contact rescue coordinators.
They are currently searching areas around 32 villages, concentrating initially on 15 communities.
Gernant Evans, farmer: ‘I have children, a bit older [than April]. This incident hits us all.’
Overnight, the Bishop of Bangor Andy John led a vigil in the parish church in Machynlleth.
“I think people want to keep their fears at bay, that’s what I’m sensing,” he said.
“There are a lot of sentences that begin and then don’t finish, as though people don’t want to entertain the idea that there’s going to be a bad outcome.
“At the same time they are wanting to find a way of expressing hope.”
Dyfed-Powys Police have asked anyone with information to contact a dedicated hotline on 0300 2000 333.
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Mark Bridger and his blue Land Rover Discovery - registration L503MEP
BBC reports: Police have given more details of the scale of the search for missing April Jones in mid Wales.
Police have given more details of the scale of the search for missing April Jones in mid Wales.
In the latest news conference, detectives said they are focusing on over 20 scenes including the River Dyfi.
Earlier Coral Jones made an emotional appeal for help tracing her daughter missing from near her home in Machynlleth at 19:00 BST on Monday.
Police are continuing to interview Mark Bridger arrested on Tuesday afternoon.
Det Supt Reg Bevan, who is leading the inquiry, said they had received over 400 calls from member of public since his earlier appeal for information on the whereabouts of Mark Bridger between Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon.
“We are actively working through that information,” he said.
He went on to say: “We are focusing on over 20 scenes. We have searched several of them in the Machynlleth area. These searches are continuing.
Supt Ian John said over 100 mountain resuce volunteers, over 100 specialist search officers from around Wales, 20 dog handlers along with two RNLI vessels, kayakers and the Dyfed-Powys marine unit had been drafted into the search.
Three leading experts from the Police National Search Centre were also advising the force.
“Over the next 24 hours we have plans for more specific search officers to search for April,” he said.
“There’s no way we are scaling back our search and we remain focused until we find April.”
When asked about Mr Bridger, Det Supt Bevan: “We have interviewed Mark Bridger. He has been interviewed twice.
April Jones in the purple coat she was believed to be wearing“Clearly our focus is to find April. That’s primarily what we have been discussing with him.”
Earlier on Wednesday, April’s mother Coral Jones broke down in tears as she appealed for information.
“It’s been 36 hours since April was taken from us and there must be someone out there who knows where she is and can help the police find her,” she said.
“We are desperate for any news. April is only five years old – please, please help find her.”
Det Supt Reg Bevan repeated his appeal for anyone who saw seen Mr Bridger or his blue Land Rover Discovery between 17:00 BST on Monday and 15:30 BST on Tuesday to contact police.
“Do you know Mark Bridger and did you see him during that period Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon?” he said.
“Do not assume somebody else has already contacted us with information. Even if you feel yours is trivial, it might be the vital piece that we need.
Det Supt Bevan had revealed that Mr Bridger was wearing a camouflage green jacket and black waterproof over trousers when he was arrested.
He showed pictures of Mr Bridger and of his blue Land Rover Discovery, registration number L503MEP, and asked for anyone who had seen it to get in touch.
“The Land Rover Discovery was recovered from a repair garage in the Old Station Road area of Machynlleth on Tuesday afternoon,” he said.
Despite asking volunteers to stand down from the search process earlier on Wednesday, police asked some of the local volunteer search teams to rejoin the hunt for April.
Hundreds of volunteers from across the country joined the search on Tuesday and those arriving at Machynlleth leisure centre early on Wednesday were turned away.
An area close to where Mr Bridger was arrested on Tuesday afternoon – the A487 main road north out of Machynlleth. – remains closed in both directions for 12 miles.
Dyfed-Powys Police have asked anyone with information to contact a dedicated hotline on 0300 2000 333.
2nd October 2012 Tuesday
April Jones was playing with friends near her home in Machynlleth but was seen getting into a light coloured van
Police investigating the abduction of a five-year-old girl from her street in mid Wales, have given more details of the van she was seen getting into.
April Jones was with friends near her home in Machynlleth, Powys, when she got into a van at 19:00 BST on Monday.
Hundreds of people have joined the search for April who was wearing a purple coat with a fur hood, white polo top and black trousers.
A hotline number has been set up – 0300 2000 333.
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• She was wearing a purple knee-length coat with grey fur around the hood, her school white polo top and black trousers.
• Hundreds of people sign up to dedicated page on Facebook – with users of the social networking site from all over the UK hoping to increase awareness of April’s disappearance.
Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Det Supt Reg Bevan said they had gleaned more information from April’s friends who had been playing with her shortly before she went missing.
“Witnesses told us about a small van – small at the front and large at the back,” he said.
“This could be interpreted to something similar Ford Connect van or something like Land Rover.
“April got into the driver’s door so it may well be that she got in with driver or it could mean it’s a left hand-drive vehicle. I am anxious to focus people’s minds on that.
“The colour hasn’t changed – it is described as grey but officers are mindful that it was dusk and there was street lighting on
“The indications are that she got into the vehicle willingly… There’s nothing to suggest at this stage there was a struggle.”
Det Supt Bevan added that police were concentrating efforts in the immediate vacinity following specialist advice.
Det Supt Bevan said police had a significant number of pieces of information.
This included an initial description of the driver but detectives were not comfortable releasing more details at this stage.
When asked about April’s family, Det Supt Bevan said “as you would imagine, it must be their worst nightmare so it must be a very difficult time for them”.
Child Rescue Alert
He said the force were getting help from neighboring Welsh forces and some English in relation to the Child Rescue Alert system (CRA).
The CRA brings together the forces of police, media and the public to help find abducted children by publishing details as soon as possible.
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All the info supplied by http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19800140 and more can be found.. please help if you can..
GeeToni 2012
22nd September 2012.
Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:25 AM PDT
A driving passion to help Missing People
Posted: 21 Sep 2012 04:44 AM PDT
The Moto-taxi Junket is a race across Peru on a woefully underpowered moped taxi-bike (think tuk-tuk, but considerably worse!).Thanks everyone – SHE is HOME – This came in this morning. You know, many times with teens it is that they have ‘run away’ only to return in a day or two. BUT, I am not deterred by this fact because there are also many occasions that it is not the case and swift outsourcing of info can be a life saver. While a life, in this case didn’t ‘need’ saving, it very well could have. Sincerely, Les xx
“The RCMP issued a media release on Saturday morning saying at approximately midnight the night before the RCMP had safely located the missing girl, Brianna Hayward, in the downtown area of Yarmouth. The RCMP extended its appreciation to the media and general public for their assistance.”
A girl who had been missing is home safe with her family.
The Yarmouth Rural RCMP had sent out a news release Friday evening requesting the public’s assistance locating a missing 14 year-old-girl who hadn’t been seen since she had left school Thursday at noon.
On the Vanguard’s Facebook page the girl’s mother says her daughter is home safe and sound and she thanked the RCMP for bringing her daughter home.
The RCMP issued a media release on Saturday morning saying at approximately midnight the night before the RCMP had safely located the missing girl, Brianna Hayward, in the downtown area of Yarmouth.
The RCMP extended its appreciation to the media and general public for their assistance.
A BG THANKS TO BTH CHAMPION LESLEY FLETCHER!
This evening I was contacted by one of our BTH Champions Lesley Fletcher about new missing child case in Brooklyn. I have no Amber Alert on this and that would be because the RCMP is not associated with the USA‘s Amber Alert System. Which is why people like Lesley who as her ear to the ground for cases that should be, and need to be alerted to we can do that as soon as possible.
Sadly there too little information about this case and we actually received a bit more from Lesley than is available even in google searches.
We applaud Lesley for her “ALWAYS” style of Advocacy
Brianna Hayward
MISSING TEEN
FROM LESLEY’S B;OG:
Books & Art – Spirit & Soul – Lesley Fletcher
BB – I just came across a post
RCMP requests public’s assistance locating missing Brooklyn teen
Yarmouth Rural RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance locating a missing 14 year-old-girl.
At 10:30 p.m. last evening, the RCMP received a complaint that Brianna Hayward has not been seen or heard from since she left school yesterday at noon. Brianna is described as 5′ tall, 103 lbs, blue eyes and short blond hair with purple and green dye. When last seen, Brianna was wearing jeans and a black hoodie.
The RCMP are asking Brianna or anyone having information as to her whereabouts to contact the Yarmouth Town RCMP at (902) 742 8777 or Yarmouth County RCMP at (902) 742 9106.
When you can will you place it on your other Blog…?
I know you work hard . I honestly will continue my send. It is potent 
Hugs and thanks xox
Yarmouth Rural RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance locating a missing 14-year-old Brooklyn girl.
At 10:30 p.m. Thursday, the RCMP received a report that Brianna Hayward had not been seen or heard from since she left school yesterday at noon.
Brianna is described as five feet tall and 103 pounds. She has blue eyes and short blond hair with purple and green dye. When last seen, Brianna was wearing jeans and a black hoodie.
Police are asking Brianna or anyone having information as to her whereabouts to contact the Yarmouth Town RCMP at (902) 742 8777 or Yarmouth County RCMP at (902) 742-9100
TODAY 1 IN 4 GIRLS WILL BE SEXUALLY ABUSED IN THE U.S.
We can make a difference in a child’s life and those here at BTH who are participating, reblogging, you are all making that difference. In that light I’d like to introduce a program we believe in. It is the Darkness 2 Light program that I became acquainted with through an agency called The Kids Center, where in my town parents take their children when there is suspected abuse. These people do fine work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They determine if there is a cause of action, they enroll the child and family immediately into a recovery program. They work with the police when there are charges filed. They do the work I cannot. They are my heroes.
{The program is one that I (Baroness ) have taken on campus as a children’s advocate for our local CASA program. It’s a superb program. Well worth it. Darkness2light (D2L) also has a unique 3 hour online program, Stewards of Children which I highly recommend for anyone even with children in their life to take.}
We hope that you will spend some time learning. If anyone takes the online program which is FREE please let us at BTH know. WE’d like to recognize your work and passion.
The great think about this program is anyone can do, anyone can become empowered by learning what it we as adults can do to help stamp out all abuse of children.
 The ultimate mission of D2L, to end childhood sexual abuse, can only be accomplished by sharing the solution of prevention, awareness and education with more and more people. This, in turn, builds momentum and over time, changes the way our nation and culture cares for, protects and nurtures our children. Being an active participant in the mission to end childhood sexual abuse is one of the most rewarding things we will ever do – and we cannot do it without you.We believe that learning the facts about childhood sexual abuse helps prevent it. Talking about it helps prevent it. Getting involved helps prevent it. The truth is, if childhood sexual abuse can be prevented, it can be stopped. That’s why D2L exists – to empower adults through awareness and educational programsto prevent, recognize and react responsibly to childhood sexual abuse.
Learn how to PREVENT child sexual abuse
A Brief HistoryIn 2000, Darkness to Light was created as a nonprofit with the mission of reducing the incidence of child sexual abuse through public awareness and education. With tremendous community support, over $100,000 was raised and an award-winning media campaign was developed and launched in June of 2001. In 2002 “7 Steps to Protecting our Children: A Guide for Responsible Adults” was created and Time, Inc agreed to place ads in various magazines they publish. In 2003 the documentary Childhood Stories was produced by the award-winning team of Breslin-Dunn. The documentary details the stories of four adult survivors of sexual abuse from various backgrounds and life experiences. In 2004 we began work on an interactive sexual abuse prevention training program, called Stewards of Children, a 2 1/2 hour training program for adults. And, CNN began running Darkness to Light public service announcements nationally. These pro-bono ads were designed to increase awareness of the prevalence and consequences of child sexual abuse and to drive viewers to educational materials. CNN is still a significant supporter today and countless organizations and individuals have found us because of an ad they saw on CNN. In 2006, Stewards of Children ONLINE was released as a web-based version of the “live” or facilitated version of the training program. Today we have more than 3,500 facilitators who teach the program in 49 states and 15 additional countries and more than 300,000 copies of the Stewards of Children curriculum have been distributed and the program is also available in Spanish and Icelandic. |
For more information on the Darkness2Light program see link below.
http://www.d2l.org/site/c.4dICIJOkGcISE/b.6194927/k.C8FD/About_Us.htm
For all children out there in this world feeling alone & in need of an advocate, friend, & some Fairy Love:
“Fairy Love”
There are fairies in the air today. They run and skip and jump so high. It seems like they can reach the sky. They zoom like tiny lightning bugs And tease the children oh so much.
They picked this horrid place, you see, Because I think they followed me, To sprinkle children as they play On pavement ‘tween the cars astray.
Their father, see, is in the bar And they were left inside the car.
When they notice him emerge, the fairies float away To hover over other kids who need them as they play.
The fairies followed me once more to see me home and safe. And just as I reached my door one flew in my face! She told me of a secret for only me to hear… She told me that they stayed with me and always would appear.
So now I look for children who need some fairy dust To help them grow up softly – for me this is a must.
The parking lot was not so bad as cars pulled in and out. The fairies kept the children safe and all without a shout. I’m grateful on this day to see the children playing oh so freely And fairies soaring high and low over those they love so dearly.”
credits:
Lesley Fletcher children’s author & poetess from her blog inspirationimport. is an incredible children’s writer of poems and stories. This poem, Fairy Love was read and thought instantly by the reader ( sent chills through me) what a gift this would be for BRING THEM HOME. Lesley in all her graciousness and passion for children in need said simply said: “ Take It? “
Thank you Les! You are a true BTH Champion.
http://inspirationimport.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/fairy-love-children-at-risk/#comment-1413
Artwork Image:
“Your crystal realm of love and grace. And melt my frozen heart God’s spell” by: jeromeprophet.blogspot.com
By ANTHONY CASTELLANO and KEVIN DOLAK (@kdolak)
Cancelled Alert!
Newburgh, N.Y., police this afternoon called off their investigation of a possible child abduction after determining that the kids who reported the incident had fabricated the entire story as a prank.
“We investigated every possible lead in determining whether the abduction had occurred with the interest of any possible victim in mind,” the NPD said in a statement. “There is no indication that the abduction or any incident that could be perceived as an abduction had occurred.”
Officials had already canceled an AMBER Alert this morning issued 16 hours earlier after a group of children, some as young as 5, reported the abduction of a 5-year-old girl.
Authorities in Newburgh, which is in Orange County about 60 miles north of New York City, issued the alert at 6:25 p.m. Wednesday but cancelled the child-abduction alert bulletin at 10:21 a.m. today.
The group of children told police that two men got out of a pickup truck and grabbed the girl’s mouth and neck and forced her into the truck shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday near South Junior High School, according to an earlier police news released.
Police soon issued the AMBER Alert for the missing child and were working with the FBI. Police told ABC News that as of 10 a.m. today, no one had come forward to report a missing child in the area.
Newburgh police had told ABC News affiliate WABC earlier that they had no reason not to believe the group of kids who say they saw the abduction. The witnesses did not say whether the girl was with anyone at the time of the abduction.
“A guy came out of the pickup truck and grabbed her mouth and her neck and she was trying to scream and couldn’t,” a child told WABC. “They put her in a garbage bag. All you could see is her head. And they put her in the car and drove off.”
Another child told WABC, “I saw the pickup truck. It had blue license plates, and when the man got out of the car with two bags, we started running.”
The girl was described as possibly Hispanic, about 5 or 6 years old and 3-feet tall with long black hair and wearing a short-sleeve, bright-pink shirt with white stripes, according to the news release.
Now, police say, “There was no pickup truck, other vehicle or small child during the time of the reported incident. Detectives continuously reviewed video footage prior to, during and post the report for any possible incident. None were observed.
“The reporting children were observed playing around the school without incident.”
Police have no plans to file charges against the children for making a false report.
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I was recently asked whether other families of missing people felt detached from their own lives, like they are watching themselves in some bizarre pantomime.COLUMBIA — A man charged with kidnapping a missing 15-year-old South Carolina girl is “a monster” who pretended to help look for her, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Thursday.
This undated photo released by the Lexington County jail shows Freddie Grant, 52. Grant has been charged with kidnapping after Gabrielle Swainson’s blood was found on duct tape near his home. The sheriff was holding out hope that Swainson will be found alive.
AP
The sheriff said he has no new information on the whereabouts of Gabrielle Swainson, who has been missing since Aug. 18.
Lott asked the public to share any leads, including any information about who may have employed Freddie Grant, 52, or was familiar with any of the places he went.
Citing television footage of Grant participating in the search for Swainson, Lott said, “It makes me sick to my stomach to know that he was part of that.”
The sheriff added, “He’s a monster.”
Grant did yard work and dated the girl’s mother. After the high school sophomore’s blood was found on duct tape near Grant’s home, he was charged with kidnapping her. He is being held without bond at the county jail.
Lott said he has been frustrated about the case and said Grant has information that he has not given authorities.
“I’m appealing to him, monster that he is, for God’s sake, to tell us where she’s at,” the sheriff said.
Grant asked to speak with an attorney as soon as officials attempted to question him about the girl’s whereabouts, so no interrogation has taken place, the sheriff said.
A call to Grant’s attorney with the Richland County Public Defender’s Office was not immediately returned.
The girl’s mother has handed out hundreds of flyers and stopped traffic near her home to ask drivers if anyone had seen her daughter.
Lott said Grant apparently appeared on the scene to help with the search not long after the girl’s mother called police to report her missing.
“Until I know something different, she’s alive in my mind and my heart,” Lott said of the teen. He said authorities have searched landfills in a two-county region, and in many areas near her Columbia home, both from the ground and the air.
The sheriff said Grant also is being investigated in connection with a woman who was reported missing in March of this year, as well as an unsolved homicide from October, 2011. Both of those cases were in nearby Kershaw County.Until I know something different, she’s alive in my mind and my heart,” Lott said of the teen. He said authorities have searched landfills in a two-county region, and in many areas near her Columbia home, both from the ground and the air.
The sheriff said Grant also is being investigated in connection with a woman who was reported missing in March of this year, as well as an unsolved homicide from October, 2011. Both of those cases were in nearby Kershaw County.
Resource: Goupsate South Carolina USA
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20120830/WIRE/120839976?p=2&tc=pg
In this undated photo released by the Lexington County jail, SC., shows Freddie Grant, 52. Grant did yard work for the family of a teenage girl who has been missing since Aug. 18, 2012. Grant has been charged with kidnapping after Gabrielle Swainson’s blood was found on duct tape near his home. The sheriff was holding out hope that Swainson will be found alive, and more than 100 officers are combing through a junkyard across from the suspect’s home looking for the missing teen. Photo: Lexington County Jail, HO / AP
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man charged with kidnapping a missing 15-year-old South Carolina girl is “a monster” who pretended to help look for her, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Thursday.
The sheriff said he has no new information on the whereabouts of Gabrielle Swainson, who has been missing since Aug. 18.
Lott asked the public to share any leads, including any information about who may have employed Freddie Grant, 52, or was familiar with any of the places he went.
Citing television footage of Grant participating in the search for Swainson, Lott said, “It makes me sick to my stomach to know that he was part of that.”
The sheriff added, “He’s a monster.”
Grant did yard work and dated the girl’s mother. After the high school sophomore’s blood was found on duct tape near Grant’s home, he was charged with kidnapping her. He is being held without bond at the county jail.
Lott said he has been frustrated about the case and said Grant has information that he has not given authorities.
“I’m appealing to him, monster that he is, for God’s sake, to tell us where she’s at,” the sheriff said.
Grant asked to speak with an attorney as soon as officials attempted to question him about the girl’s whereabouts, so no interrogation has taken place, the sheriff said.
A call to Grant’s attorney with the Richland County Public Defender’s Office was not immediately returned.
The girl’s mother has handed out hundreds of flyers and stopped traffic near her home to ask drivers if anyone had seen her daughter.
Lott said Grant apparently appeared on the scene to help with the search not long after the girl’s mother called police to report her missing.
“Until I know something different, she’s alive in my mind and my heart,” Lott said of the teen. He said authorities have searched landfills in a two-county region, and in many areas near her Columbia home, both from the ground and the air.
The sheriff said Grant also is being investigated in connection with a woman who was reported missing in March of this year, as well as an unsolved homicide from October, 2011. Both of those cases were in nearby Kershaw County.
Resource: San Francisco Chronicles
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SC-Sheriff-Suspect-helped-search-for-missing-teen-3827524.php
Gabrielle Swainson(Credit: Personal photo)(CBS/AP) COLUMBIA, S.C. - Investigators charged Freddie Grant with kidnapping in the disappearance of 15-year-old Gabrielle “Gabbiee” Swainson after her blood was found on duct tape near his home, authorities said Tuesday.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said 52-year-old Grant was a family acquaintance and did yard work for the Swainson family.
The sheriff was holding out hope that Gabbiee will be found alive, and more than 100 officers are combing through a junkyard across from the suspect’s home in Elgin on Tuesday looking for the missing teen.
“I haven’t given up hope of finding her and bringing her home. That’s what we’re operating under, that she can be found,” Lott said. “He’s only charged with kidnapping.”
Grant was uncooperative when investigators first asked him if he knew where Gabbiee was, and hadn’t been any more helpful since he was charged with kidnapping on Monday.
Gabbiee was last seen by her mother around 4 a.m. on Aug. 18 asleep in her bed. Her mother said Gabbiee was gone when she returned home from work several hours later. All the teen’s clothes, her purse and her cellphone charger were still in the home, authorities said.
Investigators began questioning the family and anyone who knew the girl. Grant was an obvious target because he was a convicted felon and deputies became even more suspicious when he refused to cooperate, Lott said.
Bullets were found in Grant’s home, leading to a federal weapons charge. Additional searches uncovered his DNA and Gabbiee’s DNA on duct tape with blood on it found near his house, the sheriff said.
Grant is being held without bail at the Lexington County jail.
Lott said investigators are checking to see whether Grant is involved in the disappearance of a 28-year-old woman last year.
Investigators said Adriana Laster, who lived with Grant in Elgin, has been missing for nearly a year. Laster disappeared in September 2011, but wasn’t reported missing until March of this year by her grandmother in Homestead, Fla., Elgin Police Chief Harold Brown said.
Grant and Laster lived together and had a troubled relationship. Brown said his officers were called to their home several times, culminating in an April 2011 charge of criminal domestic violence against Grant. Police pressed forward with the misdemeanor even though Laster asked them to drop the case. Grant was convicted and paid a fine, Brown said.
More on Crimesider Aug. 27, 2012 – Gabrielle Swainson: FBI agents involved, $6,000 reward offered for information regarding missing SC teen Aug. 23, 1012 – Gabrielle Swainson, 15-year-old South Carolina cheerleader, missing since Saturday
We here at Bring Them Home would like a minute of your time to tell you that you are the heroes at WordPress of late!
How can that be you may ask?
We want to tell you because we want to give you all a name A perfect name, say title instead.
The main purpose at Bring Them Home is that we ask our readers to please reblog at least the alerts that we post for missing children. It’s beginning to catch on we are jumping for joy to be able to say so.
Given that there have been so many that have recently jumped on the train to bring these children home who are joining others that hopped on from the very get and go we’d like to say to all of you:
YOU ARE BRING THEM HOME CHAMPIONS!
WE SALUTE AND APPLAUD YOU!
FOR FINDING THIS BLOG AND CHOOSING REBLOGGING THESE ALERTS TO EXPRESS YOUR OWN PASSION ABOUT THIS WORLD DISEASE OF MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN.
OUR HUMBLE GRATITUDE AND WE WELCOME YOU ABOARD!
Inspired by Elizabeth Smart, a young woman who a s a young child was kidnapped out of her own bedroom window in the US 10 years ago this summer, this post is created.
Many of us may even know where we were when we heard the national news that Elizabeth had been kidnapped. For nine months Elizabeth was held captive. As a nation the US watched. As a Universe the world watched.
Today Elizabeth is a new bride, happy and vibrant. Seen on an interview recently advocating for children to learn how to empower themselves her passion was obvious. Moving forward and using what she went through to help children today Elizabeth has created her foundation,
One of the take aways from Elizabeth;s interview was that Elizabeth states she believes that missing child Madeleine-McCann from the UK may very well still be alive and to not give up hope.
In an attempt to bring valuable information as well as an upbeat tone when possible we bring you information about Elizabeth’s foundation radKIDS! Hoping to keep all children safe.
Visit radkids: http://www.radkids.org/
Welcome to radKIDS®!
Bringing radKIDS To You and Your Community
Is it not time to actually teach, train and empower our children with the skills they need to be safer in this world rather than tell them what we hope they will do when they meet up with anyone trying to hurt them?
Would we train our children how to swim by telling them how in the living room, then throwing them in the water?
Obviously not, so then why don’t we teach/train our children how to live safer in their world today by empowering them with real skills and a positive mindset? Teach not tell, radKIDS does just that.
A radKIDS attitude, when empowered with some realistic and instinctive skills to escape violence or harm is: “HOW DARE YOU TOUCH ME!” rather than the child who is told what to do and in danger yells, “HELP ME, HELP ME.”
Which mindset do we want our children to have?
A national nonprofit (501c3) educational organization, radKIDS®, Inc. is committed to providing proven and effective life saving skills to children by teaching them how to “Resist Aggression Defensively.”
radKIDS®: making a difference by building a safer world one child at a time.
AMBER Alert highway sign alerting motorists to a suspected child abduction in Northern California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
THESE CHILDREN ARE STILL MISSING ALERTS IN THE USA. AMBER ALERT LISTS RESOLUTIONS WHEN MISSING CASES ARE RESOLVED.
EVEN THOUGH THE DATES OF THESE CHILDREN ARE MAYBE EVEN LAST YEAR THIS SHOULD ONLY TELL US THAT THESE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS & FAMILIES THIS LONG.
PLEASE HELP THEM BRING THEM HOME BY REBLOGGING SO MANY,MANY MORE PEOPLE SEE THEIR FACES.
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THIS SMALL ACT WOULD MEAN TO THEIR PARENTS? WE CAN TOO.
THANK YOU!
TO RECEIVE ALERTS YOURSELF : http://www.amberalert.com/alerts/
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Check out our new look!
Our Graphic Design Creator, Gerry who is also co-administrator here at BTH worked for several days trying to creat a blog theme that would give us just what we needed. I want to brag a bit about and announce it to the world. Those of you that have visited BTH will notice the striking difference,
Here is what I a writer who has no technical savvy at all thinks:
I am in love with our new look. I see that the posts seem to just pop off the page now when viewing. I like the background image of the yellow rose which was created out of reference to the project of tying a yellow ribbon around a tree for someone who is missing from their loved ones for a variety of reasons, depending on what part of the world you are from. I am awfully partial to this yellow rose design and it made me smile to see it in such a prominent and attractive position. It’s also in a widget on the right side-bar so that you bloggers may add it to your own blog. You add it your blog just as you would be adding an award. Feel free to write about BTH if you’d like. It’s the easiest way to add the widget for less savvy techie people like myself.
My last comment that I’d like to add about our new look has to do with comments. In our last theme the comment link was near the top, left sidebar. We soon started to wonder if a lot bloogers who were visiting were just not seeing the comment link for whatever reason. Now the comment link is at the bottom of the post.
So what do you think of the new look? How do you think we are doing? We’d like to remind you all once again that we are looking for input from you for this universal community. We are interested in anything to do with missing and exploited children, runaway children, and anything we as the village can do to help keep our children safe.
So, Do me a favor and if you can find the comment link ( hint:bottom of post), Please, go ahead and leave us a comment. Even if it is just to say hello, or better yet an idea or suggestion.
We’re here: Just waiting to hear from you lovely people ~ BB
Country boundaries make no difference. There are innocent children being slaughtered by so-called family members on all sides of the oceans. It has us here at Bring Them Home just sick and outraged!. That we should lose another beautiful child to a monster makes us ill. These monsters are not always strangers as is in this case, makes us more outraged. There is now again a baffling relative or relative my marriage to try in our minds to reconcile along with the horrendous acts of a monster.
As we know and feel the pain of losing all these children who are lost to us in senseless and cruel crimes against nature.
In the case of Tia Sharps, from South London of the United Kingdom it is suspected that her grandmother’s husband or boyfriend is implicated. We have heard that the alleged monster is the cause of this child’s death is a relative by marriage. This is the man her grandmother had apparently brought into own her life. This is our outrage! There is a problem with this, she also brought this creep into her granddaughter’s life with horrific results. And now we are also hearing that other people could be involved, including the child’s grandmother.
OUTRAGED!
If you’d like the latest news see link below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/11/tia-sharps-grandmother-neighbour-arrested
We cannot imagine what that grandmother is going through, but because under no circumstances would we bring a strange man into any child’s life it’s hard to even imagine being in this position in the first place. This post should not have been about what this post will focus on, instead it should be about celebrating Tia’s life today. Yet here at BTH the point of our postings and energy here is to find these children like Tia before something like this happens. So our focus in this post will feature the prospects of bringing people into children’s lives carelessly. In an attempt to do something pro-active with our rage, in staying in line with BTH’s mission we want to dis-courage this act on anyone’s behalf. Yes, it borders on telling people how to live, for that we are sorry if it offends. Yet it has been obvious to all our generations that we have an illness that strikes anywhere, anytime. We pray & hope it never happens in your life, our life,or our world. This is why we believe that being prepared, educated, informed is what will help prevent the likelihood of this happening.
Step-parents and blended families are a part of our society and have been for some time now. No longer the dirty word or wicked step parent – the attitudes have shifted. We here at BTH need to state that a step parent is not a bad thing. The possibility that a child having more safe, caring and responsible adults in their life is important. This is not about good and evil of blended families. It is about how to create a responsible and nurturing blended family safely.
Bringing new people into our children’s lives should not be considered casually. Even for grandparents. Adults have a right to see who they choose,and they have the legal right to introduce their children to inappropriate people. There are no laws in any country that says this is illegal. Here at BTH we are parents too, and we are saying you have a moral obligation to keep your children safe by knowing who it is you brought into their lives.
Having survived a painful divorce or separation and then managed to find a new loving relationship, the temptation can often be to rush into remarriage and a blended family without first laying solid foundations. By taking your time, you can do background searches before this person is brought into your child’s life, you give everyone a chance to get used to each other, and more importantly again a chance to vet the new person in your life. This is crucial and may sound daunting but when you intend to introduce this person to your kids, you need to know everything there is to know. Today with the technology at our fingertips there is no excuse what so ever for not taking this FIrst Step.
IF YOU ARE DATING AND HAVE CHILDREN THEN THIS IS IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU TODAY.
IT’S TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT BACKGROUND SEARCHES. IF YOU THINK EVEN FOR ONE MOMENT that you can skip the step because he or she loves you – PLEASE THINK OF TIA.
LET THIS CHILDS MURDER NOT BE IN VEIN
If concern is that there could be offense taken by the new person in your life think about this.: we say there is something that person does not want you to know. Anyone not comfortable having a thorough back ground search is reason enough for you to run right then and there the other way. Nothing good is going to come about if you are not protecting your children. If it’s just your life than it’s your choice, your life.
Leaving a child alone anytime with an un-vetted person is like holding your child over an open flame. You could scar them for life. Is it worth the chance? When all that has to happen is this person have a background check. Just do not do it.
Having children left alone with step=parents on too many occasions have not ende well. WE all now the stories and tragically may even have our own. It’s just TOO OFTEN we here at BTH have seen this end in disastrous results. WE do not want to be talking about your child.
Please do background checks. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT A FULL CREDIBLE SEARCH WILL NOT BE FREE. SHOP AROUND.
BACKGROUND CHECKS
With the advent today of technology there is no reason for not researching what is behind background searches if you have a new love in your life and want to introduce them to your children. There are just hundreds if not thousands of options on the Internet. There are many options to choose from and we listed some below. As a gesture towards keeping children safe, we’d like to say that we could guarantee any one we have listed. But we cannot! We encourage that you are the detective in your own life in keeping your children safe.
JUST DO YOUR BACKGROUND SEARCHES – USE DUE DILIGENCE- AND ENJOY YOUR KIDS
A great wiki article on the process of Vetting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetting
BACKGROUND SEARCHES FOR:
POSSIBLE-pROBABLE OPTIONS FOR THE U.K.
POSSIBLE-PROBABLE OPTION FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.abika.com/Reports/UK_Criminal_or_Civil_Court_Records.htm
http://www.wymoo.com/countries/uk-investigators/
POSSIBLE=PROBABLE OPTIONS FOR THE U.S.A.
Business Center Feb 14, 2011 6:30 pm
http://www.inteligator.com/home/
A great wiki article on the process of Vetting.
Bring Them Home cares what you think. Have anything to add, any suggestions, or tips just let us know.. To this post or any other post we would like input from you, you are the community.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PASSION!
Before getting to this post’s article we want to take a moment to share some interesting and exciting some news with you. This blog which is just finishing up on its second week in the works has broken a view/hit record, at least for Gerry & I. Tonight, Friday night, we have over 1800 views!! That is just incredible. It’s obvious to us that the name chosen for the title of this blog that you readers chose is the perfect title. We applaud and thank you.
In celebration of those amazing numbers and to the bloggers who suggested such a wonderful & effective title we want to say that without input from people like you this would not be possible. These are not just words. Without you this movement will not work. Without people like you who no matter what your views might be on other issues, no matter how much time you have in your day time, no matter how distasteful some news regarding missing children posted, you devoted and passionate bloggers who never say NO. To help stamp out this world-wide disease of Missing & Exploited Children these special bloggers are reblogging and sharing the alerts and information with everyone they can.
With no further adieu we would now like announce and share with you the one blogger who was accepted our request to be our first Guest Blogger. This person because of her own selfless passion and devotion to the cause of missing and exploited children all over the world will be sharing her thoughts and concerns in a upcoming post. Keep your eyes peeled here. This person some of you may already know, and if not you are in for a delightful surprise,
Please let us introduce you to our friend Julie @ http://jmgoyder.com/about/
Thank you Julie, we look forward to your guest post in the near future. Julie lives on a dairy farm that has been in husband’s family for generations with her son and their wild exotic bird sanctuary. If you’re looking to see which birds actually dot flock together see Julie’s blog. You might be surprised.
Now onto some Friday night business on Bring Them Home. We had mentioned that at times we will be posting articles of great importance that ties in with missing & exploited children. This is one of those times. The article below that you are about to read is vital knowledge for any parent and grandparent of pre-teens and teens in your life.
Most runaway teens come back home But there is that number that takes years to come back or even worse. Some of our missing & exploited children are a result of the running away. They are children who ran away for whatever reasons. Below this piece from At-Risk.com can teach us a little about why our kids are running away, what maybe to look for, and how we might prevent our kids from joining the ranks of these kids that need to still come home. In light of this and this new blog we at Bring Them Home want to share with you.~
Teens that Runaway
It may be hard for a parent to understand why teen’s runaway, so here is a few reasons that may help you to understand. The teen may feel like they have to escape and get away from home to avoid something bad from happening. For example, maybe you have been fighting a lot and they feel they just can’t go through it again. They may be afraid you will be mad at them for something they did wrong or rules they disobeyed, or they may feel like you won’t forgive them so they have to leave.
A teen may be afraid that something bad might happen if they don’t leave home; this could be a child living with a step-parent that they fight a lot with, this step-parent may make them feel like everyone would be happier without them. It is possible that the teen just feel like you don’t understand them, and they runaway to be with others that will let them be themselves, whether it is right or wrong. Most teens don’t even realize and understanding the consequences of this type of action, they act without thinking first. A teen may runway to meet someone you told them to stay away from; perhaps they think they love each other and runaway together. Sometimes just plain being lonely and begging for attention will cause a teenager to runaway.
Signs to look for
Even though you could never really know for sure what a teenager may be thinking, there are signs that you can look for that can help alert you to possible problems. One thing to look for is, do you ever agree on anything, or does it seem you only argue and fuss all the time. Is your teen acting withdrawn and completely unsociable, do they never want to spend any time with the rest of the family? Does your teen act strange, or have extremely emotional feelings that are out of control? Has your teen been hanging out with bad company, others who drink alcohol, use drugs, or other teens that just go out to look for trouble? If you notice these signs it would be wise to try to communicate with your teen, even if you have to get outside help to do so.
Preventing teen runaways
Unfortunately we can’t completely prevent teens from running away, but here are a few suggestions that may help. Try showing your teen respect and keep communication open, listening to what they have to say. Don’t scream and yell, or threaten your teen, this will only make them want to leave more. Try not to interrupt your teenager when they do come to you to talk, sometimes it helps the most to just listen. If you don’t agree with your child at least listen to their side, then calmly give your side, if things start to get out of control, take a break. If you feel your child may runaway you can seek professional help with counseling, or just try talking to them and explain how much you love them, and that you will always be there for them.
The ballots are in. The numbers are counted. Your Voice has been heard.
In Celebration of the above, and our 10th post we have a couple of announcements for you.
Thank you to each and every one of you wonderful bloggers who shared their thoughts on what this blog’s name should be. We had many suggestions and a funny, kind of cool thing happened. That we had one name suggested by several people, several times. This told us this was the perfect title for this blog. Thank you!. It was really wonderful.
The winning new title to bring this blog to its permant title finally is: “Bring Them Home!! Ta-Da!
[this image will not be the blogs permanent image or signature look. That also will be debut in the next couple of days. This is just temporary for this post.]
The winning guest poster who was chosen out of the several who suggested this s ame title is decided by the administrators of this blog and will be announced soon. We are hoping that maybe we will hear from this person as to why they are so passionate about this movement and why this title. Remember to keep an eye on this blog for the announcements coming soon, This person’s name will be announced. We wish to inform this person first before announcing the name publicly.
Our sincere thanks to others that helped find this new blog’s true name, the one that felt just right. And with your help we did just that.
Outstanding input and participation from all of you is what will help actually Bring Them Home. If our actions here by simply clicking on REBLOG when ever you receive an alert or information bring one person even closer to home this will be a succesful community. And it will be so worth it.
With all you joining in we can really make this blog and your involvement a reality in bringing someone, or more than someone home. All the while in the mean time sending thoughts and prayers with one wish, and that is to BRING THEM HOME!
In between posts which contain actual alerts of missing children and adults we will be sharing information on how to keep your children safe, yourself safe, and much more about this topic. Abductions, Stranger danger, etc.., We’d like to know what you think. We also are looking for ideas and tips to share. Please do not hesitate in sharing your thoughts, opinions and ideas. We are a WP community project and we need your input.
We would like also to add that we are very humbled by your involvement and wish you all to know how very grateful to each one of you we are. This could train car never could have left the train depot if you were also not on board.
Please don’t forget that there are a couple of new exciting notifications coming soon. Keep an eye for new alerts!
Thanks again~
~ G & BB
ACTIVE AMBER Alert: Eunice Serrato – San Ardo,CA
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Name: Eunice Serrato Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Ethnicity: Hispanic Age: 16 Year(s) old Height: 5ft 5in Weight: 130 Gender: Female Description: Tattoos: “3/10/10″ on right middle finger, “Love” on back, “Vellen” on upper right leg Subject Believed to be Wearing : blue and white shirt, pink jacket, blue jeans, sandals |
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ACTIVE AMBER Alert: Vivian Gaspar-Guerrero – Shelton,WA
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PLEASE REBLOG & ASK YOUR SUBSCRIBERS TO REBLOG THANK YOU!! BB & G
Monday 30th July 2012
Please Don’t Give Up on Me!
http://www.findmadeleine.com/home.html
The video is the latest so far with reference to Maddie, and we are sharing as they are asking.
This is a new age-progression image of Madeleine, at the age of Nine, commissioned by the Metropolitan Police.
Please make note of this number. It is the new number which was updated on the relaunch of the site Missing Kids.
If you have any information no matter how trivial it might seem. Email; investigation@findmadeleine.com or you can phone the – Investigation Line: +44 845 838 4699
Any thing at all do not hesitate, but no matter what pops up along to the site and investigate all their wonderful information. You could also just follow us here and get every one to r-blog or re- post this site of ours, and spread the word..
Thank You.. ‘G’
Traditionally a title of something written is the grabber of attention for the passer-by. And in blogging the situations is no different.
We would like to ask you kind readers for your hep, for your input. We are looking for a title that grabs the reader’s eyes, draws attention to this new blog. We want your help.
Have you ever thought that you would like to be a guest author on another’s blog and to give your thoughts on a subject that drew you in? Here is a chance for that to happen.
We are looking for a new title for this blog. The person’s title that is chosen by Gerry & myself will be invited to share on this blog why they chose the particular title, and their thoughts on missing children and adults.
So put your creative muse to work please, this is for a really good cause. Find us a perfect title that embodies what this blog is about; Missing Person’s Alerts . It needs to be sharp, short, and to the point. Yet quirky enough to grab a reader’s attention. We know tha talent that lies out there, so come on you all.
We’re looking forward to your input.
Game on…..
Thursday 4th April 2013.
Update to this sad story, remembering the six children that died, killed.
Jade Philpott, brothers John, nine; Jack, eight; Jesse, six; Jayden, five; and 13-year-old Duwayne
Mick and Mairead Philpott have been jailed over the deaths of six of their children at Nottingham Crown Court
Smirking Mick Philpott stuck two fingers up after being described by a judge as a “disturbingly dangerous man” when he was sentenced to life for killing six of his children in a house fire.
“Shameless Mick”, as he was known on his estate, showed no remorse as he was jailed with a minimum 15-year term for being the “driving force” behind the plot to start the house fire to win custody of his children.
He and wife Mairead, along with Paul Mosley, were each found guilty of six counts of manslaughter on Tuesday after a trial at Nottingham Crown Court.
Judge Mrs Justice Thirlwall told him: “You are a disturbingly dangerous man. Your guiding principle is what Mick Philpott wants, Mick Philpott gets. You have no moral compass.”
Mairead, 32, and 46-year-old Mosley were both jailed for 17 years. Philpott, his wife and Mosley killed 10-year-old Jade Philpott and her brothers John, nine; Jack, eight; Jesse, six; Jayden, five; and 13-year-old Duwayne in the fire at their Allenton home.
Later, Chancellor George Osborne said the case highlighted the need for reform of the benefits system, as he questioned why taxpayers were funding “lifestyles like that”.
Mr Osborne, who has been leading the Government’s defense of its sweeping welfare changes, said Philpott was responsible for his “absolutely horrendous” crimes, but said there was a “question for government and for society” about the benefits that allowed Philpott to live the way he did.
The fatal blaze that tore through the house in Victory Road, Derby, was started by the trio in an effort to try and frame Philpott’s former mistress, Lisa Willis, after she left the family home with her five children three months earlier. She had lived in the three-bed council house for 10 years with the Philpotts and their six children until she became unhappy and fled.
The judge said Philpott, 56, had become “obsessed” with 29-year-old Miss Willis and his plan to blame her for the fire and get his children back at a pre-scheduled court hearing on May 11 last year – the same day as the fire – was “outside the comprehension of any right thinking person”. She added: “It was a wicked and dangerous plan.”
More info. also on other medias.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-22023117
I have discussed this topic with some people and I must admit my feelings and emotions are very high on this low-life of people. Although life sentence is the most that can be handed out, in my view they all should have got this. Again we read how children were used for personal gain. The social security money that came with the children was all that this man was after. Not for the love of his children, not what a normal parent wants for their child or children. Smoking and boozing was all that this person, (I say person very lightly) was interested in. His past also a chequered violent one should have alerted some authority, but none did.
Hope he has all the worst that can happen to all of them…
April was first declared Child Abuse Prevention Month by presidential proclamation in 1983. Since then, April has been a time to acknowledge the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse. In Child Maltreatment 2011 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau) it was reported that in FFY 2011 in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, an estimated 676,596 children were victims of child abuse; and 1,545 children died as a result of abuse or neglect. The majority of child abuse cases stemmed from situations and conditions that can be preventable when community programs and systems are engaged and supportive. A community that cares about early childhood development, parental support, and maternal mental health, for instance, is more likely to foster nurturing families and healthy children.
A body of research has identified factors known to prevent and reduce child abuse and neglect. These factors—including parental resilience, nurturing and attachment, social connections, knowledge about parenting and child development, social and emotional competence of children, and concrete supports for parents—are outlined in Preventing Child Maltreatment and Promoting Well-Being: A Network for Action 2013 Resource Guide, also developed by the Children’s Bureau.
In recognition of the collaborations needed to help prevent child abuse and neglect, the NCTSN has compiled a list of resources for advocates and policy makers, children and adolescents, educators, families and communities, and mental health and child welfare professionals.
Caring for Kids: What Parents Need to Know about Sexual Abuse (2009) (PDF) 
Provides information on supporting children who have been abused. Includes resources for parents and teens about acquaintance rape, and tools to help youth reduce their risk for abuse. An accompanying presentation (Caring for Kids: What Parents Need to Know about Sexual Abuse—An NCTSN Webinar) is also available through NCTSN’s Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma.
Caring for Kids: What Parents Need to Know about Sexual Abuse (2012) (PDF)
Child Physical Abuse Fact Sheet (2009) (PDF)
Explains the prevalence and consequences of child physical abuse; offers guidance on how to recognize and help children who are being physically abused.
Physical Punishment: What Parents Should Know (2009) (PDF)
Provides facts on the negative impact of physical punishment and effective alternatives to physically disciplining children.
Raising Well-Behaved Kids: What Parents Should Know (2009) (PDF)
Offers positive, proven techniques for changing problem behaviors in children, and for setting the tone for a peaceful and happy home.
Child Sexual Abuse Fact Sheet for Parents, Teachers, and Other Caregivers (2007) (PDF)
Debunks some common myths about child sexual abuse, provides suggestions for how to respond to abuse disclosure, and offers tips to help protect children from sexual abuse.
Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (2008) (PDF)
Designed for professionals working with children in the child welfare system who have experienced traumatic stress. Provides basic information; teaches skills and values; and provides suggestions for how to support children’s safety, permanency, and well-being. Includes case analyses and corresponding interventions tailored for these children and their biological and resource (foster) families.
NCTSN Child Physical Abuse Speaker Series
A series of presentations by many of the top experts in the field. Topics include engagement strategies, assessment, cultural and systems issues, and evidence-based interventions for families in which there has been known or suspected child physical abuse. Sponsored by NCTSN’s Physical Abuse Collaborative Group.
Questions & Answers About Child Physical Abuse (2008) (PDF)
Answers from David Kolko, PhD, a Network member and child physical abuse expert, to questions commonly asked about child physical abuse.
What You Expect from Treatment: Building Strong Parent-Child Relationships (2012) (PDF)
Guilt, blame, and shame are natural reactions to family conflict and aggression, but these responses are not productive. This fact sheet focuses on helping families find constructive approaches to reducing family conflict focus on building stronger relationships between parents and their children.
Administration for Children & Families
Children’s Bureau
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
ZERO TO THREE
A “national nonprofit organization that informs, trains, and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers.”
Child Welfare Information Gateway
“Connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.”
A national nonprofit that helps abused, neglected, and at-risk children. Focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment, and community outreach.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Child Development
Child Welfare Information Gateway
“Connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.”
A national nonprofit that helps abused, neglected and at-risk children. Focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment, and community outreach.
Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America)
An organization that works to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation’s children by building awareness, providing education, and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort.
The Shaken Baby Alliance
An agency that collaborates with community agencies and professionals to: (1) provide support for victim families of shaken baby syndrome (SBS), (2) advocate for justice for SBS victims, and (3) increase awareness of the problem.
Child Welfare League of America
A coalition of hundreds of private and public agencies that serve vulnerable children and families. Offers expertise, leadership and innovation on policies, programs, and practices to help improve the lives of millions of children nationwide. Our impact is felt worldwide.”
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
A nonprofit national organization that supports professionals who serve children and families affected by child maltreatment and violence.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
“Connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.”
A national nonprofit that helps abused, neglected, and at-risk children. Focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment, and community outreach.
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
“Provides training and technical assistance to Federally funded CBCAP Programs . . . serves as a resource to those programs and to the rest of the Child Abuse Prevention community.”
National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center
A division of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. Works on “achieving a better understanding of the impact of criminal victimization on adults, children, and their families.”
Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America)
An organization that works to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation’s children by building awareness, providing education, and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort.
