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The Child Protection eNewsletter
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morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on new technology debuting
in 12 states to bring Amber alerts to cell phones and email, in
addition to the traffic signs where they already appear. http://tinyurl.com/4p9tt
According to Chris Warner, president of E2C in Scottsdale, Ariz.,
which led the system's development, "the goal of this is to
make it so pervasive, no one will be stupid enough to take a child."
In the last few weeks we've highlighted a new Department of Education
report that states as many as 4.5 million children are victims of
unwanted sexual advances by school employees. (http://tinyurl.com/4yjzm,
http://tinyurl.com/4f6dq
and http://tinyurl.com/5pvob)
Now articles are surfacing internationally on some of the astounding
details of the report, including that nearly half of the abusers
are women. http://tinyurl.com/5uc5c
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a story on "passing the trash",
the practice of letting a sexually abusive teacher resign and find
work in another district to avoid the publicity and expense of firing
them. http://tinyurl.com/3zsgv.
Finally, in Pennsylvania, Governor Ed Rendell signed legislation
which will remove pension benefits for teachers convicted of sex
crimes against students. http://tinyurl.com/47om7
Our local newspaper in Lancaster, PA has concluded its series about
abused women and children in the Plain Communities, and response,
or lack of response from Amish and Old Order Mennonite Church officials.
http://tinyurl.com/6csms,
http://tinyurl.com/5nwhj,
http://tinyurl.com/65zw3
The Bush Administration continues its war against sex trafficking.
(http://tinyurl.com/4t5qx)
For more on this important undertaking, see http://tinyurl.com/5pvob,
http://tinyurl.com/5wlcq,
http://tinyurl.com/4z7nc,
http://tinyurl.com/6p5tv,
and http://tinyurl.com/6ht66
Last week we reported about the abuse scandal in the Austrian Catholic
Church. (http://tinyurl.com/4yjzm)
Today, Pope John Paul II named a special investigator to probe the
affair. http://tinyurl.com/6g2x8
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