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Archives > Volume 9 Issue 39 - September 28, 2011 Jaycee Dugard sues feds...A girl held captive for 18 years, enduring horrific abuse and neglect, filed a complaint against the United States Government. Fox40 story here 
The complaint filed on behalf of Jaycee Lee Dugard does not seek a specific amount for the circumstances she endured, but rather asks a judge to make a settlement decision after a case is presented.
Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 from her South Lake Tahoe street when she was 11 years old. She was then held captive and repeatedly abused at the Antioch home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Dugard had two daughters during her 18-year captivity, fathered by Garrido. Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assault charges earlier this year. (see vol9_iss9) According to a release from attorneys representing Dugard, she has tried to set up private mediation with Government officials in this matter, but those requests were denied. They filed the lawsuit with the Federal Government because they ultimately had parole supervision responsibility over Phillip Garrido when he was released from jail in 1988 until the State of California assumed responsibility in 1999. It was during this time that Dugard was kidnapped. California parole agents had responsibility of overseeing Garrido's case from 1999 until Dugard was discovered in 2009. Dugard reached a $20million settlement with California for the alleged negligence State agencies committed that resulted in the abuse to continue and Dugard to remain captive. The release last Thursday morning also says Dugard is not seeking the money for herself; 100% of whatever money she is awarded will be donated to the JAYC Foundation, Inc., which was established to provide support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from an abduction or trauma. For more on our coverage of this story see For more on this story, see vol8_iss17, vol8_iss12, vol7_iss68, vol7_iss48, vol7_iss49, vol7_iss50, and vol7_iss59. NY woman who abducted 8 of her own children from foster care found... New York City police say the eight children taken from a child welfare agency by their parents, 28-year-old Shanel Nadal and 34-year-old Nephra Payne, have been found in Pennsylvania. CBS News story here 
Police said in a release early Tuesday that the children - who range in age from 11 months to 11 years old - were in good condition. Nadal and Payne were taken into custody in Harrisburg, Pa. CBS affiliate WCBS reports the family was spending the night in a parked black van. The children are in custody of Dauphin County Children and Youth Services. Police say Nadal was visiting her children at the child agency in Queens on Sept. 19 when she took them. (see vol9_iss38) The couple lost custody of the children in 2009. Facebook Vows to Fix Major Privacy Breach... 
Social networking giant Facebook promised Tuesday to fix a major privacy breach that allowed it to collect users' browsing information after they had logged out, The Australian reported. FoxNews story here
Australian blogger Nik Cubrilovic sparked a major privacy debate on the Internet Monday when he revealed on his blog that Facebook kept its browser cookies active after a user has logged out of the social network. Mr Cubrilovic confirmed that, instead of deleting or deactivating browser cookies at logout, Facebook instead extended the life of cookies stored on a computer for several years into the future. Cubrilovic told The Australian on Tuesday that Facebook engineers had promised to revise the site's browser cookies so that they no longer collected the identifiable information. Consumer Reports reported in May that Facebook has over 5 million U.S. users under the age of 10. vol9_iss19. For more on Facebook and social networking sites, visit eGuide/Facebook. In other news... 
The two-thirds of U.S. teenagers who get less than eight hours of sleep on school nights are more likely to smoke, drink and fight, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MSNBC story here In a survey of more than 12,000 teens, 68.9 percent reported that they sleep less than eight hours on an average school night. In 10 of 11 categories, those students were more likely to engage in risky behavior than students who sleep more than eight hours on school nights, the study found. Those behaviors include smoking cigarettes and marijuana and drinking alcohol. For example, 50.3 percent of students who slept less than eight hours reported drinking alcohol in the prior 30 days, compared to 36.7 percent of those who slept more than eight hours. Students who slept fewer hours also were less likely to exercise, more sexually active and more likely to fight and contemplate suicide. They were more likely to use computers more than three hours a day as well.
Almost 60 percent of American adults say they had difficult childhoods featuring abusive or troubled family members or parents who were absent due to separation or divorce, federal health officials report. Healthday story here In fact, nearly 9 percent said that while growing up they underwent five or more "adverse childhood experiences" ranging from verbal, physical or sexual abuse to family dysfunction such as domestic violence, drug or alcohol abuse, or the absence of a parent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). About a quarter of the more than 26,000 adults surveyed reported experiencing verbal abuse as children, nearly 15 percent had been physical abused, and more than 12 percent - more than one in ten - had been sexually abused as a child. A new Associated Press-MTV poll of youth in their teens and early 20s finds that most of them - 56 percent - have been the target of some type of online taunting, harassment or bullying, a slight increase over just two years ago. AP story here A third say they've been involved in "sexting," the sharing of naked photos or videos of sexual activity. Among those in a relationship, 4 out of 10 say their partners have used computers or cellphones to abuse or control them. Three-fourths of the young people said they consider these darker aspects of the online world, sometimes broadly called "digital abuse," a serious problem. *for access to member only sites like the New York Times, use the ID "JohnDoeID" and the password "whatever". On sites asking for an email address, feel free to use "info@childprotectionprogram.org" |
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