51-year-old David Steven Bell of Black Mountain was arrested and charged by Asheville Police with assaulting a child when he first pushed her and then, after she walked back to him, slugging her in the face knocking her to the ground. There was some type of altercation outside of a mall, and an adult SWS […]
One of the scariest moments for a parent is the accusation, upon bringing a child to a hospital, that you are a suspect in your child’s abuse. Because so much of the time spent with newborns is time away from other adults, even if you’ve never laid a hand on your child, assertion you did, […]
As I've previously written, North Carolina remains a place where abusive head trauma or intentional head trauma (formerly known as shaken baby syndrome) is misdiagnosed. It is certainly not disputed that children are sometimes intentionally abused, and that this can have traumatic long term effects. It is, however, a matter for dispute about whether the […]
There are not many crimes that conjure as many negative emotions as child abuse. While there are some child abuse cases that are extremely serious where a child is seriously hurt, in other cases the child is not hurt at all but the defendant’s behavior put the child at risk, resulting in the child abuse […]
Shanesha Taylor, charged wih felony child abuse by the Maricopa County attorney in Arizona, has captured the sympathies of people across the country. Since her late March arrest, after she left her six year old and her baby in a car for 45 minutes while she went to a job interview, Americans have donated more […]
Claims of child abuse sometimes arise in failing marriages, where mom and dad have decided to divorce. Sometimes allegations of abuse – sometimes against the mother, but more often against the father – become weapons in custody battles involving minor children. The result can be a protracted and bitter divorce proceeding. But sometimes if these […]