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Change.org: Restore the Rights to Rape Victims

Change.org

Impeach Judge Gregory S. Ross and restore the rights to rape victims. 

Christopher Mirasolo, 27, was convicted of raping a 12 year old girl and two other girls, 13 and 15 in 2008. Mirasolo was sentenced to one year in the county jail but only served six and a half months before early release to care for his sick mother. In March 2010 Mirasolo committed a sex assault on a victim between the ages of 13 and 15 years old. He served four years for this offense.

The 12 year old girl he raped in 2008 got pregnant due to being raped and Mirasolo is now seeking joint custody. THIS IS UNCONSCIONABLE! The judge not only is granting custody, but he disclosed the victim’s address and forced Mirasolo’s name to be on the birth certificate of her now eight year old son WITHOUT HER CONSENT.  This judge needs to be removed from the bench and this victim needs to have herself and her young son protected from this monster. HE IS A PEDOPHILE and a CONVICTED RAPIST!

This all began because the victim had applied for government assistance and the prosecutor forced a paternity test. Judge Ross did NOT have to compel custody without the rape victim’s consent. Under the Child Custody Act, he could have compelled Mirasolo to pay support without giving custody. Read more here:

http://www.eclectablog.com/2017/10/judge-who-awarded-michigan-rapist-joint-custody-with-the-woman-he-raped-as-a-child-had-other-options.html

This young girl chose to protect her unborn child and now Judge Ross is trying to destroy it.

No victim should have to suffer this atrocity. There should be federal laws in place to protect the rights of victims.

See the articles here for more information:

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/10/06/rape-victim-attacker-joint-child-custody/106374256/

https://www.inquisitr.com/4544323/man-rapes-girl-12-gets-joint-custody-of-son-judge-gregory-s-ross-backlash-over-christopher-mirasolo-crime/

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  • U.S. Attorney General
    Jeff Sessions
  • Representative
    John Conyers
  • Governor
    Rick Snyder

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    The judge was supposed to have been apprised of the details of the circumstances of the child being conceived from the rape Mirasolo pled guilty to and was convicted of, however, he wasn’t. He has since halted the…
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A rapist shouldn’t be given rights to the child born from said rape. Also, someone convicted of child molestation shouldn’t be given rights to any child! You would think that would be common sense.

Ryan Scott, Loveland, United States
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A pedophile rapist should not be granted custody of his child and access to his victim’s home. He forfeited the right when he kidnapped, raped and impregnated a twelve year old child. The rapist needs to be brought to justice and be placed behind bars, and Judge Ross needs to be removed from the bench immediately for magnifying the victim’s trauma. Shame on the judge for his horrifically regressive and damaging patriarchal judicial decisions. He is unfit to be a judge.

Reiko Ando, San Francisco, CA
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Absolutely awful! Shame on you judge. You will stand before God one day and the blood of the child you subjected to that evil man, Christopher Mirasolo is stained on your hands.
This is the worst injustice I have ever seen! The immediate and permanent removal of Judge Gregory S. Ross is the necessary first step to ensuring this sick man does not destroy anyone else’s children.

Carole Seely, Boerne, TX
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Children’s Bureau: Law and Policies

The Children’s Bureau provides guidance to states, tribes, child welfare agencies, and more on the complex and varied federal laws as they relate to child welfare.

What’s New in Laws & Policies

This page provides resources and information about new federal legislation, regulations, and Children’s Bureau policies.

Child Welfare Policy Manual

The Child Welfare Policy Manual contains mandatory policies that are based in federal law and/or program regulations. It also provides interpretations of federal laws and program regulations initiated by inquiries from state and tribal child welfare agencies or ACF Regional Offices.

Policy/Program Issuances

The Children’s Bureau issues guidance to title IV-E and title IV-B agencies on the administration of child welfare grant programs in the following formats:

  • Action Transmittals (AT)
  • Information Memoranda (IM)
  • Policy Guides and Manuals (PGM)
  • Program Instructions (PI)
  • Program Regulations (PR)
  • Federal Register Notices

Federal Laws

Title IV-E and IV-B agencies are primarily responsible for implementing their own child welfare programs; however, federal laws and regulations provide guidance and structure for their child welfare policies and practices.

Technical Bulletins

The Children’s Bureau develops technical bulletins to supplement official guidance and assist states and tribes in implementing child welfare policies and practices. Technical bulletins cover a variety of topics, and currently include: the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD), the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS), and child welfare monitoring.

Policy Resources

These resources provide additional information about federal legislation as well as state and tribal statutes.

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Mercy

I love her poetry and believe you will to. She is awesome, every post stops me in my tracks to think, soak in her message. Please visit her blog. :)

TheFeatheredSleep

Though we were afraid
We stood

Though we trembled

We reached

Though we feared falling

We let go

Though you are far

You caught me

Though you were struggling

You held on

Though we both felt we couldn’t

We did

And the light that bathed our rebirth

Was a mute white

And the song in our mouths

Was of gratitude

And my loved ones passed over

Clambored from their soil and Ash

As beautiful as children again

Clasping my empiness

They claimed me anew

Standing on the bridge

One side darkness and dusk

Extinguisher of all I was

The other side golden

You have been so missed they chorused

And at first I couldn’t bear the feeling

Surging in me like a hundred hands

But they held firm, did not let me run, did not excuse me

No death did not stop us

No life is not meant to be…

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Yale Observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

If you’re looking to increase your own awareness, join learners around the globe in Dr. Anees Chagpar’s “Introduction to Breast Cancer.” The course caters to a wide audience ranging from medical professionals to those personally affected by the disease.

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Read more about Dr. Chagpar’s background in breast cancer surgery and her motivation for creating this online course.

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Me Too ?

If you have a Twitter account please check out the #metoo campaign.
Liberating for me. M :)

vanbytheriver

There is a form of collective PTSD that has emerged from the Twitter campaign started by actress Alyssa Milano, #Me Too.

Millions of women and many men have responded. It is not just about Hollywood’s casting couch culture.

My Facebook feed has blown up with the two word admission by friends, family, internet acquaintances.

Image. Getty/Salon.com

It has stirred up a lot of unresolved pain, memories long buried but not forgotten.

It is not something we were comfortable talking about, not decades past, not today.

But if we are being honest, in some form, we have all experienced this.

Many are still not ready to admit it, few are willing to deal with the consequences.

For me, it happened in the most conservative of work environments, a community of professionals, an office of engineers and architects. Harassment led to rejection, loss of opportunity, work transfers. I moved on, but never…

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Lightly child, lightly.

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Live & Learn

‘What did you mean by saying that you were psychic?’

‘What did you think I meant?’

‘Spiritualism?’ ‘Infantilism.’ ‘That’s what I think.’

‘Of course.’

I could just make out his face in the light from the doorway. He could see more of mine, because I had swung round during that last exchange. ‘You haven’t really answered my question.’

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~ John Fowles, The Magus


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Episode 3: Ex-Con

Released   Aug 03, 2017

A remorseful insider brings us a hard-earned truth: prison is effective. While his years behind bars helped him see where his life went off the rails, it also helped him create a system for how former inmates can get back on track.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sincerely-x/id1238801741?mt=2