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Pastors are meant to do funerals for old people who have passed. But when pastors have to bury so many children from the deaths of gun violence, the moral sequence of the world has been turned around. Jim Wallis http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/

Cebu Daily News
PH hosts 5th int'l conference vs corruption
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Custodial Dad Donald Lee Cockrell and Step-Mom who already plead guilty.
 No mention of MOTHER.

Father goes on trial 'for starving and beating daughter, 3, to death after months of abuse because she was incontinent'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271307/Donald-Lee-Cockrell-Father-goes-trial-starving-beating-year-old-daughter-death.html

Lexi Pounder was found beaten and malnourished in January 2010
Her father and his fiancee 'refused to give her food, made her sleep on the floor and forced her to run as punishment for soiling herself'
Fiancee Michelle Nicole Smith has already pleaded guilty and will now testify in the trial of Donald Lee Cockrell

A father has gone on trial for allegedly beating and starving his three-year-old daughter to death - three years after her bruised, malnourished body was found at his home.

Donald Lee Cockrell, 30, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Alexis Marie Pounder with his fiancee, Michelle Nicole Smith, in Sandy, Oregon in January 2010.

Smith pleaded guilty to the killing last year and faces a minimum of 30 years behind bars, and as part of the plea deal she will testify against Cockrell.

Alexis, who was known as Lexi, weighed just 21 pounds when paramedics found her beaten body at the garbage-filled home she shared with Cockrell, Smith and four other children under five.
Investigators said it was one of the worst cases they have ever seen.

The young girl, who had lived at the home since October 2009, was incontinent and was repeatedly punished for soiling herself, The Oregonian reported.

If the family went out to a fast-food restaurant, she was the only one who would go without a meal, and would be forced to sleep on the floor or to run as punishment, the paper reported.

An autopsy found that she suffered a blunt force head trauma and the report detailed scores of injuries to her little body, prosecutor Christine Landers told the jury in Cockrell's trial.

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As a survivor of chronic, violent sexual abuse, I found Rabbi Friedman's statements ill informed, insensitive and deeply offensive, shunting the formidable struggles of survivors of such deeply damaging crimes. It is time for community members to demand answers and support survivors. Chaim Levin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chaim-levin/

Russian Court upholds ban on 'extremist' Pussy Riot videos
Amnesty International
A Russian court's decision to uphold a ban on 'extremist' videos of Pussy Riot's protest performance in a Moscow cathedral last year, highlights the escalating clampdown on freedom of expression in the country, Amnesty International said. The Moscow ...

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I don't know why they claim 'distraught' when it has already been well documented in study after study that FATHERS kill children to punish their Mothers for Leaving them. It is Entitlement, Belief System and the Ultimate Act of Control.

Distraught man kills self, son he feared losinghttp://newsinfo.inquirer.net/350435/distraught-man-kills-self-son-he-feared-losingGENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines—A man in South Cotabato, reportedly despondent over the prospect of separation from his 12-year-old son, set his home on fire and exploded a grenade, killing himself and the boy in the process, the police reported Thursday.Police Officer 3 Homer Celiz, case officer, identified the man as Charlie Mantilla and his son Charles Joven.Celiz said the police in the town of Polomolok received an alert about a fire followed by an explosion in Barangay Sulit around 12 noon on Wednesday and immediately sent a team there.He said when investigators arrived in the area, they were led by residents to the house of the Mantilla family.Celiz said the fire that Mantilla had started in the master bedroom was already out  by then because neighbors had managed to force their way into the house.He said the neighbors found the mutilated bodies of the Mantilla father and son in separate corners of the kitchen.Neighbors and relatives told investigators that Mantilla started showing signs of mental and emotional distress after receiving information that his wife, who works abroad, wanted their son to live with her parents for still unknown reasons, Celiz said. This worsened when he was told that his wife was coming home in February, Celiz added.Lucila, Mantilla’s mother, said her son resented the wife’s plan, which Charles Joven had confirmed earlier, because he was so attached to the boy. She said her son had taken care of the boy for the past six years while his wife was working abroad.Victoria de Pusoy, who grew up with the Mantilla clan, said before the explosion, she overheard Charles Joven pleading to his father to calm down.“Bembem (Charles Joven) asked him to stop what he was doing. He set his motorcycle on fire, went inside the master  bedroom then burned their clothes. A few minutes later, a loud explosion took place,” Victoria said.Bebing Tanare, a childhood friend of Mantilla’s, said he had been  drinking heavily since being told that Charles Joven would soon be living with his in-laws.Tanare said she asked Mantilla once if he needed help but he told her he was okay.“But he once told me also that a voice kept whispering in his ear, telling him that his son will be taken away. Maybe, he was imagining things due to too much alcohol intake,” Tanare said.