Mental Health

Dangerous Choices: Children Placed in Harm’s Way

by Jane Devin on 11/28/2007

I. Children at Risk Nine year old Rowan Ford was brutally raped and strangled by her stepfather and one of her mother’s male friends. Two year old Riley Sawyers was beaten and killed by both her biological mother and her mother’s boyfriend. Four year old Anthony Buhr was tortured to death by the man his [...]

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The Forgiveness Trap

by Jane Devin on 04/24/2007

She was thin and frail looking, with a mat of long brown hair, and freckles sprinkled across her dirty face.  She held her burned arm across her chest, and held her opposite hand to her mouth like a reminder not to speak.  I couldn’t help but think of Lisa Steinberg, and a heart-wrenching school picture [...]

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