A New York gynecologist working at Columbia University sexually assaulted female patients for years. In 1994, one victim wrote a complaint to Columbia detailing her abuse, but the university never acted. Another victim has stated, “I did try to speak up when it happened in the hospital, and I was just told that I was […]
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Last week multiple news outlets reported that police were investigating a sextortion scheme targeting Colorado students—dubbed a “social media nightmare.” Dozens of middle school and high school students reported that a suspect or suspects contacted them on Instagram and asked them to pay to take down explicit images, some of which were generated via A.I.
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A Longstanding Problem News recently broke in Colorado that the state is losing track of children in foster care who have run away from residential treatment centers. Colorado’s Department of Human Services claims it has no obligation to find children who have run away—even though those children are in the Department’s custody—and instead, it typically
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Problems With Today’s Foster Care Residential Facilities & Group Homes Over 40,000, or 10 percent of the children in foster care in the U.S., are placed in congregate care facilities, including group homes, residential facilities, and psychiatric residential treatment facilities. In some states, the percentage of children in congregate care facilities exceeds 30 percent. Most
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There are nearly 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. These children enter care for a variety of reasons, including due to physical abuse, sexual abuse and exploitation, neglect, parental substance abuse, abandonment, etc. In other words, some sort of trauma brought them to the attention of state or county child welfare officials.
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There is a disturbingly strong link between gun violence and domestic violence in the United States. According to Everytown for Gun Safety, “An average of 70 women in America are shot and killed by an intimate partner in an average month—and the presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation makes it five times
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Survivors of intimate partner violence have a variety of legal remedies potentially available to them. Most of these are state specific, although there are a handful of federal remedies as well. Today, we’ll discuss a few key options in Colorado. Civil Protection Orders In Colorado, victims of “domestic abuse” can apply for a civil protection
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On Valentine’s Day, we celebrate love and romance—with boxes of chocolates, candygrams, lovey-dovey cards, and bouquets of flowers. For those who are unattached on this holiday and who are watching the exchanges of romantic overtures from the sidelines, finding love may feel like an especially urgent goal. But it is important to remember that
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A Victims’ Rights & Civil Rights Law Firm that Advocates for Survivors I’m proud to announce the launch of ALM Law, a victims’ rights and civil rights law firm that specializes in providing legal services to children involved in and harmed by child welfare systems, survivors of intimate partner violence, and survivors of sexual abuse
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