Serial killers usually have a traumatic childhood, so it must be apparent that something went tremendously wrong with Aileen as a child that led her to be a psychotic serial killer. One of the main reasons that Aileen Wuornos became a serial killer was due to her upbringing. Her mother abandoned her very early in her childhood and her father was a convicted pedophile who eventually committed suicide in prison. One could only assume that she was adopted by close family members or a foster child. Another disturbing revelation about her childhood was that Aileen had sexual relations at a young age, but with her brother Keith.
N.b. controls: individuals referred to clinic because of emotional problems, but not yet committed any crimes. He interviewed the parents from both groups to state whether their children had experienced separation during the critical period and for how long. [pic]Findings: More than half of the juvenile thieves had been separated from their mothers for longer than six months during their first five years. In the control group only two had had such a separation.
Mr. Zannata March 30, 2012 Battered Woman’s Syndrome: Homolka's Excuse Karla Homolka was the wife and accomplice of the infamous serial rapist and killer, Paul Bernardo. Homolka used the battered women's syndrome as a legal defense for her actions, but there is an abundance of evidence to prove that she lied and used the disorder as an excuse to lessen her sentence. Learned helplessness is used to describe a phycologic response of a person to the repeated unpredictable exposure to a painful stimuli. This may have been the case with Homolka, yet, as stated on a women's advocacy site, out of the group of women who are diagnosed with 'learned helplessness', only a very small percentage commit acts of murder or sexual assault. Therefore this disorder does not give Homolka an excuse for her crimes.
"White Oleander," by Janet Fitch is a book that viciously grabs my mind and emotions and plays with both my intellectual and emotional comfort. It is a heartbreaking story of a young, twelve year old girl, who is taken away from her mother whom she is deeply attached to and placed in a series of abusive and harsh foster homes. This is because her mother is sent to a life-sentence in prison for first-degree murder of her boyfriend. Having grown up in a loving, caring household, I cannot imagine having to endure the suffering the main character, Astrid, did. Throughout her foster homes, she was forced into child labor, starved, and even shot at with a gun by one of her foster mothers.
For example if a father leaves the mother unexpectedly and the mother cannot cope looking after the child on her own then the child will be optionally put in care or a care order put in place. Once a family have a breakdown this can put a lot of stress on individuals in the family including the children. The children may struggle with their situation and begin to show signs of behavioural problems, this will stress the single parent and then the child once again may be optionally or forced to be put into care. • Suspected abuse- if there are signs that the parents are abusing the child this can be from physical, emotional, social and intellectual abuse then this would be another reason for the child to have a care order put in
If you get child services involved that can be tricky because they can not over rule a judgement so therefore you have to disobey the orders. Why your asking. Well because if you take back a child to family member that is being investigated then you will be charged child neglect which can be anything from misdemeanor charges all the way up felony charges. Now granted each case is different such as this example: a grand parent has no rights in the state of Kentucky unless a parent has died. I have actually seen where a grandmother has taken a child away not so much because the parent was unft but due to the fact that she had more money.
Her siblings, however, do not believe the accusations. We have not only been falsely accused of a horrible crime, we have also lost a child. HELEN DAVIS Logansport, Ind. Loftus’s interesting article may leave readers with the impression that most allegations of abuse are inculcated by manipulative therapists. My daughter, who has Down syndrome, was molested for four years by her father, my exhusband.
These endorphins create receptors and nerve cells in the brain. An addiction to a drug happens when a person didn’t have a comforting childhood and is in search for the comfort they never experienced. Rape victims and people who were physically abused as children make up for almost all of the skid row addicts. Maté’s argument is from talking to addicts that go to the Portland facility where he works. Although Maté is around these patients and talk to them all the time, the other side of the argument is that it doesn’t mean that drug addictions always originate from unhappiness.
If cocaine was found to be present the woman were jailed before or after their pregnancy. The courts charged these woman with child abuse. Criminal decisions are without substantial input from experts (Schroedel, 2001). The women that did challenge these charges had their cases overturned at the appellate level. The appellate court found that the women were denied due process and their rights according to the 14th amendment were impeded on.
She had asked in terror about what had occurred." In fact, the word "No" grew up with the young girl from the beginning when the man raped her. In the short story "The Answer Is No" there were two choices that the young girl had to choose from. The two choices that she had in the end were miserable and sad. Naguib Mahfouz wrote "she had either to accept marriage, or close the door for ever", which means either to live with a man who abused her innocence, took her virginity, and tried always to build a wall around her, or to accept to live alone without love.