New Jersey has changed its charitable immunity law
Two hours ago, New Jersey Acting Governor Richard Codey signed into law significant modifications to the New Jersey Charitable Immunity Act. No longer is a charity immune for negligence in hiring an employee who commits sex abuse on a child. This is fantastic news for New Jersey, and for children in New Jersey. It obviously strengthens the appeal in the case I am involved with: If a charity is not immune from liability for its negligence in hiring an employee, it would be bizarre to imagine them immune from liability for intentional torts. But the big news is the bigger picture: It just got much better for kids in that state.
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...and much worse for people wrongfully convicted of sex abuse.
How many children are abused, molested, raped, murdered per annum than people wrongfully convicted of sex abuse, "rich"? I'm as concerned as the next guy about the injustice of wrongfully convicting someone, but let's get our priorities right, here.
Kate:
The more severe punishments are, the more important it is for the number of wrongful convictions to be zero. Of course, as far as I understood, this news does not in itself cause alarm in this respect.
In particularly disgusting crimes such as child molestation, terrorism, and slavery, many people think that some "collateral damage" is justified when sentencing the guilty.
It's not, and it never will be, no matter how large an atrocity. I hope you did not mean that it should be.
Daddy Lessig!
Hah, I've posted the printed document of caution by post: which I already sent to the assailant/defendant side, today!
And the new working situation: making things much worser and worser in my residence - family will never understands, no matter how many times I try to explain in plain words!!
Esp. for my 'illitarate' granny: she's quite skeptical and still yellin' me like this ~ "You be foolin' again - by foreign client! You're crazy-fool! Go to the hospital, stop thundering against us. How important your study or new business is, girl?! I am proud of what I've been doing, even though I still can't read or write well!!! .....What's these paying bill requests? What about your income?? Girl, you been deceiving..."
All this vain talk-battle gets me sick and tired, makin' me more acrid.
This old woman is my fam's leader - and parents have no ears or power to oppose the householder.
Daddy Lessig!
Hah, I've posted the printed document of caution by post: which I already sent to the assailant/defendant side, today!
And the new working situation: making things much worser and worser in my residence - family will never understands, no matter how many times I try to explain in plain words!!
Esp. for my 'illitarate' granny: she's quite skeptical and still yellin' me like this ~ "You be foolin' again - by foreign client! You're crazy-fool! Go to the hospital, stop thundering against us. How important your study or new business is, girl?! I am proud of what I've been doing, even though I still can't read or write well!!! .....What's these paying bill requests? What about your income?? Girl, you been deceiving..."
All this vain talk-battle gets me sick and tired, makin' me more acrid.
This old woman is my fam's leader - and parents have no ears or power to oppose the householder.
Oh god, so now "terrorism" and "child molestation" share the same headline? PLEASE!
While I applaud any laws that remove special priviledges for non-profits (actually, I think they should be abolished altogether) I do not understand this incessant knee jerk reaction regarding matters of childhood sexuality. Get over your puritan upbringing and look at the world around you.
I don't know a person who did not have sexual encounters as a child. Does this mean eveyr one of us is warped in some way? Of course every last one of us is screwed up in our own special and unique way - that doesn't mean it's because someone touched our wee before we were old enough to have been brainwashed by the puritan ethic that has completely perverted the US.
I'm pissed off and the whole world owes me! Now get them panties off, mister potty mouth!
"Vanessa Lutz," from "Freeway"
Get over your puritan upbringing and look at the world around you.
damn poptones. given up caffeine for the new year?
criminal child abuse is a serious matter. adults who rape children - and let's call it what it is - and the organisations who enable them should not be granted immunity. a change in the law to this effect seems hardly like "incessant knee-jerking."
further to what anonymous wrote, this is true for ANY law. some percentage of innocent people always fall victim to bad laws, corrupt prosecutors, incompetent defense (or if one is black and poor all three.) it's unfortunate, but why should this be of particular concern in cases of criminal child abuse? some states execute people in error.
no government bureaucracy is going to produce an error-free result. economists call it rational ignorance. it is unfortunate, but it anyone can think of a better way to administer justice, please let us know.
To Three Blind Mice:
I wonder if you would still say the same thing if
injustice occurs to you. If you three guys (I
am assuming that you all are male) were locked
up in jail for life based on false allegations
that you did gang rape on a young girl along
with corrupt prosecutor and incompetent defense,
would you still say, "That's unfortunate."?
It is just too easy for people to be indifference
to injustice as long as it occurs to other people
but it is just too amazing how their perspective
would change suddenly if injustice actually occurs
to them.
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo@gmail.com>
<riolo@voicenet.com>
Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this
comment in the public domain.
Thanks dude Joseph! Your brevery and kindness - looks/sounds quite NORMAL to me country-girl.
Daddy-Lessig & all supporters ...again I've got stuck with the problem: changing of site's skin!
Ricefield design looks nice but, I have no idea how to re-log-in to blog again. Already sent Q to the developer.
Hmmmm mmm.....
NYC?
Read my comments on this & this.
It is just too easy for people to be indifference
to injustice as long as it occurs to other people
but it is just too amazing how their perspective
would change suddenly if injustice actually occurs
to them.
and how would you feel if you were to fall victim to someone who SHOULD have been prosecuted, but a system fearful of making an error stood frozen and did nothing or was forbidden by statute from doing anything or was encouraged by the cardinal to look the other way.
why do you always seem to insist on looking at only one side of the coin?
To Three Blind Mice:
Naturally, I would feel outraged.
I was not looking only at one side of coin. I
was disputing your as well as Kate M.'s attitude
toward injustice. It is not just "collateral
damage", to quote anonymous. It is a
manifestation of our failure to strive for
more perfect justice.
Injustice to very few people at the cost of
better justice for majority is not just unfortunate.
These few people are not at lower priority than
the majority. Injustice can't be rationalized
away. It is a constant thorn to our society.
That is the attitude that we should adopt.
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo@gmail.com>
<riolo@voicenet.com>
Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this
comment in the public domain.
criminal child abuse is a serious matter. adults who rape children - and let’s call it what it is - and the organisations who enable them should not be granted immunity. a change in the law to this effect seems hardly like “incessant knee-jerking.”
The problem is the societal knee jerk reaction to any notions of children having any form of "sexuality." When anyone has dared, in this society, dare even mention the idea that these children might be better off if they were not "protected" from their sexuality until their "delicate psyches" had formed they were basically run out of town on a rail. I'm not talking about pedo priests and frustrated pornographers here - I'm talking about well educated people who see the damage this utter perversion is doing to our culture and have had the guts to speak out - people like Jocelyn Elders. Look what happened to her when she (OH MY GOD) suggested children be taught it's ok to explore their sexuality in an otherwise safe and healthy way.
People are forbidden by law from taking cameras to their kids sporting events or to beaches, for chrissake, because a bunch of vitriolic control freaks are worried about some errant perv committing what is, at its core, a thought crime - that of photographing and then whacking off over a bit of pubescent flesh. It's a complete fucking witch hunt and the kids (and all of society) pay the price for the sake of offending a few right wing and left wing zealots.
It seems to be a symptom of english speaking nations. Australia, Great Britain, Canada, the US... these societies are absolutely off the wall (especially you brits).
Must be something about the English language making people insane... so much the better I polish up my Russian.
If you have something kidney keepin' ~
CONTACT ME DIRECTLY!
How coward and nasty, even a 14yod girlfriend in England seems far more cooler'n'nicer hey, SERIOUSLY. Why don't cha y'all NEVER claim me ONE-ON-ONE? That's what I wanted to mention in human reletionship's error - DNA concerning, critical errors in genetics, maybe... And I am spreading the news and flyers around still, by my own money!!! Who cares? - still Japan's medias are sneakingly amusing this still - once I sent email to a variety show's FAQ: no answers and they're just keep an eyes on this close, foreign matter to earn/gain the popurarity of their own!
FOOLISH. And many of that 'copy'-oriented, reproductive programs looks so silly and boring to us all in my circle.
Matter of difference in countries and each laws and recognitions???
i'd studied bit in my 25 yod life ever, maybe knows better 'bout the manner and etiquette, politeness and policy. Nah, what a messy mess!
shinanos@mac.com ~ shinanosato@gmail.com
Go flick your email.
I try to answer your Qs as possible: yet I am a SPAMMER #1 though!!!
How weariful.
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Shinano Sato
http://shinanosato.language123.com/
fax: +025 275 2220 (SOHO)
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PS
...and again, what happened to this old man?
He applied us for his linguistic co-research,
last year, and no answer.
His Email address = became INVALID, halfway the contact.
...Irritating, 'tis unfair. Why I can't write here in my native language JAPANESE still?! Most of people in my country yells 'bout this, to ME.
Aah!!! :-(
The problem is the societal knee jerk reaction to any notions of children having any form of “sexuality.”
poptones, children are not little adults. the problem here is adults - like the ridiculous jocelyn elders - projecting, or forcing,their views of sexuality onto children. kudos to the NJ state assembly for ignoring the sensitivity police and making adults responsible for their actions.
Who're ya 'three blind mice'?
O'coward coward coward!
And yeah problem's on adults' side - as you mentioned.
Flick something, if you have more dare to say to me, or OTHERS.
Who're ya 'three blind mice'?
O'coward coward coward!
And yeah problem's on adults' side - as you mentioned.
Flick something, if you have more dare to say to me, or OTHERS.
the problem here is adults - like the ridiculous jocelyn elders - projecting, or forcing,their views of sexuality onto children.
I don't which offers the better "proof" of my earlier assertion: your comment above or shinat-sans rambling, nonsensical interjections.
If language is a virus, English is the virus that makes you stupid...
..and that ENGLISH is currently the #1 dominated language in the computer world or actual, right?
Think the another world's lives.
Innovation is from the other side of majority - that's the truth - as you can see here ~ there ~ everywhere.
Hah. This is real RUBBISH. Currently : here's past 3:00 AM, @ my country's standard time. This is HELL. And I keep protesting on and on and on to the frivolous topic to all futurologists.
What a retrogression.
And hell I already read Richard P. Feynman's publication ~
by my own curiousity. This is personal research of life. Me and the world around...oh yeah I was infected by blogmates - but thankful to them letting me know about these ex-factors to let me free!
three blind mice & poptorn
Ask me another blog's password, if you wanna know about the day I read the books. Think more globally! What a base talk.
Shimano, you're going to jail...
WTF is up with some of you commenters?
Lessig's plaintiff is not having a knee-jerk reaction to the concept of childhood sexuality; nor is Codey's law one that would increase the likelihood of wrongful criminal convictions. Lessig's client is suing civilly for ABUSE of a child by a -- & here's the big point -- NON-child; & Codey's law makes it easier for an abused child to recover, CIVILLY, from a nonprofit entity. No worries, sex offenders & free-thinking pediatric sexologists -- these developments aren't going to affect you.
How about getting your facts right, _then_ commenting??!
--A.
Equating "child molestation" with "terrorism" in the contemporary context is "knee jerk" - it is a tired rhetorical tactic worthy only of beltway politicians making braindead pleas to a public fattened on junk food sound bites in a parietal attempt to cast their pet rider as politically untouchable as it careens toward the realm of "law."
Perhaps you should try keeping up with the entire conversation...
Wrongful accusations and convictions of sexual abuse result in devastation to children, they may lose a safe and caring parent to a malicious, vindictive or abusive parent or suffer far, far worse. For example, my husband was wrongfully accused by my children's father of sexually abusing our children. The accuser had previously spent 9 months in prison for domestic violence that was perpetrated in the presence of our children. The children were subjected to excessive questions numerous times by several police depts. DHS workers, counselors, doctors, nurses, sexual assault nurse examiners and child abuse clinics and were examined by such clinics numerous times as well. Although no sexual abuse was ever substantiated, and no evidence of sexual abuse was ever found, my husband was not allowed to see even his own children whom he has shared parental responsibilities for during the lengthy investigations. All of our children suffered immensely through this process and it was absolutely devastating for them and they are still in counseling years later. My daughter is terrified of doctors. Both children have been diagnosed with PTSD. Both children wish the laws that were designed to protect them from sexual abuse could have somehow been designed as well to protect them from false allegations and discourage the perpetrators of such.