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Angela Davis

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You mighty, mighty, Black race,
the love you gave was great,
as wageless laborers cultivating slave plantations
in the United States.

There were no reparations,

only repayments in the form of degradation, hate,
segregation, racism, discrimination, indoctrination,
miseducation, labor exploitation, political domination,
and self hatred, to name a few.

Europeans have ruled you , ridiculed you,

and influenced you with blue eyed magic,
tragically making the Black race
a complicated math equation,
with a downgraded estimated calculation.

Did it take Facebook to make the Black race

share and air the business nationwide?
Blacks have been adding to the rate
of incarceration, subtracted from higher education,
multiplying in being most likely to die by homicide
or be killed by their own kind.

The mighty Black race has been divided

by white lies and ideas,
square rooted by illusions,
and reduced like a fraction
to the lowest terms.

Black men and women

are still indentured servants
to Caucasian corporations,
because black folks don’t know the right angles,
or how to build an equilateral triangle
of 180 degrees of unity among our people,
and until we do and Black youths stop feuding
we will remain
just a plain complicated math equation2

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Immigration Border Abuse and Family
Separation Causes Worldwide Outrage Against
Trump Administration Zero Tolerance Policy
Outrage to the Trump administration’s practice of
separating immigrant families at the border swelled
into widespread condemnation on Father’s Day, as
Democratic lawmakers blasted “inhumane” conditions
at detention facilities in Texas and New Jersey, and a
leading Republican denounced Trump’s “zero
tolerance” immigration policies as “contrary to our
values in this country.”

U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) joined

hundreds of protestors in Tornillo, Texas, the site of a
recently erected tent city that houses some immigrant
children in what critics call inhumane conditions that
include triple digit temperatures during summer
months. O’Rourke said the facility plans to expand to
house up to 4,000 children.

Nearly 2,000 children have been split from those

caring for them a six-week period during a crackdown
on illegal entries, according to Department of
Homeland Security figures obtained by the Associated
Press. They show that 1,995 minors were separated
from 1,940 adults between April 19 and May 31.

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There has been widespread outrage over the matter
with protests, rallies, and legal advocacy groups
mobilizing to help where they can.

Reports say some are as young as four months old,

and stories of weeping children torn from the arms of
their frightened parents have flooded the media. The
policy has been widely criticized by church groups,
politicians and children's advocates who say it is
inhumane.

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The family separation policy, which Trump has falsely
attempted to pin on Democrats, has elicited extensive
condemnation from immigration advocates, religious
leaders and medical professionals, who warn that the
traumatic practice threatens the physical and mental
health of children and their parents.

On April 6, 2018, the Department of Justice

announced that the Trump Administration would be
instituting a new “zero tolerance policy” regarding
border crossings, one that explicitly includes child
separation as a part of that policy.
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Despite repeated denials by Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen during a June 18,
2018 press conference, this child separation policy
has explicitly been described by the Trump
administration as a move whose main goal is to act as
a deterrent to illegal immigration. Officials have said
so since at least March 2017; Chief of Staff John Kelly
said so as recently as May11, 2018.

Convoluted arguments presented by the DHS to the

contrary notwithstanding, the policy as described by
Attorney General Jeff Sessions requires the
prosecution of “100 percent” of illegal entries, and
therefore that entails forcible separation of children
from their parents once those parents are arrested:
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People are not going to caravan or otherwise
stampede our border. We need legality and integrity in
the system. That’s why the Department of Homeland
Security is now referring 100 percent of illegal
Southwest Border crossings to the Department of
Justice for prosecution. And the Department of
Justice will take up those cases.

Jeff Sessions has put in place a “zero tolerance” policy

for illegal entry on our Southwest border. If you cross
this border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It’s
that simple. If you smuggle illegal aliens across our
border, then we will prosecute you. If you are
smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that
child will be separated from you as required by law.
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In the first six weeks following Session’s
announcement, at least 2,000 children were separated
from their parents, at least according to numbers
released by the Department of Homeland
Security. The required prosecution of their parents
necessarily results in their being referred criminally to
the DHS, and their children detained under the
authority of the Department of Health and Human
Service’s Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Things become especially problematic after the two
parties are placed on these divergent paths, the New
York Times reported, because the timelines that
parents follow are often times much shorter than the
ones for the detained children: 14
In federal court, parents typically plead guilty to the
misdemeanor offense of illegal entry. Many are then
likely to accept “expedited removal” from the country,
in the hope of being reunited quickly with their
children. But children cannot be subject to expedited
removal; they are automatically entitled to a full
hearing before an immigration judge, and their cases
take longer to resolve.

No protocols have been put in place for keeping

track of parents and children concurrently, for
keeping parents and children in contact with each
other while they are separated, or for eventually
reuniting them. Immigration lawyers, public
defenders, and advocates along the border have
been trying to fill the void.

Nor is there any guarantee that a deported parent

will be reunited with their child before being removed
from the country or a guarantee that a child would be
notified if their parent had been deported.

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Sandweg reiterated this point to several other outlets
as well. “If the administration doesn’t reunify these
children very quickly, which is logistically very hard to
do, you’re going to have a lot of permanent
separations,” he told a reporter for the Canadian outlet
Global News.

The most recent surge in separated families at the

border appears to highlight the fact that there are few,
if any, existing safeguards to prevent such scenarios
from occurring, and suggests that the government has
not developed a workable system to ensure
communication between all the relevant parties.

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Jennifer Podkul, who is the policy director of
[immigrant-rights group] Kids in Need of Defense, told
[The New Yorker] that advocates are trying to piece
together information about the whereabouts of
children based on the federal charging documents
used in the parent’s immigration case. “You can try to

figure out where and when the child was

apprehended based on that,” she said. “But where the
child is being held often has nothing to do with where
she and her parent were arrested. The kids get
moved around to different facilities.”

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat who led a

delegation of lawmakers to see the impact the “zero
tolerance” policy was having on the border [2] said
he hadn’t received a clear answer on the how the
government planned to return children to the parents,
in particular in the case of asylum-seekers.

“My impression has been that in general many are not

being reunited after they do their time served 2 that
they are in fact not reunified while awaiting their
asylum claim,” Merkley told Buzz Feed News.
“There’s great confusion on this point.”

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Although the zero-tolerance policy was officially
announced last month, it has been in effect, in more
limited form, since at least last summer.

Several months ago, as cases of family separation

started surfacing across the country, immigrant-rights
groups began calling for the [DHS] to create
procedures for tracking families after they are split up.
At the time, [DHS] said that it would address the
problem, but there is no evidence that it actually did
so.

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[Three separated] children were “huddled together,
tears streaming down their faces,” he said. Officials
had told them their parents were “lost,” which they
interpreted to mean dead. Davidson said he told the
children he didn’t know where their parents were, but
that they had to be strong [2].

During his time at the shelter, children were running

away, screaming, throwing furniture and attempting
suicide, Davidson said. Several were being monitored
this week because they were at risk of running away,
self-harm and suicide, records show.
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 A Tribute to Angela Davis Now & Then

Angela Davis is an Iconic Black Activist Inspiration

to the 60’s Generation of Young Black American
Communities and people Incarcerated and an Iconic
Black Activist and Educator to Today’s Generation
of Young Black American Communities and those
incarcerated2.

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Angela Davis, activist, educator, scholar, and politician,
was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill”
area of Birmingham, Alabama.

The area received that name because so many African

American homes in this middle class neighborhood
had been bombed over the years by the Ku Klux
Klan. Her father, Frank Davis, was a service station
owner and her mother, Sallye
Angela Davis, was an elementary school teacher.
Davis’s mother was also active in the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), when it was dangerous to be openly
associated with the organization because of its civil
rights activities.
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As a teenager Davis moved to New York City with her
mother, who was pursuing a Master’s degree at New
York University. While there she attended Elizabeth
Irwin High School, a school considered leftist because a
number of its teachers were blacklisted during the
McCarthy era for their earlier alleged Communist
activities.
In 1961 Davis enrolled in Brandeis University in
Waltham, Massachusetts.
While at Brandeis, Davis also studied abroad for a year
in France and returned to the U.S. to complete her
studies, joining Phi Beta Kappa and earning her B.A.
(magna cum laude) in 1965.
Even before her graduation, Davis, so moved by the
deaths of the four girls killed in the bombing of Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church in her hometown in 1963, that she
decided to join the civil rights movement.
By 1967, however, Davis was influenced by Black Power
advocates and joined the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and then the Black
Panther Party.
She also continued her education, earning an M.A. from
the University of California at San Diego in 1968. Davis
moved further to the left in the same year when she
became a member of the American Communist Party.
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In 1969 Angela Davis was hired by the University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as an assistant
professor of philosophy, but her involvement in the
Communist Party led to her dismissal.

During the early 1970s she also became active in the

movement to improve prison conditions for inmates.
That work led to her campaign to release the
“Soledad (Prison) Brothers."

The Soledad Brothers were two African American

prisoners and Black Panther Party members, George
Jackson and W. L. Nolen, who were incarcerated in
the late 1960s.

On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, the younger

brother of George Jackson, attempted to free
prisoners who were on trial in the Marin County
Courthouse.

During this failed attempt, Superior Court Judge

Harold Haley and three others including Jonathan
Jackson were killed. Although Davis did not
participate in the actual break-out attempt, she
became a suspect when it was discovered that the
guns used by Jackson were registered in her name.
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Davis fled to avoid arrest and was placed on the
FBI’s most wanted list. Law enforcement captured
her several months later in New York. During her
high profile trial in 1972, Davis was acquitted on all
charges.

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The incident nonetheless generated an outcry against
Davis and then California Governor Ronald Reagan
campaigned to prevent her from teaching in the
California State university system. Despite the
governor’s objection, Davis became a lecturer in
women’s and ethnic studies at San Francisco State
University in 1977.

Angela Davis is an icon of black politics and social

activism in the United States dating back to the 1960s
when she was a leader of the Communist Party USA
and had close ties with the Black Panther Party.

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Angela Davis taught for 15 years at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, where after retiring in 2008,
she is now distinguished professor emerita of history
of consciousness—an interdisciplinary PhD program—
and of feminist studies.

In recent years, Angela Davis has focused on a range

of social problems associated with incarceration and
the generalized criminalization of those communities
that are most affected by poverty and racial
discrimination.

She draws upon her own experiences in the early

1970s as a person who spent 18 months in jail and on
trial after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted
List.” She was charged with conspiracy as a result of
having purchased firearms used in an armed takeover
of a Marin County, Calif., courtroom, in which four
persons were killed. She was acquitted of this charge
and later became a co-founder of Critical Resistance,
an organization working to abolish the prison–
industrial complex, a term used to describe the
overlapping interests of government and industry that
use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as
solutions to economic, social, and political problems.

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 Tribute to Afeni Shakur Davis
Afeni Shakur Davis * Iconic Black Activist
Mother of Iconic Rapper Tupac Shakur

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Afeni Shakur was born Alice Faye Williams on
January 10, 1947, in Lumberton, NC she was the
daughter of Rosa Belle, a homemaker, and Walter
Williams, Jr. a trucker.

Afeni Shakur and her sister, Gloria Jean, had a

troubled childhood. "My momma left my dad because
he was kickin' her ass," Shakur said in a 1997
interview in People magazine.

In 1958 Afeni Shakur, her mother, and sister moved

to New York City, where Afeni Shakur attended the
Bronx High School of Science as a troubled child,
later reporting that she began using cocaine when
she was about fifteen years old, and she struggled
with drug addiction most of her life.

Afeni Shakur joined the emerging Black Panther

movement in 1964, she later told Jasmine Guy that
the Black Panthers "took my rage and channeled it,
they educated my mind, and gave me direction.“
Afeni Shakur joined the emerging Black Panther
movement in 1964, she later told Jasmine Guy that
the Black Panthers "took my rage and channeled it,
they educated my mind, and gave me direction."

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In 1968 Shakur moved in with fellow Panther
Lumumba Abdul Shakur and changed her name to
Afeni Shakur.

Afeni Shakur and twenty fellow-Panthers were

arrested on April 2, 1969 and charged with several
counts of conspiracy to bomb police stations,
department stores, and other public places in New
York City, Afeni Shakur was released on bail in the
fall of 1970 and became pregnant by William Garland.
Shortly after, Afeni Shakur's bail was revoked, and
she was returned to jail to await trial.

Afeni Shakur and the other defendants went to trial in

1971, in what came to be known as the Panther 21
trial.

Afeni Shakur defended herself, despite objections

from her codefendants, the case lasted for more than
five months and Shakur was largely responsible for
defeating the prosecution's case, according to an
account of the trial in the book The Briar Patch, by
former lawyer Murray Kempton.

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In Afeni Shakur’s cross-examination of undercover
detective Ralph White,

Afeni performed like a seasoned attorney and won

her freedom in May of 1971 and on June 16, 1971,
Afeni Shakur gave birth to her son, whom she
reportedly named Lesane Parish Crooks, but who
she later dubbed Tupac Amaru Shakur, a name
derived from the Inca words for "shining serpent."

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Afeni Shakur never returned to the Black Panther
movement, but remained proud of that period in her
life, saying in a 2004 interview with Tavis Smiley, that
the Black Panthers taught her "to always believe in
yourself, and as a woman who was in the Black
Panther Party, to believe that my opinion is worth
more or as much as anybody else."

Afeni took a job as a paralegal working for Richard

Fischbein in the Bronx and married Mutulu Shakur,
who acted as stepfather to her son and became the
father of Shakur's daughter, Sekyiwa.

Mutulu Shakur supported Tupac as his son even

after his relationship with Shakur ended in 1982.
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Mutulu Shakur was an activist in the New Afrika
independence movement of the 1960s and later
became a prominent drug-detoxification and
acupuncture specialist in New York City.

Afeni later described herself as a poor mother, though

she was always proud of her son, Tupac, who showed
an early promise as a performer and exhibited his
mother's independence. In 1984 Shakur moved her
family to Baltimore, Maryland, where her son attended
the Baltimore School for the Performing Arts, studying
dance and music.

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Afeni became addicted to crack cocaine in the early
1980s and was unable to hold a job, using welfare
payments to care for her children. She said of this
period to Smiley, "When I was on drugs my spirit was
dead."

Afeni Shakur moved her family to Marin County,

California, in 1988 in an attempt to leave her drug use
behind.

Tupac left in 1989 because of her drug use and had

no contact with his family for a couple of years.
Tupac started performing as a dancer and "hype
man" with the alternative rap group Digital
Underground, and in 1991 released the album
2Pacalypse Now, which became a major hit and
launched the young rapper into stardom.

Afeni Shakur returned to New York City in early 1991

and began attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
She managed to overcome her addiction that spring,
"through the grace of God," as she told Smiley. Soon
afterward she reconciled with her son.

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Tupac rapidly became a multimillion-dollar recording
star, and he brought his mother to the public eye
through such tribute songs as "Dear Mama," in which
he explored his feelings about his mother's drug
addiction and the difficulties of his youth.

In 1994 Tupac Shakur was shot five times and

recovered, blaming a feud within the recording
industry for the attempt on his life.

Tupac’s life ended in September of 1996 when he

was shot four times and pronounced dead at
University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. In

1997 Afeni Shakur created Amaru Entertainment, a

company established to handle the release of her
son's posthumous material beginning with The Don
Killuminati in 1997 and followed by eight additional
albums, a licensed film biography, and several books
about her son's life.

In 2007 Afeni signed an agreement with Ever Green

Copyrights to release a number of new albums,
including remixes of Tupac Shakur's biggest hits and,
potentially, a Broadway show from a script entitled
"Live 2 Tell" written by Tupac Shakur.
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Afeni Shakur used part of her fortune to establish a
charitable organization, the Tupac Amaru Foundation
for the Arts, which sponsors programs to help young
people succeed in art and musical projects.
The foundation features a day camp for children,
provides scholarships and grants for young artists,
and hosts charitable events.

Afeni established the Makaveli Branded clothing line

in 2003, with a portion of the proceeds used to
support expansion of the Tupac Shakur Center for the
Arts in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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$66 Million Dollar Class Action Law Suit Filed
Against the Jehovah Witnesses Organization4.

A group of alleged sexual abuse survivors from across

the country have filed a $66-million class action lawsuit
against the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The suit accuses the religious organization of having

rules and policies that protect child sex abusers and
put children at risk.

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“The Jehovah Witnesses Organization’s policy and
protocol for dealing with allegations of sexual abuse is
seriously flawed, and results in further harm to victims
of sexual abuse and results in legitimate allegations of
sexual abuse going unreported,”

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“This is an issue that the wider community should be
concerned with, and not just Jehovah’s Witnesses,”
says Tricia Franginha. She says her first 14 years of
life as a Jehovah’s Witness were filed with sexual
abuse.

“As a result of their procedures, when abuse

allegations come forward, these sexual offenders
are left at large,” Franginha says. “As most people
know about Jehovah’s Witnesses, they are the ones
who come to your door on Saturday mornings, when
your kids are home, and for all you know, that
person has offended more than once.”
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None of the allegations in this the suit have been
tested in Ontario Superior Court. A spokesperson for
the Jehovah’s Witness says that while the suit has
been filed, the organization hasn’t officially received it
yet, so they can’t comment on the details.

“Jehovah’s Witnesses abhor child abuse and would

never shield any perpetrator,” says spokesperson
Mattieu Rozon. The organization also says
congregation elders comply with child abuse reporting
laws.
Franginha says that when she went for help, she was
shut down.
“When I was around 12, I was told that I didn’t have
two witnesses and I needed to respect my parents –
not to talk about it,” she says.

The need to have two witnesses corroborate

allegations of abuse is singled out in the suit. People
who have been sexually abused must present two
credible witnesses to their abuse, explains Franginha,
who adds that the eyewitnesses must be other
Jehovah’s Witnesses in good standing in the church.
“This, obviously, never happens,” she says. “The very
nature of the crime is that it’s secret.”

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The suit also alleges that police are not called when
allegations surface and instead they’re handled by
church elders inside Kingdom Hall.
“It is our information, based on people who contacted
us that the systems in place don’t guard against
sexual abuse happening and when allegations are
made, inadequate measures are in place to ensure
that the complaint reaches the proper authorities,”
says Bryan McPhadden, laywer at McPhadden
Samac Tuovi, which is representing the victims.
The victims are seeking $20 million for damages
from sexual and mental abuse by elders, $20 million
for failing to protect children, and another $20 million
for breach of duty of care.
The lawsuit is expected to take years to wind its way
through the courts. If you believe you qualify to join
the class action suit, you can reach out at
www.mcst.ca.
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Former Jehovah Witness Wins her Child Sex
Abuse Case Against Jehovah Witnesses and
Watchtower4..

Stephanie Fessler, now 28, a former Jehovah

Witness child abuse victim and her legal team
have effectively turned the tables on
Watchtower and issued a “public reproof” to
Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Stephanie Fessler was brought up as a Jehovah’s
Witness by her parents, Jodee and Kevin.
Her father is an elder in the Spring Grove
Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in York
County, Pennsylvania.
At the age of 14, she became friendly with Terry
Seipp’s (now known as Terry Monheim) children and
would visit them at their home in Hampstead,
Maryland. In the summer of 2003, her relationship
with Terry turned sexual.
Terry at first hugged, kissed (intimately), “made out”
with, “humped” and consoled Stephanie when
Stephanie became upset over her mother’s mental
breakdown due to depression. However, this later
escalated to oral sex and digital penetration.
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Over the next two years, Stephanie was abused at
Terry’s home, at Terry’s daughter’s homes, Terry’s
place of work and in her vehicle, as well as at
Stephanie’s parents’ home.

In the summer of 2004, Terry’s daughter, Amber,

became suspicious that there was an improper
relationship going on between Terry and Stephanie.
She raised her suspicions to Stephanie’s mother,
Jodee Fessler.

When Jodee saw Terry and Stephanie together at the

Spring Grove Congregation, she too became
suspicious. She searched Stephanie’s room and and
found a “love letter” in the form of a card. It was
written by Stephanie and mentioned intimate kissing
and how much she loved Terry. After showing the
card to her husband, Kevin Fessler, both parents
confronted Stephanie.

Stephanie could not deny the intimate nature of the

relationship.

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Jodee and Kevin shared this information with Eric
Hoffman who was a long-time family friend and
fellow elder within the Spring Grove Congregation. In
turn, this information was shared with Watch Tower
Bible and Tract Society and with elders from Terry’s
Kingdom Hall, the Freeland Congregation of
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Maryland.

Because the elders never contacted the police or

child welfare authorities, the physical and sexual
abuse of Stephanie continued for more than a year
later.
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In 2005, Terry’s then husband, Dana Seipp, hired a
private investigator to follow Terry (50) and
Stephanie (15).

Dana obtained photographic evidence of the two

together. Dana brought this evidence to the elder’s
attention. In September 2005, Stephanie disclosed
the abuse again.

And again, no report was made to the authorities.

It wasn’t until 2011, when Stephanie Fessler was
22 years old, that she ultimately disclosed the
abused directly to the police.

The police investigated and charged Terry Seipp

with multiple criminal violations. Terry ultimately
pleaded guilty to indecent assault and corruption of
a minor and was sentenced to prison and
probation.

The Jehovah Witnesses notoriously reprove and

disfellowship their members, even if that member is
a child and has experienced sexual abuse.
Following four days of intense testimony at City Hall
in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Watchtower’s
defense strategies collapsed.
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Despite spending tens of thousands of dollars and
nearly 3 years in preparation for this case, by noon on
Monday February 13th, Watchtower yielded to the
plaintiff, packed up their briefcases, and agreed to an
undisclosed settlement.
A strong message has been sent to the Watchtower
organization: You can’t break the law when you learn of
an accusation of inappropriate behavior with a minor. It
must be reported to the police and child protection
authorities.

Jehovah’s Witness leadership dismiss nearly every

opportunity to report suspected abuse. Witness clergy
mandate that when “wrongdoing” is discovered, they
must immediately convene an internal tribunal of several
elders, who are briefed on what happened.
If the “sin” is serious, they form a Judicial Committee of
three elders, then bring the victim before this committee
to answer for her involvement. In this case, trial
evidence showed that Jehovah’s Witness elders in the
Spring Grove PA congregation were aware of a
“consensual” relationship between 49-51 year old Terry
Seipp, who attended the Freeland Maryland
Congregation, and the victim, Stephanie Fessler.

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For 3 years Seipp played the role of surrogate
mother to Fessler, all the while taking sexual
advantage of Stephanie, a matter brazenly
overlooked by both congregations.

Or did they overlook it? In 2004, elders were

informed that there was inappropriate kissing and
touching between Seipp and Fessler, yet they failed
to report this under the Pennsylvania mandatory
reporting laws which apply to all clergy, or elders
who learn of suspected abuse.

By 2005, elders had significant evidence of

extensive sexual encounters between the victim
and her abuser, yet continued to apply their own
internal measures – a decision which forever
damaged Stephanie Fessler, preventing her abuser
from facing justice and ending the relationship.
It is of great interest that the Watchtower
organization urges elders to maintain
confidentiality, when they legally impale themselves
by breaking confidentiality the moment they share a
confession with other elders.

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Most “worldly” or non-Jehovah’s Witness people are
unaware that a religious organization resides in their
midst, completely insensitive to the protection of their
family.

Not only have tens of thousands of Jehovah’s

Witness children suffered, but evidence shows that
scores of sexual assaults have occurred throughout
the global Jehovah Witness community because the
offender was not reported to the authorities.

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A Long History of Catholic Church Child Sex Abuse

For more than three decades, the Catholic Church has

been rocked by sex abuse scandals spanning the
globe.

For decades, the Catholic church has been accused of

protecting itself rather than the victims of child sexual
abuse.

Here are some major scandals and revelations

involving the Catholic Church and allegations of
abuse.
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2018: Father Louis Brouillard accused in 124 Guam
sex abuse cases:
Brouillard's peaceful life stands in stark contrast to the
torment of 122 men and two women – all middle-age
or retired now — who accuse him of sexually
molesting them as children on the island of Guam.
They have broken long-held silences and filed
lawsuits. Some have protested and begged for
justice. Some have left the church.
A long time ago, some of them complained. Brouillard
confessed, and was told to pray and try harder.
Eventually, the island's Catholic church simply sent
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2018: Chile’s bishops have tendered an
unprecedented mass resignation over a decades-long
abuse scandal after Pope Francis accused the
country’s church of destroying evidence of sexual
crimes and “the gravest negligence” in the protection
of minors.

2017: Cardinal George Pell, one of the most senior

members of the Catholic Church, was charged with
multiple historical sexual assault offenses in his home
country of Australia, police said.

Pell serves as a top adviser to Pope Francis and is the

Vatican's top financial adviser. In 2013, he was named
one of eight cardinals tasked with investigating ways
to reform the church. He is the most senior member of
the Catholic Church in Australia.
Pell said he's innocent and maintains that the charges
are false.

Earlier in the year, a commission found that 7% of

Australian priests were accused of abusing children
between 1950 and 2015.

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2014: Jozef Wesolowski, a former Vatican
ambassador to the Dominican Republic was found
guilty of sexual abuse of minors by a Vatican tribunal
and defrocked in 2014. He was accused of sexual
abuse of minors and possession of child
pornography during his time as papal nuncio to the
Dominican Republic. Italy's Corriere della Sera
reported that Wesolowski's laptop contained more
than 100,000 files with pornographic images and
videos.
Wesolowski was the highest-ranking Catholic official
arrested for alleged sexual abuse of minors. He died
in 2015, before he could be put on trial.
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2011: Thousands of children suffered from sexual
abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church over
more than six decades, and about 800 "possible
perpetrators" have been identified, according to an
independent Commission of Inquiry, issued in 2011.
The Commission of Inquiry said it received 1,795
reports of church-related sex abuse of minors and the
"reports contained information about possible
perpetrators."
2010: Allegations of sexual abuse spread across a
half dozen countries -- including Austria, Germany,
the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Brazil, home
of the world's largest Catholic population.
Revelations about church abuse included the Munich,
Germany, archdiocese where Pope Benedict XVI
once served as archbishop.
Under the Pope's tenure as archbishop in the early
1980s, the Munich archdiocese ignored warnings to
keep a molesting priest away from children, said the
doctor, Werner Huth, who issued those warnings.
Huth demanded the priest, Rev. Peter Hullermann
never be allowed to interact with children again.
Instead, the church allowed the priest to return to
work and to deal with children. Hullermann was
convicted of abusing minors in 1986. Pope Benedict
had left the Munich archdiocese for a new post in
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2009: A bombshell report commissioned by the Irish
government concluded that the Archdiocese of Dublin
and other Catholic Church authorities in Ireland
covered up clerical child abuse.

The Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation's

720-page report said that it has "no doubt that clerical
child sexual abuse was covered up" from January
1975 to May 2004, the time covered by the report. The
commission had been set up in 2006 to look into
allegations of child sexual abuse made against clergy
in the Irish capital.

The report named 11 priests who had pleaded guilty to

or were convicted of sexual assaults on children. Of
the other 35, it gave pseudonyms to 33 of them and
redacted the names of two.

2004: Children accused more than 4,000 priests of

sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002, according to a
report compiled by the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice.

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2002: Former priest John Geoghan became a central
figure in the clergy sexual abuse crisis in Boston,
along with Cardinal Bernard Law who admitted
receiving a letter in 1984 outlining allegations of child
molestation against Geoghan. Law assigned
Geoghan to another parish despite the allegations.
From 1962 to 1995, Geoghan sexually abused
approximately 130 people, mostly grammar school
boys, according to victims. Church officials ordered
him to get treatment or transferred him, but kept him
on as a priest. The Boston Globe coverage on sexual
abuse by clergy brought the issue to the forefront.
The story was later adapted into the award-winning
movie Spotlight.

Geoghan was found guilty of molesting a boy in a

swimming pool and sentenced to prison in 2002. A
year later, he died after an attack by another inmate
at the state prison.

Law resigned as archbishop of Boston in 2002.

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1998: Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër of Vienna was
forced to give up all his duties amid allegations he
molested young boys. A statement by Groer asked
for forgiveness but made no admission of guilt,
reported the BBC.

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1985: Father Thomas Doyle warned of sexual
abuse by clergy in a report given at the US
conference of bishops. It was ignored.

Gilbert Gauthe in Louisiana became the first to

gain national attention in a case of a priest
accused of sexual abuse. In 1985, he admitted to
abusing 37 boys and pleaded guilty to 34 criminal
counts, reported the New York Times. He was
sentenced to 20 years in prison, but released after
10 years.
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School Shooting Tragedy44

On May 18, 2018 the unexpected tragedy of another

school shooting once again has brought
unforgettable sadness to another community, this
time the mass school shooting took place in
Santa Fe, Texas, a rural community located outside
of Houston, Texas.

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The mass shooting — which killed 10 people and
wounded 10 others in this rural community outside
Houston — again highlighted the despairing challenge
at the center of the ongoing debate over how to make
the nation's schools safer. It also hints at a growing
feeling of inevitability, a normalization of what should
be impossible tragedies.

The gunman in Santa Fe used a pistol and a shotgun,

firearms common to many South Texas homes,
firearms he took from his father, police said. So there
were no echoes of the calls to ban assault rifles or
raise the minimum age for gun purchases that came
after the shooting three months ago in Parkland, Fla.
Most residents here didn't blame any gun for the
tragedy down the street. Many of them pointed to a
lack of religion in schools.

"It's not the guns. It's the people. It's a heart problem,"
said Sarah Tassin, 61. "We need to bring God back
into the schools."

Texas politicians are pushing to focus on school

security — the hardening of targets.

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Governor Greg Abbott said he planned to hold
roundtable discussions starting Tuesday on how to
make schools even more secure. One idea he and
other state officials mentioned was limiting the number
of entrances to the facilities. Rep. Randy Weber, R-
Friendswood, said Congress eventually would
consider legislation focused on "hardening targets and
adding more school metal detectors and school police
officers."

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Norman said he saw school security as a way to
control, not prevent, school violence. And the school
district had some practice. In February, two weeks
after the Parkland shooting, Santa Fe High went into
lockdown after a false alarm of an active-shooter
situation, resulting in a huge emergency response.
The school won a statewide award for its safety
program.
"We can never be over-prepared," Norman said.
"But we were prepared."

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His school board approved a plan in November to
allow some school staff members to carry guns,
joining more than 170 school districts in Texas that
have made similar plans. But Santa Fe was still
working on it, Norman said.

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People needed to be trained. Details needed to be
worked out, such as a requirement that school
guns fire only frangible bullets, which break into
small pieces and are unlikely to pass through
victims, as a way to limit the danger to innocent
students.

All of these efforts, Norman said, are "only a way to

mitigate what is happening.“

The search for red flags about the alleged

gunman's intentions continued Saturday — another
familiar hallmark of school shootings.
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Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old student who
police said confessed to the shooting, was being held
without bond at a jail in Galveston. Wearing a trench
coat, he allegedly opened fire in an art class, moving
through the room shooting at teachers and students,
and talking to himself. He approached a supply closet
where students were barricaded inside, and he shot
through the windows saying "surprise," said Isabelle
Laymance, 15.

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The gunman shot a school police officer who
approached him, then talked with other officers,
offering to surrender. The entire episode lasted a
terrifying 30 minutes, according to witnesses and
court records.

The Pagourtzis family released a statement saying

they are "shocked and confused" by what happened
and that the incident "seems incompatible with the
boy we love.“

Nicholas Poehl, the Galveston attorney for

Pagourtzis, said his client appeared "pretty dazed"
when he met with him Saturday and that it would take
time for him to learn what happened.

The alleged gunman's classmates and parents said

they saw no signs of trouble before the shooting,
though some said he had seemed somewhat
depressed in recent months.

Bertha Bland, whose grandson is good friends with

Pagourtzis, said she knew the teenager well and
described him as "an outstanding kid" and a good
student.
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Scott Pearson, whose son played football with
Pagourtzis, described him as a quiet, normal kid. He
didn't talk to him much when he took him home from
football practices, but he never got the impression that
he was dangerous. He noticed that Pagourtzis
regularly wore a trench coat but didn't think much of it.
"Kids do weird stuff," Pearson said. "I don't understand
when my son wears a hoodie out in 90-degree heat,
either."

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Pagourtzis improved as a football player between
sophomore and junior years, moving from second
to first string as a defensive tackle on the junior
varsity squad, according to Rey Montemayor, an
18-year old senior quarterback.

Pagourtzis spent a lot of time in the weight room.

Eventually Pagourtzis, who wore number 69, was
doing reps of 185 pounds on the bench press. "He
worked hard," Montemayor said. "Even got stronger
than me."

On the team, Pagourtzis was well liked and

respected, even though he mostly kept to himself,
ear buds in his ears in the hallways and in the
locker room. He was "very normal, cool,"
Montemayor said. "He would joke around but was
also quiet — not an open book.“

Local and federal officials revealed little new

information about the shooting or the investigation
on Saturday. So far, investigators have not found
any link to terrorism or political extremism in the
suspect's background that would offer a motive for
the attack, according to a person close to the
investigation.
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The town did not come to a standstill as it dealt with
the aftermath of the shooting: People still ran errands
and had yard sales and barbecues.

The community library closed "out of respect for the

victims," but organizers of a library benefit sale
decided to hold their event as planned in the lobby
and parking lot. The Santa Fe High baseball team
was still scheduled for a playoff game Saturday night
after canceling one on the day of the shooting.

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The shooting didn't seem to rattle beliefs or prompt
the calls for change that followed the Parkland
shooting. Norman Franzke, 69, whose
granddaughter safely escaped Santa Fe High, noted
that guns have been part of the culture here for
generations. When he attended, students kept
shotguns on racks in their pickups, ready for hunting
after school.

"I don't think this will change the mentality of this

community," Franzke said. "There may be some
changes in how kids enter and leave school. But
even then, he was a student, so he would still have
had access.“

At Red Cap restaurant, a popular diner down the

road from the high school, the sign outside no longer
advertised fried green tomatoes and Boudin balls. It
had been changed to read "Prayers for Santa Fe."

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 Roseanne Barr’s Racist Rant Cost Her Job4

ABC cancelled "Roseanne" after Roseanne Barr

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made racist remarks on Twitter.

It's not the first time she's said racist things. She
•

made a vulgar reference comparing Susan Rice to

an ape in a now-deleted tweet from 2013.
Barr has a history of making racist and inflammatory
•

remarks, which makes some question why ABC

revived "Roseanne" in the first place.
The dustup comes amid ABC pulling an episode of
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"Black-ish" about racism and the NFL protests.

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"Roseanne" was cancelled after its star,
Roseanne Barr, compared former Obama adviser
Valerie Jarett, who is black, to an ape. But it's not
the first time the star has made racist remarks.

In 2013, she also called Susan Rice, a National

Security Advisor in the Obama administration, "a
man with big swinging ape balls" in a now-deleted
tweet.

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Barr's views have been widely known for years.
In the past few years, she promoted the "Pizzagate"
conspiracy theory, which posits that Hillary Clinton is
running a child trafficking ring in the basement of a
Washington, D.C. pizzaria (there is no such thing);
suggested that David Hogg, a teenager who survived
the Parkland shooting, is a Nazi (he is not); and said
that the Jewish financier George Soros, who survived
Nazi-occupied Hungary as a teenager, was a Nazi
collaborator (also false).

So while ABC is being applauded for cancelling

"Roseanne," people are also asking why the show was
ever rebooted in the first place.
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