Son's girlfriend too old? No problem, just kill his chance of getting in the Olympic team

When 17-year-old swimming star Justin Wright told his parents he'd met a nice young lady and was going out with her, instead of asking to meet her, they responded by trying to get him thrown off the swimming team.

Indeed, they emailed not only his coach but other members of the team to try to drum up support, to such an extent that the team had to make an official complaint and Justin was forced to go to court. Then they withdraw funding.

Aparrently Mr and Mrs Wright's objection was based on her age and she "stole him from the cradle". She is only 24 and surely 17 is a bit old to be still in the cradle?

It beggars belief that two people will go to such lengths simply to show opposition to someone they don't know and have never met, based entirely on prejudice, rather than getting to gether and discussing the situation with those involved.

There is now, unsurprisingly, bad feeling within the family which so easily could have been avoided. Still, I suppose we must be grateful they didn't call her a paedophile (there's no suggestion she is, but that's how some people think).

Read all about it here .

Different leopard, same spots

The people who ran the Wikisposure paedo-hating site have been given the boot by Perverted Justice; reason unknown, but one can hazard a guess that their policy of invented accusations bordering on the libellous, along with their stalking of gay teens and outing them to their parents, or, worse, waiting until they reach 18 and then printing damaging material, all about people or organisations not convicted - or even charged - with any offence.

So now they've come up again with another catchy title but the same policies of gloating over convictions or character assassination if they can't find anything illegal, or even inappropriate.

Even someone admitting having feelings for children, however honorable, makes them fair game for attack.

It's interesting to note that they have been off-line for a while; one can't help wondering if there was a legal case in progress.

Fortunately such sites are so rabid and off-the-wall that only their own cronies actually take any notice of them.

A very brave young man

Probably many of us would say they would die for someone they loved. Rather fewer will have the opportunity and fewer still would actually do it.

For 13-year-old Jordan Rice of Toowoomba, Queensland, however, it was a bit differemt. When he and his family became trapped on the roof of their car in the recent floods and called the emergency servcies for help, Jordan instructed them to take his younger brother Blake first.

When they retrurned, Jordan, would could not swim, and his mother had been swept away.

I cannot begin to imagine the feelings Jordan must have had, knowing that in saving his brother's life he was likely to lose his own. Nor in fact the feelings of Blake, who will doubtless remember all his life that he owes that life, literally, to Jordan.

My prayers are with Blake and his family.

You can read more about it here and here.

Long time no post ....

Hello everyone!

I can't believe it's a year and a half since my last post - I've been so busy the time just seems to fly past and nothing gets done!

Anyway, I'm glad to see you're all still looking in, though people searching for the worst case of child abuse are still depressingly common.

Still what with some recent events, I'll be posting some fairly up to date news and comment over the next few days.

Hope you're all managing in the inclement weather.

LeX

Welcome new readers

Hello everyone.

I see that quite a few people have been looking in lately, so welcome to you all.

A lot of you come from the page supposedly about me on Wikisposure - it's a pity a lot of that is wrong, but never mind. Welcome anyway. I hope you find your visit informative.

A bit more worrying is that so many people are using search engines to look for things like "worst case of child abuse". Of course, the worst child abuse is that perpetrated on children like Baby P, tortured to death by his mother and her friends. It is difficult to imagine anything worse than that, though some - surely mentally ill - people seem to have no difficulty not only imagining it, but doing it.

Perhaps, if you found these pages looking for "worst child abuse", you could write in and says what you were looking for? It would put my mind at rest, at least.

The worst case of child abuse

... I've seen in a long time. I was crying by the time I got to the end of this article - which took some doing.

I have one question. Why, oh why, oh why was no action taken before?

The good news is that the girl has been rescued and seems to be doing well. Thank God.

http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece

If ever someone was wrong in the head, this is him

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20080615/Baby.Killed/

A man was discovered kicking a toddler to death in the street; when interrupted, he carried on!

Is insanity the only explanation? Surely there can be no other.

Would YOU leave a two-year-old alone for the weekend?

Kelly Tollerton did. She decided to spend the time partying with her boyfriend, while her son was locked in the kitchen.

As described here and here, she says she thought a friend was looking after him. Obviously, that didn't happen, but she seems more concerned with denying her responsibility for the situation than with the fact her child was left to fend for himself. I know that if I had left my child in the care of someone else who then abdicated that responsibility, I'd be beside myself. Wouldn't you? Miss Tollerton seems quite satisfied with the situation.

The poor boy's ordeal only came to light when the downstairs neighbours reported water leaking through their ceiling - obviously he had turned on the tap for a drink of water and been unable to turn it off again. It's extremely fortunate that was the case, otherwise who knows how long he would have had to suffer for.

Miss Tollerton will be sentenced later this month, and has been told to expect imprisonment. She certainly deserves it, but I hope she also receives some psychiatric help which she so obviously needs.

This is awful

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560851

While looking up the previous the report, I found this one, where God obviously isn't welcome in these people's lives at all.

A dreadful example of organised - and commercialised - child abuse if ever there was one. Why aren't these people prosecuted? Or in treatment?

I will make no further comment. Read the report - but make sure you're sitting down. It's not pleasant.

A Wonderful Miracle

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559442

Joel Bearder was born with a heart condition that meant he was starved of oxygen. Attempts to operate failed and he was given only a few days - weeks at the most - to live.

Now, eight months later, he is as healthy as ever. His heart, instead of failing, started to work normally. The doctors are mystified and say they've never seen anything like it before.

This is truly a miracle. I am sure I am with his parents in thanking God for helping Joel to live. God obviously has plans for him in later life.