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Four Plead Guility in Mass. Child Abuse 3/22/03 Worcester, Mass. (AP) - "A woman and three men pleaded guilty Friday to charges involving the sexual and physical abuse of eight children, and were given sentences of up to seven years. The judge in the case said all four deserved longer sentences, but agreed to the pleas recommended by prosecutors to spare the victims from going through a trial. According to authorities, the children, ranging in age from 6 to 17, were raped, beaten, forced to watch pornographic torture videos and threatened and bribed to keep quiet. Some of them came forward in 2001." http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2499700,00.html
>From Backlash_ology Pediatric stress: Hormonal mediators and human development. Charmandari E, Kino T, Souvatzoglou E, Chrousos GP Horm Res 2003; 59(4):161-79 "The developing brain undergoes rapid growth and is characterized by high turnover of neuronal connections during the prenatal and early postnatal life. These processes and, hence, brain plasticity, slow down during childhood and puberty, and plateau in young adulthood. Hormonal actions in early life, and to a much lesser extent later, can be organizational, i.e., can have effects that last for long periods of time, often for the entire life of the individual. Hormones of the stress system and sex steroids have such effects, which influence the behavior and certain physiologic functions of individuals for life. Exposure of the developing brain to severe and/or prolonged stress may result in hyperactivity/hyperreactivity of the stress system, with resultant amygdala hyperfunction (fear reaction), decreased activity of the hippocampus (defective glucocorticoid-negative feedback, cognition), and the mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic system (dysthymia, novelty-seeking, addictive behaviors), hyperactivation of the HPA axis (hypercortisolism), suppression of reproductive, growth, thyroid and immune functions, and changes in pain perception. These changes may be accompanied by abnormal childhood, adolescent and adult behaviors, including excessive fear ('inhibited child syndrome') and addictive behaviors, dysthymia and/or depression, and gradual development of components of the metabolic syndrome X, including visceral obesity and essential hypertension. Prenatal stress exerted during the period of sexual differentiation may be accompanied by impairment of this process with behavioral and/or somatic sequelae. The vulnerability of individuals to develop varying degrees and/or components of the above life-long syndrome is defined by as yet unidentified genetic factors, which account for up to 60% of the variance....Profound stressors, such as those from sexual abuse, may elicit the syndrome in older children, adolescents and adults. Most frequently, chronic dysthymia and/or depression may develop in association with gastrointestinal complaints and/or the premenstrual tension syndrome. A lesser proportion of individuals may develop the classic posttraumatic stress disorder, which is characterized by hypocortisolism and intrusive and avoidance symptoms; in younger individuals it may present as dissociative personality disorder." From: Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., USA.
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/5466474.htm
Posted on Sun, Mar. 23, 2003
Michael Moore criticizes U.S. war in Iraq in Oscar speech
ANTHONY BREZNICAN
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - A standing ovation and a handful of jeers from Hollywood's elite greeted filmmaker Michael Moore when he criticized President Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq during his acceptance speech Sunday after winning the documentary feature Oscar for "Bowling for Columbine."
"We live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man who's sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts," Moore said.
http://www.knxv.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=IRAQ-BAD24HOURS-03-23-03&cat=II
As U.S. approaches Baghdad, casualties mount
By LISA HOFFMAN Scripps Howard News Service March 23, 2003
"Those weren't the only distressing pictures Al-Jazeera shared with the world Sunday. The Qatar-based network also showed bloody Iraqi toddlers, children and women who apparently had been injured by U.S. bombs or missiles.Military leaders cringed at those photos, the first to document just the sort of "collateral damage" the Pentagon is trying mightily to avoid, knowing its capacity for inflaming the already intense opposition to the war in the Arab world, Europe and beyond."
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