Comments on: Harpy Droppings: for Your Reading Pleasure

By: yvanehtnioj

yvanehtnioj — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:36:07 +0000

I thought Canada was a safe space? Everyone’s supposed to be lefty and healthy and polite there. This judge is really messing with my favorable stereotyping.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:38:51 +0000

I’ve been very happy with our series of Camrys,but this is way, way out of line. Where do we write to complain?

By: pedimd

pedimd — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:27:52 +0000

I just looked up mandatory reporting laws in Missouri, where the Amish woman lives. Ministers and teachers there are considered mandatory reporters, but I am not sure whether “church elders” are considered minsters or teachers, in which case they actually did not have a legal obligation to report the child abuse. Further, based on my experiences with cases like this, the Amish mother is probably being charged with something like “neglect,” or “child endangerment” or “failure to protect,” which is different from failing to report. As far as I know, people are rarely charged with failing to report, even when they are clearly mandated reporters.

By: bluebears

bluebears — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:07:08 +0000

I sent that Fat Talk Week link to my mom last night (she is a nurse practitioner who is a consultant for the state who’s job is to travel around her region of the state and advise on school based health centers)and she told me she was forwarding it to all her colleagues.