Torah Bontrager was born and raised traditional Amish and escaped at age 15. In 2018, she founded The Amish Heritage Foundation, which is a nonprofit committed to empowering Amish women and children through education past the 8th grade and fostering public awareness...
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Nirvana shouldn’t have so easily escaped a child pornography lawsuit as time-barred because republication of the “Nevermind” album cover represented a new offense within the law’s statute of limitations, the Ninth Circuit said.
Written October 12, 2023 by Jillian Ruck, COO, CHILD USA Bankruptcy and Child Sex Abuse: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going Over the last twenty years, we have seen numerous organizations exposed for their negligence and in some cases active cover-up and...
Written July 13, 2023 by Carina Nixon, Staff Attorney at CHILD USA. Prior to CHILD USA, Carina worked as an Attorney-Advisor for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance where she aided small business owners in recovering from the COVID-19...
This guest blog is co-authored by experts in mandatory reporting of child sex abuse. Dr. Franne Sippel, EdD is a Licensed Psychologist and co-owner of Northern Plains Psychological Associates in Aberdeen, SD and co-host of the mental health podcast, Shrink Rap the...
Written by Sarah Bousquet Sarah Bousquet is a CHILD USA Research & Development Intern. Children victimized and exploited by sex trafficking deserve to be protected from further traumatization. Vulnerable children are targeted by predators and are forced into...
Written by Kelsey Bryner and Sarah Bousquet Kelsey Bryner is Development Director at CHILD USA and Sarah Bousquet is a CHILD USA Research & Development Intern. Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields highlights a phenomenon that has long plagued American culture: the...
Written by Paul Jan Zdunek, COO at Miller Kaplan, an Instructor at UCLA and a Partner at Tipping Point Strategists. Paul is proud to be an advocate for SOL reform and for legislative change in Maryland. **Content warning: this blog may contain content...
By Liz Goldman, 1/29/2023 Liz Goldman, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health care and currently serves as a Clinical Associate faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Goldman’s story has been told in the film...
By Bridget Brainard, Staff Attorney at CHILD USA. Bridget is a Staff Attorney at CHILD USA. In addition to conducting legal research and policy analysis in the areas of child sexual abuse, human trafficking, trauma-informed judicial training, abuse in youth sports,...
