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Phil AmmannJanuary 5, 2016

Recent, alarming news coverage of the rape kit testing backlog problem here in Florida shines a much-needed light on the overall issue of identifying and prosecuting sexual predators — and we need to remember that this is an issue of child safety as well as adult safety. In a country where nearly 70 percent of […]

Guest AuthorApril 21, 2015

As Americans, we cherish our basic rights and our fundamental freedoms. Perhaps the most cherished right, and one that makes us unique in the world, is the one guaranteeing us the freedom to openly speak our minds. As the world’s first republic to put this in our nation’s charter document, we have a guaranteed right […]

Guest AuthorApril 21, 2015

As Americans, we cherish our basic rights and our fundamental freedoms. Perhaps the most cherished right, and one that makes us unique in the world, is the one guaranteeing us the freedom to openly speak our minds. As the world’s first republic to put this in our nation’s charter document, we have a guaranteed right […]

Peter SchorschMarch 11, 2015

A billion dollars! Really? I have to admit that when I first saw the release from LaurensKids.org, I was a little skeptical. Despite the fact that I love the work Lauren Book is doing on behalf of kids and the very real fact that her work has earned national ink, the actual number itself – […]

Tag: child sexual abuse

Lauren Book: Rape crime testing and child assaults

John Knight: Don’t exercise right to protest walk by Lauren’s Kids

John Knight: Don't exercise right to protest walk by Lauren's Kids

Child sexual abuse costs Florida an estimated $1 billion a year