This is a guest post by Patrick Perion, a child abuse investigator working in the Mid West.  In the wake of the testimony in the Jerry Sandusky child rape trial being unsealed, there is new shock and outrage directed at Penn State and Joe Paterno -- and rightly so.  Paterno ...read more

Single mother Toya Graham of Baltimore, Md. has become an ostensibly heroic figure in the wake of the unrest over the death of Freddie Gray. Dubbed "Mom of the Year" by social media denizens and praised by Baltimore's police chief as the exemplar of inner-city motherdom, Graham ...read more

Patrick Perion is a child abuse investigator in the Mid West In the ongoing unrest and rioting in Baltimore and the media coverage of it, several narratives have emerged. The one that is getting all kinds of play is the "Mom in Yellow", Toya Graham.  People from the Police ...read more

Sometimes a miracle is a bearded dude turning water into wine and whatnot. Other times, a miracle comes in the form of really beating the crap out of some bratty kid. Meet Bible Baptist Church Pastor Eric Dammann, who literally wails on kids for Jesus. In a recent sermon caught ...read more

Patrick Perion is a child abuse investigator in Illinois. If you investigate child abuse for more than 20 years, you learn a few things. One thing you learn is just when you think you've seen and heard it all, you haven't. In what can only be termed a completely insane ...read more

The child abuse allegations against Vikings running back Adrian Peterson have resulted in a fascinatingly convoluted tangent to the discussion of domestic violence surrounding the NFL, one in which, for example, things like the acceptable level of violence against children must ...read more