Notice, Evaluate. and conquer the signs of Child abuse. 

  A child may seem to be quiet and not talking hiding their fear and pain when ask what's wrong. They may be in fear of being sent back to the place where the abuse happens where it is dangerous and unsafe. Connie Johnson feared if she would tell, nothing would have been done because the laws wasn't implemented when she was a young girl no one did anything about it there was nowhere to go for help.

Not enough nutrients they may pocket food or save it for later. Decreasing their growth and development.
 
Some children do not like to play scared of other children bumping into them causing more pain to their wounds.
They may get teased a lot from other children because they pamper their hurt inside. not sharing their feelings.
Not wanting to leave from the place where they feel safe. Staying late.
Unkept appearance. 
low poor concentration unable to keep up they have anxiety of what will happen when they return to that unsafe place.
very smart and make excellent grades scared of failure.

Some children have no structure, no guidance, or protection they feel unloved, alone and afraid. Some are left to defend for themselves. No supervision leaving a child to make bad choices. And when they are raging out of control, they cannot understand why they are feeling neglected, separated and rejected.  It can get out of control their behavior patterns change they have no respect for authority or parents.  
​ Connie Johnson because of her mother's death she was left in an unlicensed group home where the child abuse was so horrific and terrified. Her heart had a void of emptiness that could not be filled.
when there is a decision to leave a child in these types of group homes is putting a child in an unsafe environment and in harm's way these are some of the things that could happen.

With Connie she was not taken out. When she did wrong or not, she would get horrible beatings the Doctor of her own wounds 'there was no laws she said'   The child abuse she had was severe beatings, sexually molestation at an early age. Making her feel worthless, isolated, violation of her privacy her innocence was taken away by a grown man she felt alone, and no one could be trusted. No one reach out. 
 
Connie said when kids are left alone to make choices in this day and time it is way too hard for a young child to figure it out by themselves.  It causes mental disorders, depression, high levels of stress, anxiety. bipolar, and other disorders. Then comes rage, then guns, then drugs, then alcohol, long prison sentences or even death.  child abuse can sometimes repeat its Cycle going into young adult hood called Domestic violence its patterns and cycle is all they know. When a child is reaching out don't say they are bad. They are asking for help something is wrong.

 When a child is reaching out Sometimes there is no one to reach back.
REACH BACK AND HELP SAVE A CHILD!

​Connie Johnson
 
  a survivor of Child Abuse and Domestic Violence,  Connie’s mother past away  when she was six years old. Forcing Connie to be put in a small unlicensed group home for many years. Where Connie  received horrific abuse of beatings with extension cords, locked in basement, rape ,molestation and unbelievable wounds and scares that was hard to heal .  There was no structure  she was left without guidance, protection, support,  love  and food Connie was left to  defended for herself, making some wrong choices and decision  in  her late teenage years she found herself in a long extended stay of Domestic Violence that almost took her life.  She gain strength from being determine of having hope  that one day it would end, She left that environment and life changes became strong for her. She fights in every way to bring awareness to others who has gone though such crimes, she said it is a crime for anyone to put their hands on another using  physical abuse ,verbal abuse, and mental abuse  When she look back on the anxiety,  the depression and the rage of madness that her abuser inflict on her she began to research and found that it was a part of a physiological disorder that took a rage out against her.
 Using her symptoms and signs of Child Abuse and Domestic Violence helps her to know she is able to reach out.  Connie Johnson states she will always bring awareness and she will never stop trying.
Connie is using  her signs on Domestic Violence Awareness
She is saying NO! STOP! DON”T DO THAT! for child abuse and Neglected children
The NO! is for Stop don’t hurt me, No means NO!
STOP. Which means STOP!
DON”T DO THAT! Means think first before you move forward.
Connie always say THINK FIRST  before putting a child in harm's way such as some unlicensed group homes like Connie’s
She is determine to share resource's  that are available and  her story  in helping to give awareness to others. For this reason Missing Pieces Publishing is Recognizing Connie Johnson for her encouragement, determination and constant fight to bring awareness on Child Abuse, Child Neglect  and Domestic Violence.
 
 

We are helping children  in need with winter items. All donations accepted
Socks  
Hats 
Scarves 
gloves  and items should be new.
​Help reach back and save a child 

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Get Going!
 
 A woman/man can be in Abuse  for  many years in fear sometime scared to move. Thinking one day a change is going to come.  Some of the abuse is not heard about. It is sometimes kept hidden and many times some  find themselves right back in the same patterns and   cycles of abuse.
 
Make A Plan to GET OUT!
 
File restraining orders 
 
Get local Authorities involved and show up to court.
 
 
Take fight defense Classes to protect yourself.
 
Keep all personal information out of abuser sight. They will destroyed everything you own as soon as they find out you are leaving.
 
Talk to family, friends and others let them know what is happening and how to feel.
 
Hides all new address, telephone numbers, and new job information and keep them hidden in a safe place
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Start packing hide boxes of clothes where they won't notice or have family and friends store them for you.
 
If you have children. File an order with their school for special permission pick-ups.

 Join a  local church. 

Look for centers that can help you join a group of others.

You may have  tried to make this person happy. Now its time to take care of you and make yourself happy and prepare yourself towards the road of freedom.
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Domestic Violence Month is October the color is PURPLE
 
 Places you can go for help: 
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Dial 211,  or if it is an emergency please call 911
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Missing Pieces Publishing  is  a Company that writes books about Child Abuse, Child Neglect, and Domestic Violence  is taking a stand to say
     NO! STOP! DON"T DO THAT! 
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​National network to end domestic violence
http://nnedv.org/getinvolved/dvam.html
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Indianapolis, Indiana Police Department for restraining orders
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​National Domestic Violence Hot line 24 hours
1-800-799-7233 
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National Coalition Domestic Violence
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 Joyful heart


Domestic Violence laws
Most of the laws relevant to domestic violence and sexual assault are based on state law.  This includes restraining or protection orders, divorce, custody, crimes, and more. There are also federal laws that may be relevant to your situation, including immigration, firearm and military laws. 

Resources:
1-800-799-7223


Coburn place safe haven 
(317)-923-5750

Beacon of hope center for woman 
Crisis Hotline (317)-731-6140

Click below for emergency Shelter.
Emergency shelter list by county


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 Child Abuse color is BLUE
the awareness month is April
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       Signs and Symptoms                   

 A child feels they are not love, they feel alone, they feel loss and  left to defend for themselves without unsupervised.
 
They began to withdraw from others.

 They hide to protect their scars, when ask what happen they will  tell a lie such as I failed down, not knowing they are protecting the abuser.

 There is fear,anxiety ,  they are jumpy, shaky they are  nervous sad sometime needing medication.

  Uncontrollable crying from  pain and  being hurt when touched

 Broken bones unhealed old and new 
 Bruises old and new  

Some bed wet from sexual molestation scared to go to bathroom during the night from fear of being attacked or rape.

Never taken to the  Doctor, or have  Appointments to see the Doctor.

 In school some make  good grades, scared of failure, Trying very hard to get it right and to  be good because they have been told repeatedly they are bad.

 They have Anger, because no one knows their hurt no one see the scars they cover up   they   become withdrawn failure to thrive suicide thoughts  they began.

 lashing out
fighting 
Scared to go home, some runaway.

 Rage behaviors: Some children in early teen years use drugs, alcohol, teen violence, senseless crimes, cutting themselves,  homeless, prison, murder, some teens grow up to repeat the abuse cycle that leads to Domestic Violence. Sometimes abuse is the only thing they know.
 
Hungry  they are not getting the required amount of food for energy and health some   pocketing food saving it for later, eating out of trash cans, begging for food always hungry. 

 

 Note to Readers
​When a child is reaching out sometimes there is no one to reach back. These are some of the signs and symptoms that Connie had went through In her Book Missing Pieces Revealed.  Some Children don’t understand why they are being hurt or not loved.
 
                         REACH BACK AND SAVE A CHILD.
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                 If you Know of any Child that is  being abuse Please! 

                                          Contact
               Prevent Child Abuse 1-800-Children

             NOTICE: What;s going on with abused Children
             EVALUATE: Look for Signs and Symptoms 
             CONQUER:  Stop!  Help! Fight! to  Prevent Child Abuse 


Resources: 

Child Abuse 
Julian Center
(317)-920-9320
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Channel 13 News Indianapolis, Indiana is partnering with prevent Child Abuse, Kids can't wait and shattering the silence. 
1-800- CHILDREN

WRTV 6 NEWS
Fox59 New 
 Indianapolis  Police Department

Riley Child Development Center
Phone 317.944.4846
                       And 
IU Health Child protection program services
Methodist Hospital


St, Vincent : Child Protection center Peyton Manning Childrens Hospital have lot of recourse and  links 
here is the website
http://peytonmanning.stvincent.org/content.aspx?p=116

Department of Child Services 
1-800-800


To all other if you see it, hear it, REPORT it. You may be saving a life



 ​Once a young child is abused, it leaves scars. When Connie was a very young girl, her abuse started at the age of eight after her mother’s death. The physical abuse, verbal abuse, sexual abuse and the fear she endured left her feeling rejected, and she began to lose trust in others in fear of being hurt. A lot of times she found herself the doctor of her wounds. When she was free of the abuse that she experienced in her childhood, she repeated the same cycle of abuse in adulthood. Why? Patterns, no guidance, no structure, no protection. Later on in her life when she met her first love, he  had different hidden  patterns but not of abuse  of mental issues that steamed from his childhood, and wow, did he beat Connie! So, the cycle rotates, it moves like a wheel, and it trickles down from one abused person  sometimes to the  next abused person. controlling demanding, verbal abuse, physical abuse, social abuse, mental abuse, hurt, pain, and fear are all part of the cycle.   A child growing up without their parents’ love, protection and guidance leads to patterns such as these, tearing some  lives completely apart.

 Earlene Walker Owner and Founder of Missing Pieces Publishing is taking a stand with all others to say NO! STOP! DON"T DO THAT!


 
 
 
 
 

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 In  my search on domestic violence  I found this time line and it said: 

1900’s-1960’s: • The first Family Court is created in Buffalo, NY; the decision was that it is better to solve family problems in a setting of discussion and reconciliation with social service intervention. (1911) • Women are allowed to vote for the first time with the passing of the 19th amendment. (1919) • Civil rights, anti-war and black liberation movements challenge the country, this lays a foundation for the feminist movement. (1950s and 1960s) •
 New York domestic violence cases are transferred from criminal court to civil court, where only civil procedures apply. The husband never faces as harsh penalties as he would suffer if he was found guilty in criminal court for assaulting a stranger.
 (1962) • Congress began passing laws that prohibited discrimination against women in employment and requiring equal pay for equal work. 


(1965) • Beating as cruel and inhumane treatment, becomes grounds for divorce in New York, but the plaintiff must establish that a sufficient number of beatings have taken place.
 (1966) • The state of Maine opens one of the first shelters in the United States. (1967) • The women’s libertarian movement started. It claimed that what goes on in the privacy of people’s homes is deeply political.
 (1960s and 1970s)1970’s: • Women were coming together with African Americans seeking their equal rights. As a result, women started talking about violence against women in the forms of spouse abuse and sexual assault. Women recognized three major contributors to the violence against them: economic disparity, traditional gender role expectations, and a criminal justice system that did not hold men accountable for violence against women. From this, the battered women’s movement was born. (1970s) • 
In Chicago married women who leave their husbands due to battering are denied welfare because of their husband’s salaries. (1970s) • Grassroots organizing efforts begin transforming public consciousness and women’s lives. “We will not be beaten” becomes the mantra of women across the country organizing to end domestic violence. This theme stems from the notion that women face brutality from their husbands and indifference from social institutions. (1970s) • In Philadelphia, Women in Transition forms. Their mission is to provide services to divorced or separated women, battered wives and single mothers. (1971) • Informal networks between women begin sharing information, strategies and support. In Pittsburgh, this influences the founding of the Pittsburgh Women’s Center South which began in the home of Ellen Berliner. (1974) • Al-Anon, Drug and Alcohol support group members, that are battered, organize a shelter in Harrisburg. (1974) • Most US states allow wives to bring criminal action against a husband who inflicts injury upon her. (1975) • In Scotland, a Magistrate fines a husband $11.50 for hitting his wife in the face. He states, you may strike your wife’s bottom if you wish, but you must not strike her in the face. (1975) • Brazil passes a penal code that prohibits husbands from selling, renting, or gambling away their wives. (1975) • The Pennsylvania Coalition against Domestic Violence is formed through grassroots impact on state legislation. (1976) • In Pennsylvania, an old town ordinance is still on the books that no husband shall beat his wife after ten at night or on Sundays. (1976) • Women around the country march annually to “Take Back the Night”. With the walk, women begin to gain confidence because of the collective presence of their collective presence; they begin to feel strength and temporary psychological liberation through turning individual fear into mass anger. (1977) • Still only 14 states have provided funds for shelters. (1979)

Learn more at www.pacwrc.pitt.edu



Comment 
Mercedes Cannon ( mecannon@iupui.edu)     7/22/2015013:19:33
This is a great synopsis of what has happen in the lives of many women in the area of domestic violence. It is wonderful that the laws have changed concerning domestic violence. It is taken much seriously these days once its reported and praise God for that!

January 1978 Civil Liability in Child Abuse Cases Rowine Hayes Brown Richard B. Truitt Yhttp://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2292&context=cklawreview 

LAWSUITS ON BEHALF OF THE ABUSED CHILD Child v. Parent Children in the United States generally have been denied the right to sue parents who have abused them.27 The immunity of parents from suits by their children for torts to their children has been created by stare decisis. The established common law rule in an action for damages caused by maltreatment to an infant is that an unemancipated minor cannot sue his parent in tort.28 This general rule is based upon the court's reluctance to create litigation and strife between members of the family unit 29 and its apparent insistence upon maintenance of parental discipline and control.30 The parental immunity doctrine extends to adoptive parents3 ' and persons in loco parentis32 and, consequently, would protect .the occasional foster parent who was the child abuser. Currently this immunity is not absolute. An action may now be maintained by a child against his parents for willful and wanton misconduct by them, including intentional torts.33 However, the great majority of appellate cases allowing a child to recover against his/her parents deal with automobile injuries resulting from reckless driving.34 It has been held that liability attaches to the parent for conduct beyond the bonds of reasonable parental authority or discretion 35 but a problem exists regarding the establishment of standards of "reasonable" parental authority and discretion. For example,  Loco parentis occurs when a person temporarily undertakes the care and control of another person in the absence of supervision by this other person's natural parents and without formal legal approval. Griego v. Hogan, 71 N.M. 280, 284, 377 P.2d 953, 955 (1963). 33. Nudd v. Matsoukas, 7 111. 2d 608, 131 N.E.2d 525 (1956); Rodebaugh v. Grand Trunk W. Ry., 4 Mich. App. 559, 145 N.W.2d 401 (1966). 34. See, e.g., Nudd v. Matsoukas, 7 IlI. 2d 608, 131 N.E.2d 525 (1956); Rodebaugh v. Grand Trunk W. Ry., 4 Mich. App. 559, 145 N.W.2d 401 (1966). 35. See, e.g., Silesky v. Kelman, 281 Minn. 431, 161 N.W.2d 631 (1968); Goller v. White, 20 Wis. 2d 402, 122 N.W.2d 193 (1963). CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW whether courts should impose culturally or class biased standards arises. Problems also arise with respect to neglect hearings and custody proceedings. "Western man has never been able to make up his mind what a child is-weak and innocent, needing protection, or wild and primitive, needing discipline and education. And adults are still swinging metronomically from one extreme to another. ' 36 The legislatures in typical child abuse statutes 37 have not provided standards or guidelines beyond "endangering life or health," but have allowed the courts to formulate their own standards. Public policy considerations of the parental immunity doctrine may prevent filing suits alleging mere negligence, 38 but such policy should not prevent a minor from obtaining redress for willful and wanton misconduct of his parents. "To tolerate such misconduct and deprive a child of relief will not foster family unity but will deprive a person of redress, without any corresponding social benefit, for an injury long recognized at common law." 39

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