The 2014 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma recently awarded an honorable mention to the New York Times Magazine’s story about the Marsh Law Firm’s client Amy entitled The Price of a Stolen Childhood. The annual Dart Awards…
Children’s Rights Violations Now Directly Reportable to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
The ratification of a new United Nations treaty allows children to lodge complaints directly with the Committee on the Rights of the Child when facing a violation of rights. This “Optional Protocol on a communications procedure,,” which came into effect…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Highlights Toomey Effort to Provide Justice for Victims of Child Pornography
The introduction of the “Justice for Amy Act” follows a recent Supreme Court decision which limited the remedies available to victims of child pornography under federal law. The case concerned Pennsylvania resident “Amy,” whose childhood was shattered when, at age…
Will Congress fix (quickly? ever? wisely?) the “puzzle of paying Amy” after Paroline?
Because Paul and other “crime victims” groups can be very effective advocates, I certainly believe it may be possible that Congress will respond in some way after Paroline. But if (when?) the Justice Department is disinclined to join the call…
Congress should listen to child sex-abuse victims
What is news is that Paroline v. U.S. was the first time in the Court’s history that a crime victim was allowed to be represented by her own counsel. Giving child victims a voice in matters that affect them is…
The Puzzle of Paying Amy
The conservatives got the law right, Sotomayor got the morality right, and Kennedy – characteristically trying to have it both ways – created a muddle.