394 results for author: James R. Marsh
The Children’s Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood
New E-book Shares Children's Bureau's 100-Year Commitment to Children and Families
A recently released e-book—The Children's Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood—presents a comprehensive look at the first 100 years of the Children's Bureau, which is part of the ACYF/ACF/HHS. The e-book combines compelling text with striking historical images to tell the story of a small Federal agency that took on some of the nation's most devastating social problems, including infant mortality, child labor, and child abuse and neglect.
The e-book places the Children's Bureau's achievements in the context of changing world events and social ...
Amy’s Brief filed with the United States Supreme Court
Amy's Brief on the Merits is filed with the United States Supreme Court in Marsh Law Firm's groundbreaking child pornography restitution case.
After Five Years – Supreme Court Brief Finally Completed!
Over five years ago, I began an unprecedented effort to obtain criminal restitution for victims of child pornography and online exploitation. A few minutes ago, our United States Supreme Court brief was finally delivered to the printer. The oral argument in this groundbreaking case is scheduled for January 22, 2014.
When I began this journey, I didn't really realize or appreciate how long and how difficult it would be. Earlier this year I counted the number of words in just the appellate briefs and motions which are well over 600,000. Long days, endless nights, sometimes working 40 hours at a time with 3 hours of sleep; it has been a seemingly ...
Novel Federal Civil Child Pornography Case Advances: Prejudgment Attachment Ordered and Stay Denied
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On Friday, November 1, 2013, the federal court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle issued a groundbreaking ruling in a novel civil child pornography case which the Marsh Law Firm filed ten months ago on behalf of our client “Amy.”In this remarkable order, Judge Richard Jones granted our motion for prejudgment attachment of convicted sex offender Joshua Osmun Kennedy’s real and personal property. The claims of another of Kennedy’s victims known as “Vicky” were consolidated with Amy’s case, and her joint-motion was also granted.
The Court summarily denied Kennedy’s request for a stay pending the Supreme Court’s ...
Online (Child) Pornography a Public Health Risk
This article from the UK's Daily Mail echoes what many child development and sex abuse experts have begun to realize: youth exposure to pornography is not just a personal issue, it is a public health problem.
The piece, by Dr. John Woods, ran over a year ago. Sadly it's even more relevant today than it was in 2012. The article makes the following excellent points:
Although the internet doesn’t create these problems, it can release interests which would never have surfaced otherwise.
For every young person who has come to the attention of police or social services, there will be tens of thousands more who manage to keep their habit ...
Resources for Youth Vulnerable to Trafficking
Youth who age out of foster care are particularly susceptible to homelessness and becoming victims of human trafficking. The National Center for Homeless Education offers an informational webpage of resources on human trafficking targeted toward unaccompanied homeless youth and youth leaving foster care.
The webpage includes links to an issue brief and a literature review that provides information about the growing epidemic of human and sex trafficking in the United States. In addition, a link to a factsheet on recognizing and addressing human trafficking written specifically for educators is provided. Links to various government entities and ...