The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced that it is suing manufacturer Leachco, Inc. because some of its products present a suffocation hazard to infants and the company has so far failed to recall those products. Leachco Podsters Dangerous for Infants According to…
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently released a policy statement urging pediatricians to take a bigger role in preventing sexual abuse or exploitation of children. “Sexual abuse or exploitation of children is never acceptable,” it reads in part. “Pediatricians and health care professionals should…
An Arkansas couple recently filed a new Abbot powdered baby formula lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. They filed the lawsuit individually and as next friends of their infant child. They claim that after feeding their baby Abbott recalled…
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed a sexual misconduct lawsuit against the state’s Catholic Church and its former bishop, Michael J. Bransfield. The complaint alleges that Bransfield and the diocese knowingly employed abusive clergy and failed to conduct adequate background checks on those…
It’s hard to imagine that in our country today, thousands of children still go hungry, but the facts speak for themselves. In West Virginia alone, one in five children struggles with hunger, according to Feeding America. Feed to Achieve adds that over 67 percent of…
On November 29, 2018, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, released the names of 31 priests or deacons said to have been credibly accused of sexual abuse. The dioceses reviewed more than 2,000 files containing tens of thousands of documents before releasing the…
West Virginia Catholic Bishop Michael J. Bransfield recently submitted his resignation to Pope Francis, who accepted the resignation and ordered an investigation into allegations the bishop sexually harassed adults. This follows in the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report identifying over 300 “predator priests”…
In June 2013, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine declared that residential care at the Autumn Health Care nursing home was “absolutely shocking and disturbing.” He added that the state was revoking the facility’s license, and recommended that the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states there are about 16,100 nursing homes in the U.S., with about 1.5 million residents. Meanwhile, according to the National Center on Elder Abuse, over 20,000 complaints of abuse, gross neglect, and exploitation on behalf of nursing…
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, it is considered discrimination to “segregate” disabled people in nursing homes or other traditionally institutional settings. Yet...
