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What an absolute travesty of justice.

Shame on the retired not honorable judge James P. Nilon. Shame on the new Judge Groeb.

Nilon and Groeb are obviously biased towards law enforcement and may even have other unknown motives, perhaps both should be extensively investigated themselves for any kind of child abuse that was never reported. It looks like a good old boys network fueled by hatred of women.

Nilon's unfair decisions are in itself further psychological child abuse and wife battery of the exwife by denying little Amy justice and backing police officers sexual abuse of young children plus fining the mother $237k.

Nilon and Groen should be sued themselves.

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“It has been said that if child abuse and neglect were to disappear today, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual would shrink to the size of a pamphlet in two generations, and the prisons would empty. Or, as Bernie Siegel, MD, puts it, quite simply, after half a century of practicing medicine, ‘I have become convinced that our number-one public health problem is our childhood’.”

—Childhood Disrupted, pg.228

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Both those judges need their feet held to the fire. What a disgusting miscarriage of justice. I hope their reputations are smeared from what they did to this poor child. God forbid the victim "drives the train" and has "too much power" in the conduct of the case. Holy cr*p.

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I can’t wait to see what Governor DeSantis and AG Ashley Moody have to say about this complete and utter travesty of justice…..how this poor child and her mother have remained sane throughout this whole ordeal, ongoing for over a decade, is nothing short of miraculous. God Bless them both.

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If survived, early-life child abuse, sexual or otherwise, left unhindered typically causes the brain to improperly develop. It can readily be the starting point of a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammatory stress hormones and chemicals, even in otherwise non-stressful daily routines.

It amounts to non-physical-impact brain damage in the form of PTSD. Among other dysfunctions, it has been described as an emotionally tumultuous daily existence, indeed a continuous discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’. For some others it includes being simultaneously scared of how badly they will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires.

Therefore, the wellbeing of all children needs to be of great importance to us all, regardless of whether we’re doing a great job with our own children. Mindlessly ‘minding our own business’ often proves humanly devastating. Yet, largely owing to the Only If It’s In My Own Back Yard mindset, however, the prevailing collective attitude (implicit or subconscious) basically follows: ‘Why should I care — my kids are alright?’ or (the even more self-serving) ‘What’s in it for me as a taxpayer?’

(While some people will justify it as a normal thus moral human evolutionary function, the self-serving OIIIMOBY can debilitate social progress, even when social progress is most needed. And it seems this distinct form of societal penny wisdom but pound foolishness is a very unfortunate human characteristic that’s likely with us to stay.)

But as a moral rule, a mentally as well as a physically sound future should be every child’s foremost fundamental right — along with air, water, food and shelter — especially considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter. Yet, many people still hold a misplaced yet strong sense of entitlement when it comes to having then misperceiving children largely as obedient property.

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“It has been said that if child abuse and neglect were to disappear today, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual would shrink to the size of a pamphlet in two generations, and the prisons would empty. Or, as Bernie Siegel, MD, puts it, quite simply, after half a century of practicing medicine, ‘I have become convinced that our number-one public health problem is our childhood’.”

—Childhood Disrupted, pg.228

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