If your child is being abused What should you do?

If your child tells you that he or she has been touched inappropriately, it is important to stay calm. Your reaction may scare them or increase their feelings of guilt. Both emotions could discourage them from talking about the abuse openly. Be sensitive to their needs and applaud them for having the courage to tell you what happened. Be a source of support and assure them you will take care of things.

Next, immediately cease all contact your child has with their offender.Take action! Call your local police department or child abuse hotline and report the abuse. By failing to notify the authorities you may unwittingly lead to the abuse of other children. Do not try to handle the situation yourself. It is crucial to your child that you report abuse and pursue prosecution. Taking the necessary steps to get the abuser off the streets provides children with a sense of security, as well as the opportunity to get justice.
In order to avoid confusion, anxiety or guilt, children should never overhear conversations about their disclosure.

Likewise, you should seek support and comfort for yourself where your child can't see or hear what you say.The prognosis for healing after being molested is better for children who are supported and believed when they disclose.
Listen to your kids, and pay attention to their behavior.

Related Resources:

The Victims

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
www.missingkids.com

The Polly Klaas Foundation
www.pollyklaas.org

The Jessica Marie Lunsford Foundation
www.jmlfoundation.com

Amber Alert
www.amberalert.gov

Is Your Child Safe?

Breaking News: Oprah Winfrey

THURSDAY'S SHOW October 27,2005:
Breaking News: Oprah Presents Another $100,00 Reward.
Who turned in the accused child molester this time? Find out all the details of this international manhunt. Plus, how to learn if there's a child molester in your neighborhood.





Every day in America, more than 2,000 children are reported missing.
See Missing children listed in Oprah's Video

Do you recognize any of these faces? Call 800-THE-LOST.
Oprah's Perverts faces

What You Need to Know About Child Molesters

Just one week ago (October 2005), Oprah pledged to the nation that she would do everything in her power to help take child molesters off the streets. "The children of this nation are being stolen, raped, tortured and killed by sexual predators who are walking right into your homes," said Oprah. "I have had enough. With every breath in my body, whatever it takes and, most importantly, with you by my side, we are going to move heaven and earth to stop an evil that's been going on for far too long."To make her dream become a reality, The Oprah Winfrey Show launched Oprah's Child Predator Watch List to show the world faces of fugitives accused of sex offenses against children. "I plan to work with law enforcement officials, and if they tell me that one of you turned in one of these fugitives that we are exposing today, and that information leads to the capture and arrest of one of these men, I will personally give a $100,000 cash reward.""I am gratified to announce," Oprah says, "that in just 48 hours, two of those wanted men were captured!"

Two captured fugitives is a great accomplishment, but Oprah wants the world to know that she's just getting started."I feel very gratified that everybody has responded so beautifully and that we caught two. But really, this is just the beginning … I know that this is what I'm supposed to do in my life."This is a full circle moment for me. For me to have been raped at 9 years old … this is so big and so gratifying that I now get to put people behind bars who did to me what they've been doing to other children. This is it. And so I am going to spend my own resources, and I am going to work with law enforcement, and I'm going to change, with your help, the laws in this country state by state by state by state."We are not going to be a country that talks the talk about how we care about children, and then we let these people back out on the street. We have got to let Shasta Groene and all the others be the last children. Let their lives not have been in vain. Let's stand up, and change the laws." Take a look at these accused child molester profiles, and see if you can be the next person to put a fugitive behind bars.

Thank You Oprah
Lisa Jacques

Rosa Parks Dies

Rosa Parks, a Baptist laywoman at the forefront of the civil rights movement, died of natural causes Oct. 24 at her home in Detroit. Parks, 92, died just a few weeks shy of the 50th anniversary of her Dec. 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to surrender her seat to a white man on a segregated bus -- an event that changed the nation.
Rosa Parks will always be remembered as a courageous woman who quietly confronted injustice, and in so doing, she changed a nation.

I totally agree !

OPRAH WINFREY MESSAGE TO PERVERTS

A MESSAGE FROM OPRAH

"I plan to work with law enforcement officials, and if they tell me that one of you turned in one of these fugitives that we are exposing today, and that information leads to the capture and arrest of one of these men, I will personally give a $100,000 cash reward."
—Oprah


OPRAH WINFREY
IS ANGRY WILL YOU GET ANGRY TOO?.
CLICK THE LINK TO SEE HER VIDEO AND SEE THE PREDATORS... TURN
THEM IN AND COLLECT 100,000.00. WOW THAT'S A DOUBLE BLESSING...

Hit the play button to hear the audio if you don't think you'll wanna
waste the time to see the video. I am certain you will go to Oprah's
site, see the video and get involved.
We Praise God for the efforts of
Oprah, Bill O Reilly, Geraldo Riveria, Mark Klass and many others.

We at





YOU WILL NEED TO TURN YOUR SPEAKERS WAY UP
AS WE BORROWED THIS FROM OPRAH.

OPRAH WINFREY

SHE SAYS WE ARE GONNA MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TILL THE SICKNESS IS OVER
By the time she was six,Oprah Winfrey had moved to Milwaukee to live with her mother. During this time, she was sexually abused by a teenage cousin and then by other male relatives and friends. "I was, and am, severely damaged by the experience [of abuse]. All the years that I convinced myself I was healed, I wasn't," she told Redbook. "I still carried the shame, and I unconsciously blamed myself for those men's acts."

WE THE STAFF HERE AT DERLESU LIKE OPRAH WINFREY HOWEVER WE WILL PRAY THAT SHE GOES BROKE HANDING OUT THE REWARD MONEY. THEN PRAY THAT GOD BLESSES HER WITH MORE.

BILL O'REILLY'S MESSAGE FOR ENABLER'S

If you've been watching The Factor, you know we are engaged in a battle to protect young children from sexual predators. Many states don't protect children from sexual predators and allow these criminals back on the street to commit these crimes again. There have been despicable cases all across America in which girls and boys have been raped, abused, and even murdered - often by serial sex offenders who had been released by authorities after serving short prison sentences.

Here are just a few of the more egregious examples:

* In Rhode Island, 18-year-old Josh Maciorski was convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old girl, but sentenced to probation. Two years later he molested a 14-year-old girl and served just one year. Then, when he got out, Maciorski raped a 16-year-old girl. His sentence after this third strike - an unbelievable three years in prison.

* In Missouri, 19-year old Darrell Jackson pleaded guilty to repeatedly sexually abusing a little girl, beginning she was just eight. But when Jackson came up for sentencing, a soft judge gave him four months in prison and five years probation.


* In Minnesota, Joseph Duncan stood in front of a judge, accused of molesting a young boy. Despite the fact that Duncan had previously served 16 years for raping another young boy at gunpoint, the judge released him on just $15,000 bail. Duncan promptly skipped bail and headed for Idaho, where he allegedly kidnapped, raped, and killed a 9-year old boy, molested his sister, and killed their family.

These outrageous crimes could have been prevented, which is why I am calling on every state in the union to pass a version of "Jessica's Law." The legislation is named after little Jessica Lunsford, who was just nine when her life was brutally ended by a sexual predator who had previously been convicted of sex crimes against a child. The crime forced Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida legislature to mandate stiff minimum sentences for child abusers, who had all too often been slapped on the wrist by lenient judges.

There is simply no question that Jessica's Law will save lives, and similar laws need to be instituted in every state. Which is why we at The Factor have been putting pressure on Governors. Now it's your turn. We have investigated all 50 states to determine which ones are tough on sexual predators and which ones treat these criminals with kid gloves. You can find out where your state ranks elsewhere on this web site. If your state is soft or noncommittal, I urge you to write your Governor, who is paid by YOU. Simply click on your state on the map below and you will be taken to a form that will enable you to send a direct message to your state's chief executive. Please tell him or her, in your own words, how important this issue is to you - and remind the Governor that all politicians are ultimately accountable to you and your fellow voters.

This is literally a life-and-death battle to save our youngest and most vulnerable citizens from abuse, torture, and murder. I hope you'll do your part.


http://www.billoreilly.com/outragefunnels

OPRAH WINFREY PAYS 100,000.00 FOR PREDATORS

A MESSAGE FROM OPRAH

"I plan to work with law enforcement officials, and if they tell me that one of you turned in one of these fugitives that we are exposing today, and that information leads to the capture and arrest of one of these men, I will personally give a $100,000 cash reward."
—Oprah



OPRAH WINFREY
IS ANGRY WILL YOU GET ANGRY TOO?.
CLICK THE LINK TO SEE HER VIDEO AND SEE THE PREDATORS...

SHE SAYS WE ARE GONNA MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TILL THE SICKNESS IS OVER
By the time she was six,Oprah Winfrey had moved to Milwaukee to live with her mother. During this time, she was sexually abused by a teenage cousin and then by other male relatives and friends. "I was, and am, severely damaged by the experience [of abuse]. All the years that I convinced myself I was healed, I wasn't," she told Redbook. "I still carried the shame, and I unconsciously blamed myself for those men's acts."

30,000 dead, 2.5 million homeless

Workers rescue a man trapped under rubble.
Man pulled alive out of rubble
Aid rushes into northern Pakistan in wake of Saturday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake; U.S. helicopers fly in from Afghanistan; up to 30,000 dead, 2.5 million homeless.

As relatives in the United States mourned victims of the deadly South Asian earthquake , worshippers on Sunday prayed and donated tens of thousands of dollars for relief efforts.
Aid group Islamic Relief USA raised about $130,000 from those attending Ramadan services after the earthquake struck Saturday. The 7.6-magnitude quake near the Pakistan-India border killed at least 20,000 people and the death toll was expected to rise.
"Ramadan is the month of mercy and encourages Muslims to give to the poor," said Mohamed Abulmagd, general manager of the group's U.S. office in Burbank, Calif. "Now, with this crisis, I expect they will give more for this cause."

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Prayers, tears and hymns celebrated Mass

NEW ORLEANS — With prayers, tears, hymns and even a handful of humorous T-shirts, more than 1,000 parishioners celebrated Mass in New Orleans' historic Roman Catholic cathedral, the place its archbishop called "the soul of our city."

Emergency workers and soldiers — many of them out-of-towners who descended on Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina — mixed with newly returning residents at St. Louis Cathedral's first Sunday Mass since the hurricane devastated New Orleans more than a month ago.

Some churchgoers shed tears during the service, as the choir and congregation sang hymns about finding shelter in a storm and getting through dark times. The communion hymn contained the lyrics "I am hope for all who are hopeless ... I will bring you home."

"I cried just when thoughts came to me of all the things people are going through," said Michelle Hernandez, 27, of Jefferson Parish , who attended the service with her husband and two children.

"The St. Louis Cathedral is a symbol that really unites all of our city, and this is what we're going to need to move forward," the Rev. William Maestri, the archdiocesan spokesman, said before the Mass began.

Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes spoke of the more than 900 people who perished and offered hope for those who remain to rebuild a region that still has some floodwaters, scattered power outages and wind damage.

"This is indeed an historic moment in the life — not only in the church of New Orleans but in the whole city," Hughes said. "The structure which harbors the soul of our city has come back to life."

The church, on Jackson Square in the French Quarter, was bright, as light shining down from the balcony made the altar's gold accents glitter. Candles burned on the altar and brightly lit chandeliers hung from the ceiling painted with religious pictures.

The cathedral's Mass was the latest tentative step in New Orleans' return from Katrina. On Monday, there will be another: many of the area's Catholic schools are reopening, the archbishop said.

One man, standing in the back of the church, said to himself as if in prayer: "Welcome back, New Orleans."

Some parishioners offered a touch of humor, with one wearing a T-shirt that read: "I gave! The house, the car, the job ... Hurricane Katrina."

Hughes said that he hoped New Orleans would rebuild as a community with a stronger moral thread, a community free of racial tension and rampant self-indulgence.

Katie Mello, 30, came to church with her fiance and mother. Mello grew up in New Orleans and now lives in Orlando, Fla., with her fiance. The couple plans to get married at the cathedral in June and returned to the city to bring back relatives who had evacuated.

"This is the heart and soul of the city, so this is where it all starts," Mello said.

The cathedral was originally built in 1727. The first Church of St. Louis lasted 61 years, until it was destroyed by fire. The triple-spired cathedral was rebuilt on the same location. Since then, it has withstood hurricanes and hailstorms.

It was left virtually untouched by Katrina's fierce winds and high waters.

Outside the church, a marble statue of Jesus Christ, with his arm outstretched, had the thumb and forefinger snapped off in the storm. The archbishop said he wanted the fingers reattached only after New Orleans had recovered.

Sunday's Mass was held while relief workers and crews continued to pump out floodwaters from the lower Ninth Ward. Officials expected the pumping to be completed by midweek.

Electricity had been restored to about 29 percent of New Orleans customers and about 98 percent of Jefferson Parish customers, said Chanel Lagarde, a spokesman for Entergy Corp.

As of Friday, the state reported 932 deaths in Louisiana from Hurricane Katrina. Mississippi's death toll was 221.