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An Oregon couple went out on a date back in March and left their 1-year-old son home with a babysitter.
Image via Facebook/Joshua Marbury
They returned later that evening to find the child screaming as the sitter slept on the couch. When they awoke the next morning, they were horrified to discover bruises all over their son’s face and body.
Medical professionals and law enforcement later confirmed that the child had been abused. But even after the the babysitter confessed to hitting the baby, no arrests were made.
The boy’s father, Joshua Marbury, took to Facebook Friday to voice his frustrations over an Oregon court ruling he claims protected his son Jacob’s abuser. The post quickly went viral, gaining nearly 185,000 shares in two days.
Marbury wrote that multiple doctors pointed out handprints on Jacob’s body, and one detective informed him and his wife that the abuse could’ve killed their son.
According to the Oregonian, Jacob’s parents learned Friday the case would not be prosecuted, despite photo documentation of the abuse, thanks to a 2012 Oregon Court of Appeals ruling that prosecutors say made it more difficult to file charges in abuse cases with victims who are unable to speak.
“Something needs to be done,” Marbury wrote. “NOBODY can just hit a child and more to just get away with it because the child (can’t) verbally tell you.”
In January 2015, the Oregonian published a piece titled, “Even pets are better protected than young kids under Oregon abuse laws, prosecutors say.” The piece explains that in order to convict a suspected child abuser of felony assault or criminal mistreatment, prosecutors must prove that the victim experienced “substantial pain.”
The new law presented the possibility that children and adults who are not able to or do not want to articulate the extent of their suffering may never see justice.
“A dead body cant tell you who killed them. Yet a baby isnt held to the same standard because he cant talk???? Well neither can a dead body. THATS BLASPHEMY,” Marbury’s post continued.
The law does specify another option for proving a “physical injury” – that the victim suffered an “impairment of a physical condition.” Unfortunately for Jacob’s parents, however, the Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that welts, bruises and shallow cuts do not count.
“My trust with so many people is shot,” Jacob’s mother, Alicia Quinney, told the Oregonian. “This isn’t something we can move on from.”
Quinney said she wants the law to be amended to better protect victims like her son. She also wants her son’s admitted abuser to be held accountable.
Judging by the reception Marbury’s Facebook post received, it would appear that the couple will not have trouble finding those who sympathize with their grievances.
Washington County Deputy District Attorney Dustin Staten, the prosecutor handling Jacob’s case, told the Oregonian he hadn’t previously seen the photos Marbury father posted to Facebook on Friday.
“Seeing those photos has caused me to want to take a different path,” Staten said in a phone interview Saturday.
Though investigative photos were taken in Jacob’s case, Staten said “there’s additional people I need to consult with based on those photos I’ve seen today.”
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Huffington PostVolcano Eruption Kills 7 In Indonesia As Hot Ash Hinders Rescue Efforts
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Maddux SportsBreakdown: Durant's turnover issues could doom Thunder vs. Warriors
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The Boston GlobeAuburn officer killed in a traffic stop; manhunt underway
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WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — President Barack Obama’s mission in Vietnam and Japan is to build stronger economic and security ties with Asian-Pacific allies anxious about the rise of an increasingly muscular China. That forward-looking message will be delivered even as he confronts the legacies of two wars long past — Vietnam and World War II — that still are fraught with emotion.
Obama’s first stop on his weeklong Asia trip is Vietnam, where he will be the third sitting president to visit since the end of the war. Four decades after the fall of Saigon, and two decades after President Bill Clinton restored relations with the nation, Obama is eager to upgrade relations with an emerging power whose rapidly expanding middle class beckons as a promising market for U.S. goods and an offset to China’s growing strength in the region.
AP Photo/ Hau Dinh
Obama arrived in Hanoi late Sunday. During his three-day stay in Vietnam, he’ll make the case for stronger commercial and security ties, including approval of the 12-nation trans-Pacific trade agreement that is stalled in Congress and facing strong opposition from the 2016 presidential candidates. Vietnam also is hoping that Obama will use the visit to erase an irksome vestige of the war by lifting the U.S. partial embargo on selling arms to the country. The idea is under consideration, but concern about Vietnam’s human rights record could weigh against it.
The Telegraph reported Saturday that some American groups are pressuring Obama to take care of “unfinished business” regarding the fates of more than 1,600 U.S. servicemen who never returned home from the Vietnam War. Relatives of those military members have petitioned for Vietnam’s help in accounting for the many who may have died after being shot down or died as POWs.
In Japan, Obama will attend a summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations, where the uncertain global economy will be a top concern of the G-7 leaders. They’ll also grapple with a full array of world challenges, including the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, the refugee crisis in Europe and Russian aggression. Also on the agenda will be Beijing’s assertive claims in the South China Sea that are causing tensions with other countries in the region.
The culminating moment of Obama’s trip will be a solemn visit to Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb that killed 140,000 people, ushering in the nuclear age seven decades ago. Another bomb killed 70,000 in Nagasaki three days later.
“You could not have had a more violent conflict than we had with the Japanese in World War II, as a visit to Hiroshima will certainly mark, but now they are among our closest friends in the world,” Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said. “You could not have a more contested, controversial, costly, tragic war than the Vietnam War, and now (Vietnam) is becoming a partner of the United States, an important partner.”
Still, concerns about human and political rights shadow the president’s stay in Vietnam. The country did free a Catholic priest who had been one of its longest-serving political prisoners in the lead-up to the president’s visit. But the U.S. remains concerned about severe government restrictions on citizens’ political rights and limits on civil liberties and free expression.
Rhodes said the Vietnam and Japan visits both reflect Obama’s world view “that we can move beyond difficult and complicated histories” to find areas of common interest.
With Obama’s goal in mind, many have made efforts to ensure that history is not lost in the push for progress.
In advance of the president’s visit, the White House invited representatives of Vietnam veterans’ organizations to trace progress in the U.S.-Vietnamese relationship.
Rick Weidman, executive director for policy at the Vietnam Veterans of America, who participated in one of the meetings, said there still are wounds from Vietnam that need healing. He said the U.S. needs to do more to account for those still missing from the war and to help deal with ill effects from U.S. use of Agent Orange during the war.
Even though the last 591 American POWs returned to the U.S. in April 1973, there are theories that state the then-North Vietnamese kept some prisoners of war to use as leverage with President Richard Nixon in aid aid package that could’ve catalyzed the end of the war. According to the Telegraph, some say that aid payment failed because of Nixon’s Watergate scandal and the North Vietnamese retained the prisoners.
Some American prisoners of war are believed to have been killed to provide military secrets in exchange for their lives under Vietnam’s Communist rule, the Telegraph reported.
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