Other piece of advice: If you can, find a lawyer who's willing to work pro bono and have him/her advocate for this girl in the court system.
Forum: Abusive and Controlling Relationships

Yes, you should do everything you can to get that girl out of there. If protective services won't get involved, find a psychologist who's willing to talk to this girl, ask the girl over to babysit again, and then have the psychologist talk with her. Then you'll have some concrete evidence to work with. Any other way you can covertly gather evidence that the mother is abusive, do
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beyondeverythingnow: I can't imagine people not trying to prosecute him. He probably wormed his way out of it though.
Forum: Abusive and Controlling Relationships

I read the Wikipedia article on it, but it wasn't too informative. Are these the same people who used to go around handing out flowers?
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

This is why I really hate these celebrity Kabbalah groups. What they are espousing is a perversion of true Kabbalah, which almost no one can understand. It takes years of study to even begin to understand real Kabbalah. About what this SFK is teaching kids: The "life is fair" thing is a twisted version of the Kabbalistic principle that God never gives a person something that s/he
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I'm just curious...Have any of you ever been to the Middle East?
Forum: Terrorist and Extremist Groups

Sallie: Maybe that was true for most of them, but some of them were living on the streets, and the orphanage was just a legal device to get them to America. And even if the Hickman elites did lie to them, that doesn't mean that the families that adopted them were bad. I'm not trying to make excuses for Hickman, he messed up a lot of people, but I think that if a family adopts a kid an
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Debby5089: I guess it's interesting for the people who are still in the cult too--my family was getting stalked by them a few years ago. The guy who kept trying to contact us just said that he wanted to talk, but we're pretty sure that he was going to try and pull us back in.
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