Technical Glitch re Email Subscription

If you signed up to receive email notifications of new posts — which you can do in the right-hand column on the front page of the blog — you may have noticed an interruption in service recently. I apologize for that. We had a technical glitch of some kind that removed all our subscribers. Thanks … Read more

Cultural Differences and Child Abuse

One of the clipping services to which I subscribe recently highlighted People v. Assad, __ Cal.Rptr.3d __, 2010 WL 4035491 (Cal. Ct. App. 3 Dist. Oct. 15, 2010). The defendant in Assad was a Syrian man. He tied his twelve-year-old son to his bed and beat him repeatedly and severely with a hose and wooden … Read more