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2A Daily News – Saturday, April 13, 2013 Community people&events Senior menu Child Abuse Prevention Month The Senior Nutrition Program serves meals Monday through Friday at the Red Bluff Community-Senior Center, the Corning Senior Center and the Los Molinos Veterans Hall. The suggested donation for seniors 60 and older is $2.75. For those guests under the age of 60, the guest charge is $7. A donation is not a requirement for you to receive a meal if you qualify for the program. Reservations must be made a minimum of one day in advance by calling 527-2414. Two percent milk is served with each meal. Menu is subject to change. Week of 15-19 Monday Crab Cake, AuGratin Potatoes, Pineapple Coleslaw, Blueberry Muffin, Luau Fruit Cup Tuesday BBQ Ribette, Garlic Roasted Potatoes, Marinated Pea Salad, Seasoned Bread Stick, Mixed Berries Wednesday HEALTHY HEART MENU Baked Chicken, Broccoli, Bran Muffin, Mandarin Oranges Thursday Spaghetti w/Meatballs, Romaine Salad, Garlic Bread, Orange Juice, Apricots Friday Beef Stew w/ Potatoes, Peas, Beans, & Carrots, Colorful Coleslaw, Biscuit, Banana Cream Dessert Birth — Kersey Melissa Hatfield and Dan Kersey, a son, Linden James "L.J." Kersey, 8 pounds, 19.5 inches, born 435 p.m. March 13, 2013 at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. Welcoming baby are grandparents Wileta Hatfield of Redding, Ken Hatfield of Redding and Dave and Dorothy Kersey of Red Bluff; great-grandparents Joanne and Bob Anistead of Red Bluff and Jim and Joyce Hatfield of Elizabethtown, Ky. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY What is happening in our society today? Young children plotting to physically harm their teacher, teen age girls enticing a young girl into a gathering and then brutally beating her and a sixteen year old girl calling from a religious commune to report that she is being abused by the adults in the compound are examples of decadent behavior. All these examples seem to be done without a thought. We not only live in an era where we have access to more and more on the media but we often become jaded to the dangers our children are subjected to on a day to day basis. We need to ask ourselves some hard questions? Was it from watching violent TV programs; was it from the harsh talk of adults around them? What kind of warped minds decided that as long as you keep children and women in a compound you may exert any type of abuse toward those under your leadership? Do these people really believe that the walls of a compound that keep other human beings from seeing what is going on within those walls, can keep that secret from God? What is lacking in the lives of teens who decide to make a video of beating another teen aged girl? Recently I have observed that many adults turn their backs on the potential abuse that can happen to children at the hands of adults and even other children. How can we stand by and not do all that is possible to protect our children? Is it too hard to accept the fact that predators are out there doing their thing without a thought to the hurt both physically and emotionally that is visited on their victims? Multitudes of children have had abuse happen to them and were afraid to tell others for a variety of reasons. Some children believe that they will be blamed for the abuse, others are afraid their abuser will harm them and or their family if they tell. Others, children and unknowing adults alike are brainwashed to think that physical and emotional abuse is a part of their lives to be endured and some become so used to the abuse that they don't know it is wrong. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, why do I highlight it and capitalize the words; because it is a reminder that we all must be advocates for children. As long ago as 2001 we were being made aware child abuse. Very young children than over 400,000 U.S. Children, are incapable of verbally communicating the harm inflicted many from middle class on them. Factors such as homes, were victims of fear, guilt and or confusome type of sexual sion about the abuser's exploitation every year. erratic behavior may also This three-year study, hinder younger children funded in part by the U.S. from informing on their Department of Justice, anaabuser. lyzed the problem of sexuViolence against chilal exploitation, particularly dren is one of the least commercial sexual well-documented areas exploitation of children in of personal crime. Every the United States, Canada Carolyn 35 seconds, a child is and Mexico. abused or neglected in "Child sexual exploitathe United States. Four tion is the most hidden definite areas of abuse form of child abuse in the U.S. and North America today," stalk our children. Physical abuse. said Richard J. Este's co-author of Neglect, Sexual Abuse and Emothe study. "It is the nation's least tional Abuse some of which are happening to children every single recognized epidemic." The study also showed that 75 day not all instances are reported. percent of the children we met on Child abuse is usually not just one the streets are children from work- physical attack or a single instance ing class and middle class families of failure to meet a child's most and the simple majority of them are basic needs, although it may be white. Those who perpetrate sex usually it is a pattern of behavior crimes against children come from taking place over a period of time. all parts of society and include rela- It involves intentional acts committives and other adults known and ted by a parent, caregiver or person trusted by the children or their fam- in a position of trust who threatens to harm or harms a child's physical ilies. Shay Bilchik of the Child Wel- or emotional welfare. Child abuse fare League of America stated "I and neglect cut across all ages, think what this report highlights is races, genders, creeds and socioethat we're simply not doing a good conomic groups. It was not until the 19th century enough job in this country taking that children were granted the same care of our children." The following statistics regard- legal status as domesticated animals ing all ages of children who suffer with regard to protection against from child abuse and neglect are cruelty and/or neglect. In 1962, the based on the research of John Mer- term "battered child syndrome" sch, MD, FAAP and William C. became part of the medical vocabuShiel Jr., MD, FACP.FACR. What lary and by 1976 all of the states in the United States had adopted laws age child is abused? 1. age: 67 percent of abused chil- mandating the reporting of suspectdren are less than 1 year old; 80 ed child abuse. It was a step forpercent are less than 3 years old; ward however the abuse of children continues to happen often due to the past history of abuse: 2. Repeated abuse has been fact of underreporting of such acts. As caring adults in this society shown to occur more than 50% of the time; repeatedly abused chil- we must accept the responsibility of dren have a 19% chance of sustain- being advocates for the children in our homes, communities, nations ing a lethal event; 3. Children with learning disabil- and yes in the world. Each of need ities, speech/language disorders and the reminder of Child Abuse Prevention month to remind us of the mental retardation; 4. Children with congenital covenant we have to care for the anomalies (malformations) and "least of these." chronic/recurrent condition; and Carolyn Barber has been writing 5. Adopted and foster children The collection of data in regard her column in the Daily News since to abused children is often compli- 1992. She can be contacted at cated by general underreporting of hurcar@yahoo.com. Barber Bailey earns mentoring certificate at Homes of Hope Courtesy photo THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 Carol Brandt of Homes of Hope for Victims in Domestic Abuse, left, recently awarded Nancy Bailey her certificate for completing 30 hours of mentor training. Homes of Hope is a local faith based non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide help and restoration to abuse victims through mentoring and housing assistance. On Saturday, May 4, a luncheon tea will be held at Anderson Neighborhood Church from 12 noon to 2 pm. Tickets for the function are $10. More information is available at www.homesofhopeforvida.org or by calling 8401341 or 347-1330. 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Sign ups will be 4:30-5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, at Reeds Creek Elementary School, 18335 Johnson Road, Red Bluff. For more information contact Angelo at (530) 3660202. Birth — DeRego 90 years ago... Arrested As He Attempts to Sell A stolen Bicycle Chief of Police Frank Montgomery today arrested Cecil Arker, 18 years of age, for the alleged theft of a bicycle in Redding. The officer heard him trying to sell the bike. At first Arker declared he owned the bicycle but when escorted to the police station admitted that he had stolen it. The owner of the wheel in Redding was notified and came to Red Bluff for it. — April 13, 1923 Zack and Cassidy DeRego of Red Bluff, a son, Connor Don Derego, 6 pounds, 14 ounces and 19 inches long, born Monday, March 4, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, Calif. Welcoming baby are grandparents Augie and Julie DeRego of Red Bluff and John and Cindee Brewer of Cottonwood and great-grandparents Augie and Hazel DeRego and William and Patricia Spindler, both of Red Bluff, and Lydia Sabalow of Mt. Shasta. Now Serving Beer & Wine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prime Rib every Fri. & Sat. Best Homemade Pies in Town • Ice Cream Orders to go 731 Main St., 530.529.4012 open 7 days 5:30am-9pm Refresh your body mind and spirit Well-Being Faire & Sidewalk Sale May 11 10-4 Medical, Holistic, and Spiritual Practitioners Vendors-Crafters Downtown Red Bluff Sponsored by the Downtown Business Association