Notes on Palm Bay Woman.

NOTES:

25 yr. old woman, Michelle Taylore, has a 4 week old son.

she got arrested, wed. 10, 2008; after taking son to hopital for spiral fracture in right leg.. detectives say caused by abuse!

woman had 3 other children.

charged for child abuse, making inconsistent statements;
blaming injury on 20-month old daughter.

Taylors children were taken into custody, and she was arrested.

Tampa Fl Response

My thoughts toward that aricle I just read was amazed. I think it is very great that people are willing to do something like that, and help people, whether they are being abused or veterans. I know the veterans had nothing to do with child abuse. But I thought it kind of went with the whole thing. And I just think it's really great that thouse people were able to and wanted too make things better, and be able to help children of any age. I also thought it was great how they got people from anywhere they would need to go to be under that same roof, for scared and traumatized children that were too scared to leave the house.

News Centers Give Shelter, Comfort in Trying Times. (Tampa, Fl)

Notes:

Mary Lee Farrior & Sara Romeo (the two women who made Tampa a safer place.)
with huge effort, and dedication they put together two institutions; at
MAry Lee's House, protection and advocacy for abused children.
Athena House, living center for homeless female veterans.

wihtout them; no institutions.
without community; no time, money, resources;

Athena House: home of 16 female veterans, largest in Southeast. Shelter, former Ybor City boarding house, served male soldiers from WW2.

Romeo; instrumental in saving historic structure from the wrecking ball when stood in way of Interstate 4 wideneing project. - building was put up for bids, Tapa Crossroads won. Everything id newly renovated and furnished home donated.

woman that live there= roof over heads, access to help veteran-related issues; post-traumatic stress.

WEst Tampa; Mary Lee's HOuse operated as state-of-the are center for children that have suffered abuse. $6 million, 30,000-square-foot center, house all agenencies who work to rescue kids form abuse situations.

MAry Lee's House- gather agencies that deal with ^^^ under 1 roof: law enforcement, state attorney's and public defender's offices, Fl Dept. of Children & Families, USF DEpt. of Pediactrics and communtiy mental health organizations.

This was done, to prevent children having to to all these scary places, instead going to "cheerful" Mary Lee's House: everything designed for kids, right down to tiny interview charis and medical exam rooms.

goal: bring all groups togeher-promote collaboration benefit children.

Mary Lee Farrior- son Rex Farrior III- executive directer Peg Reese- traveld Fl studied children's advocacy centers across US to make sure Mary Lee's House designed to use best practices in working w/ traumatized children.

"The news these days is rarely happy," homeless veterans, abused children. 2 developments offer hope to show "even the worst of times can bring out the best in people."

brittany's response

Good job kianna, the green is kind of hard to stare at haha. It is a hard topic to research but it is also really important And yeah I too wonder why people would hurt their kids or a stranger hurt someone but no one will ever really know why. The most people can do is find theories and ask questions about why they abuse their child. But sense we all have different minds and different ways of doing things no one will get the same answer twice.

Jakes response

Your blogged looked nice. Child abuse is a horrible thing. However, people need to learn about it an be educated about it so something can be done about it. You picked a good topic. Why did you pick this topic?

Matt's response

I thought your blog was pretty good and the font and font color was easy to read. You should be able to find a lot of information because there are always children being abused. I think also that it would be hard to look at or to read about all the children being abused.

Ashley's Response

Hello Kiannaaa! I think that your topic would be a very interesting one to research. I think it would be cool for you to interview someone who has seen child abuse or someone who was abused and would be willing to share there experience with you. That may be hard to do or hard to find someone who would do that, but it would be interesting to see what they had to say about the situation and why they think they are being abused. I'm sure there are many websites to research it on but I do not know of any really good ones. There may be some where they put reports online about certain cases that there have been. I have seen that before, not necessarily on child abuse, but there are about other things. That may be interesting for people. I also like your background and the pictures. Its soo prettty! Well I think you are doing a great job and you hope you will be lucky in finding your research.

Hilary's Response

Your blog on child abuse was really good and it seemed like you have a great interest in researching this topic. I always wonder the same thing about why people abuse children and unlike you, I have seen it happen before. It is scary and something I wish I had never seen. But as I was reading through your blog I noticed a couple mistakes in paragraph two or three. Other than that your blog was really good. I don't recommend any websites or anything like that because I am sure you can find something on child abuse very easily.

Jessica's response

I think that you chose a good topic, you seem very interested in learning more. I researched child abuse for my I-search last year, and i found out a lot. There were a lot of different web sites on it. It's really sad how current child abuse is! By you researching child abuse, you will find that a lot of it has to do with anger issues, and maybe even the abusers past. Child abuse doesn't seem so bad; just because you don't see it on t.v. all the time; but in reality a lot of it isn't being reported. I hope you find all the research you need for this topic! Also, you did very good with your spelling, I don't think you made any errors! (:

5 Paragraph Essay

For starters, I decided to do my I Search on Child Abuse. I chose this topic because it interested me. Not that children being abused is exciting to me, by any means. It's just that when I hear about kids getting abused by their parents or guardians, or even a stranger, it shocks me. I guess the reason I chose this topic was so maybe I could see why parents would do that do their own children, or anybody would abuse such an Innocent child.


Unfortunately, child abuse is a very current topic. There are articles beyond articles on different children from everywhere getting abused. In Proquest, when I did research last week, there were pages of child abuse in the past two days. And in google news, as I just looked, there were tons of pages. There is just always something coming up about child abuse. I think this topic is so current because so many people have children at such young ages, and sadly, a lot of them do drugs. I believe that drugs or alcohol, being high or drunk, could have a big part child abuse, as well as anger issues. I really don't know why people abuse children, I have never been in the situation myself or seen it.


As I researched last week, I found that there were pages of different articles, in just two days. And as I just looked in google news, once again were pages and pages of links and articles that show how much young people are being abused by sometimes their own parents, and sometimes just by strangers.


I think that Child Abuse is suitability for ongoing research because it seems like it's always happening. Maybe not too too much on the television news, and maybe not so much here, as much other places, but there is always some issue with child abuse.


Giving that I chose child abuse for my topic, I don't think it should it be too challenging, because there are a lot of places where I could go to find articles from the day before, and sometimes even that same day you are researching it. But then again, it could also be very challenging because of all the information, it may end up being overwhelming.