It's summer and the weather is perfect for lounging on the beach with something great to read. This week, I'm getting ready for some serious down time but still don't know what books to take with me. So, I've invited some of my favorite authors to come by and maybe they can help us ALL put our summer reading list together. It's hot outside, so let's take a refreshing dip in the LITERARY pool this week.
The crime news is hotter than the temperature these days and rumors are flying like kites in the breeze, so on the show this week, I talk with my favorite defense attorney David McGruder about the so-called “Cop Rape Case” involving two police officers who were acquitted of raping a young fashion executive DESPITE being convicted of offenses that resulted in ruining their police career and being kicked off the police force. This acquittal makes no sense AT ALL so David breaks it down for me!
The US Senate Special Committee on Aging recently held hearings on elder abuse. A 90-year old man testified that his step-son withheld food and medicine from him and his wife, verbally abused them and terrorized them so severely that they were virtually prisoners in their own home. Shockingly, the man testifying was well known actor Mickey Rooney and experts estimate that millions of elder Americans are victims of abuse and neglect every year--many, many, many of them mentally impaired and unable to speak up for themselves.
: In 2008, 47-year old Agnes Bermudez was accused of dousing her 32-year-old ex-boyfriend, William Salazar, with flammable liquid in a jealous rage and setting him--and the building--on fire. Three other tenants also died; and Bermudez, a beautiful woman, suffered disfiguring burns to her face and upper body.
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. We need to give young children the kind of information they need to protect themselves from sexual predators...while in school.
Knowing your rights if you're a crime victim saved one man more than $100,000 in medical bills. To commemorate Crime Victims Rights Week, which is April 10-16, Susan Bartelstone about Victim Compensation Programs--and listen good, because all 50 states have them.
Sexual violence has physically and emotionally scarred the lives of millions of victims and their families, friends and colleagues; touching all genders, ages, races and economic groups. In order to raise awareness about this scourge, encourage prevention iniatives and let survivors know what services are available to aid them, April has been declared National Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM).