Sinners and Saints

According to the Child Welfare League of America (www.cwla.org), an association of nearly 800 public and private nonprofit agencies, state and local CPS agencies received an estimated 3.3 million reports of abuse and neglect for 6 million children in 2005.  An estimated 899,000 of these reports were substantiated after follow-up investigation.

In 2005, approximately 149,234 children were physically abused, 83,607 were sexually abused and 1,371 died as a result of abuse or neglect.  The majority were under 4 years of age.  According to CWLA, many experts believe the number of abuse- and neglect-related deaths may be much higher than the official figures.

Learn startling and disturbing national and state facts on the CWLA Web site.  See how your state stacks up in this horrible fight.

www.cwla.org/advocacy/statefactsheets/statefactsheets08.htm 

www.cwla.org/advocacy/nationalfactsheet08.htm 

CWLA lists other Advocacy Organizations helping with this horrendous problem at

www.cwla.org/advocacy/advocacyresourcelinks.htm. 

The possibilities are staggering!

There are approximately 12,000,000 illegal immigrants in the U. S. according to the Pew Hispanic Center. That is nearly 1 out of every 26 people in the U. S. There were 7,200,000 undocumented employees in the U. S. in March 2005.  The penalty for hiring an illegal can result in one of the most severe and damaging effects to a small business.  In Arizona, for example, the employer-sanctions law will revoke the license of any company caught twice with undocumented workers knowingly on the payroll.  A business with multiple locations could face a shutdown of its entire operation if one undocumented employee is found at one location.  Wal-Mart was fined $11,000,000 because their cleaning contractors hired illegal workers.

This is a staggering, wide-spread, monumental, out-of-control problem! Phony records to convince an employer, such as a Social Security card, can be purchased for $50. The media reported in June of 2007 that the Social Security number of a young woman in California is being used by at least 81 people in 17 states to get work. The Social Security Administration was powerless to stop the practice, so they issued the young woman a new number. A 2005 report by the Federal Government Accountability Office cited that between 1985 and 2000 more than, believe it or not, 9,000,000 people got hired using Social Security number 000-00-0000.

This is a national epidemic over which a business can be destroyed.  For protection, a business must participate in The E-Verify program, formerly known as Basic Employment Verification Pilot (“Basic Pilot”), to determine employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.  It is administered jointly by the Department of Homeland Security through United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Social Security Administration. Visit the USCIS Web site: https://www.vis-dhs.com/EmployerRegistration.

Sinners and Saints and www.uscriminalrecordsagency.info, our affiliate, are not in any way connected with the Federal program.

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According to a 1997 study done by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Northeastern University, animal abusers are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against people and four times more likely to commit property crimes than are individuals without a history of animal abuse.

Other research has shown consistent patterns of animal cruelty among perpetrators of more common forms of violence, including child abuse, spouse abuse, and elder abuse. In fact, the American Psychiatric Association considers animal cruelty one of the diagnostic criteria of conduct disorder.

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