Child Abuse Case Study

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My client is innocent because she was giving Mae Mobley, daughter of Elizabeth Leefolt, her basics rights that any child should receive from someone who loves them. The basic rights that a child should receive include, that children need commitment, they need to bond with their parents and that children need to be encouraged as they grow to know that they belong. This is according to the ‘Open Home Foundation’, who is an expert Christian organisation that works towards all children, everywhere in the world, to have a family to belong to. (Quoted from http://www.ohfint.co.nz/).
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, as we have heard, Ms Clark was sitting in Mae Mobley’s room and as she was telling Mae that “you is kind, you is smart, you is important.” This is a reference back to children’s basic rights, telling them that they are important and that they belong. As Ms Clark was putting Mae Mobley down for a sleep, when my client said “I wish you were mine.” This is when Elizabeth Leefolt is standing outside the room, and listens into the conversation and takes this the wrong way. However, it was just a comment that my client had said, and her mother, who
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Yes, my client is a coloured women, but does colour really affect how your child is treated, and especially if you can’t and don’t take care of them yourself. Fortunately, due to caring hearted leaders, Martin Luther King Jr., other states in the US such as New York, have changed the law to reflect the fact that it is unfair towards different races in their cities. Imagine if you were living in a world where most of the people around you were a different race; imagine being told that if you were to try for custody of a white child a child that you could provide love and care and safety for, you would either be put in prison or even hung. Imagine being in this situation simply because you wanted to give an innocent young child what they really

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