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Show 2 Vernal Express Wednesday, September 14, 1994 1 JMftSfMI!, byackWaliht Poison Control Report The Utah Poison Control Center received 38,005 calls during 1993, according to the just released annu al report. Over 85 percent of the calls originated from a private residence. Seventy-seven percent of the calls were in response to a poisoning exposure. In the U.S. a child is poisoned every 30 seconds. Children six years old and younger continue to be considered an "at risk" age group with 18,168 unin-,. tentional general poisoning exposures in Utah last year. In Uintah County during 1993 there were 308 poisoning poi-soning exposures. Duchesne County had 292 and Daggett County 8 exposures. Ashley Valley Medical Center treated 60 poisoning exposures and Duchesne County Hospital 33. There were 14 deaths in 1993 caused by poisoning exposure. The most frequent substance was analgesics, anal-gesics, followed by household cleaning agents, cosmetics cos-metics and personal care products, colds and cough preparations, bites and envenomations, plants, and antimicrobials. The Utah Poison Control Center is a 24-hour, seven days a week, emergency telephone service. Each call is answered by a specialist in poison information a pharmacist, nurse or doctor. If a poisoning does occur it is important that the right action is immediately taken. Utah Poison Control Center advises the following procedure: Remain calm. If the patient is unconscious, having convulsions or difficulty breathing, call 9-1-1. Otherwise call the Poison Control Center at 1- 800-456-7707 (Outside Salt Lake Valley and Utah only) or your doctor. Be ready with the following information when calling call-ing the poison center or your doctor: How the victim is feeling or acting right now. Age and weight of the person. The namedescription of medicine, product or plant. (Have the container with you.) The amount taken. When it happened. To be on the safe side a babysitter should be given the following instructions in case a poisoning occurs: Place the phone number of poison control and family doctor near the telephone. Have nearby the name and telephone number of a responsible adult, in the case of an emergency. Do not leave children alone or unattended. Teach children to ask you first before putting anything any-thing in their mouth. Never call medicine "candy." Keep a bottle of Ipecac Syrup on hand. Make sure you get permission from the parents to use it. Use it only under instructions from the Poison Control Center or your doctor. The Utah Poison Control Center is a cooperative effort of the Utah Department of Health, University Hospital and the University of Utah. Utah is fortunate to have a Poison Control Center. When poisoning can be treated at home over the phone it saves suffering, time, money and lives. Malm Street at 'wSzjx IIP'-vteX CZPEsI g Tj Viui o V For News Items Call the Express at 789-3511 PUBLIC FORUM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What is your opinion? The Express welcomes letters from its readers concerning any subject pertinent to the Uintah Basin. There are no restrictions as to contents, if not libelous or vindictive and of reasonable length (two typewritten double spaced pages). Letters must be submitted submit-ted exclusively to the Express and bear the writer's full name, signature, signa-ture, phone number and address. The name or names of those submitting submit-ting letters must appear on all published letters. All letters are subject to condensation. Letters express the opinion of the writer and are not necessarily the opinion of the Express Editor. Once a victim, always a victim Dear Editor, A couple of weeks ago I was reading in the newspaper about two individual), individ-ual), who had sexually abused young children. I noticed that their consequence conse-quence for such an set was quite weak. One man actually got off with a cnicncc of probation. 1 could not believe it Since then I have talked with friends who have had similar experiences in which the perpetrator was freed of any major discipline. Listening to these people and their experiences experi-ences sickened me. To think that our justice system has regressed to the extreme of becoming the victimiier. t used to think thai justice was the result in conquest of truth for the violation vio-lation of moral and ethical infractions as related to the values of society. I mas told as boy thai the punishment should fit the crime. I always thought thai truth w as truth. If a man is guilty and has confessed to a crime, then he vboulJ be punished justly for that crime. Yet, the criminal is able to obtain an attorney that can alter the concept of truth in order to reduce the consequence conse-quence or free them completely from any responsibility. They do this with full knowledge of their client's guilt I find this a degrading career position when a man can sell hit integrity because of an ethical oath taken in his flirt. m wnimg this letter in behalf of (he innocent children (hat have been HimI physically and sexually and then required to participate in system ihst fortes them to rok exposing themselves to the public, the courts and to mihkst deleft U)efs. This expmwe has a further damaging effect on emt(ial aftd physical well being, Let m five m example, A young child is sexually molested Amidst m4 fear, fctftkmfttdfl and guiH (he child exposes the perpetrator, TW perpetrator admits to the mm and watemenu are drafted. The perpe ifwuursf iht He (ce$ jail ume Hire i lawyer, or it appointed a .-4 ths ttuwuflg creature begins to w-ettt His magc, He pm4fwn the preliminary Hearing several limes, while (he victim fwty, Kami and afraid for (hi! twtihle experience to (he be fin iii&l, Tta U)tr priei the trial Hii client can enroll l counseling, h fbs N trt iherm the wfcal i fid buy Hii tlicol Has been 4-ai- this Mif period. The 4fr is allowed copy of (he Victim! M o victim as cfy of tihe prpetrori tiairmew',, ht rtf! i d rgbf to priy, TV (M Hppiis ii fe Bi! vmrtf tiiiM Has to gt on the t94, li tyv fM'iic, t4 trnt perpetrator and btig tJwtffe! afit him. It's his right. Well, if the child doesn't want to take the stand, then there can be a plea-bargain. If some of the charges are dropped, then maybe this child won't have to take the stand. The victim's rights are again deprived while the criminal continues to gain. Hopefully, the victim will not be able to take the pressure and will drop the whole thing. Don't think this doesn't often happen, especially in the case of battered women. If the victim has the courage to go on, then he faces a full blown trial in which he is again required to take the stand. The lawyer, with much experience experi-ence under his belt and maturity, proceeds to hammer the poor inexperienced inexperi-enced child, making him feel further guilt, embarrassment, and fear as he tries to prove that it was because of this poor young child that his adult overpowering male client was forced into this sexual encounter. When all is said and done, the culprit, facing a 3 to IS year sentence, is let off with probation because his is a good citizen and has not had any traffic tickets. If a good citizen had planned and executed a murder, it is doubtful this would happen. Is a person that has knowingly planning and executed the molestation of a child any different Hasn't he just destroyed and killed the person that used to be this child. Will this person ever he the same again? Is this not murder? I am making this statement for the children and for the community, t hope the justice system will someday render punishment that fits the crime in regard to physical and sexual abuse. After the victim has been re-victimized again and again by the justice system, who pays the penally for this suffering? Nobody. They get a pay check. CHRIS MIKES ELL Vernal Fights at school Dear Editor, When I read the letter in your paper from Chrisha Evans it brought to mind my son's experience of the violence in the Vernal schools. My son was frequently beaten when attending Ashley Elementary until I taught him how to fight dirty. Then I called the school principal and told him my son had instructions to defend himself and he wasn't to be punished. I was tired of him coming home having been thrown to the ground and kicked repeatedly, or of trying to save his teeth when he was shoved into the back of the bus seats or walls at school. Never was a fight stopped by a teacher or principal, even when it was happening less than 20 feet away. However, once he started sixth grade at the middle school, it began again. As a single divorced parent, I knew raising my son in this town would be difficult but I figured Vernal would be better than a larger city. Well, he wasn't murdered or kidnapped, so it was safer. But the violence and intolerance intol-erance of children in this town is hideous. The only place they could have learned such intolerance must be in their own homes. Attacked physically and verbally, it is no wonder he hated riding a school bus and attending school here. I have a great deal of sympathy for the 8th grader who writes to the paper to apologize for defending himself. My son is an 8th grader as well. But I will not allow him to attend school in this school district I am returning to Logan again this year and he will attend school in Logan. Not only is violence vio-lence not tolerated in their schools, but each student is considered capable of learning and their philosophy is "We are here to leach." and they do. My son, for the first time in his education, is doing very well. I will never willingly will-ingly bring my son back into the education system here. As for the $150 fine the student defending himself may have to pay, shame on you. How much is the instigator going to pay? Where is the apology apol-ogy from the juvenile who attacked him? It appears to me that it is "business "busi-ness as usual" in the schools. Harassment and being attacked are just status quo. So much for fairness, honor and decency. LOUISE D.SAINSBURY Vernal City stiffens penalties by Kathleen Irving Staff Writer Vernal City it letting lough on abatement of nuisances. No more junker can allowed. No patsjve acceptance of perpetually uncut weed patches. No yielding to the owners of unsightly, dangerous, tumble-down buildings. The city it sending a new message: mes-sage: clean up, fix up, Haul away, (ear down or face citation! and criminal prosecution, City Council member voted unaftimnudy lad Wednesday to 1 criminal tli B rra4emeartr penalty, rartwr than Cwrwrt tint prnajttet, frf nuisance infraction The resided ordinal, wbkh alt names city building Inspector Chuck Cunningham as an enforcement enforce-ment officer, lake effect thif week. City Manager Ken Ba told Use council the new ordinance provisions pro-visions would undoubtedly be offensive to mc city resident, "But we need to get (heir acntio somehow" He . "The cod process is jud r4 gating us (be results we want Batten said r ooe witd maikaily be Cited and reefed to appear ill Court The ci'y's fio4 Mep tevit. Compliance Has al ass be U m4 s4ioi fwtkes t offending pf efy own i4if ttm to tmt re odwfwoe tlmiftie Wc d'l want to give resident the imprtMnfl the city is unfwf giving, giv-ing, laid BasKtl. 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