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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March 25, 197i The Child 1 Abuns.ers HOME FURNISHINGS Vmerieas Secret Crime Not a Secret Any More 1414 S. 6th West Outstanding performance, handsome component styling Deluxe Stereo Reduced to Deluxe Stereo Phonograph Component System with FMAMFM Stereo Tuner Until recently, child abuse was a secret crime in America which once belieed in the absolute parental right to discipline the young. Now kJsJ ascz , the parents of battered babies and maimed youngsters are being prosecuted. Who are the child abusers? :h This complete stereo component system will satis'y the perfectionist who wants exceptional performance. It features GE's deluxe automatic phono changer, plus a powerful FMAM FM stereo tuner. Two 61 2 " high sensitivity speakers in closed box speaker chambers insure good reproduction of both high and low tones 40 Watts Peak Music Power 20 Watts EIA Music Power) drive even the loudest musical passages. o ClVi Sin o ' Go First Cabin (I! vf 0 : ug . . . "fti pci 1 1 wjjgVr Go Classified By John V! Wheeler, Associated She cried. It wasnt a whisper or a soft sobbing. It was a full blown wail that wound up like an air raid siren. Whether she was hungry) grumpy or wet, no one will even know. After all the terror and pain that followed, it didn't seem to matter much what it was Alice was trying to say. Her mother, already pregnant with her second child, remembered lying ir, bed and beginning to hate. She hated Alice for her crying and herself for her hate. As the cries from the nursery crossed that screams. shrill line into Alices mother also crossed a line in her mmd. Boiled Water First she went to the kitchen assuming, she said later, that the baby was hungry. She plopped a bottle into a sauce pan filled with water and turned the flame on full. After the water had come to a boil, she tested the formula on her forearm to make sure it wasnt too hot But she wasn't sure of this, and that didnt really matter either. Because what Alice's mother did was set the bottle aside on a counter and walked into the nursery with the pan of scaldmg water. She stood over the crib and poured the water on Alice, the child she had so wanted through desperately three barren years of marriage. screams changed, becoming higher, louder, more Her ather roused urgent himself, went into the nursery Alices and found his critically burned child writhing in her crib Nearby was his wife, pan held limply at her side, eyes blank. Bed clothing kept enough of the scalding water from "There reaching Alices skin that she survived to jom a sad army of children attacked and grievously hurt by tneir parents eacn year m America. No definitive national statistics exist for this dark side of son suffered first and second degree burns accidentally in the bath tub. When doctors found the boy also suffered from frostbite, the district attorneys office was called American family life, but many experts believe at least 65,000 children are seriously abused each year by adult attacks. About 25 percent are said to be seriously, sometimes permanently, injured. Perhaps 6,000 are killed. Neighbors in the apartment budding called police to break up a famdy fignt. The cause: The mother w;as hysterically angry because the father had Dr. Richard Gladstone, a psychiatrist, calls such harsh one 'of the physical abuse perversions of the human drive. Doctors, emergency hospital staff members, social workers and judges catalog a gnm variety of abuse methods: beating both with hands and weapons, kicking, torture, strangling, incest, rape, other sexual abuses, suffocation, drowning, shootmg, stabbing, scaldmg. burning, poisoning, dismemberment, starving, imand prisonment, freezing crushing Violent, Sadistic There is no act too violent or sadistic that has not been earned on some child, somewhere, an intern in a childrens ward said. Robert, 9, was admitted to the emergency ward with second and third degree burns to both hands. An accident, his father said at first Later it was discovered Roberts hands were thrust over gas stove flames as punishment for stealing money. Burns, Frostbite Lewis parents said is no act too violent or sadistic that has not been carried out on some child, somewhere, an intern warns. their year-ol- d Garden moving in. Forty-eigHomes are nearing completion. e A lake is complete. Over 750,000 cubic yards of earth were used to mould the golf course. Over three years of endless planning and preparation is beginning to show. But this is only the the New Town will beginning continue to grow offering residents the finest recreation living opportunities in Utah. ... daughter m repeat- . ed sexual attacks. Debbie, V2, opened the front door to a man her father disliked. The punishment, a severe beating with an iron bar that dislocated one of the girls hands and left severe bruises and lacerations on her back and legs. No, the father told police, he did not consider the pumshrnent excessive in view of the offense. D Some physicians and psychiatrists consider a third or more as senous chdd abusers to be psychotic, or seriously ill mentally. Many other experts say the overwhelming number are suffering only from neuroses. These are a lesser category of mental problems which nearly all hu- f t ly? ' 'tvWsv. sis v. jfc- $ golfing skill. No crowding or congestion. Piay golf at your convenience at home. ass' c Homes L fr1 tennis courts, beach and sailboat marina, dining and other social and recreation facilities. As a resident o' Stansbury Park you will automatically become a member of the Stansburv Park Recreation Association and all this will be ours to enjoy for a small monthlv fee. Grow With Us Stansbury Park is glowing. Just' starting to show what the New Tow'o e inv ite vou out to is all about watch us grejw and see, where w'ere going look at the model homes . . 'he unique recreation facilities and Garden Homes V Stansbury' Park Garden Hornes offer the convenience and prestige of condominium living at a moderate price. Priced as low as $19,990 for a two bedroom home with a built-i- n kitchen and garage. Garden Homes make renting obsolete Only $1,000 down and $169 a month covers the principal, interest, insurance and taxes atPAVo inter-o- st loan. A on a home is also available tor those with larger families Built e m units, forty-eigh- t Guidon Homes are under construction right now and the first families will be moving in soon. Mrs. Gertrude Bacon, executive directors of Parents Anonymous in New York City, summed up the view voiced in interviews with many experts in the field- selling Convder the advantages ot growing with a New Town and becoming a part of Stansbimy Park. thiee-bedroo- - four-hom- We are all potential abusers. There are many forms of abuse physical, verbal, emotional and sexual Can any parent honestly say he has never fit into any of these categories. Weve all been there The man serving 10 years for it could crippling his child be any of us. 1 ' o d Column v 'Vi 4 30-ye- ar mans experience to some extent. What society would call men and women reach a moment of rage too powerful to be bottled up and anger rules the mind for violence-filleminutes. much like Alcoholics Anonymous and one credo is to go from ore day to the next without striking my child included have Members bankers, welfare mothers and people from all races and all major religions These parents realize they have crossed the line between discipline and Ifl p Stansbury Park has taken the same care with home designs as with masterplanning and develooing this growing New Town. There are more than 20 plans available, designed by nationally recognized architects, with two to four bedrooms in a variety of architectural styles. Five models are on display right now. Prices begin as low as $26,700. That's only $2700 dow'n and $214 a month including principal, interest, interinsurance and taxes, at 814 loan. Or if you est on a wish, you can build from your own plans. t.pyt, Mental Problems Parents Anonymous Parents Anonymous chapters help parents who cannot stop abusing their children It operates without help - 5 man-mad- severely injured their- See Page 1 tliAk'Ul Stansbury park is beginning to emerge as a New Town. Mountains of earth have been moved shaping homesites and building roads. Miles and miles of utility pipe and wires have been laid underground. Roads are paved. Curb and gutter line streets. More and more homes are being built. First residents are d Donna, 43 days old, was dead when she got to the hospital. A fall from her crib the mother claimed. An autopsy showed extensive multiple tortures of the skull, brain and other hemorrhaging, damage. Mother charged with murder. 9 9 From Concept to New Town Writer In those final hours of a wintry might, Alice made a decision deep in her mmd that nearly cost her life. O lOWfl growing Press Sailing Lake Golf Course stansburv Park Goll course is becoming one ot the finest in the slate. list nine holes have been challeng- I - V r, v V t a vear man-mad- 364-271- e Stansbury Park Box Route Stansburv Park, Country Club he back nine vv.ll be plavable this summe r Twenty lakes (si) sandlraps and 1200 specially planted trees will test vour g golte rs 6 Tor further information, call or mail the attached coupon. We will promptlv send you an information p.tr ket and contac t you to set up an appointment to visit Mar'sburv Paik it vou desire lake with a six mile shoreline has been carved into the Stansbury Paik landscape. Covering an area as large as ten downtown nly blocks, the lake offers sailing and fishing for rosiclen's Homesite-ar- e available with lake frontage njov a private boat dock in your own backyard A I it in Utaho407t would like to receive more information on Stan-bur- y Parks I Construction ot the Stansbury Park Country ( lub was begun December ot 1972, and is scheduled for com plelion this summer The Golf Pro Shop petition will be completed md revdv tor spring phv The club will mature a vear round AAlJ sized pool with an inilated air st.uc-tui- covering 1W-- winter Also a children's pool, exercise rooms, II Garden Homes Homes Recreation ... Name ddic e Facilities x . City tale Iltone . ....... . |
