Corporal Punishment

Woman Says Ex-Boyfriend Shot Her Twice After Breakup (NBC 11 Bay Area)

16 May 2008

A San Leandro woman breaks down in tears on the witness stand in Oakland Thursday as she testifies that her ex-boyfriend shot her twice.

Foster mother gets 2nd chance (Miami Herald)

16 May 2008

Florida child-welfare administrators must relicense a Miami-area foster home in which a woman was accused of abusing an adopted foster child and then surrendered the child back to the state, an appeals court has ruled.

Judges union is against corporal punishment law (The Prague Post)

15 May 2008

(Updated May 14, 2008) The Czech judges union has spoken out against a law on corporal punishment of children being proposed by Czech Human Rights Minister Džamila Stehlíková, Denik.cz reports.