Stop Child Abuse in Louisiana

10/16/2023

Shocking to watch - real people, real stories!

Fast forward to the one hour and forty-eight minute mark to see the truth behind Louisiana’s Department of Children and Family Services. They are truly a disgusting agency that our tax dollars are pouring in to, yet our children are not receiving ANY help. Often times when DCFS gets involved with investigating child abuse, they make matters much worse for the parent trying to protect their child and much easier for the predator abusing the child.

10/16/2023

Very alarming read. Very few of our political officials that are running for office mention our children, their lack of well being, and their plan to help our youth. How will our state ever improve if our political officials constantly forget its youth?

Children in Louisiana are also more likely to be a homicide victim than in any other state.

09/18/2023

We are literally the worst state to raise children in.

There is an association named Ombuds that is VITAL to keeping our state government accountable. Ombuds provides a check on government activity in the interests of the citizen and to oversee the investigation of complaints of improper government activity against the citizen. Louisiana does whatever it can to keep its citizens from keeping it accountable.

08/08/2023

If you or someone you know that has a child who was sexually abused and the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office knew of the abuse and did nothing, please email [email protected] or reach out via Facebook. All names will remain confidential. It is time we take a stand against a Sheriff's Office that has failed our children over and over for years.

08/08/2023

Since false allegations are so uncommon, why does law enforcement refuse to rely on our children? Why is law enforcement relying on the predator leaving behind evidence instead of the cries for help from our children? Here in Louisiana, particularly in St. Tammany Parish, it seems as though the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office is more concerned about the rights of child predators and not the safety of our children.

08/05/2023

Gov. John Bel Edwards - Louisiana leads the United States in child deaths by assault. Our state average is MORE THAN DOUBLE the national average. Louisiana’s law enforcement do not take reports of physical abuse and sexual abuse to children seriously enough, unless the predator leaves physical evidence behind. Clearly our officials have the bar for conviction set too low when it comes to child predators. We as a community must hold law enforcement and our officials accountable for failing to protect our children. THE FIGHT STARTS NOW!

08/04/2023

08/04/2023

The courage it takes for a child to tell someone about sexual abuse should be good enough to make it stop! As our state's citizens, we need to hold Louisiana government, especially law enforcement, accountable for refusing to listen to the cries of help from our children!

08/04/2023

Louisiana Law on molestation is written as follows:

§81.2. Molestation of a juvenile or a person with a physical or mental disability
A.(1) Molestation of a juvenile is the commission by anyone over the age of seventeen of any lewd or lascivious act upon the person or in the presence of any child under the age of seventeen, where there is an age difference of greater than two years between the two persons, with the intention of arousing or gratifying the sexual desires of either person, by the use of force, violence, duress, menace, psychological intimidation, threat of great bodily harm, or by the use of influence by virtue of a position of control or supervision over the juvenile. Lack of knowledge of the juvenile's age shall not be a defense.

Typically, there is no physical evidence left behind when a child is molested. Since DCFS and our law enforcement has the bar for child sexual abuse convictions set on physical evidence or it is not punishable by law - why is molestation even written in Louisiana Law? Why must our children endure abuse to the point where physical evidence is found in order for law enforcement to hold abusers accountable? Why are the cries for help from a child not loud enough for law enforcement to hear?

Children telling their stories, no matter what age, should be good enough for law enforcement! Because law enforcement only arrests when physical evidence is present, predators are free to do and touch any child in any way they please, so as long the child is not left with physical evidence, pregnancy, or a STI.

08/04/2023

Statically speaking, almost 60% of cases the Children Advocacy Center handles is child sexual abuse. Of that 60%, an alarming 77% of the abusers are the child's parents. If DCFS, child advocacy centers, and our law enforcement are paid to investigate and prosecute child sexual abuse, why is the financial burden of civil proceedings falling on the shoulders of a caretaker who should be solely focused on getting the the abused child the help they will need in order to heal?

08/04/2023

We are dedicated to changing Louisiana's policies in order to end the sexual abuse of children in our state. Currently, in order for the perpetrator to be held accountable for their crime, there must be physical evidence left behind. Whether it is the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, no organization is willing to move forward to protect children without physical evidence.

As a state, we must ask ourselves if this is a proper standard? What happens if the child is molested? What happens if the child is exposed to things of sexual nature? Unfortunately, as the policy stands, nothing will happen. DCFS and law enforcement stand to the side while the child's caretaker is forced to pay for lengthy civil court proceedings in order to stop the sexual abuse of the child.

If the financial responsibility falls on the caretaker to protect the sexually abused child - what is the point of DCFS? What is the point of a special victims unit within law enforcement? Why are our Sheriffs, police agencies, state representatives, and our governor turning their back on our children?

It is time they are held accountable for many years of failing our state's children. It is time we elect individuals who are willing to do what it takes to protect our children.