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addition, the Guardian ruled that Kingston has the right to consent to adoption as well as to
reasonable visitation, unless restricted by the court.
Juvenile Judge Andrew Valdez said he is not opposed to granting the girl‘s request to
become a member of the mainline Mormon church. ―If the girl wants to talk to missionaries,
what‘s the harm?‖ (Leon D‘Souza, AP in Casper Star-Tribune, Internet, 1/25/05)
Lord’s Resistance Army
Escapees Recount Life in Group
Ten young women abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda eight
years ago have returned to St. Mary‘s School to tell their stories at the annual school
ceremony memorializing the raid. They tell how they were each assigned to be wives of
rebel commanders, beaten, tortured, taught to kill, and made to believe that leader Joseph
Kony was a disciple of God, with supernatural power.
There was tension at the ceremony between one of the returnees, Charlotte Awino, and her
mother, Atyam, who had continued to campaign publicly against the Lord‘s Resistance Army
despite an offer to release her daughter if she desisted. Yet Atyam said: I don‘t have much
anger,‖ and she clearly wants to forget the experience. But the former top student no
longer wishes to become a doctor: ―I have seen too much to work in a hospital.‖ She now
also has two unplanned children and no way to independently support them.
Returnees undergo army debriefing and counseling at the Rachele Rehabilitation Center,
where they draw pictures of their horrible memories and become aware that they have been
victims despite the atrocities they were forced to commit. (Marc Lacey, New York Times,
Internet, 10/10/04)
Cease Fire
Representatives of the Uganda Government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
[known for kidnapping children and indoctrinating them to become soldiers who kill], have
agreed to sign a cease fire to end the 18-year-old conflict. (Alfred Waskie, New Vision,
Uganda, Internet, 12/31/04)
MOVE
Lawsuit Amidst Evolution of Radical Group
Jack Gilbride, father of murdered former MOVE member John Gilbride, Jr., has filed a
wrongful-death suit against his son‘s still unknown killer, thus meeting a two-year deadline
for the filing of such cases and making a future prosecution possible. John Gilbride was
killed a few hours before a planned visit with a son he fathered with Alberta Africa, the
matriarch of the radical anti-establishment group that had deadly confrontations with
Philadelphia police in the 1970s and 1980s.
The suit names Alberta Africa as a suspect in the crime — the County Prosecutor says only
that the murder investigation is ongoing — but she has strenuously denied any involvement,
saying: ―MOVE is having a hard time having people look at reality as opposed to
supposition.‖ (Frank Kummer and Stephen Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/28/04)
Recently, Tony and Lori Allen left MOVE after eight years‘ involvement and began to speak
of the shame they feel for what they did before rejecting the group. Once, they posted
Gilbride‘s parent‘s neighborhood with 1,200 flyers that falsely labeled the elderly couple
child molesters. The Allen‘s accounts of life in MOVE brought a chilling phone call from Sue
Africa, MOVE‘s ―minister of confrontation,‖ saying, ―You‘re a traitor. You‘re worse than John
Gilbride.‖
addition, the Guardian ruled that Kingston has the right to consent to adoption as well as to
reasonable visitation, unless restricted by the court.
Juvenile Judge Andrew Valdez said he is not opposed to granting the girl‘s request to
become a member of the mainline Mormon church. ―If the girl wants to talk to missionaries,
what‘s the harm?‖ (Leon D‘Souza, AP in Casper Star-Tribune, Internet, 1/25/05)
Lord’s Resistance Army
Escapees Recount Life in Group
Ten young women abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda eight
years ago have returned to St. Mary‘s School to tell their stories at the annual school
ceremony memorializing the raid. They tell how they were each assigned to be wives of
rebel commanders, beaten, tortured, taught to kill, and made to believe that leader Joseph
Kony was a disciple of God, with supernatural power.
There was tension at the ceremony between one of the returnees, Charlotte Awino, and her
mother, Atyam, who had continued to campaign publicly against the Lord‘s Resistance Army
despite an offer to release her daughter if she desisted. Yet Atyam said: I don‘t have much
anger,‖ and she clearly wants to forget the experience. But the former top student no
longer wishes to become a doctor: ―I have seen too much to work in a hospital.‖ She now
also has two unplanned children and no way to independently support them.
Returnees undergo army debriefing and counseling at the Rachele Rehabilitation Center,
where they draw pictures of their horrible memories and become aware that they have been
victims despite the atrocities they were forced to commit. (Marc Lacey, New York Times,
Internet, 10/10/04)
Cease Fire
Representatives of the Uganda Government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
[known for kidnapping children and indoctrinating them to become soldiers who kill], have
agreed to sign a cease fire to end the 18-year-old conflict. (Alfred Waskie, New Vision,
Uganda, Internet, 12/31/04)
MOVE
Lawsuit Amidst Evolution of Radical Group
Jack Gilbride, father of murdered former MOVE member John Gilbride, Jr., has filed a
wrongful-death suit against his son‘s still unknown killer, thus meeting a two-year deadline
for the filing of such cases and making a future prosecution possible. John Gilbride was
killed a few hours before a planned visit with a son he fathered with Alberta Africa, the
matriarch of the radical anti-establishment group that had deadly confrontations with
Philadelphia police in the 1970s and 1980s.
The suit names Alberta Africa as a suspect in the crime — the County Prosecutor says only
that the murder investigation is ongoing — but she has strenuously denied any involvement,
saying: ―MOVE is having a hard time having people look at reality as opposed to
supposition.‖ (Frank Kummer and Stephen Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/28/04)
Recently, Tony and Lori Allen left MOVE after eight years‘ involvement and began to speak
of the shame they feel for what they did before rejecting the group. Once, they posted
Gilbride‘s parent‘s neighborhood with 1,200 flyers that falsely labeled the elderly couple
child molesters. The Allen‘s accounts of life in MOVE brought a chilling phone call from Sue
Africa, MOVE‘s ―minister of confrontation,‖ saying, ―You‘re a traitor. You‘re worse than John
Gilbride.‖
