Category: Judge Steven Whitmire

With 6 Other States, Alabama Doesn’t Protect Rape Victim Moms and Their Children, by Rebecca Kiessling

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Rebecca Kiessling

Alabama urgently needs to pass The Rape Survivor Child Custody Act, to terminate the parental rights of rapists and to suspend any custody or visitation. Last week, a rape survivor mom from our network, J.C., published her story in our Save The 1 blog, “From Age 13, My Uncle Raped and Impregnated Me, But The […]

From Age 13, My Uncle Raped and Impregnated Me, But The Judge Said It’s Irrelevant, by J.C.

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Rebecca Kiessling

It was Y2K New Year’s Eve the night my uncle first began making advances toward me. I was 12 years old and he was 19, married, with a 2 year old son. My mom allowed his family to move in with us, and inexplicably moved them into my bedroom, since my three sisters were already sharing […]