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A Tale of Two Kids: Why CAC Matters

Posted by: cacjc / Nov 18, 2019 / Tags: abused children, Allegations of Child Maltreatment, Child Abuse Investigator, Child Abuse Prevention Month, Child Protection Worker, child sexual abuse, Children Advocacy Centers

A True Story by Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I want to tell you a story today of a child. A child that I know. She is not a child that had the benefit of receiving services through the Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC). But she is why I

Birthday Wishes: Believe a Child or Not?

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 19, 2016 / Tags: child sexual abuse, forensic interviews, offenders, reporting child abuse, Tammi Pitzen

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I have a birthday in April. I have no qualms about the number. I will be turning 47. 26 of those years have been spent working in one role or another in the field of child abuse. Wow! That equates to more

Male sexual abuse by a woman is not a rite of passage

Posted by: cacjc / May 6, 2015 / Tags: age of consent, child sexual abuse, female sexual offenders, impact of child abuse, male rite of passage, male victims child abuse, offenders, sexual assault

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I am saddened that in today’s world, with all the knowledge we have gained around child sexual assault, that we are still in a place where society blames the victim. Particularly if the victim is a teenaged boy and the perpetrator is

707 Victims of Child Abuse in Jackson County

Posted by: cacjc / Mar 13, 2015 / Tags: abused children, Child Abuse Prevention Month, child sexual abuse, Donate Now, invisible victims, Jackson County Oregon, reporting child abuse, Tammi Pitzen, volunteering

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County In preparation for April’s child abuse prevention and awareness activities, I have been looking at a lot of child abuse numbers . . . statistics etc. I do not believe that the numbers ever tell the full story. In Jackson County in

Stephen Collins: Why did no one make a report?

Posted by: cacjc / Oct 10, 2014 / Tags: 7th Heaven, abused children, celebrities, child sexual abuse, Hollywood, offenders, reporting child abuse, Stephen Collins

By Tammi Pitzen, Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County This morning started as most any other morning. I got to the office early before anyone was here. I went up to my office. Checked email. Checked voice mail. Everything was going well until I checked Facebook. Circulating was a story on Stephen

Judge’s words hurt victims

Posted by: cacjc / Aug 6, 2014 / Tags: 31 Day Sentence, Billings High School, child sexual abuse, Judge Baugh, Montana Supreme Court, offenders, Rambold

By Tammi Pitzen, Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I recently read about a judge in Montana being censored for some statements he made while handing out a sentence to a sex offender. This case has been so disturbing to me. Judge Baugh sent Rambold to prison for 31 days last

What about the throw away child?

Posted by: cacjc / Jul 3, 2014 / Tags: child prostitutes, Child sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, foster care system, invisible victims, organized crime, Portland Oregon, throw away children, victimless crime

By Tammi Pitzen, Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County Recently I spent time learning about child sex trafficking in the United States. Sex trafficking is the most common form of modern-day slavery. Estimates place the number of domestic and international sex trafficking victims in the millions. Most of the victims of sex

Viewing child pornography: A victimless crime?

Posted by: cacjc / May 21, 2014 / Tags: child sexual abuse, online porn, online pornography, pornographic websites, victimless crime, victimless crimes

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County One of my recent blog posts focused on the idea that viewing child pornography is not a victimless crime. I decided to add a part two because further explanation seemed to be needed. I think we can all agree that taking pictures

The shocking facts about child pornography

Posted by: cacjc / May 7, 2014 / Tags: adult websites, child sexual abuse, Good Magazine, Internet Watch Foundation, offenders, online porn, online pornography, pornographic websites, Rochester Institute of Technology

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center When most people think about child sexual abuse, they think of those children in which an adult has touched a child in an inappropriate way. But there are also non-touching forms of sexual abuse. In the age of fast moving technology, there are new victims

7 things I learned while dreaming of Hollywood

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 9, 2014 / Tags: abused children, child sexual abuse, Tammi Pitzen, volunteering

By Tammi Pitzen As a young child I always dreamed that I would do something great with my life. Not the “you do good work kind of thing”, but the grandiose Hollywood kind of thing. I was never sure what that would be — but was certain that it would happen. When I hit my

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