SICK WORLD: Man Accused Of Impregnating 10-Year-Old

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Man Accused Of Impregnating 10-Year-Old
UPDATED: 12:20 pm PDT June 30, 2005
by KIROTV.com.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- A man who is believed to have gotten a 10-year-old girl pregnant has been charged with first-degree child rape.

Jeremy Daniel Cockerham, 28, of east Bremerton, pleaded innocent Tuesday in Kitsap County Superior Court and remained in jail with bail set at $250,000. His trial was set for mid-August.

Cockerham is the girl's stepfather, officials told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

According to documents filed by prosecutors in court, police were alerted in March by state Child Protective Services workers who learned that the girl was pregnant. She initially told detectives she was impregnated by a 10-year-old boy, but police Sgt. Kevin Crane says investigators never believed that account.

"We investigated that and we determined with a high probability that that wasn't even possible," Crane said.

Last month the girl gave birth, and DNA tests from a laboratory in North Carolina indicated with a 99.99 percent probability Cockerham is the father and ruled out the boy, who also was tested, police said. Further DNA tests at a state crime laboratory are pending.

The girl, now 11, is living with the baby boy and her mother.

[joasia]

Ten years old? Is there a gynocologist in the house? I find this a little too bizarre. Don't believe everything you read, in the media, my friend.

[尼古拉前执事]

Again, this was reported by the AP which is very reputable. Unfortunately due to hormones in many meats and the youth of today being introduced to inappropriate material so soon, puberty is happening at a much younger age than in the past. There has been a few sad stories like this unfortunately.

[joasia]

Niko signomi,

Don't think that I am arguing with you. But, I do need to ask...do you have the official reports that state that these things in meat and such are causing girls to start menstration 2 years earlier on a broader scale?

From what I've read about the toxins in our food, it pretty much causes cancer and other illnesses, but it does not cause a girl to menstrate 2 years before the natural time. Ten years old is very undeveloped and therefore must still follow a certain natural course.

I don't believe in trusting the media to tell me what everything is all about. Think about it...so many people question whether Christ is really God...IMAGINE! And other's will say...ya, that's a good question. But, when the newspapers or CNN says something...then someone who questions it will be told....Well it's the AP that said it and they are reputable. So you trust in what a bunch of men in blue clothes tells you and you want me to just digest it as truth. Well, I don't, because they are just mere men of the world and they can fabricate truths. I have every right to say that I don't believe in what mere men say, but perhaps it will offend you.

Do not believe everything you read in the media. If man considers it alright to question God, then why should I not be allowed to question mere men of the world?

[尼古拉前执事]

Yes I have seen the reports. I will try to find them for you.

http://fact.on.ca/news/news0012/nt001224.htm

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Epidemic of Early Puberty Hitting U.S. Girls - "TIME", Oct. 30. 2000

In retrospect, pediatricians and psychologists say, there have been hints for the past decade or so that something strange was going on. But it wasn't until 1997, when Marcia Herman-Giddens, now an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, published a now-famous paper in the journal Pediatrics.

Chemical pollution in the food chain is being investigated now - specifically, DDE, a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT, and PCBs, once used as flame retardants in electrical equipment. Both chemicals mimic hormones that play a key role in the development of the reproductive system. Both chemicals are ubiquitous in the environment, and they persist in the body for years after exposure, says Dr. Walter Rogan, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. For that reason, he chose PCBs and DDE for one of the very few large, long-term studies of chemical exposure and puberty in humans. Rogan and his colleagues began with some 600 pregnant women, measuring concentrations of the chemicals in their bodies. When their babies were born, the researchers then measured levels in the mothers' breast milk. Finally, the team monitored the children as they grew and entered puberty.The most prominent effect was that boys exposed to DDE and girls exposed to PCBs were heavier than their unexposed peers at age 14. The study also noted an intriguing fact: girls with high prenatal PCB exposure tended to hit the first stages of puberty a bit earlier than others.

Other chemicals being investigated are compounds used to make plastics. One is bisphenol A, or BPA. Like DDE and PCBs, it is a chemical cousin of estrogen and has been shown to affect the reproductive systems of lab mice. Another category of plastics ingredients, phthalates, may play a role in an epidemic of very early puberty in Puerto Rico, with girls as young as 2 growing breasts and pubic hair [ my emphasis ]. A study published last month suggests that a possible culprit could be phthalates, which are used, among other things, to make plastics flexible.

Doctors say early development has become too widespread to be treated as a medical aberration. In the past, girls who developed breasts before age 8 were often given hormone therapy to slow things down. But in a report being prepared for the Pediatric Endocrine Society, Kaplowitz and co-author Dr. Sharon Oberfield of Columbia University argue that most girls between 6 and 8 who develop breasts or pubic hair should be reclassified as normal and left untreated. "Three-, four- and five-year-old girls should still be managed aggressively," he says.

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Coming of Age in America (Much Too Soon)

by Linda Folden Palmer, DC

Reprinted from Dynamic Chiropractic
May, 1999

Girls in the U.S. and other industrialized nations are now reaching puberty at drastically earlier ages.1 However, Hispanic-American girls don't experience this early puberty to the extent that many other Americans do, reported Mary Wolf,MD, at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in April, 1999 in Philadelphia.2

Two factors proven responsible for precocious puberty are detached parenting3 and consumption of cow's milk. As a whole, Hispanic parents tend to protect their young from both of these debilitating influences. Children who reach puberty and menarche early have adult sexual feelings they don't understand, which then leads to increased teen pregnancy and venereal disease. There is also a greatly increased risk of reproductive cancers, including breast cancer.4

When an infant is raised with natural feeding, plenty of body contact and a high level of affectionate response, strong attachment bonds are developed.5 According to attachment researchers, the consequences of this parenting style are fewer behavior problems and mental disorders, less social misconduct, a greater ability to form lasting adult relationships, and improved overall health.6 In contrast, when nursing is withheld from a baby and there is maternal separation during much of the day and night, high levels of the stress hormone cortisol are produced.7 This leads to permanently altered brain function, hormonal imbalance and reduced immune functioning, as well as increased mental and behavior problems and a decreased ability to deal with stress throughout life.8,9,10,11

Cow's milk has a high fat content, high levels of biologically available hormones and growth factors, and other chemical contaminants from highly medicated cows fed environmental trash12 (chicken feces and diseased carcasses, for instance). These are all linked to early puberty and proliferation of cancer cells in human reproductive organs.13,14,15 Moreover, immune reactions to large bovine proteins are associated with gastrointestinal disease16 and cancer.17,18 When consumption of cow's milk starts in infancy (via baby formulas), the consequences seem to be the most dire.19

Hispanic children are more often breastfed, and for extended periods. This leads not only to good attachment, but prevents exposure to artificial feeds derived from bovine milk. Hispanic youngsters often sleep with their parents or other family members and grow up in warmer family-oriented environments, resulting in deeper attachments between children and parents, thereby preventing high cortisol levels and their effects on early puberty.20 Early maturity is an innate survival response to inadequate resources in childhood21 seen in many mammals.

When resources are scarce - namely, when parents and nutrition are less available, children become more aggressive (to be able to compete for limited food resources), and they mature more quickly (providing for survival of the species as opposed to quality of life). 20th-century parenting often signals scarcity responses in an infant, including practices such as leaving children alone to "cry it out," feeding on schedules rather than in response to hunger cries, and providing less nutritious feed (infant formula).

In general, the consumption of dairy products in traditional Hispanic homes beyond infancy is also lower than U.S. averages. Although American Mexican food is often piled high with cheese and sour cream, this is not the case in traditional Hispanic homes.

Being genetically Hispanic is not enough. As a Hispanic family lives in the U.S. for several generations, their level of physical and psychological disease increases.22 Evidently, as standard American baby care and diet are adopted, American levels of decreased health (and presumable early puberty) are produced. Although it is more difficult to measure, it is felt that early maturation is being experienced by boys as well.

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Linda Folden Palmer, DC
San Diego, California