Few showers at lunchtime, better rain chances later this afternoon, high of 78, normal this time of year. I will have a closer look at rain chances in the complete storm team forecast. Breaking news now, an amber alert for a missing rocky mount little girl. Investigators are conducting a statewide search for 2yearold Nevaeh Richardson. Lauren haviland is live with all the new information shes reporter good morning. I spoke to police already this morning, and they say the toddler was in her mothers car when it was stolen around midnight. Take a look. This is what Nevaeh Richardson, a 2yearold little girl, looks like, last seen in a tshirt with a rainbow in the front. Her mother was at a friends house in nashville road in rocky mount when the car with the vehicle is a 2004 green mitts pea she endeavor. It has a spare tire on the front left side and a live, love, laugh sticker on it. We have Little Information about the suspect but have more information about the car like the license plat
Chilling effect to pick up the phone and say i heard about your complaint, is there anything that i can do to help . Hopefully youll get more prosecutions and more convictions, you know, if Law Enforcement is brought in faster. Well, it seems to me that the dialogue here today has been much more a focus on helping the victim cope and deal. Thats all incredibly important and to deal with the aftermath and go forward. But i dont hear a lot of dialogue about justice. I dont hear a lot of dialogue about keeping evil perpetrators off the streets so they dont do it to another girl. I have two girls that have graduated from college, too, and i would be livid if some perpetrator who has sexually abused nume rul girls and they decided not to report and that did is still out there seeking to harm other girls and my girl ends up getting harmed. I might be pretty ticked off that guy is allowed to keep perpetrating these crimes. Right. I think one other thing needs to be said here about justice. Pe
Draw attention to whats i feel is a real urgency and i think everyone else does. I hear a great commonality in terms of our desire to take effective action. And were struggling with what that is. And also, as a parent whos dropped two kids off at college that rite of passage that all of us have shared and the convey answer of that trust that we put in the inls tuitions that we leave them at and the expectation they will not just educate them well but a provide a culture they feel safe and not put in the situation of either being a victim or ap2,m bystand. So my analogy and i appreciate the last two comments about the analogy to the military, alot of this conversation reminds me of the early 90s when i was in local government and the Clinton Administration bringing up Domestic Violence and the conversations we have had remind me very specifically of the challenges and even though everybody wanted to stop it, weve got to be careful of approaches because were all subject to subjective opi
Maybe and i have these concerns about going to the university or the college and maybe the counselor, adviser, leaning on them, maybe talking them out of prosecuting because of concern did for the alleged perpetrators career or education. Whatever the case may be, i worry about the fact that an individual who decides initially not to prosecute or not to report to the Law Enforcement, all the forensics is lost, and then several months later, several years later, they decide still within the statute of limitations i want that individual prosecuted so theyre not going to do that to anybody else and then the forensics is not there because it was never reported to Law Enforcement and the people that ended up dealing with it didnt have the capability to even put a case together in the first place. One other critical aspect of mandatory reporting is that theres no way to build up more trust with police than to work with them. You know, we cant we cant fix the problem if theres a problem in th
More insufficient attention has been placed o on addressing what i call the competency gap. The difference between what College Administrators are equipped to do and what the department of educations office for civil rights is demanding of them. Campuses are ill instituted to ajud indicate allegations of Sexual Assault. While college and universities have a role to play in tackling the issue, we must make sure that we are assigning themselves responsibilities they are capable of performing well. Having defended due process for 15 years, fire is convinced that colleges are simply unequipped to serve as investigators and fact findings in these challenging issues. Rape is a crime. It should be treated as such. Using amateur systems is insulting to victims and disastrous to fundamental fairness. Unsurprisingly injustice for both victims and accused is common place. Sound Public Policy requires adjudicating these cases in courts after professional investigations. Only courts have the power