by Marc Cottrell, Psy.D. In 2012 Michael Gardner was convicted of sex crimes against children. Many prominent persons in the community came to his defense by writing letters to the presiding judge requesting leniency. Those who requested leniency for a convicted child rapist include current city council member Phil Duncan, current Commissioner of Revenue Tom Clinton. A current substitute teacher in the Falls Church School District, Lindy Hockenberry, wrote a letter of support. Debra Z. Roth, a longtime resident of Falls Church City wrote a letter of support. Ms. Roth was appointed to the Falls Church City Human Services Advisory Council (HSAC) by the cityRead More →

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This is the final installment of a three-part article. The second half of Installment 2 and all of Installment 3 are conflated for purposes of keeping the article in bite-sized reader chunks. Contexts & Subtexts Costs of Ignoring Risks Statistics Command Action Dr. Ramsey holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in the Behavioral Sciences with an interdisciplinary focus on Kalogenetics, Sociopsychology, Intercultural, Non-Verbal and Mass Communication, Applied Neurology and Linguistics. Read More →

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Sajeela Ramsey, Ph.D., has written this article in three installments.  This post contains the first installment: Contexts & Subtexts.  The remaining installments will be posted over the next two weeks. Contexts & Subtexts Costs of Ignoring Risks Statistics Command Action Dr. Ramsey holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in the Behavioral Sciences with an interdisciplinary focus on Kalogenetics, Sociopsychology, Intercultural, Non-Verbal and Mass Communication, Applied Neurology and Linguistics.       Read More →

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Since early last week an ever growing number of Falls Church City citizens have learned about and expressed outrage over our city’s leaders who sought leniency for convicted child molester Mike Gardner; but not so with members of our school board. The FCCPS school board, led by chair Justin Castillo, vice chair John Lawrence and Superintendent Toni Jones, stood to honor one of the pedophile supporters at its meeting last week. Mr. Nicholas Benton, owner and operator of the Falls Church News Press (FCNP) and a serial supporter of FCC child molesters, was honored by our school board during last week’s meeting with an awardRead More →

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