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These two scumbags made the big-time national news when this happened. Machnick and her husband were tried for felony child abuse in 2002. Jury deadlocked. In 2005, facing re-trial, Machnick pled "nolo contendere" (equivalent to guilty) to misdemeanor child abuse in a plea bargain and received 120 days community service. Their child was in junior high, and Machnick was a public school principal in Walnut. When this broke, she got promoted to "administration" so she would have "no contact with children"...  top aide on leave after child abuse allegations surface Comments 11 | Recommend 2 March 20, 2010 11:32 AM Natasha Lindstrom VICTORVILLE * The Victor Valley Union High School District has placed the superintendent's top aide on paid leave after officials discovered she was charged with abusing her teenage stepson 10 years ago, including taking nude photographs of him and forcing him to carry dog feces in his backpack. Deborah Machnick, 54, joined the district in September 2007 as director of curriculum and instruction and was appointed special assistant to the superintendent six months ago. Machnick was placed on leave March 11 after a district employee tipped off officials about prior child-abuse charges, Superintendent Marilou Ryder confirmed. "To be clear now, during her employment there's been absolutely no complaints or any proof of misconduct at all, but we have certain information that we were obligated to investigate," Ryder said. Prosecutors alleged Machnick and her husband, Grady Machnick, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's sergeant, emotionally and physically abused their then-14-year-old son at their residence in Yorba Linda, the Los Angeles Times reported in 2002. To discipline the unruly boy, the couple allegedly forced him to sleep outside on a dog mat, prevented him from using the bathroom at night and poured water on him as he slept, the Times reported. The boy was forced to "earn" clean clothes, according to the Time

# Posted by tng - 2 days, 1 hour, 26 minutes ago Yawn, another lame ABA article. Those 4800 law students should count themselves lucky that they had a summer associate position and the potential for a job offer (not to forget the 2k a week in compensation)... because there were another approximately 30,000 law students who did not win the "summer associate lottery" and work for a firm and get paid. Those some odd 30,000 other law students had to scrambled, beg, and plea for whatever unpaid internship they could find and take on another…say 20k in debt so they could live this past summer. Practically all of those 30,000 law students never had a the hopeful chance that they would get some offer of employment for a job that actually will enable them to pay off those student loans and no live in debt slavery. No, those other 30,000 law students now get to start their 3rd year heavily in debt with practically zero job prospects when they graduate. Time for law students to look for non-legal jobs…they better cruise those undergraduate job fairs. Flag this comment # Posted by JN - 1 day, 18 hours, 10 minutes ago Once again, I hope the clients of these biglaw firms realize what their legal bills are paying for. Is it ridiculous to encourage people making 2000 per week to be able to afford their own lunch? C'mon. The fact that this business model didn't die long ago amazes me. Flag this comment # Posted by annie - 4 hours, 9 minutes ago I would take my summer associate job where I worked with seven seasoned attorneys for the summer with little perks - didn't expect them - and lots of work over these cushy summer internships. I learned a lot that summer and the next fall, they continued to send me work at law school at a pretty decent hourly wage. Anyway, my apparent lack of entitlement made it possible for me to find my own clients and open a little office when I was laid off my first law job. I now work for a small firm. And I enjoyed a nice pean

# Posted by tng - 2 days, 1 hour, 26 minutes ago Yawn, another lame ABA article. Those 4800 law students should count themselves lucky that they had a summer associate position and the potential for a job offer (not to forget the 2k a week in compensation)... because there were another approximately 30,000 law students who did not win the "summer associate lottery" and work for a firm and get paid. Those some odd 30,000 other law students had to scrambled, beg, and plea for whatever unpaid internship they could find and take on another…say 20k in debt so they could live this past summer. Practically all of those 30,000 law students never had a the hopeful chance that they would get some offer of employment for a job that actually will enable them to pay off those student loans and no live in debt slavery. No, those other 30,000 law students now get to start their 3rd year heavily in debt with practically zero job prospects when they graduate. Time for law students to look for non-legal jobs…they better cruise those undergraduate job fairs. Flag this comment # Posted by JN - 1 day, 18 hours, 10 minutes ago Once again, I hope the clients of these biglaw firms realize what their legal bills are paying for. Is it ridiculous to encourage people making 2000 per week to be able to afford their own lunch? C'mon. The fact that this business model didn't die long ago amazes me. Flag this comment # Posted by annie - 4 hours, 9 minutes ago I would take my summer associate job where I worked with seven seasoned attorneys for the summer with little perks - didn't expect them - and lots of work over these cushy summer internships. I learned a lot that summer and the next fall, they continued to send me work at law school at a pretty decent hourly wage. Anyway, my apparent lack of entitlement made it possible for me to find my own clients and open a little office when I was laid off my first law job. I now work for a small firm. And I enjoyed a nice pean

The tuition was daunting - about $41,000 for a 14-month program - but he said the admissions recruiter portrayed it as the entrance price to a stable life. "The recruiter said, 'The way the economy is, with the recession, you need to have a safe way to be sure you will always have income,' " Mr. Newburg said. " 'In today's market, chefs will always have a job, because people will always have to eat.' " According to Mr. Newburg, the recruiter promised the school would help him find a good job, most likely as a line cook, paying as much as $38,000 a year. Last summer, halfway through his program and already carrying debts of about $10,000, Mr. Newburg was alarmed to see many graduates taking jobs paying as little as $8 an hour washing dishes and busing tables, he said. He dropped out to avoid more debt.

Esmeralda's partially clothed body was found in the cotton field's irrigation ditch eight days later, along with those of the two other women. Her pants removed and blouse and bra pulled up to her neck, Esmeralda was lying face up in the ditch, hands tied behind her back. Part of Esmeralda's right breast had been hacked away, the nipple of the other sliced off. The body was badly decomposed. The Inter-American Court found that Esmeralda and the two other girls had disappeared separately and had been held in captivity before being murdered. All three likely were raped and tortured by their captors for an unknown number of days, the court said. "The treatment they experienced during the time they remained kidnapped before their death caused them, at the very least, severe mental suffering," the court stated in its ruling, adding that Mexican officials deprived Esmeralda and the others of "the rights to life, personal integrity and personal liberty." Encouraged not to view Esmeralda's body, Monreal identified her daughter by the clothes police said she was wearing, including her socks. But even as she buried her daughter, positive identification had not been conclusive - not until four years later - when an Argentine forensics crew confirmed the murdered girl's identity with DNA testing. More bodies, same field The body of Laura Berenice Ramos, 17, a third-year high school student, also was found that day; she hadn't been heard from since calling a friend to say she was heading to a Saturday night party. Her breast also was mutilated and skin had been torn from her body. The third woman was Claudia Ivette Gonzalez, 20, who on the day she vanished had been sent home from her factory job after arriving two minutes late. She, too, had been tortured, one of her arms severed. Soon after, searchers recovered the remains of five more women in another corner of the field. They had been dead much longer; the killing had been going on for some time. Within three days

Symptoms include high fever, headache, eye pain, shortness of breath and extreme fatigue with rapid progression of symptoms to severe respiratory distress in about five days, the Canadian agency said. A "high proportion" of cases require mechanical respiration, it said. The four males and three females in San Diego County and Imperial County, California, and in San Antonio, Texas, diagnosed with swine flu had mild flu-like symptoms. The patients, 9 to 54 years old, included a father-daughter pair and two boys attending the same Texas school. Human-to-Human Spread The virus is contagious and spreading from human to human, the CDC said in a statement on its Web site. The patients began feeling sick from March 28 to April 19.