PARTICIPANTS IN NAACP’s JUBILLE DAY
CELEBRATION- Picured above are members of the J.W.
Douglas Memorial Choir of the Tupper Memorial Baptist
Church. The choir added spirit to this great occasion.
Shown seated at front (from I to r) are Dr. Carl DeVane,
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who brought the charge to the youth; Evangeline Lamb,
mistress of ceremonies and brach secretary; Dr. John W.
Fleming, speaker; and Rev. Leotha Debnan, pastor of
historic Tupper Memorial Church.
Woman Asks If It’s Normal To Be
Sexually Aroused While Breastfeeding
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)—A
woman was charged with child
abuse and neglect after a help line
volunteer turned her in for asking
whether it was normal to be sexu
ally aroused while breastfeeding.
Denise Perrigo lost her daughter,
Cherilyn, for nearly a year while
social workers and judges decided
the family’s fate.
Now, she has the nearly four
year-old child back and plans to sue
Onondaga County.
Robert Stone, the Onondaga
County social services commis
sioner, saidhe was prevented by law
from discussing Perrigo’s case.
Perrigo’s trouble began in Janu
ary 1991, when she called a local
referral service, the Volunteer cen
ter, to get the telephone number for
La Leche League, an international
breast-feeding advocacy group.
Perrigo, 28, said she wanted to
know if it was normal to have feel
ings of sexual arousal during
breastfeeding. The volunteer who
answered the call turned Perrigo
over to the rape crisis center, which
called a child abuse hotline.
The mother was charged Jan. 13,
1991, with endangering the child
and sexually abusing the girl by
breastfeeding her at the age of
nearly 3. Perrigo spent the night in
jail, but was released the next day
when the charges were dismissed.
La Leche League officials were
outraged.
Betty Wagner, a co-founder of the
Franklin Park, HI.-based league,
said sexual arousal while nursing is
normal.
Some children are breastfed until
age 4 or 5. The World Health Or
ganization and the U.S. surgeon
general recommend children be
nursed through their second year.
The La Leche League doesn’t
advocate nursing for a specific
amount of time. Rather, it supports
a mother and child deciding to
gether how long to nurse.
“It was a comedy of errors, except
it wasn’t funny because once they
realized a mistake was made, they
still wouldn’t turn back,” said Per
rigo, who lives in Lafayette, a small
town eight miles south of Syracuse.
Though the criminal charges
against Perrigo were dismissed, one
charge each of neglect and child
abuse were filed separately in fam
ily Court. They, too, were dismissed,
in April by Judge Leonard Bersant.
But the next day the county’s
the same charges with another
Family Court judge, Edward
McLaughlin, and kept Perrigo from
regaining custody of her child.
In November, McLaughlin ruled
Perrigo did not abuse the girl, but he
said she neglected her by failing to
wean her by the age of nearly 3.
McLaughlin also said Perrigo
earlier neglected the child by send
ing her to counseling. Perrigo said
she sent her daughter to counseling
at the suggestion of social service
workers because a friend of the girl’s
had been abused.
Lawyer Ralph Cognetti, who is
working on a lawsuit for Perrigo,
said the case was based on “ridicu
lous charges” that were illegally
filed a second time.
Karen Marris, Perrigo’s Family
Court lawyer, said she will appeal
the neglect ruling. She wouldn’t
WIDER LOVE
When we step into a wider love,
countless persons are drawn into
our circle of love.
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ir
comment Friday on details.
Cherilyn was returned to her
mother Jan. 6. The girl lived in a
foster family for the early part of last
year but had been living with
Perrigo’s parents since late August.
Fitness Center
Gets Dress Code
SPOKANE, Wash. <AP)- Those
wanting to shape up must cover up.
That's the rule at a new $1.1 million
fitness center at Spokane Falls
Community College.
The gym, which opened last week,
prohibits halter tops, leotards, short
shorts or tank-top muscle shirts.
That leaves exercisers a choice of
baggy sweats or loose shirts.
Leotards can be worn only with tights
or sweat pants.
The dress code prevents self
consious gym users from feeling
intimedated, said Maury Ray, the
college’s physical education director.
“Some people get uncomfortable
when they’re in a room with 30 guys
in shorts and no shirts,” Ray said.
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