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Jane Roberts is a lawyer who specialized in satellite-technology law and now oversees attorney training at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, an international firm. Married in their early 40s, the couple struggled to have children and was finally able to adopt John (Jack) and Josephine, who were born 4˝ months apart. "As frequently happens when you go through the adoption process, some of the efforts weren't successful, and it continued for a time," says Jane's law partner and friend Jack McKay. "But when the opportunity came along to have not just one but two children, they took both...
CONVICTED. CHRISTOPHER PITTMAN, 15, teenager who claimed taking the antidepressant Zoloft led him to shoot his grandparents in their bed in 2001; on two counts of murder; in Charleston, S.C. Though jurors rejected the Zoloft defense, they agonized over trying Pittman, who was 12 when he committed the crime, as an adult. He was sentenced to the minimum term of 30 years in prison...
...drugs such as Zoloft be held responsible for aggression and suicide in children? The recent trial of Christopher Pittman, who as a twelve year-old boy killed his grandparents and set their house on fire, raises difficult questions about the role of antidepressants in a society that increasingly sees children as being overmedicated. Yesterday, the jury found Pittman guilty of murder and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. While the defense tried to argue that the drugs caused him to become “intoxicated” and act in a way he otherwise never would have, the jury...
...this could result in major side effects that last even when the child is an adult. But, is it any better to place kids on antidepressants that have never been sufficiently tested on maturing minds and bodies? There was certainly not enough evidence to prove that Zoloft caused Christopher Pittman to commit murder, as antidepressants have so far been related to suicidal ideation and not violence. This absence of the link between antidepressants and violence no doubt contributed to the jury’s guilty verdict. But because of the lack of clinical trials demonstrating their effects on children...
Also a threat to Taylor’s medal hopes are Russia’s Yuliya Pechonkina and Yekaterina Bikert and Romania’s Ionela Tîrlea. Along with Johnson and Pittman, those are the only women who have run the event faster than Taylor...