This was the follow-up from a story regarding a sex offender who had fled to Spain and whose wife was later accused of murdering their two children. He has since committed suicide following his re-extradition back to the UK. You can read about it at the Daily Mail here.
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The BBC’s previous child protection documentary series focused on the police trying to detect and apprehend child abusers. This time, the programme makers follow a team of social workers and the general modern child protection structure starting in the home. Episode one showed us selected events over nearly a year in their attempt to help one family’s toddler to thrive out of delayed development and the eventual outcome. It would have been a better documentary if the entire family’s faces had been obscured and not just those of their children.
Hopefully the rest of the short series will drop the manipulative soap opera structure and more time will be given over to the actual work done by the social workers instead of the quick chats and Oprah-style summing up at the end.
You can view episode one on the BBC iPlayer here with a deadline date of 20th February.
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The Sun reported the sentencing of a woman in Indiana for sexually abusing a 13 year old friend of her son. Despite being eligible for parole in nine years, the woman was told she would serve 20, with a further decade of probation whenever she goes free.
Whatever the length of the sentence in the end it’s nice to see alcohol getting thrown out as an excuse to abuse a child. Since the story might no longer be online where it was first seen, the Daily Mail’s version of the report is here.
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A man has been jailed for four years for abusing a baby and uploading the attack to the internet. The BBC has the story here.
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Last weekend’s US Army monthly newsletter covered a December 2011 article regarding sexual abuse in the US Military and whether any progress is forthcoming over the issue. If the link can be separated from the newsletter you should be able to read it here.
Otherwise if this link ever fails, go to “Politico”‘s index page, the “Opinion” tab, and click back through the archives for the 8th December 2011 article.
One newspaper reported on the Abbott of Downside’s public apology to historical abuse victims over the weekend. That report is here. The Daily Telegraph updated the blog on this topic, covering some possible innaccuracies in a Times report, which is probably behind the regular paywall by now, so you can read the disputed sections here.
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A man who worked for both the BBC and Independent Television (ITV) has been jailed for his abuse of teenage girls up to 30 years ago. The Guardian has the main story here although sentencing will be announced at the beginning of March 2012, and most likely take into account time served.
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The first series of Coppers was excellent and worthy of awards. It gave a fly-on-the-wall view of modern English policing with pieces to camera from the officers themselves. Unfortunately the programme makers decided to adopt a joking tone for the start of its second series in the style of highly edited reality show programmes from the same TV Channel.
Thankfully the humourous tone is completely dropped midway through the debut episode of the second series as the police team in Nottingham, England catch and process a paedophile including his phone call. It’s not clear whether this is connected to any of the stories we linked last year, but we can only assume the confession stopped the perpetrator’s identity from being concealed. If you’ve missed it on its original transmission on Monday 9th January then it can be viewed at Channel 4′s on-demand website, now available for 30 days through your Xbox 360 console subject to rights, or search Coppers on Youtube and follow the Channel 4-related links which are currently ranked by episode title.
Link: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/coppers/4od
Corey Feldman gave updated interviews to the media at the beginning of the British reality show Dancing on Ice. Since the article for The Sun may go behind a paywall at a later date, the Daily Mail’s version is here.
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