Links (weekly)
Sunday, February 5th, 2012Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Archive for the ‘In the News’ Category
Historical Brit Paedophile Commits Suicide
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012This 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.
- CBG
Review: Protecting Our Children (2012, UK)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012The 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.
- CBG
Links (weekly)
Sunday, January 29th, 2012Woman sentenced to 30 years for raping 13 year old boy
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012The 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.
- CBG
Links (weekly)
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Scottish Paedophile Jailed for Online Infant CSA
Friday, January 20th, 2012A man has been jailed for four years for abusing a baby and uploading the attack to the internet. The BBC has the story here.
- CBG
Layman’s Guide to What to Do When CSA is Discovered
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012Military Sexual Assault Article
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Last 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.
Downside Catholic CSA Blog
Monday, January 16th, 2012One 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.
- CBG
