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Protecting Our Children Episode 2 (UK, 2012)

comicbookguy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:20:38 +0000

The second episode of Protecting Our Children aired on Monday night on BBC2. Whilst it suffered from some of the same faults as the first part, since the rounding up of the story was finished with subtitles this was slightly less of a hatchet job on the family concerned (though of course this could be the editing that made one parent less sympathetic the other). The case only involved the couple’s latest baby rather than an older child, though the birth name is verbally obscured rather than his face blurred on screen.

The deadline to view this episode remains Monday 20th February at the BBC iPlayer site here. There was also a general commentary on the second episode at the Guardian website and you can read those articles here . The rest of the articles are collected in the “More On This Story” bar.

- CBG

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MikeM — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:33:14 +0000

Forgiveness Versus Letting Go

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Male Childhood Sexual Abuse: Suffering in Silence

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Understanding Depression Led to Facing Sexual Abuse

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How To Talk To Your Child About Sexual Abuse

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Project Unbreakable Gives Sexual Abuse Victims a Voice in Pictures

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Family Support Line Launches New Website

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Mental Illness is a Lonely Disease

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Psychological trauma can scar health for years

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Historical Brit Paedophile Commits Suicide

comicbookguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:44:04 +0000

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.

- CBG

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Review: Protecting Our Children (2012, UK)

comicbookguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:42:52 +0000

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.

- CBG

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MikeM — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:33:27 +0000

Finding hope after sexual abuse

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Blog Against Child Abuse – January 2012 Edition

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As Victims, Men Struggle for Rape Awareness

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Sexual Abuse in youth sports: 10 tips for keeping children safe

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5 Strategies to Soothe Stress

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Woman sentenced to 30 years for raping 13 year old boy

comicbookguy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:42:24 +0000

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.

- CBG

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MikeM — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:34:15 +0000

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Scottish Paedophile Jailed for Online Infant CSA

comicbookguy — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:48:33 +0000

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.

- CBG

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Layman’s Guide to What to Do When CSA is Discovered

comicbookguy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:00:29 +0000

This article by Michael Reagan, requoted by Michael Madison, is too important to roll off the Diigo Listing, so the edited version is here, but the full article from Fox News is also here.

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Military Sexual Assault Article

comicbookguy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:53:16 +0000

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.

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