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.
- CBG
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.
- CBG
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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.
- CBG
The Times published a report about the ongoing issue of natural parents circumventing the official channels by using Facebook to contact children that had been adopted. Since The Times sits behind a paywall, the Daily Telegraph’s take on the story, with collected stories in the centre of the page, is here.
- CBG
Now that we are in to 2012, I want to remind folks reading here that while CBK and I try to post news items and book/TV/movie reviews that are of interest to abuse survivors, we also openly admit that there is more out there than we could ever keep track of. Given that submissions of reviews and/or news items are always welcome. We’d be glad to share the stage, so to speak, with anyone who wants to contribute a book review, or share some important news, etc.
If you’ve got a submission you’d like me to consider, hit the contact form above and send it on. If you are interesting in becoming a regular contributor, let me know that too! I’m open to adding to the talent pool if possible.
