Feb 09 Edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse
Nancy Richards in hosting this month’s edition and has it posted over on her Heal and Forgive blog.
As always, there’s a lot of good stuff in there, I look forward to reading more!
“When I thought about my childhood, I often told myself, “That’s not was that was.” I always had an excuse. But I still kept much of my past a secret. When I talked to my friends I pretended that we were the average family with average interactions. Yet all those feelings of helplessness, terror, disgust,…
For all the good she has done with taking her message pulbic and using her celebrity to spread the message of all survivors, I’m glad she is also speaking out about this issue. “The last few months I wasn’t putting myself first at all,” she told the magazine. “I was so obsessed with trying to…
From a review of the documentary film Swift Current: Swift Current, the second documentary feature from Joshua Rofé, tells the story of former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy, who was tragically abused by his coach, Graham James, throughout his early years in hockey. Kennedy, who eventually became (and still is) a crusader for child abuse victims,…
Last Thursday the independent island of Jersey (among the Channel Islands next to, but not part of, the UK) announced that historical victims of abuse in its children’s care homes or other state-run institutions would be able to apply for compensation of up to UKP 60,000 (USD 96,100 approx) The BBC’s original story is here…
Local North East London newspaper The Wood and Vale reported on a senior nurse that was struck off following the discovery of 370 child abuse and bestiality images on his computer. Stuart Cross was jailed for 21 months in 2011 and placed on the Sex Offender’s Register for a decade. Following his parole the Nursing…