CSA Settlement Article at The Examiner
Gillian Flaccus reports on the so-called downside to large financial settlements awarded to some CSA survivors. His two examples derive from Catholic Church court cases.
Read the article here.
– CBG
Gillian Flaccus reports on the so-called downside to large financial settlements awarded to some CSA survivors. His two examples derive from Catholic Church court cases.
Read the article here.
– CBG
I found myself reading this interview with Dr. Mary Koss recently, and while I’m not 100% sure about the prospect of “Restorative Justice”, as she refers to it, I think that often, when we think about child sexual abuse, we fall into the same misconceptions about the legal system that she refers to when talking more broadly about sexual assault.
Namely, that the legal system is not really designed to assist with the healing of a victim.
It’s not just British courts that hand out life sentences on Fridays. The kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard had their widely reported sentences of 431 years (to “life”) for Philip Garrido and 36 years for his wife formalised overnight (this morning to UK readers). Dugard’s victim impact statement was read by her mother, with further…
On Sunday 13th October the UK’s Mail on Sunday, sister paper to the Daily Mail, uncovered the search failure of UK bookseller WH Smith’s weak search filter. Searching on the word “Daddy” brought up erotica titles together with the children’s books on the same screen, causing a shutdown and removal of the books from the…
This is something so many of us deal with. In fact I was in conversation during our weekly #SexAbuseChat on Twitter talking about something similar: ““You need to be kinder to yourself, Jonny.” Those were the words of virtually every single mental health professional I saw in my 20s. I knew they were right. I…
Sometimes, in the midst of depression or in our struggles with other mental illnesses, it’s easy to think that we will never be able to overcome it. In the hopes that seeing some examples of others who have struggled with similar issues, and overcome them, the Masters in Healthcare site sent me a link to…