After the main offenders in one of Scotland’s highest profile cases were jailed for 13 and 16 years respectively, the parent(s) of one victim told their story to BBC News. Her view on how to handle offenders is thought-provoking in the extreme. For the record I have to disagree with it, but you’ll have to make your own mind up.
Read it here and as always with the BBC, the related articles are in a box to the top right of this interview.
– CBG
At the end of last week the director of a music charity began a 30 year sentence for the abuse of at least two boys and creating child abuse images over a two year period last decade, and being arrested with more images at an airport in 2008. The evidence of one child from England contributed…
This is why I look for the definition when I read anything about being fully healed. What does being healed mean to you? Is your definition possible? A definition that includes the abuse having zero impact on who you are today? Because that’s not realistic. But it also doesn’t mean you can’t go on to have a healed life while acknowledging that it is still part of who you are.
It was a traumatic event; they became part of us. They don’t have to rule us, though. That’s healed.
Freddie Starr, who offered to talk to police voluntarily last week, was arrested by police investigating claims of indecent assault made by one woman and bailed for the second time between Thursday 1st November and the last weekend. He also disclosed to the media about his own abuse at the same time. That article is in…
It’s not directly about child abuse at all, and many of this blog’s trolling problems went away after the network was shut down in its previous form. However, Gawker published an interesting feature on one particular internet troll at the end of last week. See for yourself at their site here.
Overnight the Daily Mail updated its reporting on Josh Powell for Wednesday 8th February’s print edition. Powell murdered his sons with a hatchet before blowing up and burning down the entire house when the children were taken to the former family home for a supervised visit. There are now three separate enquiries into this murder-suicide in Washington which…
April 2013 has been rebranded to National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month rather than having a general child abuse focus. It’s an interesting choice but since calls from adult survivors to RAINN’s helpline have risen by 200% following Penn State and other collegiate abuse scandals of last year, the new focus is understandable. RAINN…
