A female survivor has started on the road to a potential American legal precedent by suing any child pornography collector found in possession of pictures of her, aged 10.
Read about it at the New York Times here and since the NYT may go behind the subscription wall after a while, you can google it for an alternative source or let us know if the link changes.
– CBG
I’ve been exchanging emails this week with Victoria Simpson about a British website that offers e-learning courses about how to protect children. Here’s some of what she had to say about them: I am trying to raise awareness of these courses for my client and it is also a subject that is close to my…
Following a successful pilot scheme, England and Wales will fully roll out lie detector tests for sex offenders on licence or parole from prison. Scotland and Northern Ireland will have to review their own laws before deciding whether to follow suit. The BBC has the story here , and the Daily Mail here. – CBG
From Monday 29th April there is an update due on further allegations of historical child sexual abuse at North Welsh residential care homes from the 1970s onwards. Over 100 further disclosures were received by police following last year’s initial enquiry regarding the Bryn Estyn and other notorious care homes in Wales. The BBC has the…
A 17 year old girl from Louisville, Kentucky who named her attackers on Twitter after they distributed pictures of themselves assaulting her when passed out, now faces jail herself for violating the confidentiality order passed by the judge prior to sentencing. We are not naming her because we’re not contributing to hers or her parents’…
I got an email from someone afew days ago asking if I would link to a faith-based resource, and since I don’t really discriminate one way or the other on faith-based resources, I responded that I’d of course be glad to point to anything that might prove useful to folks reading here. So, here’s the…
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Your style is really unique in comparison too other
folks I’ve read stuff from. Thank you for posting when you’ve got the opportunity,
Guess I’ll just book mark this blog.