Child trafficking crackdown results in 884 arrests
CNN reported on a continuing nationwide American sweep in an effort to combat child prostitution, culminating in nearly 900 arrests. Read more on that story here.
AOL News reported last week that another male survivor of abuse at the camp where Republican Scott Brown was abused as a child, has disclosed and reported his own abuse to the authorities following the publication of the politician’s memoir, Despite not being the most popular man of the past few months due to wrangling…
Tomorrow evening, ESPN’s excellent E:60 program will do a piece on Invisible Victims: According to experts, children with disabilities are three times more likely than children without them to be victims of sexual abuse. And when the disability is mental rather than physical – meaning the disability is not immediately visible – the cases are…
An English postman was jailed for eight and a half years last week for the grooming and abuse of children and teens through Facebook, MSN Messenger and smaller social networking site Bebo. Michael Williams’s campaign stretched over a five year period and police have numbered the victims as potentially stretching up to 1000, though nearly…
Today marks one day to go before the BBC’s annual Children In Need Appeal, from 7pm to 2am across the BBC on 19th November. The appeal is 30 years old in its modern telethon format but has roots dating back to Christmas Day 1927 on BBC Radio before going to Black and White television in…
I think the entire list of seven things provided by Mental Health First Aid below, is good, but this one, in particular, is something I think we all need to keep in mind:
“Do not be hostile or sarcastic when the person attempts to be responsive, but instead accept their responses as the best the person has to offer at that time.”
I think it’s fair to say that right now, most of us are dealing with some challenges. If ever there was a time to accept that replying to your text, or responding to a question you have might not be the foremost thing on someone’s mind, it’s now.
Between dealing with kids going back to school, and whatever that looks like, protests and violence, constant pandemic concerns around illness or loss of loved ones, and massive employment insecurity, there’s a lot going on that we are all trying to deal with as best as we can. I’d argue that we are all dealing with some pretty huge mental health challenges right now, so if you have people trying to stay in contact with you, to check in, or support you, give them a little grace. The fact that they are even trying right now should say a lot, and I hope we can all appreciate the imperfect efforts anyone puts in.
“The case lays bare how toxic and twisted social role of masculinity is. It has relied on the cartoonish cliche of school boys as horny, hormonal messes who always want sex. It caricatures boys as constantly “up for it” to the extent that their ability to consent or not to sexual acts is taken less seriously….