A sex offender who wanted to conceal his history and then-current child sexual abuse accusation from his wife at the end of last year, murdered her last January. Today, he was sentenced at Preston Court to life, serving just under 20 years separately to the abuse charges which he admitted. Read the story at The Guardian Website here.
The first 15 pages of Cry Myself to Sleep serve as a summary of the first book Cry Silent Tears. The story continues as the author relates his move to London, southern England and finally Wales. Sadly, in echoes of Mark Johnson’s Wasted, Peters had to learn to survive when homeless and face more tragedy…
Lord McApline, the former Conservative politician wrongly accused on Twitter of sexual abuse in North Wales on the BBC Newsnight programme, settled with the BBC and was awarded GBP 185,000 Sterling or just under $293,500 plus legal costs. His legal team noted that it would be licence fee payers’ money funding the settlement and as such,…
The folks over at Psych Central have another book review up that I think might be of interest to abuse survivors, many of whom may see a bit of themselves in this: If you told most people that after a traumatic event, they could feel stronger, more open to new experiences, more appreciative of life, a deepened…
There’s no real difference. I should know. I was sexually abused by an older minor. There was no creepy old man, only an older and bigger kid who threatened me. Someone in my own family. Mall parking lots, school, and our neighborhood park weren’t the places where I was not safe, my family was.
And I had no way to tell anyone, because I wasn’t taught about that being child abuse. Only strange men in white vans giving out candy abused children. Whatever was happening in my family wasn’t to be discussed with anyone. It wasn’t, and it went on for years.
Maybe we should do better with understanding the ways kids abuse other kids, and talking openly about it. The link below can help.
Yesterday, the 1990s killer of 7-year-old Sean Williams was murdered in prison whilst serving his life sentence. The BBC has the story here with other updates in the story crawl at the bottom of the page speculating about the identity of the killer and his previous attack on another infamous English sex offender that murdered…
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