Guardian article featuring raped police officer
The Guardian ran an article yesterday regarding an anonymous police officer who was raped and his reaction to colleagues and the system in general. You can read it here.
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In addition to the op-ed piece in The Heights today, The Pope also met with Irish bishops following the publication of the archdiocese report into the child abuse scandal in Ireland. As usual for a BBC report the collected stories are in the right-hand column, and you can view the story here. – CBG
Following on from the Daily Mail story last weekend, whilst the Vatican began their own investigation into child abuse at St Benedict’s in Ealing, West London, secular and independent inquiry reporting came to an end regarding the long-running case and that report was published today, with official responses from the school’s authorities. View the stories…
In the immediate aftermath of Robin Williams’ suicide, his daughter, Zelda, left Twitter and other social media platforms after hearing from the worst of humankind about her father’s mental health problems. Now she is back and speaking out in hopes of ending the sort of stigma that created those previous comments. So please, let’s help…
It’s been two days since Anne Marie Carrie, the new Chief Executive of the long standing UK charity Barnado’s sounded the warning about internal child trafficking in the UK for child abuse purposes. As usual, the media have moved on to other things, leaving interested parties to read their 30-page official report. You can find…
Child Suicide Attempts Are Skyrocketing in The US, And Nobody Knows Why Podcast: From Homeless to Prisoner to Olympian Really good message from @tonymhoffman about seeing people’s story instead of our biases. Child abuse survivor hopes story inspires others to step forward, seek help Mental health problems don’t end with age. Older people need help…
This statistic actually didn’t surprise me, because we already know that traffickers, like pedophiles, prey on vulnerable kids. Who is more vulnerable than kids who’ve already been sexually abused? Most disturbing, we found that boys who had experienced childhood sexual abuse were 8.2 times more likely to be exploited in human trafficking than boys without…