The 20 year old man admitted his guilt in court in Birmingham, England. Since testimony will not be needed, he will be sentenced at the end of July. The BBC has the general summary below in the meantime;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13683387
– CBG
The experiment was a simple one. Take two small girls and put them, apparently, by themselves in a large shopping area, looking lost and confused, and see who stops to help them. The results left the experimenters stunned, but I don’t know why they would be. We have absolutely reached a point where showing interest…
The BBC has obtained recorded transcripts of police interviews with paedophile nursery worker Vanessa George for its Regional Current Affairs Magazine Inside Out (South West England Region). Also on the BBC, the Storyville documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired has been repeated following news of the denial of bail to the film director. For British…
The second episode of Protecting Our Children aired on Monday night on BBC2. Whilst it suffered from some of the same faults as the first part, since the rounding up of the story was finished with subtitles this was slightly less of a hatchet job on the family concerned (though of course this could be…
The Atlantic has an article today about a sudden increase of movie portrayals of older women sleeping with teenage boys. They rightly point out that while these relationships are portrayed as “no big deal”, you can guarantee that there would be outrage if the genders were reversed. Maybe it’s time we started to recognize that…
One of my frequent notes about auto/biographies featuring child abuse is that they fail to go into relevant detail about the recovery process. Josh Cannon’s Silent Scream, which I read in hardback, sets this right by bookending the whole story with being shipped off to recovery, some in the UK, but at the beginning of…
