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
Under the heading of “reviews elsewhere” comes this review of a short film called “Rope”, a raw, honest depiction of online bullying.
““If you’re in your 40s or 50s and someone sends you a cruel message, you can probably brush it off, but if you’re 15 it is much more likely to affect you because you haven’t had the chance to build up that mental resilience.”
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In a move reflecting the type of deal received by the kidnapper of Shawn Hornbeck with Missouri legal authorities, the kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard are expected to make full confessions to police in Sacramento, California. The nominal sentences could range up to 440 years for Philip Garrido and 241 years for his wife Nancy,…
I’ve written before about the ACE studies and surveys, and if you’ve read those you know that I think everything about ACE scores needs to be taken with a grain of salt. However, until my wife shared this news article from her alma mater I had not noticed that the question about childhood sexual abuse is somewhat more specific than it should be. Apparently, Robyn Dolson noticed it too, and decided to use her thesis work investigating why, and how it impacts the results. In short, the question about sexual abuse refers to being abused by an adult or someone 5 years or older than you.
As many of us can attest, that leaves out quite a few survivors who were abused by someone in their peer, or a slightly older, group, which happens quite frequently.
A nursery worker who had already been reported by co-workers has been jailed for life with a 15-year minimum term for raping a toddler and filming the attack on a mobile phone. Other charges involved the online grooming of twenty-two girls aged 12 to 15. This story was reported in The Sun but their website…
The BBC’s Newsnight ran a report into children abused by other children last night and you can read a general summary here. Now there seems to be a postcode lottery for funding into treatment of both offending children as well as their victims, though when the offending takes place within the family it will introduce…
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