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 is currently suspended, as such the BBC story is here.
– CBG
Let’s hope this gets approved quickly, and makes it possible to have an easy to remember number for anyone to reach out during a crisis quickly. The need has already been demonstrated with the current number: Once implemented, people will just need to dial 988 to seek help. Currently, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline…
I was more than a little shocked and saddened when I read the news in an email this week about the Louisiana chapter of Prevent Child Abuse shutting its doors. First and foremost, because, as the article gets into, the hard work of abuse prevention doesn’t seem to really move the needle when it comes…
The article breaks the steps into two large buckets, and I’m going to ask you to consider these when you stop to consider whether your state, local, or federal representatives are actually doing something to improve the state of mental health care.
Are they doing something to make it easier to pay for mental health care services?
Are they doing something to make it easier to find mental health services?
If they’re not doing either of these things, or worse, cutting funding and services, they are not actually interested in improving the mental health situation in the US.
Psychotherapy Works Is Still News to Many In the U.S., consumers are constantly bombarded with pharmaceutical advertising describing the many benefits of different psychiatric medications (Depression hurts. No duh!). But consumers get no marketing about the benefits of psychotherapy, and often still have old, stigmatizing misconceptions about how it works and how expensive it is….
Male Sexual Abuse is on the Rise » tags: CA Golf Pro Anya Alvarez Shares Her Story of Surviving Child Abuse tags: CA Men – Military Sexual Assault Overlooked Victims tags: CA Sexual Healing After Sexual Abuse tags: CA Dateline’s Focus on Stranger Safety Applies to Only 7% of Child Sex Offenders – child,sexual,abuse tags: CA…
Nathan from DadWagon sent me a note today to let me know about an interview they did on the site with Joel Johnson. Joel is a gadget geek, and has worked on such well-known blogs as Gizmodo, and BoingBoing. Recently, he posted on his personal site about having grown up a victim of sexual abuse…
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