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Charity Calls for Update to Child Neglect Law
UK children’s charity Action For Children has called on the government to update the specific laws regarding child neglect which are now 80 years old. The BBC has the story  here and the press releases at the charity’s own site are here (look for April 23rd entries). – CBG
Link – CDC says more Americans died of suicide last year than in at least 50 years
The fact that life expectancy is on the decline, in a time when technology and health care continues to find new ways to keep people alive, is shocking. So shocking in fact that right now we are looking at being compared to this: “For decades, U.S. life expectancy was on the upswing, rising a few…
BBC Newsnight Kid-on Kid CSA and untracked offender News Reports
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…
Whitney Houston’s Biopic Reminds Us that No One Type of Person Abuses
Surprisingly, it’s only now, after the movie has been shown at Cannes, that we are learning of one of the biggest secrets of Whitney Houston’s tragic life. That she and her brother were both abused by her cousin, Dee Dee Warwick. (Dionne Warwick’s sister) On the one hand, this story begins to fill in the…
Long-Lost Father and Adult Daughter Expecting own Child, claim GSA
Genetic Sexual Attraction is a real enough phenomenon and it has received growing attention in recent years. What has not previously happened is the related couple claiming immediately that this condition was to blame for their incest incident and resulting pregnancy. That’s what happened with an adult daughter of 28 that tracked-down her long lost…
High Profile Abuse Case TV Updates
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…
