One newspaper reported on the Abbott of Downside’s public apology to historical abuse victims over the weekend. That report is here. The Daily Telegraph updated the blog on this topic, covering some possible innaccuracies in a Times report, which is probably behind the regular paywall by now, so you can read the disputed sections here.
– CBG
Because of this stigma, articles like the one above become rare, and important reads. The stories shared in it might feel familiar to you as you read them, or they may help you understand what many survivors of sexual abuse deal with in thier lives. When you’ve been sexually abused, sex and arousal can become very complicated things. That complication shouldn’t come with judgement, but we know that it too often does. The judgement doesn’t help anyone heal, in fact, it likely does even more harm.
Rising Rainbow is hosting this month’s edition of the Blog Carnival over at My Clouds, My Storms and My Personality Disorder. There’s been quite the turnout for this edition and there’s lots of good stuff to read through, much covering this month’s theme, “telling the secret”.
The attackers of two boys aged 9 and 11 in Northern England, who were of a similar age themselves, were jailed indefinitely with a minimum term of five years last Friday. This followed their admission to some charges to halt any further trial on attempted murder. Naturally, many think this is too low and there…
Emotional intelligence is something that I struggled with while I was healing, and as I look around the child abuse survivor community, I think that struggle is common. All too often we never really learned these skills as kids, and are also usually really good at masking our emotions, even from ourselves. But, this can…
At the same time as Gary Glitter’s arrest, Childline founder Esther Rantzen reported that she receieved further disclosures by email after the first Independent Television (ITV1) documentary was screened nearly a month ago, and passed them on to police. That story is here at the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday site.
The Economist is a world-renowned weekly publication, and within the past two weeks it has discussed the imprisonment and probational monitoring of sex offenders in America (that’s the leader article from the print edition’s America section, although this was not the cover story). This met with a very strong reaction online, but you will have…
