Singer releases RAINN Charity Single
American R ‘n’ B singer Rahsaan Patterson didn’t just disclose during Child Abuse Awareness month, he also released a new song to raise funds for RAINN. Read all about it at their website here.
– CBG
American R ‘n’ B singer Rahsaan Patterson didn’t just disclose during Child Abuse Awareness month, he also released a new song to raise funds for RAINN. Read all about it at their website here.
– CBG
Four months after her initial arrest, one nursery worker, Vanessa George, today admitted sexually abusing at least 30 out of the 200 children she was looking after in Plymouth, England. She then sent the pornographic abuse images via her mobile phone to two other paedophiles, Angela Allen of Nottingham and Colin Blanchard in Rochdale. The…
Bishop Robert Finn, based in Kansas City, Missouri, has been charged over his failure to inform police about child abuse images stored on the laptop belonging to a priest, Father Shawn Ratigan – after settling multiple abuse claims where notification was a continuing condition. CBS News has the story and the indictment in PDF format…
Being in prison is a traumatic experience in and of itself. Experiencing violence, witnessing death, sexual assault, etc., are additional traumas. We know for a fact that the higher the number of traumatic events that occur in our lives, the higher the rates of mental health issues. Yet, when it comes to prisoners, we seem not to care. We joke about violence and sexual assault in prison. We do nothing to combat corruption and violence among people who work in prisons, and we cut programs aimed at helping people adjust once outside of prison.
Research has now shown that reading self-help books can help people dealing with depression, and can even help those same people avoid future bouts,of suffering. I’m somewhat surprised by this. I think it’s easy to ignore the whole self-help book industry because there are definitely some bad examples out there, but maybe, just maybe there…
Sadly, that is the headline of a Guardian story where data from individual police districts were examined. There has been a 60% increase in child sexual abuse reported to the police over the past four years, according to official figures which make public for the first time the scale of the problem in England and…