An offender already jailed for 19 years for a previous offence was named and received another term of 22 years in a different court for further child sexual abuse and grooming charges in Oldham, England.
Sadly the sentences are concurrent, but the offender will be 81 when released, so that’s close enough to life to be a meaningful sentence. The BBC has the story here.
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The stories are, fairly, focused on the ban that was aimed at gay and bisexual males, but the language also disallowed donations from any male who had been molested or raped by another male at any time in their life. So for male survivors this is also a very big deal. We have been blocked…
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Mental health resources could go a long way.
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