Task Force To Distribute Penn State USD 60m fine
A 10-member board has been appointed to decide how the cumulative USD $60million fine ($12m per year for five years) will be distributed. The Guardian has the agency story here.
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Following the conviction of Vanessa George, another female paedophile has confessed to 100 attacks on a number of children of both sexes. That report is here, and the paper has been careful not to dump the blame on any man she was in contact with as some kind of controller. In a different case a…
Sarah’s Law, championed and created by Sara Payne, mother of murdered eight-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Payne, is due for a review across the UK. Depending on the results of the extension to the pilot, the remit of the law could be expanded nationwide. However, every legal proposal in England and Wales will depend upon the final…
Kelley was kind enough to send me a link to a St. Petersburg (FL) Times special report about an all boys reform school. For Their Own Good They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars or worse. The Florida School for Boys — that’d straighten them out….
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…
Homeless drifter Stephen Farrow claimed to have been abused by an Anglican priest as child, which fed his hatred of religion. In addition to various violent acts during his youth, his actions finally culminated in the stabbing murders of another priest, Rev. John Suddards, and 77 year old Betty White. We don’t call it Life without…