UK Teen and Teacher Found In France
French police have found the teenager Megan Stammers and her teacher Jeremy Forrest in the Bordeaux region of France, with the teacher arrested on suspicion of child abduction. The BBC has the story here.
-CBG
French police have found the teenager Megan Stammers and her teacher Jeremy Forrest in the Bordeaux region of France, with the teacher arrested on suspicion of child abduction. The BBC has the story here.
-CBG
If Mindfulness is something that helps you, great. If it doesn’t, don’t beat yourself up over that fact, or continue a practice that is actually causing harm. That makes no sense at all. Just accept that it’s not for you, and hopefully, the people around us who are pushing it as the cure-all, especially the ones trying to sell it to you, can learn to accept that too.
What has your experience with it been? What other “recommended” tools have not worked for you? How did you handle the folks who continue to tell you it would?
William Goad is Britain’s worst paedophile to be caught and convicted, having attacked 3000 children and having kept score year on year like it was sport and having boasted about attacking 282 kids in one year at his peak of offending. A petition has been raised online which is viewed by the staff of British…
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The other big story in England and Wales last week was the announcement from Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions, that new guidelines into allegations of Child Sexual Abuse would be drawn up to form future policy. The radio broadcast is archived here and the general story here at BBC News.
The Times published a report about the ongoing issue of natural parents circumventing the official channels by using Facebook to contact children that had been adopted. Since The Times sits behind a paywall, the Daily Telegraph’s take on the story, with collected stories in the centre of the page, is here. – CBG