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.
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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.
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After evading capture for four years in as many states, a teacher accused of making child abuse images using school equipment has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted list. The BBC has the general background here although the alleged offender won’t be immediately taken off the list even if he gets captured or killed by Federal…
Justtell.org has been around for at least the last two years, operating out of NYC. Their site is so cleverly designed, with artwork by its teen volunteers/staff, that it definitely needs another mention so it doesn’t fall off the Facebook crawl. Their video explains the organisation and features comment by the founder. The site is…
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The paedophile that kidnapped and abused a 10 year old boy last year in the Midlands was jailed for a minimum of seven years with an indeterminate sentence on Monday 5th November. Considering that kidnapping itself may have attracted a much stronger sentence and the offender kidnapped a different child before this case, the sentence…
Nathan from DadWagon sent me a note today to let me know about an interview they did on the site with Joel Johnson. Joel is a gadget geek, and has worked on such well-known blogs as Gizmodo, and BoingBoing. Recently, he posted on his personal site about having grown up a victim of sexual abuse…
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