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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Chosen tells the story of the three boys at an English public school in the 1960s and their life beyond that time. Director Brian Woods structured the film in three acts describing the three intereviewees’ arrival at the school, followed by their targeting, grooming and abuse. Finally the varied emotional, legal and practical aftermath for…
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Casey calls out those of us who would say “love is love” and support our LGBTQ friends and family members without standing up and doing what we can to actually make this world safer for them. I’ll go one further. If we want to call ourselves mental health advocates and advocates for trauma survivors we need to do what we can to push for a world that is safe for everyone. We can’t heal when we don’t feel safe, and for too many people in this world, they have no reason to feel safe.
We need to advocate for a world that is safe for them too.