Overnight for UK readers, Jerry Sandusky’s sentence was decided by a Pennsylvania court at 30 to 60 years for the abuse of 10 boys abused either through Penn State University or the charity where he worked to help troubled children.
NBC has the story here with the sentencing order as a PDF and further reaction to the sentencing in a link near the top centre of the page.
– CBG
Interesting description of what it’s like to deal with social anxiety. As a survivor I was never officially diagnosed as having social anxiety but I know that I was extremely shy, fearful of how other people viewed me, and generally avoided most situations that called for a lot of personal interaction. As I healed from…
We have to address societal issues that cause harm. Politicians who don’t address both the lack of mental health resources and the various political issues that actively harm the mental health of all of us don’t deserve our vote. If you consider yourself a mental health advocate, consider how your representatives have voted and where they stand on these issues. Have they cut mental health funding, opposed mental health support in schools, or supported laws that cause active mental harm to some segments of the population?
Consider that before you go to the voting booth this year.
Deliver Us From Evil cuts together footage from videotaped depositions by priests, cardinals and other church staff, parents, written testimonies and histories and grown-up victims of both genders describing the abuse suffered as children and the lengths to which the Catholic Church went in order to keep it covered up. It concentrates on one particular…
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Like youth sports, boarding schools, or youth religious groups, anywhere you have the combination of adults with power and control over children, you’re going to have predators attempting to use that power and control to abuse children. Add to it the money and glamour of Hollywood child actors, and there isn’t even a question that…
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