Facebook Used to Trap Alleged Historical Attacker
The husband of a woman attacked a decade ago whilst at school set up a sting using Facebook to trap her alleged attacker. The Daily Mail has the story here.
One newspaper reported on the Abbott of Downside’s public apology to historical abuse victims over the weekend. That report is here. The Daily Telegraph updated the blog on this topic, covering some possible innaccuracies in a Times report, which is probably behind the regular paywall by now, so you can read the disputed sections here….
This post isn’t necessarily about abuse survivors, but I think it applies. Healing from abuse is similar, there are good days and then there are not so good days. Both are OK. We bombard ourselves with a litany of questions: Why the heck am I sooo tired? What’s wrong with me? Why does this always…
That’s the take-away from this more recent study. We cannot point to childhood trauma as the explanation for all mental health issues in adulthood. Sometimes, it is a contributing factor. Sometimes, it isn’t. Mental Health is much more complicated. There is no simple explanation for why it happens, and there’s no simple explanation for why it’s been getting worse. Beware those who want to paint all mental health issues with the same brush. Human beings are a bit more complicated than that.
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 rest of the paedophiles associated with the first English Nursery child abuse cluster from late 2009 were formally sentenced today. Only one of the female offenders, Tracey Dawber succeeded with the “Man Made Me Do It” excuse and received four years, Tracy Lyons received seven and Colin Blanchard, lionised by the media and one…