Nine more men have been arrested and charged with child abuse related offences from four years ago involving a single victim. The BBC has the summary here and we’ll bring you the outcome of the case when it concludes.
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The BBC’s Panorama recently examined police failings, in one case where four forces failed to track a sex offender before he abducted and murdered a child. The show has had its second repeat, so you have until Sunday 13th November to watch it on BBC iPlayer at the address below: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016n2s0/Panorama_Cops_Behaving_Badly/ …
Sadly, this did not surprise me. “Around one in five adults aged 16 to 59 (an estimated 6.2 million people) had experienced some form of abuse as a child, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) for the year ending March 2016. But the impact of what is often a hidden crime…
Don’t excuse female predators of children tags: CA Sex-trafficking sting highlights vulnerability of foster children tags: CA Physical and Emotional Abuse Usually Travel Together – HealthyPlace tags: CA Grieving My Lost Childhood tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
This is such a great description of what the trauma of child abuse is like: Repeated trauma is more than the trauma that happened to us. Repeated trauma is really three forms of trauma. The first aspect is the one we typically think of — what happened, the trauma that occurred, over and over. This is the…
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