Mail on Sunday Leader Article on Jimmy Savile
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten wrote exclusively for the Mail on Sunday regarding the Jimmy Savile case. That article is here.
I’ve written before about the ACE studies and surveys, and if you’ve read those you know that I think everything about ACE scores needs to be taken with a grain of salt. However, until my wife shared this news article from her alma mater I had not noticed that the question about childhood sexual abuse is somewhat more specific than it should be. Apparently, Robyn Dolson noticed it too, and decided to use her thesis work investigating why, and how it impacts the results. In short, the question about sexual abuse refers to being abused by an adult or someone 5 years or older than you.
As many of us can attest, that leaves out quite a few survivors who were abused by someone in their peer, or a slightly older, group, which happens quite frequently.
Some of the best journalism of past weekend on the English and Welsh child abuse scandals ofthe past 40 years came from the Independent on Sunday. In addition to its own retrospective on the North Wales Jillings report (here in case the link didn’t appear in the previous story) they also profiled a family of…
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…
RASAC Stands for Rape And Sexual Abuse Counselling and is an offshoot of the Winchester Area Community Action group. It’s been going since 1995 but recently received more promotional support with leaflets and cards denoting support from Hampshire County Council, the police authority and NHS Hampshire. The charity tackles any unwanted sexual encounter from either…
“As a nation, Pakistan has not paid nearly enough attention to dealing with the issue. Meanwhile, thousands of innocent lives have fallen prey to various types of abuse — including physical, psychological and even sexual.” It’s true of most countries, but it seems as if Pakistan is seeing the effects of not paying attention to…
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…
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