Staff working for the ex BBC Director General Mark Thompson were allegedly warned about Jimmy Savile on two occasions by two separate sources, Sky News has reported. Their summary from Sunday 28th October, which preceded Savile’s great-niece’s disclosure later the same day, is here.
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times reported on information which came to light after more revelations emerged from the BSA’s files. These documents recorded abusive or potentially abusive adults applying to be Scout leaders or working within the organisation. Whilst the article concentrated on a 21 year period, the complete pile of paperwork covers almost…
The Guardian has published an interesting article about why it’s dropping the terms “child porn” or “child pornography” from its style guide. It’s a timely article considering that there always seems to be some kind of loaded language game going on when discussing child abuse survivors. For example we have some journalists reporting on “coming…
Chuck Wielgus, the executive director of USA Swimming, was due to be inducted into the USA Swimming Hall of Fame, however, with the recent revelations about widespread sexual abuse of minors by swimming coaches, there was an outcry against his induction. According to the Women’s Sports Foundation’s letter to the HOF committee: “more than 100…
Chris Langham is a British actor who downloaded child abuse images six years ago, and was convicted and served time for for this crime after being cleared of other allegations. He’s back in a new film and this subject was discussed on daytime TV show The Wright Stuff as to whether the film would suffer…
An offender already jailed for 19 years for a previous offence was named and received another term of 22 years in a different court for further child sexual abuse and grooming charges in Oldham, England. Sadly the sentences are concurrent, but the offender will be 81 when released, so that’s close enough to life to…
Online groomers rarely pose as children and can succeed in persuading a child to meet in less than half an hour, according to researchers probing the way in which sexual predators target victims online. Clearly, we aren’t doing enough to teach kids about online safety if this is true. This information came from a UK…
