Freddie Starr, who offered to talk to police voluntarily last week, was arrested by police investigating claims of indecent assault made by one woman and bailed for the second time between Thursday 1st November and the last weekend. He also disclosed to the media about his own abuse at the same time. That article is in the Daily Mail here with extra clips of an interview appearance on Independent Television’s This Morning Show.
(ed. note- Survivors have a long history of spending so much time surviving childhood that they never really learn how to be adults. Ken’s review of this book, which provides financial advice, can therefore be seen as an attempt to bridge that skills gap.) They call it retail therapy but it’s all too easy to…
Continuing our general catchup, the founder of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) and the author of Cry Silent Tears and Cry Myself to Sleep were two of the three male survivors of Child Sexual Abuse interviewed on The Moore Show at the start of the month. The full programme is up…
I wanted to share this with you because John Oliver makes some important points about how we have made so many strides in acceptance and encouraging people that it is OK to ask for help, and then the system doesn’t provide it. Sadly things have gotten so bad that we’re trying just about anything, and even the technology isn’t living up to the hype.
Real people with real needs are left with nowhere to turn. A society that claims to care about people cannot accept that status quo.
It’s a familar refrain in the UK that the European Court of Human Rights interferes in the law of sovreign countries. Therefore it was refreshing to read last week that the Court upheld the right of a sovereign country to retain the ban on incest. In a less objective mood you’d have to wonder why…
There is a lot to digest in this article, so I’m not going to pull out a quote, instead I’m going to simply suggest you go read the entire thing. As you do though, I think there are two important points, controversial as they may seem. Kids who are sexually inappropriate with other kids are…
For sports fans in the US, John Saunders is a familiar name from his years on ESPN. His memoir has been released posthumously, and little did I realize the connection between that and child abuse and mental health struggles, but this review from Mental Health America makes it clear that there is definitely a connection….
