Dead Liberal MP Daily Mail Feature
In one of their extended articles at the end of last week, the Daily Mail printed an expanded article regarding a dead English Liberal politician’s abuse accusations from the 1960s onwards. That article is here.
In one of their extended articles at the end of last week, the Daily Mail printed an expanded article regarding a dead English Liberal politician’s abuse accusations from the 1960s onwards. That article is here.
Kudos to Australia for recognizing the risk and doing what they can to make everyone involved more aware! “The Bravehearts founder, Hetty Johnston, said Gymnastics Australia had shown leadership in setting new benchmarks in child protection. “What the royal commission has discovered is that you need children to understand their rights and when they feel…
This is true for adults too, but for children this is especially damaging. “For instance, at one presentation, a girl told Harris that some images she’d shared online had spread beyond her control. “She basically said, ‘You know, every time somebody recognizes me, every time someone smiles at me or whispers in my presence, I’m…
“The mother’s archetypal role is as a nurturer and protector, but challenging new Australian research is shedding light on the little-known crime of mother-son sexual abuse.” This is a really in-depth article about research into an area of sexual abuse that rarely gets mentioned, even among those of us who talk about child abuse online….
The Guardian is running a blog series on American prisons. The most recent entry tackled prison rape in private facilities and discussed one ex-con’s fight for full disclosure on sexual assault statistics using his minority shareholding. That article is here and the link for the whole series to date is here.
That’s our blind spot. We’re so busy looking for creepy, anti-social, stereotypes that we miss the charming abusers right in our midst, and we miss all the signs and hints that our kids might be dropping because we just didn’t stop to consider that adult to be dangerous. We just assumed they were safe, and our kids would somehow know better anyway.
Clearly, that strategy isn’t working.