One story about a follow-up interview of a public figure relating to child abuse disappeared from the Daily Mail’s website over the weekend. If the story moves on and can be reported we’ll bring you that one at a later date.
In a separate story last weekend a man who emigrated to Australia was extradited back to Britain following historical abuse allegations between 1960 and 1974. The BBC has that story here.
In a move reflecting the type of deal received by the kidnapper of Shawn Hornbeck with Missouri legal authorities, the kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard are expected to make full confessions to police in Sacramento, California. The nominal sentences could range up to 440 years for Philip Garrido and 241 years for his wife Nancy,…
“The most maddening—and the most common—response I get when I write about the daughters and sons of unloving mothers is that people point out that the ones I write about were “only” (quotations marks mine, and meant ironically) verbally abused. Science knows better, but the culture does not; the mantra seems to be that if…
This is important. A child may never disclose to you, or someone may not disclose to you until they are an adult. Regardless, learn how to respond. A child who discloses needs you to respond correctly, and adult may not need it as much, but it helps us out a lot if you can. Evidence…
Society reinforces that all the time- every time we hush our voices when speaking of sexual abuse, every time someone says rape is a ‘fate worse than death,’ or we talk about sexual abuse being a ‘life sentence,’ every time we’re made to feel guilty for making others uncomfortable, every time we have to comfort…
I came across this video of Emma Jean Taylor’s TedTalk about child abuse the other day and wanted to share it with you. First because, as the title of the video says, we teach kids to be wary of strangers all the time but we don’t teach them to also be wary of people they know, despite the fact that up to 90% of sexual abuse victims know the abuser.
I fell into that category. I remember learning all about windowless vans and strangers with candy. No one ever told me that someone within my own family could also be a sexual abuser.
