The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a wide scale public inquiry into child sexual abuse, which has started in Melbourne. The BBC has the general report here and we expect to update with any further information with the BBC’s usual story aggregate lists from the same link.
“There’s a common assumption that children subjected to abuse or trauma will have problematic emotions across the board, McLaughlin said, such as muted responses to positive situations and extreme reactions to negative ones. But the study’s findings suggest that maltreated children are perhaps more resilient and adaptable than previously thought. “It seems that they are…
Proof again, as if we needed any, that child abuse exists across all of our borders and within all cultural groups. No one segment of society need not be concerned about it, and until we can admit that it’s not happening to “other people”, we will not find any serious solutions. According to a July…
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Quotes from predators: “”[P]arents are so naive—they’re worried about strangers and should be worried about their brother–in–law. They just don’t realize how devious we can be. I used to abuse children in the same room with their parents and they couldn’t see it or didn’t seem to know it was happening.” “I was disabled and…
This is, sadly, all too common, the inability to see people online who disagree with us as real, living people. We see it when we bully people we don’t agree with, or we use derogatory terms to describe someone we don’t really know anything about, or when we tell people to harm themselves. Social platforms…
Peter Connelly’s mother Tracy, who successfully blamed her boyfriend and his brother for the killing of her child, will stay in prison after being ruled a continuing danger to the public after five years. She reported her own fears about revenge attacks earlier this summer if she receives parole. The Mirror has the story here….
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Let’s begin a discussion about the victims, the emotional and psychological pain they suffer, some for a lifetime.
RT @SurvivorNetwork: Australia Begins National CSA Inquiry: The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a wide scale public i. …