Guardian Elizabeth Smart Retrospective
Recently UK newspaper The Guardian covered the aftermath of the Elizabeth Smart case. That article is here.
Recently, former boxer Mike Tyson publicly admitted to having been sexually abused as a child. As the Atlanta Black Star quotes Darwin Hobbs: “There is so much stigma around sexual abuse. But when someone like Tyson, a strong Black man, reveals it’s happened to him, it really helps reduce this notion that you are counted…
Four months after her initial arrest, one nursery worker, Vanessa George, today admitted sexually abusing at least 30 out of the 200 children she was looking after in Plymouth, England. She then sent the pornographic abuse images via her mobile phone to two other paedophiles, Angela Allen of Nottingham and Colin Blanchard in Rochdale. The…
That’s the report out of the UK, about a ring setup in the Phillipines, where acts of child abuse were being streamed via a webcam to paying customers all over the world. It would be easy to simply declare technology the evil party here, after all if there was no internet, this wouldn’t have been…
Unfortunately, we all fall for what is actually bad reporting about science. – “In his book Bad Science (UK), Ben Goldacre explains that “anyone who ever expresses anything with certainty [relating to health] is basically wrong, because the evidence for cause and effect in this area is almost always weak and circumstantial.” The same is…
News of the Conneticut Shootings cleared worldwide news schedules yesterday. Before this, the UK government decided that an automatic internet block on viewing porn at the ISP level, forcing those wishing to view adult images to opt in, was impractical. The BBC has the story here along with the historical story crawl.
The BBC has linked to the Independent Inquiry In Child Sex Abuse’s report about Clergy Abuse in the Church of England. In the middle and end boxouts it also generally explains how the enquiry works as a general reminder, while the report itself is linked at the start of paragraph 2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54433295 Also on: Facebook…