434 Applications for witnesses to speak and a timescale from 1922 to 1995 makes the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry, the largest in British history. The BBC has the story here although any evidence leading to a prosecution of accused former employees will be held in closed sessions.
Note: This episode is from the current season ending Spring 2012 and the full plot is discussed below. CSI has had some excellent abuse related episodes in the past, even when “Blood Drops” from the very first season employed cheap shock twists. Sadly after many excellent episodes, with this episode from the latest season just ending for the…
This is an interesting take on life in a mental health treatment facility and how different patients get treated differently. Part of me knows that this is unfair, but part of me also realizes that it’s human nature to be friendlier to people who make your job easier than those who don’t, and the people…
I found this entire article to be really interesting, because what child abuse survivor doesn’t struggle with this exact thing in one form or another? “The hardest part of recovering from a toxic childhood isn’t just coping with the fact that your emotional needs weren’t met or that you were actively neglected or even marginalized,…
That’s the news out of the UK this week, but it is not without it’s detractors. Frankly, I’m not exactly sure it shouldn’t have detractors. What I continue to fall back on is this quote in the first link. ‘We need a clear, concise and workable definition of child maltreatment — an alternative code that…
I find Erin’s story interesting because I think it is easy to look at a teenager, especially one who’s not exhibiting the signs we saw on the TV news story about teenagers and drugs/depression, and assume “it’s just a phase”. It might not be: “I clung to the idea that mental illness came for other…
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