During the past week when a report broke in Rotheram, Yorkshire, Channel 5 showed a 2-part drama regarding child abuse, called Suspects. Since the channel itself made the programme, you can watch it online for a year if you head to their main catchup site using a computer. The front page is here at the following address:
http://www.channel5.com/demand5
and search for “Suspects” without the quotes, the episodes are marked series 2 episodes 3 and 4.
“My middle son told me something the other night that made my stomach twist into a painful knot. He told me that his preschool teacher wasn’t very nice to him, but he hadn’t told me about it before because he knew that I liked her. This may seem like a little thing. But, it isn’t…
I think the folks at Horowitz Law have got this right: “Most sex offenders, therefore, don’t fall into some easily-identifiable, logical category. They can be young or old, shy or outgoing, tall or short, and of course rich or poor. We wish this weren’t the case, of course. Because this reality leads to a disturbing…
Aside from the advice for healing, the facts around incest will blow you away: Incest is defined as sexual contact between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal, such as in the case of parents and children, first cousins, and siblings. Incest usually takes the form of an older family member…
Spoiler Note: This episode is from the most recent season and the plot is discussed below. “Justified” is part of a story arc in the last series of CSI:NY rather than a strict two-parter. The body in question was discovered during a previous story, and then becomes one of the two cases in this episode…
It’s true. We don’t see a lot of memoirs being written by adults who were neglected, and outside of some really atrocious cases, we rarely see the details of childhood neglect splashed across the front page, but these stories happen all of the time – “Jordan’s teacher knows she should be more sympathetic. She admits…
