Andy Woodward’s harrowing account of the sexual abuse he suffered from the football coach Barry Bennell in the 1980s has led to six people coming forward to the police and the Football Association setting up a helpline for potential victims. Following up on something we linked to earlier this week. Unsurprisingly, once one former player…
It’s bad, and it’s getting worse. When will we realize how much this contributes to many of the other societal problems that we have with addiction and suicide and turn this around? The survey spanned eight years and involved more than 200,000 people living in the US aged between 18 and 64. It concluded that…
Deliver Us From Evil cuts together footage from videotaped depositions by priests, cardinals and other church staff, parents, written testimonies and histories and grown-up victims of both genders describing the abuse suffered as children and the lengths to which the Catholic Church went in order to keep it covered up. It concentrates on one particular…
When Someone You Love is Abused tags: CA Child Sexual Abuse – 6 Stages of Grooming – Oprah.com tags: CA Why Family and Friends Miss Signs of Suicidal Depression tags: CA When an Abused Child Marries tags: CA Blog Against Child Abuse – May 2012 Edition tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my…
The number of disclosed victims to the Jimmy Savile police investigation reached 450 on 12th December 2012, the day after investigating officers thought they had essentially completed the enquiries into Savile’s crimes following a report of one victim on the indpendent UK Island of Guernsey. The BBC had that story here and news of a 200% corresponding increase in call…
There’s been an ongoing debate about the memory of child sexual abuse and whether it would be better to have forgotten entirely and never have remembered after shutting down the initial trauma, compared to processing the experiences through therapy. The Guardian newspaper ran a Weekend magazine article today about a survivor whose memories had to…
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