The story is very familiar and has been widely covered by television news and documentary teams across the world; Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped aged 11 in 1991 and only returns in 2009 with her children. After missing multiple chances to catch her kidnapper, the father of her children, and his wife, they are picked…
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 was last week’s “new” episode for UK viewers from series 10, though it’s a rerun to North America but is still good to watch after all the twists and turns have been revealed. A woman shows up at the door of the family of a missing teenage girl, sporting the same tatoo and claiming…
Continuing our general catchup, the founder of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) and the author of Cry Silent Tears and Cry Myself to Sleep were two of the three male survivors of Child Sexual Abuse interviewed on The Moore Show at the start of the month. The full programme is up…
UK children’s charity Action For Children has called on the government to update the specific laws regarding child neglect which are now 80 years old. The BBC has the story here and the press releases at the charity’s own site are here (look for April 23rd entries). – CBG
It’s a familar refrain in the UK that the European Court of Human Rights interferes in the law of sovreign countries. Therefore it was refreshing to read last week that the Court upheld the right of a sovereign country to retain the ban on incest. In a less objective mood you’d have to wonder why…
