A teacher who filmed himself abusing girls at his school, sometimes whilst other children were working in the same class, admitted the charges at a court in Bristol, England. He will be sentenced next week and the BBC has the story here. – CBG
The Guardian has published a commentary on the fraudulent story about a mass grave in Texas two days ago which broke after midnight British time. That story is here and the BBC’s video story on it is here – as the latter agency left the TV news feed to ABC whose headline half-hour programme is…
8 Men in Manchester, England, have been charged with conspiracy to commit sexual activity with girls under 16 and other child abuse-related offences. The BBC has the details here. – CBG
The Cutting Edge strand of documentaries on the UK’s independent Channel 4 is 21 years old since its launch and broke new ground as required by its partly public service charter. This documentary about Jaycee Lee Dugard was recorded when she was found as part of the general media scrum in Autumn 2009 and when…
The 20 year old man admitted his guilt in court in Birmingham, England. Since testimony will not be needed, he will be sentenced at the end of July. The BBC has the general summary below in the meantime; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13683387 – CBG
The Guardian has published an interesting article about why it’s dropping the terms “child porn” or “child pornography” from its style guide. It’s a timely article considering that there always seems to be some kind of loaded language game going on when discussing child abuse survivors. For example we have some journalists reporting on “coming…
