Gawker.com ran an interesting retrospective on the real-life To Catch a Predator show which clearly provided casual inspiration for the CSI Miami episode “To Kill A Predator”. Read John Cook’s article here. The second link regarding a suicide also expands into a larger feature regarding the abortive final episode of the show, the direct link…
A teacher promoted to the head (principal) position, who had previously been jailed for stealing from his school, was also jailed for abusing 13 boys, a girl and an adult at the start of this week. The BBC has the story here including the story crawl inset and at the bottom of the page from…
A nursery worker who had already been reported by co-workers has been jailed for life with a 15-year minimum term for raping a toddler and filming the attack on a mobile phone. Other charges involved the online grooming of twenty-two girls aged 12 to 15. This story was reported in The Sun but their website…
The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), launched in 1994 by Scott Berkowitz in association with Tori Amos, 17 years ago as of the middle of the week. To see the events lined up to mark the anniversary the link is here but there’s a general campaign asking for a donation of USD 17….
The British free telephone service Childline will face cuts when 20% of the volunteer workforce will be withdrawn from the charity. 75 salaried positions will also be made redundant. We’ll comment on this story later, right now the Mail on Sunday has the main story here. – CBG
Following up on our story yesterday, News International has announced that The News of The World, first published in 1843, is to close this Sunday 10th July 2011. The final edition will have no ads following the mass withdrawal by companies and charities and all proceeds will go to a charity that is yet to…
