With all of the celebrity suicides in the news recently, John Grohol took advantage of the uptick in people looking for information about suicide and untreated depression to give a brief glimpse into the risk among young adults, and some of the warning signs to look for in this post today. I’m copying the important…
William Goad is Britain’s worst paedophile to be caught and convicted, having attacked 3000 children and having kept score year on year like it was sport and having boasted about attacking 282 kids in one year at his peak of offending. A petition has been raised online which is viewed by the staff of British…
CNN broke a story today about a doctor arrested for abusing 102 girls and a boy on his patient lists. The video report is here and being a new story, we’re not sure how much of it will remain online so catch it quickly. It’s more shocking that one single disclosure after a decade was…
The Irish version of the Sunday Independent, which is a different newspaper to the British version, published an editorial yesterday questioning the effectiveness of the recent resignation of several Catholic Bishops. Read it here. – CBG
Oprah Winfrey’s female abusers special has yet to air. In between the two specials grouping male and female abusers separately in double episode specials, Gregg Mulligan was interviewed, as a survivor of physical abuse, rape, and being sold into child prostitution by his mother. It’s presented as a complete story in the one episode this…
In addition to the op-ed piece in The Heights today, The Pope also met with Irish bishops following the publication of the archdiocese report into the child abuse scandal in Ireland. As usual for a BBC report the collected stories are in the right-hand column, and you can view the story here. – CBG
