At the end of last week two boys admitted their guilt in a Northern English Court when they abducted and abused two other boys. They will be sentenced in November, but the ages concerned created a high level of debate. The best coverage could be read at the following sites; BBC Daily Mail The Times…
Missouri-based long-term kidnap and CSA survivor Shawn Hornbeck was interviewed by CBS last weekend, with the angle of an interview with someone who endured a similar ordeal to the recently rescued Jaycee Lee Dugard in California. Being a media site we’re not sure how long it will be hosted for, so like the BAFTAs, view…
The Economist quoted a few sentences from the report No Easy Answers, in which 200 victims of various sex crimes were interviewed. It’s 146 pages in total. However, even attwo years old, it’s worth reading properly by itself in order to get the most rounded reaction, even if you might disagree with the report’s eventual…
The Economist is a world-renowned weekly publication, and within the past two weeks it has discussed the imprisonment and probational monitoring of sex offenders in America (that’s the leader article from the print edition’s America section, although this was not the cover story). This met with a very strong reaction online, but you will have…
…Well, he did so last week. Also the general circumstances of Greg LeMond’s disclosure aren’t crystal clear as I post this. I think you’d need to know the background of the actual cycling issues that had gone to the sport’s governing body as these seem to link in with LeMond’s disclosure of sexual abuse as…
We couldn’t let the day finish without remarking on a watershed child abuse case that started two years ago and whose effects are continuing to ripple throughout the UK. The court order preventing the identification of this child’s killers was lifted by a judge. (We don’t know if this ever applied to other countries). We…
