According to the Daily Mail, Ghaddafi had secret chambers where he would routinely rape and abuse young women and boys as young as 14. When he visited schools he would identify those he wanted taken with a paternalistic pat on the head on the head during his visit. Those students would then later be rounded…
That’s the report out of the UK, about a ring setup in the Phillipines, where acts of child abuse were being streamed via a webcam to paying customers all over the world. It would be easy to simply declare technology the evil party here, after all if there was no internet, this wouldn’t have been…
434 Applications for witnesses to speak and a timescale from 1922 to 1995 makes the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry, the largest in British history. The BBC has the story here although any evidence leading to a prosecution of accused former employees will be held in closed sessions.
I think this research shows the reality of growing up in dysfunctional homes. The researchers compared two groups: children who were raised by their biological parents and children who were raised in an institution such as an orphanage. They performed functional magnetic resonance imaging on the children and looked at differences in amygdala activity when…
Chosen is a piece-to-camera, spoken-word documentary about three boys abused at a prep school, which was won a BAFTA award the following year. The former headmaster at the school from 1959 to 1970 has been convicted of child abuse during the timeline discussed in the film. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg isn’t well liked…
In English law, sentencing guidelines were changed last week by the Crown Prosecution Service to increase minimum sentences for rape and sexual assaults, raising the tariff to start at 15 years and with other factors taken into account. Despite this change, Ian Watkins was subject to the law in Wales. What connects both countries is…
