The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a wide scale public inquiry into child sexual abuse, which has started in Melbourne. The BBC has the general report here and we expect to update with any further information with the BBC’s usual story aggregate lists from the same link.
April 2013 has been rebranded to National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month rather than having a general child abuse focus. It’s an interesting choice but since calls from adult survivors to RAINN’s helpline have risen by 200% following Penn State and other collegiate abuse scandals of last year, the new focus is understandable. RAINN…
On Good Friday it was reported that Russell Brand accused two British showbusiness stars of paedophilia. This connects with another story from the middle of last month as reported in London’s free newspaper The Evening Standard where for the a high-ranking prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service told the press there would be further arrests connected to…
Rising cases of abuse, neglect: The good, the bad, the ugly tags: CA Solitary Confinement: Mental Illness and Isolation tags: CA Blog Against Child Abuse – March 2013 Edition tags: CA Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Depression tags: CA Are More Female Teachers Having Inappropriate Relationships With Teen Students? tags: CA Author Jayneen Sanders offers tips…
Men’s Alternative Safe House forced to close due to lack of funding tags: CA Actress and porn star Traci Lords reveals she was raped in Steubenville Ohio where two high school boys are on trial tags: CA Helping your kids protect themselves from abuse – Marc Klaas tags: CA What to Expect in Your First…
It’s not directly child abuse-related but one story that stuck around during the start of the year is that of homeless man Billy Ray Harris who returned an engagement ring to someone that placed it in his cup by mistake when giving change. It’s an understatement to say that the story became a worldwide phenomenon…
