The Independent newspaper in England has provided some of the most authoritative coverage of the long-standing North Wales Care Home child abuse scandal dating back from the 1970s onwards. The paper has followed up with extra reporting after 76 of the 140 recorded cases were revealed to be brand new, following earlier general coverage. That…
Two people that posted images online which were claimed to be Robert Thompson and John Venables, the 1993 murderers of two year old James Bulger, as adults, received suspended sentences in the other big story from last week. Our views on revenge of any kind following child abuse are well known and it’s a bigger…
As far as we’re concerned this is not the biggest news story of last week, which broke on Friday 27th April. Clifford’s naming follows that of Jim Davidson, Freddie Starr and Rolf Harris. The allegations are reported with the usual prurience disguised as public interest and the assumption of being in an alternative judiciary and there is no small hint of…
From Monday 29th April there is an update due on further allegations of historical child sexual abuse at North Welsh residential care homes from the 1970s onwards. Over 100 further disclosures were received by police following last year’s initial enquiry regarding the Bryn Estyn and other notorious care homes in Wales. The BBC has the…
A mother who abused her adopted daughter by forcing her to become pregnant in order to bear a fourth child, was jailed for a derisory five years for her crime. The Guardian’s Sunday newspaper the Observer has the story here.
Catching up on the biggest stories of last week, BBC News reported on a vigilante group posing as children when online in order to build up evidence against, and then confront, suspected paedophiles. Debate was generally split on the issue. The public were mostly in favour of the move in that local town, the police were…
