In a fairly quiet note last week, the investigation into accusations by two former Syracuse University ball boys against former assistant coach Bernie Fine was dropped, without any charges being filed. Coming on the heels of the Jerry Sandusky case, this seemingly similar case got lots of national media attention in the US when the…
The Daily Mail published and updated its view on the mistaken identification of the wrong politician in the North Wales child abuse scandal last Friday, updating it on Monday 12th November. That article is here. This first article from last week was not the hatchet job on Stephen Messham implied by one of the Independent on Sunday’s articles linked…
The Daily Mail reported on the inquest regarding the murder of a convicted paedophile in 2008 which remains unsolved. That article from the weekend is here.
Some of the best journalism of past weekend on the English and Welsh child abuse scandals ofthe past 40 years came from the Independent on Sunday. In addition to its own retrospective on the North Wales Jillings report (here in case the link didn’t appear in the previous story) they also profiled a family of…
The Jillings report, the first concluding document from the original investigation into systematic abuse at Welsh children’s care homes, has been rediscovered in council archives. This follows public demand for it to be fully released last week. The article is here with last Thursday’s quoted demand for the report in the story crawl at the end. The Independent on…
Within the past 36 hours a new wave of criticism hit the BBC after it emerged that former Director General George Entwhistle received a payoff higher than his contractual obligations. The general report link summarising everything to date is here at the BBC News site and the summary of the specially commissioned report, one of…
