On the same day new BBC Director General answered questions in front of a Parliamentary Select Committee, the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust and the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust both decided to close down rather than just changing their names. Their funds will be distributed anonymously to other charities. That story is here at…
It’s due to be overshadowed for American readers by the final Presidential Election Debate but it’s BBC vs BBC over in the UK, as one documentary news flagship on one channel – Panorama – shows a documentary investiagating another one on the second largest channel – Newsnight. The editor who took the decision to postpone…
A bit-part actor related to a UK TV comedy legend was jailed for a year on child porn charges and considering his international bail jump in 2004, it’s surprising more time wasn’t added on. The BBC has the story here.
Oakland coach breaks silence about sexual abuse tags: CA Male sex-abuse survivors learn it’s OK to talk about it – Boulder Daily Camera tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
One of Britain’s most notorious paedophiles with an estimated victim count of 3500 victims has died in prison two years after being successfully sued by one of his self-disclosed victims for USD 160,000 (UKP 100,000). The BBC has the story here.
The video testimony of a 21 year old in Texas who was raped aged 8, tied to a tree and set on fire, named his alleged attacker, a convicted paedophile following an attack on a second child. Following years of skin graft operations the victim subseqently died from cancer last year. Texan authorities substituted the original charge to felony murder in a…
