It’s almost a week since teenager Megan Stammers, 15 and her 30 year old teacher Jeremy Forrest failed to use return tickets on a French ferry and the alarm was raised. Since then it has emerged that there have been three other major abuse incidents at the same school, at least one of which also involved a…
From the New Yorker website, you can read a lengthy, but well-researched, look at how pedophiles not only groom children, but groom the adults around those children. Much of the article focuses on the Penn State situation, but there are mentions of other pedophiles and how they managed to be believable and part of the…
A couple of years ago I shared some information about online courses to help raise awareness of child abuse. The same folks who designed those have released an iPhone app called Reduce the Risk: The free app Reduce the Risk shows how to recognise the signs of abuse either in your own relationship or in…
The X Factor’s only into its second American season but will be a decade old in the UK next year. One of the recent Judges, Tulisa Constavlos, discussed her experience of being drug-raped at 16. Since The Sun has the serialisation rights and there are only edited sections at their site before the rest goes behind a paywall, the Daily…
11 Things Everyone Needs You to Know tags: CA Justin Bieber mum Pattie Mallette on her child sex abuse hell tags: CA 4 Ways to Support Someone With Depression tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
A 10-member board has been appointed to decide how the cumulative USD $60million fine ($12m per year for five years) will be distributed. The Guardian has the agency story here. – CBG
