Three Jordanian Paralympic Athletes accused of child abuse in Antrim, Northern Ireland have been withdrawn from the games by their Paralympic association and bailed to return to the country in October for trial. The BBC has the summary here. – CBG
As a postscript to my earlier piece about revenge, Anonymous had targeted anyone they believed to be viewing child abuse images anywhere in the world. That was a month ago, so we looked around for any general fallout which may not have been reported by the media amid the Olympic circus. So far a Belgian…
The Imposter is a new documentary about the 1990s disappearance of 13 year old Nicholas Barclay from Texas, which will be released on Friday 24th August in the UK. As well as the director and real-life private investigator being interviewed on BBC TV at the start of the week, UK Newspaper The Daily Telegraph interviewed…
The Girl Who Became Three Boys is one of a number of online chat or social-networking-related crime documentaries aired by Channel 4 in the Spring of 2012. Sadly it looks as though the producers watched a little too much of TallHotBlond from 2009 which also used closeups of computer screens to present much of the…
A teacher was sentenced to one effective year for each of the students she slept with in Texas, under laws criminalising student-teacher sexual encounters with student age being irrelevant. Fox news has the story here and the link at the end has further comments from one of the witnesses in the case. The debate in the…
In addition to the webmaster’s comment on the main blog about media coverage, I’d just like to re-iterate my own stuck record about revenge just not working. This has no basis in religion and forgiveness whatsoever, merely practicality. Movies make revenge look glamorous and consequence-free, which we know is nonsense. There’s always a trial in…
