The Saturday 30th June edition of The Guardian has a special feature on sexual abuse committed by police officers, which as usual for this newspaper focuses on women as the victims to the exclusion of the minimum 16 recorded offences against children in their own data. You’ll find the report here and when clicking “download the…
Following CBG’s post about a priest convicted of covering up sexual abuse, I received an email informing me of a blog post written by Alan Collins, a UK solicitor who specializes in abuse claims. In it, he provides a recap of the case, and what it means going forward. Granted, as a solicitor part of…
An offender already serving 19 years for numerous grooming and child abuse charges has been named after his conviction on 30 further charges. He will be re-sentenced at the beginning of August 2012 and the Metro free newspaper’s report is here.
A few years ago, I took a look at using Disqus for the comments on my blogs, but ditched the idea because of some technical difficulties. Since the move to using WordPress on the site, I had sort of forgotten my desire to use Disqus and wasn’t exactly unhappy with the comments features within WordPress,…
Just for the balance of showing it’s not just America that has fundamentalist pressure groups, The Guardian carried an article in its Saturday 23rd June paper regarding a UK pressure group that think Gay Marriage will lead to incest, a great way to trivialise child abuse in general even further than wasting two years on a…
A new twist in the ever-present Catholic Child Abuse crisis happened around the time of Jerry Sandusky’s conviction. This time a priest was convicted of covering up abuse by failing to report priests to either authorities or the new dioceses where offending priests had been moved. The BBC has the summary here. – CBG
