Series 8 of Law and Order Criminal Intent returned to UK Screens last night. It opened with a Goren and Eames story after a drug-dealing blackmailer is murdered. Since it’s not the Special Victims Unit strand, the child abuse angle follows through to the end as an added twist. However it receives equal weight in…
Holby City is a long running, soap-style hospital drama that runs almost without a break all year round – currently in “season” 13. The end of the episode from 2nd August 2011 introduced Andy, an old school friend of a regular character, Dr Greg Douglas, who disclosed sexual abuse at the hands of a soccer…
Following his arrest in 2008 on child abuse charges, Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life imprisonment in just over half an hour after he fathered a child with a 15 year old girl and abused a 12 year old. Whether any further charges are laid against him in future remains to be seen, but right…
The Guardian has featured another rape victim’s story, this time in a more news-based single feature format as it forms the summary of book by the author of the piece. Read it here or Facebook readers can copy and paste the following link; http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/30/rape-justice-after-20-years – CBG
AOL News reported last week that another male survivor of abuse at the camp where Republican Scott Brown was abused as a child, has disclosed and reported his own abuse to the authorities following the publication of the politician’s memoir, Despite not being the most popular man of the past few months due to wrangling…
Gawker.com ran an interesting retrospective on the real-life To Catch a Predator show which clearly provided casual inspiration for the CSI Miami episode “To Kill A Predator”. Read John Cook’s article here. The second link regarding a suicide also expands into a larger feature regarding the abortive final episode of the show, the direct link…
