As part of our general late summer catchup, UK Newspaper the Daily Mail published two stories about false allegations of rape and child sexual abuse over the long weekend at the end of August. The first, which had hallmarks of some American college cases where consensual sex was recorded on a mobile phone and proved…
During our previous review of the 2009 documentary “Captive For 18 Years: The Jaycee Lee Story,” we remarked on how unusual it was that there was no title-card update regarding the sentencing of the kidnappers of Jaycee Dugard when the show was re-run in 2010 at the end of the trial. Following the release of…
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
