The Guardian has published a commentary on the fraudulent story about a mass grave in Texas two days ago which broke after midnight British time. That story is here and the BBC’s video story on it is here – as the latter agency left the TV news feed to ABC whose headline half-hour programme is…
8 Men in Manchester, England, have been charged with conspiracy to commit sexual activity with girls under 16 and other child abuse-related offences. The BBC has the details here. – CBG
The Cutting Edge strand of documentaries on the UK’s independent Channel 4 is 21 years old since its launch and broke new ground as required by its partly public service charter. This documentary about Jaycee Lee Dugard was recorded when she was found as part of the general media scrum in Autumn 2009 and when…
The 20 year old man admitted his guilt in court in Birmingham, England. Since testimony will not be needed, he will be sentenced at the end of July. The BBC has the general summary below in the meantime; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13683387 – CBG
The Guardian has published an interesting article about why it’s dropping the terms “child porn” or “child pornography” from its style guide. It’s a timely article considering that there always seems to be some kind of loaded language game going on when discussing child abuse survivors. For example we have some journalists reporting on “coming…
It’s not just British courts that hand out life sentences on Fridays. The kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard had their widely reported sentences of 431 years (to “life”) for Philip Garrido and 36 years for his wife formalised overnight (this morning to UK readers). Dugard’s victim impact statement was read by her mother, with further…
