This morning BBC Breakfast news announced a Child Defence App for smartphones, which is designed to try to spot paedophiles pretending to be children when chatting online. The expert interviewed was a former police officer that posed as a child himself to try to detect outright offenders who didn’t pretend, but the impact of this…
Police in Leicestershire issued yet another warning to parents regarding Facebook, as paedophile hackers have faked the names of real modelling agencies in a bid to groom children into posing online. Read the BBC story here. – CBG
I just wanted to take a moment and mention, once again, that if you are interested in guest blogging a book or movie review on the site, drop me a line and let me know. There are so many good survivor stories being published every day, and Comic Book Guy and I can’t possibly read…
Sarah Burleton, the author of Why Me? was kind enough to offer me a free electronic copy of her memoir to review. Luckily, I had some spare time, and her book isn’t very long, so I jumped at the opportunity to read it. 😉 Why Me? is Sarah’s story, plain and simple. She shares some…
It’s been two days since Anne Marie Carrie, the new Chief Executive of the long standing UK charity Barnado’s sounded the warning about internal child trafficking in the UK for child abuse purposes. As usual, the media have moved on to other things, leaving interested parties to read their 30-page official report. You can find…
The rest of the paedophiles associated with the first English Nursery child abuse cluster from late 2009 were formally sentenced today. Only one of the female offenders, Tracey Dawber succeeded with the “Man Made Me Do It” excuse and received four years, Tracy Lyons received seven and Colin Blanchard, lionised by the media and one…
