In a move reflecting the type of deal received by the kidnapper of Shawn Hornbeck with Missouri legal authorities, the kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard are expected to make full confessions to police in Sacramento, California. The nominal sentences could range up to 440 years for Philip Garrido and 241 years for his wife Nancy,…
I know I haven’t been writing much this month, it’s been a very, very busy month! However, if you’re looking for some good stuff from other survivors, there’s no better place to start than this month’s edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse! Check it out, and consider submitting your own posts in future…
Yesterday, the 1990s killer of 7-year-old Sean Williams was murdered in prison whilst serving his life sentence. The BBC has the story here with other updates in the story crawl at the bottom of the page speculating about the identity of the killer and his previous attack on another infamous English sex offender that murdered…
Gunnar Simonsen was kind enough to sent me a link to this article on Twitter late last week, right as I was going offline for much of the next few days. So, I haven’t had a chance to share it with you here. It is his perspective on being in the court room as a…
One of my frequent notes about auto/biographies featuring child abuse is that they fail to go into relevant detail about the recovery process. Josh Cannon’s Silent Scream, which I read in hardback, sets this right by bookending the whole story with being shipped off to recovery, some in the UK, but at the beginning of…
The Guardian newspaper has a tradition of printing articles designed to generate debate. Today’s true-life Experience page from their Saturday magazine is no exception. The fact that they sank below their usual self-important lofty standards to name the article “I Fell In Love With a Sex Offender” messes with the image somewhat. It’s an interesting…
