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…
The day after one nursery worker was charged on one count of child sexual abuse in England (following the original suspicion of internet grooming of a teenager), the BBC reported that another paedophile who attacked his three victims from the mid 1970s onwards, was jailed by a Scottish court for ten years. The latter story…
Jimmy McGovern is an acclaimed British TV screenwriter. His newest series Accused was co-written with other newer writers for each of its six episodes. The show always starts on the morning that a criminal is about to be sentenced and in flashback we learn the motive for the crime (usually murder, with occasional previous crimes)….
A man who had been held in jail in Spain when his wife was accused of murdering their two children, has been convicted of CSA escalating up to the rape of the same girl into adolescence. He will be sentenced in February though it remains to be seen whether his Spanish and English remand time…
Put it this way, I have not put the usual spoiler warning on this episode. That’s not just because it’s the last season to American viewers and we’ve only just watched it this week in the UK. Any charming family scene in a show like CSI/Miami only serves to make the episode predictable. It’s not…
The author of Many Faces of PTSD, Susan Stocker, was kind enough to send me a free copy of her book. I have to admit that I was a little ambivalent about reviewing it, simply because I’ve never really had an official PTSD diagnosis, or any specific PTSD therapy. Being a child abuse survivor, I’ve…
