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…
Rick Belden was kind enough to comment on my post calling for contributors and let me know that he had posted a review of the film we have talked about here before, Boys and Men Healing. Rick does a great job of sharing what the film is about, and how it affected him as he…
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…
