CNN broke a story today about a doctor arrested for abusing 102 girls and a boy on his patient lists. The video report is here and being a new story, we’re not sure how much of it will remain online so catch it quickly. It’s more shocking that one single disclosure after a decade was…
The Irish version of the Sunday Independent, which is a different newspaper to the British version, published an editorial yesterday questioning the effectiveness of the recent resignation of several Catholic Bishops. Read it here. – CBG
Spoiler Warning: This is a current-season episode, and half the plot is discussed below. The opening of the episode will show any C/SA victim that the episode is about male rape with the showing of a textbook reaction. The other indication is that unlike most CSI cases, this victim isn’t dead, and the textbook reactions…
Oprah Winfrey’s female abusers special has yet to air. In between the two specials grouping male and female abusers separately in double episode specials, Gregg Mulligan was interviewed, as a survivor of physical abuse, rape, and being sold into child prostitution by his mother. It’s presented as a complete story in the one episode this…
Robert Brown’s blog isn’t new, but is very well designed and features some extra video footage, re-activated from when the webmaster met and worked with Mike Lew, author of male abuse survival bible Victims No Longer. You can find his blog here. – CBG
In addition to the op-ed piece in The Heights today, The Pope also met with Irish bishops following the publication of the archdiocese report into the child abuse scandal in Ireland. As usual for a BBC report the collected stories are in the right-hand column, and you can view the story here. – CBG
