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
Charlie Mangiardi of student newspaper The Heights has published an opinion piece on the Catholic Church, both in general and taking a look at the handling of some abuse scandals out of many. View it here. – CBG
The BBC has reported on a paedophile, now 20, who groomed and abused children online from all over the rest of the UK as well as Scotland when he was a teenager, admitting more than 30 charges. Read the details at the BBC site here. – CBG
Unlike a lot of content from the Oprah Winfrey show, you can watch all of this interview in three sections and there’s none of the usual restriction to the United States. We’d highly recommend that you catch all of it as soon as possible and make up your own mind about the format of the…
In the UK we had a system known as the Criminal Records Bureau, or CRB, for ensuring that adults working with children and vulnerable adults neither possess a criminal record nor had they changed their names to avoid disclosure to prospective employers. This system was due to be replaced by a much wider-reaching checking system…
A female survivor has started on the road to a potential American legal precedent by suing any child pornography collector found in possession of pictures of her, aged 10. Read about it at the New York Times here and since the NYT may go behind the subscription wall after a while, you can google it…
