The Economist is a world-renowned weekly publication, and within the past two weeks it has discussed the imprisonment and probational monitoring of sex offenders in America (that’s the leader article from the print edition’s America section, although this was not the cover story). This met with a very strong reaction online, but you will have…
…Well, he did so last week. Also the general circumstances of Greg LeMond’s disclosure aren’t crystal clear as I post this. I think you’d need to know the background of the actual cycling issues that had gone to the sport’s governing body as these seem to link in with LeMond’s disclosure of sexual abuse as…
We couldn’t let the day finish without remarking on a watershed child abuse case that started two years ago and whose effects are continuing to ripple throughout the UK. The court order preventing the identification of this child’s killers was lifted by a judge. (We don’t know if this ever applied to other countries). We…
…That’s the summing up of the views reported by the BBC over the weekend, which followed a press release noting that the most overstretched Child Sexual Abuse therapy services in a year had waiting lists of up to a year. There was also a marked rise in calls from Scottish children. The service is backed…
The Invisible Youth Network is an organization that is trying to reach the estimated 1.5 homeless children in America, with a focus on those who are runaways and victims of child abuse. Recently, the director of their Department of Child Abuse Services, Wayneho Kam, sent me an email asking if I could try to help…
So, when I originally starting using Twitter to push out updates on what was going on with the Abuse Survivors Network, I thought I’d probably get a few followers to that account among the members of the network, and maybe have a few tweets about survivor issues, but not necessarily much. As it turns out…
