Kelley was kind enough to send me a link to a St. Petersburg (FL) Times special report about an all boys reform school. For Their Own Good They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars or worse. The Florida School for Boys — that’d straighten them out….
According to cornut32, Friday April 17th is Wear Blue to Work Day, as part of April being Child Abuse Awareness Month. So, get your blue on, be sure to share with your friends why you’re wearing blue, and then check out the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse, which is scheduled to be published that same…
NOTE: The CSI Episode is from the current season, so if you want to avoid spoilers, skip the latter half of the review I made reference to “Quarry†from the (2005) 6th Season of Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) in my earlier TV reviews. It actually takes the line of investigating a cold…
Caroline Lehman’s book Strong At The Heart from 2005 features interviews with 11 survivors, 4 male and the rest female. She very wisely sets the tape recorder going, lets the interviewees tell their stories and takes their pictures, otherwise her intro at the beginning is her only other contribution aside from a few listings for…
Bringing things completely up to date since Jimmy Breslin’s book is this article from the New York Times from the start of April. I say read it and comment, but I can see no end to any resultant litigation stemming from this revelation. Read it at the NY Times site. – CBG
ESPN is currently running an article about Olympic silver medalist Margaret Hoelzer, who decided after her success at the Olympic Games to use her new found platform to tell her story of being molested as a child. It’s a wonderful article, and there is so much that she talks about that I think many of…
