A major report into 60 years of abuse at Catholic-run institutions in Ireland was released today. The report is available further down the page as a PDF. The reaction from the largest Survivors’ action group is also archived at the BBC website. The link is here. – CBG
The BBC published a magazine article about child sexual abuse by females in the UK, Â last week. View it here. – CBG
The Survivors Club isn’t a book that is specifically about child abuse survivors, but there are some interesting takeaways from the book that I think are very relative to abuse survivors. Due to that, I’m not going to do a normal “review” type of post, but just bring up a couple of points of interest….
The acceptance speech from the BAFTAs, which was pulled from Youtube last week, has been re-hosted officially on the official site for the documentary itself, where, ahead of any second, more commercial DVD release, you may still view the film or just comment on the speech and/or interview already featured at the BAFTA website. The…
Deliver Us From Evil cuts together footage from videotaped depositions by priests, cardinals and other church staff, parents, written testimonies and histories and grown-up victims of both genders describing the abuse suffered as children and the lengths to which the Catholic Church went in order to keep it covered up. It concentrates on one particular…
Louis Theroux’s Documentary A Place For Paedophiles is a film made at Coalinga, a “halfway house†jail for Californian paedophiles who have served their primary sentences but who have been deemed unsafe for release back into society. Theroux wrote a companion article about the documentary on the BBC News website and you can read it…
