American Catholic Church Commentary
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
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BBC Documentary tackles Abuse Prevention-led Criminal Record Checks
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…
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New Ways to Follow The Site
A couple of new ways, and a reminder of the other ways you can get new posts from the site without actually having to visit the site and check for new entries. Of course, you are always encouraged to come to the site and leave comments! 🙂 For the Child Abuse Survivor Blog, you can…
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English female paedophiles sentenced
Vanessa George and Angela Allen, two of the three paedophiles linked to child abuse images created at a Nursery in Plymouth, England, received indeterminate sentences two days ago. The stated tariff for the pair stands at seven and five years respectively but proof that the offenders are no longer a danger will need to be…
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Bishop of Limerick Resigns following abuse report release
The Bishop of Limerick, Donal Murray, has resigned following the release of the Dublin Archdiocese report which we mentioned at the end of last month. That document spanned almost three decades of abuse and cover-up. As ever, read about it at the BBC here with all other information linked in the right hand box next…
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November’s Carnival Against Child Abuse
In honor of World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Marj set today as the day for this month’s blog carnival, and got an overwhelming response! I even managed to get something submitted that I wrote earlier in the month, in spite of how busy I’ve been. 🙂 As always, go check it out…