What did I get when I read A Brother’s Journey by Richard Pelzer today? A shot of confidence and a flash of inspiration from a male physical abuse survivor. A wish to write my own story tempered with the need for a new day job, but renewed optimism and self-esteem in making that application and…
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
Jimmy Breslin’s book, “The Church That Forgot Christ“, is the account of the author’s growing discovery of and his own personal and the national reaction to, the Catholic Church child abuse scandals in the US. I had to buy the book from an Amazon seller in Ireland since it was essentially only an import to…
Linking in with my review of Robbie Garner’s Book Nobody Came, The Guardian has published a feature in its Weekend magazine section two years on from the start of the enquiry and thus updating anything you might have read in the Daily Mail’s story trail from the same post. You can view it below; Jersey…
There is now that much controversy surrounding the events at the two children’s homes on Jersey, an independently governed island off the British Isles, which probably won’t result in any answers, that the best thing to do is read the views of the children that went through them in absence of any proper legal proceedings….
