An English postman was jailed for eight and a half years last week for the grooming and abuse of children and teens through Facebook, MSN Messenger and smaller social networking site Bebo. Michael Williams’s campaign stretched over a five year period and police have numbered the victims as potentially stretching up to 1000, though nearly…
Playing with Fire (PWF), co-written with Kirstie McLellan Day is Theoren Fleury’s autobiography released at the end of last year and delayed by a postal strike in the UK. It goes off in a different direction to Why I Didn’t Say Anything (WIDSA) by Sheldon Kennedy, despite both players having been abused by Graham James….
Sheldon Kennedy’s book, co-written with James Grainger, felt like an accident of timing, having been in Canada in the year it was published and becoming the second book I would ever read in recovery. In between that gap of a year there was a news report about Kennedy and the catch-up explanation by the webmaster…
Chosen tells the story of the three boys at an English public school in the 1960s and their life beyond that time. Director Brian Woods structured the film in three acts describing the three intereviewees’ arrival at the school, followed by their targeting, grooming and abuse. Finally the varied emotional, legal and practical aftermath for…
I got an email toda about something called Movember, which I think Lyndsay explained in her email better than I could: Hi, Mike. Ever thought about growing a moustache? That’s exactly what the folks at Movember are trying to get men to do. Movember is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year…
