There are two further good message board-based support sites out there for male survivors of child sexual abuse. Since the first one launched itself only a week ago, we’ll wait for permission to come back to link up to them. The other one is MenThriving.org ,which was founded, built by and for adult male survivors…
Spoiler Note: This is a current season episode and the entire plot is outlined below. This second-season episode of The Mentalist features an incident of sexual humiliation which is visited upon the victim rather than being something he was pushed into from a hazing/initiation perspective, as with Criminal Mind’s Elephant’s Memory episode (2008). In the…
Note: The entire storyline of this episode from the last complete season is discussed below For the second time in Numb3rs history, a child abuse storyline has had a supporting character in a running B-plot, except for this time, he’s back rather than leaving and the wedding of two other characters also pads out the…
Pope Benedict XVI has issued an apology for the decades of child abuse inflicted by priests or nuns in Catholic-run institutions. The apology has naturally divided opinion among the faithful and the survivors. Altar Boy author Andrew Madden was one commentator with the view that the actions of the church when dealing with allegations and…
As survivors, the reaction of parents when the child discloses can vary. This is the first case we have seen where the parents have demanded money from a confirmed offender with only a condition of leaving the area rather than a formal report to police. The money was then used as a deposit on a…
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….
