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…
ESPN is currently running an article about Olympic silver medalist Margaret Hoelzer, who decided after her success at the Olympic Games to use her new found platform to tell her story of being molested as a child. It’s a wonderful article, and there is so much that she talks about that I think many of…
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…
British Newspaper The Guardian has chosen talking left-wing-to-liberal nonsense as its sacred and ongoing mission for the past two centuries. Occasionally its journalism can prove thought-provoking without being as irritating as usual. That’s why it was some of the best journalism from the Guardian’s Weekend Magazine recently, to feature views from the relatives of survivors…
British Satellite Station Sky Television recently re-ran this old episode of Cold Case from its very first season. Cold Case comes across as all gloss and zero substance. Considering this is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, that’s perhaps an easy and unfair charge, but it’s not helped by episodes as lazily written as this one. It…
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….
