That’s the news out of the UK this week, but it is not without it’s detractors. Frankly, I’m not exactly sure it shouldn’t have detractors. What I continue to fall back on is this quote in the first link. ‘We need a clear, concise and workable definition of child maltreatment — an alternative code that…
Also by the end of February 2014, BBC National Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis was cleared of 12 out of 14 counts of indecent assault with the jury deadlocked over the final two counts. He then found out that the remaining two counts are to be the focus of a retrial. The BBC Story…
That’s the report out of the UK, about a ring setup in the Phillipines, where acts of child abuse were being streamed via a webcam to paying customers all over the world. It would be easy to simply declare technology the evil party here, after all if there was no internet, this wouldn’t have been…
434 Applications for witnesses to speak and a timescale from 1922 to 1995 makes the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry, the largest in British history. The BBC has the story here although any evidence leading to a prosecution of accused former employees will be held in closed sessions.
In English law, sentencing guidelines were changed last week by the Crown Prosecution Service to increase minimum sentences for rape and sexual assaults, raising the tariff to start at 15 years and with other factors taken into account. Despite this change, Ian Watkins was subject to the law in Wales. What connects both countries is…
It’s top of the general list of links for the day, in the 3rd December edition of The Daily Mail in the UK, a woman recounts her experience of surviving and taking an abusive teacher to court. The link is here for when it moves off the links list later this week. – Ken
