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
As you may know by now, I do believe very much in the power of connected with other survivors online. An online community may not be the end all and be all of support for a survivor, but it’s something, where there may currently be nothing. So, it was a pleasant surprise to see two…
(ed. note- Survivors have a long history of spending so much time surviving childhood that they never really learn how to be adults. Ken’s review of this book, which provides financial advice, can therefore be seen as an attempt to bridge that skills gap.) They call it retail therapy but it’s all too easy to…
Recently UK newspaper The Guardian covered the aftermath of the Elizabeth Smart case. That article is here.
On Sunday 13th October the UK’s Mail on Sunday, sister paper to the Daily Mail, uncovered the search failure of UK bookseller WH Smith’s weak search filter. Searching on the word “Daddy” brought up erotica titles together with the children’s books on the same screen, causing a shutdown and removal of the books from the…
