The Girl Who Became Three Boys is one of a number of online chat or social-networking-related crime documentaries aired by Channel 4 in the Spring of 2012. Sadly it looks as though the producers watched a little too much of TallHotBlond from 2009 which also used closeups of computer screens to present much of the…
As we caught up with the initial announcements from the general enquiry into the UK’s (foster) care system for children, more information arrived for release yesterday. The BBC has the general summary in text and video here with the extras in the usual end column. – CBG
The Saturday 30th June edition of The Guardian has a special feature on sexual abuse committed by police officers, which as usual for this newspaper focuses on women as the victims to the exclusion of the minimum 16 recorded offences against children in their own data. You’ll find the report here and when clicking “download the…
Following CBG’s post about a priest convicted of covering up sexual abuse, I received an email informing me of a blog post written by Alan Collins, a UK solicitor who specializes in abuse claims. In it, he provides a recap of the case, and what it means going forward. Granted, as a solicitor part of…
Just for the balance of showing it’s not just America that has fundamentalist pressure groups, The Guardian carried an article in its Saturday 23rd June paper regarding a UK pressure group that think Gay Marriage will lead to incest, a great way to trivialise child abuse in general even further than wasting two years on a…
Overnight UK time, The infamous Jerry Sandusky, former coach at Penn State, was found guilty of 45 of the 48 serial child sexual abuse charges against the boys he was scouting and training for the college. One of Sandusky’s children also disclosed during the course of the trial but was not put forward as a…
