The Cutting Edge strand of documentaries on the UK’s independent Channel 4 is 21 years old since its launch and broke new ground as required by its partly public service charter. This documentary about Jaycee Lee Dugard was recorded when she was found as part of the general media scrum in Autumn 2009 and when…
The 20 year old man admitted his guilt in court in Birmingham, England. Since testimony will not be needed, he will be sentenced at the end of July. The BBC has the general summary below in the meantime; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13683387 – CBG
The Guardian has published an interesting article about why it’s dropping the terms “child porn” or “child pornography” from its style guide. It’s a timely article considering that there always seems to be some kind of loaded language game going on when discussing child abuse survivors. For example we have some journalists reporting on “coming…
It’s not just British courts that hand out life sentences on Fridays. The kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard had their widely reported sentences of 431 years (to “life”) for Philip Garrido and 36 years for his wife formalised overnight (this morning to UK readers). Dugard’s victim impact statement was read by her mother, with further…
Last Saturday The Guardian published one of its regular Experience columns, this time describing the husband’s reaction to his wife being raped. That piece is here. Normally we just link and let you read the article. This one is different. The Guardian has had a long history of op-ed columns from non-staff contributors such as…
We don’t need to name the offender in question as his name and picture are in the newspaper article today. There’s the usual angry reaction at no jail time for having cybersex chats with a 13 year old and downloading child abuse images and videos. As is customary for the Daily Mail, there’s no deeper…
