The Guardian newspaper has a tradition of printing articles designed to generate debate. Today’s true-life Experience page from their Saturday magazine is no exception. The fact that they sank below their usual self-important lofty standards to name the article “I Fell In Love With a Sex Offender” messes with the image somewhat. It’s an interesting…
This morning BBC Breakfast news announced a Child Defence App for smartphones, which is designed to try to spot paedophiles pretending to be children when chatting online. The expert interviewed was a former police officer that posed as a child himself to try to detect outright offenders who didn’t pretend, but the impact of this…
It’s been two days since Anne Marie Carrie, the new Chief Executive of the long standing UK charity Barnado’s sounded the warning about internal child trafficking in the UK for child abuse purposes. As usual, the media have moved on to other things, leaving interested parties to read their 30-page official report. You can find…
Jimmy McGovern is an acclaimed British TV screenwriter. His newest series Accused was co-written with other newer writers for each of its six episodes. The show always starts on the morning that a criminal is about to be sentenced and in flashback we learn the motive for the crime (usually murder, with occasional previous crimes)….
Put it this way, I have not put the usual spoiler warning on this episode. That’s not just because it’s the last season to American viewers and we’ve only just watched it this week in the UK. Any charming family scene in a show like CSI/Miami only serves to make the episode predictable. It’s not…
When one teenager reported child sexual abuse by a trusted adult, and the English Crown Prosecution Service (DA) told the offender, Robert Daley, that the case would be dropped, it led to his murder planned by the 15 year old victim and aided by a male friend of the same age after Daley called the…
