challenging institutional disbelief around domestic & sexual violence and abuse
As the roving sports reporter for EVB I watch quite a lot of sports, each time marvelling at the skill, stamina and determination athletes possess to become top of their game. I’m a completely mad Newcastle United fan, for my sins, but football has started leaving a sour taste in my mouth. The behaviour of […]
An Exercise in Comprehension, for Subjects Lacking in Empathy, but Over-Equipped with Entitlement. August 2015. Please read the following before forming any opinion, sharing on Twitter, or other social media sites. You may now turn over your paper. Case Study A There are allegations against a series of people and those allegations are that they […]
“If it wasn’t so horrific, all this would be entertaining.” Is one of the opening lines of Dan Hodges’ article in the Telegraph about the investigation into the police’s handling of child sexual abuse allegations made against Edward Heath. It transpires that the ‘horrific’ he refers to, is not child sexual abuse and the devastating […]
Do we laugh or do we cry spring to mind. Neither as the statement which appeared in the telegraph by Dan Hodge* is just a ludicrous headline used to grab attention. It certainly has done that and shone the light on the journalist who wrote it and not in a positive light I might add. Yes […]
We will be writing a formal complaint to the Metro about this article which conflates child rape with having an “affair”. Dominique Cottrez was raped multiple times by her father, starting at the age of 8. She became pregnant by rape on 8 separate occasions and suffocated the infants. This was not an “affair” nor […]
DAYCARE WORKER SAYS HE ACCIDENTALLY RAPED 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL DURING ‘TICKLE FIGHT’ “When Moore was questioned, he reportedly told authorities that he did touch the child beneath her underwear, but he claims it was accidental. According to court documents released this week, Moore said that ‘when he slipped on a toy as he was tickling … […]
Today I read in the Daily Mirror a report about a postman found guilty who sexually abusing a baby and filming it. The Mirror headline said “Sick Pedeophle Postman filmed himself abusing babies”. This article is wrong he made a choice to commit the crime he did. This man was an ordinary man like any […]
I attended a workshop by Police Scotland on online safety. I was under the impression that it was aimed at arming parents with skills to talk to their children about online safety. Instead, it was full of inappropriate language and some fairly surprising factual inaccuracies. Within the first five minutes, we were given misinformation about […]
It pains me to have to write this. I’m going to criticise Lionel Shriver, the author of We need to talk about Kevin, which is possibly my favourite book. It is brilliant. It is a literary tour de force. And yet Shriver, whose skills of perception and analysis of human emotion, dysfunction and motivation, verge […]
Orange County Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly reduced the sentence of Kevin Jonas Rojano, who was found guilty of sodomising a 3 year old child by 15 years. The minimum sentence for this crime in the state of California is 25 years to life. These statements were made by the judge during sentencing: “However, in […]