The Stovall Middle School teacher even fell pregnant with the eight grader’s child in January. The relationship went on for several months, according to KHOU, and both Vera and the young boy said they ‘had sex on almost a daily basis’ and ‘love each other’. Court documents state the boy’sContinue Reading
http://www.vox.com/2016/10/30/13413864/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-explained In her book about the ritual abuse hysteria, Satan’s Silence, journalist Debbie Nathan elucidates this basic blueprint for Satanic Panic: “To right-wing Christian fundamentalists steeped in lore about devils and stewing with hostility toward public child care, it was hard not to embrace the notion of Satan infiltrating day-careContinue Reading
“3/4s of northland prisoners are young Māori unable to work, support their whānau and have inadequately treated AOD and M/H issues”@nzdrug pic.twitter.com/1SmNp45Z8V — Hapai (@hapaitehauora) November 19, 2016Continue Reading
https://www.fastcompany.com/3065429/election-2016/for-sexual-assault-survivors-the-trauma-wont-end-on-election-day Before election season kicked into high gear, I would typically find between five to eight visitors waiting in the queue when I began my shifts. Lately, it’s not unusual to see queues of 15 women or more—women who are willing to wait an hour or longer for someone toContinue Reading
#Trump has selected Myron Ebell, a climate change and global warming skeptic, to lead the @EPA transition team. https://t.co/xRek0umjnn pic.twitter.com/jQuplxCHm7 – Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) November 11, 2016 http://www.webmd.com/children/news/20071029/global-warming-threat-to-kids-health According to the group’s report, examples of the effects global warming could have on children’s health include: Increased susceptibility to injury orContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/86646946/donations-pour-in-to-rainbowyouth–care-of-brian-tamaki A charity for gay and transgender youth has Brian Tamaki to thank for a spike in donations that’s seen more than $3000 raised in four days. The Destiny Church founder’s controversial sermon linking gay people to earthquakes prompted dozens of donations to RainbowYouth, with many humorously listed under Tamaki’sContinue Reading
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/its-gods-view-not-mine-tamaki Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has defended saying that gays, sinners and murders are responsible for earthquakes, saying he actually meant anybody indulging in illicit sexual behaviour, adultery, child abuse and more. “It’s about adultery, morality, it’s about any type of extra-sexual behaviour,” Tamaki has told Willie Jackson inContinue Reading
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/euthanasia/news/article.cfm?c_id=192&objectid=11749125&ref=rss “What captivated me with Lecretia’s case,” said Louisa Wall, “is she knew exactly what she was asking for.” Others, such as general practitioner John Pollock, in their dying days, used their situation to prompt debate. “From the patient’s point of view, from those I’ve seen dying, it’s the nausea,”Continue Reading
Donald Trump’s First, Alarming Week as President-Elect http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trumps-first-alarming-week-as-president-elect A week later, those words seem hollow. The first sign that our easily distracted President-elect remained unchanged from the campaign came on Thursday. For twenty-four hours, Trump had shown some restraint. His victory speech raised hopes that, despite the evidence of hisContinue Reading
Thanksgiving close at hand where friends & family gather…NOW is the time to talk to your children. Awareness can lead to Prevention! pic.twitter.com/sXQ5axjZ7Y — SpeakingOut (@SpeakingOutCSA) November 17, 2016Continue Reading
