The Independent: Trump’s lawyer says comments about sexual assault accusers should be taken as ‘hyperbole’ http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwjPnV5Dk Donald Trump’s lawyer has claimed his comments about the women who accused him of sexual assault and harassment should not be taken literally. The argument came in response to a lawsuit brought by formerContinue Reading

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/18/the-keepers-netflix-nun-murder-baltimore-true-crime-documentary The Keepers starts with an unsolved murder but is really about something bigger. White’s initial contact was Jean Hargadon Wehner, who had attended Archbishop Keough as a teen and had a startling insight into the Cesnik case. In 1969, before the police discovered Sister Cathy’s corpse, she’d been takenContinue Reading

https://www.bustle.com/p/what-are-recovered-memories-the-keepers-shows-the-terrifying-way-trauma-can-affect-your-brain-57716 Recovered memories can occur for survivors of all ages who have experienced a variety of traumas. However, certain aspects of this case made Wehner and Lancaster especially likely to experience memory lapses. When incidents of abuse occur repeatedly, it’s easy to assume that would mean a person is moreContinue Reading

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11853009 Deakin’s arrest reveals one of the darkest corners of the internet, where pedophiles in the US., Europe and elsewhere pay facilitators in the Philippines to sexually abuse children, even babies, directing their moves through online lifestreaming services. This relatively new crime, webcam sex tourism, is spreading rapidly. The UnitedContinue Reading

http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=245483 A decade since an inquiry found some officers had behaved disgracefully when handling complaints of sexual assault, police say they have revolutionised their culture. The 2007 Commission of Inquiry into police conduct, led by Dame Margaret Bazley, reviewed 313 complaints of sexual assault against 222 police officers between 1979Continue Reading

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11780909 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ” A Roman Catholic priest filed suit Wednesday against his former diocese, saying that the bishop pushed him aside and lied about him because he called law enforcement after another priest showed child pornography to a teenage boy and cooperated with the investigation. TheContinue Reading

What the research tells us: A 2005 study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, on San Diego Kaiser Permanente HMO members, reported that 16% of males were sexually abused by the age of 18.1 A 2003 national study of U.S. adults reported that 14.2% of men were sexuallyContinue Reading

Child abuse has a financial impact throughout survivors’ lifespans #StopAbuse #ChildAbuse #PrimaryPrevention https://t.co/N3scUm0MTY — Stop Abuse Campaign (@AbuseStoppers) December 21, 2016 “We found associations of child neglect and abuse with adult socioeconomic circumstances at age 50,” said lead author Snehal Pinto Pereira. Physical, social or emotional abuse in childhood wasContinue Reading

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503435&objectid=11763336 The Government should do what’s right. Maori leaders should insist upon it. It wasn’t just the physical and emotional abuse suffered. The sexual abuse of both girls and boys traumatised children for life. As a result our country has thousands of women and men today who had their childhoodContinue Reading

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11737451 A young girl was repeatedly tied up and locked in the garden shed or a plastic box in the garage and abused by her parents in what police have described as one of the most sickening cases they have seen. The father and mother are today due to beContinue Reading