Cliff Richard: No charges over sex abuse claim
https://yho.com/1m5hkg Cliff Richard: No charges over sex abuse claimContinue Reading
Victim-blaming indecent assaulter gets community detention after reparation offer
Victim-blaming indecent assaulter gets community detention after reparation offer http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/81065973/victimblaming-indecent-assaulter-gets-community-detention-after-reparation-offer A victim-blaming man, whose wife ran a smear campaign against a woman he indecently assaulted while drunkenly trying to score with her, has avoided prison and home detention partly because he offered to pay reparation to his victim. Judge GerardContinue Reading
Facebook Offers Tools for Those Who Fear a Friend May Be Suicidal
Facebook Offers Tools for Those Who Fear a Friend May Be Suicidal http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/technology/facebook-offers-tools-for-those-who-fear-a-friend-may-be-suicidal.html “If I hadn’t already been educated in suicide prevention or hadn’t seen the post on Facebook, I don’t know that I would have picked up the phone and known to call,” said Ms. Simmons, who is aContinue Reading
Elder abuse – the insidious reality
Elder abuse – the insidious reality http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11655657 Therefore it’s the psychological abuse against our elderly that can have the longest-lasting effect, and it’s the most common form elder abuse takes in Whanganui, Age Concern social worker Sue Evans says. When you send an elderly relative to a residential home, youContinue Reading
Obama, Clinton lay into Trump for proposed Muslim ban
Obama, Clinton lay into Trump for proposed Muslim ban http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/florida-nightclub-shooting/81076654/obama-clinton-lay-into-trump-for-proposed-muslim-ban President Barack Obama lambasted Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigrants in an angry denunciation of the Republican presidential candidate’s response to the Orlando nightclub massacre. Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democrat he has endorsed to succeed him in theContinue Reading
Don’t put off going to the doctor
Feeling down? Unexplained pains or lumps? Many guys just hope they will get better by themselves… #MenStartTalking pic.twitter.com/6CkiG1lO2S — Auckland DHB (@Akld_DHB) June 13, 2016Continue Reading
Rape victim found guilty of “illicit consensual fornication”
Punishing or blaming survivors is never okay. #NOMORE. https://t.co/6Etnp39rHf — NO MORE Campaign (@NOMOREorg) June 13, 2016Continue Reading
The most virulent attack on another culture and faith
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-muslims-orlando-shooting_us_575f2193e4b071ec19eee269? In the wake of a mass murder in Orlando, Florida, perpetrated by a self-declared follower of the Islamic State, Trump recommitted himself to a ban on entry into the U.S. of all non-citizen Muslims. He even expanded the idea to include potential visitors from any nation or place thatContinue Reading
Church tricked into paying for false claims
Church tricked into paying for false claims http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/80898450/church-tricked-into-paying-for-false-claims The Catholic Church told police it was duped into paying $188,000 to a woman who claimed she was injured when raped by a priest. The police only became aware of the woman’s claims that she was raped by a Palmerston North CatholicContinue Reading