Zoom meetings targeted by abuse footage sharers – BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52391531 Last week, a Zoom meeting organised by the 40,000-strong Federation of Young European Greens was infiltrated by someone streaming child sexual abuse material. It was reported to police in Belgium, where the organisation is based. A similar incident is also believed to have happened last Friday during an online discussion about Covid-19 contact tracing…
Many teens are victims of digital dating abuse; boys get the brunt of it
“Digital dating abuse” as it has been termed, uses technology to repetitively harass a romantic partner with the intent to control, coerce, intimidate, annoy or threaten them. Given that youth in relationships today are constantly in touch with each other via texting, social media and video chat, more opportunities for digital dating abuse can arise.
How can we help keep children safe?
From Oranga Tamariki Update for Providers and Partners: COVID-19 edition #5 We realise that the requirements of COVID-19 Alert Level 4 can put a lot of pressure on families. We want to make sure all tamariki and whānau are safe. We are hosting discussions and responding to questions related to these pressures on our Facebook…
Is the handshake dead ?
The handshake is dead; why not adopt these other greetings? https://t.co/ggcRXVuXrb pic.twitter.com/MewtMsgcEy — CNN (@CNN) April 18, 2020
MOJ: Sexual violence prosecutions take a long time
The time taken for the Police investigation to progress can be long: • after one month most investigations were continuing• after six months more than a third were continuing, but a quarter had resulted in action against a perpetrator• as of May 2019, more action had been taken against perpetrators with a total of 31%…
Barriers to disclosing Childhood Sexual Abuse
Our analysis resulted in three main themes: Fear of reprisals; CSAstains – Negative implications for self-representation; and The complicatingeffect of ambiguity, which, according to our analytical focus, werehighlighted as distinct barriers to disclosing CSA.