Supreme Court to hear convicted child sex offender Peter Ellis’ case

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/supreme-court-to-hear-convicted-child-sex-offender-peter-ellis-case/ Convicted child sex offender Peter Ellis has been granted leave to take his nearly 30-year fight to clear his name to the Supreme Court. Ellis, 61, served seven years of a 10 year jail sentence for abusing seven children at the Christchurch Civic Childcare Centre in 1991. He had been convicted, after a trial…

Former Gloriavale member convicted of child sex abuse

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12254711 A former senior member of Gloriavale Christian Community has been convicted of child sex abuse, the Herald can finally reveal following a long legal battle against court suppression orders. The man, who has permanent name suppression, pleaded guilty earlier this year to representative charges that he indecently assaulted and had unlawful sexual connection with…

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse

https://www.childwelfare.govhttps://www.childwelfare.gov Protective factors are conditions or attributes in individuals, families, communities, or the larger society that mitigate or eliminate risk in families and communities, thereby increasing the health and well-being of children and families. Protective factors help parents to find resources, supports, or coping strategies that allow them to parent effectively, even under stress. [pdf-embedder…

Sexual abuse in the secretive Truth Church | 60 Minutes Australia

https://youtu.be/hE76OlNwIOs For the past 12 months, 60 MINUTES has been investigating a highly mysterious church called The Truth. It operates in regional areas of Australia and enforces bizarrely strict rules for its 10,000 members. It bans television, music and dancing. No parishioners can wear jewellery; females must always be dressed in long skirts and are…

Similarities between male and female child sex offenders include maltreatment and abuse during childhood

https://www.corrections.govt.nz/resources/research_and_statistics/risk-assessment-of-recidivism-of-violent-sexual-female-offenders/a-profile-of-violent-and-sexual-female-offenders.html Nathan and Ward (2001) conclude that the similarities between male and female child sex offenders include maltreatment and abuse during childhood; social and attachment deficits; poor adult intimate relationships; grooming patterns; denial and lack of empathy; distorted beliefs regarding children and deviant arousal and substance abuse. Females differ from males as the majority of…

NZ Child Sexual Abuse: Exposure to sexual violence in previous 12 months

https://nzfvc.org.nz/sites/nzfvc.org.nz/files/DS4-Child-Sexual-Abuse-2017.pdf This data summary is one of six produced by the NZFVC in 2017. The other five data summaries are concerned with Family Violence Deaths, Violence Against Women, Children and Youth Affected by Family Violence, Adult Sexual Violence, and Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Sexual Violence – Perpetration by Gender. This data summary is a…

Happiness: an expectation that real life refuses to deliver.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-humans-happy.html Humans are not designed to be happy, or even content. Instead, we are designed primarily to survive and reproduce, like every other creature in the natural world. A state of contentment is discouraged by nature because it would lower our guard against possible threats to our survival. The fact that evolution has prioritised the…

Being vulnerable gave me freedom from sexual abuse and bullying | Jill Prescott | TEDxStanleyPark

Being vulnerable gave me freedom from sexual abuse and bullying | Jill Prescott | TEDxStanleyPark

TEDx Talks Published on 5 Apr 2017 We are a society of secret keepers; everything from addiction to masturbation, sexual assault and bullying and these secrets are killing us. They cause major health issues such as PTSD, heart disease, mental illness and can even lead to suicide. But there is a way through this trauma….

Back on Track: Men talking about childhood sexual assault (full)

Back on Track: Men talking about childhood sexual assault (full)

https://youtu.be/d7U1UuGIUOY South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault Published on 27 Aug 2014 Back on Track: Men talking about childhood sexual assault follows the true stories of a number of participants from SECASA’s annual weekend retreat for male survivors of sexual assault in Maldon, central Victoria. This weekend is facilitated by SECASA counsellors and Mike Lew,…