http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/10/20/17/04/chapman-sentenced-to-6-years-for-abduction “It seems every aspect of my life has been touched by three days that will forever be on my mind,” she said. Ms Huxham told the court she has been diagnosed with PTSD and other anxiety related disorders, had struggled to find work and hadn’t used public transport sinceContinue Reading

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11729263 Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson, 66, was charged in April last year with concealing serious child sexual abuse in 1971. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge, which carries a potential two-year prison sentence. New South Wales state Supreme Court Justice Monika Schmidt on Friday rejected Wilson’s bidContinue Reading

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1608/S00338/an-apology-surely-nz-needs-a-royal-commission-of-inquiry.htm An Apology? Surely NZ needs a Royal Commission of Inquiry Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 10:01 am Press Release: Clan NZ An Apology? Surely NZ needs a Royal Commission of Inquiry first! Labour’s Justice spokesperson, Jacinda Ardern, recently called on the NZ Government to issue an apology for historic abuseContinue Reading

http://www.signalng.com/women-groups-condemn-chemical-castration-sex-offenders-turkey-2/ Women’s rights groups, lawyers and doctors have condemned Turkey’s decision to introduce a mandatory chemical castration programme for convicted sex offenders, arguing the treatment does not address the underlying reasons for widespread violence against women, and that bodily punishment will instead lead to increased abuse. Özgül Kaptan, director ofContinue Reading

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/28/cardinal_abortion_is_worse_scandal_than_priest_abuse/ In his remarks, Pell was apologetic and specific in his acknowledgment of wrongdoing. “I don’t think many, if any, persons in the leadership of the Catholic Church knew what a horrendous widespread mess we were sitting on. There’s no doubt about it that lives have been blighted,” he said.Continue Reading

Ken Clearwater, from Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse, says he’s been fighting for an independent inquiry since the Boston Globe uncovered huge abuse within the Catholic Church around the world, as seen in Oscar award-winning film Spotlight. In Australia, a child abuse Royal Commission is looking into what institutions andContinue Reading

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/77061764/christchurch-caretaker-raped-violated-schoolgirls-in-underground-shed A school caretaker and part-time teacher who sexually violated girls in his underground shed has been struck off the teachers’ register. Twelve Christchurch primary school girls, three of them disabled, were repeatedly raped, sexually violated, indecently assaulted, or made to watch pornography in the caretaker’s shed or on aContinue Reading