Stop Abuse Campaign Gains a Champion in Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Former Director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Linda Degutis brings decades of experience to Board Chair.
Cognitive dissonance and gun safety
Hi Friends. Have you ever been wrong? Me too! Have you ever tried something different, and that been wrong too? Same, same! No shame in getting it wrong; hey, at least you tried! Try again with something different; just keep trying! Many of our problems exist...
The Show Must Go On? An Abuse Survivor’s Take on Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock
The world is shocked at Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. An abuse survivor’s take on it urges us to question our own responsibility in abuse collectively.
Believe Victims if We Want to End Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Ft. Hood is the latest scandal where victims of sexual mistreatment and DV were retraumatized by people supposed to protect them.
Stop Abuse Campaign remarks about the tragic death of Kenneth Wayne Mason
Stop Abuse Campaign remarks about the tragic death of Kenneth Wayne Mason
Gendered violence in the time of pandemic
Intimate partner violence and abuse are made worse by the worldwide pandemic and the restrictions everyone faces now. What is going on?
Advertisers abandon YouTube over concerns that pedophiles lurk in comments section
YouTube has deleted more than 400 channels and suspended comments on tens of millions of videos of children as it tries to purge the system of pedophiles.
How can rapists have better rights than sperm donors?
An Arizona woman in a vegetative state who has been living in a nursing home for more than a decade gave birth December 29 to a baby boy, but that’s not the most revolting part of the story. The man who raped and impregnated her is considered the child’s father, with...
To the folks who say sending my kids to CPS is child abuse … I have thoughts
Author Heidi Stevens Chicago Tribune Every time I write about Chicago Public Schools, I spend the next few days fielding emails telling me I should move. On Thursday, I wrote a column asking CPS for more transparency about the sexual violence uncovered in a series of...
Even from jail, sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein manipulated the system. His victims were kept in the dark
BY JULIE K. BROWN NOV. 28, 2018 A decade before #MeToo, a multimillionaire sex offender from Florida got the ultimate break. Palm Beach County Courthouse June 30, 2008 Jeffrey Edward Epstein appeared at his sentencing dressed comfortably in a blue blazer, blue shirt,...
Countries where smacking children is banned ‘are safer to grow up in’
← Domestic Violence Awareness Hasn’t Caught Up With #MeToo. Here’s Why. Facts you may not know about human trafficking → Countries that ban the smacking of children appear to be safer for young people to grow up in, according to research revealing that...
Domestic Violence Awareness Hasn’t Caught Up With #MeToo. Here’s Why.
← Pope Defrocks 2 Retired Chilean Bishops Over Sexual Abuse of Minors Countries where smacking children is banned 'are safer to grow up in' → By Sarah Mervosh When Kaylee Kapatos posted on Facebook this month that she was a survivor of domestic...
Deerfield Il.man charged after attempting to meet 14-year-old for sex in Cybercrimes Unit sting: police
Author Staff Report A Deerfield man was arrested and charged with indecent solicitation of a child Friday after he allegedly used a social-network application to communicate with someone he thought to be a 14-year-old boy, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s...Don’t wait to report suspected child abuse
Author: Mary Beth Bonaventura Reports of abuse and neglect have steadily risen since the Indiana child abuse Hotline was centralized in 2010. Last year, the Hotline received 225,152 reports of alleged child abuse or neglect, compared to 202,493 reports in 2014. April...
Clerical Sex Abuse in New York A child advocate calls for research into the predator profile.
New York State Attorney General, Barbara Underwood, has launched an investigation into whether Roman Catholic Institutions covered up allegations of sexual abuse of minors. Author Mary L. Pulido As the leader of one of the first child protection agencies in the...
Pope Francis meets with U.S. bishops as more leaders face allegations of harassment and cover-ups
Top American bishops met in the Vatican with Pope Francis on Thursday to discuss the sexual-abuse crisis that the leader of the U.S. church said has “lacerated” the church. That leader, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S....
There’s an epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church
Author: Joshua Pease. The Washington Post Rachael Denhollander’s college-aged abuser began grooming her when she was 7. Each week, as Denhollander left Sunday school at Westwood Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he was there to walk her to her...
The day I found out my husband had abused our daughter
Author:Emma Charles In many ways, we were an ordinary family – mum, dad, two kids, a Volvo in the drive. And in some ways we weren’t so ordinary. As a ship’s engineer, my husband Daniel worked away from home for up to four months at a time. But I never for a moment...
Religious orders should publicize names of those accused of sexual abuse, just like diocesan priests
On its website, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet publishes a document called, “List of Diocesan Priests With a Credible/Substantial Allegation.”When I checked Friday, the list contained 35 names and was last updated in late 2016.I’d like you to take note of the...
10 Things You Can Do To Prevent Child Abuse
Do you know what to do to prevent child abuse. Here’s 10 things you can do starting now. We must all work together to protect children from abuse
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect with the Power of Relationships
Author: Prevent Child Abuse America “We all have the power to change someone’s life through our relationships.” That is a key takeaway from this past Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment on childhood trauma where Oprah interviewed Dr. Bruce Perry, Senior Fellow of the Child...
Nebraska Adult And Child Abuse Neglect Hotline
← Child Abuse and Neglect How to Spot the Signs and Make a Difference Former Carlsbad pastor pleads guilty to child molestation → Nebraska Adult & Child Abuse & Neglect Hotline 1-800-652-1999 Nebraska state law requires any person who suspects that a...
Aurora priest charged with child abuse
Author Hannah Leone Alfredo Pedraza Arias was sentenced to 205 days in county jail with credit for time served after his guilty plea. With credit for time already spent in jail, Arias was set to be released Saturday morning, Attorney David Camic said. Kane County jail...
Letter Suggests Pope Knew About Abuse Complaints, Despite Denials
Author ELISABETTA POVOLEDO New York Times ROME — Things keep getting worse for Pope Francis. Late last month, the pope reiterated his defense of a Chilean bishop, contending that he had never received any complaints that the prelate knew of abuse by the country’s most...![Taylor Swift case: Lessons [to be] learned](https://stopabusecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/taylor-swift.jpg)
Taylor Swift case: Lessons [to be] learned
Taylor Swift’s victory in court is a victory for all sexually assaulted women and a lesson for lawyers and sexually violent men
Taylor Swift v. Ezekiel Elliott: Some Things Are More Important
A look at the Taylor Swift and Ezekiel Elliot cases through the lens of gender violence
Advocates protest President of Agudath Israel of America for protecting secrets, not children
End New York’s statutes of limitations New York on child sexual abuse. Protesters at Agudath Israel of America for protecting secrets not children.
Clergy Sex Abuse: Cardinal Dolan Protects Predator Priests, not Kids
Cardinal Dolan refuses to condemn a colleague who refuses to get rid of a predatory priest
Penn State Revisited
Penn State is back in the news, making now a good time to remember exactly what happened there
Children falling through the cracks
A 12 year old girl reports that her mother is starving her. Parenting classes won’t fix that but maternal home visiting programs will. If we fund them.
