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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.
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.
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...
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...
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,...
← 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...
← 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
← 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...
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...
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...
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.