Apr 6, 2019 | ACE Prevention, Feature, Sex Abuse
How do you spot a sex offender? Sex offenders cannot be profiled. There is no specific race, gender, sexual orientation, or education level that defines us.
Mar 23, 2019 | ACE Prevention, Feature, Sex Abuse
Many survivors open up about their abuse only to find that family reactions are just as painful, if not more so, than the original trauma.
Mar 20, 2019 | Family Court Custody Crisis, Feature, Sex Abuse
Gaslighting is abuse. It is an act of violence, be it domestic violence, workplace, or elsewhere. Know how to recognize and survive it.
Mar 15, 2019 | Sex Abuse
I grew up in a family where everyone was either sexually abused, was an abuser, or facilitated abuse. And I still like Michael Jackson’s music.
Mar 15, 2019 | ACE Prevention, Feature, Sex Abuse
The Southern Baptist Church is no exception to being vulnerable to sex-offenders. They are not properly protecting the safety of a child.
Mar 7, 2019 | ACE Prevention, Feature, Sex Abuse
Kathy Picard was pleased when her step father started showing her some special attention; until that attention became twisted and threatening.
Mar 7, 2019 | ACE Prevention, Feature, Sex Abuse
New York’s Child Victims Act allows previously lapsed claims to be filed in court, the next issue for victims and survivors is how to access justice.
Mar 5, 2019 | Feature, Sex Abuse
Offenders are not men in a trench coats. We are members of your family. We are people you know and trust. We are people who have access to your child.
Mar 3, 2019 | Feature, Sex Abuse
Pedophiles on YouTube: while parents are aghast, they don’t seem to realize that YouTube is only a symptom of a larger problem.
Mar 3, 2019 | news, Sex Abuse
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.
Feb 13, 2019 | Sex Abuse
Stories of clerical child sexual abuse are not limited to the Roman Catholic Church. The Southern Baptist church have a crisis of their own.
Feb 2, 2019 | Family Court Custody Crisis, Sex Abuse
Secrecy and lack of accountability. Courts, and the male-dominated church, refuse to believe that a father would abuse his own child.
Jan 28, 2019 | Feature, Sex Abuse
New York passed the Child Victims Act making it a safer place for children, better for survivors of child sexual abuse and a worse place for sex offenders.
Dec 27, 2018 | Feature, news, Sex Abuse, Trauma: Consequences
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,...
Dec 20, 2018 | Sex Abuse
By Sharon Otterman New York Times Dec. 20, 2018 MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — The Rev. Donald G. Timone, cloaked in the purple and gold robes of Advent, led the procession down the central aisle of St. Joseph’s Church here on the first Sunday of December. Celebrating the 11:30...
Dec 17, 2018 | Feature, Sex Abuse
The Roman Catholic Church has covered up years of child sexual abuse by priests. The crisis is institutional. With the involvement, and cooperation, of bishops, archbishops, and even cardinals. The Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, now supported by investigations in...
Dec 16, 2018 | Sex Abuse
By Campbell Robertson New York Times PITTSBURGH — It was a list Charles L. Bailey Jr. had wanted to see for years: the names of the priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse who had been credibly accused of sexual abuse. Mr. Bailey, 67, a longtime local...
Nov 1, 2018 | Sex Abuse
← Countries that ban spanking have kids who are less likely to be violent Utah Man Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse Homicide in Hanging → 60 Minutes: Whistleblower says Bishop Richard Malone knew of sexual abuse allegations, but did nothing. For the first time...
Oct 18, 2018 | Feature, Sex Abuse, Trauma: Healing
I came from a really poor household. I pulled my family out of extreme poverty. Then my boss raped me, life fell apart, but I recovered.
Oct 17, 2018 | Feature, Maternal Home Visiting, Sex Abuse, Trauma: Consequences
Human trafficking is a complex form of abuse and trauma with complex causes. It happens all over the world, and is a form of modern day slavery.
Oct 13, 2018 | news, Sex Abuse
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...
Oct 9, 2018 | Sex Abuse
The Child Victims Act has languished in the New York State Senate. The horrific report from the Pennsylvania grand jury about rampant sexual abuse and cover-ups by church officials makes it clear that New York must pass a final version of this bill.
Oct 4, 2018 | news, Sex Abuse
← Midlothian man charged with possessing child pornography Jury: Jehovah's Witnesses Must Pay $35M to Abuse Survivor → New York State Attorney General, Barbara Underwood, has launched an investigation into whether Roman Catholic Institutions covered up...
Sep 27, 2018 | Feature, Sex Abuse
The President wouldn’t believe me. I didn’t disclose my abuse after it happened; I disclosed it when I was ready. So did most of his other victims. So what does that say about us?
Sep 15, 2018 | news, Sex Abuse
← Tips Parents Can Use When Talking About Sexual Abuse with Children Man guilty of sexually abusing child he knew → 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...
Sep 14, 2018 | ACE Prevention, Feature, Sex Abuse
Melanie Blow discusses the Catholic church and child sexual abuse following PA Grand Jury report. Over a thousand children sexually abused by priests
Jul 7, 2018 | Maternal Home Visiting, Sex Abuse, Trauma: Consequences
An interview with the Stop Abuse Campaign’s Melanie Blow about ACEs, addiction, prostitution and child sex abuse laws and policy.
Jul 2, 2018 | Feature, Sex Abuse
Wayne Chapman was convicted of abusing 11 children in 3 states, and admitted to molesting 100, but he was nearly released from prison recently .
Jun 8, 2018 | news, Sex Abuse
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...
May 13, 2018 | ACE Prevention, Feature, Sex Abuse
Outrage alone doesn’t protect children. Money is needed to combat child abuse, but it never seems to be a budget priority. Why’s that?