February 2, 2012
Sixty people in Ontario have been arrested on child pornography charges, including a care worker, three teenagers and several repeat offenders. Police have identified 22 victims and 8,940 IP addresses in Ontario where child pornography is suspected of being downloaded. One 16-year-old accused, a Niagara Falls resident, has been arrested for both possession and making ...
January 10, 2012
The Greek Government has decided to expand the list of recognized disabilities to include pedophilia, exhibitionism, kleptomania and even pyromania. People who suffer from these conditions will now receive government disability pay. The National Confederation of Disabled People is up in arms, and criticizes the decision. The Confederation argues that pedophiles now get more money ...
December 19, 2011
In sex abuse cases, confidentiality clauses silence the victim and free the perpetrator. But there may be an end in sight. Scouts Canada has made the decision not to pursue victims who break their vow of silence by publicly speaking out about their experiences of sexual abuse. After suffering sexual abuse at the hands of ...
Tags: awareness,
child abuse,
confidentiality,
confidentiality clause,
cycle of victimization,
freedom of speak,
healing process,
isolation,
pedophilia,
revictimization,
scandal,
Scouts,
Scouts Canada,
sex abuse,
sexual assault,
speak out,
Steve Kent,
story,
Terry Gillespie,
victimization,
vow of silence
December 3, 2011
My attention was drawn this week to the male circumcision debate in America. Being British and from a non-circumcising religion, I’d never really had to think about that sort of thing very much. It’s certainly not a subject men talk about a great deal, in my experience. Of course, everyone knows some guy who’s had ...
October 21, 2011
Scouts Canada has a decades-old database listing the names of people banned from being a part of the organization due to pedophilia allegations. The organization has a policy forcing them to share any information like this with the police and child protective services. But, a lawyer named Robert Talach is suggesting that they should reopen ...
October 21, 2011
Ontario resident Robert Katigbak was acquitted of possessing child pornography in 2008 which he claimed was art in the making. But now the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously overturned the 2008 decision and want another trial. Katigbak says hundreds of images and video clips of “real children and real abuse” would have gone toward an ...
Tags: art,
Bill Henson,
child abuse,
child exploitation,
child porn,
law,
Operation Ore,
pedophilia,
Pete Townsend,
Robert Katigbak,
Supreme Court of Canada,
trial
October 20, 2011
Were you aware that all men are pedophiles, with the potential to abuse little girls at any moment? I sure as hell wasn’t. But a preschool with parent-helpers is being attacked for allowing men to take little girls to the bathroom. Aren’t they parents to little girls and boys too? “Perhaps when my daughter is ...
Tags: bad touching,
child abuse,
child molestation,
daddies,
dads in the bathroom,
doting dads,
father's rights,
fatherhood,
fathers,
modern man,
no feeling,
pedophiles,
pervert daddies,
perverts,
stay-at-home-dads
October 6, 2011
Hidden away in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, a sect of Hasidic Jews, called Lev Tahor, have resided for years. Women and girls dress in head-to-toe veils, marry young, and are allowed barely any contact outside the community. Two teenage girls, age 13 and 15, were found by authorities on their way to Lev Tahor and ...
Tags: Canada,
chador,
child abuse,
child marriage,
courts,
covered women,
Hasidic,
Israel,
Jewish Taliban,
Judaism,
judge,
Lev Tahor,
marriage,
Orthodox Jews,
private community,
Rabbi Shlomo Elbarnes,
religion,
sexism,
veil
July 26, 2011
“There was a girl here. Ayesha is her name. She is 10 years old. Very tiny. The man she married is 50 years old, with a big belly, like so,” a man called Mohammed explained to a National Geographic writer visiting Yemen to write about the plight of child brides. “Like a rat getting married to ...
Tags: Afghanistan,
Age 10 and Divorced,
child abuse,
child brides,
child rape,
childhood,
developing world,
divorce,
Ethiopia,
Forced early marriage,
girl education,
I am Nujood,
India,
laws of marriage,
Mohammed Al-Hamzi,
National Geographic,
Nujood Ali,
pregnancy,
price of virginity,
rape,
sex,
sexual abuse,
weddings as business transactions,
Yemen
June 9, 2011
“The Human Barbie Doll” Sarah Burge is infamous for her plastic surgery addiction and questionable parenting decisions. Her latest “boob job voucher” to 7-year-old daughter, Poppy, takes the cake. Burge’s daughter desperately wanted three things for her birthday this year: a computer, a holiday, and a boob job voucher. The first two don’t necessarily scream ...
Tags: adolescence,
Barbie,
body image,
boob job for teenager,
boob jobs,
boobs,
Botox,
breast augmentation,
child abuse,
childhood,
human Barbie,
plastic surgery,
Sarah Burge,
self-conscious,
voucher