Child Abuse

  • Read more: Child safeguarding: the National Health Service (NHS) can do much better

    Child safeguarding: the National Health Service (NHS) can do much better

    By John Tingle Our children are our future and we need to look after them well. There is however a lot of evidence to suggest that we are failing our children in a number of key health areas. UNICEF in a report put the UK in 16th position – below Slovenia, the Czech Republic and…

  • Read more: Technology and The Horrors of Child Pornography

    Technology and The Horrors of Child Pornography

    By Michele Goodwin A recent spate of arrests in New York emphasizes the potentially dangerous connection between technology and sex crimes.  In a landmark police bust, authorities tracked down and arrested more than seventy people in the New York City area who were trading child pornography.  Among those arrested were a rabbi, police chief, nurse,…

  • Read more: Taking Allegations of Child Abuse Seriously: Former Penn State President Spanier Charged

    Taking Allegations of Child Abuse Seriously: Former Penn State President Spanier Charged

    By Michele Goodwin Penn State’s former president, Graham Spanier, is the latest person to be charged in the fallout involving Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of boys on the Penn State campus.  A year ago, I blogged about Spanier’s curiously timed defense of his former staff members following the horrific allegations involving the former, popular football…