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1905-06</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' 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haven&#39;t posted on the resignation of Kevin Clash the voice of Elmo because I was waiting for more facts to come out. I didn&#39;t want to just jump on the negative bandwagon if the man was being falsely accused. When doing research again today there is another article of two more males who are saying he had sex with them when they were underage. &lt;a href=&quot;http://lovebscott.com/news/two-more-accusers-step-forward-against-kevin-&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://lovebscott.com/news/two-more-accusers-step-forward-against-kevin-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  3. One of the things I am seeing all over the internet is that a fifteen year old is mature enough to engage in a consensual sexual relationship. If it was two fifteen year olds maybe, but a man over the age of forty seeking sex with a minor is wrong. I have even seen the articles about the second man who has accused him of having sex with him when he was a minor, has adds on Craigslist. The Craigslist add is him as a person over the age of eighteen not younger than eighteen. In my opinion some of those articles are to try to discredit the second accuser.&lt;br /&gt;
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  5. I have also seen blog sites where mothers are defending Kevin Clash. Some commenters on these blogs even say &amp;nbsp;things like &quot;So what, my child loves Elmo.&quot; I am interested in why their isn&#39;t the same type of outrage against Kevin Clash and Sesame Street compared to Jerry Sandusy and Penn State. Or Jimmy Seville in the UK. BBC news has been getting flack for this for weeks now. And anyone with access to the internet knows what Penn State has been going through. I say rightfully so.&lt;br /&gt;
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  7. I am concerned that somehow this story is going to end up at the bottom of a heap somewhere and just die out. Why? In my opinion because of the PR machine at Sesame Street. I am not saying that Sesame Street should be irrevocably harmed by this. The first accuser recanted and said he was paid $125,000 to keep quiet. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/accuser_got_to_recant_jGgd9v0ejj6wpiqVzzD9xK&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/accuser_got_to_recant_jGgd9v0ejj6wpiqVzzD9xK&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Where did this money come from? I have read that back in June Sesame Street was notified of the allegations from the first accuser and determined that there was no merit to them. I wonder how many times this happened? If there were any other times. I understand Sesame Street protecting their brand but doing so can hurt them in the long run. &amp;nbsp;They only need to look at Penn State to see how bad this can become for them.&lt;br /&gt;
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  9. It is ironic that this has happened to a brand that is so well known to children and parents. A brand that has stood for wholeness, education and honesty. It is the same reason that their isn&#39;t extreme public outrage. If this man knowingly had sex with males under the age of consent he committed a crime and should therefore be held accountable. If Sesame Street knew of other accusers in the past and did nothing they need to be held accountable as well. It is easy for people to just blame victim in cases like this. That is what happened for decades when it came to the Boy Scouts, Catholic Church, and other brands who chose to protect their brand other then to protect children. That is what is so good about social media. It has changed the way the truth comes out. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
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  25. &quot;Sesame Street&quot; muppet Elmo and puppeteer Kevin Clash pose for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge on Jan. 24, 2011.&lt;/div&gt;
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  30. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week a man accused Clash of having sex with him when he was a teenage boy, a charge Clash denied. A day later, the man recanted his charge. A lawsuit by a second accuser was filed Tuesday, according to attorney Cecil Singleton.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  33. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;NEW YORK (AP) — Sesame Workshop says&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;Elmo&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;puppeteer Kevin Clash has resigned from&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;in the wake of allegations that he had sex with an under-aged youth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  37. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Sesame Workshop called the controversy surrounding Clash’s personal life “a distraction that none of us want” and led to his decision to leave the show.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  39. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Clash created the voice and persona for&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;Elmo&lt;/span&gt;, who has become one of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street’&lt;/em&gt;s most popular characters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  51. Why Kevin Clash’s Personal Life Troubles Parents of Elmo Fans&lt;/h1&gt;
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  53. &lt;span class=&quot;entry-byline&quot; style=&quot;border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; display: inline-block; height: 10px; line-height: 0.875em; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;&quot;&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://healthland.time.com/author/brochman/&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Posts by Bonnie Rochman&quot;&gt;Bonnie Rochman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;entry-date&quot; style=&quot;border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: inline-block; height: 10px; line-height: 0.875em; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;&quot;&gt;Nov. 14, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;entry-comments&quot; style=&quot;border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: inline-block; height: 10px; line-height: 0.875em; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/14/why-kevin-clashs-personal-life-troubles-parents-of-elmo-fans/#comments&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;livefyre-commentcount&quot; data-lf-article-id=&quot;73810&quot; data-lf-site-id=&quot;314105&quot;&gt;9 Comments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  62. Does it matter to Elmo’s most ardent fans that for a few hours, the world’s most well-known furry red monster and the guy who brings him to life were seemingly embroiled in an underage sex scandal?&lt;/div&gt;
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  64. On Monday, Kevin Clash, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;puppeteer responsible for the voice of Elmo for more than 20 years, was accused of having a relationship with another man who said he was 16 when they began seeing each other. The claim forced Clash, 52, to acknowledge publicly for the first time that he is gay; while he admitted they were involved, he characterized the relationship as one between “two consenting adults.” Sesame Workshop, which produces&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and conducted its own investigation, stood behind Clash. The company did reprimand him for inappropriate use of company email but granted him leave to prepare his defense.&lt;/div&gt;
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  66. On Tuesday, however, it appeared Clash’s efforts were no longer necessary. His unnamed accuser, now 23, recanted, leading the voice of Elmo to issue the following statement: “I am relieved that this painful allegation has been put to rest. I will not discuss it further.”&lt;/div&gt;
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  68. First things first: when will Clash return to voicing Elmo? Sesame Workshop couldn’t say, although they did&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sesameworkshop.org/our-blog/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;note on Monday&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that&amp;nbsp;Elmo is bigger than any one person and will continue to be an integral part of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;to engage, educate and inspire children around the world.” But executives did&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sesameworkshop.org/our-blog/2012/11/13/sesame-workshops-statement-regarding-kevin-clash-update/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;express their relief on Tuesday&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that the trying times for Clash and his furry alter-ego have “been brought to a close, and we are happy that Kevin can move on from this unfortunate episode.”&lt;/div&gt;
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  70. But can&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;? What for years has been beloved television programming for the wee set has found it tricky to steer clear of controversy in recent years. In 2010, a video of pop star Katy Perry&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/23/is-katy-perry-a-sesame-streetwalker-or-do-viewers-want-her-to-be/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Is Katy Perry a Sesame Streetwalker, or Do Viewers Just Want Her to Be?&quot;&gt;playing ta&lt;/a&gt;g with none other than Elmo was yanked from&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;because parents complained the singer was showing too much cleavage. Earlier this year, thousands of breast-feeding activists&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/12/group-petitions-to-bring-breastfeeding-back-to-sesame-street/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Group Petitions to Bring Breastfeeding Back to Sesame Street&quot;&gt;signed a petition&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;urging&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;to portray breast-feeding, which it claimed the program was giving short shrift, alongside bottle-feeding on the show. Last month,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://topics.time.com/mitt-romney/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Mitt Romney&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;famously took aim at Big Bird during a presidential debate during which he threatened to cut funding to public broadcasting programs that support shows like&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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  72. (&lt;strong style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;MORE&lt;/strong&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/09/can-elmo-inspire-your-kid-to-become-a-scientist/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Can Elmo Inspire Your Kid to Become a Scientist?&quot;&gt;Can Elmo Inspire Your Kid to Become a Scientist?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;
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  74. But all of that pales in comparison to allegations that a Sesame Streeter was potentially breaking the law. The buzz surrounding the scandal almost certainly never reached the ears of the millions of kids who have catapulted Elmo, the embodiment of preschool wonder and curiosity, to the status of MVP (most valuable puppet). Elmo’s legion of diminutive fans are far too young to understand or care about underage sex or gay sex or sex at all.&lt;/div&gt;
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  76. But for the parents of those kids, the whole, brief brouhaha felt kind of creepy. Even if Clash’s accuser were of legal age to be in a relationship, the idea of Elmo’s animator involved in torrid affairs that escalated to the point of one lover accusing another of illicit behavior left many moms and dads conflicted. TMZ published an email apparently sent by Clash to his accuser when he would have been 21 that didn’t leave much to the imagination:&lt;/div&gt;
  77. &lt;blockquote style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.96429em; line-height: 1.57143em; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 16px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 18px;&quot;&gt;
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  79. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #262626; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;“I’m sorry that I keep talking about sex with you, it’s driving me insane. I want you to know that I love you and I will never hurt you. I’m here to protect you and make sure your dreams come true. … I’ll have my assistant book a ticket for you to come to NY and we can talk about this in person.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  80. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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  82. As much as Clash’s life away from&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;is certainly his own to live, it is hard not to hold him, as a children’s educator, to a higher standard. The truth is that children’s entertainers do have a higher moral obligation to their audience than, say, Mick Jagger does to his. Clash was also the focus of a 2011 documentary, “&lt;a href=&quot;http://beingelmo.com/about.html&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Investigative Report Reveals Some Religious Reform Schools Are Havens for Child Abuse&quot;&gt;Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey&lt;/a&gt;,” that lionized his personal journey from a wannabe Muppeteer, entertaining the tykes in his mother’s home daycare in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://topics.time.com/baltimore/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Baltimore&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with puppets pieced together from coat linings, to a driving force behind&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;’s enduring appeal to little kids. He’s won multiple&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://topics.time.com/emmy-awards/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Emmy Awards&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for serving as co-executive producer for&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/em&gt;, which has been named “Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series” countless times. And he’s written&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Furry-Red-Monster/dp/0767923758&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;an autobiography&lt;/a&gt;, “My Life as a Furry Red Monster, What Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud.”&lt;/div&gt;
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  84. (&lt;strong style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;MORE&lt;/strong&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/16/elmo-at-the-white-house-monster-plugs-school-lunch-bill/&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Elmo at the White House? Monster Plugs School Lunch Bill&quot;&gt;Elmo at the White House? Monster Plugs School Lunch Bill&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;
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  86. Young, impressionable kids are easily influenced by adults they admire, as evidenced by Preston, an 8-year-old from Idaho, who posted on Clash’s Facebook page last month:&lt;/div&gt;
  87. &lt;blockquote style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.96429em; line-height: 1.57143em; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 16px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 18px;&quot;&gt;
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  89. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #262626; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;I am such a big fan of Elmo and you. I have been wanting to meet you ever since I saw being Elmo. And I was wondering how old you [are]. And I probably will never get to meet you because I live in Sun Valley IDAHO. I really would appreciate if you would write back. Thank You.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  91. P.S. Being Elmo is a great movie.&lt;/div&gt;
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  94. And Elmo is a great character, one that youngsters and adults alike can appreciate. In Clash’s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Furry-Red-Monster/dp/0767923758&quot; style=&quot;color: #1b5288; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;own words&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;
  95. &lt;blockquote style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.96429em; line-height: 1.57143em; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 16px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 18px;&quot;&gt;
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  97. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #262626; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;“Though he represents youthful curiosity and innocence, behind his childlike simplicity you’ll find the wisdom of an old soul…You’ll also discover, as I have, that Elmo is a teacher whose lessons can have a lasting value for adults, not just for the countless children he reaches each day.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  98. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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  100. Clash should find inspiration in his own words, and learn from this experience that as challenging, and even unfair as it may seem at times, “Being Elmo” means that drawing hard lines between the monster’s world and his own is nearly impossible to do.&lt;/div&gt;
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  134. If during an investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse, their are those who are abusing children that are gay. It doesn&#39;t mean that the only reason they are being investigated is because they are gay. They are being investigated because they are accused of harming children. We are in the twenty first century not the dark ages. A child sexual predators sexuality, should play no part in any investigation. What the focus needs to be is on whether or not a human being has made the decision to harm a child. Bringing up one&#39;s sexual orientation is just smoke and mirrors and takes away from the reality that children have been harmed. I hope that there are no more articles like this published. We need to remain vigilant about protecting children and not get off on smoke and mirrors. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
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  179. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;articleText&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;focusParagraph&quot;&gt;(Reuters) - Speculation about the identity of a senior Conservative party member accused of child sex abuse could descend into a &quot;witch-hunt&quot; of homosexuals, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  182. Cameron ordered an investigation this week after a child abuse victim said a prominent member of the prime minister&#39;s party had abused him during the 1970s, prompting Internet speculation over who the politician might be.&lt;br /&gt;
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  185. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;The claims, which follow the unmasking of late BBC star presenter Jimmy Savile as one of Britain&#39;s most prolific sex offenders, have stoked concern that a powerful paedophile ring may have operated in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;&quot;&gt;
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  187. &quot;I have heard all sorts of names bandied around and what then tends to happen is of course that everyone then sits around and speculates about people, some of whom are alive, some of whom are dead,&quot; Cameron said during an ITV television interview.&lt;/div&gt;
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  189. &quot;It is very important that anyone who has got any information about any paedophile no matter how high up in the country go to the police,&quot; he said.&lt;/div&gt;
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  191. The Home Secretary warned MPs this week that if they named suspected child abusers in parliament they risked jeopardising future trials.&lt;/div&gt;
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  193. MPs benefit from &quot;parliamentary privilege&quot; - meaning they can speak inside parliament freely without fear of legal action on sensitive issues that might otherwise attract lawsuits.&lt;/div&gt;
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  197. The allegations could prove damaging to Cameron&#39;s party - which rules in an uneasy coalition with centrists - and tarnish the image of the era of Margaret Thatcher, prime minister from 1979 to 1990.&lt;/div&gt;
  198. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_9&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  199. When the ITV interviewer passed Cameron a piece of paper with the names of people identified on the Internet as being alleged child abusers, Cameron said: &quot;There is a danger, if we are not careful, that this could turn into a sort of witch-hunt, particularly against people who are gay.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
  200. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_10&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  201. &quot;I am worried about the sort of thing you are doing right now - giving me a list of names you have taken off the Internet,&quot; Cameron said.&lt;/div&gt;
  202. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_11&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  203. Steven Messham, one of hundreds of victims of sexual abuse at children&#39;s care homes in Wales over two decades, said in a TV programme last week that he had been sexually abused by a prominent Conservative political figure.&lt;/div&gt;
  204. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_12&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  205. However, the BBC reporter said he could not publicly identify the accused person as there was &quot;simply not enough evidence to name names&quot;.&lt;/div&gt;
  206. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_13&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  207. A host of Conservative politicians have been named as alleged child abusers on blogs and social media, often without evidence.&lt;/div&gt;
  208. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_14&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  209. &quot;There are lots of accusations flying around on the Internet, lots of names on the Internet. We need to be very careful,&quot; Cameron&#39;s spokesman told reporters.&lt;/div&gt;
  210. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_15&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  211. &quot;We should not have people just throwing accusations around and trial by Twitter.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
  212. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_0&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  213. Meanwhile, police said they had arrested two men in northern England, including Savile&#39;s former housemate Ray Teret, on suspicion of rape, following allegations of sexual abuse many years ago.&lt;/div&gt;
  214. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_1&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  215. Officers in London are looking into claims made by hundreds of victims that Savile and accomplices abused them. They have already questioned former glam rock singer Gary Glitter and comedian Freddie Starr as part of their investigation.&lt;/div&gt;
  216. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_2&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  217. Both men have been released on bail.&lt;/div&gt;
  218. &lt;span id=&quot;midArticle_3&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  219. (Additional reporting by Michael Holden; Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Andrew Osborn and Robin Pomeroy)&lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/uk-britain-abuse-idUKBRE8A70OR20121108&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/uk-britain-abuse-idUKBRE8A70OR20121108&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  220. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/8029216232279210043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/11/paedophile-scandal-risks-becoming-gay.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/8029216232279210043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/8029216232279210043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/11/paedophile-scandal-risks-becoming-gay.html' title='Paedophile scandal risks becoming gay witch-hunt - Cameron '/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-5928230448099233572</id><published>2012-11-11T17:37:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2012-12-28T12:01:30.496-06:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child grooming"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cover up of child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cover up of New Zealand pedophiles"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Frank Jackson"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Karl Berghan (20) and Sam Brens (21)"/><title type='text'>ST JOHN AMBULANCE NEW ZEALAND</title><content type='html'>I received a comment on a story from&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Paedophile John Maber admitted 27 abuse charges&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;ttp://www.memoirofaredemptivelife.com/2012/07/paedophile-john-maber-admitted-27-abuse.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ttp://www.memoirofaredemptivelife.com/2012/07/paedophile-john-maber-admitted-27-abuse.h&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;I thought appropriate for me to do a blog post on this. The reader shared the following blog site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stjohnnz.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.stjohnnz.com&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  221. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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  223. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is a very thorough blog on what happened in New Zealand about a pedophile cover up of two individuals,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Karl &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Berghan (20) and Sam Brens (21).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;The story revolves around young girls who were groomed by these two child sexual predators. I was most appalled by one of the young women&#39;s therapist who was aware she was sexually active at 14 years old with a man of 20 years old. Her response to this girls parents was that they should be so lucky that she found love so young. The reality is what this therapist did was unethical. A 14 year old can&#39;t consent to a sexual relationship. That is why we have age of consent laws. The young girl eventually divorced her parents and received a gag order. This prevented her parents from speaking out about what was happening. Thankfully they won their case and the gag order was dropped.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  224. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  225. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;What is sad is this victim is now in her early twenties and is totally convinced that she wasn&#39;t a victim in this. She won&#39;t reunite with her parents until they stop pushing justice for what happened to her and them. This is how good pedophiles or child sexual predators (whichever word you choose to use) groom. They have her totally convinced that she was an active participant. What did they have to benefit for convincing this child she was an active participant? Even though these &quot;men&quot; and I use the word loosely, were arrested and brought to trial none of their victims would testify. That meant the case was dropped and justice wasn&#39;t severed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  226. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  227. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Please take the time to read this blog and view the videos. It is very sad that children are not more protected. Stories like these have to be told. Grateful for this information, Rosie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  244. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stjohnnz.com/2012/11/10/did-st-john-ambulance-nz-conduct-a-cover-up-of-a-pedophile-protection-network-within-their-organisation/&quot; rel=&quot;bookmark&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;Did St John Ambulance NZ conduct a cover-up of a Pedophile Protection Network within their&amp;nbsp;organization?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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  251. &lt;div class=&quot;entry-content&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 24px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  252. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  253. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;The following timeline is a summary of a families alleged dealings with St John Ambulance New Zealand, as they attempted to seek justice for the confirmed sexual assault of a minor by two St John Ambulance officers, a Mr Karl Berghan, and a Mr Sam Brens. Additional reports of sexual assault of a minor have allegedly now been made since this situation became public. A comprehensive summary of the entire story is&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://consumersvoicenz.com/2012/05/31/cyf-rosa-trust-counselling-family-court-endorse-under-age-sex-with-a-minor-close-up-30512/&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;published here:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  254. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  255. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;St John New Zealand child sex crime perpetrators Karl Berghan and Sam Brens&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  256. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  257. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Jan 2004:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;It is reported to the New Zealand police that a 14-year old girl is victim of grooming and multiple child sex crimes, including group sex, by two St John ambulance employees, Karl Berghan (20) and Sam Brens (21). The sex crimes against this victim occurred over a period of about 6 months commencing soon after she turned 14.&lt;/div&gt;
  258. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  259. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;2004:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Police discover 5 victims of child sex crimes conducted by these men together with a third St John employee, Fraser Brooke. Police obtain written statements from the victims detailing the sex crimes against them.&lt;/div&gt;
  260. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  261. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;6 May 2004:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sam Brens is arrested for the sex crimes. When police arrive to arrest Karl Berghan, he flees, but police find him the next day and issue the warrant of arrest. The men are charged, along with a third member of the paedophile gang, Fraser Brooke, with child sex crimes.&lt;/div&gt;
  262. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  263. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;25 July 2005:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The three St John ambulance employees, Karl Berghan, Sam Brens and Fraser Brooke, appear in the Auckland criminal court on multiple charges of child sex crimes against the under age girls. However, because they were “too busy”, police failed to notify four of the girls of the court date, so only one victim appears in the court. The now 16-year old girl is seated in court immediately in front of the 3 accused adult men, and unfortunately refuses to testify. Prosecutors fail to produce the victims’ sworn statements to the court, and also fail to call the parents to provide collaborative testimony. In short, no evidence was presented and the trial which was originally planned for two days, is aborted after only a few minutes.&lt;/div&gt;
  264. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  265. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;8 August 2005:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;One of the victims of the men files gagging orders in the Family court against her parents and brothers, Investigate magazine, broadcaster Paul Holmes and counsellor Steve Taylor. She testifies under oath that Karl Berghan and Sam Brens conducted sex crimes against her when she was 14-years old. The court accepts this testimony that the sex crimes occurred and acted by issuing an interim gagging order.&lt;/div&gt;
  266. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  267. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Oct 2005:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Investigate magazine flout the interim gagging order and publish a cover story naming the men, Karl Berghan and Sam Brens, as having conducted child sex crimes against the 5 under age girls:&lt;/div&gt;
  268. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  269. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investigatemagazine.com/archives/2006/03/investigate_oct.html&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;http://www.investigatemagazine.com/archives/2006/0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  270. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
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  272. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  273. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investigatemagazine.com/archives/2006/03/investigate_oct.html&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;3/investigate_oct.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;7 Nov 2011:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;It is published in the London Gazette, that the Queen has sanctioned an award to Karl Berghan and Sam Brens:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  274. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  275. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/55959/notices/1470993&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/55959/notices/1470993&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  276. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
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  278. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  279. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;16 Dec 2011:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;It is reported in the NZ press that Karl Berghan is to receive a Queen’s award from NZ’s Head of State, the Governor General:&lt;/div&gt;
  280. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  281. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/6150113/Karl-joins-Order-of-St-John&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/6150113/Karl-joins-Order-of-St-John&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  282. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  283. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;18 Dec 2011:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;The parents of one of the sexual crime victims write to St John NZ expressing their opposition to the Queen’s awards.&lt;/div&gt;
  284. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  285. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;8 Jan 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Sunday Star Times publishes an article: “Alleged teen sex groomer in line for top award”:&lt;/div&gt;
  286. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  287. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/6227034/Alleged-teen-sex-groomer-in-line-for-top-award?mid=578&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/6227034/Alleged-teen-sex-groomer-in-line-for-top-award?mid=578&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  288. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  289. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;22 Jan 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Sunday Star Times publishes a second article: “Family furious at second award after sex case”:&lt;/div&gt;
  290. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  291. &lt;a href=&quot;http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/showarticle.aspx?article=8895c6e0-154e-4f3f-aecb-8afb39663276&amp;amp;key=sL5IMIWl6rPhMEGm49NckA%3d%3d&amp;amp;issue=15432012012200000000001001&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/showarticle.aspx?article=8895c6e0-154e-4f3f-aecb-8afb39663276&amp;amp;key=sL5IMIWl6rPhMEGm49NckA%3d%3d&amp;amp;issue=15432012012200000000001001&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  292. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  293. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;22 Jan 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;A press release is published naming Karl Berghan and Sam Brens as perpetrators of child sex crimes:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?p=2273&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?p=2273&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  294. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  295. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Jan 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;St John NZ CEO Jaimes Wood writes that St John are going to investigate the men. However, the investigation does not include any of the victims or their families. St John NZ refuse to divulge any details about their investigation, such as who is conducting it, the terms of reference, etc.&lt;/div&gt;
  296. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  297. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;30 May 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;A Close Up programme on TV1 discusses these sex crimes on national TV:&lt;/div&gt;
  298. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  299. Part 1:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxUKRTMyf3k&amp;amp;feature=relmfu&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxUKRTMyf3k&amp;amp;feature=relmfu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  300. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  301. Part 2:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rnW37B4Vk&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rnW37B4Vk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  302. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  303. During this TV programme, Alan Bell, national director of ECPAT (End Child Prostitution and the Trafficking of children for sexual purposes) states:&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;“(This) is a crime…..A crime was committed, I am concerned and puzzled as to why there wasn’t a prosecution. It is black-and-white, this was older men having sex with an underage child”.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  304. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  305. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;31 May 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;NewstalkZB, the country’s largest talk radio station discusses the sex crimes for an unprecedented 6 hours. New Zealanders are outraged.&lt;/div&gt;
  306. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  307. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;June 2012:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;St John NZ CEO Jaimes Wood writes that he will release the results of their investigation on 30 June. However, on 30 June, rather than release the results, he writes that he has resigned as CEO with immediate effect. St John NZ HR Manager, Tom Dodd, takes over as interim CEO. Tom Dodd secretly initiates a second investigation into Karl Berghan and Sam Brens. This second investigation also does not involve any of the victims or their families, and is also surrounded by total secrecy.&lt;/div&gt;
  308. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  309. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Oct 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;St John NZ write that Peter Bradley is now CEO.&lt;/div&gt;
  310. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  311. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;26 Oct 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;St John NZ announce that the Queen’s awards to Karl Berghan and Sam Brens are to go ahead.&lt;/div&gt;
  312. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  313. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;31 Oct 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tom Dodd writes that the investiture for the Queen’s awards will happen in Nov.&lt;/div&gt;
  314. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  315. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;1 Nov 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Karl Berghan and Sam Brens resign from St John NZ.&lt;/div&gt;
  316. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  317. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;8 Nov 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tom Dodd writes that the awards to Karl Berghan and Sam Brens will proceed. He refuses to answer any questions on the subject.&lt;/div&gt;
  318. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  319. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;8 Nov 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;A young girl who was a cadet in St John youth, describes how as a young teenager she attended St John sex parties at the “Farm” with Karl Berghan and Sam Brens. She describes how young teenagers were plied with alcohol and pressured into sex and group sex by these two men, as well as by senior St John managers. She names Peter McDowell the current ICT Director of St John NZ and Dennis Dufty, currently a St John NZ Regional Manager. She details that Sam Brens had a penchant for sex with both young boys and girls. She writes that the sex activities involving St John senior managers and young St John youth cadets at the “Farm” are well known amongst St John employees.&lt;/div&gt;
  320. &lt;div style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  321. &lt;b style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;9 Nov 2012:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;St John International Secretary General in London, Andrew Gough, writes that the St John&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;“internal investigation found no evidence whatever of any misdemeanour by either man (Karl Berghan and Sam Brens)”&lt;/i&gt;. Clearly, the St John NZ internal investigation could not have done a Google search on “Karl Berghan” or “Sam Brens”, nor could they have read any of the media articles linked on this page, or watched the TVNZ programme on the subject, or spoken to any of the men’s victims or their families. It is easy to understand now how paedophiles such as Jimmy Savile get away with their crimes for so long, when one witnesses the modus operandi of the paedophile protection network within St John with it’s tentacles that stretch from senior executives in St John NZ, Tom Dodd and Peter Bradley, all the way to the Secretary General of St John International, Andrew Gough, in London. Have this paedophile protection network arranged to give the Queen’s awards to ex-employees Karl Berghan and Sam Brens in return for their silence about the paedophile activities of other St John employees, including senior executives?&lt;/div&gt;
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  339. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/5928230448099233572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/11/st-john-ambulance-new-zealand.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/5928230448099233572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/5928230448099233572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/11/st-john-ambulance-new-zealand.html' title='ST JOHN AMBULANCE NEW ZEALAND'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-2890666765207886331</id><published>2012-11-06T17:51:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2012-11-06T17:51:59.520-06:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. CSAC12"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CSA research"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dr. David Finkelhor"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="human trafficking"/><title type='text'>Penn State Conference on CSA #CSAC12-Dr. Finkelhor</title><content type='html'>I haven&#39;t posted in a little while I needed to process everything from the Conference and to sort my thoughts on how I was going to discuss everything on this blog. The first guest speaker for the conference was Dr. David Finkelhor, PhD. Dr. Finkelhor is well know in the field of child sexual abuse. He is the Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Finkelhor wrote a book back in l979 called &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span itemprop=&quot;name&quot;&gt;Sexually Victimized Children which was the start of the movement on child sexual abuse advocacy/awareness. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I have attached the video of Dr. Finkelhol&#39;s presentation on the next page.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  340. &lt;br /&gt;
  341. To be honest I wasn&#39;t looking forward to hearing from him. He has been quoted in several media outlets as saying that child sexual abuse is on the decline. I took issue with him in a couple of blog posts back in June of this year. He did make his claims that child sexual abuse is declining. What he didn&#39;t say was that his data shows a decline in child sexual abuse. He obtains his data from child sexual abuse cases where the victim tells. The reality is that when he comes to any type of sexual assault only ten percent of people tell.&amp;nbsp; He did make clear that it is very hard to be able to get accurate data on this topic. He also made clear that the topic of child sexual abuse is a very grim topic.&lt;br /&gt;
  342. &lt;br /&gt;
  343. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;He also shared that his statistics prove how wide spread child sexual abuse is. He focused in on the fact that child sexual abuse is an international issue. He made a couple of statements that to be honest made me get up and leave the conference. He made the claim that, &quot;It is a fallacy that all children who experience sexual abuse experience violence.&quot; He went on to say, &quot;Some children experience sexual abuse in a loving way.&quot; I almost threw up I had to walk away for awhile. It doesn&#39;t matter if a child is molested or penetrated, whether it&#39;s violent or not, child sexual abuse is a crime. It leaves scars that last for some a lifetime. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  344. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&#39;allowfullscreen&#39; webkitallowfullscreen=&#39;webkitallowfullscreen&#39; mozallowfullscreen=&#39;mozallowfullscreen&#39; width=&#39;320&#39; height=&#39;266&#39; src=&#39;https://www.youtube.com/embed/G-fViw7Uuxs?feature=player_embedded&#39; frameborder=&#39;0&#39;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;The second thing he said is that, &quot;He thinks that human trafficking shouldn&#39;t be a separate issue then child sexual abuse.&quot; He said that, &quot;He thinks it does harm to separate the to.&quot; I didn&#39;t like his attitude he displayed to those in the movement to help educate on and help abolish human trafficking. I couldn&#39;t believe when he made the claim that, &quot;He doesn&#39;t believe that their is clear evidence that internet perpetrators are distinct from other perpetrators.&quot; He claims that most children who are victimized on the internet know their perpetrator. He was implying that since most children who are sexually abused know their abuser that it is the same for perpetrators on the internet. This is just not so. What online perpetrators do is to groom children they don&#39;t know by pretending they are someone else. They tend to get children to do things i.e. video private areas of their bodies. Then they disclose who they are and tend to blackmail children to making more videos or taking more pictures. A girl in Canada killed herself because of this last month. &lt;br /&gt;
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  346. At one point I felt I was sitting in a seminar espousing how wonderful child sexual predators are. He claims that not all offenders are predatory. That some relationships between adults and children become sexual when the adult had no ill intentions. That after the relationship developed for the adult it became sexual. To me it sounded like he was talking about &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;GROOMING.&lt;/span&gt; He also stated that not all offenders are pedophiles. He stated that:&lt;br /&gt;
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  348. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  349. We cannot identify many on the basis of interests, sexual orientation, polygraphy, motives or screening. A large number of offenders aren&#39;t predatory. Something changes in the relationship then the adults takes the relationship sexual. Most offenders do not have an offense history. Only 10% of newly identified offenders have prior record of abuse.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  350. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  351. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;THESE ARE THE VERY CLAIMS THAT THOSE WHO WANT TO ABOLISH THE SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRY USE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  352. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;He discounts the fact that most offenders groom children over a period of time. And that this grooming is considered offending. That most offenders have offended at least one hundred times before they get caught. That this includes looking at child sexual abuse media, grooming, putting oneself where one has access to children, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  353. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
  354. To me he seemed to be very empathetic toward the child sexual offender.&amp;nbsp; He made it clear he doesn&#39;t like the sexual offender registry. He believes that it creates a false sense of security. Which may be true. When asked if he feels the registry should be abolished he made it clear that there are those who are at risk of re-offending that do need to be on the registry. He particularly doesn&#39;t think that youth should be on the registry period. He shared some valid points about why. I have discussed concerns I have with Romeo and Juliette &quot;offenders&quot; on this blog several times. I asked the question about the SOR and also asked if he did any type of research on You Tube predators. He said, &quot;No, he hasn&#39;t done any research on You Tube predators.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;
  355. &lt;br /&gt;
  356. He made some very good points that have been discussed on this blog many times. About how to protect children and since most know their abusers that parents/guardians have to be vigilant about making sure that nothing is happening to children. Especially through creating an environment where children feel comfortable sharing if something is happening to them. This includes discussing sexual abuse and telling children that if something like this happens to them that they will believed.&lt;br /&gt;
  357. &lt;br /&gt;
  358. His presentation opened up dialog at the table of people I was sitting with. I was able to educate them on the movement to abolish the sexual offender registry. I shared how Dr. Finkelhor&#39;s comments are used by the movement to support their theory. I also had people come up to me and thank me for getting up and leaving because it made it easier for them to get up and leave. He is a brilliant man and has done tremendous work for child sexual abuse. I worry that his research is being used in a way that he never expected. It can undo a lot of the good work he has done over the years. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
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  364. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/2890666765207886331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/11/penn-state-conference-on-csa-csac12-dr.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/2890666765207886331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/2890666765207886331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/11/penn-state-conference-on-csa-csac12-dr.html' title='Penn State Conference on CSA #CSAC12-Dr. Finkelhor'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-4658640298590014414</id><published>2012-10-26T13:21:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-10-26T13:28:16.430-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Know Trespassing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Penn State Sexual Abuse Conference."/><title type='text'>Attending the Penn State Conference on Child Sexual Abuse</title><content type='html'>I am very excited to be attending the Penn State Conference on child sexual abuse. It starts this Sunday and goes through next Tuesday. I had some business cards printed up so I can hand them out. This is a copy of the card&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #999999;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #999999;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;K&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;NO&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;W &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Trespassing is the name of the non-profit I am in the process of starting. The name is a double entendre. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;NO&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt; Trespassing means that a child should never be trespassed. Know Trespassing means that the agency will educate on what child sexual abuse is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  365. &lt;br /&gt;
  366. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  367. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZQtJObjFwauJvtiKkoLmkmM7vIjEjR_vxMV1ORrSPLGCn6FE4Mi8cod7nVMsEdMrbHAIO1K5sYqfl3-Xla1NLQYkSBJ9D8HML2bDjDQJ28CxSc809zz-8PKb2RwbqnMyAcdwv15F0A/s1600/business+card.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZQtJObjFwauJvtiKkoLmkmM7vIjEjR_vxMV1ORrSPLGCn6FE4Mi8cod7nVMsEdMrbHAIO1K5sYqfl3-Xla1NLQYkSBJ9D8HML2bDjDQJ28CxSc809zz-8PKb2RwbqnMyAcdwv15F0A/s1600/business+card.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  368. The mission of the agency is:&lt;br /&gt;
  369. &lt;br /&gt;
  370. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;K&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;NO&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;W Trespassing is committed to protecting children. This will be accomplished by providing programs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt; that educate on child sexual abuse. It&#39;s implications. Long term effects and prevention strategies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  371. &lt;br /&gt;
  372. I feel that this is what God is wanting me to do and I am grateful for the opportunities that have been given to me these past five or so months. I have been able to afford to purchase a house with office space in it. I have a good support system and people who believe in what I am trying to accomplish. I am very grateful for this blog which has started me on the way to where I am going. I will share everything I have learned with readers from the conference. I don&#39;t think I will have time to blog on it until I get back from the conference. Rosie&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/4658640298590014414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/attending-penn-state-conference-on.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4658640298590014414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4658640298590014414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/attending-penn-state-conference-on.html' title='Attending the Penn State Conference on Child Sexual Abuse'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZQtJObjFwauJvtiKkoLmkmM7vIjEjR_vxMV1ORrSPLGCn6FE4Mi8cod7nVMsEdMrbHAIO1K5sYqfl3-Xla1NLQYkSBJ9D8HML2bDjDQJ28CxSc809zz-8PKb2RwbqnMyAcdwv15F0A/s72-c/business+card.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-3233429470149203805</id><published>2012-10-26T12:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-10-26T12:30:42.992-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dr Andrea Phelps"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="imagery rehearsal treatment"/><title type='text'>New (PTSD) treatment stops nightmares</title><content type='html'>I think that this is an important topic to cover on this blog.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smh.com.au/national/new-treatment-stops-nightmares-20121017-27rgl.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.smh.com.au/national/new-treatment-stops-nightmares-20121017-27rgl.html&lt;/a&gt; In Australia a physician has developed a new technique to deal with PTSD:&lt;br /&gt;
  373. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  374. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  375. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dr Andrea Phelps, from the Australian Centre for
  376. Posttraumatic Mental Health, said a technique called imagery rehearsal
  377. treatment was allowing people with post-traumatic stress disorder to
  378. literally rewrite the script of distressing nightmares to change their
  379. dreams or get rid of them.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  380. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  381. This has good implications for those of us who have PTSD related to childhood sexual abuse. Some times PTSD can be debilitating and interfere with one&#39;s life tremendously. It can creep up on you when you least expect it. For me certain smells, situations, environments and people can trigger my PTSD. I feel very fortunate that the flashbacks and body memories aren&#39;t near as bad as they used to be. I hope the study on this technique continues to have the positive effects that is claimed. It certainly isn&#39;t fair that after having survived a horrific trauma like child sexual abuse that survivors have to deal with it effects for most of their lives. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  382. &lt;h1 class=&quot;cN-headingPage&quot;&gt;
  383. New treatment stops nightmares&lt;/h1&gt;
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  385. &lt;div class=&quot;cT-headshot&quot;&gt;
  386. &lt;h3 class=&quot;authorName&quot;&gt;
  387. Julia Medew&lt;/h3&gt;
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  391. &lt;div class=&quot;ad adSpot-textBox&quot; id=&quot;googleAds&quot;&gt;
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  393. &lt;div class=&quot;articleBody&quot;&gt;
  394. EVER wanted to erase a horrific nightmare from your mind? Australian doctors believe they&#39;ve found a way to do it.&lt;br /&gt;
  395. Dr Andrea Phelps, from the Australian Centre for
  396. Posttraumatic Mental Health, said a technique called imagery rehearsal
  397. treatment was allowing people with post-traumatic stress disorder to
  398. literally rewrite the script of distressing nightmares to change their
  399. dreams or get rid of them.&lt;br /&gt;
  400. Regular and repetitive nightmares are a defining feature of
  401. PTSD, especially for soldiers who have experienced extreme fear and
  402. trauma during combat.&lt;br /&gt;
  403. In some cases, sufferers have had the same dream regularly
  404. for more than 30 years, causing a fear of sleep and insomnia which
  405. affects their ability to function during the day.&lt;br /&gt;
  406. &lt;div class=&quot;hidden&quot; id=&quot;adspot-300x250-pos-3&quot;&gt;
  407. &lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  408. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The nightmares can be disturbing for partners, too, because
  409. unlike most people who dream during a stage of sleep that paralyses
  410. their body, people with PTSD often move during their dreams, scaring
  411. people around them.&lt;/div&gt;
  412. &#39;&#39;Some people will often have to sleep in separate beds
  413. because they&#39;ve woken up trying to strangle their partner … It can be
  414. really distressing for their relationships,&#39;&#39; Dr Phelps said.&lt;br /&gt;
  415. However, imagery rehearsal treatment is starting to help. Dr
  416. Phelps said a pilot study of the technique in Vietnam veterans with PTSD
  417. found it led to significant improvement for 11 out of 12 patients with
  418. the nightmares disappearing altogether for seven of them. For some of
  419. them, the dream stopped suddenly while others experienced a gradual
  420. change. When they were followed up one year after treatment, all seven
  421. patients&#39; nightmares had still not returned.&lt;br /&gt;
  422. The treatment involves patients writing the script of their
  423. nightmare in all its sensory detail. They are then asked to workshop
  424. different endings to the dream to replace the worst aspects of it. This
  425. new script is rehearsed and imagined before they go to bed.&lt;br /&gt;
  426. Dr Phelps is now overseeing a study of about 100 American
  427. soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan to further test the
  428. technique. All of the soldiers are having nightmares at least once a
  429. week with most having them four to five times a week. In some cases,
  430. they are reliving real experiences in their dreams, but sometimes they
  431. involve imagined trauma.&lt;br /&gt;
  432. She said one soldier&#39;s nightmare involved him being chased by
  433. hundreds of angry dogs in the night while patrolling a familiar area
  434. where he served. To change the script, the patient started imagining the
  435. dogs were the 101 dalmatians as seen in the children&#39;s film.&lt;br /&gt;
  436. Another patient whose nightmare involved an explosion leading
  437. him to discover a body on the ground that was his own body changed his
  438. dream to replace the explosion with loud party poppers at a surprise
  439. party where everyone was happy.&lt;br /&gt;
  440. Dr Phelps said she did not know why the technique was
  441. working, but said it could involve a change of attitude towards the
  442. dream that comes from talking about it and throwing ideas around about
  443. how to change it.&lt;br /&gt;
  444. &#39;&#39;Instead of going to bed feeling terrified of the prospect
  445. of having this same nightmare again, they&#39;re going to bed rehearsing the
  446. new dream and feeling ready for it,&#39;&#39; she said.&lt;br /&gt;
  447. PTSD can develop in people who have experienced an event
  448. which threatened their life or safety, or that of others and led to
  449. feelings of intense fear, helplessness and horr&lt;/div&gt;
  450. &lt;br /&gt;
  451. Read more: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smh.com.au/national/new-treatment-stops-nightmares-20121017-27rgl.html#ixzz29ZcCaL2O&quot; style=&quot;color: #003399;&quot;&gt;http://www.smh.com.au/national/new-treatment-stops-nightmares-20121017-27rgl.html#ixzz29ZcCaL2O&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/3233429470149203805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-ptsd-treatment-stops-nightmares.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/3233429470149203805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/3233429470149203805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-ptsd-treatment-stops-nightmares.html' title='New (PTSD) treatment stops nightmares'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-7292681739238006721</id><published>2012-10-16T14:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-10-22T14:26:29.216-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cybertip.ca"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eric Gottardi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="grooming"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="seedy cyber-underworld"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="You Tube predators"/><title type='text'>Another victim of an online predator (aka pedophile) and sheds light on YouTube and Facebook Predators</title><content type='html'>This is a terrible story and shows the depths that child sexual predators will go. &lt;br /&gt;
  452. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/15/bc-amanda-todd-tormentor-anonymous.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/15/bc-amanda-todd-tormentor-anonymous.html&lt;/a&gt; I have discussed previously on this blog that on YouTube there are plenty of predators. These predators try to get children to do things. They pose as a child themselves, especially the opposite sex and are able to convince children to show them parts of their bodies. Once they do that they then blackmail these children and then we have the situation that occurred with Amanda Todd. The following quote states it well:&lt;br /&gt;
  453. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  454. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  455. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;T&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;he kind of sexual exploitation described by Todd is part of a seedy
  456. cyber-underworld that targets young girls and it is not bullying, but a
  457. vicious crime that should be pursued even after her death, say child
  458. advocates.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  459. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  460. This poor girls sexual abuse media will be around forever. Being used by child sexual predators who claim looking at child sexual abuse media (aka child pornography) is a victimless crime. I wonder how these predators will feel once they learn that this child killed herself because of being bullied into showing parts of her body she didn&#39;t want to.&amp;nbsp; The person who bullied her apparently wasn&#39;t the person she made the video for. But this predator was able to figure out who she was and went onto Facebook and threatened to expose the video. I am glad that Anonymous has let it be known who this child sexual predator is. I also hope that more light is shined on what is happening to children on social media sites. For one thing more parents need to make sure they know what is going on with their children. I don&#39;t think children should be allowed to have computers in their own room. The computer needs to be in a room where it is highly visible. This would reduce the number of children who are being targeted by sexual predators on social networking sites. In my opinion a child doesn&#39;t need to have a phone that allows them to video themselves or makes them easily traceable and that allows media to be uploaded from their phone onto a social media site.&lt;br /&gt;
  461. &lt;br /&gt;
  462. I think we forgot sometimes that children (those under age 18) are just that children. They don&#39;t have the life experience that adults do. They make choices with their limited life experience that are very risky. And are job as adults is to teach them how to be safe. Safety must always come first with children. This whole story is a terrible tragedy and I pray for the family. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  463. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  464. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/15/bc-amanda-todd-tormentor-anonymous.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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  468. &lt;h1&gt;
  469. Amanda Todd&#39;s alleged tormentor named by hacker group&lt;/h1&gt;
  470. &lt;/div&gt;
  471. &lt;h3 class=&quot;deck&quot;&gt;
  472. &#39;Anonymous&#39; names man it claims bullied B.C. teen who took her own life&lt;/h3&gt;
  473. &lt;h5 class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;
  474.  
  475. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html&quot;&gt;CBC News&lt;/a&gt;
  476. &lt;/h5&gt;
  477. &lt;h4 class=&quot;posted&quot;&gt;
  478. Posted:
  479.  
  480. Oct 15, 2012   6:01 PM PT
  481.  
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  487. Last Updated:
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  489. Oct 16, 2012  11:44 AM PT&lt;/h4&gt;
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  518. &amp;nbsp;The tragic story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/11/bc-maple-ridge-suicide.html&quot;&gt;B.C. teen suicide victim Amanda Todd&lt;/a&gt;
  519. has taken another bizarre twist as the internet hacking and activist
  520. group Anonymous has named a man the group says was the girl&#39;s primary
  521. tormentor.&lt;br /&gt;
  522. Todd, 15, of Port Coquitlam, died last Wednesday, a month after
  523. posting a haunting video on YouTube that cited the sexualized attack
  524. that set her down a path of anxiety, depression and drug and alcohol
  525. abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
  526. &lt;br /&gt;
  527. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;During her nine-minute video, the teen explains in handwritten notes
  528. that she was in Grade 7 when she was lured by an unidentified male to
  529. expose her breasts via webcam.
  530. &lt;br /&gt;
  531. She says that a year later, she received a message from a man on
  532. Facebook threatening that if she didn&#39;t give him a show, he would send
  533. the webcam picture to her friends and family. She says police later told
  534. her the man followed through with his threat.&lt;br /&gt;
  535. Anonymous published the name and address of a Vancouver-area man that
  536. the group claims was bullying and preying on Todd via the internet.&lt;br /&gt;
  537. The activist group, whose members are known for wearing Guy Fawkes
  538. mask in order to hide their identities, claims the 32-year-old man has
  539. also made postings to child pornography sites.&lt;br /&gt;
  540. The man himself has now been threatened online by others vowing to
  541. carry out vigilante justice, a development that worries Vancouver
  542. defence lawyer Eric Gottardi.&lt;br /&gt;
  543. &quot;The system isn&#39;t supposed to convict someone before charges are
  544. laid. It’s not supposed to be judge, jury and executioner, all in the
  545. public forum,&quot; Gottardi said. &quot;We have a justice system. It’s supposed
  546. to work, it does work.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  547. &lt;h3&gt;
  548. Family pleads for help&lt;/h3&gt;
  549. Todd&#39;s
  550. family has pleaded with people to report anyone desecrating online
  551. tribute pages to Amanda and also to come forward with information about
  552. those who bullied her online:&lt;br /&gt;
  553. Her aunt, Leanna Todd, of Halifax, told CBC News that the public
  554. response to Todd&#39;s death and the discussion about bullying have provided
  555. the family with much comfort.&lt;br /&gt;
  556. “I&#39;ve really been overwhelmed by it. I knew there would be an outcry.
  557. I didn&#39;t know it would be an international outcry and I don&#39;t think her
  558. parents expected it either.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  559. Two dozen RCMP investigators have been assigned to look into the bullying, which could bring charges of criminal harassment.&lt;br /&gt;
  560. &lt;span class=&quot;photo left&quot; style=&quot;width: 222px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Todd&#39;s video was posted weeks before she took her own life.&quot; src=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2012/10/15/mi-bc-121015-amanda-todd-video.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Todd&#39;s video was posted weeks before she took her own life.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&quot;credit&quot;&gt;(CBC)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A
  561. spokesman told CBC News Monday that police are aware of the social
  562. media speculation about Todd’s alleged tormentor, but would not comment
  563. further.&lt;br /&gt;
  564. A national child anti-exploitation group, cybertip.ca, says it received a tip almost a year ago about Todd.&lt;br /&gt;
  565. A concerned citizen contacted the organization last November to
  566. report that images of Todd were being circulated online, said
  567. spokeswoman Signy Arnason.&lt;br /&gt;
  568. &quot;We did receive one report, and that was passed along to law
  569. enforcement as well as child welfare,&quot; Arnason said Monday. &quot;It was not a
  570. report from her, but it was a report from a concerned citizen.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  571. &lt;h3&gt;
  572. Seedy underworld&lt;/h3&gt;
  573. The
  574. kind of sexual exploitation described by Todd is part of a seedy
  575. cyber-underworld that targets young girls and it is not bullying, but a
  576. vicious crime that should be pursued even after her death, say child
  577. advocates.&lt;br /&gt;
  578. &quot;Threats are a very common tactic utilized by individuals in their
  579. attempts to extort more information off of the kids,&quot; said Arnason,
  580. whose group will release a report on online luring later this week.&lt;br /&gt;
  581. About one per cent of the 67,000 reports they&#39;ve received since 2005
  582. involve luring – a number that is significant when cases can spiral out
  583. of control as they did for Todd.&lt;br /&gt;
  584. &quot;Being sexually curious is not an abnormal thing as an adolescent.
  585. It&#39;s quite developmentally normal. The problem is that when you combine
  586. it with the online world then the effects can be devastating.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  587. &quot;You get a lot of youth — and Amanda&#39;s not unusual — where they do
  588. feel like their life is over, and it&#39;s just so incredibly tragic what
  589. occurred for her,&quot; Arnason said.&lt;br /&gt;
  590. &lt;cite class=&quot;source&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;With files from The Canadian Press and CBC&#39;s Chris Brown&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;
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  594. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/7292681739238006721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/another-victim-of-online-predator-aka.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/7292681739238006721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/7292681739238006721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/another-victim-of-online-predator-aka.html' title='Another victim of an online predator (aka pedophile) and sheds light on YouTube and Facebook Predators'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-3899645661443222277</id><published>2012-10-15T10:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-10-15T10:14:45.032-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child grooming"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jeremy Roebuck"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jerry Sandusky"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kevin R. Feinberg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Michael K. Rozen"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="movement to abolish the SOR"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Penn State"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tom Kline"/><title type='text'>PSU starts talks with 20 Sandusky accusers</title><content type='html'>I found this article this morning on twitter&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.philly.com/2012-10-14/news/34449795_1_sandusky-victim-sandusky-accusers-jerry-sandusky&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; http://articles.philly.com/2012-10-14/news/34449795_1_sandusky-victim-sandusky-accusers-jerry-sandusky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  595. I bet there will be even more victims to come forward. A pedophile (aka child sexual predator) has many victims. There will be those (especially in the movement to abolish the sexual offender registry) who will claim that most will be in it for the money. I am sure that is possible, but I am just as sure that each and every story will be investigated. The article addresses this.&lt;br /&gt;
  596. We need to continue to get the word out that by the time a pedophile (aka child sexual predator) gets caught he or she has offended many, many times. I have read up to 100 to 600. This means not only that they molested or sexually abused a child. It means they looked at child sexual abuse media (aka child pornography) each view is considered an offense, groomed children each child groomed is considered an offense, purposely put themselves in a position to be near children, etc. This is why we have to pay attention to those who wish to abolish the SOR. Their biggest claim is that the registry doesn&#39;t work because most people who get arrested for child sexual abuse are not on the registry. They claim that those on the registry have a low rate of re-offending (I am sure without considering that looking at child sexual abuse media and grooming children are re-offending). They don&#39;t ever say that the registry is working because once someone is on it for sexually abusing a child they don&#39;t re-offend. This would mean that the SOR is a deterrent from future offenses and therefore is working.&lt;br /&gt;
  597. &lt;br /&gt;
  598. I have said before on this blog that there are problems with the registry. Especially consensual teenage sex (known as Romeo and Juliette offense) and public urination. I do not think there are problems when it comes to an adult sexually abusing a child needing to be on the registry. Their needs to be a way to protect children and the SOR is one way. I also think that more adults on the registry who blame the fact they are on it because the &quot;girl&quot; said she was older. I agree that lying isn&#39;t good and that this shouldn&#39;t happen but if the person had gotten to know the &quot;girl&quot; prior to the sexual relationship he may have been able to determine she was underage. I think if the movement to abolish the SOR would just focus on the areas that need to be reformed they would have a better shot of fixing the SOR. The problem is that the very people most actively involved in this movement have sexually abused a child and they think that once they serve their time they shouldn&#39;t have to be on the registry. To me this is mixing apples and oranges. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
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  602. &lt;div class=&quot;mod-phillyarticlebyline mod-articlebyline&quot; id=&quot;mod-article-byline&quot;&gt;
  603. &lt;span class=&quot;pubdate&quot;&gt;October 14, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;separator&quot;&gt;|&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;By Jeremy Roebuck, Inquirer Staff Writer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  611. &lt;a class=&quot;thickbox&quot; href=&quot;http://media.philly.com/images/600*450/20121014_inq_ssandusky13-a.JPG&quot; id=&quot;mod-article-image-link&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is placed in a police car after he was sentenced last week to 30 to 60 years in prison for serial child sexual abuse. (ED HILLE / Staff Photographer)&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is placed in a police car after he was sentenced last week to 30 to 60 years in prison for serial child sexual abuse.&quot; height=&quot;218&quot; src=&quot;http://media.philly.com/images/600*450/20121014_inq_ssandusky13-a.JPG&quot; title=&quot;Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is placed in a police car after he was sentenced last week to 30 to 60 years in prison for serial child sexual abuse.&quot; width=&quot;330&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  621. Pennsylvania
  622. State University has entered into preliminary settlement talks with at
  623. least 20 men accusing Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse, the college&#39;s
  624. appointed mediators said.&lt;br /&gt;
  625. That figure - more than double the
  626. number of victims who testified against the former assistant football
  627. coach at trial - offers the first glimpse of Penn State&#39;s potential
  628. liability in the largest scandal in its history.&lt;br /&gt;
  629. Their ranks
  630. include the eight accusers named in state prosecutors&#39; case against
  631. Sandusky, four more who have either filed lawsuits or come forward to
  632. claim molestation in the news media,&lt;br /&gt;
  633. and at least eight more who have
  634. not publicly aired their allegations of abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
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  651. The
  652. university&#39;s appointed mediators have yet to begin the process of
  653. vetting any of the 20 claims, negotiator Michael K. Rozen said in an
  654. interview last week.&lt;/div&gt;
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  658. &quot;All of these claims will be very different
  659. from one another factually and potentially legally,&quot; he said. &quot;We&#39;re
  660. having lots of discussions so far about how to go about evaluating
  661. them.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  662. Penn State hired Rozen and law partner Kenneth R. Feinberg
  663. to handle settlement negotiations last month. Their firm previously
  664. managed the Sept. 11 victims-compensation fund and settlements with
  665. those affected by the 2010 BP Gulf oil spill.&lt;br /&gt;
  666. So far, the
  667. mediators have reached out to attorneys representing the accusers but
  668. described their discussions Friday as preliminary. Rozen said he and
  669. Feinberg had yet to come up with criteria to evaluate the claims.&lt;br /&gt;
  670. &quot;Right
  671. now, we&#39;re trying to think through how we transparently - both to the
  672. claimants and the university - put the claims into some sort of
  673. hierarchy,&quot; he said. &quot;Because there&#39;s so much attention being paid to
  674. this, we don&#39;t think we can have 20 separate negotiations and 20
  675. separate resolutions.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  676. Since Sandusky&#39;s conviction in June, Penn
  677. State president Rodney Erickson has expressed his desire to quickly
  678. settle with the victims in hopes of avoiding drawn-out and costly legal
  679. proceedings. He hopes most claims can be resolved by the end of the
  680. year, Rozen said.&lt;br /&gt;
  681. And while lawyers for several of the accusers
  682. had previously criticized the pace of the negotiations, they said in
  683. interviews last week that they found the current direction of talks
  684. encouraging.&lt;br /&gt;
  685. &quot;There appears to be an overwhelming appetite on the
  686. Penn State side for these claims to be settled,&quot; said Tom Kline, a
  687. Philadelphia attorney who represents the 26-year-old Sandusky victim
  688. identified in court documents as Victim 5.&lt;/div&gt;
  689. &lt;/div&gt;
  690. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/3899645661443222277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/psu-starts-talks-with-20-sandusky.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/3899645661443222277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/3899645661443222277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/psu-starts-talks-with-20-sandusky.html' title='PSU starts talks with 20 Sandusky accusers'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-7125418986221634248</id><published>2012-10-13T15:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-10-13T15:53:23.512-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child abduction"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="DOJ"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jessica Ridgeway"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stranger danger"/><title type='text'>Parents on alert: Child abductions rarely committed by strangers</title><content type='html'>This article is a reminder that in most cases children are not abducted by strangers. Yes unfortunately their are children who are abducted by strangers and stranger danger is important to protect children. Especially against the eighteen percent of people who abduct children they don&#39;t know. &lt;a href=&quot;http://kdvr.com/2012/10/11/parents-on-alert-child-abductions-rarely-committed-by-strangers/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://kdvr.com/2012/10/11/parents-on-alert-child-abductions-rarely-committed-by-strangers/&lt;/a&gt; This is very similar to the reality that most children who are sexually abused are abused by someone who they know. Most of the research I have done on this states that children who are sexually abused by strangers only account for seven percent of all cases of child sexual abuse. I have had people leave me comments on this blog challenging this percentage and I have steered them to the articles where I have gotten my information.&lt;br /&gt;
  691. &lt;br /&gt;
  692. It honestly sucks we live in a world where children can&#39;t walk down the street without being at risk. It also sucks that children live in an environments where adults take advantage of them in the worst way. Almost every person that I speak to, in relation to my experience and my advocacy against child sexual abuse, knows someone who has been sexually abused. I spoke to a women today and she shared three story&#39;s that she experienced with pedophiles when she was raising her daughter. She shared how she works with children who have survived this trauma and explained to me how mad it makes her mad at how much damage is done to children. She explained that it is not only physical, but emotional and spiritual as well. She stated to me what I have said, &quot;It effects their very soul and lasts a lifetime.&quot; I would love to be on some sort of panel as a survivor who talks to those who are convicted of sexually abusing a child. I would be very glad to share the impact this has had on my whole life. For that matter I would love to be able to be on a panel arguing against those who want to abolish the sexual offender registry.&lt;br /&gt;
  693. &lt;br /&gt;
  694. I pray for this young girls family this story is tragic. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
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  698. Posted on: 8:16 pm, October 11, 2012, by &lt;a href=&quot;http://kdvr.com/author/kdvrdandaru/&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot; title=&quot;Posts by Dan Daru&quot;&gt;Dan Daru&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;updated on: 08:18pm, October 11, 2012&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  768. According to the Department of Justice, 800,000 children are reported
  769. missing every year in the united states.&amp;nbsp; Out of that number, 69,000
  770. were kidnapped. “I think anytime a child is missing it’s a big number.&amp;nbsp;
  771. Whether it’s one or 69,000, but yes, 69,000 sounds like a large number,”
  772. says criminal justice professor Stacey Hervey from Metro State College
  773. in Denver.&lt;br /&gt;
  774.  
  775. Our children are taught to beware of stranger-danger. &lt;b&gt;“If someone you
  776. don’t know approaches you, that you yell and scream that this is not my
  777. mom or dad,”&lt;/b&gt; says Hervey.&lt;br /&gt;
  778.  
  779. &lt;br /&gt;
  780. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;But the likely danger is closer to home.&amp;nbsp; Of the 69,000 children
  781. kidnapped every year, 82 percent, eight out of ten, are abducted by a
  782. family member.&amp;nbsp; “In the case of&lt;b&gt; Jessica Ridgeway &lt;/b&gt;the media picks up on
  783. it very quickly and of course it puts the fear in every parent’s heart.&amp;nbsp;
  784. But in reality they are a very miniscule&amp;nbsp; number as far as stranger
  785. abductions.&amp;nbsp; The likelihood&amp;nbsp; is someone that you know is going to take
  786. your kid.”&lt;br /&gt;
  787.  
  788. When it comes to anyone having regular contact with your child, don’t
  789. be paranoid, be prudent.&amp;nbsp; “Child predators are very manipulative, and
  790. do want to work themselves into your life and make you trust them.”&lt;br /&gt;
  791.  
  792. And the odds of your child being abducted by anybody?&amp;nbsp; That would be .02 percent.&amp;nbsp; Perspective is everything.&lt;br /&gt;
  793.  
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  797. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/7125418986221634248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/parents-on-alert-child-abductions.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/7125418986221634248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/7125418986221634248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/parents-on-alert-child-abductions.html' title='Parents on alert: Child abductions rarely committed by strangers'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-5250489423974521594</id><published>2012-10-09T11:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-10-09T11:23:39.254-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child grooming"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jerry Sandusky sentencing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pedophile"/><title type='text'>Sandusky&#39;s sentences and hoping it sends a message to other pedophiles (aka child sexal predaors)</title><content type='html'>It is all over twitter that Sandusky got 30 to 60 years for his terrible sexual abuse of numerous children. I also read that Sandusky claims he is innocent. If that isn&#39;t telling I don&#39;t know what it. He apparently released a tape yesterday (I am guessing as a way to try to persuade the public) stating, that he is innocent. The reality is that he got away with his charade for many many years. It must seem weird to him that his lies aren&#39;t working any more.&amp;nbsp; His denial seems to be running so deep that he has become delusional. It must be very weird for him to have to be held accountable for his actions. Actions that for many years were pushed aside by many people. If you spent the better part of thirty plus years getting away with harming children because of the status you held. I think you would be very confused as to why your claiming innocence isn&#39;t working anymore. Those at Penn State who were part of this coverup need to realize that they are part of the reason Sandusky is out there claiming he is innocent. If they didn&#39;t believe his lies and held him accountable for his actions years ago; not only would less children have been victimized but, he would have had several years sitting in jail thinking about what put him there.&lt;br /&gt;
  798. &lt;br /&gt;
  799. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I suspect he is going to turn down all resources that are offered to help him with his pedophilia. This is quite common. Most child sexual offenders turn down help in jail. Some don&#39;t, but a lot do. The research I have done for this blog on pedophiles (aka child sexual predators) shows that most pedophiles don&#39;t feel what they have done is wrong. They honestly believe that the children were active participants in their sexual abuse. They neglect to remember that they have spent God knows how long grooming their victims. I don&#39;t think you could do something this heinous if you had a conscience about what you are doing. Society as a whole needs to do a better job of educating on who child sexual predators (aka pedophiles) are. We need to do a better job of educating children on what grooming and child sexual abuse is. Most victims are so young they don&#39;t even realize that what is happening to them is sexual. I have read several stories from survivors that discuss this. My own experience was that as I got older (around 9 years old) I started to realize what was happening wasn&#39;t okay. It is very strange and scary when you realize what is being done to you isn&#39;t right. As a child you are helpless to stop it and afraid to tell. &lt;br /&gt;
  800. &lt;br /&gt;
  801. I for one am glad that Sandusky is away for the rest of his life. I wish this was going to be a deterrent for other child sexual predators, but I fear it won&#39;t. I hope the Sandusky case has created conversations between children and their parents/guardians about sexual abuse. I hope that his sentencing doesn&#39;t end the national conversation that is happening. The more child sexual abuse is talked about the more children will be protected. Rosie&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/5250489423974521594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/sanduskys-sentences-and-hoping-it-send.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/5250489423974521594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/5250489423974521594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/sanduskys-sentences-and-hoping-it-send.html' title='Sandusky&#39;s sentences and hoping it sends a message to other pedophiles (aka child sexal predaors)'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-6884276899251520708</id><published>2012-10-02T12:53:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-10-09T11:23:28.665-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dr Roger Luncheon"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fighting pedophilia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Guyana Child Protection Week"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Guyana Sexual Offenders Act with the Prevention of Crimes Amendment Bill"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="KNews"/><title type='text'>Fighting Paedophilia How a Country with 751,223 population can protect children.  What&#39;s our excuse?</title><content type='html'>I found this article on the internet yesterday.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2012/10/01/fighting-paedophilia/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2012/10/01/fighting-paedophilia/&lt;/a&gt; It is a story from Guyana&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  802. This article is very well written and understandable. While the legislation update proposed is to chemically castrate all convicted child sexual offenders (Guyana uses the word paedophile). I don&#39;t know if chemically castrating all convicted child sexual offenders is the correct thing to do. What I am most impressed by though is that this Country only has 751,223 people and seem to understand the toll that child sexual offenders cause their victims.&lt;br /&gt;
  803. &lt;br /&gt;
  804. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana#cite_note-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  805.  
  806. &lt;br /&gt;
  807. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  808. &lt;tbody&gt;
  809. &lt;tr style=&quot;background: #bbb;&quot;&gt;
  810. &lt;th&gt;No&lt;/th&gt;
  811. &lt;th&gt;Region&lt;/th&gt;
  812. &lt;th&gt;Area km²&lt;/th&gt;
  813. &lt;th&gt;Population&lt;/th&gt;
  814. &lt;th&gt;Population&lt;br /&gt;
  815. per km²&lt;/th&gt;
  816. &lt;/tr&gt;
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  818. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
  819. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barima-Waini&quot; title=&quot;Barima-Waini&quot;&gt;Barima-Waini&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  820. &lt;td&gt;20,339&lt;/td&gt;
  821. &lt;td&gt;24,275&lt;/td&gt;
  822. &lt;td&gt;1.2&lt;/td&gt;
  823. &lt;/tr&gt;
  824. &lt;tr&gt;
  825. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
  826. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomeroon-Supenaam&quot; title=&quot;Pomeroon-Supenaam&quot;&gt;Pomeroon-Supenaam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  827. &lt;td&gt;6,195&lt;/td&gt;
  828. &lt;td&gt;49,253&lt;/td&gt;
  829. &lt;td&gt;8.0&lt;/td&gt;
  830. &lt;/tr&gt;
  831. &lt;tr&gt;
  832. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
  833. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essequibo_Islands-West_Demerara&quot; title=&quot;Essequibo Islands-West Demerara&quot;&gt;Essequibo Islands-West Demerara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  834. &lt;td&gt;2,232&lt;/td&gt;
  835. &lt;td&gt;103,061&lt;/td&gt;
  836. &lt;td&gt;46.2&lt;/td&gt;
  837. &lt;/tr&gt;
  838. &lt;tr&gt;
  839. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
  840. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demerara-Mahaica&quot; title=&quot;Demerara-Mahaica&quot;&gt;Demerara-Mahaica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  841. &lt;td&gt;1,843&lt;/td&gt;
  842. &lt;td&gt;310,320&lt;/td&gt;
  843. &lt;td&gt;168.4&lt;/td&gt;
  844. &lt;/tr&gt;
  845. &lt;tr&gt;
  846. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
  847. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahaica-Berbice&quot; title=&quot;Mahaica-Berbice&quot;&gt;Mahaica-Berbice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  848. &lt;td&gt;3,755&lt;/td&gt;
  849. &lt;td&gt;52,428&lt;/td&gt;
  850. &lt;td&gt;14.0&lt;/td&gt;
  851. &lt;/tr&gt;
  852. &lt;tr&gt;
  853. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
  854. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Berbice-Corentyne&quot; title=&quot;East Berbice-Corentyne&quot;&gt;East Berbice-Corentyne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  855. &lt;td&gt;36,234&lt;/td&gt;
  856. &lt;td&gt;123,695&lt;/td&gt;
  857. &lt;td&gt;3.4&lt;/td&gt;
  858. &lt;/tr&gt;
  859. &lt;tr&gt;
  860. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
  861. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyuni-Mazaruni&quot; title=&quot;Cuyuni-Mazaruni&quot;&gt;Cuyuni-Mazaruni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  862. &lt;td&gt;47,213&lt;/td&gt;
  863. &lt;td&gt;17,597&lt;/td&gt;
  864. &lt;td&gt;0.3&lt;/td&gt;
  865. &lt;/tr&gt;
  866. &lt;tr&gt;
  867. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
  868. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potaro-Siparuni&quot; title=&quot;Potaro-Siparuni&quot;&gt;Potaro-Siparuni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  869. &lt;td&gt;20,051&lt;/td&gt;
  870. &lt;td&gt;10,095&lt;/td&gt;
  871. &lt;td&gt;0.5&lt;/td&gt;
  872. &lt;/tr&gt;
  873. &lt;tr&gt;
  874. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;
  875. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Takutu-Upper_Essequibo&quot; title=&quot;Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo&quot;&gt;Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  876. &lt;td&gt;57,750&lt;/td&gt;
  877. &lt;td&gt;19,387&lt;/td&gt;
  878. &lt;td&gt;1.3&lt;/td&gt;
  879. &lt;/tr&gt;
  880. &lt;tr&gt;
  881. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
  882. &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Demerara-Berbice&quot; title=&quot;Upper Demerara-Berbice&quot;&gt;Upper Demerara-Berbice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  883. &lt;td&gt;19,387&lt;/td&gt;
  884. &lt;td&gt;41,112&lt;/td&gt;
  885. &lt;td&gt;2.1&lt;/td&gt;
  886. &lt;/tr&gt;
  887. &lt;tr&gt;
  888. &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  889. &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guyana&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  890. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;214,999&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  891. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;751,223&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  892. &lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;3.49&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  893. &lt;/tr&gt;
  894. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  895. The regions are divided into 27 neighbourhood councils.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-9&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana#cite_note-9&quot;&gt;[10]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  896. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-9&quot;&gt;per&lt;/sup&gt;Wikipedia &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  897. &lt;br /&gt;
  898. They also seem to understand that most child sexual offenders, offend many times before getting caught. And that offenders come from all walks of life and are very manipulative. I do agree with this quote from the article: &lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-9&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  899. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  900. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  901. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“In those two pieces of legislation, convicted paedophiles would
  902. be subjected to monitoring for life.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  903. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  904. I take this to mean that if a child sexual offender harms a child, gets caught, goes through their court system and is convicted they will have to be monitored for life. It is interesting to me that they use the word pedophile instead of child sexual offender. I take that to mean that they choose to use the correct label for an adult who is attracted to children, is at least 5 years older then the child, and acts on their attraction. As far as I can tell here in the USA our legal system chooses to call them child sexual offenders rather than call them pedophiles. I am not talking about the Romeo and Juliet offenders, or those who are on the SOR for peeing in public. I am talking about adults who sexually abuse children. I think we can learn by Guyana&#39;s actions. If we labeled those who sexually abuse children pedophiles it would reduce the rhetoric of those involved in the abolishment of the SOR. I have been told several times by those involved in the abolishment of the SOR movement, that they are opposed to be called pedophiles when that is a medical definition and no medical person has given them that label. I think we need to look into Guyana&#39;s reason and logic to use this label. I say GO GUYANA! Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  905. &lt;h1&gt;
  906. Fighting Paedophilia&lt;/h1&gt;
  907. &lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;
  908. October 1, 2012 | By &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/author/renee/&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot; title=&quot;Posts by KNews&quot;&gt;KNews&lt;/a&gt; | Filed Under &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/category/editorial/&quot; rel=&quot;category tag&quot; title=&quot;View all posts in Editorial&quot;&gt;Editorial&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;
  909. &lt;/div&gt;
  910. &lt;b&gt;Last week, “Child Protection Week” was observed with a flurry of
  911. activities by the Human Services and Social Security Ministry under the
  912. theme “Adults – take action against child abuse – the time is now”.&lt;/b&gt;
  913. Cabinet spokesperson Dr Roger Luncheon (still on the job after his
  914. copyright faux pas) averred that in Guyana, the adults in politics are
  915. taking action by strengthening the existing Sexual Offenders Act with
  916. the Prevention of Crimes Amendment Bill &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://sgdatabase.unwomen.org/uploads/Prevention%20of%20Crimes%20%28Amendment%29%20Act%202008.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://sgdatabase.unwomen.org/uploads/Prevention%20of%20Crimes%20%28Amendment%29%20Act%202008.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt; which will be debated in the
  917. upcoming parliamentary session.&lt;br /&gt;
  918. The good doctor of the Office of the President took pains to assure
  919. that, “In those two pieces of legislation, convicted paedophiles would
  920. be subjected to monitoring for life.” We believe that the government,
  921. and especially the OP, could have sent the strongest possible signal
  922. that it was serious about fighting paedophilia by being more forthcoming
  923. in a case that hit the headlines two years ago. To the public at large
  924. it appeared that a cover-up had been effected.&lt;br /&gt;
  925. &lt;b&gt;Paedophiles can be found in every demographic category: old, young,
  926. educated, uneducated, professional, non-professionals – and of all
  927. races, colours and creeds. Typically, however, the paedophile is male,
  928. single, seemingly fascinated with children – especially around puberty
  929. and targets shy, handicapped, and withdrawn children, or those who come
  930. from troubled homes. They work to master their manipulative skills and
  931. often unleash them on troubled children by first becoming their friend,
  932. building the child’s self-esteem.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  933. &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  934. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;At the time of the high-profile paedophile case, which was incidentally
  935. when the Sexual offenders Act was in parliament, we had editorialised:
  936. While the bill addresses some of the issues emanating from paedophilic
  937. behaviour they do so in a generalised fashion. We believe that the
  938. matter is serious enough to warrant specific legislation. &lt;b&gt;Take the issue
  939. of bail: the above cited instance of an alleged paedophile committing
  940. sexual offenses while out on bail is not the exception – it is rather
  941. the norm. &lt;/b&gt;This circumstance raises the larger issue of exactly how is
  942. society to deal with a crime that incarceration appears to have no
  943. effect in diminishing.&lt;br /&gt;
  944. Because of the deep-seated nature of the paedophilic imperative, some in
  945. the medical community have begun to view paedophilia as a disease
  946. rather than a crime. &lt;b&gt;They have amassed evidence that at least some
  947. violent and antisocial behaviour have genetic links and signposts, but
  948. have been unable to isolate a biological cause for paedophilia.&lt;/b&gt; In our
  949. view, it is a mistake to label a behaviour—even a behaviour with some
  950. biological and genetic determinants—a “disease” because it ultimately
  951. means abandoning the concept of volition altogether. To do so would
  952. place us on a very slippery slope – for if there is no volition where is
  953. the crime?&lt;br /&gt;
  954. The repercussion from the activities of paedophiles reverberates so
  955. widely that we need to even revisit the putative benefits of
  956. incarcerating the offender after conviction. &lt;b&gt;In the developed countries,
  957. lifetime recidivism rates show that “rehabilitation” alone in jails
  958. have not been very effective for sex offenders, and we know that
  959. deterrence is unlikely when most offenders are able to “get away with”
  960. multiple acts before apprehension. &lt;/b&gt;Now it would not be practical from an
  961. economic standpoint to keep all convicted paedophiles locked up for
  962. life: the only treatment that works and is feasible is castration of
  963. male offenders.&lt;br /&gt;
  964. There have been much debate and discussion on the long-term deleterious
  965. effects of corporal punishment on children but these pale almost into
  966. significance when compared to those of paedophilia. While it may sound
  967. harsh, in an effort to stop male paedophiles, male child molesters have
  968. the option of being chemically castrated in several states in the US.
  969. “Chemical castration” is a term used to describe treatment with a drug
  970. called Depo-Provera – a common birth control pill for women – that, when
  971. given to men, acts on the brain to inhibit hormones that stimulate the
  972. testicles to produce testosterone. The only drawback is that the drug
  973. had to be administered monthly and may be counteracted.&lt;br /&gt;
  974. In Guyana, we propose that the procedure must be made mandatory on convicted paedophiles.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/6884276899251520708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/fighting-paedophilia-how-country-with.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/6884276899251520708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/6884276899251520708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/fighting-paedophilia-how-country-with.html' title='Fighting Paedophilia How a Country with 751,223 population can protect children.  What&#39;s our excuse?'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-4392780598391163757</id><published>2012-09-25T20:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-10-01T09:34:40.418-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="John Hunter"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="long term effects of child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="male child sexual abuse victims"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Raluca Bejan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SOR abolishment movement"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tamara Grundland and Sarah Brennenstuhl"/><title type='text'>Male child sexual abuse victims at higher heart attack risk</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;I found this study on the internet and thought I would be good to post it on this blog. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906123240.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906123240.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  975. I have posted several other articles and studies that have to do with the long term effects of child sexual abuse. This study showed that:&lt;br /&gt;
  976. &lt;br /&gt;
  977. &amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Men who reported they were sexually abused during childhood were
  978. particularly vulnerable to having a heart attack later in life,&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  979. &lt;br /&gt;
  980. It continues to sadden me that those of us who have survived this horrible epidemic have to deal with it&#39;s consequences indefinitely. Yet those who commit this terrible crime and are held accountable through the court system, don&#39;t like that they have to be labeled as a sexual offender. They especially hate having to be on the sexual offender registry. I say if you harm a child irreparably you should be held accountable for that. If that means you have a permanent label then you should have thought about that prior to sexually abusing a child. I usually don&#39;t get off on a rant like this but there are times I get fed up with those who complain that they served their time so they shouldn&#39;t have to be on the SOR. There is a whole movement to abolish the SOR. They claim they are violated because they have to be a registered sex offender. That their human rights have been irreparably harmed. I especially love to read how those in the movement to abolish the SOR are against child abuse. I laugh when I read that because if this were true they would be doing things to make children safe. They would believe that 93% of child who are sexually abused know their abuser. They would believe that before a child sexual offender gets caught they have abused up to 100 times. This means they have viewed child sexual abuse media or touched a child, or groomed a child, etc. before they get caught. If they meant that child abuse was wrong they wouldn&#39;t call those who speak out against this epidemic &quot;perpetual victims.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  981. &lt;br /&gt;
  982. What they wouldn&#39;t do is to claim that the SOR doesn&#39;t work because those who get caught are first time offenders. As I have stated previously this is inaccurate as most offenders abuse at least 100 times before they get caught. Just because someone hasn&#39;t gotten caught doesn&#39;t mean they haven&#39;t harmed a child previously. If they would read the statistics and studies they may awakened to this reality. They don&#39;t want to be in my opinion because then their argument wouldn&#39;t hold water. Sorry for the rant just disgusted. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  983. &lt;br /&gt;
  984. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  985. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  986. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  987. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  988. &lt;h1 class=&quot;story&quot; id=&quot;headline&quot;&gt;
  989. Childhood Sexual Abuse Linked to Later Heart Attacks in Men&lt;/h1&gt;
  990. &lt;h1&gt;
  991. &lt;/h1&gt;
  992. &lt;br /&gt;
  993. &lt;div id=&quot;first&quot;&gt;
  994. &lt;span class=&quot;date&quot;&gt;ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2012)&lt;/span&gt; —
  995. Men who experienced childhood sexual abuse are three times more likely
  996. to have a heart attack than men who were not sexually abused as
  997. children, according to a new study from researchers at the University of
  998. Toronto. The researchers found no association between childhood sexual
  999. abuse and heart attacks among women.&lt;/div&gt;
  1000. &lt;div id=&quot;first&quot;&gt;
  1001. &lt;/div&gt;
  1002. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1003. &lt;div id=&quot;seealso&quot;&gt;
  1004. &lt;hr /&gt;
  1005. &lt;/div&gt;
  1006. In a paper published online this week in the journal &lt;i&gt;Child Abuse &amp;amp; Neglect, &lt;/i&gt;investigators
  1007. examined gender-specific differences in a representative sample of 5095
  1008. men and 7768 women aged 18 and over, drawn from the Center for Disease
  1009. Control&#39;s 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. A total of 57
  1010. men and 154 women reported being sexually abused by someone close to
  1011. them before they turned 18 and 377 men and 285 women said that a doctor,
  1012. nurse or other health professional had diagnosed them with a heart
  1013. attack or myocardial infarction. The study was co-authored by four
  1014. graduate students at the University of Toronto, Raluca Bejan, John
  1015. Hunter, Tamara Grundland and Sarah Brennenstuhl.&lt;br /&gt;
  1016. &lt;b&gt;&quot;Men who reported they were sexually abused during childhood were
  1017. particularly vulnerable to having a heart attack later in life,&quot;&lt;/b&gt; says
  1018. lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, Professor and Sandra Rotman Chair at
  1019. University of Toronto&#39;s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. &quot;We had
  1020. expected that the abuse-heart attack link would be due to unhealthy
  1021. behaviors in sexual abuse survivors, such as higher rates of alcohol use
  1022. or smoking, or increased levels of general stress and poverty in
  1023. adulthood when compared to non-abused males. However, we adjusted
  1024. statistically for 15 potential risk factors for heart attack, including
  1025. age, race, obesity, smoking, physical inactivity, diabetes mellitus,
  1026. education level and household income, and still found a three-fold risk
  1027. of heart attack.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  1028. Co-author and PhD candidate Sarah Brennenstuhl notes that, &quot;It is
  1029. unclear why sexually abused men, but not women, experienced higher odds
  1030. of heart attack; however, the results suggest that the pathways linking
  1031. childhood sexual abuse to physical health outcomes in later life may be
  1032. gender-specific. For example, it is possible that females adopt
  1033. different coping strategies than males as women are more likely to get
  1034. the support and counselling needed to deal with their sexual abuse.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  1035. &quot;These findings need to be replicated in future scientific studies
  1036. before we can say anything definitive about this link,&quot; cautions
  1037. Fuller-Thomson. &quot;But if other researchers find a similar association,
  1038. one possible explanation is that adverse child experiences become
  1039. biologically embedded in the way individuals react to stress throughout
  1040. their life, particularly with respect to the production of cortisol, the
  1041. hormone associated with the &quot;fight-or-flight&quot; response. Cortisol is
  1042. also implicated in the development of cardiovascular diseases.&lt;br /&gt;
  1043. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-top: 5px;&quot;&gt;
  1044. &lt;i&gt;Share this story on &lt;b&gt;Facebook&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Twitter&lt;/b&gt;, and &lt;b&gt;Google&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1045. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/4392780598391163757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/male-child-sexual-abuse-victims-at.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4392780598391163757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4392780598391163757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/male-child-sexual-abuse-victims-at.html' title='Male child sexual abuse victims at higher heart attack risk'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-8126407257337464174</id><published>2012-09-23T13:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-09-23T13:33:27.425-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Carla Van Dam"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child grooming"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gene J. Puskar/AP"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="In Plain View"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Malcolm Gladwell"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Voices from the Desert"/><title type='text'>In Plain View How child molesters get away with it. </title><content type='html'>The New Yorker did a wonderful article on pedophiles and child molesters.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/09/24/120924crat_atlarge_gladwell&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/09/24/120924crat_atlarge_gladwell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/09/24/120924crat_atlarge_gladwell&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1046. The article is called: &lt;br /&gt;
  1047. &lt;ul id=&quot;bc&quot; title=&quot;Navigation Trail&quot;&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  1048. &lt;ul id=&quot;bc&quot; title=&quot;Navigation Trail&quot;&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  1049. &lt;div id=&quot;main&quot;&gt;
  1050. &lt;div class=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;index_headers&quot;&gt;
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  1055. &lt;h1 class=&quot;header&quot; id=&quot;articlehed&quot;&gt;
  1056. &lt;i&gt;In Plain View&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
  1057. &lt;h2 id=&quot;articleintro&quot;&gt;
  1058. &lt;i&gt;
  1059. How child molesters get away with it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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  1149.                            by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/malcolm_gladwell/search?contributorName=malcolm%20gladwell&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot;&gt;Malcolm Gladwell&lt;/a&gt;
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  1194.            &lt;/h4&gt;
  1195. &lt;/div&gt;
  1196. &lt;div class=&quot;social-utils-top&quot;&gt;
  1197. &lt;ul class=&quot;utilities utilities-&quot; style=&quot;display: block;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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  1199. &lt;div class=&quot;captionedphoto&quot;&gt;
  1200. &lt;div class=&quot;w&quot;&gt;
  1201. &lt;img alt=&quot;Jerry Sandusky built a sophisticated grooming operation, outsourcing to child-care professionals the task of locating vulnerable children&quot; src=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/09/24/p465/120924_r22590_p465.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1202. &lt;div class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;
  1203. &lt;i&gt;Jerry Sandusky built a
  1204. sophisticated grooming operation, outsourcing to child-care
  1205. professionals the task of locating vulnerable children—all the while
  1206. playing the role of lovable goofball.&amp;nbsp; ILLUSTRATION: A. J. Frackattack; PHOTOGRAPH: Gene J. Puskar/AP&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1207. &lt;/div&gt;
  1208. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1209. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1210. Going to the link on the New Yorker only allows a non-subscription reader to read the first couple of pages. The complete article is six pages long. I did find a blog that was able to post the complete article.&lt;br /&gt;
  1211. &lt;br /&gt;
  1212. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It is called Voice from the Desert &lt;a href=&quot;http://reform-network.net/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://reform-network.net/&lt;/a&gt; which supports those who have been victimized by clergy.&amp;nbsp; Here is there link to the full article &lt;a href=&quot;http://reform-network.net/?p=18034&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://reform-network.net/?p=18034&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
  1213. &lt;br /&gt;
  1214. The biggest thing that this article does is to describe the grooming process. Especially of those who groom parents and the community. The following quotes come from the article:&lt;br /&gt;
  1215. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  1216. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  1217. &lt;i&gt;The successful pedophile does not select his targets arbitrarily. He
  1218. culls them from a larger pool, testing and probing until he finds the
  1219. most vulnerable. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1220. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1221. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  1222. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  1223. &lt;i&gt;The child molester’s key strategy is one of escalation, desensitizing
  1224. the target with an ever-expanding touch. In interviews and
  1225. autobiographies, pedophiles describe their escalation techniques like
  1226. fly fishermen comparing lures.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1227. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1228. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  1229. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  1230. &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Pedophiles cluster in professions that give them access to vulnerable children—teaching, the clergy, medicin&lt;/i&gt;e.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1231. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1232. &lt;br /&gt;
  1233. These are all things that have been addressed on this blog and should be repeated again and again. Why? Because people still don&#39;t seem to get that children are sexually abused by those who know them. That &quot;grooming&quot; is the major way that child sexual predators use to lure children so they can be sexually abused. It is all rather self-centered for the child sexual predator. This person doesn&#39;t care about anything but their own agenda. I was very happy to see that the author of this article interchanged molester with pedophile. I have discussed many times on this blog, that I think they are one in the same. When a child gets molested it is child sexual abuse, period! If the adult is at least five years older then the child being molested then according to the DSM-TR they meet the criteria for having the diagnoses of pedophilia. This piece of information seems to get lost and I believe there needs to be more stringent guidelines when someone sexually abuses a child. If they meet the criteria for being a pedophile then they need to be given that label. One of the most frustrating things for me as an advocate against child sexual abuse. Is that there are those who have sexually abused children, been arrested and convicted of sexually abusing a child yet they don&#39;t believe they are a pedophile. For some reason they prefer the label child sexual predator or molester. It is just word semantics. The bottom line is that they harmed a child irreparably. When these children have the courage to talk about what happened to them these same people then call these survivors &quot;perpetual victims.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  1234. &lt;br /&gt;
  1235. I continue to appreciate the focus on child sexual abuse. I am really looking forward to going to the Penn State sexual abuse conference next month. My plan is to share what I learned while at the conference with readers of this blog. It should be very informative and I hope to learn of other outreach programs that help educate on child sexual abuse. I am really looking forward to getting my non-profit off of the ground next year. It is called Know Trespassing. The focus of Know Trespassing is to educate on child sexual abuse, it&#39;s implications, long term effects and prevention strategies.&amp;nbsp; As soon as I get the web site up and running I will post a link here to this blog. Blessings, Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  1236. &lt;br /&gt;
  1237. &lt;/div&gt;
  1238. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/8126407257337464174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/in-plain-view-how-child-molesters-get.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/8126407257337464174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/8126407257337464174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/in-plain-view-how-child-molesters-get.html' title='In Plain View How child molesters get away with it. '/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-4616444990485139203</id><published>2012-09-22T17:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-09-22T17:12:42.576-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Anne Owers"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="guardian.co.uk"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sandra Laville"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sexual predator"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Stephen Mitchell"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The independent police compliants commission"/><title type='text'>Sexual predators in police &#39;must be rooted out&#39;</title><content type='html'>This article is very important. I think all police in this global world of ours need to be rooted out for sexual predatory behavior. If they are to investigate abuse how can they be non-biased if they are partaking of what they are investigating? While this article doesn&#39;t just focus on child sexual predatory behavior exclusively, this is part of what needs to be rooted out. We don&#39;t do enough in any profession to make sure children are safe with adults. Even adults who are supposed to be the very people who are to protect them. That is why child sexual abuse is so insidious. Ninety three percent of those who sexually abuse children know them. They have spent time grooming the child, the child&#39;s family and more then likely the community at large. So when I see an article where sexually predatory behavior is taken seriously I think I need to post it on this blog. Rosie &lt;br /&gt;
  1239. &lt;div class=&quot;trackable-component crumb-wrapper&quot; data-component=&quot;comp: r2: Crumb Navigation&quot;&gt;
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  1244. &lt;h1 itemprop=&quot;name headline&quot;&gt;
  1245. Sexual predators in police &#39;must be rooted out&#39;&lt;/h1&gt;
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  1247. IPCC says police abuse of colleagues or members of the public is corrupt and not enough is being done to stop it&lt;br /&gt;
  1248. &lt;br /&gt;
  1249. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/29/guardian-investigation-abuse-power-police&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Revealed: the scale of sexual abuse by police officers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1250. &lt;/div&gt;
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  1252. &lt;div id=&quot;content&quot;&gt;
  1253. &lt;ul class=&quot;article-attributes trackable-component b4&quot; data-component=&quot;comp: r2: Byline&quot;&gt;
  1254. &lt;li class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;
  1255.                &lt;div class=&quot;contributor-full&quot;&gt;
  1256. &lt;span itemprop=&quot;author&quot; itemscope=&quot;&quot; itemtype=&quot;http://schema.org/Person&quot;&gt;&lt;span itemprop=&quot;name&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;contributor&quot; href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sandralaville&quot; itemprop=&quot;url&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot;&gt;Sandra Laville&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/ukcrime&quot; title=&quot;More from guardian.co.uk on Crime&quot;&gt;crime&lt;/a&gt; correspondent &lt;/div&gt;
  1257. &lt;/li&gt;
  1258. &lt;li class=&quot;publication&quot;&gt;
  1259.   &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/&quot; itemprop=&quot;publisher&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;,
  1260.                &lt;time datetime=&quot;2012-09-20T04:58EDT&quot; itemprop=&quot;datePublished&quot; pubdate=&quot;&quot;&gt;Thursday 20 September 2012 04.58 EDT&lt;/time&gt;        
  1261.        &lt;/li&gt;
  1262. &lt;/ul&gt;
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  1265. &lt;img alt=&quot;IPCC chair, Anne Owers, said the police must take steps to reduce predatory behaviour&quot; height=&quot;276&quot; itemprop=&quot;contentUrl representativeOfPage&quot; src=&quot;http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/9/20/1348131397024/IPCC-chair-Anne-Owers-sai-010.jpg&quot; width=&quot;460&quot; /&gt;
  1266.          &lt;br /&gt;
  1267. &lt;div class=&quot;caption&quot; itemprop=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;
  1268. IPCC chair, Anne Owers, said the police must take steps to reduce predatory behaviour. Photograph: Rex Features&lt;/div&gt;
  1269. &lt;/div&gt;
  1270. &lt;div id=&quot;article-body-blocks&quot;&gt;
  1271. Sexual predators in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/police&quot; title=&quot;More from guardian.co.uk on Police&quot;&gt;police&lt;/a&gt; service must be treated as corrupt officers and rooted out by their senior supervisors, the police watchdog has said.&lt;br /&gt;
  1272. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/ipcc&quot; title=&quot;More from guardian.co.uk on Independent Police Complaints Commission&quot;&gt;Independent Police Complaints Commission&lt;/a&gt;
  1273. said the service was not doing enough to stop suspect sexual behaviour
  1274. by officers. Instead, it was treating individual cases as isolated, and
  1275. failing to carry out reviews and learn lessons to prevent such abuse
  1276. taking place again, the IPCC said in a report published on Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;
  1277. It
  1278. warned that failure to stop such behaviour could lead to an escalating
  1279. scale of sexual abuse against members of the public, or police staff, or
  1280. both. &quot;This is supported by what is known about how the behaviour of
  1281. sexual offenders can escalate over time,&quot; the IPCC said.&lt;br /&gt;
  1282. The
  1283. report highlights failings that in some cases have allowed individuals
  1284. with a history of inappropriate behaviour to continue targeting
  1285. vulnerable women and men they meet while on duty.&lt;br /&gt;
  1286. Dame Anne Owers,
  1287. the chair of the IPCC, said more work was needed to identify the scale
  1288. of the problem. &quot;We do not know precisely how many people have been
  1289. victims of police officers or staff abusing their powers; we are only
  1290. aware of the individuals who have had the confidence to come forward,&quot;
  1291. the report said.&lt;br /&gt;
  1292. &lt;br /&gt;
  1293. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1294. &quot;There is no evidence to suggest it is
  1295. commonplace. However, the police service does have a responsibility to
  1296. recognise it as a distinct area of corruption and take steps to reduce
  1297. its occurrence, identify it as soon as it occurs.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  1298. The report, &quot;The abuse of police powers to perpetrate sexual violence&quot;, comes after a&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/29/guardian-investigation-abuse-power-police&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt; Guardian investigation into the scale of sexual harassment and abuse by officers&lt;/a&gt; documented cases of sexual assault, harassment and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/rape&quot; title=&quot;More from guardian.co.uk on Rape&quot;&gt;rape&lt;/a&gt; by police officers against women, men and children they met in the line of duty.&lt;br /&gt;
  1299. The
  1300. IPCC&#39;s report, a joint study with the Association of Chief Police
  1301. Officers, began after the jailing in January 2011 of Stephen Mitchell, a
  1302. Northumbria police officer, for a number of serious sex attacks on
  1303. women he met through his job. The IPCC was further alarmed by what it
  1304. says were a spate of cases of abuse and harassment by police officers
  1305. referred to the watchdog.&lt;br /&gt;
  1306. Owers said: &quot;The behaviour in this
  1307. report has parallels with abuses carried out by other professionals such
  1308. as those in healthcare and social work and the clergy. All are people
  1309. who are in a privileged position of power – and trust – within society.
  1310. In the context of the police service, however, this behaviour is also a
  1311. form of corruption, and it should be dealt with as such.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  1312. The
  1313. cases examined by the IPCC identified serious failures in whistleblowing
  1314. systems, with colleagues failing to report suspect behaviour, and in
  1315. one case failing to report an admission of rape.&lt;br /&gt;
  1316. &quot;It is essential
  1317. that a culture of reporting improper behaviour is nurtured and supported
  1318. by providing staff with an opportunity to voice any concerns they may
  1319. have confidentially,&quot; the report said.&lt;br /&gt;
  1320. Other areas of concern include:&lt;br /&gt;
  1321. • A failure to properly vet officers, particularly those in sensitive posts such as child abuse and domestic violence.&lt;br /&gt;
  1322. • Lax supervision of officers, especially those who have displayed suspect behaviour in the past.&lt;br /&gt;
  1323. The
  1324. report also identified a tendency for the police not to believe
  1325. vulnerable individuals – most of whom are women – when they reported
  1326. sexual assaults by police officers. &quot;It is likely that this is the
  1327. reason they were targeted by the perpetrator in the first place,&quot; the
  1328. report said.&lt;br /&gt;
  1329. Owers called on senior officers to &quot;root out this kind of abuse of power&quot; and called for a new code of conduct.&lt;br /&gt;
  1330. In
  1331. one case highlighted by the IPCC, a police constable pleaded guilty to
  1332. one count of misconduct in public office in May this year. He was
  1333. investigated after a woman said she had been raped by him. The woman,
  1334. who was known to be vulnerable, made a number of calls to report the
  1335. attack, but they were not acted on. The officer was suspended and while
  1336. off work contacted several colleagues admitting that a sexual act had
  1337. taken place. The report says: &quot;None of the officers reported what they
  1338. had been told.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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  1341. &lt;br /&gt;
  1342. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/20/sexual-predators-police-rooted-out?CMP=twt_gu&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/20/sexual-predators-police-rooted-out?CMP=twt_gu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/4616444990485139203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/sexual-predators-in-police-must-be.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4616444990485139203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4616444990485139203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/sexual-predators-in-police-must-be.html' title='Sexual predators in police &#39;must be rooted out&#39;'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-9114622291198544671</id><published>2012-09-18T11:35:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-09-18T11:35:10.433-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christopher Mallios"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Deborah Donavan Rice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Keith Alexander"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kelly Higashi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="keyvette Gamble"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Zakiya Gaskins"/><title type='text'> When a boy is sexually abused by a woman ‘people do not often recognize the harm’</title><content type='html'>This is an important article and discusses the double standard&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; at times, (when a woman abuses a boy) that there is when it comes to the sexual abuse of boys compared to girls. The effects of the sexual abuse are no different for a boy or girl. They both bring shame, confusion, a breech of trust, guilt, and life long issues they will have to deal with. The big difference is that when a woman sexually abuses a boy society sometimes has a different reaction. It is looked at as a right of passage, like it is a good thing. There are several instances I can think of when a woman has abused a boy when the press has printed articles that claimed the effect is different for a boy.&lt;br /&gt;
  1343. &lt;br /&gt;
  1344. While woman as sexual predators are unusual it still occurs. I think the numbers are higher then is currently known. The shame on both boys and girls of being sexually abused by a woman is great. I experienced this at the hands of Ruth. She felt that &quot;massaging&quot; her children or having them engaging in &quot;massaging&quot; each other was okay. It was very confusing because she was my mother (and I use that word loosely). When I was a teenager and I would find boys, (under the age of consent) in our house who would come running down stairs (Ruth&#39;s bedroom was upstairs) buckling their pants and acting embarrassed because someone else was in the house. Then Ruth would slowly follow them down stairs with this Cheshire cat smirk on her face. I thought the whole thing was disgusting and I found it embarrassing to have a parent who would choose to think it was okay to have sex with children. The fact that one boy in particular kept coming back (I thought willingly) was even more embarrassing because he was also dating a friend of mine. I finally had to tell him I would tell his girlfriend what he was doing if he didn&#39;t stop. It hadn&#39;t dawned on me at that time, that Ruth was being a sexual predator toward him and that he may not have wanted to be doing what they were doing. Of course Ruth wasn&#39;t happy when he didn&#39;t return she was furious over it and didn&#39;t understand what happened. I wasn&#39;t telling or I would have been beaten with in an inch of my life. Ruth was doing this while she had a live in boyfriend in the house. I couldn&#39;t tell him either because of fear of being harmed. &lt;br /&gt;
  1345. &lt;br /&gt;
  1346. We need to continue to look at what motivates a woman to sexually abuse a child. I have read statistics where when asked, almost one hundred percent of women who sexually abused children said they themselves had survived sexual abuse as a child. The statistics are lower for male sexual predators their statics are around thirty percent. One of the reasons I have read that the statistics for male sexual predators are lower is that some don&#39;t acknowledge what was done to them was sexual abuse. They believe they were willing partners and therefore weren&#39;t abused. This also allows them to continue to sexually abuse children and to believe the children were willing participants. If they were to acknowledge they were sexually abused as children would mean they would have to acknowledge they were sexually abusing children. Until more is known as to what peripatetics someone sexually abusing a child the longer this epidemic is going to continue.&lt;br /&gt;
  1347. There is good news though and that is that every person who was sexually abused doesn&#39;t go onto sexually abuse. Which means that just because someone was sexually abused as a child doesn&#39;t mean that they will go onto sexually abuse. It also means that those who sexually abuse make a choice to do so and should be held accountable for their actions. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  1348. &lt;br /&gt;
  1349. By &lt;span class=&quot;author vcard&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/keith-l-alexander/2011/03/02/ABLJJ8M_page.html&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot;&gt;Keith L. Alexander&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class=&quot;timestamp updated processed&quot;&gt;Published: September&amp;nbsp;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1350. &lt;div class=&quot;module byline&quot;&gt;
  1351. &lt;h3&gt;
  1353.      
  1354.      
  1355.      
  1356.      
  1357.      &lt;/h3&gt;
  1358. &lt;/div&gt;
  1359. &lt;div class=&quot;relative&quot; id=&quot;article&quot;&gt;
  1360.    &lt;div id=&quot;article_body&quot;&gt;
  1361.    &lt;div class=&quot;article_body entry-content&quot;&gt;
  1362.    &lt;article&gt;
  1363.    
  1364.    &lt;span class=&quot;dateline&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Keyvette Gamble went to a friend’s
  1365. house with her 4-year-old daughter, playing cards into the early
  1366. morning with plans to spend the night at the Southwest Washington
  1367. apartment. After everyone had nodded off, Gamble slipped over to a bed
  1368. where her friend’s 14-year-old son was sleeping.&lt;br /&gt;
  1369.  
  1370.      Gamble, 24, then sexually assaulted the teenage boy, according
  1371. to court records. The attack in September was one of three child sex
  1372. abuse cases to reach a D.C. courtroom this year that involved an adult
  1373. female defendant accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy.&lt;br /&gt;
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  1376.    
  1377.     &lt;/div&gt;
  1378. &lt;/div&gt;
  1379. &lt;/article&gt;
  1380.    &lt;/div&gt;
  1381. &lt;div class=&quot;article_body&quot;&gt;
  1382.     &lt;article&gt;
  1383.      While sex abuse cases are all too common, prosecutors and child
  1384. victim advocates say prosecutions of adult women sexually attacking
  1385. boys are extremely rare. All unrelated, the three cases in the District
  1386. surprised local authorities and have raised awareness of an
  1387. often-underreported crime.&lt;br /&gt;
  1388. “This is unusual,” said prosecutor
  1389. Kelly Higashi, chief of the sex offense and domestic violence section of
  1390. the D.C. Superior Court unit for the U.S. attorney’s office. &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;“People do
  1391. not often recognize the harm this does to a boy.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1392. &lt;br /&gt;
  1393. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Teenage boys
  1394. rarely report such attacks to police or to close family members,
  1395. authorities said. The boys keep the abuse quiet, either out of guilt or,
  1396. in some cases, because they believe such incidents are a rite of
  1397. passage to adulthood.&lt;br /&gt;
  1398. &lt;b&gt;Child welfare advocates say there is a
  1399. double standard that makes it more difficult to identify cases involving
  1400. adult female attackers and young male victims.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1401. “If you put a
  1402. teenage girl in the same situation and the abuser is a male, you will
  1403. have an entirely different reaction from society,” said Deborah Donavan
  1404. Rice, executive director of &lt;a data-xslt=&quot;_http&quot; href=&quot;http://www.stopitnow.org/&quot;&gt;Stop it Now&lt;/a&gt;, a Northampton, Mass.-based child sex abuse prevention group. “But child sexual abuse is child sexual abuse.”&lt;br /&gt;
  1405. It is difficult to determine how often boys are sexually assaulted by women. One group, the &lt;a data-xslt=&quot;_http&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/pages/child-sexual-abuse.asp&quot;&gt;National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder&lt;/a&gt;,
  1406. estimates that instances involving female offenders and male juvenile
  1407. victims make up less than 14 percent of sex abuse cases nationwide.
  1408. Other groups say such cases are less common. Still, advocates say,
  1409. parents of boys who are victims are becoming more likely to report such
  1410. crimes, and authorities are prosecuting them more aggressively.&lt;br /&gt;
  1411. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Christopher Mallios of &lt;a data-xslt=&quot;_http&quot; href=&quot;http://www.aequitasresource.org/&quot;&gt;Aequitas,&lt;/a&gt; a District-based sex-crime victim advocacy group, said
  1412. during his 16 years as a Philadelphia prosecutor he had seen police and
  1413. prosecutors “high-five” teenage boys who had been sexually assaulted by
  1414. women, saying that the boys were “lucky.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1415. Mallios said that view —
  1416. that teenage male victims should not being taken seriously — is slowly
  1417. being eradicated. “It’s rape because the law says it is rape,” he said.
  1418. “Minors legally cannot consent to sex with adults.”
  1419. &lt;br /&gt;
  1420. D.C. sex crime prosecutor Higashi said it is often adults close
  1421. to the victims who coax them into talking about the abuse and to come
  1422. forward, and she praised adults in the D.C. cases for being willing to
  1423. support the children involved. It is often because boys feel
  1424. uncomfortable talking about what happened that leads them to keep
  1425. silent, she said.&lt;br /&gt;
  1426. &lt;/article&gt;
  1427.    &lt;/div&gt;
  1428. &lt;/div&gt;
  1429. &lt;/div&gt;
  1430. &lt;h1&gt;
  1431.  
  1435. &lt;/h1&gt;
  1436. &lt;div class=&quot;module article-side-rail left clearfix padding-right margin-top-7 margin-right-15&quot; id=&quot;article-side-rail&quot;&gt;
  1437. &lt;div class=&quot;article-video border-top padding-top padding-bottom margin-bottom flipboard-remove&quot;&gt;
  1438. &lt;div class=&quot;module s1 img-border &quot;&gt;
  1439. &lt;div&gt;
  1440. &lt;div class=&quot;article_body&quot;&gt;
  1441.     &lt;article&gt;
  1442.      In that incident, Gamble took advantage of her friend’s son, in
  1443. her friend’s apartment, according to court records. When Gamble went to
  1444. the boy, the teenager reached for a condom and then was sexually
  1445. assaulted in his own bed.&lt;br /&gt;
  1446. Last week, Gamble, standing before a
  1447. D.C. Superior Court judge and wiping tears from her eyes, pleaded guilty
  1448. to one count of first-degree child abuse. &lt;b&gt;She faces a maximum of 15
  1449. years in prison when she is sentenced in October&lt;/b&gt;. At the hearing, Judge
  1450. William M. Jackson encouraged Gamble to make “contingency plans” for the
  1451. long-term care of her two children, a 4-year-old daughter and a
  1452. 3-month-old infant, by the time she returns to court for sentencing.&lt;br /&gt;
  1453. All three D.C. cases involved women who were friends of the victim’s family. In the &lt;a data-xslt=&quot;_http&quot; href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/sw-woman-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-sons-13-year-old-friend-during-sleepover/2012/01/18/gIQAiBRQ9P_story.html&quot;&gt;case of Zakiya Gaskins&lt;/a&gt;
  1454. — a Southwest Washington woman charged with sexually assaulting her
  1455. neighbor’s 13-year-old son in January — authorities had to relocate the
  1456. teenager and his family because neighbors harassed him after he told his
  1457. mother that his friend’s mother had sexually assaulted him.&lt;br /&gt;
  1458. “People
  1459. were teasing him, asking if he was a ‘punk,’ and what’s wrong with him
  1460. and why he didn’t like it,” said an official who spoke on the condition
  1461. of anonymity because the case is still open.&lt;br /&gt;
  1462. Gaskins allegedly
  1463. attacked the boy when he was spending the night with her 13-year-old son
  1464. at her apartment, a night that was supposed to be filled with video
  1465. games, prosecutors said.&lt;br /&gt;
  1466. The woman gave the teenager a glass of
  1467. fruit juice mixed with vodka, according to court records. Later that
  1468. evening, according to court records and testimony from a D.C. detective,
  1469. Gaskins pulled the teenager into her bedroom and sexually assaulted
  1470. him. Gaskins’s children banged on her bedroom door, crying for their
  1471. mother to “let him go,” according to court records. When Gaskins fell
  1472. asleep, the teen fled her bedroom.&lt;br /&gt;
  1473. At the hearing on Aug. 20, a
  1474. soft-spoken Gaskins, with her ankles and wrists in shackles, denied
  1475. forcing the teenager to touch her sexually, but admits the teen did
  1476. touch her. Gaskins’s attorney, Kevin McCants, said his client was drunk
  1477. at the time of the incident and unsuccessfully tried to stop the teen
  1478. from touching her.&lt;br /&gt;
  1479. Gaskins, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of
  1480. first-degree child sexual abuse, entering an Alford plea, meaning she
  1481. admitted there was enough evidence to convict her but not conceding that
  1482. she committed the crime. She is scheduled for sentencing in November
  1483. and could face about 7½ years in prison.&lt;br /&gt;
  1484. Gaskins’s three children,
  1485. who are 13, 9 and 4, live with her mother. Beck ordered Gaskins to
  1486. remain in D.C. jail until her sentencing. She also will have to register
  1487. as a child sex offender.&lt;br /&gt;
  1488. In the third recent case, Heaven Wright,
  1489. 18, of Northwest Washington, was sentenced in August to serve 180 days
  1490. in prison after she pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old
  1491. last summer. Authorities learned of the attack after the teenager’s
  1492. mother took the boy to a hospital, where he tested positive for a
  1493. sexually transmitted disease. Wright, according to court records, later
  1494. admitted to police that she had a sexual relationship with the boy and
  1495. knew his age. The two, who had known each other for a year, had three
  1496. separate sexual encounters, according to court records.&lt;br /&gt;
  1497. “People need to realize these types of cases do happen,” Higashi said. “They are more rare, but they happen.”&lt;br /&gt;
  1498.  
  1499. &lt;strong&gt;
  1500.  
  1501.  
  1502. &lt;/strong&gt;
  1503. &lt;br /&gt;
  1504. Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this report.&lt;/article&gt;
  1505.    &lt;/div&gt;
  1506. &lt;br /&gt;
  1507. &lt;br /&gt;
  1508. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/cases-of-sexual-abuse-of-boys-by-women-raise-awareness-of-an-uncommon-crime/2012/09/02/dc6eb51a-f06b-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/cases-of-sexual-abuse-of-boys-by-women-raise-awareness-of-an-uncommon-crime/2012/09/02/dc6eb51a-f06b-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  1509. &lt;/div&gt;
  1510. &lt;/div&gt;
  1511. &lt;div class=&quot;left margin-right margin-bottom padding-top slug&quot; id=&quot;slug_inline_bb&quot; style=&quot;display: block;&quot;&gt;
  1512. &lt;/div&gt;
  1513. &lt;/div&gt;
  1514. &lt;div class=&quot;article_body&quot;&gt;
  1515. &lt;article&gt;
  1516.      In that incident, Gamble took advantage of her friend’s son, in
  1517. her friend’s apartment, according to court records. When Gamble went to
  1518. the boy, the teenager reached for a condom and then was sexually
  1519. assaulted in his own bed.&lt;br /&gt;
  1520. Last week, Gamble, standing before a
  1521. D.C. Superior Court judge and wiping tears from her eyes, pleaded guilty
  1522. to one count of first-degree child abuse. She faces a maximum of 15
  1523. years in prison when she is sentenced in October. At the hearing, Judge
  1524. William M. Jackson encouraged Gamble to make “contingency plans” for the
  1525. long-term care of her two children, a 4-year-old daughter and a
  1526. 3-month-old infant, by the time she returns to court for sentencing.&lt;br /&gt;
  1527. All three D.C. cases involved women who were friends of the victim’s family. In the &lt;a data-xslt=&quot;_http&quot; href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/sw-woman-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-sons-13-year-old-friend-during-sleepover/2012/01/18/gIQAiBRQ9P_story.html&quot;&gt;case of Zakiya Gaskins&lt;/a&gt;
  1528. — a Southwest Washington woman charged with sexually assaulting her
  1529. neighbor’s 13-year-old son in January — authorities had to relocate the
  1530. teenager and his family because neighbors harassed him after he told his
  1531. mother that his friend’s mother had sexually assaulted him.&lt;br /&gt;
  1532. “People
  1533. were teasing him, asking if he was a ‘punk,’ and what’s wrong with him
  1534. and why he didn’t like it,” said an official who spoke on the condition
  1535. of anonymity because the case is still open.&lt;br /&gt;
  1536. Gaskins allegedly
  1537. attacked the boy when he was spending the night with her 13-year-old son
  1538. at her apartment, a night that was supposed to be filled with video
  1539. games, prosecutors said.&lt;br /&gt;
  1540. The woman gave the teenager a glass of
  1541. fruit juice mixed with vodka, according to court records. Later that
  1542. evening, according to court records and testimony from a D.C. detective,
  1543. Gaskins pulled the teenager into her bedroom and sexually assaulted
  1544. him. Gaskins’s children banged on her bedroom door, crying for their
  1545. mother to “let him go,” according to court records. When Gaskins fell
  1546. asleep, the teen fled her bedroom.&lt;br /&gt;
  1547. At the hearing on Aug. 20, a
  1548. soft-spoken Gaskins, with her ankles and wrists in shackles, denied
  1549. forcing the teenager to touch her sexually, but admits the teen did
  1550. touch her. Gaskins’s attorney, Kevin McCants, said his client was drunk
  1551. at the time of the incident and unsuccessfully tried to stop the teen
  1552. from touching her.&lt;br /&gt;
  1553. Gaskins, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of
  1554. first-degree child sexual abuse, entering an Alford plea, meaning she
  1555. admitted there was enough evidence to convict her but not conceding that
  1556. she committed the crime. She is scheduled for sentencing in November
  1557. and could face about 7½ years in prison.&lt;br /&gt;
  1558. Gaskins’s three children,
  1559. who are 13, 9 and 4, live with her mother. Beck ordered Gaskins to
  1560. remain in D.C. jail until her sentencing. She also will have to register
  1561. as a child sex offender.&lt;br /&gt;
  1562. In the third recent case, Heaven Wright,
  1563. 18, of Northwest Washington, was sentenced in August to serve 180 days
  1564. in prison after she pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old
  1565. last summer. Authorities learned of the attack after the teenager’s
  1566. mother took the boy to a hospital, where he tested positive for a
  1567. sexually transmitted disease. Wright, according to court records, later
  1568. admitted to police that she had a sexual relationship with the boy and
  1569. knew his age. The two, who had known each other for a year, had three
  1570. separate sexual encounters, according to court records.&lt;br /&gt;
  1571. “People need to realize these types of cases do happen,” Higashi said. “They are more rare, but they happen.”&lt;br /&gt;
  1572.  
  1573. &lt;b&gt;
  1574.  
  1575.  
  1576. &lt;/b&gt;
  1577. &lt;br /&gt;
  1578. Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this report.&lt;/article&gt;
  1579.    &lt;/div&gt;
  1580. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/9114622291198544671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/when-boy-is-sexually-abused-by-woman.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/9114622291198544671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/9114622291198544671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/when-boy-is-sexually-abused-by-woman.html' title=' When a boy is sexually abused by a woman ‘people do not often recognize the harm’'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-3932306539144714008</id><published>2012-09-13T19:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-09-13T19:15:17.765-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Amy Chan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dark subject"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="domestic violence"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="processing pain"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ritual abuse"/><title type='text'>The Importance of Processing Pain</title><content type='html'>I found this short article the other day on twitter. It struck a cord with me because my dealing with the pain and destruction of my childhood and early adulthood, is the reason I am where I am in my life. When one survives multiple traumas, especially child sexual abuse the easiest thing to do is try to ignore it. This leads to addictions, mental and physical health issues and a lower quality of life then someone should have. One of the biggest obstacles for me was that I knew I would have to distance myself from Ruth (biological mother). Doing this also meant I had to distance myself from some of my siblings who weren&#39;t ready to distance Ruth from their lives. Ruth would make all of her children take sides. If she was mad at one of us she wanted us all mad at the person as well. This was one of the hardest decisions I had to make but I knew it was in mine and my children&#39;s best interests.&lt;br /&gt;
  1581. &lt;br /&gt;
  1582. Getting myself into therapy to help me deal with my trauma issues was the best thing I did in my life besides to have my children. I was in therapy for several years and I would be lying if I said it was easy. It wasn&#39;t. There were plenty of times I wanted to just give up and not deal with the pain anymore. One of the things about therapy is that once one layer of pain is dealt with another layer pops up. That is one of the things that got tiresome. I would get frustrated because I wanted instant gratification and wanted to be &quot;healed&quot; immediately. That won&#39;t ever happen. The reason more layers were able to come up was that my psyche was ready to deal with it. I have been told that if I remembered the ritual abuse when I was nineteen when I started having flashbacks that I would have ended up psychotic and/or suicidal. I married my children&#39;s father because my psyche knew he was abusive and my being abused would keep me from remembering the ritual abuse. As bad as it was to be in domestic violence I remain in awe of how the brain works. Once I got out of the domestic violence and received intensive cognitive behavioral therapy the other layers started to crop up. &lt;br /&gt;
  1583. &lt;br /&gt;
  1584. Another reality is that if I didn&#39;t delve into the pain and trauma I was at risk of repeating the same cycle Ruth repeated. I didn&#39;t want that for my children. I wanted them to have a better life and I wanted to make sure that I was part of breaking a cycle that occurred for at least four generations. If that is the only thing I accomplished in my life I have accomplished something that impacts generations to come. What a good legacy to be part of. As hard as things were at times I am thankful I perservered and did the hard work that was required. I am also grateful for all of the people in my life who played a role in my healing. God put good people in my life at the right times. My life is a blessing and I need to never forget that.&amp;nbsp; Issues will still pop up at times which makes me grateful I did the hard work. I know handle the issues more appropriately then I ever had. Feeling very blessed, Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
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  1623. &lt;span class=&quot;arial_11 color_696969&quot;&gt;Posted: 09/07/2012 12:40 pm&lt;/span&gt;
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  1638. Some say that pain of the heart is the worst kind to experience.
  1639. There is no surgery, no medicine, no band-aid that will truly minimize
  1640. the suffering. That dull, chronic pain feels like it is with you every
  1641. where you go. It&#39;s at the core of your thoughts, it haunts you right
  1642. before you go to sleep -- it feels attached, as if it is a part of you.&lt;br /&gt;
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  1645. Most people do not process their emotional pain. In our society,
  1646. where we place value on the ability to move forward and move fast, we
  1647. don&#39;t take the time and effort it takes to process pain, in order to
  1648. heal it. That pain remains in the body, developing deeper and deeper
  1649. roots -- affecting one&#39;s way of seeing life and dealing with life. We
  1650. try our very hardest to get out of a state of suffering immediately,
  1651. because we associate that &quot;bad feeling&quot; with weakness and inefficiency.
  1652. So we tranquilize our  pain, we numb it, we escape it -- we do
  1653. everything to avoid feeling it.&lt;br /&gt;
  1654. But that feeling wants and needs to be felt, and will have its way
  1655. with you one way or another. Either it slowly poisons you until your
  1656. soul eventually dies, or it comes out with 10 times the force and trauma
  1657. later on, when some future event triggers you and rips open the wound.
  1658. The consequence of not processing pain in the present is that it finds a
  1659. way to sneak into your future. In my opinion, I believe the reason why
  1660. people continue to repeat the same suffering and pain in future
  1661. relationships and situations is because they never let their wounds
  1662. properly heal. &lt;br /&gt;
  1663. I&#39;ve had to learn how to be with that uncomfortable feeling of pain
  1664. and honor my feelings instead of resisting them. It&#39;s been challenging,
  1665. to say the least. It feels like I&#39;m stuck in the same place, having the
  1666. same questions and inner dialogue. In those moments, I feel fed up and
  1667. angry with myself that I have to repeat the same episode of crying and
  1668. confusion, like it&#39;s some twisted version of &lt;i&gt;Groundhog Day&lt;/i&gt;.
  1669. Sometimes I force myself to stop the feeling and return to acting strong
  1670. and capable. Sometimes, I give myself permission to just be present
  1671. with what stirs up, and be gentle with myself. The former is the hardest
  1672. to do. Often, I psycho-analyze the heck out of my feelings and have a
  1673. hard time deciphering if it&#39;s the situation that is stirring up the
  1674. pain, or other deep-rooted childhood stuff.&lt;br /&gt;
  1675. I&#39;m starting to understand and appreciate that situations, such as
  1676. breakups, loss, etc. can act like catalysts. The pain felt is one part
  1677. fresh from the experience, and the other parts are from old wounds that
  1678. were never fully healed. Painful as they may be, they are opportunities
  1679. in disguise, that give you the chance to rewrite the stories we attach
  1680. to past events that ultimately shape our perception of reality.  When I
  1681. see suffering in such a light, I understand that it is not a state of
  1682. &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot; -- it just is. It is part of being human and a part of
  1683. the beauty of the experience of life.&lt;br /&gt;
  1684. &lt;i&gt;Amy Chan is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amyfabulous.com/&quot; target=&quot;_hplink&quot;&gt;relationship columnist&lt;/a&gt; and lifestyle writer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1685. &lt;i&gt;For more by Amy Chan, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-chan&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/3932306539144714008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-importance-of-processing-pain.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/3932306539144714008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/3932306539144714008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-importance-of-processing-pain.html' title='The Importance of Processing Pain'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-6826802124319672898</id><published>2012-09-10T10:04:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-09-10T10:06:22.792-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Attorney-General Robert Clark"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Detective Sergeant Kevin Carson"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="intergenerational abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Premier Ted Baillieu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="repeating the pattern"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="rob walsh"/><title type='text'>One of the outcomes for survivors of child sexual abuse</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;
  1686. I just read the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2012/9/8/church-s-suicide-victims#.UE322y7_8Ep.twitter%20%E2%80%A6&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2012/9/8/church-s-suicide-victims#.UE322y7_8Ep.twitter &lt;/a&gt;and it made me so sad. I know there are many many people who are trying to get the word out on the devastating effects of child sexual abuse. I appreciate them in their efforts. The reality is that there isn&#39;t enough information about the long term effects on someone who has survived sexual abuse out there to the masses yet. This is another story about how the Church has hidden information pertaining to sexual abuses. The suicide rate is higher among survivors of sexual abuse. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2010/192/4/suicide-and-fatal-drug-overdose-child-sexual-abuse-victims-historical-cohort&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2010/192/4/suicide-and-fatal-drug-overdose-child-sexual-abuse-victims-historical-cohort&lt;/a&gt; For the Church to cover this up is just disgusting and hiding this fact plays into the theory that there are no long term effects for someone who has survived sexual abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
  1687. &lt;br /&gt;
  1688. There are those (especially those who are part of the movement to abolish the sexual offender registry) who honestly believe that there are no long term effects of child sexual abuse. They argue that those of us who share our stories and try to educate on this topic are being perpetual victims. This just isn&#39;t so, it&#39;s that we know first hand the impact that this terrible epidemic has had on us and we share our stories so others will learn of this impact. There are times when I still get upset over the reality that I suffer long term affects from the trauma I survived, and that I did nothing to cause it (the song Wildflower by Skylark &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9bJJNUdXEs&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9bJJNUdXEs&lt;/a&gt; has always been able to put in words what this is like for me). It was &quot;adults&quot; who felt that they had the right to take away a child&#39;s innocence. It is hard for people who have not survived this (especially the perpetrators themselves) to fathom what it is like to have to deal with the long term effects. I am lucky very lucky that I have had the support in my life that has helped me to get in my life where I am. Unfortunately there are those who don&#39;t get the same opportunities I have had. There are those who get into drugs and alcohol as a way to cope with what they have survived. Again I am fortunate as I didn&#39;t do this but I certainly got into destructive addictive relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
  1689. &lt;br /&gt;
  1690. I have been thinking a lot about the reality that the reason a lot (not all) of people as adults who don&#39;t know how to be good parents, communicate, love unconditionally, are addicted to drugs, alcohol, have mental health issues, can&#39;t hold jobs or are workaholics, etc. is because our rate of child abuse in this country is so high. We don&#39;t do near enough to insure that children have stable, happy childhoods. I can tell you that Ruth and Jack (my parents) came from the same type of environment I was raised in. When I traced my family history back four generations every generation has survived a traumatic childhood. Traumatic childhoods reek havoc on a society when these children grow up and don&#39;t have the skills to maintain good healthy relationships, etc. I am beginning to believe that schools (from kindergarten on) should be required to teach inter-communication skills, coping skills, anger management, life skills, how words do hurt, etc. I honestly believe that if this were to happen that when these children grew up the rates of addiction would be lessened. The rates of adults repeating the same type of trauma to their children that was done to them would go down. There is no magic bullet I understand that. Still we need to do something as a society to increase the likelihood that inter-generational abuse gets stopped so that we can become a nation that values it&#39;s children and wants adults to have the best lives possible. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
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  1697. Church&#39;s suicide victims
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  1700. &lt;span class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://richarddawkins.net/news_articles?author=theage.com.au+-+Nick+McKenzie%2C+Richard+Baker+and+Jane+Lee&quot;&gt;by theage.com.au - Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and Jane Lee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1701. &lt;span class=&quot;date&quot;&gt;posted on September 08, 2012 03:00PM GMT&lt;/span&gt;
  1702. &lt;br /&gt;
  1703. &lt;span class=&quot;credit&quot;&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://richarddawkins.net/users/1506&quot;&gt;msloane&lt;/a&gt; for the link&lt;/span&gt;
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  1709. CONFIDENTIAL police reports have detailed the suicides of at least 40
  1710. people sexually abused by Catholic clergy in Victoria, and have urged a
  1711. new inquiry into these and many other deaths suspected to be linked to
  1712. abuse in the church.&lt;br /&gt;
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  1716. &lt;br /&gt;
  1717. &lt;span class=&quot;italic&quot;&gt;Rob Walsh, whose cousin Martin, and brothers Noel
  1718. and Damien committed suicide after being abused. Photo: Paul Rovere  
  1719. Read more:
  1720. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/churchs-suicide-victims-20120412-1wwox.html#ixzz25tG9yBhA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1721. &lt;span class=&quot;italic&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  1724. In a damning assessment of the church’s
  1725. handling of abuse issues, the reports say it appears the church has
  1726. known about a shockingly high rate of suicides and premature deaths but
  1727. has &quot;chosen to remain silent.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  1728. Written by Detective Sergeant Kevin Carson, the reports state that
  1729. while conducting lengthy inquiries into paedophile clergy, investigators
  1730. have discovered &quot;an inordinate number of suicides which appear to be a
  1731. consequence of sexual offending.&lt;br /&gt;
  1732. &quot;The number of people contacting this office to report members of
  1733. their family, people they know, people they went to school with, who
  1734. have taken their lives is constant. It would appear that an
  1735. investigation would uncover many more deaths as a consequence of clergy
  1736. sexual abuse,&quot; one of the reports states.&lt;br /&gt;
  1737. The revelations will increase pressure on Premier Ted Baillieu and
  1738. state Attorney-General Robert Clark to respond both to the growing calls
  1739. from victims for a broad inquiry into clergy sexual abuse, and to the
  1740. February recommendation of Justice Phillip Cummins for a formal inquiry.&lt;br /&gt;
  1741. The reports by Sergeant Carson were dated September last year and
  1742. February this year. The most recent report&amp;nbsp; details the &quot;premature
  1743. deaths of young men in the years following sexual assault by Catholic
  1744. fraternity&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
  1745. &lt;br /&gt;
  1746. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/6826802124319672898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/one-of-outcomes-for-survivors-of-child.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/6826802124319672898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/6826802124319672898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/one-of-outcomes-for-survivors-of-child.html' title='One of the outcomes for survivors of child sexual abuse'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-4485181237182463895</id><published>2012-09-05T18:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-09-05T18:02:09.051-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Biddeford"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse media."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eric Russell"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="New Beginnings Christian Mission"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Pastor James Napier"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Springvale District Court"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stephen mccausland"/><title type='text'>Biddeford pastor arrested on child porn charges</title><content type='html'>I had to back away from writing so much about child sexual abuse predators. It becomes overwhelming sometimes just to look and focus on them. The number of stories about child sexual predators preying on children are so high, and just keep coming. Don&#39;t get me wrong I&#39;m not stopping but I just needed a breather. That is until this story of another Pastor who is supposed to be a man of God who gets arrested because he owns child sexual abuse media (aka child pornography). This is why so much more education needs to occur on the professions of child sexual predators. People need to focus on the reality that anyone who has access to children can potentially harm them. I know that this is a dark response to this topic but it is true. Do I think that people shouldn&#39;t trust other people? No. I just think we need to be hypervigilant when it comes to the safety of our children. I think it is very possible that victims of this predator will come to light. Someone just doesn&#39;t wake up at the age of sixty and decide to download child sexual abuse media. I am glad that this predator got caught. I am sorry that he felt owning images of children being sexually abused was an okay thing to do. There will be those who will complain that he only had one hundred pieces of media that isn&#39;t much, that harboring child sexual abuse media is a victimless crime. No matter how much information gets out that harboring child sexual abuse media isn&#39;t a victimless crime, there will be those who choose to believe otherwise. I honestly feel sorry for them that they don&#39;t have compassion enough to understand that child sexual abuse is wrong, a crime and harms children irreparably.&amp;nbsp; Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  1747. &lt;br /&gt;
  1748. &lt;h3&gt;
  1749. Police say James Napier, 60, had more than 100 pictures on his
  1750. computer of children, some under the age of 12, engaged in sexual
  1751. activity.&lt;/h3&gt;
  1752. &lt;div class=&quot;small credit&quot;&gt;
  1753. By &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pressherald.com/contact/Eric_Russell.html&quot;&gt;Eric Russell&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:erussell@pressherald.com&quot;&gt;erussell@pressherald.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1754. Staff Writer &lt;/div&gt;
  1755. &lt;b&gt;BIDDEFORD&lt;/b&gt; — A local pastor who ministers to the homeless in downtown Biddeford has been charged with possession of child pornography.&lt;br /&gt;
  1756. James Napier, 60, was arrested Saturday at his home in
  1757. Alfred by Maine State Police after detectives searched the residence and
  1758. found more than 100 pictures on his computer of children, some under
  1759. the age of 12, engaged in sexual activity.&lt;br /&gt;
  1760. &lt;br /&gt;
  1761. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1762. Members of the state police computer crimes unit received a tip that led them to search Napier&#39;s home, according to spokesman &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pressherald.com/search?searchterm=%22Stephen+McCausland%22&quot; title=&quot;Search for more information related to: Stephen McCausland&quot;&gt;Stephen McCausland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  1763. Napier is the pastor of New Beginnings Christian Mission, which ministers to the poor and homeless in Biddeford.&lt;br /&gt;
  1764. He was released from York County Jail on bail shortly after his
  1765. arrest. His bail conditions state that he is not to have contact with
  1766. anyone under the age of 18 and he is not to use the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;
  1767. Napier is expected to make his initial court appearance on Oct. 23 in Springvale District Court.&lt;br /&gt;
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  1770. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pressherald.com/news/Biddeford-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.pressherald.com/news/Biddeford-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/4485181237182463895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/biddeford-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4485181237182463895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4485181237182463895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/biddeford-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn.html' title='Biddeford pastor arrested on child porn charges'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-7334326264169451050</id><published>2012-09-03T10:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-09-03T10:57:40.171-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bill Diamond"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child grooming"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual  predators"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Criminal Justice Committee"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pedophile"/><title type='text'> Maine Voices: We need to open our eyes to child sexual assault – and act</title><content type='html'>I came across this article surfing the net.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/we-need-to-open-our-eyes-to-child-sexual-assault-and-act_2012-08-10.html#&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/we-need-to-open-our-eyes-to-child-sexual-assault-and-act_2012-08-10.html#&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; It is very good and goes into great detail about the grooming process of child sexual predators. This includes the grooming of families as well. That is one of the things that needs more attention. There is information out there about the grooming of children (not enough yet) but, not so much about grooming families. I have talked at length at different times on this blog about how child sexual abuse predators groom families. They do this buy ingratiating themselves into the life of the family. They usually come across as very kind and helpful. They look for the weak areas of a families and purposely try to help out in that area. For instance if there is a problem with a family car or scheduling they will offer to help give rides. If the family is short on money he/she will go an purchase food or offer to give money. If the parent(s) need help with child care they will offer to watch the child(ren). For a family this can feel like a godsend and the family more then likely will accept. The child sexual predator will also start to try to spend one on one time with their intended victim. They may purchase the child gifts, give them money or become a sounding board if the child is mad about something their parents did. I have read stories where a child was really upset with their parents and the child sexual predator sided with the child (even though the parents were right). Once this happened the child purposely will spend time with the child sexual predator and this may cause the child to act out more at home. The most disgusting thing about this is that the child sexual predator is doing all of this not because he/she is philanthropic but, solely because they want to have access to the intended child victim. In my opinion this is the epitome of pure evil. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  1771. &lt;br /&gt;
  1772. &lt;span class=&quot;timestamp&quot;&gt;August 10, 2012&lt;/span&gt;
  1774.  
  1775.  
  1776. &lt;br /&gt;
  1777. &lt;br /&gt;
  1778. &lt;h2&gt;
  1779. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/we-need-to-open-our-eyes-to-child-sexual-assault-and-act_2012-08-10.html&quot;&gt;Maine Voices: We need to open our eyes to child sexual assault – and act&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1780. &lt;h3&gt;
  1781. We&#39;re &#39;groomed&#39; to avoid the disturbing specifics. Meanwhile, someone may be &#39;grooming&#39; your child.&lt;/h3&gt;
  1782. &lt;div class=&quot;small&quot;&gt;
  1783. By BILL DIAMOND&lt;/div&gt;
  1784. To groom, according to Webster&#39;s Collegiate Dictionary,
  1785. means to get into readiness for a specific objective. Certainly that&#39;s a
  1786. straightforward definition that most people understand in their routine
  1787. use of the English language. However, in the dark and horrific world of
  1788. child sexual assault, the word &quot;groom&quot; has an entirely different
  1789. meaning.&lt;br /&gt;
  1790. &lt;div class=&quot;special-box&quot;&gt;
  1791. &lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; id=&quot;id8406339062143054&quot; src=&quot;http://media.pressherald.com/designimages/PPH_Opinion.jpg&quot; title=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;330&quot; /&gt;
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  1808. Grooming in that world describes how sexual predators
  1809. prepare young victims by gaining their trust and, consequently, access
  1810. to their minds and bodies. Grooming by a predator may take months, even
  1811. years. Most child sexual molesters are either members of the child&#39;s
  1812. family or are well known by the family; in fact, research tells us that
  1813. over 90 percent of sexual assaults are committed by people who fall into
  1814. one of those two categories. Consequently, the opportunities for
  1815. predators to initiate grooming techniques are virtually unlimited.&lt;br /&gt;
  1816. &lt;b&gt;An example of parental grooming is illustrated in the recent arrests
  1817. made in a multi-nation child pornography case. In May of this year,
  1818. police arrested Michael Arnett of Roeland Park, Kan., for possessing
  1819. shocking child pornographic photos and explicit chats about child abuse
  1820. on his computer that allegedly he produced. According to an article
  1821. published Aug. 5 in the Maine Sunday Telegram and titled, &quot;Even seasoned
  1822. investigators disturbed by child porn case,&quot; police found detailed
  1823. descriptions and online dialogue on Arnett&#39;s computer about abducting,
  1824. torturing and killing young children. Investigators said the suspect
  1825. made photos of children he allegedly sexually abused.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1826. &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1827. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;The most telling part of the story was the reaction by the mother of
  1828. one of the boys who was sexually molested. She initially refused to
  1829. believe the accusations against Arnett; then she saw the photos that he
  1830. had allegedly taken of her son. Arnett had been a trusted friend of the
  1831. family for 15 years, and had complete access to her son. &quot;I had no
  1832. idea,&quot; she said. &quot;It&#39;s depressing.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  1833. Sexual predators will systematically create a level of trust, making
  1834. the child and parents feel totally confident in the relationship.
  1835. Carefully groomed parents will not only allow unsupervised access to
  1836. their children, but even better -- they will actually assist in
  1837. providing access to their child.&lt;br /&gt;
  1838. Grooming a child victim may include buying gifts, demonstrating
  1839. kindness and caring to both the child and members of the family, and
  1840. becoming a &quot;reliable friend&quot; to the victim -- someone the child can
  1841. depend on and trust. A child&#39;s loyalty is critical in the grooming
  1842. process, especially if the predator becomes a suspect.  Sharing trusted
  1843. &quot;secrets&quot; between the predator and the victim serves as a safety net, of
  1844. sorts, for the predator.&lt;br /&gt;
  1845. The calculating predator will analyze and evaluate the targeted
  1846. family, then, through cunning and deliberate methods, move in with
  1847. determination and patience getting closer and closer to his prey.&lt;br /&gt;
  1848. In a sense, we as a society have groomed ourselves to resist reading
  1849. and learning about the tragic and heinous details of sexual assaults on
  1850. children.&lt;br /&gt;
  1851. &quot;Oh, I can&#39;t read that -- it&#39;s too awful, too sad, too graphic,&quot; is the common reply.&lt;br /&gt;
  1852. Over the years, the media has responded to the subtle pressure of
  1853. their audiences by avoiding the nauseating and heart-wrenching specifics
  1854. of these stories. As a result, the real issues are not discussed and
  1855. the needed support for change goes unachieved.&lt;br /&gt;
  1856. We need to change our culture to accepting new levels of tolerance
  1857. and a willingness to know -- really know -- what&#39;s going on in the world
  1858. of child sexual assaults. Child pornography is the feeder system, and
  1859. now more than ever, children are being subjected to rape and torture,
  1860. all for the purposes of sexual gratification and, of course -- money.  
  1861. This is a multibillion-dollar industry supported by those who will pay
  1862. to see the online production of children being sexually abused and, in
  1863. some cases, killed.&lt;br /&gt;
  1864. It&#39;s time for a new acceptance that not only tolerates knowing the
  1865. truth, but insists on it -- as unsettling as that may be. We are making
  1866. progress toward change, as illustrated in the aforementioned article.
  1867. That story describes some of the most horrible details reported by the
  1868. media to date; as disturbing as the specifics were, the facts were still
  1869. told.&lt;br /&gt;
  1870. It&#39;s time we as a society groom ourselves so we can accept reality
  1871. and address what has been all too commonly referred to as the
  1872. unspeakable facts about child rape and assault. Maybe then we will
  1873. insist that reporting suspected child abuse is our highest priority --
  1874. definitely higher than protecting institutions, power and our buddies.&lt;br /&gt;
  1875. &lt;i&gt;Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Windham, is the former chairman of the Legislature’s Criminal Justice Committee.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1876. &lt;br /&gt;
  1877. &lt;br /&gt;
  1878. &lt;br /&gt;
  1879. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/7334326264169451050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/maine-voices-we-need-to-open-our-eyes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/7334326264169451050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/7334326264169451050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/09/maine-voices-we-need-to-open-our-eyes.html' title=' Maine Voices: We need to open our eyes to child sexual assault – and act'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-2100869080758260349</id><published>2012-08-29T11:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-08-29T11:23:54.758-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Andrew Flanagan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bishop Dr Joe Aldred"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Children’s Minister Tim Loughton"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Department for Education"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mor Dioum"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Pastor Jean -Bosco Kanyemesha"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ritual abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ritual child abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wall of silence"/><title type='text'> Education: Action plan to stop child abuse in the name of faith or belief (ritual child abuse)</title><content type='html'>I came across this story on the internet &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/53355&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/53355&lt;/a&gt; The basis for the story is that UK has put a plan in place to handle cases where children have been ritually abused. Most of these cases revolve around the child being accused of having some type of spirit possession.&lt;br /&gt;
  1880. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  1881. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  1882. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;In the last 10
  1883. years, there have been 81 recorded police investigations in London of
  1884. allegations that children have been abused, where faith has been a
  1885. factor. Research commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills
  1886. in 2006 set out detailed analysis of 38 cases involving 47 children,
  1887. from Africa, South Asia and Europe, all who had been abused in the name
  1888. of possession or witchcraft.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1889. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1890. I am glad that the UK has taken a stand to do something to keep kids safe in cases of ritual abuse.&amp;nbsp; While the ritual abuse I survived was different from what these children survived. The impact of the trauma caused is the same. In my case the ritual was the basis for the abuse, not because it was thought I had some kind of spiritual possession. They rituals were a way for those adults involved to gain some type of power. They consistently put what they called &quot;spells&quot; on people. They performed similar rituals at each &quot;meeting.&quot; Most of the abuse was done in the cloak of darkness but some was out front in center when it came to Ruth. She derived pleasure from feeling that she was scaring people. When I started talking about what I survived in my early thirties and would share my story people who lived in the neighborhood where I grew up. They would say that they were afraid of Ruth. That she had threatened them with spells and that they didn&#39;t doubt my story because it wasn&#39;t far off from how Ruth acted most of the time. &lt;br /&gt;
  1891. &lt;br /&gt;
  1892. To see ritual child abuse being taken seriously is very profound for me. Twenty years ago nothing would have been done about this. There were too many people out their &quot;debunking&quot; the existence of ritual abuse. These children wouldn&#39;t have been believed. The fact that they are is something that will help many other children. In gratitude, Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  1893. &lt;br /&gt;
  1894. &lt;span class=&quot;source&quot;&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a00212822/faithabuse&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Department for Education&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1895. &lt;span class=&quot;date&quot;&gt;Published Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - 13:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1896. &lt;hr /&gt;
  1897. &lt;div class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;
  1898. &lt;div class=&quot;storytools&quot;&gt;
  1899. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1900. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1901. &lt;/div&gt;
  1902. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1903. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;An action
  1904. plan to cut through the “wall of silence” around ritual child abuse and
  1905. neglect in the name of witchcraft, spirit possession, the supernatural
  1906. and faith has been published today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1907. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1908. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1909. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1910. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;The National
  1911. action plan to tackle child abuse linked to faith or belief aims to
  1912. raise awareness of these appalling crimes and sets out urgent practical
  1913. steps to build intelligence on the ground to identify children at risk
  1914. and act to protect them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1915. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1916. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1917. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1918. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1919. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1920. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Drawn up with
  1921. faith leaders, charities, the Metropolitan Police, and statutory
  1922. partners, it says that there needs to be closer engagement with local
  1923. communities and churches to prevent abuse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1924. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1925. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1926. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1927. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;It proposes
  1928. stronger training and information for social workers, police and other
  1929. frontline practitioners working with children; and better access to
  1930. psychological and therapeutic support for victims.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1931. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1932. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1933. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1934. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;And it sets out
  1935. work to secure prosecutions by improving support for victims to give
  1936. evidence in court cases and better awareness of how faith-based abuse
  1937. links to related crimes, including trafficking, missing children and
  1938. sexual exploitation or grooming.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1939. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1940. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1941. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1942. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Ministers are
  1943. concerned that while there has been progress in recent years, abuse
  1944. linked to faith or belief is still misunderstood, hidden and going
  1945. unreported.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1946. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1947. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1948. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1949. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Existing evidence
  1950. suggests known cases are in the low tens a year but there are few
  1951. official statistics, limited research and major gaps in understanding
  1952. its scale or motivations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1953. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1954. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1955. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1956. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Cases of adults
  1957. inflicting physical violence or emotional harm on children they regard
  1958. as witches or possessed by evil spirits are known across the world,
  1959. almost wholly involving tiny minorities or sub-sects within major
  1960. religions, as well as pagan faiths.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1961. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1962. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1963. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1964. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;But evidence
  1965. suggests that underlying causes are often very similar to other forms of
  1966. child abuse – with the child being treated as a scapegoat for family
  1967. stress, domestic violence, substance abuse and mental health problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1968. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1969. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1970. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1971. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;In the last 10
  1972. years, there have been 81 recorded police investigations in London of
  1973. allegations that children have been abused, where faith has been a
  1974. factor. Research commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills
  1975. in 2006 set out detailed analysis of 38 cases involving 47 children,
  1976. from Africa, South Asia and Europe, all who had been abused in the name
  1977. of possession or witchcraft.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1978. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1979. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1980. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1981. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;There has been no
  1982. official research into prevalence commissioned since – although new
  1983. research for the Department about what is known child abuse linked to
  1984. faith or belief based on previous research is expected by the end of the
  1985. year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1986. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1987. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1988. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1989. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;This type of abuse has common features including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1990. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1991. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1992. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1993. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;A wider social or
  1994. community consensus that witchcraft exists, propagated by faith or
  1995. influential leaders. This includes beliefs in demons or the devil acting
  1996. through children or leading them astray (traditionally seen in some
  1997. Christian beliefs); the evil eye or djinns (some Islamic contexts); and
  1998. dakini (some Hindu contexts).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1999. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2000. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Belief that the
  2001. child is the ‘victim’ of a supernatural force and the abuse is designed
  2002. to ‘save’ him or her by ‘driving out the devil’ or other evil spirits –
  2003. where the perpetrators may perversely believe that they are doing the
  2004. right thing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2005. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2006. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;The fear the child may harm or kill their parents, family, relatives or other members of the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2007. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2008. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;The child’s ‘possession’ accounts for misfortune befalling on those nearest to him or her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2009. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2010. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Abusers target
  2011. children that are ‘different’ because they have a disability or learning
  2012. difficulty; an illness; or exceptional bright.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2013. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2014. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Ritual or muti
  2015. murders, where the killing of children is believed to bring supernatural
  2016. benefits or the use of their body parts is believed to produce potent
  2017. magical remedies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2018. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2019. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Use of belief in
  2020. magic or witchcraft to create fear in children to make them more
  2021. compliant when they are being trafficked for domestic slavery and sexual
  2022. exploitation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2023. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2024. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Today’s action
  2025. plan follows the horrific murder of 15-year-old Kristy Bamu in Newham in
  2026. December 2010 – and conviction of his sister Magalie and her boyfriend
  2027. Eric Bikubi. Kristy, who lived in France, was accused by Bikubi of
  2028. practising ‘kindoki’ or witchcraft and casting spells, during a visit
  2029. over Christmas. He suffered appalling abuse and torture for three days
  2030. before drowning in a bath.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2031. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2032. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2033. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2034. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Children’s Minister Tim Loughton said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2035. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2036. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2037. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2038. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Child abuse is
  2039. appalling and unacceptable wherever it occurs and in whatever form it
  2040. takes. Abuse linked to faith or belief in spirits, witchcraft or
  2041. possession is a horrific crime, condemned by people of all cultures,
  2042. communities and faiths – but there has been a ‘wall of silence’ around
  2043. its scale and extent. It is not our job to challenge people’s beliefs
  2044. but it is our job to protect children. There can never be a blind eye
  2045. turned to violence or emotional abuse or even the smallest risk that
  2046. that religious beliefs will lead to young people being harmed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2047. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2048. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2049. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2050. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;The number of
  2051. recorded cases nationally remains tiny but we know that historically, it
  2052. goes unreported. Perpetrators go to huge lengths to cover up their
  2053. abuse and the motivations are complex – often connected with mental
  2054. illness and other complicated underlying reasons. It’s clear we need to
  2055. make a stand. There has been only very gradual progress in understanding
  2056. the issues over the last few years – either because community leaders
  2057. have been reluctant to challenge beliefs which risk leading to real
  2058. abuse in their midst; or because authorities misunderstand the causes or
  2059. are cowed by political correctness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2060. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2061. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2062. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2063. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;There are no easy
  2064. solutions or silver bullets to solving this – this will require hard
  2065. work building intelligence on the ground so social workers, carers and
  2066. police can step in early to protect children at risk and bring
  2067. perpetrators to justice. This plan will help people recognise and know
  2068. how to act on evidence, concerns and signs that a child’s health and
  2069. safety is being threatened. Everyone working with children has a
  2070. responsibility to recognise and know how to act on evidence that a
  2071. children is being abused.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2072. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2073. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2074. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2075. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;The Victoria Climbie Foundation UK director Mor Dioum said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2076. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2077. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2078. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2079. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;VCF welcomes
  2080. government efforts to recognise and address child abuse linked to faith
  2081. or belief. By bringing the issue into the open, and working with our
  2082. statutory partners, the relevant communities and the voluntary sector,
  2083. we can better protect and support members of our communities when they
  2084. seek to highlight their concerns. However, we need to work more
  2085. effectively with families to achieve better outcomes for children and
  2086. young people affected by this type of abuse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2087. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2088. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2089. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2090. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;NSPCC Chief Executive Andrew Flanagan said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2091. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2092. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2093. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2094. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Child abuse
  2095. linked to faith or beliefs such as witchcraft must not be tolerated
  2096. under any circumstances. &amp;nbsp;Hopefully this action plan, which we helped
  2097. develop, will give professionals the training they need to identify such
  2098. cases at an early stage and move swiftly to protect the young victims.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2099. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2100. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2101. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2102. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;The vast majority
  2103. of people in communities where witchcraft is practised are horrified by
  2104. these acts and take no part in this atrocious behaviour. So we must not
  2105. be afraid to raise this issue so the offenders can be exposed. And,
  2106. most importantly, everyone must play their part by watching out for
  2107. unusual activity and reporting it as early as possible. We must never
  2108. forget this is about child cruelty not culture and we cannot afford to
  2109. wait until another child is murdered before decisive action is taken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2110. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2111. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2112. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2113. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Chief Executive of Churches Child Protection Advisory Service Simon Bass said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2114. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2115. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2116. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2117. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;CCPAS is
  2118. delighted with the National Action Plan. It shows that not only has the
  2119. government and members of the working group understood the gravity of
  2120. the problem but that a multi-layered approach is needed if the evil of
  2121. faith-based abuse is to be combated successfully. We now look forward to
  2122. working with all parties to implement its proposals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2123. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2124. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2125. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2126. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;CCPAS’s
  2127. particular status within the church community enabled us to pioneer
  2128. engagement with church communities, which led to us professionally
  2129. training well over 4,000 leaders and workers in how to prevent abuse
  2130. from taking place in their churches. We are now well placed to help
  2131. deliver the other key strand of the Action Plan’s strategy, empowering
  2132. practitioners, since we act as the natural bridge between churches and
  2133. the statutory agencies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2134. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2135. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2136. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2137. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Bishop Dr Joe Aldred said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2138. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2139. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2140. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2141. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Every child has a
  2142. right to grow up supported by adults to reach their God-given
  2143. potential. &amp;nbsp;No child deserve to have that life blighted by abuse,
  2144. whatever the excuse. &amp;nbsp;Whilst in the overwhelming majority of cases
  2145. children prosper in faith settings, sadly at times their safety is put
  2146. at jeopardy precisely because this can be used as cover for abuse and
  2147. too many are unaware of harm that can be, and sometimes is, perpetrated
  2148. under the cloak of religious belief. This is why we must raise awareness
  2149. across society of child abuse linked to faith or belief, so the
  2150. well-being of all children is assured.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2151. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2152. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2153. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2154. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Pastor Jean
  2155. -Bosco Kanyemesha, of the London Fire Church International, Peace
  2156. International and Congolese Pastorship in the UK said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2157. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2158. &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2159. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
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  2161. International and the Congolese Pastorship UK encourages the
  2162. implementation of this Action Plan and believes it will contribute
  2163. effectively to the protection of children within faith organization and
  2164. will participate to combat all kind of (life-threatening) child abuse.
  2165. PI and the CPUK believes that effort made by government, children
  2166. services, civil society , faith communities and community based
  2167. organisation in order to set this action plan was an adequate response
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  2197. &lt;br /&gt;
  2198. I couldn&#39;t help think about all of us who are helping to get the word out about child sexual abuse. How at times this is a hard topic to cover. How it is a hard topic for people in general, especially to openly talk about it. Then there are those of us who share our story, who bare our deepest pain in order to help those who don&#39;t know about child sexual abuse understand what it was like for us. Being able to do this for me has been very healing and has opened old wounds at times. The thing about experiencing such devastating trauma is that there will be triggers throughout a survivors life that will open up old wounds. Even if it has been years since the trauma was survived. I couldn&#39;t help thinking while reading this book, how wonderful it would be to have such an advocate for those who are victimized/survive child sexual abuse. To be able on a world wide scale to get the word out. There are several agencies who help with this R.A.I.N.N. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rainn.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.rainn.org/&lt;/a&gt; is just one of them and I truly appreciate the hard work all of these agencies do.&lt;br /&gt;
  2199. &lt;br /&gt;
  2200. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This book has only reinforced for me that the way to make change is to stay focused on the vision I have for this blog and beyond. That if I stay on topic and am willing to work very hard my story can help people. I have been thinking for a while about starting a non-profit to help educate people on child sexual abuse. I would love to be able to work with communities to insure that those who are working with children in their community, whether voluntarily or paid, are safe to be working with children. I am starting to get my vision for this down on paper and am scheduled to take classes on how to start a non-profit. I am also very excited because I am attending the Penn State Sexual Abuse Conference. I am also attending conferences that teach about the impact of human trafficking. Especially since the affect of both child sexual abuse and human trafficking are similar. Both of these situations cause children against their wills to be forced to do things sexual to a deviant adult. Both have long lasting impacts on the survivor. Both are horrible things for a child to have to go through.&lt;br /&gt;
  2201. &lt;br /&gt;
  2202. I heard a story on the radio last night on human trafficking and it made me so sad to hear what these children go through. How isolating their lives are, how much they long for love, how those who are runaways left a home of abuse to only have the abuse continue. How many turn to drugs and alcohol to help them cope with the emotional aspect of the abuse. How many are locked up, beaten, and aren&#39;t allowed to leave their room. How the average life expectancy for a child who is human trafficked is seven years. Then I thought about those deviant adults who are willing to have sex with a child. How their deviant behavior causes terrible pain for these children. I recalled reading a story about a young man who had survived human trafficking. In his story he talked about the belief that the adults who have sex with a child are all pedophiles. He said that there were people who he had sex with that did so, because they were pushing the envelope of deviant sex. He called it their next high. That was eye opening and scary at the same time. Without these deviant people (whether pedophiles or not) there would be no need for human trafficking or child sexual abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
  2203. &lt;br /&gt;
  2204. I am in the process of changing my career path and am grateful for those who have helped to make this happen, both good and bad. Knowing that I am going to be able to spend the rest of my career helping to protect children, and educate adults on child sexual abuse is, very humbling. Since I have made known my intentions of starting a non-profit I have had doors open for me. This includes the opportunity to purchase a piece of property to house the non-profit. People have made the commitment to donate their time, resources and energy to help get the non-profit off of the ground. I will be immersed in the world getting a non-profit off of the ground for quite a while. I am excited, nervous and challenged by this. I remain grateful to God for being steadfast in my life and for the opportunity to make lemonade out of the lemons I have survived. Blessings, Rosie&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/4612709705592963867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/one-person-can-make-huge-difference.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4612709705592963867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4612709705592963867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/one-person-can-make-huge-difference.html' title='One Person Can Make a Huge Difference!'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-7926970535931189366</id><published>2012-08-15T17:19:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-08-15T17:19:24.700-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="clerk"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="H.R. 6063"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Karen L. Haas"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the Child Protection Act of 2012"/><title type='text'>H.R. 6063: Child Protection Act of 2012</title><content type='html'>I copied and pasted the whole bill because I thought people may want to read it.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr6063/text&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr6063/text&lt;/a&gt; Right now it is up to the Senate to make a determination on this bill. I will post more on this when I learn more. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  2205. &lt;br /&gt;
  2206. &lt;header class=&quot;heading-box row&quot;&gt;
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  2208. &lt;h1&gt;
  2209. H.R. 6063: Child Protection Act of 2012&lt;/h1&gt;
  2210. &lt;div class=&quot;info&quot;&gt;
  2211. &lt;div class=&quot;date&quot;&gt;
  2212. 112th Congress, 2011–2012. Text as of Aug 02, 2012 (Referred to Senate Committee).&lt;/div&gt;
  2213. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr6063&quot;&gt;Status &amp;amp; Summary&lt;/a&gt;
  2214.  | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr6063rfs/pdf/BILLS-112hr6063rfs.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;
  2215.  | Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr6063rfs&quot;&gt;GPO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2216. &lt;/div&gt;
  2217. &lt;div class=&quot;three columns&quot; id=&quot;cat-icon&quot;&gt;
  2218. &lt;/div&gt;
  2219. &lt;/header&gt;
  2220.  
  2221.  
  2222.  
  2223.  
  2224.  
  2225. &lt;br /&gt;
  2226. &lt;div class=&quot;bill_text_content&quot; id=&quot;main_text_content&quot;&gt;
  2227. HR 6063 RFS&lt;br /&gt;
  2228. &lt;center&gt;
  2229. 112th CONGRESS&lt;/center&gt;
  2230. &lt;center&gt;
  2231. 2d Session&lt;/center&gt;
  2232. &lt;center&gt;
  2233. H. R. 6063&lt;/center&gt;
  2234. &lt;center&gt;
  2235. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES&lt;/center&gt;
  2236. &lt;h3&gt;
  2237. &lt;center&gt;
  2238. August 2, 2012&lt;/center&gt;
  2239. &lt;/h3&gt;
  2240. Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary&lt;br /&gt;
  2241. &lt;hr /&gt;
  2242. &lt;center&gt;
  2243. AN ACT&lt;/center&gt;
  2244. To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to child pornography and child exploitation offenses.&lt;br /&gt;
  2245. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;i&gt;  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  2246. &lt;h3&gt;
  2247. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2248. &lt;ul&gt;This Act may be cited as the ‘Child Protection Act of 2012’.&lt;/ul&gt;
  2249. &lt;h3&gt;
  2250. SEC. 2. ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2251. &lt;ul&gt;(a) Certain Activities Relating to Material Involving the Sexual
  2252. Exploitation of Minors- Section 2252(b)(2) of title 18, United States
  2253. Code, is amended by inserting after ‘but if’ the following: ‘any visual
  2254. depiction involved in the offense involved a prepubescent minor or a
  2255. minor who had not attained 12 years of age, such person shall be fined
  2256. under this title and imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or if’.&lt;br /&gt;
  2257. (b)
  2258. Certain Activities Relating to Material Constituting or Containing
  2259. Child Pornography- Section 2252A(b)(2) of title 18, United States Code,
  2260. is amended by inserting after ‘but, if’ the following: ‘any image of
  2261. child pornography involved in the offense involved a prepubescent minor
  2262. or a minor who had not attained 12 years of age, such person shall be
  2263. fined under this title and imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or
  2264. if’.&lt;/ul&gt;
  2265. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/ul&gt;
  2266. &lt;h3&gt;
  2267. SEC. 3. PROTECTION OF CHILD WITNESSES.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2268. &lt;ul&gt;(a) Civil Action To Restrain Harassment of a Victim or Witness- Section 1514 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--&lt;br /&gt;
  2269. &lt;ul&gt;(1) in subsection (b)--&lt;br /&gt;
  2270. &lt;ul&gt;(A) in paragraph (1)--&lt;br /&gt;
  2271. &lt;ul&gt;(i) by inserting ‘or its own motion,’ after ‘attorney for the Government,’; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2272. (ii) by inserting ‘or investigation’ after ‘Federal criminal case’ each place it appears;&lt;/ul&gt;
  2273. (B) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively;&lt;br /&gt;
  2274. (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:&lt;/ul&gt;
  2275. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  2276. ‘(2)
  2277. In the case of a minor witness or victim, the court shall issue a
  2278. protective order prohibiting harassment or intimidation of the minor
  2279. victim or witness if the court finds evidence that the conduct at issue
  2280. is reasonably likely to adversely affect the willingness of the minor
  2281. witness or victim to testify or otherwise participate in the Federal
  2282. criminal case or investigation. Any hearing regarding a protective order
  2283. under this paragraph shall be conducted in accordance with paragraphs
  2284. (1) and (3), except that the court may issue an ex parte emergency
  2285. protective order in advance of a hearing if exigent circumstances are
  2286. present. If such an ex parte order is applied for or issued, the court
  2287. shall hold a hearing not later than 14 days after the date such order
  2288. was applied for or is issued.’;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2289. &lt;ul&gt;(D) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated, by striking ‘(and not by reference to the complaint or other document)’; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2290. (E)
  2291. in paragraph (5), as so redesignated, in the second sentence, by
  2292. inserting before the period at the end the following: ‘, except that in
  2293. the case of a minor victim or witness, the court may order that such
  2294. protective order expires on the later of 3 years after the date of
  2295. issuance or the date of the eighteenth birthday of that minor victim or
  2296. witness’; and&lt;/ul&gt;
  2297. (2) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:&lt;/ul&gt;
  2298. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  2299. ‘(c)
  2300. Whoever knowingly and intentionally violates or attempts to violate an
  2301. order issued under this section shall be fined under this title,
  2302. imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.&lt;br /&gt;
  2303. ‘(d)(1) As used in this section--&lt;br /&gt;
  2304. &lt;ul&gt;‘(A)
  2305. the term ‘course of conduct’ means a series of acts over a period of
  2306. time, however short, indicating a continuity of purpose;&lt;br /&gt;
  2307. ‘(B) the term ‘harassment’ means a serious act or course of conduct directed at a specific person that--&lt;br /&gt;
  2308. &lt;ul&gt;‘(i) causes substantial emotional distress in such person; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2309. ‘(ii) serves no legitimate purpose;&lt;/ul&gt;
  2310. ‘(C) the term ‘immediate family member’ has the meaning given that term in section 115 and includes grandchildren;&lt;br /&gt;
  2311. ‘(D) the term ‘intimidation’ means a serious act or course of conduct directed at a specific person that--&lt;br /&gt;
  2312. &lt;ul&gt;‘(i) causes fear or apprehension in such person; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2313. ‘(ii) serves no legitimate purpose;&lt;/ul&gt;
  2314. ‘(E) the term ‘restricted personal information’ has the meaning give that term in section 119;&lt;br /&gt;
  2315. ‘(F)
  2316. the term ‘serious act’ means a single act of threatening, retaliatory,
  2317. harassing, or violent conduct that is reasonably likely to influence the
  2318. willingness of a victim or witness to testify or participate in a
  2319. Federal criminal case or investigation; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2320. ‘(G) the term
  2321. ‘specific person’ means a victim or witness in a Federal criminal case
  2322. or investigation, and includes an immediate family member of such a
  2323. victim or witness.&lt;/ul&gt;
  2324. ‘(2) For purposes of subparagraphs (B)(ii)
  2325. and (D)(ii) of paragraph (1), a court shall presume, subject to
  2326. rebuttal by the person, that the distribution or publication using the
  2327. Internet of a photograph of, or restricted personal information
  2328. regarding, a specific person serves no legitimate purpose, unless that
  2329. use is authorized by that specific person, is for news reporting
  2330. purposes, is designed to locate that specific person (who has been
  2331. reported to law enforcement as a missing person), or is part of a
  2332. government-authorized effort to locate a fugitive or person of interest
  2333. in a criminal, antiterrorism, or national security investigation.’.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2334. (b)
  2335. Sentencing Guidelines- Pursuant to its authority under section 994 of
  2336. title 28, United States Code, and in accordance with this section, the
  2337. United States Sentencing Commission shall review and, if appropriate,
  2338. amend the Federal sentencing guidelines and policy statements to
  2339. ensure--&lt;br /&gt;
  2340. &lt;ul&gt;(1) that the guidelines provide an additional penalty
  2341. increase above the sentence otherwise applicable in Part J of Chapter 2
  2342. of the Guidelines Manual if the defendant was convicted of a violation
  2343. of section 1591 of title 18, United States Code, or chapters 109A, 109B,
  2344. 110, or 117 of title 18, United States Code; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2345. (2) if the
  2346. offense described in paragraph (1) involved causing or threatening to
  2347. cause physical injury to a person under 18 years of age, in order to
  2348. obstruct the administration of justice, an additional penalty increase
  2349. above the sentence otherwise applicable in Part J of Chapter 2 of the
  2350. Guidelines Manual.&lt;/ul&gt;
  2351. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2352. &lt;h3&gt;
  2353. SEC. 4. SUBPOENAS TO FACILITATE THE ARREST OF FUGITIVE SEX OFFENDERS.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2354. &lt;ul&gt;(a) Administrative Subpoenas-&lt;br /&gt;
  2355. &lt;ul&gt;(1) IN GENERAL- Section 3486(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--&lt;br /&gt;
  2356. &lt;ul&gt;(A) in subparagraph (A)--&lt;br /&gt;
  2357. &lt;ul&gt;(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘or’ at the end;&lt;br /&gt;
  2358. (ii) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii); and&lt;br /&gt;
  2359. (iii) by inserting after clause (i) the following:&lt;/ul&gt;
  2360. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2361. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  2362. ‘(ii)
  2363. an unregistered sex offender conducted by the United States Marshals
  2364. Service, the Director of the United States Marshals Service; or’; and&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2365. &lt;ul&gt;(B) in subparagraph (D)--&lt;br /&gt;
  2366. &lt;ul&gt;(i) by striking ‘paragraph, the term’ and inserting the following: ‘paragraph--&lt;/ul&gt;
  2367. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2368. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  2369. ‘(i) the term’;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2370. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;(ii) by striking the period at the end and inserting ‘; and’; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2371. (iii) by adding at the end the following:&lt;/ul&gt;
  2372. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2373. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  2374. ‘(ii)
  2375. the term ‘sex offender’ means an individual required to register under
  2376. the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (42 U.S.C. 16901 et
  2377. seq.).’.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2378. (2) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS- Section 3486(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--&lt;br /&gt;
  2379. &lt;ul&gt;(A) in paragraph (6)(A), by striking ‘United State’ and inserting ‘United States’;&lt;br /&gt;
  2380. (B) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘(1)(A)(ii)’ and inserting ‘(1)(A)(iii)’; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2381. (C) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘paragraph (1)(A)(ii)’ and inserting ‘paragraph (1)(A)(iii)’.&lt;/ul&gt;
  2382. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2383. (b) Judicial Subpoenas- Section 566(e)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended--&lt;br /&gt;
  2384. &lt;ul&gt;(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘and’ at the end;&lt;br /&gt;
  2385. (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting ‘; and’; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2386. (3) by adding at the end the following:&lt;br /&gt;
  2387. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  2388. ‘(C)
  2389. issue administrative subpoenas in accordance with section 3486 of title
  2390. 18, solely for the purpose of investigating unregistered sex offenders
  2391. (as defined in such section 3486).’.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2392. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2393. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2394. &lt;h3&gt;
  2395. SEC. 5. INCREASE IN FUNDING LIMITATION FOR TRAINING COURSES FOR ICAC TASK FORCES.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2396. &lt;ul&gt;Section 102(b)(4)(B) of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (42
  2397. U.S.C. 17612(b)(4)(B)) is amended by striking ‘$2,000,000’ and inserting
  2398. ‘$4,000,000’.&lt;/ul&gt;
  2399. &lt;h3&gt;
  2400. SEC. 6. NATIONAL COORDINATOR FOR CHILD EXPLOITATION PREVENTION AND INTERDICTION.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2401. &lt;ul&gt;Section 101(d)(1) of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C. 17611(d)(1)) is amended--&lt;br /&gt;
  2402. &lt;ul&gt;(1)
  2403. by striking ‘to be responsible’ and inserting the following: ‘with
  2404. experience in investigating or prosecuting child exploitation cases as
  2405. the National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and
  2406. Interdiction who shall be responsible’; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2407. (2) by adding at the
  2408. end the following: ‘The National Coordinator for Child Exploitation
  2409. Prevention and Interdiction shall be a position in the Senior Executive
  2410. Service.’.&lt;/ul&gt;
  2411. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2412. &lt;h3&gt;
  2413. SEC. 7. REAUTHORIZATION OF ICAC TASK FORCES.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2414. &lt;ul&gt;Section 107(a) of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C. 17617(a)) is amended--&lt;br /&gt;
  2415. &lt;ul&gt;(1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘and’;&lt;br /&gt;
  2416. (2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2417. (3) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:&lt;br /&gt;
  2418. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  2419. ‘(6) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2014;&lt;br /&gt;
  2420. ‘(7) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2015;&lt;br /&gt;
  2421. ‘(8) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2016;&lt;br /&gt;
  2422. ‘(9) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2017; and&lt;br /&gt;
  2423. ‘(10) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2018.’.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2424. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2425. &lt;/ul&gt;
  2426. &lt;h3&gt;
  2427. SEC. 8. CLARIFICATION OF ‘HIGH-PRIORITY SUSPECT’.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2428. &lt;ul&gt;Section 105(e)(1)(B)(i) of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008
  2429. (42 U.S.C. 17615(e)(1)(B)(i)) is amended by striking ‘the volume’ and
  2430. all that follows through ‘or other’.&lt;/ul&gt;
  2431. &lt;h3&gt;
  2432. SEC. 9. REPORT TO CONGRESS.&lt;/h3&gt;
  2433. &lt;ul&gt;Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
  2434. the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of
  2435. the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the
  2436. Senate a report on the status of the Attorney General’s establishment of
  2437. the National Internet Crimes Against Children Data System required to
  2438. be established under section 105 of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008
  2439. (42 U.S.C. 17615).&lt;/ul&gt;
  2440. Passed the House of Representatives August 1, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;
  2441. Attest:&lt;br /&gt;
  2442. KAREN L. HAAS,&lt;br /&gt;
  2443. Clerk.&lt;/div&gt;
  2444. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/7926970535931189366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/hr-6063-child-protection-act-of-2012.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/7926970535931189366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/7926970535931189366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/hr-6063-child-protection-act-of-2012.html' title='H.R. 6063: Child Protection Act of 2012'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-4252173971958832799</id><published>2012-08-15T17:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-08-15T17:12:09.562-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child pornography (sexual abuse) images and videos"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Debbie Wasserman Schultz"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="H.R. 6063"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lamar Smith"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the Child Protection Act of 2012"/><title type='text'>    Statement of Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith Full Committee Markup of H.R. 6063, the Child Protection Act of 2012 </title><content type='html'>On June 29, 2012 bill H.R. 6063 was introduced and on July 10, 2012 it was reported by the committee.&lt;br /&gt;
  2445. &lt;a href=&quot;http://judiciary.house.gov/news/HR%206063.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://judiciary.house.gov/news/HR%206063.html.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2446. The bill was passed by the House on August 1, 2012 and is waiting to be voted on by the Senate. According to gov track &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr6063#&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr6063#&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
  2447. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  2448. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  2449.  
  2450. &lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2451. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;padding-top: 5px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;This bill passed in the House on August 1, 2012 and goes to the Senate next for consideration.
  2453. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2454. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2455. &lt;/dd&gt;
  2456. &lt;dt&gt;&lt;i&gt;Prognosis:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  2457. &lt;dd&gt;
  2460. &lt;i&gt;This bill has a &lt;b&gt;42%&lt;/b&gt; chance of being enacted. The following factors were considered:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2461.  
  2463. &lt;div class=&quot;prognosis_item&quot;&gt;
  2464. &lt;i&gt;The sponsor is in the majority party and at least one third of the bill&#39;s cosponsors are from the minority party. &lt;small&gt;(+26%)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2465. &lt;i&gt;Just 29% of all House bills reported favorably by committee in 2009–2010  were enacted.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2466.  
  2467. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;
  2468. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2469. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2470. I can&#39;t believe I missed this whole bill. I must have been so caught up with the Sandusky story that I didn&#39;t see it. I came across this information while doing some research for this blog. This press release makes some good points about how technology has impacted child sexual abuse media (aka child pornography). Technology has impacted this crime by the sheer ability of a person to remain anonymous, by having the ability to get the child sexual abuse media rapidly and by the building of networks of those who wish to share this disgusting media. One of the goals of this bill is to make it easier for child sexual predators to be apprehended. This bill&amp;nbsp; is also expected to protect children from being harassed by their abuser and intimidated by the court process. Apparently the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Child&#39;s Victim Identification Program has looked at over &lt;b&gt;fifty one millio&lt;/b&gt;n images of children being sexually abused. &lt;b&gt;Fifty one million images of children being sexually abused. &lt;/b&gt;They do this to try to identify the children in the media. How can someone believe that viewing child sexual abuse is a victimless crime? That is an enormous amount of sexual abuse media. This is just what has been located. Imagine how many more images that are out there? Wow! The reality is compared to the amount of child sexual abuse media that is out there, only a very small percentage of children are located. I am grateful for that but I am very sad for all of them who are not located. We won&#39;t stop this epidemic if we don&#39;t stop the victimization from occurring. Some of these children being sexually abused will go one to do the same thing that was done to them. We need to give these children a shot at a decent life. The faster we are able to locate them and get them away from their abusers the more likely they are to have a decent life. Can you imagine the lives these children live? The sense of hopelessness and despair? No child deserves this. I hope this bill gets passed by the Senate and signed by the President. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  2471. &lt;br /&gt;
  2472. &lt;br /&gt;
  2473. &lt;br /&gt;
  2474. &lt;br /&gt;
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  2476.            &lt;tbody&gt;
  2477. &lt;tr&gt;
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  2479.                &lt;tbody&gt;
  2480. &lt;tr&gt;
  2481.                  &lt;td class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;For Immediate Release&lt;br /&gt;
  2482. July 10, 2012&lt;/td&gt;
  2483.                  &lt;td align=&quot;right&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;right&quot; class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;
  2484. Contact: Charlotte Sellmyer, 202-225-3951&lt;/div&gt;
  2485. &lt;/td&gt;
  2486.                &lt;/tr&gt;
  2487. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2488. &lt;/td&gt;
  2489.            &lt;/tr&gt;
  2490. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2491. &lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
  2492. &lt;b&gt;Statement of Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2493. &lt;b&gt;Full Committee Markup of &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2494. &lt;b&gt;H.R. 6063, the Child Protection Act of 2012&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2495. &lt;b&gt;Chairman Smith:&lt;/b&gt; Trafficking  of child
  2496. pornography images was almost completely eradicated in America by the  
  2497. mid-1980s.&amp;nbsp; Purchasing or trading these  images was risky and almost
  2498. impossible to do anonymously.&amp;nbsp; But the advent of the Internet reversed
  2499. this  accomplishment.&lt;br /&gt;
  2500. Today Internet child pornography may be the fastest growing  crime in America, increasing an average of 150% per year.&lt;br /&gt;
  2501. &lt;br /&gt;
  2502. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s
  2503. Child Victim Identification Program has reviewed more than 51 million
  2504. child  pornography images and videos in the hopes of identifying the
  2505. victims in  them.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
  2506. These images of children being sexually assaulted are
  2507. crime  scene photos – and each face represents a child in desperate need
  2508. of help.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
  2509. &lt;b&gt;Every day these online criminals prey on our children
  2510. with  virtual anonymity.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;And according to  recent estimates, there are
  2511. as many as 100,000 sex offenders in the U.S. whose  whereabouts are
  2512. still unknown.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2513. I and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz introduced
  2514. H.R. 6063, the Child Protection Act of 2012, to provide law enforcement
  2515.  officials with important tools and additional resources to combat the
  2516. growing  threat of child pornography and exploitation. &lt;br /&gt;
  2517. H.R. 6063 increases the maximum penalties from 10 to 20  
  2518. years for child pornography offenses that involve prepubescent children
  2519. or  children under the age of 12.&amp;nbsp; And it  strengthens protections for
  2520. child witnesses and victims, who are often  subjected to harassment and
  2521. intimidation throughout the trial process.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
  2522. &lt;b&gt;The bill allows a federal court to issue a protective
  2523. order  if it determines that a child victim or witness is being harassed
  2524. or  intimidated and imposes criminal penalties for violation of a
  2525. protective  order.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2526. &lt;b&gt;This bill ensures that paperwork does not stand in the
  2527. way  of protecting our kids.&amp;nbsp; It gives the  U.S. Marshals—the federal
  2528. agency tasked by Congress under the Adam Walsh Act  with apprehending
  2529. fugitive sex offenders—administrative subpoena  authority.&amp;nbsp; We must
  2530. ensure that  investigators have every available resource to track down
  2531. these predators and  protect the weakest among us. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2532. The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force  
  2533. program is a national network of 61 coordinated task forces that
  2534. represent over  3,000 federal, state, and local law enforcement and
  2535. prosecutorial agencies  dedicated to child exploitation investigations.&amp;nbsp;
  2536. &lt;br /&gt;
  2537. The ICAC Task Forces were launched in 1998 and officially  authorized by Congress in the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008.&lt;br /&gt;
  2538. Since 1998, the ICAC Task Forces have reviewed more than
  2539. 280,000 complaints of alleged child sexual abuse and have arrested more
  2540. than  30,000 individuals.&amp;nbsp; In Fiscal Year 2011,  the ICAC program
  2541. trained over 31,000 law enforcement personnel, over 2,800  prosecutors,
  2542. and more than 11,000 other professionals that work in the ICAC  field.&lt;br /&gt;
  2543. The &lt;i&gt;Child Protection  Act&lt;/i&gt; extends the
  2544. authorization of the ICAC Task Forces for five years and  increases the
  2545. cap on grant funds for ICAC training programs.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
  2546. The bill also makes several additional clarifications to
  2547. provisions enacted as a part of the PROTECT Our Children Act and
  2548. requests a  report from the Justice Department on implementation of the
  2549. National Internet  Crimes Against Children Data System.&lt;br /&gt;
  2550. The bill has broad bipartisan support in Congress and is  supported by a number of outside organizations, which include:&lt;br /&gt;
  2551. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  2552. The National Center for Missing  and Exploited Children; &lt;br /&gt;
  2553. The Major City Chiefs of  Police; &lt;br /&gt;
  2554. Futures Without Violence; &lt;br /&gt;
  2555. The Fraternal Order of Police;&lt;br /&gt;
  2556. The International Association  of Chiefs of Police;&lt;br /&gt;
  2557. The National Alliance to End  Sexual Violence; &lt;br /&gt;
  2558. The National District Attorneys  Association; &lt;br /&gt;
  2559. The National White Collar Crime  Center (NWC3);&lt;br /&gt;
  2560. The National Sheriffs’  Association;&lt;br /&gt;
  2561. The Surviving Parents  Coalition;&lt;br /&gt;
  2562. The Rape Abuse Incest National  Network (RAINN); and&lt;br /&gt;
  2563. PROTECT.&lt;br /&gt;
  2564. Florida Council Against  Sexual Violence&lt;br /&gt;
  2565. Jewish Women International&lt;br /&gt;
  2566. Men Can Stop Rape&lt;br /&gt;
  2567. National Criminal Justice  Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College&lt;br /&gt;
  2568. Texas Association Against  Sexual Assault&lt;br /&gt;
  2569. California Protective Parents  Association&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2570. &lt;div class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;
  2571. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2572. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/4252173971958832799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/statement-of-judiciary-committee.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4252173971958832799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/4252173971958832799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/statement-of-judiciary-committee.html' title='    Statement of Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith Full Committee Markup of H.R. 6063, the Child Protection Act of 2012 '/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-5641551622283181484</id><published>2012-08-13T12:45:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-08-13T12:45:10.063-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="americanfreepress.net"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CBS News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dr. Elizabeth Loftus"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="FMS(word)F advisory board"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jerry Sandusky verdict"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pamela freyd"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="radaronline.com"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the franklin cover up"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="U.S. Postal inspectors"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="yardbird.com"/><title type='text'>Report: Feds Investigating Sandusky Pedophile Ring, Possibly Shared Boys With Others</title><content type='html'>I came across across information on this story the end of July after the Sandusky verdict came in. I found them on twitter.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://americanfreepress.net/?p=5116&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://americanfreepress.net/?p=5116&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yardbird.com/tv_town_officials_cant_stop_pedophile_sex_ring.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.yardbird.com/tv_town_officials_cant_stop_pedophile_sex_ring.htm&lt;/a&gt;. Then last week I found a couple of stories that I have posted below on the fact that Postal Inspectors and the Fed&#39;s are both investigating the possibility that this story is true. Mark Madden also spoke of it on &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Mully and Hanley Show &lt;a href=&quot;http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/rumor-sandusky-pimped-out-young-boys-to-rich-donors/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/rumor-sandusky-pimped-out-young-boys-to-rich-donors/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2573. &lt;br /&gt;
  2574. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  2575. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  2576. “It’s going to get worse before it gets better,”&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/rumor-sandusky-pimped-out-young-boys-to-rich-donors/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mark Madden of 105.9 The X in Pittsburgh said on 670 The Score.&lt;/a&gt;
  2577. “The one thing I hear is being investigated right now, and I hasten to
  2578. add this as only a rumor, but I know of at least two prominent
  2579. columnists who are investigating the story, is that The Second Mile, and
  2580. there’s no nice way to say this, pimped out young boys to wealthy
  2581. donors.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2582. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2583. If this story is true it is pretty disgusting. There were stories like this back in the late 1980&#39;s early 1990&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://educate-yourself.org/tg/franklincoverupexcerptwashtimesphoto.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://educate-yourself.org/tg/franklincoverupexcerptwashtimesphoto.shtml&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm&lt;/a&gt; that I found when I was doing research into the coverup (aka debunking) of ritual abuse and child sexual abuse. I was wanting to know how it was possible to coverup/debunking could have happened. Especially when so many in the late 1980&#39;s and early 1990&#39;s were telling their stories. Then I came across the Franklin coverup and it helped me to understand how this could happen. Of course the False Memory S(word) Foundation was started in 1992 and they played a major role in the debunking of child sexual abuse and ritual abuse &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fmsfonline.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.fmsfonline.org/&lt;/a&gt;. The media at the time was more interested in the false memory s(word) foundation then in believing the survivors of child sexual and ritual abuse. This made it extremely hard for survivors and those that worked with survivors to get their stories out. Every time a story was put out the FMS(word)F jumped on the story and not only debunked the survivor but tried and in some cases debunked the therapist/mental health professional who worked with the survivor.&lt;br /&gt;
  2584. &lt;br /&gt;
  2585. I have found it really interesting in the past nine months with both the Sandusky and Catholic Church scandal in Penn that Pamela Freyd or any of FMS(word)F advisory board members have remained silent. I attribute this to the fact that child sexual abuse is now in the forefront of many people&#39;s minds. There has been a national conversation on this topic since November 2011 when the Sandusky scandal broke. I have often thought about during this whole process what would have happened if these stories broke in the late 1980&#39;s or early 1990&#39;s. The FMS(word)F had a lot of power and were able to use this power to shut survivors up. There are several bloggers who blog on this topic, their are non-main stream media who have covered these stories since day one. And lastly the main stream media jumped on the bandwagon. If this story were to have broke in the late 1980&#39;s early 1990&#39;s it probably would have been covered up. This may have been one of the reasons in 1998 when one of the mother&#39;s of a victim went to police that the story wasn&#39;t pursued appropriately. In 1998 do to the hype by FMS(word)F and their advisory board members and supporters. There was the belief that child sexual abuse was not traumatic. The FMS(word)F and their advisory board members had done numerous articles on how children who were sexually abused and the fact that the abuse wasn&#39;t traumatic. They have also done articles on how &quot;forgetting&quot; traumatic events was impossible. In my opinion this lead to why the main stream media didn&#39;t pick up these stories. Dr. Elizabeth Loftus who has been on FMS(word)F advisory board for many years did the following article where she compares child sexual abuse memories to kidnapping of space aliens and the salem which hunt. &lt;br /&gt;
  2586. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume6/j6_1_4.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.ipt-forensics.com/jour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume6/j6_1_4.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;nal/volume6/j6_1_4.htm&lt;/a&gt;. In this next article Dr. Loftus is quoted as saying that you can&#39;t be sexually assaulted and repress the traumatic event (traumatic amnesia). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themediareport.com/hot-topics/repressed-memory-debunked/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.themediareport.com/hot-topics/repressed-memory-debuned/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2587. &lt;br /&gt;
  2588. I am thankful that at this point FMS(word)F is pretty much debunked. There has been enough long standing empirical evidence that there are long term consequences of child sexual abuse. The Ace Study &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acestudy.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.acestudy.org/&lt;/a&gt; is one among several that shows the long term effects of trauma as a child, and it&#39;s impact when the child becomes an adult.&amp;nbsp; Judges are allowing &quot;repressed&quot; memories into court cases. Something that was virtually unheard of prior to 2009. While I feel that if the story is true that Sandusky used the Second Mile as a &quot;pimping&quot; ground for young children is horrible and needs to be told. If it is proven true it will give credence to survivors like myself who have survived being ritualistically abused. With sexual abuse being at the heart of the &quot;rituals.&quot; I am also grateful that the FMS(word)F has no bearing on the outcome of the investigation into this story. I have said before that, &quot;there are bad people who do terrible things to children&quot; and some of those people have power and privilege behind them. They have had the ability to coverup what they have done. I am thankful there are dogged people that won&#39;t let this story go and have worked hard to bring it out. I am also grateful that the main stream media is looking at this story. The more the truth comes out, the more those with power and privilege who wish to do bad&amp;nbsp; things to children, won&#39;t have their safety net to hide behind anymore. The fact that children are being believed when they share that they were sexually abused and aren&#39;t being &quot;debunked&quot; is one of the catalysts for stories like this coming to light. In gratitude, Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  2589. &lt;br /&gt;
  2590. &lt;br /&gt;
  2591. &lt;br /&gt;
  2592. &lt;div class=&quot;heading&quot;&gt;
  2593. &lt;div class=&quot;timeLine&quot;&gt;
  2594. August 10, 2012 3:34 PM. &lt;/div&gt;
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  2598. &lt;div class=&quot;overviewHead&quot;&gt;
  2599. &lt;h1&gt;
  2600. Feds probe possible Sandusky child porn ring&lt;/h1&gt;
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  2606. &lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;112&quot; src=&quot;http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/06/27/jerry_sandusky_146704562_fullwidth_620x350.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt; Former
  2607. Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre
  2608. County Courthouse in handcuffs after a jury found him guilty in his sex
  2609. abuse trial June 22, 2012, in Bellefonte, Pa.&amp;nbsp;(Getty Images)&lt;br /&gt;
  2610. &lt;div class=&quot;postSpecialReport&quot; id=&quot;postSpecialReport&quot;&gt;
  2611. &lt;span class=&quot;spTitle&quot;&gt;The Penn State Scandal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
  2612. &lt;div class=&quot;postSpecialReportWrap&quot;&gt;
  2613. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2614. &lt;/div&gt;
  2615. &lt;/div&gt;
  2616. &lt;/div&gt;
  2617. &lt;div class=&quot;storyText&quot;&gt;
  2618. &lt;i&gt;Updated 5:21 PM ET&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2619. (CBS/AP)
  2620. U.S. Postal inspectors are leading a federal investigation into whether
  2621. former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky shared child
  2622. pornography with other individuals, CBS News has learned.&lt;br /&gt;
  2623. Analyzing
  2624. a computer seized from Sandusky, investigators are also looking into
  2625. whether he sent&lt;b&gt; &quot;seductive letters&quot; across state lines for sexual
  2626. purposes. Some of these letters were said to be sent to some of his
  2627. sexual abuse victims. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2628. CBS News has learned that at the end of 2011, allegations were
  2629. forward by the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
  2630. that Sandusky used the mails to seduce individuals to cross state lines
  2631. for sexual purposes, with trips and gifts offered. Investigators are
  2632. looking at 6-7 victims who might have gotten letters.&lt;br /&gt;
  2633. &lt;br /&gt;
  2634. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Also
  2635. in March of this year, U.S. Postal inspectors were tasked to
  2636. investigate The Second Mile charity, which was founded by Sandusky. That
  2637. investigation is on hold, awaiting for documents to be released by the
  2638. State Attorney. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2639. A source has been told that child
  2640. pornography was found in at least one of Sandusky&#39;s computers. According
  2641. to the source, there is no evidence that the pornography was of his
  2642. victims. There is also no mention of a ring or sharing of boys with
  2643. others. CBS News investigative producer Pat Milton reports that a second
  2644. source said that none of Sandusky&#39;s victims have indicated that there
  2645. was shared sex with them, Sandusky and any other individual.&lt;br /&gt;
  2646. The
  2647. investigation is being carried out of the U.S. Postal Inspectors office
  2648. in Harrisburg, Pa. and the U.S. Attorney Office of the Middle District
  2649. of Pennsylvania.&lt;br /&gt;
  2650. &quot;I haven&#39;t heard a thing about this
  2651. latest allegation,&quot; Sandusky&#39;s attorney Joe Amendola, told CBS News.
  2652. &quot;Jerry continues to maintain his innocence. We think the allegation is
  2653. ridiculous.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2654. Sandusky, Penn State&#39;s defensive coordinator
  2655. during the program&#39;s best years, was arrested in November on dozens of
  2656. child sex abuse charges. He was convicted in June of 45 criminal counts.&lt;br /&gt;
  2657. Meanwhile,
  2658. Penn State&#39;s board of trustees will meet this weekend to consider
  2659. whether to ratify a consent decree with the NCAA that imposed penalties
  2660. for how the university handled the Sandusky child molestation scandal.&lt;br /&gt;
  2661. Board
  2662. chairwoman Karen Peetz told fellow trustees Thursday in an email, which
  2663. was obtained by The Associated Press, that said there was confusion
  2664. about how Penn State accepted the sanctions and whether it was the &quot;best
  2665. course&quot; for the university.&lt;br /&gt;
  2666. &quot;We have heard from
  2667. President (Rodney) Erickson and from our legal team,&quot; Peetz wrote. &quot;We
  2668. have had an opportunity to speak our minds. I appreciate everyone&#39;s
  2669. candor and your sincere and heartfelt comments. However, it is now time
  2670. to put this matter to rest and to move on.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2671. The resolution before the board would say that it &quot;wishes to and hereby does ratify&quot; the consent decree.&lt;br /&gt;
  2672. &quot;We are leaders of this university,&quot; Peetz told the trustees. &quot;We need to lead.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2673. A notice posted on Penn State&#39;s website said the 5 p.m. Sunday telephone conference would be broadcast live online.&lt;br /&gt;
  2674. The
  2675. NCAA on July 23 barred the school from postseason play for four years,
  2676. fined it $60 million and invalidated 112 of the football team&#39;s wins for
  2677. the way school officials handled abuse complaints against Sandusky.&lt;br /&gt;
  2678. Penn
  2679. State also was stripped of future scholarships, and several
  2680. high-profile players have decided to transfer to other schools since the
  2681. penalties were announced. The team opens play at home Sept. 1 against
  2682. Ohio University.&lt;br /&gt;
  2683. The NCAA concluded Penn State suffered
  2684. &quot;an unprecedented failure of institutional integrity leading to a
  2685. culture in which a football program was held in higher esteem&quot; than its
  2686. own values, those of the NCAA and higher education, &quot;and most
  2687. disturbingly the values of human decency.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2688. Penn State
  2689. acquiesced to the penalties, with Erickson signing the agreement. Two
  2690. days later, the trustees met in secret before issuing a statement that
  2691. called the sanctions difficult but the alternatives worse.&lt;br /&gt;
  2692. Some
  2693. trustees, alumni and others have reacted angrily. The family of former
  2694. football coach Joe Paterno, who died in January, and a trustee who said
  2695. others supported him have sought to appeal the NCAA&#39;s decision, but the
  2696. organization has said the decision is not subject to appeals.&lt;/div&gt;
  2697. &lt;span class=&quot;dateStamp&quot;&gt;©
  2698. 2012 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be
  2699. published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press
  2700. contributed to this report.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2701. &lt;span class=&quot;dateStamp&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57491185/feds-probe-possible-sandusky-child-porn-ring/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57491185/feds-probe-possible-sandusky-child-porn-ring/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2702. &lt;h6 class=&quot;entry-date&quot;&gt;
  2703. August 10, 2012 2:44 PM&lt;/h6&gt;
  2704. &lt;b&gt;(WSCR) &lt;/b&gt;According to a report from RadarOnline.com,
  2705. the FBI and a criminal investigative division of the United States
  2706. Postal Service are looking into the possibility that former Penn State
  2707. defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky created a pedophile ring in which
  2708. he shared boys with other men connected to Penn State.&lt;br /&gt;
  2709. Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of child sexual abuse in June.&lt;br /&gt;
  2710. &lt;a href=&quot;http://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/jerry-sandusky-mug-shot.jpg?w=300&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Jerry Sandusky. (Courtesy: Office of the Attorney General)&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;attachment-single-post-main-thumbnail wp-post-image&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; src=&quot;http://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/jerry-sandusky-mug-shot.jpg?w=300&quot; title=&quot;Jerry-Sandusky-mug-shot&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;“Investigators have interviewed at least one man who claims to have
  2711. knowledge of Sandusky and a very prominent man, with strong ties to Penn
  2712. State, both sexually abusing a boy,” &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/08/jerry-sandusky-new-investigation-penn-state-child-sexual-abuse&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;a source familiar with the situation told RadarOnline.com.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2713. “The new investigation is also looking at if boys from the Second
  2714. Mile charity were shared by Sandusky with other men. The name of at
  2715. least one very rich and powerful man connected to the university has
  2716. come up in this new investigation.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2717. Additionally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57491185/feds-probe-possible-sandusky-child-porn-ring/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CBS News reported&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;U.S.
  2718. Postal inspectors are leading a federal investigation into whether
  2719. Sandusky shared child pornography with other individuals.&lt;br /&gt;
  2720. These new reports coincide with a report from The Mully and Hanley
  2721. Show in November, which alleged Sandusky would “pimp” out young boys to
  2722. wealthy donors.&lt;br /&gt;
  2723. “It’s going to get worse before it gets better,”&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/rumor-sandusky-pimped-out-young-boys-to-rich-donors/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mark Madden of 105.9 The X in Pittsburgh said on 670 The Score.&lt;/a&gt;
  2724. “The one thing I hear is being investigated right now, and I hasten to
  2725. add this as only a rumor, but I know of at least two prominent
  2726. columnists who are investigating the story, is that The Second Mile, and
  2727. there’s no nice way to say this, pimped out young boys to wealthy
  2728. donors.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2729. &lt;br /&gt;
  2730. &lt;a href=&quot;http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/10/report-feds-investigating-sandusky-pedophile-ring-possibly-shared-boys-with-others/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/10/report-feds-investigating-sandusky-pedophile-ring-possibly-shared-boys-with-others/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://memoirofaredemptivelife.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/feeds/5641551622283181484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/report-feds-investigating-sandusky.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/5641551622283181484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/281788348962511608/posts/default/5641551622283181484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://memoirofaredemptivelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/report-feds-investigating-sandusky.html' title='Report: Feds Investigating Sandusky Pedophile Ring, Possibly Shared Boys With Others'/><author><name>Rosieforchange</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10849818982863488841</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnehXJLszRx3Hh7vDW0fQvuwqQyvX3h4Aj0PExgT71owVgMqYUvTn6E_Yb1QH_ZQq6BfFwOLU6ZpdUyPX7uGf3eHjMDSts7_zKmSggSJgJx592UNEkzu9LfHJISJd/s220/IMG_0003.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281788348962511608.post-1553288849852464210</id><published>2012-08-06T10:18:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-08-06T10:18:32.068-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Alan Dunlap"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bill Dworin"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Boy scouts of america"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Floyd Slusher"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kerry Lewis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mark Bumgarner and Stephen Field"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Scouts Chief Executive Robert Mazzuca"/><title type='text'>Boy Scout files reveal repeat child abuse by sexual predators</title><content type='html'>This is another story of children being sexually abused and how the system that was put in place to protect children; failed them. It is also another story about those who wish to sexually abuse children working and/or volunteering at agency&#39;s/programs that give them access to children. I still believe that a universal tool needs to be developed that can asses a persons risk of sexually abusing a child. Then this tool needs to be used anytime someone applies to work or volunteer with children. The reality is, that it is well known that those who wish to sexually abuse children will place themselves where children will be. It only makes sense to develop a tool to weed these people out before they can harm a child. Once they are turned down for one program and go to another the same tool will be used and they won&#39;t be accepted as an employee/volunteer anywhere. I am sure their are those who will complain that this will ostracize people and prevent good people with good intentions from working around children. While this may be an outcome isn&#39;t protecting children more important? Shouldn&#39;t we err on the side of caution? Shouldn&#39;t we show children that their safety is our utmost concern? Wouldn&#39;t it be wonderful to know that we were doing everything we possibly could do to protect children?&lt;br /&gt;
  2731. &lt;br /&gt;
  2732. Something has to be done to help stop this epidemic. Education is the main tool that can be used to help reduce child sexual abuse. We can educate on; what grooming techniques are and the signs and symptoms a child can display who has been sexually abused but, I believe mandatory teaching on what sexual abuse is to agencies/programs staff who provide services to children. Is the main opportunity that there is to prevent and inform on what child sexual abuse is. If every agency or program that works with children is mandated to provide training on child sexual abuse the risk to children will decrease. There are already programs that are out there in place that help educate on child sexual abuse. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mhp.gov.on.ca/en/active-living/coaching/coach-notes.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.mhp.gov.on.ca/en/active-living/coaching/coach-notes.pdf&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.d2l.org/site/c.4dICIJOkGcISE/b.6035035/k.8258/Prevent_Child_Sexual_Abuse.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.d2l.org/site/c.4dICIJOkGcISE/b.6035035/k.8258/Prevent_Child_Sexual_Abuse.htm&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://littlewarriors.ca/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://littlewarriors.ca/&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/programs/types/sexualabuse.cfm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/programs/types/sexualabuse.cfm&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://speak4change.com/,%20&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://speak4change.com/, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rainn.org/get-information/sexual-assault-prevention/protecting-a-child-from-sexual-assault&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.rainn.org/get-information/sexual-assault-prevention/protecting-a-child-from-sexual-assault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2733. &lt;br /&gt;
  2734. I am hoping that some of the money from the NCAA sanctions will go to a national movement to insure that all staff (volunteers and employees) that work for agencies/programs that work with children have to be educated on child sexual abuse prevention and mandatory reporting. Penn State is now working with the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) educating Penn State employees on child sexual abuse and how to report abuse. There is already a national movement happening that is changing mandated reporting laws to include anyone who is aware of a child being abused being required to report abuse. If the person knows and doesn&#39;t report it, they will be held accountable for not reporting the abuse. This movement will increase case loads of child welfare workers who investigate abuse. Which means to me that we will have to figure out ways financially to be able to provide the support to these child welfare agencies to off set the increased work load.&lt;br /&gt;
  2735. This will create a conundrum to those in change of child welfare budgets. It will be a lot easier to discuss the need right now due to the increased national consciousnesses on child sexual abuse and its implications for children. I remain grateful that this conversation continues. Rosie&lt;br /&gt;
  2736. &lt;br /&gt;
  2737. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2738. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  2739. &lt;h2&gt;
  2740.      &lt;/h2&gt;
  2741. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  2742. &lt;div class=&quot;articlebody largeImage&quot; id=&quot;story-body&quot;&gt;
  2743. &lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot; style=&quot;width: 600px;&quot;&gt;
  2744. &lt;div class=&quot;holder&quot;&gt;
  2745. &lt;table cellspacing=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2746. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Boy Scouts&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; src=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-08/71609562.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;
  2747.                                    
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  2754. &lt;div class=&quot;small&quot;&gt;
  2755. Clockwise from top left are
  2756. Alan Dunlap, Floyd Slusher, Mark Bumgarner and Stephen Field. They are
  2757. among the men about whom the Boy Scouts of America had received
  2758. molestation allegations who nevertheless continued or regained
  2759. involvement with the organization and were later convicted on abuse
  2760. charges.
  2761.                                                &lt;span class=&quot;credit&quot;&gt;(&lt;span class=&quot;photographer&quot;&gt;Texas
  2762. Department of Public Safety, Colorado Department of Corrections,
  2763. Virginia State Police and California Department of Justice&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2764. &lt;div class=&quot;small&quot;&gt;
  2765. &lt;span class=&quot;credit&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
  2766.                                        &lt;/div&gt;
  2767. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2768. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2769. &lt;/div&gt;
  2770. &lt;/div&gt;
  2771. &lt;span class=&quot;toolSet&quot; style=&quot;width: 335px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2772. &lt;div class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;
  2773. &lt;span class=&quot;toolSet&quot; style=&quot;width: 335px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;By Jason Felch and Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times&lt;/span&gt;
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  2789. &lt;div class=&quot;date&quot;&gt;
  2790. &lt;span class=&quot;toolSet&quot; style=&quot;width: 335px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;dateString&quot;&gt;August 5, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2791. &lt;/div&gt;
  2792. &lt;span class=&quot;toolSet&quot; style=&quot;width: 335px;&quot;&gt;
  2793. &lt;/span&gt;
  2794.                            
  2795.                            
  2796.                            &lt;br /&gt;
  2797. &lt;div id=&quot;story-body-text&quot;&gt;
  2798. For nearly a century, the &lt;a class=&quot;taxInlineTagLink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/topic/social-issues/social-organizations/youth-organizations/boy-scouts-of-america-ORCIG000073.topic&quot; id=&quot;ORCIG000073&quot; title=&quot;Boy Scouts of America&quot;&gt;Boy Scouts of America&lt;/a&gt; has relied on a confidential blacklist known as the &quot;perversion files&quot; as a crucial line of defense against sexual predators.&lt;br /&gt;
  2799. &lt;br /&gt;
  2800. Scouting officials say they&#39;ve used the files to prevent hundreds of
  2801. men who had been expelled for alleged sexual abuse from returning to the
  2802. ranks. They&#39;ve fought hard in court to keep the records from public
  2803. view, saying confidentiality was needed to protect victims, witnesses
  2804. and anyone falsely accused.&lt;br /&gt;
  2805. &lt;br /&gt;
  2806. &quot;It is a fact that Scouts are
  2807. safer because the barrier created by these files is real,&quot; Scouts Chief
  2808. Executive Robert Mazzuca said in video posted on the organization&#39;s
  2809. website in June.&lt;a href=&quot;http://documents.latimes.com/boy-scouts-paper-trail-of-abuse-documents/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2810. &lt;br /&gt;
  2811. That barrier, however, has been breached repeatedly.&lt;br /&gt;
  2812. &lt;br /&gt;
  2813. A Los Angeles Times review of more than 1,200 files dating from 1970 to
  2814. 1991 found more than 125 cases across the country in which men
  2815. allegedly continued to molest Scouts after the organization was first
  2816. presented with detailed allegations of abusive behavior.&lt;br /&gt;
  2817. &lt;br /&gt;
  2818. Predators slipped back into the program by falsifying personal
  2819. information or skirting the registration process. Others were able to
  2820. jump from troop to troop around the country thanks to clerical errors,
  2821. computer glitches or the Scouts&#39; failure to check the blacklist.&lt;br /&gt;
  2822. &lt;br /&gt;
  2823. In some cases, officials failed to document reports of abuse in the
  2824. first place, letting offenders stay in the organization until new
  2825. allegations surfaced. In others, officials documented abuse but merely
  2826. suspended the accused leader or allowed him to continue working with
  2827. boys while on &quot;probation.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2828. &lt;br /&gt;
  2829. &lt;b&gt;In at least 50 cases, the Boy Scouts
  2830. expelled suspected abusers, only to discover later that they had
  2831. reentered the program and were accused of molesting again.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2832. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;One
  2833. scoutmaster was expelled in 1970 for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old
  2834. boy in Indiana. Even after being convicted of the crime, he went on to
  2835. join two troops in Illinois between 1971 and 1988. He later admitted to
  2836. molesting more than 100 boys, was convicted of the sexual assault of a
  2837. Scout in 1989 and was sentenced to 100 years in prison, according to his
  2838. file and court records.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2839. &lt;br /&gt;
  2840. In 1991, a Scout leader convicted of abusing a boy in Minnesota returned to his old troop — right after getting out of jail.&lt;br /&gt;
  2841. &lt;br /&gt;
  2842. &quot;Basically, there were no controls,&quot; said Bill Dworin, a retired Los
  2843. Angeles police expert on child sexual abuse who reviewed hundreds of the
  2844. files as a witness for an Oregon man abused by his troop leader in the
  2845. 1980s. In 2010, the plaintiff, Kerry Lewis, won a nearly $20-million
  2846. jury verdict against the Scouts.&lt;br /&gt;
  2847. &lt;br /&gt;
  2848. In response to the Times&#39; findings, the Scouts &lt;a href=&quot;http://documents.latimes.com/boy-scouts-youth-protection-timeline/&quot;&gt;issued a statement&lt;/a&gt; that said in part:&lt;br /&gt;
  2849. &lt;br /&gt;
  2850. &quot;The Boy Scouts of America believes even a single instance of abuse is
  2851. unacceptable, and we regret there have been times when the BSA&#39;s best
  2852. efforts to protect children were insufficient. For that we are very
  2853. sorry and extend our deepest sympathies to victims.... We are committed
  2854. to the ongoing enhancement of our program, in line with evolving best
  2855. practices for protecting youth.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2856. &lt;br /&gt;
  2857. The Scouts have maintained
  2858. &quot;ineligible volunteer&quot; files in one form or another since at least 1919
  2859. to keep track of men who failed to meet Scouting&#39;s moral standards.
  2860. Files that involved allegations of child sexual abuse were dubbed
  2861. &quot;perversion files.&quot; A master list of those banned from Scouting has been
  2862. computerized since 1975 and is used to vet applicants for volunteer and
  2863. paid positions.&lt;br /&gt;
  2864. &lt;br /&gt;
  2865. Only a select few in Scouting have access to
  2866. the files, which are kept in 15 locked cabinets at Scout headquarters in
  2867. Irving, Texas. But over the years, hundreds of the files have been
  2868. admitted as evidence, usually under seal, in lawsuits by former Scouts
  2869. alleging a pattern of abuse in the organization.&lt;br /&gt;
  2870. &lt;br /&gt;
  2871. &lt;b&gt;Many of the
  2872. files will soon be made public as a result of an Oregon Supreme Court
  2873. decision. The court, in response to a petition by the Oregonian, the
  2874. Associated Press, the New York Times and other media organizations,
  2875. ordered the release of 1,247 files from 1965 to 1984 that had been
  2876. admitted as evidence, under seal, in the 2010 lawsuit.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2877. &lt;br /&gt;
  2878. In
  2879. anticipation of the release, attorneys for the Boy Scouts conducted an
  2880. informal review of 829 of the files, saying they sought to put the
  2881. contents in perspective. The Scouts said the review found 175 instances
  2882. in which the files prevented men who&#39;d been banned for alleged abuse
  2883. from reentering the program.&lt;br /&gt;
  2884. &lt;br /&gt;
  2885. The Times analyzed an overlapping,
  2886. though broader and more recent, set of files, which were submitted in a
  2887. California court case in 1992. Their contents vary but often include &lt;a class=&quot;taxInlineTagLink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/genres/biography-%28genre%29-GENRE000071.topic&quot; id=&quot;GENRE000071&quot; title=&quot;Biography (genre)&quot;&gt;biographical&lt;/a&gt;
  2888. information on the accused, witness statements, police reports, parent
  2889. complaints, news clippings, and correspondence between local Boy Scout
  2890. officials and national headquarters.&lt;br /&gt;
  2891. &lt;br /&gt;
  2892. The accounts that emerge
  2893. are often incomplete. But the Scouts ultimately deemed the allegations
  2894. sufficiently credible to expel the suspected abusers.&lt;br /&gt;
  2895. &lt;br /&gt;
  2896. Many files contain searing descriptions of molestation from young victims.&lt;br /&gt;
  2897. &lt;br /&gt;
  2898. &quot;I was crying, and I reached around and hit Max in the face, and said I
  2899. was going to quit the troop and tell my daddy,&quot; a 10-year-old Scout
  2900. wrote in 1972, describing his alleged rape by a Georgia troop leader,
  2901. Samuel Max Dubois Jr. &quot;Then we heard the others coming back, and Max
  2902. said put your pants back on.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2903. &lt;br /&gt;
  2904. Dubois was not tried in that case
  2905. but was expelled from the Scouts. He was later convicted of child
  2906. sexual abuse in North Carolina and spent 14 years in prison, state
  2907. records show.&lt;br /&gt;
  2908. &lt;br /&gt;
  2909. Today, the Boy Scouts of America says it
  2910. continues to use the confidential files as part of its efforts to
  2911. prevent child abuse. In recent decades, it has added other protective
  2912. measures. In 1988, for instance, Scouting did away with probation; its
  2913. policy now is to expel anyone suspected in &quot;good faith&quot; of abuse. In
  2914. 2008, criminal background checks were required on all volunteers, and in
  2915. 2010 the organization required all suspected abuse to be reported to
  2916. law enforcement.&lt;br /&gt;
  2917. &lt;br /&gt;
  2918. The extent to which these measures have
  2919. succeeded is impossible to gauge: The Scouts continue to fight in court
  2920. against the release of more recent files.&lt;br /&gt;
  2921. &lt;br /&gt;
  2922. &lt;br /&gt;
  2923. The case of a Southern California troop leader named Stephen Field
  2924. illustrates how porous the Scouts&#39; protections were in the 1970s and
  2925. &#39;80s.&lt;br /&gt;
  2926. &lt;br /&gt;
  2927. Scouting officials first investigated Field in 1971, when a Santa Monica Scout said the leader had sexually abused him.&lt;br /&gt;
  2928. &lt;br /&gt;
  2929. A troop committee including parents and a &lt;a class=&quot;taxInlineTagLink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/medical-specialization/psychiatry-HEMSP0000113.topic&quot; id=&quot;HEMSP0000113&quot; title=&quot;Psychiatry&quot;&gt;psychiatrist&lt;/a&gt;
  2930. concluded unanimously that the boy&#39;s story was true and discovered that
  2931. Field had a history of inappropriate behavior — including making Scouts
  2932. run around naked after games of strip poker, according to the file.&lt;br /&gt;
  2933. &lt;br /&gt;
  2934. But no one called police. Instead, a regional Scout leader followed
  2935. what was then standard procedure: He filled out a biographical form on
  2936. Field and assembled the evidence for national headquarters, which opened
  2937. a confidential file and deleted Field&#39;s name from the membership rolls.&lt;br /&gt;
  2938. &lt;br /&gt;
  2939. From that point forward, any time Field tried to register as a Scouting
  2940. volunteer, his name was supposed to be checked against a national list
  2941. of those in the confidential files. Scouting officials assured the
  2942. regional Scout leader that Field would never participate in Scouting
  2943. again.&lt;br /&gt;
  2944. &lt;br /&gt;
  2945. But he did. He was involved with several Southern California troops over the next 17 years, according to his file.&lt;br /&gt;
  2946. &lt;br /&gt;
  2947. Contacted recently by The Times, Field explained that after he failed a
  2948. lie detector test required by the Santa Monica troop committee, he was
  2949. encouraged to transfer to another troop in the city, where he served as
  2950. scoutmaster for four years.&lt;br /&gt;
  2951. &lt;br /&gt;
  2952. &quot;They said it had all been cleared up with the Scouts,&quot; Field said.&lt;br /&gt;
  2953. &lt;br /&gt;
  2954. In Valencia, he joined his brother-in-law&#39;s troop but left after a
  2955. parent intercepted a love letter he had written to a Scout, the file
  2956. shows. At one point, the file says, Field was caught watching
  2957. pornography with naked Scouts in his Jacuzzi.&lt;br /&gt;
  2958. &lt;br /&gt;
  2959. No one appears to have reported either incident to national headquarters at the time.&lt;br /&gt;
  2960. &lt;br /&gt;
  2961. Headquarters didn&#39;t learn that Field had reentered the Scouts until
  2962. 1988, when a Scouting official in Fillmore reported that &quot;Steve Field,&quot;
  2963. chairman of the local troop committee, had been arrested for
  2964. masturbating with a boy. It took a few days for officials to confirm he
  2965. was the same Stephen D. Field who had been expelled in 1971.&lt;br /&gt;
  2966. &lt;br /&gt;
  2967. Sheriff&#39;s investigators found pictures of nude boys dating back 10 to 15
  2968. years in Field&#39;s possession and asked the Boy Scouts for their file on
  2969. Field.&lt;br /&gt;
  2970. &lt;br /&gt;
  2971. The national office complied, with one request: &quot;&lt;span class=&quot;document-link&quot; data-attr-url=&quot;https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406304-stephen-d-field.html#document/p4/a66550&quot;&gt;We hope you will use this information with discretion&lt;/span&gt;
  2972. since we have tried to maintain our files so that they cannot be
  2973. subpoenaed in any legal action,&quot; wrote Paul Ernst, administrator of the
  2974. confidential files from the 1970s into the 1990s.&lt;br /&gt;
  2975. &lt;br /&gt;
  2976. Ultimately,
  2977. Field was convicted of abusing two 13-year-old-boys in Fillmore and
  2978. sentenced to 12 years in prison, his file indicates.&lt;br /&gt;
  2979. &lt;br /&gt;
  2980. In the
  2981. interview, Field, 67, who now works in a law office in the Central
  2982. Valley, denied most of the allegations, except those of which he was
  2983. convicted.&lt;br /&gt;
  2984. &lt;br /&gt;
  2985. Told he had been on the Scouts&#39; blacklist since 1971, he expressed surprise at how long he had been able to remain in Scouting.&lt;br /&gt;
  2986. &lt;br /&gt;
  2987. &quot;It&#39;s like a no-fly list,&quot; he said. &quot;If your name is on the no-fly list, you shouldn&#39;t be able to get on a plane.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2988. &lt;br /&gt;
  2989. Field said he had no further contact with Scouts after his conviction.&lt;br /&gt;
  2990. &lt;br /&gt;
  2991. Other convicted molesters were able to return to the ranks.&lt;br /&gt;
  2992. &lt;br /&gt;
  2993. In 1973, Scoutmaster Alan C. Dunlap was arrested in Fresno on suspicion of using his position to abuse several children.&lt;br /&gt;
  2994. &lt;br /&gt;
  2995. &quot;He was arrested for the worst kind of sex deviation,&quot; the grandmother of some victims &lt;span class=&quot;document-link&quot; data-attr-url=&quot;https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406318-alan-craig-dunlap.html#document/p15/a66517&quot;&gt;wrote in a letter&lt;/span&gt; to prosecutors contained in Dunlap&#39;s file. &quot;It was through his Scout work that his contacts and friendships had been made.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  2996. &lt;br /&gt;
  2997. The Scouts had opened a file on Dunlap after he pleaded guilty to four
  2998. counts of molestation and was committed to a California psychiatric
  2999. hospital.&lt;br /&gt;
  3000. &lt;br /&gt;
  3001. Thirteen years later, in 1986, Dunlap had
  3002. successfully registered as a Scout volunteer in Bryan, Texas, according
  3003. to his file. There was no indication that anyone checked the blacklist
  3004. before registering him.&lt;br /&gt;
  3005. &lt;br /&gt;
  3006. According to court records, he soon
  3007. began abusing boys, including a 9-year-old Cub Scout whom he later
  3008. pleaded guilty to molesting. Dunlap was sentenced to 12 years in prison.&lt;br /&gt;
  3009. &lt;br /&gt;
  3010. The national office received a request to include Dunlap in the confidential file — then realized he was already there.&lt;br /&gt;
  3011. &lt;br /&gt;
  3012. &quot;Convicted again — child molestation,&quot; an official noted.&lt;br /&gt;
  3013. &lt;br /&gt;
  3014. In some instances, the Boy Scouts of America chose to give alleged molesters a second chance.&lt;br /&gt;
  3015. &lt;br /&gt;
  3016. In a 1992 deposition, Ernst, then keeper of the national file,
  3017. testified that alleged abusers were given probation — which required
  3018. periodic updates on the person&#39;s behavior — only if evidence of
  3019. molestation was &quot;extremely weak.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  3020. &lt;br /&gt;
  3021. An individual&#39;s confidential
  3022. file was generally destroyed after probation was completed. But the
  3023. files sometimes survived when the men went on to abuse again. Several of
  3024. those cases suggest the initial evidence of abuse was strong.&lt;br /&gt;
  3025. &lt;br /&gt;
  3026. In September 1978, Scouting officials in North Carolina investigated the
  3027. alleged abuse of a Scout by Mark F. Bumgarner, a 21-year-old assistant
  3028. scoutmaster.&lt;br /&gt;
  3029. &lt;br /&gt;
  3030. One night after most Scouts had retired to their
  3031. tents at Camp Schiele, the boy stayed up talking with Bumgarner, who
  3032. reached into the boy&#39;s pants and fondled him, according to a statement
  3033. from the boy&#39;s father that is in Bumgarner&#39;s file. The boy objected
  3034. repeatedly, but Bumgarner persisted, &lt;span class=&quot;document-link&quot; data-attr-url=&quot;https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406875-mark-bumgarner.html#document/p25/a66768&quot;&gt;telling him&lt;/span&gt; &quot;the cartilage in [his] penis was similar to his nose and that he could break it,&quot; the father wrote.&lt;br /&gt;
  3035. &lt;br /&gt;
  3036. After &quot;considerable discussion,&quot; the national office decided that
  3037. Bumgarner, an Eagle Scout and the son of the pastor whose church
  3038. sponsored the troop, deserved another chance.&lt;br /&gt;
  3039. &lt;br /&gt;
  3040. Months later, he
  3041. was arrested for sexually abusing two Scouts during a camp-out. He
  3042. pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse, prompting the national
  3043. office to expel him and open a file.&lt;br /&gt;
  3044. &lt;br /&gt;
  3045. Six years later, Bumgarner
  3046. was back, serving as an assistant district commissioner with the Scouts
  3047. in Fairfax, Va. National headquarters learned about his return to
  3048. Scouting only in April 1988, when Bumgarner was sentenced to six years
  3049. in prison for the sexual battery of two boys.&lt;br /&gt;
  3050. &lt;br /&gt;
  3051. Probation also
  3052. was given to Floyd David Slusher, a 19-year-old staffer at a Boy Scout
  3053. camp in Germany, who was caught abusing a Scout in 1972 and sent home to
  3054. the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
  3055. &lt;br /&gt;
  3056. &quot;Even after he was caught, they had to
  3057. physically withstrain him of attempting to visit the Scout he was
  3058. molesting,&quot; a Scouts official wrote to headquarters.&lt;br /&gt;
  3059. &lt;br /&gt;
  3060. A file was
  3061. opened, but Slusher was allowed to continue working with Scouts. He
  3062. went on to molest at least eight boys in a Boulder, Colo., troop, &lt;span class=&quot;document-link&quot; data-attr-url=&quot;https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406305-floyd-david-slusher.html#document/p10/a66525&quot;&gt;threatening to kill them&lt;/span&gt; if they told, according to a Boulder County Sheriff&#39;s Department report in his file.&lt;br /&gt;
  3063. &lt;br /&gt;
  3064. &quot;Almost every Boy Scout in Troop 75 and Troop 73 has been approached
  3065. sexually by Slusher on one time or another,&quot; a detective wrote, adding
  3066. that the victims were &quot;too numerous&quot; to interview.&lt;br /&gt;
  3067. &lt;br /&gt;
  3068. After
  3069. pleading guilty in 1977 to one count of sexually assaulting a child,
  3070. Slusher was sentenced to prison, according to Colorado corrections
  3071. records, and later released. In 1990, he was convicted of another
  3072. child-abuse crime and is now serving a 25-year sentence, state records
  3073. show.&lt;br /&gt;
  3074. &lt;br /&gt;
  3075. The Boy Scouts abolished probation and suspensions in
  3076. 1988, around the same time a notorious case in San Mateo was coming to
  3077. light.&lt;br /&gt;
  3078. &lt;br /&gt;
  3079. Richard Stenger, the head of a unit of the Sea Scouts —
  3080. part of the Boy Scouts — was charged in 1971 with tying up and fondling
  3081. three boys. Police found bondage equipment and books on pedophilia in
  3082. his house.&lt;br /&gt;
  3083. &lt;br /&gt;
  3084. He was convicted of contributing to the delinquency
  3085. of a minor, and a judge sentenced him to four years&#39; probation, his file
  3086. shows. The Scouts decided to suspend him during that period. But when
  3087. the court-ordered probation ended, a local Scout executive and several
  3088. parents successfully requested that the national office lift the
  3089. suspension.&lt;br /&gt;
  3090. &lt;br /&gt;
  3091. &lt;span class=&quot;document-link&quot; data-attr-url=&quot;https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406315-richard-c-stenger.html#document/p10/a66392&quot;&gt;&quot;I feel quite confident that no further problems will arise,&quot;&lt;/span&gt; wrote the local Scout executive, whose name is blacked out in the heavily redacted file.&lt;br /&gt;
  3092. &lt;br /&gt;
  3093. Fourteen years later, in 1989, a parent notified the Boy Scouts that
  3094. the 320-pound Stenger had padlocked her 11-year-old Scout in a harness
  3095. and watched him dangle for 15 minutes during a boating trip, according
  3096. to Stenger&#39;s file. Scouts notified police, who recovered from Stenger&#39;s
  3097. home dozens of restraints and hundreds of images of children in bondage,
  3098. including one of a blindfolded 6-year-old tied to a bed.&lt;br /&gt;
  3099. &lt;br /&gt;
  3100. &lt;br /&gt;
  3101. &lt;br /&gt;
  3102. Two dozen former and current Scouts came forward to say they had been abused by Stenger as long ago as 1958.&lt;br /&gt;
  3103. &lt;br /&gt;
  3104. &quot;This isn&#39;t in the handbook,&quot; one told police.&lt;br /&gt;
  3105. &lt;br /&gt;
  3106. &lt;a href=&quot;http://documents.latimes.com/boy-scouts-paper-trail-of-abuse-documents/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;DOCUMENTS: Read the Boy Scouts files&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3107. &lt;br /&gt;
  3108. &lt;a href=&quot;http://documents.latimes.com/boy-scouts-youth-protection-timeline/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;STATEMENT: Read the Boy Scouts full statement and timeline&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3109. &lt;br /&gt;
  3110. &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:jason.felch@latimes.com&quot;&gt;jason.felch@latimes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3111. &lt;br /&gt;
  3112. &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:kim.christensen@latimes.com&quot;&gt;kim.christensen@latimes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3113. &lt;br /&gt;
  3114. &lt;i&gt;Times researchers Maloy Moore and M&#39;Ballu Tejan-Sie contributed to this report.&lt;/i&gt;
  3115.        
  3116.        
  3117.        
  3118.       &lt;/div&gt;
  3119. &lt;/div&gt;
  3120. &lt;br /&gt;
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