Excerpt from Tucson.com What’s being done to teach children to avoid sexual abuse, you ask? “Preventing child sexual abuse is a job for adults,” responds Debbie Rich, the chief executive officer of the Girls Scouts of Southern Arizona. Period. She’s emphatic: Our job, not the children’s. And that’s why the Girl Scouts is partnering with …
Excerpt from article in The Tennessean. It’s a taboo that parents at the Brown Center for Autism don’t want to talk about. Their children, and all kids with developmental disabilities, are four times more likely to be sexually abused than their peers. That’s especially scary for parents of children who cannot speak. Protecting those children …
Excerpt from PC & Tech Authority article. A Pennsylvania man has been charged with possessing and distributing images of child sexual abuse, following a tip-off from Microsoft. The suspect, named as 20-year-old Tyler James Hoffman, is alleged to have uploaded the offending photos to the company’s OneDrive cloud storage service via his Microsoft Live email …
Excerpt from article by Clare Allan for The Guardian There is a sense of national outrage at the seemingly endless stream of revelations concerning the sexual abuse of children by people in the public eye. While such outrage is understandable, I can’t help being struck by the simultaneous lack of concern about the cuts to …
Excerpt from delawareonline.com article. Delaware’s Child Predator Task Force, dedicated to tracking predators lurking on the Internet, has reached a milestone of 203 convictions since its creation seven years ago. “Protecting children is all of our responsibility and requires all levels of government working together,” Attorney General Beau Biden said in a statement. “Delaware’s children …