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Ensler asks if we as a society are finally willing to do what is necessary to make women safe. She states: “I know something about having two fathers in one…. Like my father, Bill Cosby was allegedly one thing in public, Dr. Huxtable, and another in the dark or behind closed doors.“
Ministry abused authority in case of B.C. father sexually abusing his children. CBC NewsA BC Supreme Court judge ruled the province’s child protection service abused its authority in a case involving the physical and sexual abuse of children, which allowed a father to molest his children while t in the ministry’s care. Custody had been removed from the mother after she repeatedly raised concerns about the safety of the children in the father’s care. The father convinced the ministry she was mentally unstable and they then allowed the father to have unsupervised access to the children.
Washington Post
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Circuit Judge Lisa Gorcyca, who berated three juvenile siblings in her court before sending them to juvenile detention. Their crime? The children — ranging in age from 9 to 15 — were deemed in contempt of court last month by Gorcyca for disobeying her orders to “have a healthy relationship with your father.” They say they refused because their father is abusive.
A new charity honoring the late Beau Biden’s work on behalf of abused children was announced after his death at 46 due to brain cancer. His widow, Hallie, and the Delaware Community Foundation introduced the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children, which aims to carry on his “life’s passion: protecting the most vulnerable among us.”
The Daily Beast, by Jason Berry
Innocent people persecuted by a legal system out of control? A professor of political science and public policy at Brown University, Cheit has 68 pages of footnotes, with an array of legal citations; Cheit mounts a rigorous argument that the witch-hunt—innocent people persecuted by a legal system out of control—is a concocted myth
The Huffington Post, by Ross Cheit
It’s a mythical number that skeptics never question. And it’s come up again and again in the national press for decades.
It’s purportedly the number of victims from the infamous child sexual abuse cases of the 1980s and 1990s. Not child victims, though. The victims are said to be adults who were falsely charged and often convicted of sexual abuse, victims of a witch-hunt.
…as the witch hunt narrative took root, prosecutors became increasingly reluctant to bring cases, the media sided with the defense, and children were less likely to be believed — all based on a narrative that is at its core inaccurate.
The loss of our beloved founder and president, Paul Jay Fink. He was a highly respected psychiatrist, leader in leader in numerous national psychiatric organizations, and a physician with a special interest in helping victims of violence and abuse. He died June 4, 2014.
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New book: The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children by Ross E. Cheit
A highly recommended book that calls into question how society views accusations of child sexual abuse. A series of prosecutions against day care workers in the 80’s were widely viewed as overly zealous, particularly after many of the convictions were overturned. The book is based on 15 years of careful research by Ross E. Cheit, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Brown University and his students. Cheit shows that almost all of these day care abuse cases were based on real evidence of child abuse. This book documents how misinformation promulgated by the media and by professionals led to the public perception of an epidemic of false accusations.Read more
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