‘Significant step’ towards healing, Jewish News
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Press Release: Hamilton James Legal
Press Release: Hamilton James Legal
Melissa Cunningham and Matthew Dixon, Victims left reeling from shock Cardinal George Pell decision, Great Lakes Advocate
Survivors have good point shouldn’t have to be the ones ensuring safety of children, but when the institutions let us down, they have to be
Retroactive extension of SOL is constitutional.
Retroactive extension of SOL is constitutional. Home run for survivors and parents who want to know who the hidden predators are
Amos Kamil, What Sex Abuse Cases at Horace Mann and Y.U. Should Teach Us, Forward
Lawyering up against abuse victims. Is it even a good business decision? Or does it prolong the agony for the survivors and delay the release of the truth that is needed for the organization to go forward? No and yes.
Benjamin Preiss, Yeshivah launches redress scheme for sex abuse victims, The Age
An Orthodox Jewish centre where children were sexually abused while in its care is offering victims counselling, payments and personal apologies in a new redress scheme. Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre has established an independent panel to determine appropriate responses for each victim who comes forward. The centre has written to its community members about the scheme […]
Beau Donnelly, Church knew paedophile priests were a ‘ticking time bomb’ , The Sydney Morning Herald
Such awareness with no action
Operation Hydrant: UK police identify 2,228 child abuse suspects, BBC
UK studies “non recent” abuse and identifies hidden predators. U.S. needs to do the same
Imagine the truths that our federal government could produce from the darkest corners of our country
Andrea Garcia Vargas, Why do sexual assault survivors feel shame? A cartoon sums it up., Upworthy
http://www.upworthy.com/why-do-sexual-assault-survivors-feel-shame-a-cartoon-sums-it-up?c=ufb1 Almost every survivor of sexual assault or abuse will at one point think, “It was my fault.” What many of us don’t know is WHY survivors feel shame and guilt or why others around them might blame them instead of the perpetrator. The following cartoon breaks down the reasons why. To all the survivors […]