Online child abuse network smashed, Organizational Infidelity Amplifies Sexual Trauma, Pursuit of Truth Film

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- Online child abuse network smashed
"hundreds of thousands of child abuse images"

- Organizational Infidelity Amplifies Sexual Trauma

- Pursuit of Truth Film
Adult Survivors Of Child Sex Abuse Seeking Justice
"a court system weighted in favor of perpetrators combine to make it
extremely difficult for survivors to successfully assert their legal
rights and far too easy for perpetrators to walk free and continue to
abuse other children"


Online child abuse network smashed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 15/03/2013
Reporter: Ben Worsley

Federal police have smashed what they allege is one of the largest
online child abuse networks they've seen, arresting twenty one people,
confiscating hundreds of thousands of child abuse images and
reportedly rescuing a young victim of the network....

BEN WORSLEY, REPORTER: This scene was repeated in 40 homes across
Australia in every state and territory, the AFP swooped en masse....
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3717028.htm


Organizational Infidelity Amplifies Sexual Trauma
By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on March 11, 2013

Organizational Infidelity Amplifies Sexual Trauma A dispiriting sign
of the times is human fallibility associated with hitherto “safe”
environments. Previously sacrosanct institutions – universities, the
military, the church, scouts — are now headline news for the wrong
reason.

Researchers are now learning that recovery from sexual trauma is more
challenging when an individual has been betrayed by a perpetrator
within a conceptually secure setting.

In a study of 345 female university students, University of Oregon
researchers found that 233 of them had experienced at least one
unwanted sexual experience in their lifetime, and 46 percent of those
victims also experienced betrayal by the institution where incidents
occurred.

In the final analysis, researchers found, those who experienced
institutional betrayal suffered the most in four post-trauma
measurement categories, including anxiety and dissociation.

In the study which appears in the Journal of Traumatic Stress,
investigators used a 10-item analysis tool — the Institutional
Betrayal Questionnaire — to assess institutional betrayal and
involvement.

“Our work on institutional betrayal has coincided with increased
public awareness of the harm inflicted by unresponsive institutions
surrounding traumatic events,” said researcher Jennifer J. Freyd,
Ph.D....

Those reporting a sense of institutional betrayal were found to have
more severe post-traumatic symptoms of sexual abuse trauma, anxiety,
sexual dysfunction and dissociation.
http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/03/11/organizational-infidelity-amplifies-sexual-trauma/52465.html


Pursuit of Truth Film

Adult Survivors Of Child Sex Abuse Seeking Justice
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a crime that is committed behind closed
doors without witnesses and remains in the dark because children
typically are unable to speak about their abuse. This inability to
come forward frequently continues into adulthood. Regrettably, close
to 90% of cases go unreported. Thus, despite its epidemic proportions
in this country – at least 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 5 boys likely to be
abused before age 18 – CSA remains in the shadows, hidden from the
wheels of our justice system.

The legal system itself must share responsibility for such tragic
underreporting. As presently constituted, the legal process
constructs unfair barriers for survivors to overcome to achieve
justice against their abusers. Unjust laws– including arbitrary
statutes of limitations(SOL’s) that effectively bar 60%-70% of
survivors’ cases from even being filed, erratic police/prosecution
practices, and a court system weighted in favor of perpetrators
combine to make it extremely difficult for survivors to successfully
assert their legal rights and far too easy for perpetrators to walk
free and continue to abuse other children.

But winds of change are stirring. There is a growing movement to
change the justice’s system fundamental approach to survivors’ cases.
Reformers in a number of states have either eliminated SOL’s or
expanded the filing deadlines substantially. Activists are shining
the light on the need to transform the handling of survivors’ cases by
police, prosecutors, and courts so that justice can become a reality
for survivors.
http://www.pursuitoftruthfilm.com/