- 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
smashedAustralian 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
http://goo.gl/licgA
Organizational Infidelity Amplifies Sexual TraumaBy 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
http://goo.gl/Bebvj Pursuit
of Truth FilmAdult 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/
http://goo.gl/Y1b7V