National Child Protection Training Centre

This is an horrendous case of abuse and torture of a vulnerable child.

Woman who kept child in drawer jailed for 7 years in UK A woman in England who kept her baby in a drawer under her bed until she was discovered weeks before her third birthday has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-60091717

The children groomed for the UK s*x trade BBC correspondent Jean Mackenzie finds children as young as 10 are being groomed in Romania, to be trafficked to the UK.

Talking to your child about online s*xual harassment: A guide for parents | Children's Commissioner for England The things I wish my parents had known, young people's advice for talking to your child about online s*xual harassment.

Invaluable article on this issue.

When Coercive Control Continues to Harm Children: Post‐Separation Fathering, Stalking and Domestic Violence This article shows how domestic violence perpetrators can use coercive control against their children after their ex-partner has separated from them. Coercive control can include violence, threats, ...

Day 7: WWSF 19 Days of activism. Prevention of the Sale of Children Definition The sale of children refers to any transaction whereby a child is transferred from one person or group to another for remuneration or any other consideration, according to Article 2 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prost

Penalty doesn't match the crime...

Vatican sanctions Polish archbishop for cover-up of child s*xual abuse The retired archbishop has been banned from public service.

There are no words to describe how vile and repugnant these evil abusers are. The abuse of innocent children for self gratification deserves the highest possible custodial sentence. Above all, I hope these brave children get the full support and care they deserve to get going forward.

Five members of family convicted on abuse charges Five members of a family have been convicted on a range of charges including the r**e, s*xual assault and exploitation of three children after a trial at the Central Criminal Court.

Shocking!!

NZ child abuse inquiry finds 250,000 harmed in care Up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were physically and s*xually abused in New Zealand's faith-based and state care institutions from the 1960s to early 2000s, a public inquiry has revealed.

Important and worthwhile podcast about Parent Alienation -

Parental Alienation: How Parents Use Their Children As Weapons NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Barbara Bradley Hagerty, a contributor for The Atlantic, about parental alienation, which can happen when one parent uses a child to get back at the other parent.

Important article

'These images are a crime scene … it's massive for us to find the child' The Internet Watch Foundation is seeing a growing number of tipoffs about child abuse. We talk to one analyst about her work

This is so accurate...

So true. ❤️