A priest in Rhode Island has defended his decision to ban all lawmakers who voted in favor enshrining abortion protections under state law from receiving communion at his parish.
Published in Newsweek
It has been more than 18 months since the National Redress Scheme was introduced as a way of compensating survivors of clergy child abuse.
Published in ABC
Brisbane’s Catholic Archbishop has made a formal submission opposing the State Government’s plan to make priests report child sex offences revealed in the confessional.
Published in ABC
By Prof. Tess Patterson
26 August 2019
Periodically, for most of the five years of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, I covered its squalid revelations as both journalist and abuse victim. For years I spoke with victims and their families, listened to naked, fitful testimonies of abuse, and read granular psych reports that were devastatingly resonant. I interviewed a paedophile, and partially recounted my own abuse at the hands of an incestuous predator. I believed in the work, but it was making me sick.
Published in Sydney Morning Herald
ComVoices have released results from their second survey of community organisations. The State of the Sector Survey 2016 was completed by 280.
Published in New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse
A Marlborough teacher who was jailed for having sex with two students aged under 16 has abandoned her bid to keep her name secret.
Jamiee Marie Cooney admitted at the Blenheim District Court in October seven charges of sexual relations with minors and two charges of sending sexual material to minors.
Published in Stuff
Mark Coleridge says move to legislate against the sanctity of the confessional will fail to make children safer.
Published in The Guardian
Former scout leader James Morris, also known as Ian Phipps, has denied 17 charges of doing indecent acts on six boys over a period of 40 years.
Published in Stuff
2020 Kiwibank New Zealand Local Hero of the Year 2020 finalists, from left, Ken Clearwater, Diane Yalden and Nick Loosley.
Our judges have chosen three finalists whose selflessness and determination have made a difference in the community.
Published in NZ Awards
A former Child, Youth and Family worker accused of abusing more than a dozen boys can now be revealed as a man who once cared for a teen murdered in the back of a prison van.
Published in NZ Herald
A Nelson charity is “appalled” by bolstered efforts to host freedom campers rather than the city’s homeless.
Published in TV NZ
Suffering can produce something; it’s not random or meaningless, nor merely something to get rid of. It can act as either a fertiliser or a poison, writes Dr Chris Bowden.
Published in Newsroom
Gender norms compound the trauma for men who are victims of rape and sexual abuse. It’s time to give them support.
Published in The Guardian
An abuse survivor is asking the Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate why a government agency failed to protect her when made aware of allegations she was being raped while in care.
Published in Radio New Zealand
The crimes of Reynhard Sinaga described by prosecutors as “the most prolific rapist in British history” have shocked and horrified many people. But the case has also highlighted that rape doesn’t just happen to women.
Sinaga was jailed for a minimum of 30 years for 159 offences against 48 men who were lured to his Manchester flat, drugged and raped. Police believe that the total number of his victims is likely to exceed 190 men
Published in The Conversation