A boyhood built on fear
The cruelties of Maidwell Hall boarding school, described by Charles Spencer in his memoir, have blighted my adult life.
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When fundamentalism fuels child abuse
The YouTuber Ruby Franke, who was convicted of abusing her children, claims she believed they were “evil and possessed”.
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Will the Online Safety Act protect us or infringe our freedoms?
After six years of development, child safety and free speech campaigners react to the long-awaited internet laws.
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The BBC’s Jimmy Savile drama is entirely gratuitous
The Reckoning exposes a rotten culture that serves up stories about abused women for entertainment.
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An audience with media power players in NYC
Also this week: medieval epidemiology, and the scourge of child sex abuse.
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The hidden perils of Starmer politicising child abuse
The Labour leader’s attack ad on Sunak echoes a trend of associating political leaders with child abuse – which feeds…
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This government doesn’t have a clue about grooming gangs
It’s raising expectations about a system that will end up failing young girls.
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GB News’s pipeline to Downing Street
Rishi Sunak’s plan to tackle “grooming gangs” closely follows a documentary on the topic.
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Why girls are pressured to share nudes online
Images and videos of girls aged 13 and under make up 95 per cent of self-generated child sexual abuse on…
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Why OnlyFans wants us to regulate the internet
Keily Blair, chief operating and strategy officer of the controversial creator platform, on why she's a big believer in the…
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The best defence against online child abuse isn’t legislation – it’s education
With "self-generated" imagery being a growing problem, the Online Safety Bill urgently needs to include sex education.
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How ethical data sourcing is helping to tackle child sexual abuse online
An Australian project shows how AI can make searching for and identifying illegal material a less traumatic process.
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Child Q’s story wasn’t the first — and it won’t be the last
The difficult thing is getting people to engage with stories of black people, convincing them that we're human in the…
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Why the sexual abuse revelations about Catholic clergy in France were grimly unsurprising
The Catholic Church’s defensiveness and culture of secrecy have made it tragically reluctant to admit error and slow to put…
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