January 20th, 2010 by Lianne

In a Teeside court yesterday a single mum admitted to having sex with a boy of 12 almost 200 times. It was revealed that she would ply him with alcohol and buy him gifts to get him into bed. On the ‘100th’ occasion of having sex she bought him a new pair of trainers.

The boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, boasted of his sexual exploits in online posts and Angela Sullivan the woman in question, kept a diary of their relationship, sending her son to stay with relatives so she could invite the boy around.

Yesterday Sullivan admitted to child abuse and will now have psychiatric tests carried out on her whilst being remanded in custody until February.

October 23rd, 2009 by Lianne

This is a very tricky question, and one that incites passionate reactions in everyone.

These people have deliberately, and consciously hurt our most vulnerable and trusting people, for no other reason than their own depraved gratification. It makes me really mad.

I have never been directly affected by child abuse (I don’t know anyone that has been a victim or abuser), so my opinion is perhaps unfair – but I think these “people” should be taken far away from society, and never thought about again. I would say the US has it right with the death penalty, but that’ll never be introduced here in the UK.

Those that inflict this kind of pain should be stopped – and there’s only one way to guarantee that.

October 16th, 2009 by Lianne

The official watchdog Offsted has warned that a third of the investigations into “serious” child abuse cases (this is where a serious injury or death of a child has been found, and the cause is deemed to be abuse), show weak management and a distinct lack of inter-agency coordination.

This review looked at 173 cases between April 2008 and March 2009, and found that 34% (that’s roughly 58 cases) of them were not as well examined as they should have been.

Reading between the lines, 58 children who were at serious risk, may have needed help from the state – and may not have gotten it.

October 9th, 2009 by Lianne

If a child is at risk, we should act immediately and decisively; no child should be left at risk if an authority has doubt about their welfare. However, in this case, the parents were accused of child abuse towards one of their children (who had injuries deemed to be caused by the parents), and so all 3 children were removed from there care, and eventually adopted by another family.

It has now been shown, and the courts admit, that the parents were not ata fault – the injuiries were caused by an illness that the child had. Now that the courts are satisfied that the children are not at risk, they should be returned – but they won’t be. Because they are now settled with a new family.

Is this right? Should children be kept from their biological family when they are not at risk? Or is the additional upheaval too much?

October 2nd, 2009 by Shyla

The words “child abuse” tend to provoke an angry response from most people; it is not something anyone wants to happen. But it does. To a lot of children, every single day.

• 1/3 of rapes recorded by the police are committed against someone under the age of 16.
• roughly 36 children die every year at the hands of a parent – that’s one child every 10 days (England & Wales).
• 6% of children suffer emotional mistreatment during childhood.

These are only some small numbers that reflect the horible truth of what is out there. Be aware, report anything suspicious. Help a child avoid becoming a statistic.

September 29th, 2009 by Lianne

Emily and Jane Hopkins were both twins, born in US in a house overlooking the Arkansis river.

Though both bright twins, enjoying spells at Harvard and national brokerages, close relatives of the twins noticed mental illness in the two. Whilst Jean was pregnant, she attempted to kill her two young sons with a prescriptive drug overdose, whilst Emily managed to fatally stab her two children. Jean was let off by courts by reason of insanity of attempted capital murder.

There are several other shocking child abuse murders that involve identical twins in the US.

September 26th, 2009 by Lianne

Jenna Baldwin, a fifteen year old student from Abersychan, Wales, went missing as she feared life at her new school. At her old school, she had several new friends but was dreading a move to a new school.

Jenna was believed to have been bullied at her old school and her parents would also abuse her, though not physically. Now found, Jenna has been housed with new parents and is also enjoying life at her new school, whilst also keeping contact with those from her old school. The family still lives in Wales, even after the ongoings.

September 25th, 2009 by Lianne

Danielle Reid met her end at the tender age of five when her mother’s bf, Lee Gaytor beat her to death. This involved repeatedly striking the her on the head, body and throwing her down the stairs.

Danielle died the next day, however, this wasn’t to be the end of her trauma. Her body was packed into a suitcase, weighed down by bricks and her own mother, Tracey Reid along with Gaytor’s brother, took the poor girl’s  body and walked for three miles and cast it, along with the suitcase, into the river. They even walked through Inverness to dump it into a canal.

September 24th, 2009 by Lianne

Jacquez Robidoux, a member of an obscure cult and also father to a child has recently been trialled in court over the death of his infant son.

Robidoux believed that after his  sister’s apparent and bizarre religious premonition/vision, which involved his son’s diet, he’d take it upon himself to lessen the diet of his son. Robidoux believed he was following God’s will, and this diet turned into no solid food at all; which lasted around two weeks.

Starving the child for such a period of time ended up as the death of the child and courts believe this murder compared to a religious vision.

September 23rd, 2009 by Lianne

As a young boy, David suffered several horrors of child abuse in his home in California.

His abuse ranged from beatings, physical torture, mental abuse and even near starvation. Upon his rescue, he was labelled as one of the worst cases seen in the state. The poor boy didn’t call home ‘home’, but instead referred to it as simply ‘it’.

He didn’t get much physical or mental nourishment in his young life, though now he has been rescued and since re-homed. His parents were charged with indecent harm, child abuse and neglect. There are cases like this in California every day!