Campaign to end child sexual abuse
Domestic abuse survivors and sexual abuse survivors are more at risk of mental illness. With the focus now being put onto mental health, it will be good when even more work is done on dealing with the causes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-48541604
An example of how well abusers can groom their victims, so they feel guilty for reporting them. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/27/victims-paedophile-teaching-assistant-tell-court-bullied-getting/
Resources are needed to fight this crime, and resources will only come when we start telling the government that dealing with the sexual abuse of children has to be a higher priority. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47732713
This survivor explains how others speaking out, has given him the confidence to speak out, and lift the shame that abuse brings with it. We need to do all we can to let survivors and victims know they can speak out and be heard. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/02/02/bill-ted-star-alex-winter-tells-hellish-sexual-abuse-child-actor/
More frequently we are hearing about the life long impact that sexual abuse has on a person. When we see somebody going “off the rails” we never know what has taken them to that place. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-47468767
The IICSA inquiry has launched a TV campaign for the Truth Project – aimed at encouraging people to speak out about what has happened to them. Look at their website. https://www.iicsa.org.uk/news/inquiry-launches-national-tv-campaign-truth-project.
We need to see this happening all over the country, as this is happening everywhere. We need to empower people to speak out, that is the only way this will be stopped. Remove the shame. .https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-46867001
This article shows the often conflicting emotions that abuse victims suffer when the abuser is a family member. And it is this conflict that people misunderstand. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6586415/Paedophile-father-raped-daughter-four-times-day-twice-got-pregnant.html?ito=email_share_article-top
Over a third took place during the last 5 years – we need to encourage people to speak out, it helps those children that are in it today, and it helps the survivor who is speaking out. No more shame. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46453955
We know it is happening, yet we are still failing those that have suffered this. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/28/it-never-stops-shaping-you-the-legacy-of-child-sexual-abuse-and-how-to-survive-it
