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80 percent of Internet child porn victims under 10 years old
The true horror of Internet child pornography has been revealed by the Internet Watch Foundation, a UK organisation that works with law enforcement agencies to help prevent such abuse. Be warned, this story does not make for happy reading...

The Internet Watch Foundation is a British organisation that works closely with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre and other law enforcement agencies to encourage the reporting of child porn online. (A)

RELIGIOUS orders still owe the Government more than €50 million of the sum they agreed to pay in 2002 to compensate victims of clerical sex abuse.

While the overall compensation package will cost €1.1 billion, the controversial deal the religious orders struck with the state limits their liability to €128m — of which only €76.8m has been paid.
More at: http://www.paddydoyle.com/churchstillowes.html

Abuse by my own father made me feel worthless'
Sentence adjourned for man who also preyed on nieces and children of friends
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/abuse-by-my-own-father-made-me-feel--worthless-1278560.html
By Fiona Ferguson
Friday February 01 2008
A MAN who sexually abused his daughter while reading her bedtime stories -- as well as four nieces and children of family friends over a 15-year period -- has had his sentence adjourned.
The 67-year-old man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 14 sample counts of indecent assault against the seven female victims, on dates between October 1974 and November 1989.
His now 40-year-old daughter wept as she told the judge:
"If your father does that to you and your mother stands by him, it makes you feel worthless." (A)

Remarks by Sieglinde W. Alexander:
To bring abuse to court after 30 years would not possible in Germany or USA. The statue of limitation protects abusers.

From the Frying Pan to Hell
by Sieglinde W. Alexander

The choice a child has against abuse is null. Either it is the frying pan or hell. A child is powerless. Having learned everything to become a dysfunctional adult, we continue our life in the same unbalanced pattern.

The 14 years of my childhood were my private holocaust, stained with fear by the almost daily beatings, sexual abuse, oppression, and child labor. After having run away six times, I said to these cold-hearted bureaucrats from the child protection agency that I would steal or commit murder if they sent me back home again....
...The new girls’ home was called Haus Weiher, and was operated by brother Buchta, a member of the Lutheran Brothers of Altdorf a part of the Rummelberger Anstalten. In this house of continuously praying, middle-aged, vicious spinsters, who called themselves “the ones without sin,” I became acquainted with other frightening cruelties, oppressions and dehumanizing humiliations.

In the MIND of a child MOLESTER
EMILY WATT - The Dominion Post | Saturday, 18 August 2007
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4168488a6479.html

The paedophile has a favourite saying: "I see the world, but not as you see it."

When he looks at children, they are in a bubble of light, highlighted and more vivid than the rest of the world. But more: the paedophile is two people, a real-life Jekyll and Hyde. Logically, he knows what he did was wrong, or as he says, "served no purpose". Instinctively, he thinks it did no harm - that his scores of victims enjoyed it.

"Did I think it was naughty? Yeah. Did I think it was wrong? No. Even now, I don't."
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Payout a win for the Stolen

SOUTH Australia has been ordered to pay $525,000 to a Stolen Generations victim in a breakthrough compensation victory.

The damages award not only establishes a potent judicial precedent, but will intensify pressure on the commonwealth and states to establish statutory compensation schemes for Stolen Generations victims. (a)

On Christmas Day 1957, an Aboriginal infant in need of medical treatment was sent to hospital. The child recovered a short time later. He was then taken from hospital and placed in long term foster care. His parents were unaware of the removal or fostering. Almost 50 years later, this Court is to determine the legal consequences that flow from the removal, his placement with another family, and the circumstances of his return to his own family a decade later. (a)

COMMENTARY - L.A. sex abuse settlement leaves troubling questions unanswered

While the recent $660 million settlement overseen by Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop of the Los Angeles diocese, to some 500 abuse victims has brought closure to one aspect of the Catholic Church’s far-reaching child abuse scandal, it still leaves unanswered - and troubling - questions about the psychology of the perpetrators and those Church leaders who ignored and enabled their criminal actions.

What is it about the Church that attracted the many priests who would go on to sexually abuse hundreds of pre- and post-pubescent children? What moral machinations, specific to the Church, could allow the serial complicity of the church hierarchy who ignored wrongdoing and shuffled offending priests from parish to parish, often over decades and frequently well after their sexual transgressions were widely known? (A)

By Shaun Sutner TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
ssutner@telegram.com
http://telegram.com/article/20070722/NEWS/707220489/1116

"It (the House of Affirmation) was presented as a retreat for vocational redirection. What we have found out since, and what it has been called in the Blackstone Valley by people who really know what went on there, is that it was a pedophile boot camp."
David Lewcon of Northbridge, WHO WORKED AT THE WHITINSVILLE CENTER IN THE 1970S

Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani has close ties to a Catholic priest accused of sexually molesting boys and who also was the lawyer for a now-closed Whitinsville counseling house for troubled priests that has been described as the center of a pedophile sex ring. (A)

"While nearly half of victims are between six and eleven years old when they are first abused, it is surprising to learn that one out of four adults believes that a child may provoke sexual abuse by his or her behaviour, that
abuse occurs on the street or at school rather than in a private setting, and that an abused child victim will resist with force or try to get away", indicated Mr. Claude Girouard, member of the board of both the Marie-Vincent
Foundation and the Centre d'expertise en agression sexuelle Marie-Vincent. As far as acts committed by the abuser, one out of two adults believe that sexual abuse against children must necessarily involve anal or vaginal sexual relations.

I've been living in a fundamentalist Christian household for several months now. The several very young children in the house regularly experience levels of humiliation, of physical and emotional abuse and neglect, of external control over their biological needs, of dehumanizing treatment that are all, while still legal and sanctioned by the social, legal, and health communities, have nevertheless deeply disturbed me and reduced me to tears on more than one occasion. My feeble interventions have been ill received and seen as an intolerable challenge. Even the victims outwardly embrace the authoritarianism. It does not surprise me that Christian communities enthusiastically support Mr. Bush and his policies--such as those policies are even known or understood. The blind worship of authority here--whether legitimate or not--has its political counterpart in fascism.(A)
More: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/4312

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- New evidence poses problems for those who think homosexuals should be allowed to serve as foster-parents. 35% of foster-parents who sexually abused their foster-children in the last three years engaged in homosexuality.
From 2003 through 2005, a third of foster-parent molestations of foster-children were homosexual. That’s the official tally from two states -- Illinois and Minnesota -- that permit homosexual foster-parents. For the approximately 30,000 children/year in foster-care at some point in the two states:
12 foster mothers sexually abused their charges: 9 (75%) assaulted foster-daughters, 3 (25%) raped foster-sons.
28 foster-fathers sexually abused their charges: 23 (82%) assaulted foster-daughters, 5 (18%) raped foster-sons. (A)

Rape claim ruling opens way for trauma actions
Jewel Topsfield and Orietta Guerrera
July 21, 2006
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/rape-claim-ruling-opens-way-for-actions/2006/07/20/1153166521710.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
A LANDMARK High Court decision has opened the doors for potentially millions of dollars in lawsuits by people who suffer psychological illness many years after a traumatic event.
They will be able to seek compensation after the court allowed a woman to sue Aboriginal leader Geoff Clark, who she alleges raped her 35 years ago. (A)

Very little is written in English speaking newspapers about Germany’s Human Rights violations after World War II.

An estimated 500,000 children were abused and callously used in religious and state institutions in Germany after 1945. They were drugged, labeled as imbeciles and some found mentally incompetent. Others were called criminals or unfit to live or considered a disturbance for society. They were hauled away to labor as child-slaves for state or religious institutions. The method of the 3rd Reich continued. Nuns, Christian brothers, and state employees disgraced and mutilated innocent children. Under their care, they were sexually, mentally and physically abused and some forcibly drugged until they reached adulthood.
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May 31, 2006
If a threat developed - a disease, or some product that caused significant injury - that struck a huge number of Virginia's children, there'd be a massive response as parents and communities mobilized to protect their children. Especially if the threat could cause not only physical harm but also, possibly, long-lasting, even life-changing psychological damage. We'd expect to see the commanding media coverage and comprehensive response that a major threat to public health and safety deserves, especially one that targets children. (A)

Cardinal Sean O'Malley and about two dozen bishops and priests prostrated themselves on the altar of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Thursday to ask forgiveness from God for the damage done by the Roman Catholic church's clergy sex abuse scandal.

It was the first of 10 Masses or prayer services scheduled for the next week and a half across the Boston Archdiocese to offer prayers and to apologize to victims for the priests and church workers who hurt children.

"It's empty words as far as I am concerned," said Susan Renehan of Southbridge, who said she was sexually abused by a priest over a three-year period while a child living in New Jersey. "I don't want to hear words of repentance. I want to see actions that define that repentance."
John Harris, 48, of Norwood called O'Malley's pilgrimage to churches in communities that have suffered a particularly painful history of sexual abuse a "PR ploy." (A)

DAINGEAN AND MODERN MEMORY
Bruce Arnold
For its first hundred years Daingean was an Army garrison and a prison. For the next hundred years it was a Reformatory for boys. The dates are almost exact. The garrison was established in 1776, the Reformatory in 1870 and the closure - recommended by the Kennedy Report of 1970 - took place in 1973. Since then Daingean has been largely forgotten. It is now a decayed place of sad and fearful memories for those who were inmates and of shameful ones for those responsible for its operation.

A survivor of childhood abuse now runs a healing centre for other survivors.
When Liz Mullinar could no longer bear the cries of anguish from people who had no where to turn for help, she set up Mayumarri. Located in rural New South Wales, the centre caters for survivors of childhood abuse. Mayumarri is an opportunity for people to heal and to move on in their lives, she says.

Liz Mullinar was sexually abused by her father and others from the time she was a baby till she was 19. As a child, she says, the betrayal is made worse because a parent is the abuser. "The prime care giver is saying they love you while abusing you."

The effects of child abuse can last a lifetime. Adults who were abused as children often suffer low self-esteem, as they grew up believing that that they were bad and deserving of abuse. Abuse occurring in childhood also stunts a child's emotional growth. Later in life, the child may be unable to properly express his or her feelings or understand others' feelings. Poor emotional development and lack of trust can also make partner relationships difficult as an adult. If the effects of abuse go untreated, it is not unlikely for the child to grow up to be an adult who repeats the abuse with his or her own child. (A)
Article: http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/20060414/Opinion/104140032

How society contribute to abuse.
Comments to the article:
For generation the inbred pattern of unnatural Giant mall opens 1st breastfeeding station Inquirer http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=69567
by Sieglinde Alexander
Unconsciously, American society reveals their deeply rooted mental damage. The most natural, life sustaining practice of breastfeeding in public is considered a taboo.

The Marche Blanche (White March) association has handed in a people's initiative calling for an end to the current 15-year time limit on reporting sexual abuse.
The document, which gathered almost 120,000 signatures, was handed into the Federal Chancellery in the Swiss capital Bern on Wednesday.
This means that the issue is now likely to come to a nationwide vote.
"Children have too few rights in our society," said Chantal Besson from Marche Blanche, which fights against child abuse.
"More than 40,000 children are abused every year in Switzerland, but only around 330 people are sentenced," she told the Bern-based Bund newspaper.
The non-governmental association is calling for an end to the time limit on sexual abuse, so that those people who were victims as children can take legal action as adults.

Ireland
The speech of President Mary McAleeese, at the University College Cork, Friday 27th January 2006 – A View from 2006.
After reading the speech of President Mary McAleese, at the University College Cork,
Friday 27th January 2006, in relation to the 90th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising – A View from 2006, her speech referred to Human Rights.
We were therefore surprised that President Mary McAleese, did not mention the 60,000 babies stolen then sold in the Republic of Ireland.
Between the 1930s and the 1960s an estimated 60,000 newborns were procured under false pretences for married couples that had been turned down as prospective adoptive parents on various grounds.
Read the article:http://www.paddydoyle.com/president.html

"You gat me sitting down in a cell for most of the day. What I gat to lose?"
He is the needy little boy whose parents forgot to tell him that he was special, that the world was his and that he could do anything he put his mind to. He is the 15-year old half-hardened by the lack of expectations society and his own parents have for him and even he has for himself. Raped of any sliver of self-confidence long ago, at the age when all kids feel that their dreams could only come true, his were suffocated by the overwhelming feeling that nobody seemed to care. If they had, they had never shown it, at least not in a way that he could be sure of.
As his voice gets louder, he grows into the young man who has tossed aside books and school knowledge because it made no sense on the streets that nurtured him when family didn't realise that their role was being usurped.

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Governor proposes toughest sex offender law in country
Gov. Bill Richardson
Tougher Penalties for Sex Offenders This includes creating a special designation for the most heinous sex crimes against children, life in prison without the possibility of parole, even for a first time offender, in special circumstances.

Last Update: 11/16/2005 6:36:21 PM
Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday proposed toughening New Mexico’s sex offender laws to the toughest level in the country.
The proposal would give some offenders – even first-time offenders – life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Richardson’s proposed life sentence would be for those convicted of:
· Aggravated criminal sexual penetration of a child under the age of 9,
· Criminal sexual penetration with intent to kill, regardless of the victim’s age, or
· Criminal sexual penetration and torture.
“These are all circumstances where we think you forfeited your ability to live outside prison walls for the rest of your life,” said Bob Schwartz, Richardson’s crime advisor.
The new sentencing guidelines would make New Mexico’s sex offender laws the toughest in the nation.
The proposal will go to the state legislature in January as part of a five-point plan Richardson introduced Wednesday.

Your opinion is needed:

The points we raise:
• Will a lifetime sentence eliminate sex crime?
• Is it not the victim who pays indirectly with their tax-money for the incarceration of sex offenders?
• As science has affirmed, sex offenders were once victims of the same heinous crime themselves.

The subject for discussion is offered in the
Discussion Forum: “What should we do with abusers?”
http://www.aaacworld.org/victims/forum.htm
Please send your opinion for publication to: admin@aaacworld.org

Ireland:
Redress Board secrecy 'causing damage' to victims of sex abuse
"One victim used this analogy; an adult abuses a child. It is their 'secret'. To make sure the 'secret' is kept, the adult will give the child money or sweets. They buy silence.

The Step Up Report - Month 48 December 1, 2005
Loathe as I am to wax negative in this Season of Joy, something has occurred here that must not pass without comment: There was recently held in our community a three-day conference on the theme of "domestic violence", yet not a word did the presenters utter about the physical punishment of children.

DEPRESSION should be viewed as an emotion rather than a disease, according to the authors of a controversial new book.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Michael Corry of Clane General Hospital and Dublin psychotherapist Dr Aine Tubridy question the widespread use of drugs to treat depression, saying it is more "band-aid" than cure.

News Release:
Government of Canada announces agreement in principle toward a fair and lasting resolution of the legacy of Indian residential schools
“The Government’s Representative, the Honourable Frank Iacobucci, has reached an Agreement in Principle with the Assembly of First Nations, legal representatives of former students of Indian residential schools and representatives of the Churches involved in running those schools. The parties to Mr. Iacobucci’s discussions are in agreement on the ways to recognize the common Indian residential school experience of former students” said Deputy Prime Minister McLellan.

Sexual abuse forum offers stunning facts, but hopeful message
By Brendan Berube
Correspondent
BOXFORD — Imagine, for a moment, that one in four American women and one in six men were afflicted with a disease that started in childhood and pursued them throughout their lives.
According to Boxford resident Jetta Bernier, that disease exists, and it has a name: child sexual abuse. (A)

US victims may sue Irish training dioceses
Seán O'Driscoll and Patsy McGarry
Lawyers representing US clerical child sex abuse victims have indicated they may initiate multi-million-dollar lawsuits against Irish dioceses that trained paedophile priests.

A LIFE WORTH SAVING
By Ushanda
...they didn’t realize that those threats don’t help when a person is craving suicide. In fact, such added pressure may worsen the situation. The well-meaning people might not know that, for some of us, the THOUGHT of suicide may be the only comfort that can prevent the ACTION of suicide, at that time.

Abuse victim seeks change in law
She urges repeal of statute of limitations, expanded right to sue
By TOM HEINEN
A former Beaver Dam woman who just settled a sexual abuse lawsuit in South Dakota against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Diocese of Sioux Falls was in Milwaukee on Thursday to urge legislators to pass a bill allowing clergy abuse victims to sue churches in Wisconsin no matter when the abuse occurred.

The Origins of Homosexuality: Insights From The Deep Feeling Psychotherapies
by John A. Speyrer
What do the thousands of experiences of clients undergoing deep regressive psychotherapies teach us about the origins of homosexuality? The writings of its three major theoreticians, Frank Lake, Stanislav Grof and Arthur Janov, are examined in this article. All agree that female homosexuality is a much milder type of sexual alignment than is the male gendre. This article will concentrate on male homosexuality.

What About the Boys? Sexually Abused Boys Likely to Face Problems as Adults
by Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D.
Now that Michael Jackson has gone to find a new Neverland and renegade priests are yesterday's news, the public may mistakenly assume the problem of childhood sexual abuse has vanished as well.
But what about the boys? By age 16, as many as one in six boys in America has had unwanted sex with an adult or older child. And what about the millions of men, abused as children, who continue to live with the debilitating effects of shattered trust?

Pope seeks immunity in Texas abuse case
August 17, 2005
VATICAN CITY -- Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
The Vatican's embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope's lawyers in U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Texas in Houston.
Joseph Ratzinger is named as a defendant in the civil lawsuit. Now Benedict XVI, he's accused of conspiring with the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to cover up the abuse during the mid-1990s.
Read the article: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pope17.html

Catholic priests' 40 years of abuse
From "The Australian": By David Sharrock in Dublin October 27, 2005

TWENTY-ONE Irish Catholic priests sexually assaulted young boys and girls in parishes across southeast Ireland over a period of 40 years, a damning report into clerical abuse has revealed.
The Irish Government said yesterday it would take immediate action to implement the recommendations of the report into County Wexford's Diocese of Ferns, which is now regarded as the world's worst diocese for sexual abuse by clerics.
The 271-page report catalogues 100 complaints of abuse, with one priest responsible for 26 assaults.
The Ferns Report, which investigated allegations dating back to 1966, concluded that church authorities, the medical profession and society in general failed to appreciate the horrendous damage the sexual abuse of children caused....
Read the article: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17044726-38200,00.html

Bishop built wall of silence against howls of abused children
REVELATION: Journalist Veronica Guerin, who revealed that Bishop Brendan Comiskey knew about the activities of Fr Sean Fortune. Right, Bishop Comiskey with Fr Fortune in Co Wexford in 1985.
The journalist wrote in the Sunday Independent that gardai had begun investigating a priest in Wexford for abusing boys in the dioceses. The complaint, it later transpired, was lodged by a former altar boy.

The cycles and signs of domestic violence
BY PAULA M. FELIPE/Public Safety Reporter
What are the cycles or patterns in an abusive relationship?
On average, a person attempts to leave an abusive relationship seven times before they finally decide to end the relationship, Hilgemen explained. There are many reasons why people stay. "Sometimes people think I care about this person and maybe he or she will change' or they engage in self-blame and think if I change my own behavior, maybe my partner will change.' Statistics show that 25 percent of intimate partnerships are abusive," she added and explained, "This statistic comes from reported cases to the police, but many go unreported."
Read the artikle: http://www.orovillemr.com/Stories/0,1413,157%257E26686%257E3104966,00.html
(Stats15)

Typically, they are single mothers who have grown up poor, often been abused or neglected, have been in and out of foster care, did not do well in school, have been victims of family violence as adults, have low-skill jobs and are living on the edge, struggling to get by. They may have one or two children, suffer from depression and self-medicate with alcohol or drugs. (archive: statis14)
Read also: Open Letter to Governor Richardson http://www.aaacworld.org/publication/art_open_govNM.htm

Memories of abuse, inconsolable anger
Tom Hennessy, Staff Columnist

It had been years since she heard his voice.
But now, to Mary Grant's surprise, John Lenihan was talking. Over the phone, he recalled some of what had happened in 1977. Mary, then 14, had been homesick. Lenihan then Father John Lenihan, 32, of St. Norbert's parish, Anaheim had come to visit.(archive: St 22)

Sexual abuse of a child or elderly person is probably the most secretive and the hardest type of abuse to detect. It most often occurs within a family setting with the suspect usually being a parent, relative or caretaker. This type of abuse sometimes can be sheltered for decades until something prompts the victim to reveal his or her story. In more cases than we would like to believe, someone else within or close to the family is aware of the abuse.
I would venture to guess that we all know someone or know of someone's family who has been touched by emotional, physical or sexual abuse. How do we stop the abuse? We have to break the cycle. Children who are abused often grow up to be parents who abuse their children.
(Archive A 34)
Read: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1574&dept_id=532215&newsid=15399587&PAG=461&rfi=9

Legal deadline in Ireland spurs outreach to abused
They're spreading the word about an effort to provide compensation for children who were abused at Catholic orphanages and reform schools back in Ireland -- children who may later have moved to America and settled in Boston.
Advocates for those abused believe the Irish government has done too little to let those living abroad know about the compensation available, so they are dropping off fliers and talking to Irish natives themselves. (23)

Abuse Victims Still Suffer Decades Later
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... were very close." But by the time they were adults, they saw ... know that from the first moment they were abused as boys ... He won't let anyone baby-sit his children. ...
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Breaking the Silence:
Children's Stories, a powerful 60-minute PBS documentary Premiering on Thursday, October 20 at 10 p.m.
MKACF has underwritten the cost of Breaking the Silence: Children's
Stories, a powerful 60-minute PBS documentary that chronicles the
impact of domestic violence on children. Premiering on Thursday,
October 20 at 10 p.m. (EDT) on PBS stations nationwide, the
documentary features poignant interviews with children and adults who survived childhood violence.
read details: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-05-2005/0004160496&EDATE=

On the surface, Stella's mother and grandfather were recognized for their compassion by people outside her family.
"People loved them - thought they were the most wonderful people in the world. And in that external world they were," said Stella, who asked that her real name not be used in this article.
"They'd do anything for you - loving and kind. But inside the family was this raging inferno of anger and control and abusive behaviors, abusive language to keep you in your place." (33)

Extensions of the Criminal & Civil Statutes of Limitations in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
Most states have laws limiting the time during which crimes other than murder may be prosecuted. All states have time limitations for bringing a lawsuit to recover money for damages from the wrongdoing of another -- a civil action. In recent years, many states have adopted extensions to their criminal and civil statutes of limitation for cases of child sexual abuse and in certain other sexual assault cases. The length of the extension varies greatly between the states.

The Roots of Pedophilia
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Pedophiles are attracted to prepubescent children and act on their sexual fantasies. It is a startling fact that the etiology of this paraphilia is unknown. Pedophiles comes from all walks of life and have no common socio-economic background. Contrary to media-propagated myths, most of them had not been sexually abused in childhood and the vast majority of pedophiles are also drawn to adults of the opposite sex (are heterosexuals).

Alarm Cult Abuse
Shocking PONCHATOULA, LA story finally in the media!
Cult Abuse?????
Come on Sieglinde, John said in 2003, you don’t really believe that such unspeakable things happen in our time and day. These are stories from the 1800’s.

My Therapeutic Journey
by Barbara Rogers
Author of "Screams from Childhood, http://www.screamsfromchildhood.com
My journey in therapy began, when I was 32 years old—today, I am 55 years old. I entered therapy during a family crisis, which I describe in the scream “don't tell the truth.”

Getting to Know my Self-Hatred—a Moving Conversation
by Barbara Rogers
Author of "Screams from Childhood", http://www.screamsfromchildhood.com
Introduction
I wrote this therapy when I struggled, for months, with a severe depression, marked by anxiety and sleeplessness. These well known symptoms had erupted for different reasons and were not silenced by drugs.

My experience at a Primal Seminar with Paul Vereshack M. D.
by Reinhold W. Rausch
The 8 day- seminar took place in Glencree, Ireland, April 2005.
Before I came to read Paul’s book, my own primal process, in which I had worked with two other primal therapists, had come to a halt. With them, I was able to work through much of my father related stuff. But regarding earlier and mom- related pain I was about to give myself up and to keep stuck in that old feeling of incapability and hopelessness. By reading his book, my weakening trust in the primal process was restored and I was ready to give it another try.

DO PEDOPHILS LOVE CHILDREN?
by Ushanda io Elima
The title of Sam Vaknin’s article, “The Roots of Pedophilia” http://psychology.plebius.org/article.php?article=767 chillingly reveals his slant. The word pedophilia comes from root words meaning the love of children. But the article is about those who sexually abuse the young. By using the term pedophilia, writer Vaknin subtly implies that the seduction and rape of children is committed out of love.

Early abuse may mean depression later
Women who were abused as children are more than twice as likely to get depressed as adults than women who reported no abuse, a new study shows.
Seeing or experiencing violence as a child may cause some kind of brain insult, which changes the brain's chemistry, the researchers suggest.

Need to halt domestic violence
12 March 2005
Domestic violence permeates our society, writes Emma Davies. It can be successfully addressed only when we challenge the social norms where it is condoned as a means of resolving conflicts.

France confronts child-sex shame
Charles Bremner, Paris
March 05, 2005
FRENCH newspapers are teaching children how to recognise and report sexual abuse by adults, as the trial of 66 men and women accused of involvement in child sex opens in the town of Angers.

The Trap of Forgiveness
by Barbara Rogers, 
author of "screams from childhood", http://www.screamsfromchildhood.com
The relationship between parents and their children is marked by the command to honor 
and forgive parents—while the main focus for treating children lays on the importance of discipline. 
Why do we think in these terms about this unique relationship, where one part has all the physical, 
emotional, and mental power, and also the responsibility to guide malleable, innocent children by 
being a meaningful role model—while the other part is dependent, powerless, vulnerable, and 
at his or her parents’ mercy?

On “Resistance”: 
A Response to Dr Paul Hannig’s Article 
Is There a Hole in Your Soul?
By Patricia Poulin, Ph.D. Candidate

Doctors argue that depression 'should not be seen as a disease'
Irish Independent Wednesday November 30th 2005
Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent

DEPRESSION should be viewed as an emotion rather than a disease, according to the authors of a controversial new book.

Is (primal) therapy all a victim of trauma need?
Sieglinde W. Alexander
Recent facts have brought me back full circle to an insight I had before I began writing about my childhood. 
At the time, I expressedmy thoughts by saying, (I’m paraphrasing) “…we must face the shadows 
of the past by feeling the pain one more time before we can begin unlearning the imprinted pattern of violence….

From the website: PARENTING WITHOUT PUNISHING
Norm Lee

"WHAT did your parents DO to you!?"
- Elaine (Seinfeld Show), peering into George's face.

Celebs in the dock for child abuse in Portugal
November 25, 2004, By Elizabeth Nash
Madrid - Portugal's former ambassador to South Africa, Jorge Ritt, is one of the high-profile people accused of sexually preying upon vulnerable children from state orphanages, in a trial due to start today.
Chief among the seven accused in the country's worst scandal for decades is a well-known media celebrity, the television chat-show host Carlos Cruz (63).

Child abuse victims may get compensation
12:15 AEDT Thu Nov 25 2004
An independent assessor will determine whether more than 170 people who were allegedly abused as children while in Tasmanian state care should be paid compensation of up to $60,000.

An interview with Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD
by Lou Bank
The first time Andrew Vachss told me that he had no imagination, I chuckled. I thought it was a bit of self-deprecating humor. The second time he told me, I understood the horrible truth he was imparting. Everything he writes about, all the crimes against children, is real, and everyone he writes about, all the sex offenders, really exist. The other side to that coin is that the heroes in his books also exists.

UTAH SHERIFF WON'T INVESTIGATE CALL FOR HELP FROM UNDERAGE BRIDE OF POLYGAMIST LEADER WARREN JEFFS Warren Jeffs, who continues to marry young girls with impunity, seems to be the beneficiary of a lack of awareness on the part of both the public and local law enforcement officers. Perhaps there would be a greater outcry over the tremendous harm Jeffs has done if instead of being characterized as a "mere" polygamist, he were more correctly described as the head of a vast criminal organization that has long engaged in widespread sexual slavery and financial fraud, and advocates hatred for non-white races.

Panel backs bill to let abused sue charities
Those that negligently hire sexual predators could be held liable. Next stop: The full Assembly.Some people say, cult abuse does not exist.

Devil in the detail
by Jim Gilchrist

Number of Doctor Visits by Adults Abused or Neglected As Children Is Higher Than Others
By John A. Speyrer Webmaster of http://www.primal-page.com

The hidden horror of child sex abuse
By Peter Ellingsen
originaly published by "The Age"Ecstasy & Therapy
It may be illegal but the popular “club drug” MDMA is coming back to its psychotherapeutic roots.

Senator Andrew Murray speaks to the tabling of Community Affairs References Committee Report
COMMITTEES: Community Affairs References Committee: Report Senator MURRAY (Western Australia) (12.52 p.m.) Let me begin by acknowledging and welcoming all those in the public gallery who have journeyed to Canberra today to witness this historic tabling of this groundbreaking report, suitably titled Forgotten Australians. This report means so much to so manynot just the half a million plus directly affected but the millions of Australians indirectly affected.

Animal abuse a 'danger signal'
Leah Moore
originaly published by NATIONAL NEWS, 27jul04
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,10254050%255E953,00.html

Wrong genes in the right hands
Two years ago this team discovered a genetic variation in men in New Zealand which made them more likely to be violent. But it had an effect only if the men had also been abused as children.
This month researchers in the United States confirmed this gene-environment interaction in a study of more than 500 boys. The same effect is seen in monkeys genetically predisposed to violence and deprived of their mothers' care from birth, researchers at a conference on genes and violence in London said this week.

Minding the baby
Rebecca Abrams
When researchers studied the brains of Romanian orphans - children who had been left to cry in their cots from birth and denied any chance of forming close bonds with an adult - they found a "virtual black hole" where the orbitofrontal cortex should have been. This is the part of the brain that enables us to manage our emotions, to relate sensitively to other people, to experience pleasure and to appreciate beauty. These children's earliest experiences had greatly diminished their capacity ever to be fully human. Sue Gerhardt's book Why Love Matters shows that early experience has effects on the development of both brain and personality that none of us can afford to ignore.

Invisible Children
by Mike Tikkanen

COMING CLEAN
By Dianea Kohl

Is Spanking Democratic?
by Dennis Rodie
In1977 Sweden was the first country in the world that
had laws installed against spanking children.

ADHD: THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
by Dennis Rodie
The pharmaceutical industry flourishes like never before. Prozac, Viagra, Ritalin are familiar names in daily life. The chemical revolution in our evolution has taken place. Our society can't function anymore without medicines and the pharmaceutical multinationals are the pillars of the economy.

On Alice Miller's Interview In Psychologie Heute
By John A. Speyrer
Like others who read Alice Miller's Communication To My Readers, I wanted to more fully understand why she disavowed J. Konrad Stettbacher's 4 step method of primal therapy as well as the more typical therapist directed primal therapy. As far as I was concerned, the Communication was inadequate to the task since there seemed to be some important element missing in her explanation; to me something had seemed incomplete because of the amount of energy she had used to disassociate herself from primal therapy.

You have been banished from the citadel of childhood
by Marie Murray
No, little child, you are not.
Your innocence has been betrayed, your childhood stolen, your body marketed, your gender defiled and your identity determined. You have been banished from the citadel of childhood. You are a lucrative commodity, a target for unscrupulous exploitation.

Protect the Abuser
The Twelve Tribes sect defends its own -- aiding accused child molesters
Peck spoke to her children, and all three of them -- two daughters and a son -- said they had been molested by their stepfather. Peck went to the elders in Twelve Tribes. She wanted justice. Instead, the tribe elders -- who claim to be so strict about carnal relations that couples found holding hands are forced to marry -- covered up the abuse and protected Leonard from criminal charges.

Nuns accused of sexual abuse
BOSTON - Nine former students at a Roman Catholic school for the deaf filed a lawsuit Tuesday saying they were raped, beaten and tormented decades ago by the nuns who ran the place.

Splitting and Projection Before, During and After World War Two
By Mary Katherine Armstrong

Is marriage really a cure for Illness?
By Sieglinde Alexander

The World Biggest Hidden Secret: Childhood Abuse and its Effects
by Sieglinde W. Alexander

The Causes of Violence
by Karen Franklin, Ph.D

THE FUTURE OF REMEMBERING
by Dennis Rodie

TRIGGERS
by Ushanda io Elima

The question I am asked most often: How did you heal?
by Sieglinde W. Alexander

False Memory Label Invented By Lobby Group
by Michele Landsberg, Toronto Star

MY EXPERIENCE IN PRIMAL - AND DEEP FEELING THERAPIES
by Tuula Maisonlahti, Finland

Pastor, brother sentenced to prison in beating case
By Associated Press

Roman Catholic Abuse Settlement Is Approved
Article: New Yourk Times

Healing Deep Pain
by Esko & Marja Rintala

UNSTUCK FOR LIFE
by Ushanda io Elima

Primal Dreams
by Sieglinde Alexander

The Religious Family
by Brian Vanderlip

Domestic violence raises psychiatric disorders risk
Psychiatric Matters MD

HOW ARE WE TO WORK WITH CONFLICT OF MORAL STANDPOINTS
IN THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP?
by Robert M. Young

Auditory hallucinations linked to childhood sexual abuse
Researchers have found a strong relationship between childhood sexual abuse and hallucinations in people who later develop bipolar affective disorder.

How many Americans seek help for depression?
By Sieglinde Alexander

A never-ending pain
by Sieglinde Alexander

Repression and Consciousness
Sieglinde W. Alexander

A Pygmy Model for Partnership Relations
by Ushanda io Elima

The Abused and Forgotten Children and Juveniles in Germany
By Gisela