Full Article: http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/febuary/28/01.htm
A man convicted of sexually abusing his stepdaughter of nine has been described by a judge as a “good father”.
Judge Christopher Critchlow gave the pervert, who also has convictions for assaulting her siblings, just two years in jail from a maximum of 14 – and said he could return home on release.
The court heard the girl was alone with him last October while her mum was bathing her brother and sister. He pulled down her pyjamas and performed a sex act but the girl’s mum walked in and called the police. The man, who cannot be named, fled the country but was arrested on his return in November. He also had convictions for drunkenly beating the other children.
Archive for February, 2009
Full Article: http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/febuary/26/05.htm
Mother of two disabled sons Henrietta Spink offers an insight into the anguish of the Camerons
My heart goes out to the Camerons. A few years ago, David wrote me a letter saying that my book, Henrietta’s Dream, about the heartache of caring for our disabled sons, had touched him and Samantha profoundly. Parents of disabled children are an emotional club, brought together by the constant fear of our children dying.
Death is such a presence in our lives that my husband and I rarely discuss it. Every morning, when we go in to our boys’ rooms, we wonder if they will be alive. We have seen so many of their school friends die. The parents of those with degenerative diseases have the agonising experience of watching them slowly losing their faculties, while those whose children like Ivan Cameron have cerebral palsy and/or epilepsy and are prone to fitting, often find that children who seem fine one day can be gone the next.
People who don’t have a severely disabled child will think that death must be to some degree a blessed release. A tiny part of you does feel that, but a parent’s guilt and the grief is so overwhelming that it far outweighs any relief. When you have a very disabled child, you feel totally responsible and overwhelmingly protective. Such children so totally swamp your life that, if they are no longer there, the void is enormous.
It is hard to move on. I once spoke to a mother for four hours about her son and only discovered at the end that he had died six years earlier. I’ve seen parents burst into tears at the sight of my sons because theirs were no longer with them, even though theirs had lost all function and awareness. Even if you have always known at the back of your mind that your child might die, nothing prepares you for the reality of loss.
Full Article: http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/febuary/26/04.htm
A 14-year-old boy has been given a three year supervision order after sexually abusing two 10-year-old boys in Wiltshire.
The boy, from Wootton Bassett, committed the offences when aged 13. He cannot be named for legal reasons.
The sexual assaults, which took place in the bedroom of one of the boys, happened between January and May 2008.
The judge said he chose a supervision order due to the boy’s previous good character and admission of the charges.
Judge Douglas Field, who sentenced the teenager at Swindon Crown Court, highlighted the young age of all concerned as the major factor in this case.
Full Article: http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/febuary/26/03.htm
This revealing and gripping documentary has received strong critical acclaim. Writer – and Michael Jackson fan – Jacques Peretti – had a legal minefield to negotiate to get to the former pop star and made himself seriously ill in the process, but the results are fascinating.
Two years ago Jackson was acquitted of child molestation, but instead of returning to his Neverland home, he disappeared. Peretti wanted to find out why, and in so doing, get to the truth of what really drove Jackson to such spectacular self-destruction.
Full Article: http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/febuary/26/02.htm
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Social workers who snatched four-day-old baby (ITV Evening Edition)
(The Story of Sarah, Ian Walton and their Daughter Crystal) (Our Story)
I Ian Walton Take Responsibility For Naming Our Selves In This Article And Not London Tonight
Social workers who snatched four-day-old baby put her up for adoption over unproven abuse claim
Mums heartbreaking fight to get her daughter back.
A mum and dad have been told they will never see their young daughter again after she was snatched away at only four days old.
Tiny Baby A was taken from her mum by social workers who claimed the tot, who we will call Emily, was at risk in the family home.
Not because of the mums failure to care for her but because of a six-year-old unproven claim that her husband had injured his son from a previous marriage.
Full Article: http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/febuary/26/01.htm
Originally Published 18th February 2009Readers Letter:
I AM writing concerning the proposed adoption of the four-old girl whose father has been accused of causing brain damage to his son years earlier (Advertiser, February 4).
The mother has done nothing wrong and it is a despicable and inhumane act to remove from her the child whom she bore and loves. The sanctimonious pontification by Andrew Fraser seems to be couched in terms of self-justification and smacks of an attitude that social services are always right and no one else has any right to question their decisions.
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09
Panorama – Jailed For A Knife
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Thoughtful documentary examining the issues around the recent rise in youth knife crime.
At least 34 teenagers were stabbed to death last year in the UK. In just a decade, the number sentenced for carrying a knife has risen ten-fold. So why are so many of Britains youngsters arming themselves with knives? And why do some kill?
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Feb
09
Panorama – Kids Behaving Badly
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When parents drop their children at the school gates they do so in the trust that they will be safe until home time. But are they?
We know that bullying, be it verbal or physical, happens in our schools and in its worst forms can ruin lives. The key to ending the torment is speaking out, but shame and fear often makes this difficult to do.
And, as Panorama reports in Kids Behaving Badly, children are being subjected to a type of bullying which makes it even harder to speak out – sexual bullying.
This can be anything from sexualised name-calling to spreading rumours about someone’s sexual behaviour, to criminal offences such as assault and rape.
Five-year-olds expelled
Michele Elliott from Kidscape, the first UK charity established specifically to prevent bullying and child sexual abuse, says it has seen a dramatic rise in the problem:
‘Certainly over the last four or five years on the Kidscape helpline we used to get maybe one or two calls a year about sexual bullying, but now we are getting two or three calls a week,’ she said.
The most recent government figures show that in 2006-07 there were 3,500 fixed period exclusions and 140 expulsions from schools in England for sexual misconduct – anything from explicit graffiti to serious sexual assault, even rape.
Full Article: http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/febuary/22/02.htm
This country’s education system is a betrayal of this country’s children. It blunts their intelligence, narrows their perspectives and blasts their future prospects. How often does that need to be said? Of course it is not universally true; many children defy the system, one way or another. But the point is that the system is bad. If the word “institutionally” means anything, this country’s education system is institutionally unfit for purpose.
Those who assume that I am exaggerating, as columnists do, should consider the interim report published last week by the Cambridge Primary Review, the biggest independent inquiry into state primary school education in England for 40 years, led by Professor Robin Alexander. After three years of exhaustive research by his team, he says “our argument is that [primary school children’s] education, and to some degree their lives, are impoverished if they have received an education that is so fundamentally deficient”.
At last a knight in shining educational armour seems to have come galloping over the hill. His review finds that the curriculum has been politicised, that the education department and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority have been excessively prescriptive in their micro-management of schools, that their focus on “literacy” and numeracy and testing has squeezed out other learning, and that children are being denied a broad and rich curriculum – with history, geography, music, art and drama the greatest losses. Alexander insists the arts and humanities “help to hold the line between civilisation and philistinism” but “in these severely utilitarian and philistine times” this argument “no longer cuts much ice”.
Full Article: http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/febuary/22/01.htm
Relatives are working with consular officials in Venezuela to bring home the four children of a British couple detained for alleged drugs offences.
Paul Makin, 31, and his wife Laura were held on 16 February on Margarita Island for allegedly carrying cocaine.
The four children were placed into the care of Venezuelan social services.
British Embassy officials travelled to the island to ensure the children’s welfare and provide consular services to the detainees.
The children are an eight- and a seven-year-old from a former marriage of Laura Makin, and the couple’s two-year-old twins.
The Foreign Office confirmed that other family members have arrived on Margarita Island, and are working to repatriate the four children as soon as possible.
Sought in UK
A Foreign Office spokesman said the Venezuelan authorities had done everything in their power to assist the children.
BAAF; British Association of Adoption and Fostering 
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