UK: The knock that tears families apart: ‘They were at the door, telling me he had accessed indecent images of children’

Source: theguardian.com 7/31/21 Every month in the UK, hundreds of homes are visited by police officers dropping a bombshell: someone has been viewing images of child abuse. What happens to the families left behind? Harriet Grant Sat 31 Jul 2021 04.00 EDT It was an ordinary summer evening in 2016 for Emma when her ex-husband, Ben, dropped their young children back after a weekend visit at his place. The couple had been divorced for less than a year. Their split had brought with it the usual pain and sadness that…

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Jim Cegielski, publisher of Leader-Call.com, wants victims to report abuse directly into the registry anonymously

Source: leader-call.com 7/30/21 By Jim Cegielski publisher Last week, we ran a front page story with the headline “Toddler Torture.” The headline was about as accurate of a description for what two small children had to endure as we could come up with. In his story, Mark Thornton wrote that those children had been taped to a wall and forced to watch their mother and her boyfriend have sex and were punched if they turned and looked away. Sadly, the rest of the details about what those kids went through…

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