Some justice at last as IoS article reveals reality and female abusers enter the frame
The Slog: Unwilling to bow to the Rule of Law (probably because legislators are
unwilling to pass a law) Facebook has begun a clampdown on child abuse
images….prompted by the tabloid Sunday Mirror’s investigation. This does
tend to show you what really motivates internet suppliers and ISPs:
they don’t GAF about politicians and police, but they do fear the public
– because without us, they are nothing. This is a lesson the entire
blogosphere needs to learn.
Mark Zuckerberg’s 1984 Trojan Horse will now start to trawl
thousands of pages and groups to clean up its site. Shadow Culture
Minister Helen Goodman praised the Sunday Mirror revelations, but said
that Facebook “still has to do more”. Camerlot said nothing. And Google
has done nothing. Funny, that. Also Ms Goodman said nothing about
Labour’s endemic local government perversion problem. Like they say, the
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for a Goodman to do
nothing.
Big hat-tip to the Sunday Mirror, however.
Following on from last week’s Slogpost
about Australian man Peter Truong and his partner Mark Newton – who
bought a child from a Russian woman in 2005, and then passed him round
to their fellow sadists – I am pleased to announce that Newton has been
sentenced to 40 years in jail for his crimes. Truong (a seriously
unpleasant piece of depravity) awaits his sentence, and two Americans
have been charged. But of course, as anye fule know, paedophile sex
rings are left wing rumour and innuendo dished out by purveyors of
poppycock, harrumph harrumph.
There was a fine piece in the Independent on Sunday at the weekend, an extract from which says a great deal:
‘Anne Bannister is a cheery middle-aged lady from Manchester who
has spent the past 20 years meeting child abusers. For the past nine,
she has run a consultancy compiling profiles of paedophiles for the
NSPCC; before that, she sat with offenders for thousands of
uncomfortable hours as a psychotherapist and a social worker.
She knows precisely how they operate: “I could take a paedophile
into a school playground and say, ‘Show me the vulnerable children.’ In
two minutes he would have picked them out: ‘This child is lonely, that
child is a bit isolated, that one is not going to scream and shout and
run home to Mum…’ “‘
If you’re not keen on reading about what paedophiles sometimes go on to do, look away now:
‘Last week the Old Bailey heard allegations of just such a case. In October 1994 Daniel Handley, a nine-year-old boy from Beckton, east London, was out playing on his BMX bicycle when Brett Tyler and Timothy Morss allegedly pulled up in their car, bundled him in, and drove him across the capital to a flat above the office where they worked.
There, the court heard, they took turns assaulting him, filmed the act, and drove off down the M4, where Handley was strangled in a lay-by and his body buried in a wood near Bristol. On Thursday the evidence was such that jurors wept.’
I urge you to read Andy Beckett’s piece in full, because it is both moving and well-balanced: cracking journalism. It truly does address just how great is the crime of Establishment cover-up. But also the piece rightly observes, ‘This is how we think of paedophiles: male, predatory, snatching victims at random’. However, it’s not always like that.
An account from the US-based propublica site (not a madhouse in any sense at all) has astonished me this week. In State care systems, the older authority figure can win the trust of the young target by cultivating a false friendship, having heart-to-heart conversations, giving gifts, offering protection. And then the sex ensues, sometimes forced, sometimes seemingly consensual. Thus it wasn’t terribly surprising when yet another report emerging from the U.S. Department of Justice recorded that exactly this was commonplace in the country’s juvenile detention facilities.
The shock was that the abusers were overwhelmingly women. Psychologists familiar with this seemingly contrarian syndrome judge, based on years of field research, that such abuse is never really consensual, and that its long term effects can be seriously harmful….requiring correction officials to stop blaming the young boys – and meaningfully punish the female staffers.
“Many corrections leaders continue to minimise this abuse, arguing that it’s the kids who are manipulating the staff, that these boys are asking for it,” said Lovisa Stannow, executive director of the California-based nonprofit Just Detention International, which advocates for the elimination of prison rape. “That’s simply not good enough.”
She’s right. The Justice Department just released its latest audit of the problem, having surveyed more than 8,700 juveniles housed in 326 facilities across the country. It estimates that 1,390 juveniles in the facilities they examined have experienced sex abuse at the hands of the staff supervising them – a disturbing rate of nearly 8%. But 90% of victims were males abused by female staff. One in five of the complainants alleged that staff gave them drugs or alcohol in exchange for sex. Yup, that sounds familiar.
The problem with the way we males are wired is that it is all too easy to see the funny side of this. One immediately thinks stuff like, “Well, it would all depend on whether the woman looked like Anne Widdicombe or Kate Beckinsale”. Taken as a whole, women forcing males into sex doesn’t tally with society’s conventional definition of rape. At age sixteen, I would love to have been raped by Brigitte Bardot or Audrey Hepburn. But there again, one of my mum’s friends did make a pass at me when I was 15, and I didn’t even recognise it for what it was. Now if you think about it, that does make her advances pretty creepy.
If you’re not keen on reading about what paedophiles sometimes go on to do, look away now:
‘Last week the Old Bailey heard allegations of just such a case. In October 1994 Daniel Handley, a nine-year-old boy from Beckton, east London, was out playing on his BMX bicycle when Brett Tyler and Timothy Morss allegedly pulled up in their car, bundled him in, and drove him across the capital to a flat above the office where they worked.
There, the court heard, they took turns assaulting him, filmed the act, and drove off down the M4, where Handley was strangled in a lay-by and his body buried in a wood near Bristol. On Thursday the evidence was such that jurors wept.’
I urge you to read Andy Beckett’s piece in full, because it is both moving and well-balanced: cracking journalism. It truly does address just how great is the crime of Establishment cover-up. But also the piece rightly observes, ‘This is how we think of paedophiles: male, predatory, snatching victims at random’. However, it’s not always like that.
An account from the US-based propublica site (not a madhouse in any sense at all) has astonished me this week. In State care systems, the older authority figure can win the trust of the young target by cultivating a false friendship, having heart-to-heart conversations, giving gifts, offering protection. And then the sex ensues, sometimes forced, sometimes seemingly consensual. Thus it wasn’t terribly surprising when yet another report emerging from the U.S. Department of Justice recorded that exactly this was commonplace in the country’s juvenile detention facilities.
The shock was that the abusers were overwhelmingly women. Psychologists familiar with this seemingly contrarian syndrome judge, based on years of field research, that such abuse is never really consensual, and that its long term effects can be seriously harmful….requiring correction officials to stop blaming the young boys – and meaningfully punish the female staffers.
“Many corrections leaders continue to minimise this abuse, arguing that it’s the kids who are manipulating the staff, that these boys are asking for it,” said Lovisa Stannow, executive director of the California-based nonprofit Just Detention International, which advocates for the elimination of prison rape. “That’s simply not good enough.”
She’s right. The Justice Department just released its latest audit of the problem, having surveyed more than 8,700 juveniles housed in 326 facilities across the country. It estimates that 1,390 juveniles in the facilities they examined have experienced sex abuse at the hands of the staff supervising them – a disturbing rate of nearly 8%. But 90% of victims were males abused by female staff. One in five of the complainants alleged that staff gave them drugs or alcohol in exchange for sex. Yup, that sounds familiar.
The problem with the way we males are wired is that it is all too easy to see the funny side of this. One immediately thinks stuff like, “Well, it would all depend on whether the woman looked like Anne Widdicombe or Kate Beckinsale”. Taken as a whole, women forcing males into sex doesn’t tally with society’s conventional definition of rape. At age sixteen, I would love to have been raped by Brigitte Bardot or Audrey Hepburn. But there again, one of my mum’s friends did make a pass at me when I was 15, and I didn’t even recognise it for what it was. Now if you think about it, that does make her advances pretty creepy.
I remain interested in the correlation between having power
– and abusing it to abuse the vulnerable. I think it goes at least some
way to explaining the link between institutional care, teaching, and
politics. But the propublica piece made me rethink some assumptions.
Which, in the end, is what human growth during a life should be about.
And probably explains why most politicians are overgrown children.
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