April 15, 2014 Summary: The ‘Bystander Effect’ is the theory that the more people there are to witness an event, the less likely a person will do something to stop it.  This is true for victims of sexual abuse; sometimes, the signs of abuse are displayed in plain sight, but a precious few take...

In most child sexual abuse cases, the abuser ‘grooms’ their victims and the victim’s parents before the abuse, so that disclosure of the abuse is less likely and/or less believable.  Here are some ways that you can identify grooming tendencies and prevent child sexual abuse. Sexual predators have several tools at their disposal to...

April 15, 2014 Summary: The Catholic Church, tired of paying out large settlements to victims of clergy sexual abuse cases, is trying a new tactic.  Instead of dipping into their $170 billion per year budget to take care of victims, they have begun bullying victim advocacy groups in the courts in an attempt to...

April 15, 2014 Summary: Those that work to provide the public a service are placed in a position of particular trust and confidence.  Certain people seek to take advantage of their public positions within an institution and exploit the access to manipulate the very people they are sworn to serve, such is the case...

April 15, 2014 Summary: Child molesters are too concerned with their own sexual gratification to care about the pain they levy on their victims.  These injuries never go away; they stay with a child for the rest of their lives.  It impacts them mentally, socially, and even physically.  Yet, this only applies to 10%...

April 15, 2014 Summary: The vast majority of educators are hard-working, decent people who genuinely invest themselves into the future of our children.  They are the first responders for those few educators who do not respect the boundary between teacher and student.  These warning signs, tips, and training resources are an excellent step to...

April 15, 2014 Summary: Whether it’s an individual issue with the Foster Care system, the lack of leadership within them, or a combination of both, the reality is that foster homes and foster care programs provides a breeding ground for sexual abuse – abuses that become exponentially worse when these institutions fail to provide...

Summary: With the recent arrest of a special education teacher in West Virginia on allegations of sexual abuse, the ugly reality that special needs children are at a greater risk of abuse than the average child rears its head.  There are several reasons this happens Last month, a special education teacher was arrested in...

April 15, 2014 Summary: Patrick Henry College, commonly referred to as ‘God’s Harvard,’ has been accused of systematically failing female students who’ve fallen victims of sexual assault at the college by repeatedly brushing off reports of sexual assault, and in some cases blaming the victim - especially females.  The college is one of four...

April 15, 2014 Abstract: In Western society, sexual abuse consummated on a child is considered distinctly heinous.  Child sexual abuse is largely under-reported, almost wholly perpetrated by males that know their victim.  The purposes of this editorial are to discover the causality between male pornographic movie consumption and institutional abuse, to identify whether an...