Category Archive for : ‘EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL EFFECT’

October 6, 2019
Olivia Messer
MSN
 

The dark cloud that has lingered over the small town of La Vernia, Texas, for more than two years may finally be lifting.

Four teens each pleaded no contest to the felony charge of unlawful restraint on Friday, reported KENS5-TV, in the years-long sexual-assault and bullying case that victimized at least 10 boys on high-school sports teams in Texas and ripped apart the 1,200-person town. A no-contest plea, unlike a guilty plea, is an acceptance of the court’s punishment without an admission of guilt.

The defendants were juveniles at

July 26, 2019
Corazon Miller
Independent
  

A man who convinced parents to employ him as a childminder so he could abuse their children has been jailed for 12 years.

Alexander Philo-Steele was found guilty of abusing two brothers, aged six and seven, and another six-year-old boy.

His offending was spread across a period of 16 years, with the first six-year-old falling victim to his abuse in 2003 and the brothers in 2017.

The 36-year-old, from Earls Court in London, had advertised his services to unsuspecting parents online claiming he was “nurturing, reassuring and supportive”.

In 2017 he befriended a single

October 7, 2019
Sarah Young
Independent

Nadiya Hussain has revealed she was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.

The Great British Bake Off winner said she was sexually assaulted by a relative at the age of five while living in Bangladesh.
Hussain said the ordeal left her suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic attacks and suicidal thoughts

“No doubt that would have played a role in my PTSD, my panic disorder,” Hussain said in an interview with You magazine,
“It must have done, because it’s a memory that has stayed with me for ever.”
The 34-year-old, who details the abuse in her forthcoming memoir Finding My Voice, said she only

October 9, 2019
Marika Malaea           
Newsweek
 

The late co-founder of the Portland-based, global nonprofit organization, Mercy Corps, allegedly abused his daughter from preschool until high school, according to a newly-released investigative report.

The Oregonian found that Mercy Corps executives knew co-founder Ellsworth Culver had been credibly accused of serial sexual abuse by his daughter. They still allowed him to continue working there for more than a decade.

Tania Culver Humphrey, the daughter of Ellsworth Culver, said she told Mercy Corps leaders of the abuse on at least two occasions. As a 21-year-old college student in 1992, Humphrey went

October 14, 2019
Annmarie Payson
WEAU
 

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU)— An Eau Claire man who worked with a children’s ministry and was a camp counselor has been charged with child sex crimes.

A criminal complaint says 38-year-old Bryan Broughton is charged in Eau Claire County Court with repeated sexual assault of a child (first), repeated sexual assault of a child (second) and causing mental harm to a child.

Broughton told officials he worked with children’s ministries and had been a church camp counselor for many years in the two churches he has been affiliated with over

October 1, 2019
Josh Cain
Daily News
 

For nearly two-and-a-half decades, former wrestling coach Terry Gillard used his position as a trusted community member to draw poor and struggling students into wrestling for his teams in San Fernando and Sun Valley.

Once they were in his thrall, joining what he called his inner circle of wrestlers, prosecutors said, Gillard would manipulate his teenage victims into depraved sexual encounters with himself and other students.

To keep them in line, Gillard demanded loyalty, deriding other students as “snitches” who weren’t worthy of his attention, according to the