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::The inquisition into [[Historical sex abuse (dictionary)|historical allegations of abuse]] is out of control.(Frank Furedi - [[spiked]], UK)<!-- Added 8-10-15 -->
::The inquisition into [[Historical sex abuse (dictionary)|historical allegations of abuse]] is out of control.(Frank Furedi - [[spiked]], UK)<!-- Added 8-10-15 -->


*[http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/compo-culture-and-the-child-abuse-panic/17145#.VaaL8Pmk5OA Compo culture and the child abuse panic]
::[[Historical sex abuse (dictionary)|Historic sex abuse]] claims have fuelled the UK’s compensation industy.(Barbara Hewson - [[spiked]], UK)<!-- Added 7-6-15 -->
*[http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-nspcc-still-fostering-fear-and-suspicion/17087#.VYKsPUak5OA The NSPCC: still fostering fear and suspicion]
::The child-protection industry is constructing the crime it claims to combat. (Tim Black - [[spiked]], UK)<!-- Added 6-18-15 -->
*[http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/7/71/646669/source-ex-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-allegedly-paid-hide-sexual-misconduct Source: Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert allegedly paid to hide sexual misconduct]
::Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert allegedly paid hush money to cover up sexual misconduct with a male student dating to his time as a coach and teacher in Yorkville, according to a source familiar with the investigation. ( Natasha Korecki - Chicago Sun Times, US)<!-- Added 5-29-15 -->
:::'''Follow Up'''
::::*[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-strikes-deal-hush-money-case-n445111 Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert Will Plead Guilty in Hush-Money Case] (Nick Bogert and Tracy Connor - NBC News, US)<!-- Added 10-15-15 -->





Revision as of 13:39, 1 December 2015

Popular interest

This huge inquiry into child abuse has nothing to do with truth. (Luke Gittos - spiked, UK)
A new report is light on facts and heavy on scaremongering. (Joanna Williams - spiked, UK)
He successfully challenged Canada's obscenity laws, but opinion in political queer circles was divided on the self-styled rebel pervert. (See also:Robin Sharpe) (Maria-Belén Ordóñez, Robert Teixeira - NOW, Ca)
Watson is being sacrificed to save the child-abuse crusade. (Tim Black - spiked, UK)
The crusade against historical sex abuse is destroying due process. (Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)
How our sex offender laws punish more than just the convicted. ( Radley Balko, The Washington Post, US)
On June 15, U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank struck down Minnesota's law allowing for the civil commitment of so-called sexually violent predators. SVP laws allow a person to be locked away indefinitely after he has completed his maximum prison sentence. Twenty states and the federal government have passed such laws, and over 5,000 SVPs are incarcerated at an annual cost in excess of 450 million dollars. (Lave and McCrary, The Huffington Post, US)
“predator-free zones” put an entire town or county off limits, sometimes for life, even for those whose offenses had nothing to do with children. (The New York Times, US)
Sex offender registries are premised on the belief that there is a correlation between re-offense and victim proximity. The underlying assumption is that more sexual assaults will occur in places where sex offenders live. (David Booth - CSJ, US)
Reading the news that former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle will plead guilty to possessing hundreds of pornographic images of children and having sex with underage girls, it is hard not to be horrified. (Sarah Kaplan - The Washington Post, US)
In the 2002 case McKune v. Lile, the Supreme Court upheld a Kansas law that imposed harsher sentences on sex offenders who declined to participate in a prison rehab program.(Radley Balko - The Washington Post, US)
The inquisition into historical allegations of abuse is out of control.(Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)