Amazon continues to trade in children’s bodies

Amazon Scandal Deepens: More questionable material unearthed There’s more damning evidence against Amazon. Naked and semi-naked images of pre-pubescent girls, ‘man-boy love’ books and other questionable material. Here’s what I said about it on Channel 7’s Morning Show yesterday further to my comments on the same show last Friday and also ABC’s  The Drum. [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/16881093[/vimeo] […]

Peddling pedophilia: zero tolerance

Say no to profiting from harm to children Today a guest post from Melissa Atkins Wardy. My own piece on Amazon’s promotion of child abuse was published on ABC The Drum on Friday.  On the same day I read Melissa’s piece which I thought warranted exposure here. Melissa Atkins Wardy is the owner of Pigtail […]

Why is Amazon promoting sexual abuse of children?

Latest child abuse book removed but others remain [trigger warning for survivors of child sexual assault] After a global protest and threats of boycott, on-line bookseller Amazon removed The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct from its site yesterday. The book endorses sexual crimes against children. The E. book by […]

A child failed: how 120 men got away with the sexual violation of a 12-year-old girl

“In a case involving the relentless sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse of a child, the men are protected” A 12-year-old Tasmanian girl is forced into prostitution by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, while in the care of community protection workers. They advertise her as “Angela, 18”. She is allegedly used by at least 120 men […]

Sexual imagery contributing to rise of child-on-child sexual assault

Crime Commission report reveals failure to act Three alarming reports in News Ltd papers about child on child sexual abuse. More children are exhibiting problem sexual behaviour including assault of other children. Story 1: Children sexually abusing children ‘ignored and denied’ Teachers and childcare workers have raised the alarm over an increase in children coercing […]

Sex offender dad gets access to daughters: Why?

Last month I briefly mentioned a Tasmanian case in which a father, a registered sex offender convicted of possessing child pornography, was given visitation right to his two daughters. I thought the story warranted a more in-depth examination, so I asked Caroline Norma to take a closer look. Caroline is a PhD candidate with the […]

Girl Slavery in America

In ‘Girl Slavery in America’, a recent post published on Huffington Post, Executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, Malika Saada Saar, highlights (like this earlier piece I published) that there is a marketplace for the bodies of girls in the West as well as other parts of the world.  She also makes […]

‘A violent soul destroying act’: one girl’s story.

 [Warning. May be triggering for survivors of sexual assault]  Last week I commented on the case of a 12-year-old girl pimped then raped by 120 men over a six week period. The media reporting said the men had “had sex with” the girl. I questioned this language, believing it minimised what had actually been done […]

Child porn victim seeks damages from men possessing her image

A young woman known as Amy is seeking payment from consumers of pornographic videos and pictures that depicted her abuse.  >more I hope she -and others like her – extract millions from the men who fuel the demand for  the creation of child sexual assault images.