I can’t get the images out of my head: I reported him to try to save the child victims… Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins, 42, was first elected as a Democratic Labor Party member in Victoria in 2014, resigning from the DLP this year and joining the Australian Conservatives. Her background is in the welfare sector and […]
Comment: Why the art world is blind to sex crime If you are an artist and you abuse a child, never fear: the art world has your back, writes Melinda Tankard Reist. Artists who commit sexual violations are too often considered above the law and deserving of special treatment. Their brilliance is given deferential treatment: […]
Former MP guilty of sex offences receives suspended sentence Today I am thinking about a 15-year-old Tasmanian girl and what she thinks of the Australian justice system. I’m wondering if she is questioning if it was worth taking her harrowing ordeal to the courts to find no justice at the end of the process. At […]
Photos found in paedophile collections I haven’t seen the latest photographs by artist Bill Henson to go on show at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne. But I have seen these. So I know what Henson is capable of and how he likes to depicts and shoot young girls. The girl (image to the right) who featured naked […]
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] […]
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 […]
The brutalisation of girls In the past couple of weeks I’ve met or heard from young girls whose experiences give further disturbing insight into just how bad things are for girls right now. A 12-year-old girl approached me after I addressed the question ‘Are girls being treeated as sex objects?’ before an audience in Sydney’s […]
Stop Porn Cultures conference: how industrialised porn harms us all I’ve just come back from the US where I attended the Stop Porn Culture conference in Boston. While I can’t say I enjoyed it quite as much as the enchanted evening listening to James Taylor and Carole King perform in Washington (my smooth-taking mate DJM from […]
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 […]
The Age covered the story today: Put soft porn out of view: experts Graphic images delay censor report And also invited readers to vote in a poll: Poll – “Should ‘soft’ pornography be banned from sale in newsagents, milkbars and service stations” Classification system held in contempt For more background on the issue see these […]
Caroline Overington writes in The Australian today that the Family Court has ordered two girls aged 8 and 10 to have sleepovers with their child sex offender father. As long as there’s a lock on the bedroom door. This man has filmed child pornography and created links to child porn sites. He also previously invited […]
Since my last piece on the cyberbullying taking place through Facebook, other sites targeting girls for their alleged flaws have been found. One identifying young women not considered “marriage material”. Another naming and shaming ‘12-year-old sluts’. Another for girls labelled “bitches”. British girl Poppy Bracey recently took her life as a result of a cyber bullying campaign […]
