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  1. Canberra man posed as teenage girl to obtain child abuse material
    By Harry Frost

    The 22-year-old was sentenced to 20 months in jail but is likely to be released after three months on condition of good behaviour.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/lac

    #Courts #ChildAbuse #HarryFrost

  2. Minister flies into child protection crisis in WA's Pilbara
    By Alistair Bates and Kimberley Putland

    Child Protection Minister Jessica Stojkovski flies into Port Hedland amid reports her department is seriously mishandling the protection of vulnerable Aboriginal children.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-14/pil

    #ChildAbuse #YouthCrime #StateandTerritoryGovernment #AlistairBates #KimberleyPutland

  3. Ballarat girl in child protection system found dead in squat house
    By Eden Hynninen and Coco Veldkamp

    A 17-year-old girl and her 26-year-old boyfriend were found dead squatting inside a Ballarat house that had no running water or power.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-14/vic

    #ChildAbuse #EdenHynninen #CocoVeldkamp

  4. Ballarat girl in child protection system found dead in squat house
    By Eden Hynninen and Coco Veldkamp

    A 17-year-old girl and her 26-year-old boyfriend were found dead squatting inside a Ballarat house that had no running water or power.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-14/vic

    #ChildAbuse #EdenHynninen #CocoVeldkamp

  5. Ballarat girl in child protection system found dead in squat house
    By Eden Hynninen and Coco Veldkamp

    A 17-year-old girl and her 26-year-old boyfriend were found dead squatting inside a Ballarat house that had no running water or power.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-14/vic

    #ChildAbuse #EdenHynninen #CocoVeldkamp

  6. Ballarat girl in child protection system found dead in squat house
    By Eden Hynninen and Coco Veldkamp

    A 17-year-old girl and her 26-year-old boyfriend were found dead squatting inside a Ballarat house that had no running water or power.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-14/vic

    #ChildAbuse #EdenHynninen #CocoVeldkamp

  7. Ballarat girl in child protection system found dead in squat house
    By Eden Hynninen and Coco Veldkamp

    A 17-year-old girl and her 26-year-old boyfriend were found dead squatting inside a Ballarat house that had no running water or power.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-14/vic

    #ChildAbuse #EdenHynninen #CocoVeldkamp

  8. Title: The rich are buying themselves into politics, to get richer.

  9. Title: The rich are buying themselves into politics, to get more rich.

    #art #racism #childAbuse #war #clown

  10. Former teacher spared jail after seeking stories about underage boys
    By Wade Stephens and Lua Ikenasio

    A former school teacher in Victoria's north-west has been handed an 18-month community corrections order after pleading guilty over child abuse material.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/for

    #ChildAbuse #SexualOffences #Courts #Pornography #WadeStephens #LuaIkenasio

  11. Former childcare worker's husband avoids jail for sharing child exploitation material
    By Rachel Jennings and Eliza Kavanagh

    Ronald Houghton received a suspended jail term after he was caught bragging to undercover officers about his experience abusing children in an online chat.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/hus

    #Courts #ChildCare #SexualOffences #ChildAbuse #RachelJennings #ElizaKavanagh

  12. Child protection worker allegedly sexually abused teenager in care
    By Jordanna Schriever

    A child protection worker allegedly sexually abused a teenage boy with a mild intellectual disability while she was meant to be caring for him, and showered him with cash and gifts including pets and a PlayStation, a court has heard.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-01/sa-

    #Courts #SexualOffences #ChildAbuse #JordannaSchriever

  13. Man who produced child abuse material pleads guilty to 87 charges
    By Jacinta Counihan

    A Eurobodalla man pleads guilty to 83 charges of recording an intimate image without consent and four counts of creating child abuse material.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/man

    #Courts #SexualOffences #ChildAbuse #JacintaCounihan

  14. Dear Small: An Audio Excerpt

    Dance For Me is the book that has sold the best – across the various platforms including the UK version of Amazon, it’s accumulated over two point five thousand reviews since it’s publication in 2014. While my writing has shifted in the last twelve years, this remains one of my favorite stories. And an excerpt that still makes me emotional. The audio version of this book is available on the Hoopla app (free library app).

    In the book, Maelea had a friend.  

    Her friend was a mouse.  His name was Small.  

    Even as the author,  I’m not quite sure whether Small was ever real or just imaginary, but the hope he represented for this girl was very real. My story and Maelea’s are different. I was never sold; I didn’t grow up as a sustenance farmer along the Mekong River in Cambodia. But, as a survivor of long-term sexual abuse, there are pieces of Maelea that resonate deeply. Manufacturing hope when my body didn’t have the resources to cope anymore is one of those pieces.

    While this piece does not highlight specific scenes of abuse, it can still be triggering if your past includes abuse of any kind. The Holding Room has many resources if you feel like something’s pressing on a rather tender bruise.

    ********   ******    *******

    Dear Small,

      I’ve been calling you.  I’ve called you every day I’ve been in here.  You didn’t answer but when I finally cried myself to sleep, I dreamed of you. You rode a white horse. It was a small horse, because you’re small, and also because you had to fit through the door.  The door that you’re looking for.  You’re looking for the door that gets into this room, aren’t you?  This place must have a million rooms in it—a hundred at least!  And there are lots of places to hide a key.  You’re really brave,  going into where the people are. 

    If they see you, they will trap you. 
    They will kill you. 

    But you don’t care because you are my friend, and you want to set me free.  So, you go from room to room, trying to be quiet, trying to stay hidden. You must have to wait a long time when you see a desk, because you don’t have fingers to open them.   Or,  no.  Wait.  You’re a brave, rodent prince.  You’re very smart.  You know how to use your claws to jerk open drawers.  It’s dangerous because you have to climb on top of the furniture, and so it’s harder to hide quickly if a door should open. 

    But you have to.

    Sometimes, I bet you get scared.
    And you think to yourself,  “I can’t do this.” 
    And you almost stop.

     It’s okay that you do, I don’t blame you for being scared.  In fact… it makes me feel like I understand you even better, because I’m scared, too.  You almost give up the quest.  But you don’t.  You don’t give up because you know that finding the key means saving your friend’s life.  My life.  And you love me so much, you risk your own life to find a key.  Day after day, night after night, you scurry in and out of little holes in the wall, looking for something shiny, something made to unlock a door.

     When you find it, you can rescue me. Last night, in my dream, you really did find it: you found the Master’s key!  It was big and gold. It was heavy, it was hard for you to pull up out of the drawer.  You didn’t give up, though.  You kept trying and trying until… you got it!  You grip it between your teeth and scurry down the side of the desk.  You must have been very excited.  What you had tried so long was almost done!   I could see you, in my dream, running from room to room, the silver key dragging along behind you.

    You had to find a hole.

    I’ve searched for a hole, Small.  

    I’ve looked and looked. I’ve got down on my knees and combed every last inch of the wall.  I can’t find one. 

    But you’re smarter than me.

    Sure enough,  in my dream, you found a small, hidden hole that led into this room where I am, and you came riding through it with your furry head held high, your whiskers blowing from how fast you rode. 

     You are my hero. 

    And it was a good dream.

    You are my friend.  Every time I see you race along the edge of the wall, I get excited because you’re my friend.  Friends are happy to see each other.   I mean,  I think they are.  I’ve never really had a friend.  My sister is my friend, I guess, but she’s so little.  I couldn’t tell her about this place.  I couldn’t tell her about you.  You’re the only one I talk to.  You’re the only one I can tell everything to.  You’re here in this place too, after all.  You see everything, too.  I think that’s why I get excited when I see you:  I know I can talk to you because I know you understand. 

    Sometimes I imagine sitting with you.  We would be outside, sitting on a frayed blanket.  I imagine the grass and the Sun.  I almost can’t even remember what the Sun feels like anymore.  But, in the picture in my head, my skin is warm and nothing hurts.  Not my head, not my arm, not my legs, not my heart.  A basket of fish sits between us. Your rodent nose would scrunch up to sniff it.  The steam rising from the freshly baked goods would make both of us happy.  I’d laugh because my stomach would be growling, the way it does right before it knows it’s going to be given something wonderful.  We’d eat and you’d tell me funny stories. I bet you know a lot of funny stories.  I’d laugh until my sides hurt because you’re such a good storyteller.   And in the stories you’d tell me, there would always be a very scary bad guy, one worse than all the others in all the other stories I’ve ever been told.  Because you’ve seen the real monsters, so you’d know what they really look like, what they really act like.  The only difference between your stories and real life is that your stories have happy endings. 

     In real life, there aren’t happy endings, are there, Small?

    I know because I’ve been calling you and you haven’t answered.  You should be able to hear me;  I screamed your name over and over and over last night.  I screamed it so loud, it echoed around these walls and rang in my own ears. 

    SMAALLL! 

    I yelled. 

    But you didn’t answer.

    SMAAALLLL!

    I clawed at the walls until my fingers bled, trying to help you, trying to make you hear me. 

    But you still didn’t answer.

     No one hears me, do they, Small?

    Friends want to see each other.  I want to see you.  I’ve waited for you,  I’ve called for you, I’ve dreamed of you and I’ve looked for you.  But I haven’t seen you, and I don’t know why.  Is it because you don’t want to be my friend?  Or is it because you aren’t even real?   

     I don’t think you’re real.

    When I got here, I was a little girl.  When I was put in this room, part of me was still a little girl.  I thought you rode a white horse.  I thought you went from room to room looking for a key because you wanted to rescue me.  I thought you wanted to rescue me because you loved me.  But if you loved someone, wouldn’t you answer them when they needed you? 

    It’s easier to believe you aren’t even real than to believe you don’t love me.  It’s easier to believe there isn’t a key at all to this door than to believe I won’t ever see it.  It’s easier to be alone than to have friends that don’t really care at all.  It’s easier to believe hope is dead than to believe it won’t ever become truth. 

     When I talk to you,  when I look for you,  when I call for you…. It’s like holding my breath, waiting for a burst of sunlight to shine through the darkness.  When  the sunlight never comes,  it makes the hurt worse.  When I talk to you, when I look for you, when I call for you… in those moments, hope is the only thing keeping me alive, Small.  When you don’t answer, when I can’t see you,  when hope dies, a  little piece of me dies too.  If I keep believing, if I keep hoping, soon, all of me will be dead. 

     I don’t know if you’re real or not anymore.  If you are,  I hope you can understand why, even though it hurts me deep in my heart,  I have to say one more thing,  I have to let go,  I can’t hope anymore.  I hope you’ll understand why I have to say… to say… goodbye.

    #abuse #audio #blogging #books #cambodia #childAbuse #hope #humanTrafficking #women #Writing
  15. A quotation from Orwell

    The weakness of the child is that it starts with a blank sheet. It neither understands nor questions the society in which it lives, and because of its credulity other people can work upon it, infecting it with the sense of inferiority and the dread of offending against mysterious, terrible laws.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/35818/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #authority #child #childabuse #childrearing #credulity #inferiority #obedience #tabularasa

  16. ICE Sex Offense Cases Reach Record High, New Report Finds

    Washington, D.C., July 27, 2026. ICE sex offense cases have climbed sharply over the past two years, according to a new report from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance documenting 59 ICE and Border Patrol agents charged or convicted of violent or sexual crimes since 2006. Fifty of those cases, or roughly 85 percent, involve sex offenses. Thirty-seven involve child victims. The report, titled "They Walk Among Us," landed just weeks after a Maine ICE agent shot and killed a 25-year-old man during a […]

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/i-c-e

  17. I keep wondering why my energy has been down lately and I think its clear, stress and harassment take A LOT of energy to process.

    Its so helpful to listen to the children harmed by frivolous family court processes bc now adays they figure out when their parents lied.

    The reality is that the parent who lies is simply a child abuser plain and simple.

    Here's one kid whose talking about the abuse she suffered.

    youtu.be/aZLkjyxJ39c

    #parentalalienation #childabuse #parentingwhileblack #karen

  18. This is shameful!

    "Survivors fighting Bessborough apartment plans prepared to chain themselves to diggers

    Cork City Council has granted permission for 140 apartments, a decision that is currently being appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála, with a decision due by July 9"

    echolive.ie/corknews/arid-4187

    #Bessborough #mastodaoine #CorkCity #cork #MotherAndBabyHome #survivor #ChildAbuse #Ireland #900babies #IrishHistory #MagdaleneLaundries

  19. “The new information I obtained leads me to believe that the Department is laying the groundwork for another #lawless #deportation effort, this time on a greater scale, across more countries of origin,” Wyden wrote.

    “You have been entrusted with the care & safety of the #children placed within the ORR network. Proceeding with this plan knowingly endangers their lives & violates your duty to these vulnerable children.”

    #Trump #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse

  20. Wyden, who is the ranking member and senior Democrat of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Office of #Refugee Resettlement, did not detail how he came by his information. His office declined to provide further details. The ORR, which oversees the care of unaccompanied #immigrant #children, falls under the Department of Health and Human Services.

    An #HHS spox denied any such plans.

    #Trump #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

  21. Sen #RonWyden of Oregon wrote in a letter Wednesday to #US Health Secretary #RFKJr that he had “credible information” that the #Trump admin had a list of more than 500 #immigrant #children it was targeting for a fast-track removal process & that the department was racing to act in days. He warned that the admin was abdicating “core humanitarian & child welfare mandates” & demanded an immediate halt to any plans to remove the children.

    #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse

  22. Lutkajumala: äitinsä menettänyt tyttö
    is our latest release

    took part in the wild compo at 68k inside, we got 3rd place in the compo!

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ZU...

    #demoscene #single-8 #8mmfilm #experimentalcinema #suicide #drugabuse #childabuse #death #mentalhealth

  23. Wednesday, May 13, 2026

    She told us we're Russian: Abducted Ukrainian teen on meeting Putin's notorious children's commissioner -- Inside a Ukrainian mission to liberate territory from Russian occupation -- Ukrainian drones strike Russian gas facility over 1,500 kilometers from border -- EU 'frustration' at failed defense industry ramp-up ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  24. Tuesday, May 12, 2026

    Bringing Ukraine's kids back: Almost 60 countries unite to stop Russia's genocidal kidnapping of children -- As ceasefire ends, Russian drone strikes residential building in Kyiv -- Ukraine fears US will again push a deal giving Russia 'a lot' and Kyiv nothing -- As Victory Day ceasefire draws to a close, Russian attacks kill 3 civilians, injure 16 ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  25. Friday, April 24, 2026

    Human rights activists count 7 torture chambers detaining Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff -- Russian overnight strikes on Odesa residential buildings kill married couple, injure 15 -- 12 Russian FSB officers killed in drone strike on command post in occupied Donetsk -- Russians in Tuapse in disbelief after Ukrainian drones bring the war home ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  26. Sunday, April 5, 2026

    How Western-made materials for cigarettes wind up in Russian missiles that strike Ukraine -- US hearing exposes links between Russia’s energy sector and abduction of Ukrainian children -- Ukraine strikes Russian fuel train, confirms damage to multimillion-dollar Orion drones in occupied regions -- Ukraine restores nearly half of power generation wiped out by Russia ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  27. I'm sharing this video here: it reports the full testimony if the youngest victim who survived to tell the world what they did to him.

    Previoudly, he reported to FBI, DOJ but nobody did anything: like other victims he was legt alone, his name exposed.

    The video is pretty long, but worth.listening to....

    "THEY TOOK ME TO MURDER PARTIES": Epstein's Youngest Victim Speaks Out |...
    youtube.com/watch?v=BArXOllx6CE

    #Epsteinfiles
    #Epsteincrimes
    #testmony
    #childabuse
    #childtrafficking

  28. 5-yr-old #LiamRamos & father return to #Minnesota from #Texas #ICE “detention facility” [#ConcentrationCamp] following a judge’s order, acc/to TX Rep #JoaquinCastro. The 2 were detained in a #Minneapolis suburb on Jan 20.

    A spox for the Democratic congressman, confirmed the 2 had arrived home. She said Castro picked them up from Dilley on Saturday night & escorted them home on Sunday to Minnesota.

    #law #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
    apnews.com/article/minnesota-b

  29. Judge orders US to release 5-year-old & dad taken into custody in #Minnesota crackdown

    The treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, pictured wearing a blue winter hat and Spider-Man backpack while in the custody of #immigration agents, drew outrage across the country.

    #law #LiamRamos #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
    apnews.com/article/immigration

  30. The #CoreCivic #PrivatePrison facility was closed during the #Biden admin & reopened in March 2025 after #Trump retook the presidency. A lawsuit is challenging the facility’s conditions, including inadequate #food, #water & #medical care.

    #LiamRamos #law #immigration #HumanRights #ChildEndangerment #ChildNeglect #ChildAbuse

  31. Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old #ICE detained last week in #Minnesota, is being held in Dilley, #Texas in a center owned by #CoreCivic, a #PrivatePrison company that donated heavily to #Trump’s campaign. Liam is now reportedly sick because of the poor facility conditions.

    #LiamRamos #law #immigration #HumanRights #ChildEndangerment #ChildNeglect #ChildAbuse
    texasmonthly.com/news-politics

  32. But for the past 3 months, that office has also locked some #teenage immigrant #boys inside a secure #juvenile #prison in southeast #Pennsylvania with a long & publicly documented history of staff physically & sexually abusing juvenile offenders in its care, a WaPo investigation has found.

    #Trump #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #ChildSexCrimes #SexualAssault #rape #StateSponsoredAbduction #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw

  33. “This administration is working fearlessly to end the tragedy of human trafficking & other abuses of unaccompanied alien children who enter the country illegally,” said “Health” Secretary #RFKJr, who oversees the Office of #Refugee Resettlement, or #ORR, which cares for unaccompanied #immigrant #children.

    #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #ChildSexCrimes #SexualAssault #rape #StateSponsoredAbduction #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw

  34. The #Trump admin says it is focused on protecting unaccompanied #immigrant #children. It imposed strict new background checks on those seeking custody of young migrants & cut ties with a chain of youth shelters accused of subjecting children in its care to pervasive sexual abuse.

    #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #StateSponsoredAbduction #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICE #CBP

  35. I know how most of you feel about WaPo, but I go by the journalists’ records of journalistic integrity. It’s hard to get a job as an investigative reporter. Also this is an exclusive … so, #GiftArticle

    #Trump admin #jails #immigrant #teens in facility known for #ChildAbuse

    #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildSexCrimes #SexualAssault #rape #StateSponsoredAbduction #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #HumanitarianLaw #ICE #CBP #WhiteSupremacy
    wapo.st/4sLbPMe