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Category Archives: Abuse
Tools For Healing Trauma
Neil Strauss writes: Whatever the case may be, just going to intensives or workshops is not enough. It’s important to maintain any shifts, revelations, or improvements after the first healing experience with the following four things: *Consistent Support: Decades of … Continue reading
Match.com fraudsters used seduction manual to con woman out of £1.6m
The Telegraph: Court hears gang of conmen used book called The Game: Penetrating the Society of Pick Up Artists as a seduction manual A wealthy businesswoman used her mother’s company to hand dating fraudsters £1.6 million after they duped her … Continue reading
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‘Black male kept his 11 kids living in home filled with feces, maggots, raw meat.’
News: A Steelton man was arrested on Tuesday after police said they found the home he lived in with his 11 children was full of trash, feces, flies, raw meat and more. Tyree R. Fluellen, 29, was arrested Tuesday on … Continue reading
‘Child sodomized while mom was prostituting herself in the next room.’
News: A 5-year-old girl was sexually assaulted while her mother was prostituting herself in the next room at a Pleasant Grove home, police said today. The mother is now charged, as is the convicted sex offender police say assaulted the … Continue reading
Spotlight (2015)
Comments: * Spotlight is the most grown-up film I’ve seen in a good long while. It ultimately serves as an indictment (presented in the most humane manner imaginable) of the gradual atomization of our best and brightest (which is how … Continue reading
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The secret shame of Afghanistan’s bacha bazi ‘dancing boys’ who are made to dress like little girls, then abused by paedophiles
Daily Mail: Afghanistan has long been considered one of the most religious countries in the world: a place where men and women follow Islamic doctrine carefully But behind the devout exterior, the country is hiding a dark secret – one … Continue reading
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Is Theranos A Girl-Powered Scam?
From ROK: Elizabeth Holmes was supposed to be the grrl powered answer to Steve Jobs, black turtleneck and all. At the encouragement of a professor, she dropped out of Stanford University at 19 years old to continue the startup that … Continue reading
Ramzpaul: African UN Peacekeepers demand refugee kids suck dick for food. Obama wants to import these people to enrich us.
REPORT: United Nations: In exchange for food from UN peacekeepers, children as young as nine traded oral sex in warzones while officials looked the other way, according to a shocking report claimed. Memos about the sexual abuse in the Central … Continue reading
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Making A Murderer
Over the weekend, I watched all ten episodes of the Netflix true-crime series Making A Murderer. On Saturday night, I couldn’t stop watching until I had finished the series and it was light out. I was furious at what appeared … Continue reading
Child sex abuse gangs could have assaulted ONE MILLION youngsters in the UK
REPORT: There could be up to a million victims of child sexual exploitation in the UK, it is feared. Rotherham’s Labour MP Sarah Champion describes it as a “national disaster” and is demanding a taskforce to fight the “horror.” In … Continue reading
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