Another Teen Sexually Assaulted
The recent Rolling Stone piece "Sexting, Shame and Suicide" tells the story of a teenage girl from Saratoga, California, who got drunk at a party, passed out, and woke up the next morning covered in Sharpie marker drawings. She frantically pieced together the story: she had been carried to a bedroom where three boys stripped her, fingered her, drew all over her skin in Sharpie—all while capturing the whole thing on camera.
As the images spread around her high school, the victim found herself publicly shamed and abandoned by her friends, lamenting in a Facebook ...
Calculating Damages in Negligence Lawsuits against Departments of Human Services
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Governments, be they city, county, state, tribal or federal, administer a wide range of social welfare services and have a duty to properly discharge those obligations. Professionals hired by government agencies, regardless of the tasks they do, are expected to exercise a reasonable degree of skill and care in their work. When a department of human services is legally negligent in delivering or overseeing those services, our tort system is designed in some cases to allow victims to make claims against it. Of course, negligence is a technical legal concept; not every ...
Wikipedia Article on Masha Elizabeth Allen
Masha Elizabeth Allen (born МарияНиколаевна Яшенкова, (Russian:Mariya Nikolaevna Yashenkova))
Born August 25, 1992[1] in Novoshakhtinsk, Russia
A girl referred to by the media as “Disney World Girl,” “Internet Girl” or “Internet Porn Girl.” Since approximately 1998, she has appeared in hundreds of child sex abuse images distributed on the Internet worldwide.
Other names Mariya Nikolaevna Yashenkova, Masha Mancuso, Maria Mancuso, Masha Ginn, currently unknown
For a long time, police feared she was still being sexually abused and ...
Online (Child) Pornography a Public Health Risk
This article from the UK's Daily Mail echoes what many child development and sex abuse experts have begun to realize: youth exposure to pornography is not just a personal issue, it is a public health problem.
The piece, by Dr. John Woods, ran over a year ago. Sadly it's even more relevant today than it was in 2012. The article makes the following excellent points:
Although the internet doesn’t create these problems, it can release interests which would never have surfaced otherwise.
For every young person who has come to the attention of police or social ...
Resources for Youth Vulnerable to Trafficking
Youth who age out of foster care are particularly susceptible to homelessness and becoming victims of human trafficking. The National Center for Homeless Education offers an informational webpage of resources on human trafficking targeted toward unaccompanied homeless youth and youth leaving foster care.
The webpage includes links to an issue brief and a literature review that provides information about the growing epidemic of human and sex trafficking in the United States. In addition, a link to a factsheet on recognizing and addressing human trafficking written specif...