When stories of child sexual abuse hit the media and the victim is a teenager, or perhaps even a little younger, faulty underlying assumptions about the victim's responsibility emerge. Many also jump to troubling conclusions when the victim is an adolescent or teenage boy. Memphis has seen a rash of such stories lately, most recently during testimony in the James Hawkins murder trial. While the alleged offenders may be teachers, coaches, pastors, parents or caregivers, the public sometimes believes the victim is blameworthy as well.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky stunned a packed courtroom and backed out of a preliminary hearing at the last minute Tuesday, avoiding a face-to- face confrontation with accusers who his lawyer said were just trying to cash in by making up stories of child sex abuse. Sandusky pleaded not guilty and vowed afterward to "stay the course, to fight for four quarters.
Heinous. It's a word reporters use sparingly and for the most outrageous crimes, usually those involving children, because it pricks the senses. And we're glad to have it as a tool. Just 25 out of the nearly 8,000 stories written in the Deseret News so far this year use the word heinous.
Criminal justice focus leaves prevention out of the story BERKELEY, Calif., May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tens of thousands of children are sexually abused each year in the United States, yet news coverage of the subject is out of sync with both the magnitude of the issue and the context in which it occurs. This finding comes from a study released this month from Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute. The report, Case by Case: News coverage of child sexual abuse, examined national news stories on child sexual abuse published between 2007 and 2009. Fewer than one story a week focused on the topic and even fewer covered the issue in detail.
TO THE EDITORS: While reading coverage of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal on LancasterOnline, I noticed another reader's comment that there were currently three child sex abuse stories on the home page of LancasterOnline. I went back to check for myself and indeed there were.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The wife of ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky said Thursday her husband is innocent of the child sex abuse allegations made against him and that his accusers are making up their stories, including one suggesting she was home while Sandusky attacked a boy who screamed for help. Dottie Sandusky's comments defending her husband were the first she has made since Sandusky was arrested last month and accused of molesting boys he met through a charity he founded for troubled youth. He faces more than 50 charges and has maintained his innocence.
Priest was acquitted of child-abuse charge The Dayton Daily News' package of stories on April 22 about the ministry status of priests' accused of child abuse omits an important fact. One of the priests on administrative leave whose photo you printed, Raymond Larger, was acquitted and found not guilty in October 2005 of the child abuse charge that led to his leave.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The wife of former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky said Thursday her husband is innocent of the child sex abuse allegations made against him and that his accusers are making up their stories, including one suggesting she was home while Sandusky attacked a boy who screamed for help. Dottie Sandusky's comments defending her husband were the first she has made since Sandusky was arrested last month and accused of molesting boys he met through a charity he founded for troubled youth.
The stories are unsettling to say the least. Accounts of felony child abuse by the director of a school accepting McKay disability vouchers; $350,000 in corporate vouchers dispensed to an Islamic school in Tampa with alleged terrorist ties; children being funded through two separate voucher programs, and scholarship funding organizations soliciting 'kickbacks' from participating schools. The actions taken by the Department of Education and requested of the participating schools as voluntary action, will not have an impact on a school's ability to participate in the programs next year," [Jim Horne]'s letter reassured schools taking part in the voucher programs.
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