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The second creator of sexually degrading Facebook page 'Benders Root Rate' has been sentenced to four months jail. The page, which went viral in June last year, named and rated the sexual performance of local teens, some as young as 13. David McRory, 22, pleaded guilty in the Bendigo Magistrates Court this morning to using [...]
46,000 confirmed cases of child abuse in Australia in 2010. The ACT for Kids website was set up by the Australian charity Abused Child Trust and is based in Queensland. Their philosophy is that “Protecting children is everyone’s business.” Their aim is to treat and prevent child abuse. They want the whole community to join [...]
A new Australian study 'Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders in a Cohort of Sexually Abused Children' published in the Archives of General Psychiatry has found that children who are subjected to sexual abuse are more than twice as likely to suffer from schizophrenia later in life. Professor Louise Newman, director of Monash University’s Centre for Developmental Psychiatry [...]
