How We Protect Children – Svava’s Story

Originally published on D2LBlog.com on Nov 9, 2015 By Svava Brooks. As a Darkness to Light instructor and program facilitator, I not only teach others about child sexual abuse prevention, I also practice what I teach. And I’ve had several opportunities. The most difficult for me was a situation at a…

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I watch child pornography to prosecute sex crimes. The kids’ silence is deafening.

Originally Published on TheWashingtonPost.com on Oct 23, 2015 By Sarah Chang If they’re not crying, we assume they must not be hurting. During my first week as a federal prosecutor of sexual abuse crimes against children, one of my colleagues told me her chief coping mechanism: Turn the sound off…

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A church seeks healing

Originally published in the Boston Globe on December 14, 2002 By Michael Paulson. Pope accepts Law’s resignation in Rome Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Bernard F. Law in a private audience at the Vatican. The pope made no public comment. Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston is expected to…

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More clergy abuse, secrecy cases

Originally published in the Boston Globe on December 4, 2002 By Thomas Farragher and Sacha Pfeiffer. Records detail quiet shifting of rogue priests From left, Phil de Albuquerque of Speak Truth to Power; Rodney Ford, father of an alleged abuse victim; and David Clohessy of Survivors Network of those Abused…

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