Monday, January 22, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Silenced Cries
http://www.valentynelang.com/SilencedCries.htm
Silenced Cries
"Please Mommy, please Daddy" don't shake
me no more,
"My head hurts terribly and my neck is so sore",
"I'm losing my sight, and can no longer think",
"What did I do to break your love link"?
"Yes I was crying and couldn't seem to stop",
"I just needed changing with the diapers
you bought",
"That's all that I wanted to help me stop crying",
"God....Daddy..I feel like I'm dying"!
"My wee body is weak now, I can't breath
no more",
"Why did you do this...my brain you have torn",
"If only you would have talked to someone",
"Or taken a break till my crying was done".
"A soft warm blanket in a dark quiet room",
"Would have stopped me from crying...it would have been soon",
"You could have cradled me to make me feel loved",
"But now I hear God...calling my name from above".
"I can't think of words to tell you goodbye",
"Except..you will no longer hear my cries",
"You have taken my life before it begun",
"You will no longer hold me...there will be
no more sun".
~valentyne~ ©
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Abused Canadian child rescued after Web appeal
Abused Canadian child rescued after Web appeal Saturday, 10:46 AM
MONTREAL (AFP) - A sexually abused Canadian child has been placed under protection after sending an appeal for help over the Internet to an Australian website, Canadian police said.
The child used the Google search engine to send a message to the website for children, pleading for help, and the e-mail was forwarded to local police, spokeswoman Julie Gagnon of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told AFP.
The child typed in "kids help," found the Australian site offering online help to children and "sent a message saying 'this is what is happening to me, please help me so it doesn't happen any more,'" according to another spokeswoman, Corporal Lana Prosper.
The police withheld the identity and age of the child, but broadcaster CBC reported the victim was a girl living in New Brunswick province.
Police in Queensland, Australia, had alerted the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's Innocent Images International Task Force in Washington.
The US outfit determined the origin of the appeal and informed Canada's National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre (NCECC).
The Canadian authorities were able to trace the child to an address with help from Internet provider Bell Aliant and alert local police, Gagnon said.
She said that the child had been placed under protection and that an investigation was underway.
"Bell Aliant's cooperation helped us to locate this child and ensure that (the child) was quickly removed from the harmful environment," said Superintendent Earla-Kim McColl, Officer in Charge of the NCECC.
"This is an example of how children can be saved when ISPs and law enforcement work together."
"The most important factor to realize ... especially for children in today's society, is that there is help out there for them," said Prosper.
The Queensland-based Kids Help Line describes itself as Australia's only 24-hour telephone and online counselling service aimed at children aged 5-18.
Its website says counsellors respond to more than 10,000 calls each week about issues ranging from bullying to sexual abuse, homelessness and substance abuse.
The service, which is an initiative of the Catholic De La Salle Brothers, declined to comment on the case involving the Canadian child, citing client confidentiality.
The charity's annual report said it had received more than 640,000 contacts in 2005, more than 31,000 of them online. It said the proportion of online contacts had increased dramatically since the service was introduced in 2000.
The report did not give any data on how many of the contacts were made from children outside Australia.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/canada_australia_us2ndlead
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
January 2007
This January marks the fourth annual observance of National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM), started in 2004 by the NationalCenter for Victims of Crime. Since its inception, NSAM has become a unifying force for victim service providers across the country to raise awareness about the serious and deadly crime that victimizes more than one million women and nearly 400,000 men in America each year.
We encourage you to join us this year and help make the 4th National Stalking Awareness Month the best yet. Get involved by distributing materials, working with public officials on proclamations, holding events or trainings, contacting local media, and organizing or participating in other local activities that raise awareness of this terrible crime.
To get involved and share what your community is working on for National Stalking Awareness Month, please contact us at src@ncvc.org or call us at 202-467-8700.
Contributor:
Sharon from Angels That Care
Monday, January 01, 2007
Yesterday’s child
Welcome to Yesterday’s child. This is a site set up for people of all ages that have been affected by child hood abuse or adult rape, and the people that care for them.
We offer support through the support forum, and through various information here on the main site.Feel free to browse through the information. On the right is a list of books that members of the support forum have found useful. If you click on the books image it will take you to Amazon where you can order them if you so wish.
We also offer a support board where other survivors can come and receive support. To use the forums you do need to register an account. You can register for an account just HERE. Once you have registered and followed the instructions you will be able to log in. When a member of the forums you will then be able to access the chat room. We have regular moderated chats so members can receive “real time” support.We are a small, but very caring and supportive group of people.
Whether you still feel like you are a victim or you are a survivor, we want to be here for you. Take good care of yourselves.
http://yesterdayschild.org/
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