16-year-old Alexia Rael told her mother’s longtime boyfriend, Bradley Wallin, a local bank manager, that what he had been doing to her “isn’t right,” referencing years of alleged rape. That evening, Rael told her mother and Wallin was kicked out of the home. A criminal investigation began and soon another relative of Rael came forward to say she, too, had been raped by Wallin. Less than a … [Read more...]
The Failure of French Justice in the Face of Child Victims of Sexual Violence
(Translated from French) Child victims of sexual assault suffer from a denial of protection due to the increasingly frequent use, particularly in the French judicial system, of anti-victim speeches using the concept of the “parental alienation syndrome”. Many personalities are asking that “Parliament take up this need for protection”. Read more here. … [Read more...]