MIAMI — Miami-Dade County has named a street after a 10-year-girl who died after chronic child abuse and launched a new poster to make people aware of an abuse hotline. Officials on Friday renamed a portion of a street “Nubia Way” after Nubia Barahona. Her decomposing body was found in her father’s truck along Interstate 95 in February. Her twin brother Victor was badly burned by a toxic chemical.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/miami-dade-names-street-after-child-abuse-victim-1928062.html

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — The arrest of an accused serial killer in northern B.C. is a “big deal” for sex workers, says the head of a Prince George organization. Jan Wilson, who works with women in the sex trade as the co-ordinator of the Prince George New Hope Society, said they will feel safer now that charges have been laid in the murders of Jill Stacey Stuchenko and Cynthia Frances Maas. Both 35-year-old mothers had worked as prostitutes in Prince George.

On the morning of 15 March Joy Vincent left Croydon’s Gilroy Court Hotel, and then she disappeared. No one knows what happened next: whom she met, where she was taken, whether she even went left or right. She had no family, no apparent friends, no one whom the 17-year-old could trust.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/oct/16/britains-child-sex-trade?newsfeed=true

VISALIA, CA — A Visalia teenager is making it her mission to stop child abuse and she’s taking her campaign to her fellow students. Erin Fisher is a soft-spoken sophomore at Redwood High School in Visalia. But don’t let her quiet voice fool you. The 15-year-old is taking on a big message: stop child abuse and neglect.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=8386583

Daniel Mendez was a Boy Scout, had plenty of friends, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, played football and was consistently an honor student. But that didn’t stop bullies from going after him, calling him names such as half-breed, gay and mercilessly ridiculing him at Bernice Ayer Middle School in San Clemente.

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http://www.ocregister.com/news/bullying-319955-school-parents.html?plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:1c11e91e-fa4e-452e-acf9-a45b0e5031c5

As we kick off Domestic Violence Awareness Month, let me introduce you to an unlikely victim. Dan Huddleston, a 60-year-old retired air traffic controller, is not your poster child survivor. Yet the Sugar Grove man — husband, father of two, grandfather of six — represents millions of adults out there who for a lifetime have carried scars from dark childhood memories.

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http://couriernews.suntimes.com/7964580-417/denise-crosby-50-years-later-abused-child-can-still-feel-the-blackness.html

A Texas court is sending an urgent message to child protective services agencies across the country: Stop harming children in the name of “protecting” them, according to a national child advocacy organization. The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform responded Thursday to a decision by a court in Texas ordering the Texas Child Protective Services agency to stay away from a 14-year-old girl. Such “orders of protection” are common in domestic violence cases.  “But we’ve never heard of such an order protecting a child from a child welfare agency – until now,” said NCCPR Executive Director Richard Wexler.

How would you feel if your 13-year-old discovered a Facebook page called ‘you know she’s playing hard to get when you’re chasing her down an alley‘? Thousands of Facebook users have signed a petition against this page and others like it, horrified by the way they condone rape and violence against women. This particular page has attracted a lot of attention with over 190,000 likes and an ugly mass of derogatory comments and seeming confessions of rape such as ‘I have raped many women… no lie,’ and ‘It’s not rape, it’s surprise sex.’

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http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/09/27/could-your-child-be-looking-at-facebook-pages-condoning-rape/

Ask Us Who We Are, the latest documentary by Bess O’Brien of Kingdom County Productions, begins by chronicling the lives of nine Vermont teenagers, all of whom are or were in the foster care system. The film starts with each youth describing what his or her home life was like prior to being placed into foster care.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-redmond/vermont-foster-children_b_982702.html

After inappropriate images were found on Wesley Wayne Schaefer’s computer, it initially seemed that child pornography would be the only charge the 34-year-old San Marcos man would face in trial. But investigators probed further and asked six children who once lived with Schaefer to be interviewed at Roxanne’s House, a children’s advocacy program that is part of the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center.

Her name is Princess Olufemi-Kayode. She is a columnist, a journalist and communication development expert. She is one of the few Nigerian women who have not allowed stigma keep them mourning after sexual abuse. As a teenager, she was sexually abused. Despite her open admission of being a victim of rape, she is happily married, with children. Olufemi-Kayode’s experience made her realise the impact of the consequences of rape on victims. This led to her raising public awareness and seeking institutional support to meet the needs of abused children.

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http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/20909-the-woman-who-defied-sexual-abuse-stigma.html

CNN’s Don Lemon released his memoir “Transparent” in May. His story includes incidences of pedophilia victimization that he shared with the world during the Bishop Eddie Long scandals. The announcement of Lemon’s memoir comes on the heels of a scathing New York Times review of personal memoirs as writing pity parties written by people who have not done anything special or worth writing about.

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http://www.huliq.com/10178/cnns-don-lemons-upcoming-memoir-reveals-childhood-sexual-abuse

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http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Don-Lemon/dp/0982702787/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316837063&sr=8-1

BOOK REVIEW

There were a lot of great things about this book. First, Jeffs’ story pulls you in from the beginning and the book is VERY hard to put down. His accounts of what life was like in the FLDS church were fascinating to read about, and even though I had already read these same types of stories from two other perspectives, both perspectives were female so it was very interesting to hear about his life as a child from a male’s point of view.

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http://www.zimbio.com/Warren+Jeffs/articles/KNSDlwMlm6G/Memoir+Child+Abuse+Polygamy+Inside+FLDS