sexual abuse

Preachers Accused of Sins and Crimes on 20/20

Posted by centaur on April 14, 2007 at 6:36 am

ABC News - Preachers Accused of Sins and Crimes on 20/20. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3034040&page=1
Ken Ward is a Southern Baptist pastor and teacher in East Texas, who has admitted to molesting more than 40 boys. He said that being a teacher and minister is the perfect job for a child molester, because it puts the molester in direct contact [...]

Sins of the Fathers and other pedophiles

Posted by centaur on March 3, 2007 at 7:42 am

Just saw a W-Five report on a pedophile priest in Canada. Trying to find it online but no success. I have found this article instead, which is quite shocking if you were to click it and read it in its entirety. Gives some background on why pedophile priests may have historically been protected, their abuses kept hidden, their [...]

Incest a positive or neutral experience

Posted by centaur on February 27, 2007 at 5:37 am

http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/l11/l11chap3_3.shtml
 
Image from Info for Health and the Hesperian Foundation http://www.hesperian.org/
I’ve been reading how some claim incest was a positive or neutral experience for them. Of course, there are those who claim corporal punishment was a good thing for them too. So they see nothing wrong in meting out physical punishment to their own children when they misbehave, or otherwise. 
Why [...]

What Malignant Narcissism is and is not

Posted by centaur on February 26, 2007 at 5:29 am

From http://www.operationdoubles.com/narc/
Malignant narcissists have an inferiority complex. So, their narcissism is a COMPENSATORY egomania. It is caused by shame and is low esteem in disguise. Quite the opposite of someone who just has a big head…
That underlying shame and self loathing is what makes a malignant narcissist malignant. Whereas narcissistic-but-normal people have big heads, malignant [...]

More on Narcissism

Posted by centaur on February 25, 2007 at 8:57 am

Here are several links to some good books on narcissism.

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family
In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
Why Is It Always About You? : Saving Yourself from the Narcissists in Your Life

Think I’ll be buying the books. Became very interested in [...]

Up to our knees in evil – child porn and other abuses

Posted by centaur on February 8, 2007 at 3:43 am

I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. – W. H. Auden
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070207/national/cda_child_porn
By Sue Bailey
OTTAWA (CP) – News of a Canadian link to a major international child-pornography ring is the latest in a growing number of horrific homegrown cases, says a top investigator.
“We’re up to our knees in [...]