Trigger Warning' if you or someone you know has been affected by sexual abuse please remember the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre 24-hour Helpline is open 1800 77 8888
In this week’s podcast (episode 39) we will once again be joined by Leona O’Callaghan, founder of Haven Hub and Sophia Murphy both survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
We will talk about our reactions to the four-part Netflix docu-series - Jeffery Epstein: Filthy Rich and how we feel he managed to evade the authorities while sexually abusing and trafficking hundreds of young girls with the assistance of his companion Ghislaine Maxwell.
Today Thursday the 2nd July we hear how Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested by the FBI and look forward to watching just how her case is managed. Will she be given a lighter sentence or even handled differently through the legal system? Will she name others involved or get to make a plea deal to evade any jail time at all? We certainly think a lot of powerful rich men will be having many uncomfortable nights moving forward.
In the podcast we talk about how difficult it is for everyone to understand these particular victims of abuse. Especially those that return to the abuser time and time again. We discuss how even us as victims of abuse have struggled to explain just how this can happen and the difficulty in understanding and explaining the whole grooming process and how prolific abusers manage to select the vulnerable and normalise what they are doing, all the while surrounded by others that knowingly shield them from the authorities and take part in the abuse themselves.
It is vital that we understand how victims can feel complicit and even responsible for the abuse they suffer at the hands of these men. We need to explore the many reasons why these men are allowed to continually abuse young vulnerable girls and how societies turning a blind eye is not good enough.
Take care
Joyce, June and Paula
WHY ARE WE IGNORING THE WAR BEING WAGED ON INNOCENT CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN HOMES
Episode 40 - Coming Out the Other End!
Episode 38 - Surviving Covid19 - Leona O'Callaghan, Sophia Murphy, Joyce, June & Paula Kavanagh
Episode 37 - Maggie Oliver former Detective Constable in the GMP and Whistleblower in the Rochdale Scandal
Episode 36 - Dr. Joanne Nelson -Consultant Paediatrician, Medical Forensic Examiner & Clinical Director The Child & Adolescent Sexual Assault Treatment Service, Galway
Audio of Blog - Triggered by Paula Kavanagh
Episode 35 - J.P.O’Sullivan – Networks & Communications Manager & Ann Mara- Education Manager (Mercy Efforts for Child Protection Against Trafficking with the Hospitality Sector) MECPATHS
Wise Man - Guided Meditation by June Kavanagh
Episode 34- Barbara Scanlon (Spokesperson) & Anna Kavanagh (Founder) Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice (ABC)
Episode 33 - Dr Lisa Cutbert - CEO - Prisoner Aid through Community Effort (PACE)
Episode 32 - Noeline Blackwell - Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC)
Episode 31 - Sophia Murphy - Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Episode 30 - Dr Marie Keenan Associate Professor
Poetry - Confusion by June Kavanagh
Poetry - Why Go Back? by June Kavanagh
Poetry - Shame by June Kavanagh
Poetry - My Body Image by June Kavanagh
Poetry - Secondary Victims by June Kavanagh
Guided Meditation - Message in a Bottle
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