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This program discusses the long-term damage that results from childhood sexual abuse, offers the stories of sexually abused children and of adults who were abused as children, follows the trial of an adult accused of abusing eight girls, and shows how children can be encouraged to share their secret with those who can help put an end to the abuse.
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Recent studies revealed that over the last 50 years, approximately four percent of Catholic priests were responsible for molesting some 10,000 victims-the majority of whom were young people. After reporting on these studies' findings, this ABC News program scrutinizes a diocese in California to examine what exactly has happened there. Although sexual misconduct involving priests has been public knowledge for some time now, this research data exposes...
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Filmed in the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, and Britain, this ageless program unflinchingly scrutinizes the violation of children's most basic rights through pedophilia, prostitution, and pornography. The efforts of ECPAT International, Swedish Save the Children, Interpol, and others to combat these gross violations are spotlighted, with a special emphasis on sex tourism and Internet porn. The chilling...
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Phoenix Bishop Thomas O'Brien-a center of controversy since being charged with covering up sexual misconduct by priests in his diocese and, shortly thereafter, with leaving the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident-is emblematic of the troubles that have bedeviled the Catholic Church. In this ABC News program, correspondent Ron Claiborne presents the O'Brien case to illustrate how the Church is coming to grips with wrongdoing attributed to its clergymen...
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Daisy Coleman, a 14-year-old girl moved to the small town of Maryville after her dad was killed in a car crash. Daisy and her 13 year old friend, Paige, decided to try some alcohol and then meet up with her brother's football friends. Daisy was excited to attract the attention of this high school senior, who came from a prominent Maryville family. But at the party, the girls were offered alcoholic drinks, became intoxicated, and both were allegedly...
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Pedophilia has become a terrifying international industry. Behind the wall of anonymity the internet provides, predators prey on young children and pass terrible scenes of abuse back and forth. From the investigators trying to identify images of two men raping a child in Sweden to the Romanian girl whose job offer in Italy turns into sex slavery, this shocking doc offers a unique and powerful insight into the murky depths of this hidden world.
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What can other institutions learn from the Penn State child sex abuse case? NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks to Teresa Huizar, executive director of the National Children's Alliance; Elizabeth LeTourneau of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Scott Berkowitz, founder and president of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. Origina?
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Against all odds, Theo Fleury established himself as a major star in the National Hockey League. In his rookie year, he helped the Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup and went on to rack up Hall of Fame stats. But, through it all, he was as troubled as he was talented and tough. The Fifth Estate tells Fleury's remarkable story, the staggering fall from grace that cost him millions of dollars, his family and almost, his life. Fleury talks about how...
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Winner of the national Edward R. Murrow Award and several Emmy Awards, this documentary contains extraordinary footage of actual juvenile court proceedings involving sexual abuse - including interviews with the kids and families affected, as well as with the juvenile judges and service professionals charged with helping at-risk kids and families.
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The plight of child sex slaves has been well publicized, but seldom do outsiders have the opportunity to see inside their miserable world. Recently, however, an undercover film crew did get inside. The crew gained rare access to Diana and Lina, two teenage prostitutes at a brothel in the island city of Batam in Indonesia. Focusing on the girls' plight and the mission to save them, they filmed every event leading to the girls' rescue. It's a confronting...
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This program combines exclusive on-the-job footage of corrections staff as they address the challenges of sexual victimization on a day-to-day basis. The addition of unprecedented interviews with incarcerated youth and candid conversations with subject-matter experts makes this video a truly unique training tool. Contains explicit language.
13) Child Abuse
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This program deals with the delicate subject of sexually and physically abused children. A therapist who deals with sex offenders describes the common characteristics of offenders; a clinical social worker trained to talk with sexually abused children discusses the effects of abuse on the child and explains how she gets children to re-create what has happened to them by using anatomically correct dolls. The program offers tips on selecting a daycare...
14) She is
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Isabella, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, discovers a sense of empowerment through dance and sets out on an international journey to help other survivors of sexual abuse and sex trafficking find healing.
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François Ozon's gripping drama follows three men who band together to dismantle the code of silence that continues to protect a priest who abused them decades ago. Based on events from the 2019 conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon for concealing the conduct of Father Bernard Preynat, the film compassionately illustrates the varying effects of trauma on survivors and their families in an urgent portrait of resistance, the power of mobilization,...
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"Anthony Natale hosts this powerful film that communicatesthe reality of child abuse. Four brave and inspiring children tell their stories of physical and sexual abuse, neglect, intervention, and healing. Deaf actors Robert DeMayo and Rosa Lee Gallimore artfully bring these stories to life for a Deaf audience through American Sign Language."--Container.
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A two-part documentary that explores the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James "Jimmy" Safechuck, at age ten, and Wade Robson, at age seven, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. They and their families were invited into his wondrous world, entranced by the singer's fairy-tale existence as his career reached its peak. Through gut-wrenching interviews with Safechuck, now 37, and Robson, now 41, as well as their mothers,...
18) Something wild
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A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma. A college student attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic whose kindness unfortunately takes an unsettling turn. Startlingly modern in its frankness and psychological realism, the film represents one of the purest on-screen expressions of the sensibility of the intimate community of artists around New York's Actors Studio, which transformed American...