DonnaApr 26, 2025
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-jeffrey-epstein-victim-virginia-1114932
#virginiaguiffre What has happened? She did so much to help victims of sexual abuse. Re traumatised after bus drove into her, old wounds opened? So upsetting to read she has committed suicide? The powers that be are mega dangerous not just in #SexualAbuse #RapeCrisis @thenewsagents @Ladygaga @LadyGaga
Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre dies by suicide just weeks after crash

The family of Virginia Giuffre, known for her allegations against Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, said she was a 'light hat lifted so many survivors'

The Mirror US
A.StringerSep 20, 2024

"I think what is crucial, however, is that if you do have a #rapecrisis service that is supporting all #survivors is that there’s dedicated #womenonlyspaces within that.”

#RapeCrisisScotland boss apologises for Edinburgh centre failings | Rape and #sexualassault | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/20/crisis-scotland-boss-apologises-for-edinburgh-centre-failings

#domesticabuse
#domesticviolence
#riskassessment

Rape Crisis Scotland boss apologises for Edinburgh centre failings

Review had criticised support service, run by a trans woman, for not providing women-only spaces for 16 months

The Guardian
BeeSep 13, 2024

Inclusion advice to #bbc journalists from a #trans lady: using the term ‘women-only’ to mean ‘trans-exclusionary’ contributes to the idea that trans women are not women, and erases non-binary people entirely.

There is a legal provision for cis-female spaces, and there is a moral case for the existence of those spaces. Yes, #ERCC failed on this.

But the root cause is sexual violence, predominantly by cis men, and scarcity of funding for survivors.

Fund #RapeCrisis provision for ALL genders.

anneeroperNov 19, 2022
#Caution: People in #Ireland have always known about sexual/physical #abuse by all walks of society/church & didn't allow that they knew because rape is designed to traumatise and silence. As were laws in Ireland around #Censorship, so legal cases were stymied. Jury laws too. The early days of Dublin #RapeCrisis & WellWoman centres we met women/children/men. #Abuse is a sexual colonisation that wields power&compliance via a shame #omerta #CatholicChurch https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/11/19/jennifer-oconnell-clerical-child-abuse-required-the-silent-complicity-of-a-wilfully-ignorant-society/
Jennifer O’Connell: It’s a fantasy that nobody knew about child sex abuse in schools

Revelations have been emerging for decades, yet we continue to assure ourselves that each new horror comes as a surprise

The Irish Times
Elisa WilliamsNov 17, 2022
https://www.rapecrisis.org/ 
Jodie Comer, speaking in her native scouse accent, powerfully amplifies the nightmares endured by 1 in 3 women worldwide, subjected to physical violence or sexual assault in their lifetimes. #jodiecomer #RapeVictims #rapecrisis #sexualabuse #domesticviolence
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anneeroperNov 11, 2022
When counselling women, children, men c.1980-1986 early days of #Ireland's #RapeCrisis services, Gards, schools, parents, doctors resisted claims.Men said they didn’t speak because they didn’t know a word for the abuse, or thatrape happened to men.Children had no voice. Decades of censorship law in court cases added to ignorance. Even publications/broadcast outlets refused to advertise help services. It seems the ingrained #shameomertà put upon the abused is still alive.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2022/11/11/less-than-one-fifth-of-adults-who-experience-abuse-report-it-survey-finds/
Less than a fifth of adults who experience abuse report it, survey finds

It is ‘dismaying’ that vulnerable adults remain so poorly protected in policy and legislation, says Irish Association of Social Workers

The Irish Times