A Nice Old Guy
We like our evildoers to be purely evil, and our victims to be purely good. Victim’s advocates deal with the reality that bad things happen to people who are not perfect, and that people who seem real nice can do bad things. The craving for a pure narrative of good vs bad gets in the [...]
New Leadership, Rules at Harrington Hall
The Projo reports that a new agency will be running Harrington House and sex offenders will no longer have reserved beds there. From the Projo: CRANSTON — The state has hired a new agency to run the Harrington Hall homeless shelter, ending a controversial arrangement in which beds were being reserved for convicted sex offenders. [...]
Steve Stycos on Cranston Schools Budget, Volunteer Policy
Steve Stycos of the Cranston School Committee provided the following update: SCHOOL UPDATE FROM STEVE STYCOS CRANSTON SCHOOL BUDGET The Cranston School Committee will resume its effort to balance its budget Thursday June 4 at 6:30 PM at Western Hills Middle School. Although state funding for education is still undecided, the school committee must cut [...]
Cranston Schools Consider Policy to Require BCI Checks for All Volunteers
The Cranston School Committee will be considering a new policy to mandate background checks for all Cranston school volunteers, the result of a subcommittee which has been meeting since September of 2008. The policy will be voted on at two consecutive School Committee meetings. Recently I emailed school committee member Andrea Iannazzi with some questions [...]
How Can We Miss Him if He Won’t Go Away
His victim, who is a non-famous, adult woman living an ordinary life, has to see her name in the papers every time he does something like this, but he doesn’t seem to care.
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner– SANE
It was 1989 at Women and Infants hospital. I was a counselor-advocate for a woman seeking emergency care after a rape. She told me she had been abducted by two men who talked about killing her. She managed to run away and hide in the woods. She was grateful to be alive. We waited for [...]
Nice Guys
The weather report in 1977 was turbulent social change with an 80% chance of being insulted for being a bra-burning libber and a 40% chance of being frightened by imminent violence and erupting male rage with a 10% chance of violence getting major and physical. These predictions increased in severity as your social status decreased, but affluence did not guarantee safety.
Roman Polanski, Unwanted and Undesired
‘Father McGillicuddy would never do a thing like that,’ you can hear the believers saying. Because to admit that he could and he did would take the roof off the church.
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