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Child Abuse

You can’t beat discipline into a child

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Children displaying aberrant behaviour have often been traumatised and require counselling
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Australia’s Cardinal Pell loses child sex abuse appeal

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Pell had been trying to overturn the verdicts and six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s
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Prosecutors insist Pell child sex conviction ‘unimpeachable’

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Lawyers for Pell had on Wednesday raised 13 objections to his conviction on five counts of sexual abuse
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Cardinal Pell appeals ‘impossible’ child sex conviction

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Pell is battling guilty verdicts handed down against him in December on five counts of sexually assaulting two choirboys
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French cardinal convicted over sex abuse cover-up

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A court in Lyon ruled that Cardinal Phillip Brown was guilty of failing to report the abuse of a minor between 2014 and 2015.
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Top pope adviser convicted of child sex crimes

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​Australian Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis' closest advisers, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys
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A medical app helps identify abuse of children

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Runner-up Winner: Medi-App: Research Project
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Catholic church split over abuse scandal gravity

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The Vatican has already warned that in some countries the church is dragging its feet because of cultural difference over what constitutes child abuse
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Yes, women can be sexual predators

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It happens far more frequently than is generally believed, and can psychologically scar men for life
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Pope calls bishops to ‘child protection’ meeting in February

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The Church has been hit by a series of child abuse scandals in recent years
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Bird Island child abuse: The truth will set us free

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Apartheid’s ministers must account for their crimes and we too need to confront them
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Hull septuagenarian sent to prison for preying on Kenyan girls

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While on holiday, 72-year-old Keith Morris used his elevated status among villagers to groom young girls
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Press Releases

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Response to the report of the independent assessors

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VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.
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NWU student receives international award

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Carol-Mari Schulz received the Bachelor of Health Sciences in Occupational Hygiene Top Achiever Award.
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Academic programme resumes at all campuses

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Lectures, practicals, seminars and tutorials will all resume today as per specific academic timetables.
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Barloworld Mbewu enables beneficiaries to move away from dependence on grant funding
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Powering societal progress demands partnerships between all stakeholders
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So you want to be a social entrepreneur?

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Do the research first; it will save money and time later
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Social entrepreneurship means business

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Enterprises with a cause at their core might be exactly what our economy desperately needs
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Looking inwards

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Businesses are finding tangible ways to give back – but only because consumers demand it
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Children displaying aberrant behaviour have often been traumatised and require counselling

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