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  • The wait is over!

    The Well-Armored Child is here and available for purchase!

     

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    It’s been a long wait, but the day has come. Click here to purchase what reviewers are calling “smart and well-written” and “the most important parenting book you will ever own.”

    The Well-Armored Child gives parents the tools and strategies to understand how predators “groom” children, why many of our trusted institutions cover up abuse, the importance of statutes of limitations and reporting, and how to empower children without shame, fear, or inappropriate discussions of sex.

    More advance praise:

    In these pages you will the wisdom, intelligence, and perspective you need to both understand the challenge of making the world safer and the tools to do the job.   

    – Michael D’Antonio, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success, Hershey, Mortal Sins, and The State Boys Rebellion

    An essential manual for any parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle, “The Well-Armored Child” teaches adults how to keep their kiddies away from sexual abuse in a manner both informative, down-to-earth, serious yet humorous.

    – Gustavo Arellano, editor of OC Weekly and author of ¡Ask a Mexican! and Taco USA

    With frank language and compassion. Joelle Casteix demystifies sexual abuse.  She offers tools and strategies that every parent can be comfortable using to help keep their child safe. resilient, and loved.  

    – Jeff Dion, National Center for Victims of Crime

    It’s amazing to think about how many children’s lives will be changed (or better yet, will remain innocent) because of The Well Armored Child. Parents can better protect and empower their kids, especially in this digital age, by reading this smart and well-written book.

    – William Lobdell, author of Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace

  • Discussing the Jared Fogle Scandal with KPCC’s Take Two

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    Former pitch man—now exposed sex offender— Jared Fogle

    Click here to listen to my discussion with Alex Cohen about the Jared Fogle child pornography scandal and how to protect your children from predators.

     

  • UN committee blasts Mexico/Church collusion in sexual abuse

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    The UN Committee for the Rights of the Child recently released their “Concluding observations on the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of Mexico.”

    Much in the June 5 report wasn’t surprising: drug cartels are recruiting and using children for violence and children have been murdered and/or have gone missing in non-state violent activities. The committee also stated that migrant children are being targeted for abuse, killings and sexual violence.

    But sections 35 and 36 of the report were striking (emphasis mine):

    35. The Committee is deeply concerned about corroborated reports that hundreds of children have been sexually abused for years by clerics of the Catholic Church and other religious faiths The Committee is particularly concerned about the general impunity which perpetrators have enjoyed so far, as recognized by the State party’s delegation, about the low number of investigations and prosecutions of the perpetrators as well as alleged complicity of state officials, as well as about the lack of complaints mechanisms, services and compensation available to children.

    36. The Committee strongly urges the State party to:

    (a) Take immediate measures to investigate and prosecute all members of the Roman Catholic clergy and other religious faiths involved in or accomplices of sexual abuse and exploitation of children, and ensure that those found guilty be provided with sanctions commensurate with the gravity of their crime;

    (b) Provide children victims of sexual abuse with all necessary services for their physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration, and adequately compensate them;

    (c) Ensure that specific measures taken to prevent sexual abuse by clerics become part of all policies related to violence against children and that empowered children learn how to protect themselves from sexual abuse and are aware of the mechanism they can refer to in case of such abuses;

    (d) Take concrete measures to raise awareness on this type of abuse in order to overcome social acceptance and taboo surrounding these crimes;

    (e) Collect disaggregated data related to cases of sexual abuse against children involving the Roman Catholic clergy and provide detailed information in its next report on the convictions and sentences pronounced.