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Birthday Wishes: Believe a Child or Not?

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 19, 2016 / Tags: child sexual abuse, forensic interviews, offenders, reporting child abuse, Tammi Pitzen

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I have a birthday in April. I have no qualms about the number. I will be turning 47. 26 of those years have been spent working in one role or another in the field of child abuse. Wow! That equates to more

Male sexual abuse by a woman is not a rite of passage

Posted by: cacjc / May 6, 2015 / Tags: age of consent, child sexual abuse, female sexual offenders, impact of child abuse, male rite of passage, male victims child abuse, offenders, sexual assault

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I am saddened that in today’s world, with all the knowledge we have gained around child sexual assault, that we are still in a place where society blames the victim. Particularly if the victim is a teenaged boy and the perpetrator is

Stephen Collins: Why did no one make a report?

Posted by: cacjc / Oct 10, 2014 / Tags: 7th Heaven, abused children, celebrities, child sexual abuse, Hollywood, offenders, reporting child abuse, Stephen Collins

By Tammi Pitzen, Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County This morning started as most any other morning. I got to the office early before anyone was here. I went up to my office. Checked email. Checked voice mail. Everything was going well until I checked Facebook. Circulating was a story on Stephen

Judge’s words hurt victims

Posted by: cacjc / Aug 6, 2014 / Tags: 31 Day Sentence, Billings High School, child sexual abuse, Judge Baugh, Montana Supreme Court, offenders, Rambold

By Tammi Pitzen, Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I recently read about a judge in Montana being censored for some statements he made while handing out a sentence to a sex offender. This case has been so disturbing to me. Judge Baugh sent Rambold to prison for 31 days last

The shocking facts about child pornography

Posted by: cacjc / May 7, 2014 / Tags: adult websites, child sexual abuse, Good Magazine, Internet Watch Foundation, offenders, online porn, online pornography, pornographic websites, Rochester Institute of Technology

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center When most people think about child sexual abuse, they think of those children in which an adult has touched a child in an inappropriate way. But there are also non-touching forms of sexual abuse. In the age of fast moving technology, there are new victims

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