Tony Walsh was Ireland's most notorious paedophile ... The Archdiocese of Dublin had known about Walsh’s activity for almost twenty years. ibid.
It was role played by Bishops and the Vatican in allowing the abuse to continue. ibid.
Abuse cases continue to surface. ibid.
25th November 1999: ‘My husband found a five-year-old child and he has him on the boat.’ Storyville: Boy Who Changed America, 911 call, BBC 2017
This is the story of a little boy from Cuba whose mother died bringing him to freedom in the United States. ibid.
In Cuba, Elian’s father, Juan Miguel, hadn’t known that his ex-wife and her boyfriend had taken Elian away on a home-made boat, hoping to start their lives over in the United States. ibid.
‘He [Castro] said, Our whole country will take to the streets and demand you son’s return.’ ibid. father
But in Miami the exiles’ fury continued to grow and spilling over into protests that blocked traffic on the highways. ibid.
‘Elian Gonzalez is as we speak being flown to Andrews air force base just outside of Washington where he will be reunited with his father.’ ibid. news
There is a dark side. We also have the highest number of kids in the world forced to work. Storyville: Selling Children, BBC 2018
How can millions of children in the world’s biggest democracy still be so easily exploited and abused? ibid.
Thousands of children are trafficked on India’s railways every year from the remotest parts of India. ibid.
1979: China launches its one-child policy. 1982: The one-child policy is written into China’s constitution. 2015: China ends its one-child policy. On the day China’s one-child policy ended, the Communist Party of China announced: The one-child policy has made the country more powerful, the people more prosperous, and the world more peaceful. Storyville: One Child Nation, BBC 2019
‘The one-child policy was very strict back then. I personally witnessed many homes demolished because families refused forced sterilisation. Their roof was ripped apart. ibid.
‘It was really fucked up. I couldn’t bear to watch.’ ibid. rural village official of enforced policy
‘I want to atone for my sins, for all the abortions and killings I did.’ ibid. village midwife
In the ’50s mum had two children of her own – Michelle and Andrew. Growing up, I discovered that one day they disappeared and she never saw them again. The horror of what happened to my mum only really hit home when I was living in Australia and had children of my own … It seems all roads lead to London. Storyville: My Mother’s Lost Children, son, BBC 2021
‘I thought he’d [husband] gone back to Iran with them.’ ibid. mother
‘My father really couldn’t take care of two small children and we were dropped off in a boarding school.’ ibid. Michelle
While Mum thought the children were out of reach thousands of miles away in Iran, their boarding school was just an hour down the road from where she lived. ibid.
Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organised; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That’s why I sing these songs, damnit! No roots, no fruit! Utah Phillips