Reposted by Nicole CaroliDavid Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025My mother killed my father. The justice system saw a murder. I saw years of abuse and stood by her to lead a campaign that freed her from prison. Now I’ve written the book about what that took. And what it cost. 🧍🏼👩🏼🤝👨🏻🧍🏼♂️🏠 Out 5 June Pre-order here ➡️ www.hachette.co.uk/titles/david... 25714
Reposted by Nicole CaroliMichael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Facebook’s implemention of E2E encryption is indisputably providing cover for child sex offenders and putting children’s lives at risk - the data is clear www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...telegraph.co.ukFacebook ‘putting children’s lives in danger’ amid fall in its child abuse reportsNational Crime Agency chiefs blame Mark Zuckerberg’s introduction of end-to-end encryption 021
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Today was a recording day for The Flying Child audiobook. It’s an important process, but far from easy. (Today I was reading in a recording studio about CSA that took place in a recording studio - that was most likely part of a far wider distribution of CSAM (#TACSA) I am reflecting on: 141
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The Flying Child: Latest Blog www.theflyingchild.com/post/theflyi... #TheFlyingChildStory #CSAtheflyingchild.comThe Flying Child: The Little Princess Meets NSPCC & The Voice StoryIn this continuation of Sophie Olson's fairy tale from The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale For Adults, The Little Princess meets the NSPCC and is suprised by her reaction. A blog about empowerm... 241
Reposted by Nicole CaroliHarriet Wistrich @h-cwj.bsky.social · 23/03/2025I am delighted to be speaking about my book, Sister in Law at the Oxford Literary Festival on 2 April - tickets still available from here www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-liter...ticketsource.co.uk 001
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 19/03/2025We have 🌸✨FOUR 🌸✨spaces left in our next online writing group! It is a well-established group and a gently faciliated space, with no pressure to share work unless you want. Whilst not a therapy group, wellbeing support is available. Open to all adult survivors of #CSA groups@theflyingchild.com 0103
Reposted by Nicole Carolimanwhohasitall @manwhohasitall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025🎉🎈It's publication day for Flipping Patriarchy! 🎈🎉 If you like my posts, you'll love the book. It’s like the memes but deeper, darker and fiercer, and a little more radical than you might think... uk.bookshop.org/a/15275/97818001836… 0194
Reposted by Nicole CaroliDavid Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Spotify has removed an Andrew Tate podcast “degree course” titled “pimping hoes” that was deemed to be in breach of the company’s rules and removed. It had been on the platform since Oct 2023... what other podcasts are warping young men and boys minds on Spotify?theguardian.comSpotify takes down Andrew Tate ‘pimping’ podcast after complaintsMisogynist influencer’s content reportedly sparked objections from staff as well as a petition signed by 92,000 1268
Nicole Caroli @nicolecaroli.bsky.social · 12/03/20259/5/1984 'I bought Dad a bucket for his birthday. It is black and has got a wire handle on. It cost me £1.25' Gosh how embarrassing. #timemachinediary 010
Nicole Caroli @nicolecaroli.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I'm off on a rollercoaster journey to read 40 years of my diary entries from the age of 12. Amongst other things, my aim is to highlight the prevalence of sexual violence and harassment #timemachinediary 120
Reposted by Nicole CaroliLaura Richards @crimeanalyst.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Every woman & girl needs to know this information. It’s life saving & changing & im sharing it for FREE. Register for FREE 30 minutes: bit.ly/LRNEWSJAN CrimeAnalyst #CoerciveControl #Stalking #DomesticAbuse 132
Reposted by Nicole CaroliDr Emma Katz @dremmakatz.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Family courts may expect victims-survivors of #domesticviolence and abuse to engage in family therapy with their abuser with the aim of creating friendlier relationships with them Find out why and the harms this can cause in my new free article #coercivecontrol open.substack.com/pub/dremmaka...open.substack.comCoercive Control, Family Court and Systemic and Family Therapy: A Match Made in HellWhy some therapies cause harm in contexts of domestic violence and abuse 33112
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Age 9 months - 10 yrs - chronic nosebleeds requiring urgent and frequent cauterisation: “No known cause.” Age 11: onset of severe scoliosis. Within one year the cause of chronic and near-constant pain: “No known cause.” 1/ 142
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 22/02/2025If you’re a survivor of CSA, what do you know now that you wish you’d known as a child or young person? #CSA 652
Reposted by Nicole CaroliDr Emma Katz @dremmakatz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Opportunity to contribute to domestic abuse research 064
Reposted by Nicole CaroliDavid Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Reminder: Last year, headlines called Clifford 'pretty normal' and a 'nice guy', placing images of one of the victims sat next to the perpetrator, as they’ve done again today… Help us create change and support our continued campaign to help deliver training for every newsroom in the UK! ⬇️gofundme.comDonate to Change how the media reports domestic abuse murders, organized by David ChallenDonate to change the way the media reports domestic abuse murders … David Challen needs your support for Change how the media reports domestic abuse murders 0126
Reposted by Nicole CaroliHarriet Wistrich @h-cwj.bsky.social · 12/01/2025An honour, an opportunity - but slightly scary www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Harriet Wistrich, lawyerHarriet Wistrich, lawyer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 5122
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Just as we never forget those who turned away, failed to listen, disbelieved, or changed the way they treated us, we never forget those who listened, gave us enough time, and made us feel it was safe, in every sense of the word, to disclose child sexual abuse. #CSA 1213
Reposted by Nicole CaroliDavid Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Agree? Sign this petition ⬇️traffickinghubpetition.comTraffickinghub Petition - Shut Down Pornhub #TraffickinghubShut Down Pornhub and Hold Its Executives Accountable for Aiding Trafficking - Sign the Petition! https://www.traffickinghubpetition.com/ via @lailamickelwait 082
Reposted by Nicole CaroliDavid Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Thanks to Jeremy Vine for having me on BBC Radio 2 with Harriet Wistrich to discuss the Kiena Dawes case. Yesterday’s verdict shows how often mental health is weaponised to excuse abuse. I stand with families seeking justice. Abuse is the root cause. Listen back from 12:14:45 ⬇️bbc.co.ukRadio 2 - Listen Live - BBC SoundsListen live to BBC Radio 2 on BBC Sounds 0349
Reposted by Nicole CaroliSurvivingScouting.org @survivingscouting.org · 11/01/2025“In this episode of Cut to the Chase: Podcast, we are joined by @curtisgarrison.com and @jasonjoylaw.bsky.social to update us on where the Boy Scouts’ settlement stands.”youtu.beExamining Legal Hurdles in Boy Scouts Abuse Settlements w/ Curtis Garrison & Jason JoyYouTube video by Cut to the Chase: Podcast 033
Reposted by Nicole CaroliMichael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I wrote a paper in 2015 on the UK "grooming gang" scandal with a focus on the 2012 Rochdale case. In the 1990s, Rochdale was the site of another organised abuse investigation, except that social workers were excoriated for believing and intervening. 141
Reposted by Nicole CaroliDavid Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Ryan Wellings, who abused and coercively controlled Kiena Dawes for two years, threatening her with acid and to use a drill to take out her teeth, was today CLEARED of manslaughter after her suicide. Today’s result is an abhorrent injustice. This is murder in slow motion ⬇️theguardian.comHow Ryan Wellings made Kiena Dawes’ life a nightmareHorrific violence, bullying and belittling ended with suicide of previously ‘happy-go-lucky’ young woman 34815
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 12/01/2025“How we live our lives following child sexual abuse is not a competition of strength or a perceived battle of wills between me and the man who abused me. I am not victorious, I was a victim of a crime.“ #CSA theflyingchild.com/2022/01/28/w...theflyingchild.comWhat doesn’t kill you…By Sophie Olson As a survivor of child sexual abuse I sometimes hear myself being described as resilient, or strong. On the surface it seems an innocuous comment doesn’t it? Some survivors might ta… 22710
Reposted by Nicole CaroliPatricia Debney @patriciadebney.com · 09/01/2025What’s going on in the UK around Child Sexual Abuse and ‘oh dear what do we do? We demand ANOTHER inquiry’ - is playing politics at the expense of past and present victim survivors. We want CHANGE. Musk has NO idea what CSA looks like or come from. Sensationalising rather than solving. Disgusting. 031
Reposted by Nicole CaroliPatricia Debney @patriciadebney.com · 09/01/2025“The hard right has seized upon high-profile cases involving men of mainly Pakistani heritage, although a Home Office report found most child sex abuse gangs were made up of white men under 30.” And most abusers are family members. THIS is the heart of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on child sexual exploitation: concrete action must be the priority | EditorialEditorial: The response to the independent inquiry has been too slow. New policies to tackle all forms of abuse are needed urgently 083
Nicole Caroli @nicolecaroli.bsky.social · 09/01/2025www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...independent.co.ukReligion, police, education leaders demand grooming action nowExclusive: A coalition made up of 65 charities is pushing Yvette Cooper to act on key recommendations from child sexual abuse inquiry 010
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Our human needs are quite basic really. To be heard, seen, for someone to give us their full attention for a while. To care enough to act. To protect. I’m a lover of words, but not when they’re used to deflect, which is what we’re seeing. Too much talk. Too little action. And #CSA continues. 1172
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I'll be posting a bit more in the next few days, but in the meantime, strength and solidarity to victims and survivors who might be feeling rather lost in the noise of it all. You are not alone. As a survivor of CSA, I'm sick and tired of empty words, and of feeling drawn into this toxicity. #CSA 1318
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 03/01/2025A long 🧵 . Please read to end 🙏🏼 Today was the annual New Year gathering, in my childhood home - a place where I was sexually abused. I lived there until I was 18. The perpetrator is no longer there but the memories of abuse are - in my old bedroom where he would come to ‘kiss me goodnight’. 1/ 6226
Reposted by Nicole CaroliPatricia Debney @patriciadebney.com · 21/11/2024We are outraged over the machinations from the president-elect (himself a convicted sex offender, hiring other sex offenders) -- but we must remember that #sexualabuse almost always takes place right under our noses. It is not only 'over there', in places of power; it is also always right HERE. #CSA 1143
Reposted by Nicole CaroliG. Donald Cribbs @gdcribbs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Survivors need attunement first. It includes 5 things: I hear you. I see you. I believe you. I affirm you. I support you. Start here when a survivor discloses with you. #CSA #CSAsurvivorSky 062
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 19/11/2024When someone discloses child sexual abuse please don’t say: “What exactly did he do?” Or: “Are you sure?” Or: “It was such a long time ago” Or: “You’re wrong” Or: “I would have known if that was happening.” Or: “It could have been worse” Or: “Time to move on” (Feel free to add…) #CSA 104212
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Following our book event, I’m getting messages asking where to buy. #TheFlyingChildStory is available from most major bookshops in the UK UK Amazon: amzn.eu/d/14ttkUd US Amazon: a.co/d/3PL5nSL Australia Amazon: amzn.asia/d/eSK4uRX Also on kindle 🌸 @zuntold.bsky.social #CSAsurvivorSky #BookSky 1105
Reposted by Nicole CaroliSHERA Research Group International Collective researchers MVAWC @sheraresearch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Job of a lifetime opportunity with @kareningalasmith.bsky.social and team 033
Reposted by Nicole CaroliWithywindle @withywindle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024All of this. And an insult added to injury is when we're told not to be ashamed of what was done to us - often unsolicitedly, having given no indication that we are - when all this pressure is piled onto us to *act* as if we're ashamed. 111
Reposted by Nicole CaroliDenise @bekindandbrave.bsky.social · 17/11/2024There are so many of us. It is time to stand up, be blunt, and make people uncomfortable. 031
Nicole Caroli @nicolecaroli.bsky.social · 17/11/2024How society silences adult victims of child sexual abuse sweptunderthecarpet.com/2022/12/15/h...sweptunderthecarpet.comHow Society Silences Adult Victims of Child Sexual Abuse‘Where are you going?’ my neighbour asked whilst entering her house as I was leaving mine. I was going to meet fellow survivors of child sexual abuse at an event. They, like me, had shoved aside th… 2164
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I am one of #11Million #CSA survivors in the UK. Only when I heard someone else say ‘I’m a survivor’ could I consider doing the same. Please share #CSAsurvivorSky tag and survivor accounts, as this will help CSA survivors connect. Connection can save lives. 🙏🏼🌸 #CSA #Survivor #TheFlyingChildStory 3196
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Join us for The Celebration of The Publication of The Flying Child: THIS THURSDAY EVENING, in collaboration with #AD4E and @zuntold.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin... #CSASurvivorSky #CSA 033
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Any CSA survivor writers, researchers, social workers, therapists, teachers, GP’s, teachers, activists, or other professionals out there? Seeking people fed up with feeling the need to hide their lived experience, for fear of being judged or discriminated against. Come and join us #CSAsurvivorSky 195
Reposted by Nicole CaroliPatricia Debney @patriciadebney.com · 12/11/2024At last a stated aim of blaming perpetrators, not victims, for rape and sexual assault. Glimmers of hope. Notice that 88% said that their top reason for prosecuting was to prevent another assault. This is not about retribution; it’s about #ShameMustChangeSides www.theguardian.com/society/2024...theguardian.comOnly one in 10 sexual assault survivors in England and Wales would report crime again, survey showsExclusive: Three-quarters of respondents say mental health was damaged as a direct result of treatment by police 23210
Reposted by Nicole CaroliJoMo @jomo14729.bsky.social · 12/11/2024It’s a space I am looking forward to. Since stumbling across the survivor community, my life has made more sense than ever and reading this book, opened me up. #CSAsurvivorsky 033
Reposted by Nicole CaroliThe Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 11/11/2024My agent said “no publisher will touch this book with a 10-foot pool” & then backed out. She was wrong. The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale for Adults is doing rather well, considering. ‘The World’ needs to read #CSA survivor stories. #CSASurvivorSky @zuntold.bsky.social #TheFlyingChildStory 172