Stuart Driver QC, defending, asked for a reduced sentence because his client is awaiting a life saving organ transplant. It is fashionable now to call this mindset resilience. Resilient is an accurate descriptor of Adam but it also diminishes his suffering. Resilience, as it applies to institutional child sexual abuse, over-emphasises the individual fortitude of the survivor. The target of our admiration is obvious. Sometimes I'd be taken to a house and there would be a gathering and they'd all bring their best boy, and it was just a swap meet."

And it is hard to believe the school would have saved Adam had it known. The year his abuse began, a recently-hired Tottenham Tech teacher prompted a media firestorm by pledging public support for an organisation called The Australian Paedophile Support Group, among whose aims was to lower the age of consent to 10. It was the unsuccessful charges that stemmed from a raid on one of its meetings that torpedoed the Delta Task Force.But stories of resilience mitigate and distract us from the failings of the institutions where their abuse occurs, whose shortcomings can be explained away as relics of another time and place, with characters propelled by different values and contexts. The target of our scorn is less clear. PAPYRUS (0800 068 41 41) is an organisation supporting teenagers and young adults who are feeling suicidal. ALAN DAVEY, 37, of Haydn Road, Knotty Ash - five years in jail for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs

Understanding what Adam endured in those club rooms and under the eyes of people higher up than the abusers, I don't trust them," she says. The players were walking in and out, saying hi to him. Other people from within the club, in suits and dresses, would all say hello. People were walking in and out of the club, seeing this old guy chatting to a young boy. It would have looked a bit suspicious, you would think. I am proud to be from Liverpool and have plans to do as much for this city as I can, in the future. Only years latter could Adam fully appreciate that the most dangerous person he encountered amid the degradations and terror of his childhood was not Graeme Hobbs, but a man he only knew as 'John'. WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. If you or anyone you know needs help:His name really was John, it turned out — John Raymond Wayland. In 1996, Justice Higgins of Melbourne's County Court jailed the 53-year-old for 16 years, describing his depraved sex offending as the worst case of child abuse he'd encountered in any court. These days, Wayland — once described as "so likely to commit further sexual offences that you constitute a danger to the community" — lives in north-western Victoria, within walking distance of four schools. Whether you are wanting a career change or a fresh start in 2023, these are just some of the jobs being advertised. As we all know, times are harder than ever right now, so we have rounded together some different job roles being advertised around Liverpool this week. Everyone is just devastated. She was just 34. Sonja was a great confidante and friend and she had a huge circle of friends.

Police discovered half a metric tonne of paracetamol and two ovens, used to bake the adulterant brown and then mix with hard drugs to reduce the purity, in an outhouse. Prosecutors said the sheer amount of adulterant showed how much drugs they were expecting to process. But it was piled onto the horrific things I was already dealing with — the court case, the therapy, the doctors, the first raids of early computers with child pornography. It was all one big mass of trouble at the time." To see people like Peter Gordon and to think that … I couldn't stand the club. I couldn't stand to go past the place. Even now, I wouldn't even venture into the western suburbs. There is just too much disappointment associated with that club. To me, now, it is just a cesspit."A spokesperson for Merseyside Police said: "The Coroner's Office is appealing for help in tracing the next-of-kin of a man from Walton. Jay Shukla, 34 years, sadly passed away at his home on Keith Avenue on Wednesday 11 January. And how could it go on for so long? All told, Adam says, Hobbs raped and abused him on Footscray's premises for seven years, from 1984 to 1990. He can think of only one way of contextualising it: "It went on longer than some of the players' careers." 'I didn't want to get hurt by them'

He has or had severe mental health difficulties and to his credit he seems to have made good progress and your honour knows from the pre-sentence report he attributes some of that to his illegal use of cannabis." Loved ones accept he is almost incapable of displaying his warmth. Adam has difficulty giving and receiving presents, or even saying 'I love you'. His mother, Lyn, says it's because one of the many things that was taken from him as a boy was his ability to experience joy. When he does sleep, nightmares still overwhelm him — the abusers are the same, but they're taking him somewhere new. It means the film has some classic one-liners which have become easily quotable by Scousers. These include "Where's me money for me six halves John?" and "You owe me about three and a half hundred quid."

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CLARE GARVEY, 31, of Uppingham Avenue, Aintree - 15 months in prison for conspiracy to launder money Telling strangers comes with different burdens — not just the risk of feeling society's cold shoulder, but the likelihood of stirring up the cliches about sexual abuse that are embedded in popular culture. Like 'how could the victim of such monsters not become a monster himself?' It was not until May of 1994, his nerves shredded as he sat in court, that Adam confirmed the identity of the man who destroyed his life. That night — the evening of September 1, 1984 — Adam stepped into a taxi with a man whose name he didn't know and headed for Footscray's Palms Motel, a low budget motor inn whose modernist facade did not disguise its dingy atmosphere and seedy clientele. This court case has been hanging over my head for a long time now and I have not been able to have time to myself.