Sunnyclaribel💜

Child sex abuse survivors will have nightmares, triggers and flashbacks for the rest of their lives. Please support them. #NotMyShame

[Sunnyclaribel💜 @Sunnyclaribel]

Hardest thing in my life was burying my mum. Second hardest was walking into a Police Station to report the paedophile who assaulted me as a child. Couldn't get him into court because he was dying, but I don't regret that decision and never will. He thought I'd never speak out.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The issuer of that vile statement is a man, as anyone with even 1% vision could tell you. Specifically, he’s a man who said he hoped she died handcuffed to a bed and screaming in agony.

[Sunnyclaribel💜 @Sunnyclaribel]

Felt proud appearing in this video. Every day is #NotMyShame day for child sex abuse survivors.

Speak out loud and proud.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

They’re treating crimes against women as if they don’t count. Shame on every MP but particularly Labour MPs who are making excuses, as you are in government, & determined to undermine female rights & safeguards

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

On the statement by Beira's Place and the letter sent by FWS https://t.co/c7vHJKObuj

[Keith Hinchliffe @hinchliffe1569]

@jakskellinton @ejtayloruk @Sunnyclaribel Speaks for its self. He's aware how controversial it is but continues anyway. That's his arrogance at play. It's what led him to believe he would never get caught.

[John Carter @fishmonger2017]

@ejtayloruk The predator class hate exposure. Keep it up.

[Jules F @JulieFo45651979]

@ejtayloruk Shows what kind of man he is (as if we didn't know already) .... doesn't like to be challenged. Keep up the good fight

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

Huw Edwards has blocked me on Substack. I only opened my account yesterday.

I’m a survivor of child sexual abuse, and I have lived and breathed the lifelong trauma that victims can carry. I have challenged his return to a public platform because child safeguarding, accountability and victims must come before reputation.

I once respected him as a broadcaster. Now, rather than engage with the difficult questions, he has blocked me.

Being blocked doesn’t silence me, it strengthens my voice and resolve to keep asking the questions that matter.

My focus has always been safeguarding children, the victims, and protecting future generations.

His actions toward me speak volumes.

[Kath Field 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @kath21_field]

@ejtayloruk He might find someone crass enough to put him on TV but it’ll be short lived. Nonces aren’t good for viewing figures!😡😡🤮🤮👍🏻

[Emma Jones @Trueinclusion]

@ejtayloruk He’s a despicable narcissist.

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

I was silenced for most of my life because of people who sexually abused children. I know the lifelong impact that abuse leaves behind, and that is why I refuse to stay silent now.

Huw Edwards can block me all he wants. It changes nothing.

My offer still stands. I will meet him face to face to explain why survivors like me will continue to speak up, why safeguarding must always come before reputation, and why the impact on victims does not simply disappear because time has passed.

This has always been about children, accountability and ensuring that the voices of survivors are not drowned out while offenders attempt to rebuild a public platform.

I won’t be silenced again. Not by Huw Edwards, and not by anyone else.

The conversation doesn’t end because it’s uncomfortable. That’s precisely when it matters most.

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

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[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

A convicted child sex offender, Huw Edwards, is actively asking the public to read his opinions, subscribe to his writing and help rebuild his audience.

Yet anyone who challenges him is told to “jog on” if they are looking to “spew hate.”

Public scrutiny is not hate.

When someone chooses to rebuild a public profile after a conviction involving indecent images of children, questions about safeguarding, accountability and public trust are entirely legitimate.

You cannot invite public attention when it suits you, then dismiss challenge when it becomes uncomfortable.

Survivors do not simply “move on.” The impact of child sexual abuse can last a lifetime. For too long, victims and survivors have been expected to stay quiet while the conversation shifts back to the offender.

I, for one, will not “jog on.”

I will keep asking difficult questions. I will keep centring children and victims in every safeguarding conversation. And I will continue challenging any attempt to rebuild public trust without proper accountability.

It isn’t a one-way conversation, Huw.

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

Monday thoughts 💭

Many of the dangers children face today did not appear overnight. They grew in the gaps left by inaction, complacency and a failure to put children’s safety first.

For too long, warning signs have been ignored, safeguarding failures have been tolerated, and too many children have paid the price.

Those who commit child abuse must be held fully accountable. But accountability should not stop there. Where institutions, organisations or leaders knew of risks, ignored evidence, failed to act, or enabled abuse through negligence or poor safeguarding, they too should be called to account.

Protecting children is not a political issue. It is a moral responsibility.

History will not judge us by the speeches we made. It will judge us by whether we created a world where children were genuinely safer.

Children deserve better. It’s time for accountability at every level.

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

I was tagged in a post today about Huw Edwards and that £200k. Someone asked whether I think he should pay it back. It’s a ridiculous question to ask me, and to avoid any doubt, yes, of course he should.

And then he should face the consequences he somehow avoided. Accountability matters, and it’s baffling that this wasn’t dealt with properly in the first place. Prison is the only place for child abusers.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Robbins: “I bring this action reluctantly. It would have been unnecessary if the Prime Minister had simply apologised for his mistake and made amends for the distress and cost it has caused me and my family.

Instead, I now have to ask the Courts to determine that the Prime Minister’s decisions were unlawful, unreasonable and to quash them.”

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Oops!

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Sir Olly Robbins has launched a legal challenge after being fired by Sir Keir Starmer.

The former top civil servant was fired at the height of the scandal surrounding the vetting of Peter Mandelson.

🔗Latest: https://t.co/z3xi0QZ477

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

I couldn't agree more.

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

If I were to discover someone who has been charged with child sexual abuse offences, I would have zero interest in anything they have to say. Would anyone genuinely want to take guidance or commentary from a person convicted of harming children?

I’ve spoken to a number of people while researching this, and not one felt comfortable reading content from someone with offences of this nature. That tells you everything.

As for those choosing to subscribe to Huw Edwards’ Substack, that’s a space I would keep well away from. It’s not a conversation I want to be part of, and it’s certainly not a community I would align myself with.