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Australian schools ban Craig Silvey’s books after he pleads guilty to possessing child exploitation material

Australian schools ban Craig Silvey’s books after he pleads guilty to possessing child exploitation material

Published by Daniella Wilson

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Schools in Western Australia have permanently removed books by Craig Silvey after he pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material. Silvey, 43, entered guilty pleas to a pair of offences related to possessing images of child exploitation on Tuesday, according to the ABC. Prosecutors dropped two other charges, including an allegation that he produced child exploitation material between February and June 2022. Silvey, who has three children, was arrested in January after detectives from the police’s child abuse squad raided his home in Fremantle, near Perth, and seized electronic devices. The court heard the writer had communicated online with child exploitation offenders over several days in January and had refused to provide passwords giving police access to his phone, laptop, and other devices, according to WA Today. He was granted bail on a A$100,000 (£53,348) surety on the condition that he report to police three times a …

Possessing the Painful Parts | Omari Weekes

Possessing the Painful Parts | Omari Weekes

Published by Jenni Sidey

There once was a time when one could eat the oysters of Jamaica Bay. In 1891 the wetland estuary located on the southwestern tip of Long Island was so renowned for shellfish farming that The Cosmopolitan ran an illustrated article titled “An Oyster Village,” which documents daily life in Inwood, a sleepy but prosperous coastal town sitting across an inlet from where John F. Kennedy International Airport currently stands. It describes the quaint existence enjoyed by a flourishing tight-knit community around the bay, “the freedom of the oysterman’s life, which, notwithstanding its hardship and exposure, is full of that poetry of the picturesque always furnished by water and sky.” In one of the many overlapping timelines in Tyriek White’s arresting debut novel, We Are a Haunting, a woman standing on the banks of Jamaica Bay in 1990 encounters a spirit who tells her a story about growing up long ago in a community of enslaved people living on farmland just northwest of Inwood. In this dead woman’s memories of enslaved life, oysters largely figure as …

Ohio Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Vice President JD Vance and Possessing Child Abuse Files

Ohio Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Vice President JD Vance and Possessing Child Abuse Files

Published by Sam Flores

An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance while he was visiting his home state last month. But the man’s lawyer said his health makes it unlikely he would have been able to carry out the threat. In addition to the charge for threatening Vance, prosecutors also charged Shannon Mathre with possessing digital files depicting child sexual abuse that were discovered during the investigation. That second charge carries a much stiffer potential penalty of up to 20 years in prison. The charge related to the threats could lead to a maximum five-year sentence. Lawyer Neil McElroy said that Mathre’s health challenges would have been apparent to anyone in the courtroom Friday when he pleaded not guilty to the charges, so he doesn’t think the threat charge makes sense. McElroy said he couldn’t comment on the charge related to the possession of child sexual abuse files because prosecutors haven’t yet provided any details about that at this early stage of the case. “Anyone that spends any time in a room …

Australian author Craig Silvey charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material | World News

Australian author Craig Silvey charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material | World News

Published by Daniella Wilson

Australian author Craig Silvey has been charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material. Western Australia Police Force said detectives executed a search warrant at a property on Monday. It is alleged officers found a 43-year-old man actively engaging with other child exploitation offenders online when they arrived. He was arrested, the force said, and his electronic devices were seized. The man was charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material. The force added in a statement that the man would appear at Fremantle Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Australia’s Channel 9 reported that Silvey faced a Perth court on Tuesday afternoon in relation to the charges. He didn’t enter a plea and was granted bail, due to be back in court next month. Silvey is best known for his book Jasper Jones, which sold more than half a million copies, is often assigned for reading in schools, and was made into a film starring Toni Collette in 2017. It also won the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year and was also shortlisted for …