
David Challen
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Domestic Abuse Advisor | Survivor | Campaigner | Author | Freed my mum #SallyChallen in landmark coercive control case 📖 THE UNTHINKABLE out in paperback now!
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Sadly you couldn’t make this up: Man aggressively interrupts women filming a report about creating safe spaces for women. A mother and daughter sharing their story on feeling unsafe had to stop as he became verbally aggressive, perfectly proving why such spaces are needed.
David Challen3,329,719 просмотров • 1 год назад

“I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence,” replies Jess Phillips to a group of men intimidating after her win. Jess then tells of how a young woman delivering leaflets yesterday was filmed and screamed at by an older man, who then slashed her tyres. Huge respect to Jess.
David Challen3,059,516 просмотров • 2 лет назад

“I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age,” says Gregg Wallace in a video he has posted online this morning. Nothing says ‘I’m not a misogynist’ like stereotyping women. Great work Gregg, tell us who you are again.
David Challen2,030,279 просмотров • 1 год назад

“We probably spent quarter of a million quid [on a surrogate]… they have a company that basically is supermodels who are Ivy League educated… Our one went to Columbia… it’s a bit prostituty, isn’t it?” “I think it’s quite fabulous… but we got a Brazilian supermodel.” SIGH…
David Challen2,655,570 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Emily Maitlis savagery: “You look like you’re in a cemetery, I mean is this a metaphor?”
David Challen1,036,603 просмотров • 2 лет назад

‘My father beat me with a spoon, hit me with a belt, and threw scalding soup over me’ Victoria Derbyshire bravely shares the abuse her family endured as she backs The Independent’s Brick by Brick campaign to build a safe refuge for domestic abuse survivors. ➡️
David Challen437,934 просмотров • 1 год назад

Matt Morgan: “During the time I worked with him [Russell Brand], I was never aware of any allegations of serious sexual misconduct against him.” Matt Morgan w/Brand on air: “It's been 25 minutes since he showed his willy to a lady.”  Any more lies, Matt?
David Challen531,192 просмотров • 2 лет назад
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ITV News have uncovered numerous allegations of sexually inappropriate and intimidating behaviour by Gino D’Acampo spanning 12+ years. Women say he made graphic comments, exposed himself, and threatened junior staff. Some production companies were aware but continued working with him. 🔺 Hannah: “He told me he’d ‘like to turn me over and f*** me up the a*** against the kitchen counter.’ People laughed, but I felt ‘very, very, very small.’” 🔺 Natalie: “He opened the door in his boxers, jumped on the bed, and said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s only small,’ while flicking himself. It was aggressive.” 🔺 Crew member: “He told a runner, ‘If you don’t get me a Cornetto, I will f*** your girlfriend.’ He used his power to intimidate us.” Bosses at the production company behind Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Road Trip in 2018 appear to have been aware of concerns about his behaviour. ITV News has seen evidence that concerns were raised with Objective Media Group over multiple sexualised comments made to staff. D’Acampo: “I emphatically deny these claims. I have never been made aware of them before.” ➡️
David Challen235,264 просмотров • 1 год назад

Two men walk behind a woman busking, sexually assault her, call it a joke and then offer her 50p… 97% of women aged 18-24 have been sexually harassed, 96% don’t report because of the belief that it would not change anything. Men, help change this. (Credit: Hollymariemusic)
David Challen236,163 просмотров • 2 лет назад
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“Go to bed wearing a belt.” That’s what a doctor told Kate’s husband after he admitted to raping her in his sleep. She was being drugged and raped for years. No one said: She’s in danger. Call the police. This is what domestic spiking sounds like. 📻 LISTEN to *Kate’s story
David Challen96,446 просмотров • 1 год назад

#MyWifeMyAbuser is a difficult but necessary watch. This doc film not only shines a light for male victims of coercive control, but for children who witness domestic abuse too. Anyone can be a victim. There is support available. There is a life after abuse.
David Challen158,248 просмотров • 2 лет назад

How many women does it take to be believed? In Noel Clarke’s case, it took 26. He sued the Guardian for £70m, claiming conspiracy. The High Court ruled their investigation was substantially true. I explain why investigative journalism like this matters, now more than ever…
David Challen31,962 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

How can we expect victims to report rape or domestic abuse when officers laugh off their testimony, joke about sexual violence and trade racist hate? This isn’t ‘toxic behaviour’, it’s a culture that silences victims before they even speak. Shameful. ➡️
David Challen21,248 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

“Extreme misogyny is an ideology in its own right. If the government doesn’t recognise that, they are failing women and girls.” Journalist Joan Smith on Woman’s Hour discussing the Southport killings, leaked extremism report and why misogyny must be seen as a driver of violence.
David Challen32,857 просмотров • 1 год назад

Heartbreaking. Autistic children at a UK school were shoved, restrained by the neck, left sitting in vomit, and confined in padded rooms for hours, some developing PTSD and epilepsy. A police probe ended with NO CHARGES. Families demand accountability. The footage from Whitefield School in north-east London resembles "torture", one safeguarding expert told the BBC. It shows for the first time the reality of what pupils faced. Six of the families have agreed for the BBC to show the footage. They wanted to reveal the scale and severity of the trauma their children had experienced - which they feel they have been misled about. ➡️
David Challen31,135 просмотров • 1 год назад

15-year-old Holly Newton’s murder should move all of us to speak out and raise awareness of coercive control. What are our govt, police, schools and employers doing to tackle this? Why should Holly’s harms be classed as knife crime?! This is domestic abuse. This is escalation.
David Challen30,946 просмотров • 1 год назад

Incredible courage by Gareth Jones to speak out about the controlling abuse he suffered at the hands of his ex-partner, Sarah Rigby, who walked free this week. "I feel disappointed with the verdict." Speaking to ITV News, Gareth hopes more men will report abuse ⬇️
David Challen24,417 просмотров • 2 лет назад