Yep, I’d forgotten about this thread until I saw her tweet quoted on Twitter last night Which reminded me!This will backfire on her. People will be curious enough to seek this thread out, and the evidence for unethical behaviour is compelling.
JT required unflinching , unthinking loyalty from her employees. Surely she expects it from her wife as well. Times about a million.I'm also worried about Sally Ann.
Sally Ann doesn't deserve any of this.
This, exactly. Jaimi can leave Jess to fight her own battles. They, not SA turned it into a culty, us or them mentality. I noticed after sending that message, Jaimi blocked SA.
It was literally just a threat, and to let her know not only Jess, but Jess's supporters, would take her on for speaking up.
As adults, someone who hurt me, their partner is not my enemy. I don't have any issue with them. Why should Jaimi get involved at all?
Sally Ann has support workers from a specialist third sector organisation. I assume if she needs more help they can refer her. She has stated that she feels well looked after by them.I see Sally-Ann pursuing this as a typical reaction from a trauma survivor. Jessica has only responded by gaslighting Sally-Ann provoking her to keep sharing information in what seems a desperate attempt to be heard. It just screams Sally-Ann’s vulnerability
perhaps if Jessica understood this it may be resolved
Does anyone know if Sally-Ann is being protected? I fear Jessica could put Sally-Ann in great danger as a revenge tactic. I am inclined to make contact with social services to inform them of Sally-Ann’s vulnerability but unsure of her location. Anyone know if any reports been made to safeguard Sally-Ann?
Given the half a million pound house, the multiple expensive holidays and decent cars, I would say so.
Victim Focus is a limited company. Jess claims to run it as if its a not for profit, putting the profit back into supporting free initiatives*. But even if she's not siphoning off the profit in dividends, that doesn't mean she's not paying herself a fat salary. I have no idea what she's paying herself, but given she's also paying her wife and her mother-in-law, I'd say a conservative estimate would be that as a family, they're taking at least £100k out of Victim Focus as salaries between them. (Meanwhile she's paying her staff something like £10k a year - part time jobs, low wages and passing the fees for overheads onto her staff as there is no Victim Focus office, they all work from home).
Authors don't make a huge amount of money off book sales through traditional publishers. But her first book was a best seller while it was still self-published, and she boasted that she'd made loads of money from it.
*Incidentally, it's not at all clear what those free initiatives are. The salaries of the researchers, maybe. The free course. I don't know what else. Nothing major or she'd be shouting about it, surely.
yep, it’s never filed any accounts. This was asked on Twitter recently and the reply was around not being able to open a bank account in Covid. The company has been incorporated about a year prior to lockdowns and some banks only stopped opening business accounts for a short period of time very early on whilst they sorted how they were doing things. Apparently it now has a bank account but filed accounts are yet to be seen.Pretty much the government website says
"Your company or association may be ‘dormant’ if it’s not doing business and doesn’t have any other income"
But on twitter they are celebrating 5years, they took on 27 staff in April, then two weeks later filing eith the government as a dormant company. While working for the police and NHS.
Part of me thinks there must be a tax loophole she is working, because who would be so public with their company, yet also pretend it doesn't really exist?
Also, she definitely has been operating. She's had staff for years working on contracts, doing training, online paid courses and of course organising her conference at £200 a ticket. All while being dormant.
I’ve personally had a couple of people call the police to claim harrassment. These are both people who I was calling out behaviours of (one misrepresenting a charity, the other libeling me). Harrasment is a funny thing as someone simply has to say they “feel” harrassed for police to make a call/visit. They simply want to stop things before escalating. Each time, when I’ve explained, they’ve apologised and can’t understand the issue.I came across this thread tonight and I’m so shocked! I always thought there was something suspect and was uncomfortable with her behaviour.
Ive been following Sally-Anns tweets and anyone who follows Jessica Taylor needs to open their eyes. Sally-Ann is clearly very vulnerable and actually Jessica is now the one inciting hate onto her again. JT also doxxed Sally-Ann giving out her personal information. Any professional knows this is rule number 1 in confidentiality, particularly when working with survivors of abuse who could potentially be in danger. Sally-Ann seems to know her risk (hence why she is particularly about the use of her last name) I highly doubt Jessica didn’t realise the dangers of sharing personal information.
Sally-Ann has also tweeted recently all she wants is an acknowledgment & apology - if it was me I’d be pushing for me, but again it shows how vulnerable and trauma affected she is if she’s willing to forgive and move on like she says. But it looks like JT hasn’t got the maturity for that.
Don’t know if anyone picked up on it this week but Sally-Ann tweeted she had confirmation from her local police force that she has received no warnings from the police and JT’s reports were not deemed as harassment. Sally-Ann has posted screenshots of her emails to JT asking to make this clear. JT tweeted Sally-Ann had received a warning from police. JT has obviously lied to assert power to her followers and make look like Sally-Ann is lying.
I highly suspect a lot of those still supporting her have not fully looked into the situation before making judgment and have just taken JT’s words as gospel. Sally-Ann has posted some pretty damning evidence which has shocked me to read. I work at a rape crisis centre and the behaviour JT has shown towards Sally-Ann is chilling to say the least. We have warned our local contacts and organisations about JT and her unethical and quite frankly abusive behaviour towards Sally-Ann.
I and I know many are highly disappointed with all this As we respected her work and passion.
it’s beyond belief that even if you had done everything by the book, someone raised a concern about your practice obviously distressed, responding so publicly with hate & a desperation to discredit is harmful.
I hope JT’s recent tweets about bullying doesn’t not create more abuse towards Sally-Ann. It’s clear Sally-Ann has rightly raised legitimate concerns and provided evidence for those concerns. I haven’t seen any personal tweets about JT, Sally-Ann clearly condemns any violence and hate JT is receiving. I don’t doubt JT is receiving such threats but that’s not Sally-Ann’s doing. Sally-Ann has also shared concerning suicidal thoughts around all this I hope she is receiving support.
I also certainly don’t find clear abuse of a vulnerable survivor entertaining either!
Just checking you haven’t used your real name here or one that gives you away? If you have you can report it to mods and get it changed.Another ex Victim Focus employee here
Never needed to get away from a company. I fell for her charms and lies until myself and some others saw her treatment of Sally-Ann. When I handed in my notice she turned on me too. Jess created the feeling Sally-Ann an was an obsessed fan who just wanted attention. classic perp tactics. She told us all Sally-Ann wasn’t in her books then backtracked. She can’t see that people are actually starting to through her lies
The ‘free resource’ that’s given out isn’t even looked at or checked by anyone. It’s just a PowerPoint
I felt sick to my stomach with the VF whatsapp group full of vile messages about Rachel Williams and Sally-Ann and many other survivors they were horrible. Survivors were mocked all the time.Jess was also more bothered about who had shared messages with Sally-Ann that breeched her privacy and how ‘betrayed’ she was by them. They mocked Rachel Williams experiences it was painful to witness
For the consent forms for her books it doesn’t exist. The screenshots Jess shared of Sally-Ann’s perceived consent shows her lack of awareness
I’m in touch with staff still stuck working with her now and Jess is the one who is obsessed
She knows her lies are finally being exposed and she’s using Sally-Ann to dampen her situation. She doesn’t care who she uses to get what she wants to get fame and TV deals. Can’t speak publicly I know she has people stalking my socials
Anyone still supporting this women needs looking into because they won’t be safe to work with survivors either
We can’t all be ‘liars?’
Jess could easily stop this and try make things right and back down but it’s my impression from knowing what she’s like that she will be enjoying the attention
Jess is deliberately trying to conflate criticism of her behaviour (however polite) with abuse, and she always has done this. Many of her followers will have seen misogyny directed at outspoken women online, and they'll naturally assume this is the sort of thing she means. It's unspeakably cruel that she's allowing and even actively encouraging people to believe that Sally Ann is some kind of evil mastermind orchestrating a harassment campaign, instead of a very vulnerable woman with severe trauma-related difficulties who is trying to regain a sense of control over her own life and story. She has been polite. She has done nothing except state clearly what happened, with screenshots to prove it. This is just extra heartache for Sally Ann.If anyone's going to go after her kids it's the alt-right trolls she has, and they've been on her case ever since she published her first book, we had nothing to do with it
Similarly, Jaimi has only been discussed in terms of:
That's it! We're not "telling dangerous lies" and putting her family in danger, nor are we "hashtagging feminism, bekind, VAWG, mental health matters bullshit."
- The age difference between her and Jess, and their being evasive about how the relationship began. It’s understandable that people would question this since a lot of Jess’s work focuses on grooming of teenagers
- The fact that she doesn’t have a professional background or qualifications relevant to the senior positions she was given at VF and TEF, or to co-authoring a book with Jess
- Her going after SA and people who have criticised Jess on social media
I think she is referring to the netmums thread about her that someone put on her Twitter.What is the second "gossipy site" Jess is referring to? is if a reddit page?
I don't think anyone has. I've not seen it here, on twitter or on the netmums thread about her that has upset her. I think she is making it up for sympathy.No one has shared any personal information or discussed anything to do with the children
totally agree. Seemed to me quite entitled, asking people to step in....who is meant to step in? Who owes her to untangle her own mess? Says a lot about her understanding of social media and its purpose.I
And last nights Twitter outburst too. “Is anyone going to step in”, why would you say that? Why do you need to encourage a pile on to Sally Ann and anyone who defies her? It screams desperation to me.
I don’t see myself, or anyone else here, as part of a group wanting to discredit and tear down a highly successful, determined professional or woman alike. I see myself as part of a group here (some of whom are professionals in multiple fields like myself) who are trying to reach out to her and her supporters and get them to understand our views and concerns, which I feel come from a good and fair place. And I honestly wish she’d listen instead of continuing to perpetuate the idea of just pure solid abuse, harassment and bullying of her and Jaimi.Jess is deliberately trying to conflate criticism of her behaviour (however polite) with abuse, and she always has done this. Many of her followers will have seen misogyny directed at outspoken women online, and they'll naturally assume this is the sort of thing she means. It's unspeakably cruel that she's allowing and even actively encouraging people to believe that Sally Ann is some kind of evil mastermind orchestrating a harassment campaign, instead of a very vulnerable woman with severe trauma-related difficulties who is trying to regain a sense of control over her own life and story. She has been polite. She has done nothing except state clearly what happened, with screenshots to prove it. This is just extra heartache for Sally Ann.
I've said it before, but I can't emphasise it enough - this is why any research with vulnerable people requires a strong ethical framework to support participants. Sally Ann was not receiving support or therapy at the time she spoke to Jess. She was desperate. No researcher worth their salt would have used a story from a woman like that, precisely because publication might cause fresh distress. You should also be checking in with vulnerable participants at every step of the way. I had a young woman disclose some particularly horrific personal things during a research interview, and when I transcribed it, I wondered if she'd shared those things in the distress of the moment and if she might regret their publication. I contacted her to double-check if I should use those quotations or not. She told me not to use them and thanked me for being sensitive to her. This is the norm. You have got to be so so careful with this type of research because there is always the risk of further harm. It really doesn't matter how well-intentioned you are.
I doubt Jess published Sally Ann's story while rubbing her hands in glee at her unethical behaviour. I doubt it even occurred to her. Given how sloppily Why Women Are Blamed for Everything was put together (a copy-paste bonanza from the thesis and blog) I suspect she just hit Ctrl + V without a second thought what she was copying and pasting over. This sloppiness renders false one of the statements made in the book (that all women were receiving professional support at the time of writing). All the distress she's feeling now is rooted in her inability to just admit that she got careless and made mistakes. But no, she has to be right all the time, even if it means lying and distorting the facts, even if it means causing further trauma to women already traumatised enough. If she doesn't learn to reflect on and repair her mistakes she's going to end up very lonely.
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