March, 2015
Controversial paedophile support program to launch in South Australia in a national first.
March 24, 2015 · By ABC.net.au's Elise Worthington
A controversial program that offers paedophiles friendship and support in an effort to reduce offending is being trialled in Australia for the first time. I appreciate not everybody will want to spend their Saturday morning having a coffee with an offender, but I think we need to get over that. The Circles of Support and […]
Read More...Cardinal Gracias: “Despicable, immoral and depraved attack on Ranagath sisters”
March 23, 2015 · By Nirmala Carvalho for AsiaNews.it
Police arrest eight men for the gang rape of the superior of the convent of the Religious of Jesus and Mary in West Bengal. CCTV images fundamental. The sister is hospitalized in stable condition. Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC): “The apathy of the authorities in bringing to justice those radical elements foments religious violence”. […]
Read More...A Small Town in Austria
March 20, 2015 ·
When the mayor of this seemingly clean and well-ordered town invited me during my lecture tour to a meeting with his town council in 2014, he said the town had problems and asked if I could help. At first he discussed Fair Trade and how his town could do more to support the sale of […]
Read More...Scientist who tried to fix sex with 8-year-old girl jailed for 3 years
March 20, 2015 · By Hugo Gye for DailyMail.co.uk
A British scientist working in Antarctica tried to arrange to abuse an eight-year-old girl when he returned from the South Pole. Simon Rouen, 36, was based at a polar research station when he spelt out his desire in emails to two undercover detectives in a police sting. He thought his messages were going to another […]
Read More...Watch: Fr Shay talks to Australian TV
March 19, 2015 ·
Last weekend, Australian news show 60 Minutes aired a face-to-face interview with abuser Peter Gerard Scully. The show followed the Filipino police through the moments of arrest to his time in jail. He’s considered Australia’s worst paedophile, and for four years Peter Scully was on the run. He thought by hiding out in a remote […]
Read More...Alleged paedophile Peter Gerard Scully fled a sordid past in Melbourne
March 19, 2015 ·
Peter Gerard Scully’s alleged crimes against babies and young girls in the Philippines are so depraved that country is considering calls to re-introduce the death penalty, and now a Fairfax Media investigation has revealed a sordid and amoral past in Melbourne. When Scully arrived in Manila in 2011, he was fleeing from Victorian fraud and […]
Read More...Volunteer Experience: A City On a Hill That Can’t Be Hidden
March 18, 2015 · By Michael for his blog EveryColourEverySound.co.uk
Overlooking the shimmering waters of Subic Bay stands an ordinary building with an extraordinary history. Sitting atop one of the many hills here in the mountainous region of Zambales, the Preda centre is the headquarters for the organisation I have been lucky enough to volunteer with for the last four weeks. It actively works with […]
Read More...Philippines’ generation of sex tourism children
March 18, 2015 · By Dave Tacon for AlJazeera
Weekends are busy on Fields Avenue in Balibago. Young women greet meandering men and invite them into the bars that line the street. Known as the “supermarket of sex”, Angeles City’s red light district has fast become a top destination for sex tourism. Male travellers from Asia, Australia, the US, Europe and the Middle East […]
Read More...Professionals blamed Oxfordshire girls for their sexual abuse, report finds
March 17, 2015 · By Sandra Laville for TheGuardian.com
Police and social workers in Oxfordshire had a tainted perception that girls as young as 11 consented to sex with men who raped and brutalised them, an independent report into the failure to stop their exploitation has said. Throughout their interactions with six young girls in Oxford, professionals struggled with the law on consent, failing […]
Read More...Heinous sex crimes against Filipino babies
March 16, 2015 ·
IT must be one of the most heinous crimes of the century, with little exaggeration, and one which went undetected by Filipino police until Dutch Internet investigators found abhorrent and revolting child pornography of Filipino children being sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered on videos on the computer of a Dutch national. Police investigator Attorney Janet […]
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