June, 2015
8 minors rescued in cybersex den raid
June 25, 2015 ·
Posted at 06/11/2015 5:01 AM | Updated as of 06/11/2015 3:22 PM American and Filipino authorities have arrested a man recruiting minors for cybersex. – ANC, The World Tonight, June 10, 2015
Rotherham child sex abuse: ‘Hundreds’ of potential suspects, including two current or former councillors, investigated
June 25, 2015 · By THE INDEPENDENT for www.independent.co.uk
Hundreds of possible suspects, including two serving or former Rotherham councillors, have been identified so far by an investigation into child sexual abuse in the town, the National Crime Agency has said. The inquiry, named Operation Stovewood, was started in December after Professor Alexis Jay’s report into the sexual abuse of 1,400 children in the […]
Read More...Father in viral child abuse video nabbed in Muntinlupa
June 23, 2015 ·
The man caught on camera beating up his two children was arrested in Barangay Cupang, Muntinlupa City on Wednesday after the video went viral on the Internet, a “24 Oras” report said. Muntinlupa police chief Sr. Supt. Allan Nobleza said the suspect will face charges of child abuse for physically hurting his six-year-old son and […]
Pope Francis suggests those in weapons industry can’t call themselves Christian
June 23, 2015 · By The Gurdian for www.theguardian.com
“Duplicity is the currency of today … they say one thing and do another” Pope Francis Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin. “If you trust only […]
Read More...21 human trafficking victims buried in Pokok Sena
June 23, 2015 · By Borneo Post Online Posted on June 23, 2015, Tuesday
POKOK SENA: There was an air of melancholy surrounding the Kampung Tualang cemetery here yesterday, when 21 bodies of human trafficking victims believed to be Rohingya refugees found in Wang Kelian last month, were buried. Nineteen of the victims who were men, were buried en mass in a grave, while the bodies of two women […]
Read More...Not enough done to combat child labor in Philippines, critics say
June 22, 2015 · By Joe Torres in Manila and Jefry Tupas, Davao City UCAN Philippines June 15, 2015
Government touts efforts to eradicate hazardous work, but problem persists Jenny’s father drives a passenger jeep to try and provide for a burgeoning family, but Jenny still knows it’s not enough to make ends meet. That’s why the Grade 9 student wakes every morning at 3am to walk the streets of Davao City, scouring trash […]
Read More...Philippine military kills three tribesmen in Mindanao
June 22, 2015 · By Rights groups say army operation was 'massacre' of innocent civilians Joe Torres in Manila and Jef Tupas in Davao City Philippines June 16, 2015
Rights groups say army operation was ‘massacre’ of innocent civilians Philippine army troops have killed three tribesmen in a rural village in Mindanao in what officials are calling a “legitimate encounter” with communist rebels. Rights groups, however, say the three men were innocent civilians executed in a “coldblooded massacre”. Datu Ruben Enlog and his companions, […]
Read More...Australian pleads not guilty to child rape in PH
June 21, 2015 · By Agence France-Presse for globalnation.inquirer.net
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — An Australian man accused of raping and trafficking two girls in the Philippines pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, court officials said. Wearing a yellow prison shirt and handcuffs, Gerard Peter Scully, 51, puffed on a cigarette before calmly saying “not guilty” as the charges — five counts of rape and […]
Read More...Why we fight for the living world: it’s about love, and it’s time we said so
June 20, 2015 · By George Monbiot for www.theguardian.com
Who wants to see the living world destroyed? Who wants an end to birdsong, bees and coral reefs, the falcon’s stoop, the salmon’s leap? Who wants to see the soil stripped from the land, the sea rimed with rubbish? No one. And yet it happens. Seven billion of us allow fossil fuel companies to push […]
Read More...8 kids rescued in online sex abuse raid
June 20, 2015 · By www.news24.com
Manila – Filippino police have freed eight children from a house in Manila where they were allegedly sold for prostitution and forced to have sex for an online audience, authorities said on Thursday. Two people, including the alleged mastermind of the abuse Christopher Villanueva and the mother of three of the children, have been arrested […]
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