June, 2017
4 minors rescued from child porn operation in Iligan City
June 6, 2017 · By GMA News Online for www.gmanetwork.com
Four minors were rescued from an online child pornography syndicate in Iligan City. According to a report by GMA News’ Mariz Umali on “State of the Nation with Jessica Soho” on Thursday, one of the victims is a two-year-old child of one of the suspects. The raid was conducted by the Philippine National Police – […]
Read More...Filipino cops describe ‘kill rewards, staged crime scenes’ in drug war
June 5, 2017 · By www.reuters.com
The Philippine police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings they have long blamed on vigilantes, said two senior officers who are critical of President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs.” In the most detailed insider accounts yet of the drug war’s secret […]
Read More...Europol shows clues from child abuse images to track offenders
June 2, 2017 · By Europe for www.bbc.com
Europe’s police agency has launched a new webpage that displays objects in child sex abuse images to try to find the perpetrators and victims. Europol hopes details like a logo on a bag or a shampoo bottle may alert someone who can then contact police by an anonymous tip-off or social media, writes the BBC’s […]
Read More...Implementing Laws to Save Children
June 2, 2017 ·
Implementing Laws to Save Children Fr. Shay Cullen 4 June 2017 Convicted pedophiles in Australia on the National Child Offenders Register will be forbidden to travel abroad. Their passports will be cancelled, according to new proposed laws. Thousands of would-be child victims will be saved from horrific sexual abuse by this promised legislation. This is […]
Read More...11 Years Old, a Mom, and Pushed to Marry Her Rapist in Florida
June 1, 2017 · By Nicholas Kristof for www.nytimes.com
When she was a scrawny 11-year-old, Sherry Johnson found out one day that she was about to be married to a 20-year-old member of her church who had raped her. “It was forced on me,” she recalls. She had become pregnant, she says, and child welfare authorities were investigating — so her family and church […]
Read More...Australia Plans to Revoke Child Sex Offenders’ Passports to Combat Sex Tourism
June 1, 2017 · By MATTHEW HAAG for www.nytimes.com
The Australian government plans to revoke the passports of registered child sex offenders in a significant effort to help combat the booming child sex trade in Asia, officials announced this week. Under the proposed legislation, about 20,000 people on the country’s sex offender registry would be prohibited from leaving the country. Child sex tourists from […]
Read More...Europol using everyday objects to trace child sex abusers
June 1, 2017 · By Agence France-Presse for newsinfo.inquirer.net
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A particular shampoo brand, a magazine cover, a shopping bag or even a wallpaper pattern are among the clues Europol posted online Thursday, hoping they may help trace child sex abusers and their victims. Europe’s police agency launched a new website that shows everyday objects spotted in the background of child […]
Read More...Scottish child abuse inquiry hears apologies over ‘deplorable’ attacks
June 1, 2017 · By Scotland for www.bbc.com
The first hearing in the Scottish child abuse inquiry has heard apologies from organisations which ran children’s homes around the country. More than 60 institutions, including several top private schools and church bodies, are being investigated. The inquiry, which is being chaired by Lady Smith, is looking in detail at historical abuse of children in […]
Read More...
