Child Abuse Crimes
Tatort-Verein visits Preda Center
April 18, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The support agency Tatort-Verein from Cologne, came to visit also this March 2012. The famous Cologne based actor Klaus J. Behrendt in the popular TV series Tatort, playing the part of the detective commissioner alongside Dietmar Bar visited the Preda…
Read More...German Parliamentary Visit at Preda
April 17, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The jail rescue project of Preda for youth in conflict with the law is attracting the attention and the support of distinguished visitors from Germany. Father Shay Cullen is being invited to make a presentation at the German Parliament this 2012…
Read More...Melissa Woodward: A Sex Slave’s Story
April 3, 2012 · By Zsa Zsa Palagyi, The 700 Club, CBN.com
Melissa grew up with dreams of being a police officer and a mother, but a family member of hers had other plans. In the late 1980s, this individual groomed Melissa to be a sex slave in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area. He physically abused and sexually molested her until the age of 12 and then began selling Melissa to other men.
Read More...Australian police smash child porn ring
March 23, 2012 · By AFP
SYDNEY — Australian police have smashed a child porn ring and arrested 14 men, including fathers, after hundreds of thousands of images and videos were seized, some depicting toddlers, they said Friday. Australian Federal Police raided more than a dozen properties across the country over the past week after a tip-off by Interpol, which linked [...]
Read More...Medics’ sex abuse may top Church scandals
March 7, 2012 · By Evelyn Ring
The scale of sexual abuse by medical practitioners against patients could be far worse than scandals that rocked the Catholic Church, it was claimed yesterday. Dignity 4 Patients, which supports more than 250 alleged victims, has demanded a state inquiry into patient abuse after allegations were made against consultants, doctors and nurses from all over [...]
Read More...Special SBS report: Child sex tourism in the Philippines
March 3, 2012 · By Katrina Yu, diversitydiaries.com
The opening of the Clark airbase and Subic Bay naval base just three hours north of the capital Manila created the designated ‘sex hubs’ of Angeles and Olongapo City that exist today.
Read More...Poverty strangles city children – UN report
March 2, 2012 · By NEIL A. ALCOBER CORRESPONDENT
HUNDREDS of millions of children in cities across the world are growing up in poverty and enduring deprivation, according to a report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released on Tuesday. The report said that many children living in urban areas go through, which are in many cases concealed by statistical averages in which [...]
Read More...1.7M kids call Metro slums home
February 28, 2012 · By Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Barely into his teens, “Dennis” used to retrieve stray balls from a golf course for a fee of P5 each.
That was before he and his fellow street urchins realized that Quezon City was one big quarry for anyone who had their youthful speed and daring.
Catholic archbishop urges new anti-abuse rules in Asia
February 9, 2012 · , Agence France-Presse
VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church in Asia has a “pressing need” for rules against child abuse by priests as the issue has been hidden by “a culture of shame,” the archbishop of Manila said on Thursday. “There is a pressing need to formulate national pastoral guidelines for handling such cases,” Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle [...]
Read More...Alleged child sex abuse victim speaks out at Vatican
February 7, 2012 · By CNN Wire Staff
An Irish woman who detailed her own harrowing experience of child sexual abuse at the hands of a priest spoke out during a Vatican symposium on Tuesday, telling church officials that an apology was not enough. “Those fingers that would abuse my body the night before were the next morning holding and offering me the [...]
Read More...Vatican prosecutor warns on Asia child abuse problem
February 6, 2012 · By Dario Thuburn, Agence France Presse
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s top anti-abuse prosecutor has warned that the Catholic Church in Asia is falling behind in the fight against pedophilia due to cultural differences over what constitutes child abuse. “The problem is very accentuated in Asia,” Archbishop Charles Scicluna told reporters
Read More...Leading priest predicts the end of celibacy in the Catholic Church
January 24, 2012 · By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer
A leading missionary priest has claimed that celibacy will soon be a thing of the past – and described it as a ‘business arrangement’ for the Catholic Church.
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