Child Abuse Crimes
Religious teacher molests child, gets 9 months jail
December 10, 2012 · , Alice Chia | Posted: 07 December 2012 1439 hrs
SINGAPORE: A 38-year-old religious teacher has been sentenced to nine months’ jail for molesting a child in March 2007. He was found guilty of one charge of committing an indecent act with a child. The court heard that he had asked the child, who was nine years old at the time of the incident, to [...]
Read More...Child’s battered body found in Cavite
December 6, 2012 · , Maricar Cinco, Inquirer Southern Luzon
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna—The naked body of a female child, possibly around 7 years old, was found on a roadside in Kawit, Cavite Wednesday morning, the local police said. Police said the girl was found with a thin rope still tied around her neck, leading them to suspect she was strangled to death. She also [...]
Read More...6 minors working as prostitutes rescued in Quirino, Isabela
December 6, 2012 · , Matikas Santos, INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines—Seven victims of human trafficking, six of whom were minors, have been rescued by authorities in remote towns in Quirino and Isabela provinces, police said Tuesday. Police Director Samuel Pagdilao Jr., Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) chief, said they were able to arrest the owners of two brothels known as Rose-Janet Videoke Bar [...]
Read More...Suspected child rapist goes free from Filipino jail
November 19, 2012 · , http://home.nzcity.co.nz
A New Zealander arrested for raping two girls in the Philippines has been released from prison amid revelations of a meeting between his lawyer and the alleged victims facilitated by a mayor. David William Wakefield, who holds dual New Zealand and British citizenship but has been living in Mozambique, was arrested in October and held [...]
Read More...Global hunt for Haswell
November 9, 2012 · , DR SARA PAYNE and SHY KEENAN
HAVE you seen this man? Southampton-born Mark Haswell is wanted by police in the Philippines in connection with the alleged rape of a 15-year-old British/Filipino girl there. A warrant for the arrest of 44-year-old Haswell was issued by a court in Pasay City, Philippines, in 2009 but the businessman, who was formerly prominent in the [...]
Read More...Will there be a child abuse ‘super inquiry’? Ministers warned that allegations are the ‘tip of the iceberg’
November 7, 2012 · By James Chapman and Tim Shipman
Home Secretary Theresa May announced National Crime Agency investigation into abuse in North Wales children’s home in the 1970s and 80s She also suggested the Government may launch a wider inquiry into claims senior Tories were involved Ex-resident at Bryn Estyn children’s home claims Thatcher aide abused boys A single wide-ranging judicial inquiry into ‘absolutely [...]
Read More...Gary Glitter arrested as BBC faces new questions
November 6, 2012 · , irishtimes.com
British police arrested convicted sex offender Gary Glitter yesterday as part of an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, while further questions have been raised about the corporation itself and its former director Mark Thompson. Glitter was released on bail 10 hours later. But the arrest – [...]
Read More...New Zealander nabbed for rape, trafficking
October 31, 2012 · , Arianne Caryl N. Casas and Malu Cadeliña Manar, Saturday, October 27, 2012
POLICE and social welfare personnel from Kidapawan City arrested in Davao City on Thursday a 50-year-old New Zealand national accused of molesting two teenage girls. Superintendent Renante Cabico, chief of the Kidapawan City police, identified the suspect as David William Wakefield, 50, assistant manager of Mecs Labor Hiring Company based in Mozambique in South Africa. [...]
Read More...Jimmy Savile: TV star’s sex abuse victims may now total 40
October 16, 2012 · , http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-tv-stars-sex-1375149
Sex fiend Jimmy Savile‘s victims may now total 40, police said tonight (Friday October 12). And Scotland Yard confirmed it is now pursuing 340 lines of inquiry. So far 12 allegations of sexual offences have been officially recorded but this number is increasing, the force said. Metropolitan Police detectives are in contact with 14 other [...]
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Former Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky sentenced for sex abuse of children
October 10, 2012 · , USA TODAY
(USA TODAY) – BELLEFONTE, Pa. – Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, whose sexual abuse of children triggered a cascading crisis that still shadows the state’s largest university, was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison Tuesday. The sentence issued by Judge John Cleland means that the 68-year-old former coach, convicted of [...]
Read More...Aussie pedophiles may flock to RP if SoVFA OK’d
October 9, 2012 · , Angie M. Rosales, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 00:00
The Philippines has primary jurisdiction over all offenses that fall outside the official duty of Australian soldiers under the proposed Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SoVFA) with the said country. Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday made this assurance amid concerns raised by some of her colleagues over the grant of Philippine congressional concurrence on the agreement [...]
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