Topic: Child Trafficking
Taking the war to the sex traffickers Movement mobilizes church to rescue victims of child-porn industry
October 8, 2012 · By Drew Zahn
DES MOINES, Iowa – On Oct. 19, a new army will be recruited to combat the frightening abduction of thousands of children in the U.S. each year, some of whom are subject to sexual abuse and even slavery. The 10th Preventing Abuse Conference will convene at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines to inform, equip [...]
Read More...Child Trafficking a Heinous Crime
September 20, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Child Trafficking a Heinous Crime by Fr. Shay Cullen Email: shaycullen@preda.org (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) Dublin, Ireland. The most heinous crime one can think of is the abduction, trafficking, sale, rape and sexual abuse of little children. It’s a horrific [...]
Read More...Atlanta’s faith community unites to tackle sexual exploitation of kids
August 3, 2012 · , Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service , http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2012/07/atlantas-faith-community-unites-tackle-sexual-exploitation-kids
NORCROSS, Ga. (CNS) — Crystal Ward works hard helping people to think in new ways about the commercial sex industry and its victims. Young girls being forced to sell themselves for sex are not prostitutes, she told a group of 30 church leaders from throughout metropolitan Atlanta; the girls are victims of sexual exploitation in [...]
Read More...Woman mentors girls to save them from becoming victims of trafficking.
August 3, 2012 · , http://www.catholicsun.org/2012/07/24/woman-mentors-girls-to-save-them-from-becoming-victims-of-trafficking/
ATLANTA (CNS) — The girls Keisha Head mentors today remind her of herself 15 or 20 years ago. They are from the margins: runaways from tough family circumstances, truant from school or on probation from the Fulton County Juvenile Court for one offense or another. And all are potential targets of predators looking to commercially [...]
Read More...Violence and child abuse, red alert in Sri Lanka
August 3, 2012 · , Melani Manel Perera, Colombo (AsiaNews via CNUA)http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Violence-and-child-abuse,-red-alert-in-Sri-Lanka-25366.html
Colombo (AsiaNews) – It is red alert in Sri Lanka as incidents of violence, rapes and child abuse continues to grow: from January 2012, 975 cases were registered by the police and 20 thousand complaints received by the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA). One of the last episodes that made headlines, concerns a 13 year [...]
Read More...Many thanks from all at PREDA on the success of the “Run for Freedom”
May 11, 2012 · By Philip Cribbin
Just under 300 people ran, jogged and walked on April the 28th in the Phoenix Park to show their solidarity with the children being rescued on a continuous basis by the team at PREDA.
Read More...“Run for Freedom” with Damien Dempsey and Catherina McKiernan
March 13, 2012 ·
PREDA’s “Run for Freedom” with musician Damien Dempsey and athletics legend Catherina McKiernan on Saturday 28th April, 2012 in the Phoenix Park. The “RUN FOR FREEDOM” will take place in the Phoenix Park on Saturday April 28th at 1pm with registration also accepted from 11am on the morning of the run.
Read More...Irish couples return home from Mexico after child adoption nightmare
January 22, 2012 · By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral.com
The Irish couples innocently caught up in an adoption scandal in Mexico have returned home – heartbroken, shaken and childless. The Sunday Independent reports that the 11 couples are now back in Ireland after police smashed the child trafficking operation in Guadalajara. Legal representatives of the prospective parents have assured the Independent that their clients [...]
Read More...Irish couples questioned in Mexico inquiry
January 19, 2012 ·
Eleven Irish couples have been questioned by police investigating alleged child trafficking in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. They have been asked by the authorities to remain in the country to help police with their inquiries. An Irish embassy official has been in Guadalajara to provide consular assistance. The Irish couples were involved in securing [...]
Read More...Dozens arrested in Europe over child pornography ring
December 11, 2011 · , BBC News
Police in 22 European countries have arrested 112 suspects in an online child pornography investigation, Europe’s police agency, Europol, says. The suspects allegedly shared videos of children and babies being sexually abused and raped, Europol director Rob Wainwright said. Nineteen men face charges in Denmark, where police seized dozens of computers and thousands of hours [...]
Read More...Hackers take down child pornography sites
October 24, 2011 · , BBC News
Hacktivist group Anonymous has briefly taken offline 40 sites it claims traded in images of child sexual abuse. As part of the action it published the names of 1,500 people who it says used a site known as “Lolita City”. The attacks were carried out as part of Operation Darknet which targeted abuse groups that [...]
Read More...How Many Sex Tourists, How Many Victims?
October 12, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The recent Philippine Tourism Congress avoided a hot subject – sex tourism. This is the scourge that is causing endless abuse and exploitation of women and children. It is also destroying the moral and family values of this country and damaging the name of Philippine tourism. Some Philippine officials have hotly disputed a statistic mentioned [...]
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