Topic: Child Abuse Crimes
Vatican arrests ex-envoy Wesolowski over child abuse
September 30, 2014 ·
Jozef Wesolowski is the highest ranking Vatican official to face abuse charges
Read More...Protect your Youth from Human Trafficking and all forms of Modern Slavery
September 17, 2014 ·
By Archbishop Charles Bo, SDB (CNUA) Human trafficking is a virtual hell for millions of vulnerable people. More than a million people are trafficked every year and around 400,000 women are forced into sex slavery. The world is yet to be ashamed of the perpetuation of slavery in the modern forms: South East Asia is […]
Read More...One in 10 girls sexually abused, says UN report
September 9, 2014 ·
About 120 million girls around the world – slightly more than one in 10 – have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says.
Read More...Labour urges action on child abuse inquiry
September 5, 2014 ·
2 September 2014 Last updated at 14:01 The government must act “urgently” to get its inquiry into child sex abuse moving following thescandal in Rotherham, Labour has appealed. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: “It is two years since we called for it, two months since the home secretary agreed to it, but we still have no chair […]
Read More...Child sex abuse arrests following dawn raids
September 3, 2014 ·
2 September 2014 Last updated at 16:13 Thames Valley Police said the exploitation of two girls between 2005 and 2012 had prompted the raids Ten men have been arrested during dawn raids by officers investigating child sexual exploitation dating back to 2005. Thames Valley Police said 120 officers had raided 11 addresses from 07:00 BST. […]
Read More...Statutory rape victim forced to pay child support
September 3, 2014 ·
While in high school, Olivas had sex with a 20-year-old woman. As he sees it now, she took advantage of a lonely kid going through a rough patch at home.
Read More...Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry: 131 NI children sent to Australia
September 2, 2014 ·
One hundred and thirty-one children from Northern Ireland, some as young as five, were sent to Australia as child migrants, an inquiry has heard.
The experiences of 50 of them will be heard by the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) either by oral or written evidence.
It is examining the extent of child abuse in religious and state-run institutions in NI from 1922 to 1995.
A team from the inquiry has already made two trips to Australia.
Read More...Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds
August 27, 2014 ·
At least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, a report has found.
Read More...Rotherham child abuse scandal: The background to the report
August 27, 2014 ·
An independent report has severely criticised South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham Council after finding “at least” 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town between 1997 and 2013. It follows four years in which both organisations have been under scrutiny.
Read More...Take disclosures of sexual abuse seriously, victim says
August 18, 2014 ·
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — People who hear disclosures of sexual abuse have an obligation to take the allegations seriously, said a victim of the disgraced former Penn State assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky.
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