Topic: Child Abuse
Wife of notorious Paedophile freed
August 29, 2012 · , Wikipedia
Michelle Martin the wife and accomplice of murder child abuser and Paedophile Marc Dutrox who was jailed for 30 years was given parole and freedom after 13 years in jail in a controversy that has opened up wounds of anger in Belgium. She will stay at a convent fifty miles from Brussels. Dutroux is held […]
Read More...Paedophile's accomplice and former wife released from prison early
August 29, 2012 · , Ian Traynor Brussels guardian.co.uk
The accomplice and former wife of a Belgian paedophile and murderer has been allowed to go free after serving half her sentence for involvement in child abductions, rapes and murders that plunged the national judicial system into crisis. Michelle Martin, the former wife of Marc Dutroux, who received a 30-year sentence for aiding and abetting […]
Read More...Hundreds of Christian children raped or killed
August 28, 2012 · , http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32088&lan=eng
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The last case reported to Fides happened a few days ago in Islamabad: the 14-year-old Christian Waiz Masih was killed by young Muslims, after a “discussion on religion.” The boy was savagely beaten and then thrown, unconscious, in a channel. There are stories, besides this one, that emerged on the international […]
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...Prostitution in the Philippines – a time for change
July 30, 2012 · By Fr James McTavish, FMVD
More than ever before, prostitution has become institutionalized, organized, and globalized (i.e. through trafficking and the internet). If we look at the streets around us we see the explosion in budget hotels which are so clean but not so good, the all pervasive sight of girly bars and the numerous high class clubs and establishments […]
Read More...Nestle 'failing' on child labour abuse, says FLA report
July 2, 2012 · , Humphrey, Hawskley. 29 June 2012, "Nestle 'failing' on child labour abuse, says FLA report". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18644870.
The food company Nestle has been accused of failing to carry out checks on child labour and other abuses in part of its cocoa supply chain. A report by an independent auditor, the Fair Labor Association (FLA), says it found “multiple serious violations” of the company’s own supplier code. The code includes clauses on child […]
Read More...Report Details History of Abuse in Australian Military
June 28, 2012 · By Matt Siegel, http://www.nytimes.com
SYDNEY, Australia — newly released documents detail numerous cases of physical and sexual abuse of minors in Australia’s armed forces dating back to the 1950s, prompting Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Friday to raise the possibility of a high-level public inquiry. The cases are described in a confidential report commissioned by the Australian military last year and […]
Read More...Cebu City outlaws corporal punishment of children
June 28, 2012 · By Doris C. Bongcac, Inquirer Visayas
CEBU CITY, Philippines—just pinching a child’s ear is now prohibited in Cebu City. The Cebu City Council passed on Wednesday an ordinance that prohibits parents, guardians, relatives, teachers, nannies and househelp from inflicting pain or causing humiliation in disciplining children under their care. Among the acts prohibited by the ordinance are shaving of a child’s […]
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