Topic: Child Sex Abuse
Oxford grooming gang jailed: Dogar and Karrar brothers get life for abuse and rape of young girls
June 29, 2013 ·
KEVIN RAWLINSON THURSDAY 27 JUNE 2013 Seven members of a gang which groomed girls as young as 12 and subjected them to “dreadful” sexual abuse over the course of eight years have been sentenced to at least 95 years in prison. The men, who ran a child sexual abuse ring in Oxford, were convicted of […]
Read More...FOR CHRIST'S SAKE: END SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH … FOR GOOD
June 21, 2013 ·
By Bishop Geoffrey Robinson Published by Garratt Publishing, AU$17.95 The title might lead one reasonably to expect a kind of pamphleteering campaign against abusers and a tick list of suggestions for new structures and programs to deal with abuse. Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, however, dares something more fundamentally revolutionary in For Christ’s Sake: End Sexual Abuse […]
Read More...Children vulnerable to sexual abuse being failed by authorities, say MPs
June 13, 2013 ·
Authorities lack curiosity about those in their care, warn MPs, amid claims of appalling treatment by abusers and agencies Alexandra Topping The Guardian, Monday 10 June 2013 Vulnerable children in the UK are still being failed by local authorities, the police and the criminal justice system, which are failing to protect […]
Read More...Bishop urges pope to call a council on sex abuse
June 13, 2013 ·
June 6, 2013 In a press conference with international media Tuesday, Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson formally launched a petition asking Pope Francis to call a council on the global clergy sex abuse crisis. Robinson, a retired auxiliary bishop from Sydney, created the petition in conjunction with the release of his latest book, For Christ’s Sake: […]
Read More...Philippine bishops accused of abuse cover-up
June 10, 2013 ·
June 4, 2013Catholic bishops in the Philippines are covering up “rampant sexual abuse of children by the clergy,” said a missionary priest who has been working with prostituted children for the past four decades. “We have these bishops who have been covering up so much of this abuse, and we know that it is still […]
Read More...THE SILENCED SCREAMS
May 23, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Rachelle, when she was just 13 years old, suffered in silence and isolation. Like most children in the world, she turned into herself and at that young age, having being certified mentally challenged with a mental age of a 9 year-old, she felt totally helpless to change or prevent what adults more powerful and knowledgeable did to […]
Read More...Sex abuse justice cannot be fast-tracked by a ten year statute of limitation
May 18, 2013 ·
by Michael Mullins (Eureka Street via CNUA) Victims of church sexual abuse have suffered a setback, with reports that the NSW Victims Rights and Support Bill proposes a statute of limitations for people claiming compensation for violence including child abuse or sexual assault. Under the legislation, applications must be made within ten years of the […]
Read More...Swiss paedophiles targeted in Asia
May 17, 2013 ·
No end to the international sex tourism and trafficking of children in sight. Switzerland vows action 15 July 2012 Switzerland has moved to bolster its fight against citizens who commit paedophilia in countries such as Thailand and the Philippines. Amid worldwide concern for the boom in child sex tourism and Internet pornography, Swiss authorities […]
Read More...Oxford sex gang: girls as young as 11 'forced into prostitution'
May 16, 2013 ·
Girls as young as 11 were forced into prostitution and trafficked around the country by the Oxford paedophile ring. Oxford sex gang. Left to right, top: Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Kamar Jamil, Assad Hussain. Bottom: Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar and Zeeshan Ahmed Photo: PA 14 May 2013 The gang of seven – convicted at the […]
Read More...North Wales child abuse: more than 140 people say they were victims
May 6, 2013 ·
Police say alleged victims have identified 84 people as responsible for attacks between 1963 and 1992 Josh Halliday The Guardian, Monday 29 April 2013 12.13 BST More than 140 people have told police they were the victims of abuse at 18 children’s homes across north Wales over a span of three decades.The complainants, almost all […]
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