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Adoptive parents arrested after body of 11-year-old is found hidden in attic
February 12, 2020 · By Graig Graziosi for www.independent.co.uk
A Phoenix couple allegedly hid the dead body of a foster child in their attic for more than two years, according to prosecutors. Rafael Loera, 56, and Maribel Loera, 50, are charged with child abuse, abandonment or concealment of a dead body and arson of an occupied structure. Firefighters found evidence of human skeletal remains in the couple’s drywall after […]
Read More...Senior Scottish politician resigns after bombarding boy (16) with ‘predatory’ messages
February 11, 2020 · By Tim Jackson for gript.ie
Scottish finance secretary Derek MacKay has resigned after he was exposed for sending over 260 messages to a boy he knew to be only 16-years-old. Only hours before delivering the Scottish budget, The Scottish Sun published details of MacKay’s messages which began in August when the Scottish National Party politician privately contacted the boy on social media. […]
Read More...Religion a mere toy for China’s comrades
February 11, 2020 · By Elizabeth Lam, Hong Kong for international.la-croix.com
Religion in China has received its last nail in the coffin with a new set of rules, effective from Feb. 1. The new regulations on religious affairs make religion submissive to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This is because they cover every aspect of religious life, from the formation of communities to daily activities. […]
Read More...An Italian bishop goes rogue and blows the whistle
February 11, 2020 · By Robert Mickens, Rome for international.la-croix.com
More cracks are appearing in the teetering edifice of Italy’s once invincible Catholic hierarchy. For the first time ever, it seems, a bishop has gone to the country’s civil authorities to denounce priests and religious brothers accused of sexually abusing minors. And by doing so, he’s broken ranks with the men who lead Italy’s other […]
Read More...Dublin man pleads guilty to child pornography offences in US
February 11, 2020 ·
A dual citizen of Ireland and the US has pleaded guilty in court in Maryland to conspiracy to advertise child pornography. As part of a plea agreement, 33-year-old Eric Eoin Marques from Dublin admitted that between 24 July 2008 and 29 July 2013 he conspired to advertise child pornography by operating an anonymous web hosting […]
Read More...French writer ‘regrets’ his pedophile sex tourism in Asia
February 10, 2020 · By ANTHONY LUCAS AND FIACHRA GIBBONS for www.thejakartapost.com
French writer Gabriel Matzneff said in an interview Wednesday that he “regrets” his trips to Asia to have sex with children, claiming that at the time “no one ever said it was a crime”. The veteran essayist is being investigated by French police after a leading French publishing executive detailed how he abused her when […]
Read More...International Court of Justice rules in favor of Rohingya
February 7, 2020 · By UCA News reporter for www.ucanews.com
The United Nations’ highest court today ordered measures to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The decision comes despite de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi defending her country against the accusations in person last month. In a momentous and unanimous decision by a panel of 17 judges, the International Court of Justice […]
Read More...THE LONG WAR AGAINST SLAVERY
February 7, 2020 · By Casey Cep for www.newyorker.com
Here’s to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies,” Samuel Johnson once toasted at an Oxford dinner party, or so James Boswell claims. The veracity of Boswell’s biography—including its representation of Johnson’s position on slavery—has long been contested. In the course of more than a thousand pages, little mention is made of […]
Read More...Caged like animals: Inside Bangkok’s notorious IDC
February 6, 2020 · By UCA News reporter, Hong Kong for www.ucanews.com
Bangkok’s Immigration Detention Center (IDC) has long been notorious for the squalid and overcrowded conditions in which inmates — including children, women and the elderly — have been forced to languish for months and even years on end. Yet surreptitiously taken photographs obtained by UCA News paint an even darker picture of inmates’ plight inside […]
Read More...‘If a child can talk, it can have sex’ Sick pervert loses appeal against travel ban
February 6, 2020 · By LAURA MOWAT for www.express.co.uk
A SHAMELESS paeodophile who declared “if a child is old enough to talk, it’s old enough to have sex” has lost his appeal against a ban restricting him from visiting countries where the age of consent is lower than the UK’s. Police have described Jason Leonard, 37, as “one of the most dangerous” registered sex […]
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