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Maid escapes ‘years of slavery’ in Indonesia’s capital
October 28, 2019 · By Ryan Dagur, Jakarta for www.ucanews.org
A Catholic domestic worker has filed a police complaint in Indonesia accusing her employer of treating her as a slave. Afra Burga Ambol, 24, claims her employer, Fredy Burhan, refused to pay her and beat her frequently at his home in West Jakarta for years. The domestic worker, who comes from predominantly Christian East Nusa […]
Read More...Alexander McCartney: ‘Thousands of new victims’ found in child abuse case
October 25, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
“Thousands of new victims” are expected to be identified in what is thought to be the UK’s biggest “catfish” child abuse investigation, a court has heard. It was alleged Alexander McCartney, a 21-year-old computer science student from Lissummon Road, Newry, blackmailed young victims from around the world. US authorities now want to extradite him, Newry […]
Read More...Child Marriage in the United States
October 24, 2019 · By HTS Staff | 2017 for humantraffickingsearch.org
In the United States the minimum age for marriage is 18, but in most states child marriage is legal with a parent’s consent. Girls as young as 12 in Virginia, 13 in New Hampshire and 14 in Alabama are able to legally wed with a parent’s signature. Technically a child is a minor until the […]
Read More...Age Of Consent By Country 2019
October 24, 2019 · By World Population Review for worldpopulationreview.com
What is age of consent? Age of consent is the minimum age which a person is considered legally competent to consent to sexual acts. As a result, if someone older engages in sexual acts with a minor under the age of consent, then this activity may be considered statutory rape. This is because the person […]
Read More...Undercover With The Clerics – Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade
October 24, 2019 · By www.bbc.co.uk
Working with an undercover reporter, BBC Arabic’s Nawal Al-Maghafi investigates Shia clerics at some of Iraq’s holiest shrines. She uncovers the grooming and exploitation of vulnerable girls and young women, trapped into prostitution and pimped out by a religious elite. A young widow alleges that a cleric from an important shrine sold her to his […]
Read More...The teenager married too many times to count
October 24, 2019 · By Nawal al-Maghafi for www.bbc.co.uk
Warning: Some readers may find some of these details upsetting Rusul woke to find herself alone. Her new husband had gone. The marriage had lasted just three hours. It wasn’t the teenager’s first marriage. It wasn’t even her second, third or fourth. In fact she’s been married too many times for her to count. Rusul’s […]
Read More...Scotland votes to ban smacking children
October 23, 2019 ·
Scottish lawmakers voted Thursday to ban parents and carers from smacking children. Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament voted by 84 to 29 to introduce a law that will make it a criminal offense for parents to use physical punishment against a child. Currently, parents can use “reasonable” physical force to discipline children. Scotland is the […]
Read More...Victims of child abuse told accusations could ‘ruin perpetrator’s life’, inquiry finds
October 23, 2019 · By Telegraph Reporters for www.telegraph.co.uk
Victims of child sex abuse are often told by the authority figures they confide in that their allegations could “ruin the perpetrators life”, an analysis of over 3,200 cases found. More than 4,000 survivors of child sexual abuse have shared their experiences of abuse with the Truth Project in England and Wales. Of these, 3,265 […]
Read More...Indian police raid aged Jesuit’s room, confiscate furniture
October 23, 2019 · By UCANEWS Reporter
Indian police have confiscated the property of an 83-year-old Jesuit priest, accusing him of being an absconder from court proceedings in a sedition case leveled against him for allegedly liking a Facebook post. A 30-member police team in Jharkhand state raided the residence of Father Stan Swamy, a noted social activist, on Oct. 21. The police took away […]
Read More...LA police failed to investigate 4,000 serious child abuse reports in 2018 and 2019. Why?
October 21, 2019 · By CONTRIBUTING WRITER for www.dailynews.com
The first recorded sign of trouble in the brief life of Noah Cuatro came before he was even born. In August 2014, when his mother was nine months pregnant with Noah, she allegedly threw her baby sister in her crib, fracturing the 10-month-old’s skull in two places. Shortly after Noah was born, workers with Los […]
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