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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 […]
Read More...Look, don’t touch: Thai bars raided for trafficking child ‘entertainers’
October 18, 2019 · By Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Thomson Reuters Foundation for news.abs-cbn.com
CHIANG MAI, Thailand – A hug, a hand on her knee, a kiss on the cheek: teenage waitress Pim would not allow the customers to go any further at a karaoke bar in northern Thailand where she was found in a police raid. The 16-year-old was one of four teenage bar staff who were uncovered […]
Read More...Police arrest hundreds over international child sexual abuse website
October 18, 2019 · By Reuters for www.theguardian.com
Hundreds of people have been arrested in a worldwide operation over a South Korea-based dark web child sexual abuse site that sold videos for digital cash. Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as one of the largest operations they had encountered to date. Called Welcome To Video, the website relied on […]
Read More...Police arrest over 300 suspected paedophiles across 38 countries including Britain, US and Germany after ‘dark web’ child abuse site hosting 250,000 sickening videos is shut down and South Korean ‘ringleader’ is charged
October 17, 2019 · By RICHARD SPILLETT, CRIME CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE for www.dailymail.co.uk
Police around the world have taken down a global child abuse ring in which paedophiles in at least 38 countries gained ‘loyalty points’ for uploading abuse videos to a dark web website and paid in bitcoin to download others. More than 250,000 horrific videos, stored on a computer server in South Korea and available through […]
Read More...Sydney stabbing accused Mert Ney charged with possessing child abuse material
October 16, 2019 · By Australian Associated Press for www.theguardian.com
A Sydney man accused of murdering a woman, stabbing another woman and then running through the city’s CBD brandishing a bloodied knife is now charged with possessing child abuse material. Mert Ney, who was restrained with chairs and a milk crate after the alleged violent acts on 13 August, has been formally charged with possessing […]
Read More...Kin of Philippine drug killing victims call for pope’s help
October 15, 2019 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for international.la-croix.com
Family members of those who died in the Philippines “war on drugs” try to hand to Pope Francis a letter of appeal for help during the papal audience in the Vatican on Oct. 9. (Photo supplied) Braving a crowd of 50,000 in St. Peter’s Square, Marissa Lazaro and Katherine Bautista squeezed their way through to […]
Read More...In Iraq, religious ‘pleasure marriages’ are a front for child prostitution
October 15, 2019 · By Nawal Al-Maghafi for www.theguardian.com
I’m walking through the security cordon that leads into Kadhimiyah, one of Shia Islam’s holiest sites. I’m in a queue, along with dozens of pilgrims who have come from all over the world to pay their respects to the shrine of Imam Kadhim. At the gate, a female security guard pats me down and looks […]
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