May, 2018
UPDATED: All of Chile’s bishops offer resignations after meeting pope on abuse
May 23, 2018 · By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service for www.ncronline.org
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 8:30 a.m. central time with additional reporting about the document in which Francis gave his evaluation of the situation of the church in Chile. The story was updated again at 9:20 a.m. central time to add reactions from abuse survivors and advocates. VATICAN CITY — Every bishop in […]
Read More...Father-of-four avoids jail over possession of child porn images
May 22, 2018 · By Jessica Magee for www.independent.ie
A 52-year-old Dublin man has avoided jail for possession of child pornography, which he accessed via an instant messaging app on his phone. Brian Manning, a father-of-four of St Finbarr’s Close, Greenhills, Dublin pleaded guilty to a single count of possessing 37 images and one video classified as child pornography on March 15, 2017. Dublin […]
Read More...Ex-Kentucky judge sentenced to 20 years in prison for human trafficking
May 22, 2018 · By AVERY ANAPOL for thehill.com
A former Kentucky judge has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on human trafficking charges. Timothy Nolan, a 71-year-old former Campbell County district judge, pleaded guilty to human trafficking and other felony sex crimes involving minors, according to multiple reports. Nolan is also a conservative political activist and worked on President Trump’s campaign in […]
Read More...Man who harassed Sharon Ní Bheoláin admits ‘seriously sick mind at the time’
May 22, 2018 · By Jessica Magee for www.irishexaminer.com
A Dublin man who harassed RTÉ newsreader Sharon Ní Bheoláin will be sentenced tomorrow for this and three separate counts of possessing child pornography. Conor O’Hora (41) of Heather Walk, Portmarnock, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to harassing Ms Ní Bheoláin between March 27, 2013 and January 7, 2014. He further pleaded […]
Read More...Philippines top global source of child pornography – Unicef
May 21, 2018 · By Patty Pasion for www.rappler.com
8 out of 10 Filipino children at risk of online sexual abuse or bullying MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has become a top global source of child pornography with around 80% of Filipino kids at risk of online sexual abuse or bullying, a global Unicef report said Tuesday, December 12. This year’s State of the […]
Read More...Report exposing Met police failings on child sex abuse ‘shocking’
May 21, 2018 · By Alan Travis and Matthew Weaver for www.theguardian.com
Home secretary orders publication of quarterly inspection after ‘most damning of any report ever written on a police force’ The minister for policing has described the official watchdog’s report exposing the Metropolitan police’s failings on tackling child sex abuse cases as “the most damning of any report they had ever written on any police force […]
Read More...Belfast sex slave: ‘If I asked for food I was beaten, if I tried to sleep I was raped’
May 21, 2018 · By www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Kidnapped in London and sold into the sex slave industry in Ireland, Anna had a brutal existence until she was moved to Belfast and escaped her captors. As she publishes a book about her ordeal, Anna tells Stephanie Bell about her experiences and how she helped change the way sex trafficking is dealt with in […]
Read More...Growing number of children groomed to film own sexual abuse
May 18, 2018 · By Haroon Siddique for www.theguardian.com
Most live-streamed footage is of affluent young white girls in their own homes, says IWF Children are being coerced and blackmailed into live-streaming their own sexual abuse from their own homes, researchers have found. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which carried out the study, says that large numbers of victims are white girls apparently from […]
Read More...The Bright and the Dark Internet
May 18, 2018 ·
The Bright and the Dark Internet Fr. Shay Cullen 17 May 2018 We all love being connected to the internet and it is a wonderful technology for communicating, providing information and entertainment and keeping people connected. Commerce and business is totally dependent on it what with e-mail, conferencing, communication, document transmission in which it […]
Read More...Canadian Indigenous People Win Protection for Vast Coastal Rain Forest
May 17, 2018 · By Reuters in Vancouver for www.brisbanetimes.com.au
Deal marries interests of First Nations, environmentalists and logging industry, who will see 15% of Great Bear forest available under ‘most stringent’ standards British Columbia is set to announce a historic agreement to protect a vast swath of rainforest along its coastline, having reached a deal that marries the interests of First Nations, the logging […]
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