May, 2018
Free entrance at Yuchengco Museum on International Museum Day
May 17, 2018 · By Rappler.com for www.rappler.com
PRESS RELEASE: Yuchengco Museum will celebrate International Museum Day on Friday, May 18, by offering free admission to all its exhibitions and galleries MANILA, Philippines – Yuchengco Museum will celebrate International Museum Day on Friday, May 18, by offering free admission to all its exhibitions and galleries. Every year since 1977, the International Council of […]
Read More...Paedophile caught on way to meet girl (10) found with cheerleader outfit, Viagra and lube
May 17, 2018 · By Independent.ie Newsdesk for
A paedophile who drove 130 miles with the intention of having sex with a 10-year-old girl has been jailed for eight years. Police officers had been tracking the online activities of 49-year-old Michael Bickerton, and arrested him shortly after he arrived. They found sex-related items in his car including a cheerleader outfit, a black costume […]
Read More...Slain Catholic priest laid to rest in northern Philippines
May 16, 2018 · By Mark Saludes, Tuguegarao City for www.ucanews.com
Police say Father Mark Anthony Ventura was shot dead by hired killers as a result of a personal grudge A Catholic priest shot and killed in the northern Philippines last week was laid to rest on May 7 as authorities doubled their efforts to catch his killers. At least 1,000 people attended the funeral procession […]
Read More...Violence flares ahead of Philippine village elections
May 16, 2018 · By Mark Saludes and Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
At least 22 people have died while 7,915 areas have been declared violence hotspots A sharp rise in election-related violence has been recorded in the run up to village and youth council elections in the Philippines on May 14. Security officials said they have recorded at least 28 victims, 22 of whom were killed in […]
Read More...A retired Philippine Judge tells a few of her child abuse cases
May 15, 2018 ·
I am writing from recollection of some of the cases that I tried. There may be some inaccuracies in the ages but the facts are as written. I may have tried more than a hundred cases which all ended in conviction and no appeals. One or 2 cases were withdrawn because the family could not […]
Read More...‘He stepped off the precipice’ – Dublin man (20) caught with graphic child pornography jailed for 15 months
May 15, 2018 · By Sarah-Jane Murphy for www.independent.ie
A young Dublin man caught with graphic child pornography showing the sadomasochistic rape and torture of a baby girl has being jailed for 15 months. Gardai found 5,919 images and 328 video files on two laptops belonging to Conor Emmet (20), when they raided his family home, after an intelligence operation involving the FBI and […]
Read More...Former civil servant found with child abuse images avoids jail
May 15, 2018 · By www.rte.ie
A retired senior civil servant in the Department of Health and Children, who was caught in possession of nearly 60,000 child abuse images and videos, has avoided jail. Brendan Phelan, 66, was given a suspended three-year sentence in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today after he pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child abuse images […]
Read More...Russian Facebook ‘ads’ show strong effort to divide US society
May 11, 2018 · By Agence France-Presse for www.rappler.com
The ads and postings show a pattern of stirring up anger among different groups, encouraging support for then-candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, and discouraging support for his rival Hillary Clinton WASHINGTON, DC, USA – Thousands of Facebook and Instagram advertisements taken out by a Russian internet group were released on Thursday, May […]
Read More...Slain Cagayan priest Mark Ventura laid to rest
May 11, 2018 · By Raymon Dullana for www.rappler.com
The Tuguegarao Archbishop Sergio Utleg says during the funeral ‘may be he be the last priest’ to be killed TUGUEGARAO CITY, Philippines– More than a thousand attended the funeral and burial of Cagayan priest Fr. Mark Ventura on Monday, May 7. Ventura was shot dead by riding-in-tandem killers just as he was blessing children after […]
Read More...Let There be Justice for Children
May 11, 2018 ·
Let There be Justice for Children Fr. Shay Cullen 11 May 2018 We read and see reports about the terrible number of child sexual assaults and how few perpetrators ever get convicted. That is changing with the appointment of highly trained female judges to the Philippine family courts. One day in September 2013, Rosie, a […]
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