March, 2019
BI-FSU apprehends US national allegedly involved in child porn
March 21, 2019 · By GMA News Online for www.gmanetwork.com
American Gary James Dakulil attempted to evade the FSU tracker team by hiding in the ground floor bathroom of his 2-storey villa, but his plan failed when Immigration agents cornered him before he was able to escape. The US State Department earlier cancelled his passport, which made him an undocumented foreigner in the country. His […]
Read More...Video games addiction among children
March 21, 2019 · By MSN News for www.msn.com
“If I wasn’t gaming, I was thinking about gaming”. Sean – not his real name – has told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme about how gaming addiction took over his life to the point where he lost his family and his job. Matthew Preece, a senior therapist at the UK Addiction Treatment group (Ukat), says there has […]
Read More...Ex-priest defrocked for sex abuse killed in his Nevada home
March 20, 2019 · By MICHELLE L. PRICE for www.apnews.com
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A defrocked Roman Catholic priest named as one of more than 180 New Jersey priests facing credible accusations of sexual abuse was fatally shot in a new home in a suburb of Las Vegas, authorities said Tuesday. Seventy-year-old John Capparelli was found dead Saturday morning in his kitchen in the city […]
Read More...Detained American priest accused of molesting boys served 5 more arrest warrants
March 20, 2019 · By PhilStar Global for www.philstar.com
MANILA, Philippines — Five more arrest warrants were served by Philippine authorities Tuesday against an American Catholic priest accused of molesting up to 50 altar boys. According to media reports, the warrants were served to Father Kenneth Bernard Pius Hendricks at his cell in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City where he was being detained. […]
Read More...Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men.
March 20, 2019 · By Tim Swarens for www.usatoday.com
More than 1 million children, according to the International Labour Organization, are exploited each year in the commercial sex trade. IndyStar columnist Tim Swarens, through the support of a Society of Professional Journalists fellowship, spent more than a year investigating a lucrative business where children are abused with low risk to buyers or traffickers, despite tougher laws […]
Read More...MI5 did not tell police of minister’s ‘penchant for small boys’, inquiry hears
March 20, 2019 · By Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent for www.theguardian.com
MI5 warned the cabinet secretary in the 1980s about rumours that a minister had a “penchant for small boys” but did not inform the police or launch an investigation into the allegations, according to a member of the security services. Giving evidence anonymously to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), a lawyer with the […]
Read More...No escape from violence for poor Filipino women
March 19, 2019 · By Mark Saludes, Tuguegarao City for www.ucanews.com
There seems to be no escaping violence, physical or otherwise, for many poor Filipino women, especially in rural areas. At the age of 12, Excel Buqueg escaped from an abusive and violent stepfather who had been hurting her since she was six. The young girl, now 19, was forced to live with a man much […]
Read More...Don’t invest in coal, Philippine church groups say
March 19, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church groups in the Philippines are calling on financial institutions to turn away from coal and place funds, especially church funds, into renewable energy. The call was made at the launch in Manila on March 7 of a campaign for clean and cheap energy. “We are now being challenged to fully commit to our advocacy campaigns,” said […]
Read More...Filipino church workers living in fear
March 19, 2019 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for international.la-croix.com
Ofelia Cantor (third from left) holds an umbrella during the evacuation of a tribal community in Mindanao due to military offensives against communist rebels in July 2018. (Photo by Mark Saludes) A phone call woke up Ofelia Cantor in her native Philippines early one January morning to inform her that a rebel peace consultant had been […]
Read More...French cardinal, convicted of abuse cover-up, meets pope
March 19, 2019 · By Catholic News Service for cruxnow.com
ROME – As he announced he would do after he was convicted of covering up sexual abuse committed by a priest, French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon met Pope Francis March 18 to hand in his resignation. The Vatican confirmed the meeting took place but gave no details and no immediate sign of whether the […]
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