July, 2019
‘Worse than prison’: Abuses in Philippine youth homes
July 23, 2019 · By Ayee Macaraig, Agence France-Presse for news.abs-cbn.com
MANILA, Philippines – Eleven-year-old Jerry’s crime was breaking curfew laws after fleeing violence at home. His punishment? Being sent to a youth detention center, where he says he endured sexual abuse. Officially called “Houses of Hope”, proponents in the Philippines say such facilities are places for reformation and education, but critics slam many of them […]
Read More...Jesus Army sex scandal: The dark secrets of life in a commune
July 23, 2019 · By Jon Ironmonger, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Hundreds of former members of the Jesus Army are seeking damages for alleged abuse inside the religious sect. Ex-members have told the BBC how children suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse on a “prolific scale”, with most claims relating to incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. The Baptist sect is to close but is the […]
Read More...Church, green groups to press for ‘rights of nature’ law
July 23, 2019 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church and pro-environment groups in the Philippines held a three-day conference to “strategize” a lobby campaign to pass a law to protect the “rights of nature.” The gathering of about 70 church and civil society leaders from July 20-22 reviewed the provisions of a draft bill they plan to submit to the country’s legislators. The bill […]
Read More...Church opposes execution of India’s child sex offenders
July 23, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, New Delhi for www.ucanews.com
Catholic leaders say the Church cannot support the Indian government’s decision to amend its child protection law and include the option of imposing the death sentence for child sex offenders. The federal cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 10 approved amendments to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) legislation that will allow courts […]
Read More...Judge rules State misinterpreted ECHR abuse ruling
July 22, 2019 · By Emma O Kelly for www.rte.ie
A judge has concluded that the State has misinterpreted a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and in doing so has denied victims of child sexual abuse access to a redress scheme to which they are entitled. In a decision that will be welcomed by survivors, Judge Iarfhlaith O’Neill has ruled that […]
Read More...The Courage to Survive
July 19, 2019 ·
The Courage to Survive Fr. Shay Cullen 19 July 209 He is only 13 years old and we can call him Jaybe. He has no formal education, cannot read or write and is one of hundreds of thousands of lost children of the Philippine slums. His father left the family for another woman and abandoned […]
Read More...Foreigner turns Filipina wife into cybersex slave
July 19, 2019 · By GMA News Online for www.gmanetwork.com
A Sri Lankan national was arrested by operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for turning his Filipina wife into a cybersex slave. According to a report by John Consulta on GMA News 24 Oras, the foreigner was caught in his home in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan after his wife sought help from […]
Read More...Indian priest charged with abusing boys
July 18, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Kochi for www.ucanews.com
Police have remanded a Catholic priest in custody after he was accused of sexually abusing minors at a boys’ home in India’s Kerala state. Father George Jerry, 40, a member of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, was arrested on July 7 following complaints from parents of six children aged 6 to 13 that he abused them sexually, […]
Read More...UN called on to probe continued Philippine drug killings
July 18, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to investigate what it called a “large-scale murdering enterprise” in the guise of the Philippine government’s war on drugs. In a report titled “They Just Kill,” released in Manila on July 8, the rights group called on the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to immediately investigate the killings. […]
Read More...Filipinos back home after ‘abuses’ in Malaysian detention
July 18, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Four Filipino children and their mothers detained in Malaysia last month for allegedly violating immigration laws arrived back in Manila this week thanks to help from church and migrant groups. Malaysian authorities released the children earlier this week after immigration agents took them away from their migrant worker mothers following a series of raids last […]
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