October, 2019
Female teacher to be sentenced over sex with student
October 31, 2019 · By Paul Reynolds for www.rte.ie
A 25-year-old female teacher who had sex with one of her secondary school students on two occasions last year is due to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court tomorrow. The court was told that the woman was aged 23 at the time and was working in her first job as a substitute English teacher. […]
Read More...Ex-human rights chair wants new SolGen after dismissal of another Marcos case
October 30, 2019 · By ABS-CBN News for news.abs-cbn.com
MANILA – The Philippines needs to have another Solicitor General after state lawyers lost another forfeiture case against the Marcos family, former Commission on Human Rights chair Etta Rosales said Tuesday. The Sandiganbayan earlier dismissed a P267-million forfeiture case against the Marcoses, citing defective pieces of evidence such as the presentation of photocopies instead of original documents. […]
Read More...Witnesses give testimony in New Zealand child abuse probe
October 30, 2019 · By DW.com for www.dw.com
A New Zealand commission publicly quizzed witnesses in a large-scale probe into child abuse on Tuesday, with two abuse survivors testifying at the opening of the two-week public hearing. Authorities in New Zealand took 100,000 children and vulnerable adults from their families between 1950 and 1999, and many of them were subsequently abused by the […]
Read More...Hillsong founder Brian Houston refused to answer questions over father’s child abuse, police told MPs
October 30, 2019 · By Josh Taylor for www.theguardian.com
Brian Houston, the founder of Hillsong church, refused to be interviewed by New South Wales police about his father’s child abuse confessions, shortly after which an investigation was nearly abandoned due to a lack of sufficient evidence, parliamentary documents reveal. NSW police confirmed last month the investigation was still open, following reporting from the Wall Street Journal […]
Read More...Behind the anger: why so many people are protesting around the world right now
October 30, 2019 · By Stephanie Hogan · CBC News for www.cbc.ca
For some, it’s about a sudden hike in the price of a subway ticket. For others, the suggestion of a stolen election. Or a stolen country. The flashpoints driving current unrest around the world are as diverse as the people pouring into the streets. The world is at a high level of protest right now, says Robert O’Brien, a […]
Read More...Child sexual abuse inquiry criticises lack of cooperation from Vatican
October 29, 2019 · By Owen Bowcott for www.theguardian.com
The Vatican’s repeated refusal to cooperate with official investigations into paedophile priests and its delay in stripping convicted offenders of their clerical status has been condemned by the UK’s child sexual abuse inquiry. In a highly critical attack on the papacy’s stonewalling response to decades of complaints, the lead counsel to the inquiry, Brian Altman QC, said […]
Read More...Fresh Rohingya relocation plan divides refugees
October 29, 2019 · By Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka Bangladesh for southasiajournal.net
Bangladesh government revives plan to move volunteers to remote Bhasan Char island Bangladesh’s government has refloated a plan to relocate Rohingya refugees to an island in the Bay of Bengal, triggering mixed reactions from refugees. Officials say preparations are underway to start moving refugees from camps in Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char (Floating Island) from […]
Read More...‘Game changing’ tuberculosis vaccine a step closer
October 29, 2019 · By Soutik Biswas, BBC India Correspondent for www.bbc.com
A vaccine which could “revolutionise” tuberculosis treatment has been unveiled by researchers. It is hoped the vaccine will provide long-term protection against the disease, which kills 1.5 million people around the world each year. The highly contagious disease is caused by bacteria, and the current vaccine, the BCG jab, is not very effective. However, while […]
Read More...Sydney man arrested over allegations he ‘livestreamed’ child abuse from Philippines
October 29, 2019 · By Digital Staff for 7news.com.au
A 63-year-old man from Sydney has been charged over allegations he procured a young girl from the Philippines online and produced child abuse material. “Police will allege that the man communicated with people offshore to procure the children – via a trusted adult – to produce and transmit child abuse material at his request,” investigators […]
Read More...In cold blood: How people-smuggling gangs use refrigerated lorries to hide their human cargo from port officials’ thermal cameras
October 29, 2019 · By VIVEK CHAUDHARY and MARTIN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE for www.dailymail.co.uk
A refrigerated container was used to smuggle 39 Chinese nationals into the UK because it evaded detection by thermal imaging equipment, security staff at the port where it entered Britain have claimed. The container arrived at Purfleet port, Essex, on the River Thames from Zeebrugge, Belgium. Security personnel at both ports are equipped with thermal […]
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