Topic: Child Abuse Crimes
Gary Glitter arrested as BBC faces new questions
November 6, 2012 · , irishtimes.com
British police arrested convicted sex offender Gary Glitter yesterday as part of an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, while further questions have been raised about the corporation itself and its former director Mark Thompson. Glitter was released on bail 10 hours later. But the arrest – […]
Read More...New Zealander nabbed for rape, trafficking
October 31, 2012 · , Arianne Caryl N. Casas and Malu Cadeliña Manar, Saturday, October 27, 2012
POLICE and social welfare personnel from Kidapawan City arrested in Davao City on Thursday a 50-year-old New Zealand national accused of molesting two teenage girls. Superintendent Renante Cabico, chief of the Kidapawan City police, identified the suspect as David William Wakefield, 50, assistant manager of Mecs Labor Hiring Company based in Mozambique in South Africa. […]
Read More...Jimmy Savile: TV star's sex abuse victims may now total 40
October 16, 2012 · , http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-tv-stars-sex-1375149
Sex fiend Jimmy Savile‘s victims may now total 40, police said tonight (Friday October 12). And Scotland Yard confirmed it is now pursuing 340 lines of inquiry. So far 12 allegations of sexual offences have been officially recorded but this number is increasing, the force said. Metropolitan Police detectives are in contact with 14 other […]
Read More...VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
October 15, 2012 ·
Former Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky sentenced for sex abuse of children
October 10, 2012 · , USA TODAY
(USA TODAY) – BELLEFONTE, Pa. – Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, whose sexual abuse of children triggered a cascading crisis that still shadows the state’s largest university, was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison Tuesday. The sentence issued by Judge John Cleland means that the 68-year-old former coach, convicted of […]
Read More...Aussie pedophiles may flock to RP if SoVFA OK'd
October 9, 2012 · , Angie M. Rosales, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 00:00
The Philippines has primary jurisdiction over all offenses that fall outside the official duty of Australian soldiers under the proposed Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SoVFA) with the said country. Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday made this assurance amid concerns raised by some of her colleagues over the grant of Philippine congressional concurrence on the agreement […]
Read More...Full extent of Australia military sex abuse revealed
October 9, 2012 · , Agence France-Presse on Friday, June 15th, 2012
Documents released Friday revealed “horrific” child sex assaults and brutal initiation ceremonies in the Australian military, prompting Prime Minister Julia Gillard to signal a possible public inquiry. The suggestion of a royal commission followed Defence Minister Stephen Smith denying covering up the extent of abuse, stretching from the 1950s to the present. Three months ago […]
Read More...Taking the war to the sex traffickers Movement mobilizes church to rescue victims of child-porn industry
October 8, 2012 · By Drew Zahn
DES MOINES, Iowa – On Oct. 19, a new army will be recruited to combat the frightening abduction of thousands of children in the U.S. each year, some of whom are subject to sexual abuse and even slavery. The 10th Preventing Abuse Conference will convene at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines to inform, equip […]
Read More...Global swoop on suspected paedophiles
September 27, 2012 · , http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-86679/Global-swoop-suspected-paedophiles.html#ixzz27f6SNyn9
Seven people were arrested in dawn raids in the UK today as part of the world’s largest ever co-ordinated police crackdown on paedophiles, the National Crime Squad (NCS) said. Police in 19 countries carried out 130 arrest and search warrants in an “unprecedented” operation which targeted Internet users who download and distribute child pornography. The […]
Read More...Child Trafficking a Heinous Crime
September 20, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Child Trafficking a Heinous Crime by Fr. Shay Cullen Email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) Dublin, Ireland. The most heinous crime one can think of is the abduction, trafficking, sale, rape and sexual abuse of little children. It’s a horrific […]
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