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Turn off cellphones for Lent, says Pope Francis
February 28, 2020 · By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service for www.ucanews.com
Lent is a time to remove all distractions and bitterness from one’s life in order to better hear God and those who suffer silently and need help, Pope Francis said. “It is the right time to turn off the television and open the Bible. It is the time to disconnect from cellphones and connect ourselves […]
Read More...Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88
February 28, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. Her family confirmed “with profound sadness” that Morrison had died “following a short illness”. Author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. Her 1987 book Beloved told […]
Read More...Man on trial accused of sexual assault of four girls at crèche
February 26, 2020 · By Orla O'Donnell for www.rte.ie
A 29-year-old man has gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting four girls when he worked in a crèche in Leinster. The man has pleaded not guilty to 23 counts of sexually assaulting the four young children on dates between February 2015 and December 2016. The girls were aged between five and eight-years-old at the […]
Read More...‘We were abused every day.’ Decades on, children’s homes victims wait for justice
February 21, 2020 ·
As police admitted for the first time last week that there was an “epidemic” of institutional child sexual abuse in church institutions, children’s homes, borstals, schools and foster families in the 1970s and 80s, chief constable Simon Bailey, the national lead for child protection and abuse investigations, said: “We do not understand the true scale of it […]
Read More...‘Sinister’ female paedophile who abused nursery children to be released from prison
February 21, 2020 · By Molly Blackall for www.theguardian.com
A female paedophile who operated as part of a “sickening ring” of child abusers is set to be released next month, the Parole Board has confirmed. Angela Allen was part of a ring including three other women, who were convinced by IT consultant Colin Blanchard to share photographs of themselves abusing children. Mother-of-one Allen received […]
Read More...British pianist James Rhodes drives child abuse reform in Spain
February 21, 2020 · By James Badcock for www.bbc.com
Spain is about to completely overhaul its system of protection against child sexual abuse, largely thanks to a campaign by British pianist and Madrid resident James Rhodes. Mr Rhodes, who has written about being repeatedly raped by a teacher as a London schoolboy, is proud that his contacts with the left-wing government of Prime Minister […]
Read More...The Research on Child Sex Trafficking
February 20, 2020 · By Jamie D. Aten Ph.D. for www.psychologytoday.com
Worldwide, there are over 40 million people in slavery. Never before in human history have this many people been enslaved. Modern day slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry generating an estimated $150 billion annually. Traffickers prey on the vulnerable and the weak; 1 in 4 victims of modern slavery is a child. In the following research recap, […]
Read More...26-year-old charged with sex trafficking young girl online for months
February 20, 2020 · By ABC12 News Team for www.abc12.com
GENESEE COUNTY (WJRT) (2/18/2020) – A Flint man has been arrested for the human trafficking of a young teen in Genesee County. Sheriff Chris Swanson said the victim had been calling the suspect, 26-year-old Shawn Randle, her boyfriend. He allegedly had been sexually abusing the girl for months. The Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team, or GHOST, […]
Read More...Boy Scouts says it’s safe, and offers sex abuse victims just 80 days to file claim. Victims balk.
February 20, 2020 · By Cara Kelly, Lindsay Schnell, Nathan Bomey USA TODAYfor www.usatoday.com
Stealthily, in thousands of pages of documents filed in the dark of night, the Boy Scouts of America has planted the first seeds for a bankruptcy that is expected to grow into a dramatic and expansive fight. Deep in the paperwork filed early Tuesday in federal court in Delaware is a time bomb: a proposal to give those who say they were sexually abused while Scouts just 80 day window to submit their claims. For survivors […]
Read More...Zero tolerance: Indian bishops get tough on sex abuse
February 20, 2020 · By Saji Thomas, New Delhifor www.ucanews.com
Indian bishops have pledged to follow a policy of zero tolerance toward sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The 192 bishops at the biennial gathering of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in Bengaluru asserted that they will not tolerate any kind of sexual abuse. They said they will take necessary disciplinary action against […]
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