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Pope Francis issues groundbreaking law requiring priests, nuns to report sex abuse, cover-up
May 10, 2019 · By Associated Press for www.nbcnews.com
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-up by their superiors to church authorities, in an important new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks. The new church law provides whistle-blower […]
Read More...Myanmar massacre reporters freed in mass amnesty
May 9, 2019 · By John Zaw, Mandalay for www.ucanews.com
Reuters pair walk free after spending more than 500 days in jail in case that sparked international condemnation Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were among 6,520 Myanmar prisoners freed on May 7 in a mass presidential amnesty. The Reuters reporters were convicted last September of breaking the Official Secrets Act in a case that […]
Read More...1 Million Animal And Plant Species Are At Risk Of Extinction, U.N. Report Says
May 9, 2019 · By www.npr.org
Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity’s burgeoning growth is putting the world’s biodiversity at perilous risk. Some of the report’s […]
Read More...YouTuber Austin Jones gets 10 year prison sentence
May 8, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A former YouTube star has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the US after pleading guilty to a charge of receiving indecent images of children. Austin Jones admitted encouraging six underage girls to send him sexually explicit videos in private messages, telling some they needed to “prove” that they were his biggest fans. […]
Read More...British teacher, 42, who plotted over Skype with Filipino mother to sexually abuse her daughters aged as young as FOUR is jailed for five years
May 7, 2019 · By HARRY HOWARD FOR MAILONLINE for www.dailymail.co.uk
A British music teacher who plotted to sexually abuse girls as young as four in the Philippines has been jailed. James Alexander, 42, was caught by the National Crime Agency after he sent money to known facilitators who had live-streamed child sexual abuse from Iligan City, in Northern Mindanao. He was arrested on June 30, […]
Read More...Myanmar: Women, Girls Trafficked as ‘Brides’ to China
May 7, 2019 · By Human Rights Watch for www.hrw.org
(Yangon) – The Myanmar and Chinese governments have failed to stem the trafficking of ethnic Kachin women and girls as “brides” to families in China, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 112-page report, “‘Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go’: Trafficking of Kachin ‘Brides’ from Myanmar to China,” documents the selling […]
Read More...Alleged IRA member Marley sentenced to seven years for rape of two boys
May 7, 2019 · By Fergal O'Brien for www.rte.ie
An alleged IRA member has been sentenced to a total of seven years in jail for raping and sexually assaulting two teenage boys in the early 1990s in what was described as a “republican safe house”. Seamus Marley, originally from the Ardoyne area of Belfast, but with an address at Belfield Court, Stillorgan Road in Dublin, […]
Read More...Most child abuse goes unpunished, experts say
May 3, 2019 · By James Whittaker for www.caymancompass.com
Only a fraction of cases reported to police The vast majority of sex offenders in the Cayman Islands are getting away with their crimes, according to statistics from police investigators and trauma counselors. Despite recent survey results suggesting one in five young girls have suffered sexual abuse by an adult, the police Family Support Unit, […]
Read More...How Malaysia allows child abuse to go unpunished
May 3, 2019 · By A. Ananthalakshmi for www.reuters.com
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Most complaints of child sexual abuse in Malaysia do not lead to successful prosecutions, largely due to weaknesses in the nation’s criminal justice system, police, lawmakers and child welfare groups say. According to classified data Malaysian police compiled and shared with Reuters, 12,987 cases of child sexual abuse were reported to […]
Read More...Louisiana man facing 1,000 child pornography charges; $1M bond set
May 2, 2019 · By Kiran Chawla for www.wafb.com
LIVONIA, LA (WAFB) – Multiple law enforcement sources tell the 9News Investigators that a Livonia man was arrested following an investigation involving child pornography. Brian Lemoine, 37, was arrested on the morning of Thursday, April 11, on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles. He was transported to the Pointe Coupee Parish Jail. On Friday, April […]
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