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French cardinal, convicted of abuse cover-up, meets pope
March 19, 2019 · By Catholic News Service for cruxnow.com
ROME – As he announced he would do after he was convicted of covering up sexual abuse committed by a priest, French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon met Pope Francis March 18 to hand in his resignation. The Vatican confirmed the meeting took place but gave no details and no immediate sign of whether the […]
Read More...Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men.
March 15, 2019 · By Tim Swarens, [email protected] for www.usatoday.com
She was only 15, pregnant and alone on the streets. And in this wounded child, Thompson saw a means to make money. He promised that if she left her small Illinois town with him, he would make her a model. Grasping for hope, she climbed into his truck. But the promise was a lie. Instead, […]
Read More...From harmful fetishes to sex trafficking, Robert Kraft case highlights risks facing Asian women
March 15, 2019 · By Alia E. Dastagir for www.usatoday.com
When New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged with soliciting prostitution at Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, it was billionaire names like his that made headlines. But the more significant story is that of the women whose names we may never know, Chinese immigrants who police believe were lured to America […]
Read More...Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men.
March 15, 2019 · By Tim Swarens for www.usatoday.com
More than 1 million children, according to the International Labour Organization, are exploited each year in the commercial sex trade. IndyStar columnist Tim Swarens, through the support of a Society of Professional Journalists fellowship, spent more than a year investigating a lucrative business where children are abused with low risk to buyers or traffickers, despite tougher laws […]
Read More...The neo-Nazi plot against America is much bigger than we realize
March 15, 2019 · By Vegas Tenold for www.theguardian.com
In the early summer of 2017, US coast guard lieutenant Christopher Hasson had an idea. He had been trying to figure out an effective way of killing billions of people – “almost every last person on Earth” – but found himself coming up against the daunting logistics of such a task. He suspected “a plague […]
Read More...Cardinal George Pell sentenced to six years in prison for child sex abuse
March 14, 2019 · By Hilary Whiteman, CNN for edition.cnn.com
Melbourne, Australia (CNN)Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be convicted of sex abuse to date, has been sentenced to six years in prison for the “callous” assault of two choirboys in the late 1990s. A former senior adviser to Pope Francis, Pell showed no reaction when Chief Judge Peter Kidd handed down […]
Read More...YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
March 13, 2019 · By By Chris Fox for www.bbc.com
YouTube says it will switch off comments on almost all videos featuring under-18s, in an attempt to “better protect children and families”. Several brands stopped advertising on YouTube after discovering that paedophiles were leaving predatory comments on videos of children. YouTube had originally disabled comments on videos that were attracting predatory and obscene comments. But […]
Read More...Predatory comments prompt YouTube ad suspension
March 12, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Mars, Lidl, Adidas and others have pulled all advertisements from YouTube after some were found next to clips used by predators to target children. Investigations by the BBC and the Times found tens of thousands of “predatory” accounts have been used to leave explicit comments on children’s videos. Problems with the video-sharing site’s reporting system have been blamed for letting […]
Read More...Michael Jackson doc Leaving Neverland is ‘disturbing and devastating’
March 12, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Michael Jackson gave a young boy jewellery in exchange for sexual acts, according to new documentary Leaving Neverland. The “devasting and disturbing” film has been shown at The Sundance Film festival in Utah, America. It focuses on two men who claim Michael Jackson had abused them as children. His estate deny the claims saying it’s […]
Read More...Michael Jackson ‘abused us hundreds of times’
March 12, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Two men have told the BBC they were abused hundreds of times by Michael Jackson, from the ages of seven and 10. Wade Robson, 36, told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme the singer had sexually abused him from the age of seven and tried to rape him when he was 14. James Safechuck, 40, told […]
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