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Another pastor pleads guilty to sex with teenage girls in United States
February 4, 2019 · By La Croix International staff for international.la-croix.com
A second of three pastors accused of sexual exploitation of teenage girls has pleaded guilty to the charges in the US state of Ohio. Cordell Jenkins on Tuesday pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation, AP reported. Another minister has already pleaded guilty, and the third is scheduled to go on trial next […]
Read More...CRN slams Senate Justice panel chair for showing fake news video, dangling budget to execs
January 30, 2019 · By Change.org for www.change.org
JAN 26, 2019 — Child Rights Network slams Senate Justice panel chair for showing fake news video, dangling budget to execs in hearing of bill lowering age of criminal responsibility 26 January 2019 – We are utterly appalled at how Senate Justice Committee Chair Richard Gordon irresponsibly used a video during yesterday’s public hearing on […]
Read More...Lord Alton speaks in support of Filipino workers
January 29, 2019 ·
Lord Alton speaks in support of Filipino workers. London, House of Lords. Today’s debate on the Philippines was an opportunity to highlight appalling human rights violations by the Duterte Government and the exploitation and trafficking of Filipino workers. Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lord Hylton on securing […]
Read More...The Story Behind the Photograph of Rosi
January 25, 2019 · By Fr. Shay Cullen for www.preda.org
The Story Behind the Photograph of Rosi Father Shay Cullen Rosi was a six-year old child detained in the police detention cell of Police Station B on Magsaysay Drive in Olongapo City some years ago. More like her will be jailed if the minimum age of criminal liability will be lowered to nine or 12 […]
Read More...Street children need shelter not a jail cell
January 25, 2019 · By Fr. Shay Cullen for www.preda.org
Lowering the age of criminal liability for children compounds the failure of govt to look out for their welfare Father Shay Cullen Philippines I first saw Rosi, a six-year-old girl, inside a police detention cell in Olongapo City’s red light district. Remembering that day, I am afraid that more girls like Rosi will be in […]
Read More...A child pauses at the Gates of Hell
January 24, 2019 · By Fr Shay Cullen for www.ucanews.com
Fr Shay Cullen, Manila Philippines October 31, 2014 This weekend is the time to look to the saints for inspiration and help, and to pray for the living and the dead. But we don’t need to go to Church to find the saints. There are many among us bravely fighting for justice and the rights […]
Read More...New Bedford man charged with child abuse ordered held
January 23, 2019 · By South Coast Today for www.southcoasttoday.com
FALL RIVER — A New Bedford man was found dangerous and ordered held without bail in Superior Court on charges he assaulted an infant, the DA’s office said. Robert P. Trommenschlager, 31, was ordered held for six months by Judge Raffi Yessayan, after a pre-trial detention hearing, according to Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for Bristol […]
Read More...Hartford Archdiocese identifies 48 priests accused of sexual abuse
January 23, 2019 · By DAVE ALTIMARI , JESSE LEAVENWORTH and DAVID OWENS for www.courant.com
When John T. O’Connor retired in 1997 after 50 years as a priest, parishioners at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Newington named their parish hall after him. On Tuesday, after the Hartford Archdiocese included O’Connor in a list it made public of Catholic clergymen who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors, […]
Read More...Child sexual abuse is the internet’s darkest secret
January 22, 2019 · By Kailash Satyarthi for www.telegraph.co.uk
A 59-year-old European man is currently awaiting extradition to France after abusing two girls in their early teens in Madagascar. One of the survivors testified that the man, who took nude photographs of both girls and put them online, sexually assaulted her. This is far from an isolated case. Child sexual abuse has emerged as […]
Read More...‘Planetary health diet’ aims to feed 10 billion people without causing ‘catastrophic’ environmental damage
January 22, 2019 · By James Gallagher for geneticliteracyproject.org
A diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage to the planet. Scientists have been trying to figure out how we are going to feed billions more people in the decades to come. Their answer – “the planetary health diet” – does not completely […]
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