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Mother and partner jailed after young boy repeatedly raped and sold on the dark web to other paedophiles
August 24, 2018 · By Associated Press Reporter for www.independent.ie
A German mother and her partner have been convicted over the repeated rape of the woman’s young son and for selling him for sex on the internet. They were sentenced to prison in a case that has horrified the country. News agency dpa reported that the Freiburg state court in southwestern Germany sentenced the woman, […]
Read More...India confirms death penalty for child rapists
August 22, 2018 · By Bijay Kumar Minj, New Delhi for www.ucanews.com
India’s parliament has passed a law allowing the death penalty for raping girls aged under 12, but Catholic Church officials doubt the effectiveness of such a law to curb increasing sexual violence against children across the country. The bill replaces an emergency amendment made to a criminal law on April 21 following the national outcry […]
Read More...Pope Francis Says Death Penalty ‘Inadmissible’
August 22, 2018 · By learningenglish.voanews.com
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has changed Church teaching about the death sentence. The new teaching says that the earlier policy was outdated and that the church should work to end the death penalty. The Vatican said the Pope approved a change Thursday to the Catechism of the Catholic Church — the […]
Read More...Impunity blamed for Bangladesh trafficking rise
August 22, 2018 · By Stephan Uttom and Rock Rozario, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
Poor law enforcement and low prosecution and conviction rates in a culture of impunity are being blamed for an increase in human trafficking in Bangladesh. About 7,340 men, women and children were trafficked out of Bangladesh from 2013 to June this year, according to Bangladesh police statistics. A total of 6,106 people were arrested in […]
Read More...Cover-up claim over Myanmar’s new Rohingya abuse probe
August 22, 2018 · By John Zaw, Mandalay for www.ucanews.com
Rights groups say Myanmar’s new commission to probe abuses against the Rohingya in Rakhine State is the start of a cover-up and designed to muddy the waters rather than hold perpetrators accountable for crimes. Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said Myanmar is still playing games and trying to divert attention from […]
Read More...Jehovah’s Witness leader urges elders to destroy sex abuse records
August 17, 2018 · By La Croix International staff for international.la-croix.com
A Jehovah’s Witness leader in the United States has stoked controversy, and possibly indicted himself, by urging the sect to destroy files that could be used against it in sex abuse cases. Shaun Bartlett, who oversees the organization’s record management, reportedly told a group of elders to destroy all records detailing information about suspected child […]
Read More...For Jehovah’s Witnesses, an insular culture and archaic rules have created a “recipe for child abuse.”
August 17, 2018 · By David Gambacorta for www.philly.com
A second was all it took. A second was all he needed. The little girl was 4, round-faced and freckled and dressed in her Sunday best. She was fidgeting next to her father inside the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Red Lion, York County — a safe, familiar space for a family that spent nearly […]
Read More...MPs accuse aid groups of ‘abject failure’ in tackling sexual abuse
August 16, 2018 ·
Charities have shown “complacency verging on complicity” in responding to sexual abuse that is endemic across the sector, according to a damning report by MPs. In the report, the international development committee (IDC) said the aid sector had a record of “abject failure” in dealing with longstanding concerns about exploitation by its own personnel and appeared […]
Read More...Flight attendants’ ‘gut feeling’ about passengers sparks human trafficking investigation: reports
August 15, 2018 · By Benjamin Brown | Fox News for www.foxnews.com
Some Hawaiian Airlines flight attendants are being credited with helping to save three young females from an apparent human trafficking situation, a report said. The flight attendants just had a gut feeling that something wasn’t quite right, Hawaii News Now reported. It started when flight attendant Wesley Hirata notified his fellow crew members about suspicions he had […]
Read More...Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal
August 15, 2018 · By Elisabetta Povoledo and Sharon Otterman for www.nytimes.com
ROME — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, from the College of Cardinals, ordering him to a “life of prayer and penance” after allegations that the cardinal sexually abused minors and adult seminarians over the course of decades, the Vatican announced on Saturday. Acting swiftly […]
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