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High-flying Thai monk accused of child abuse extradited
July 21, 2017 · By Euan McKirdy and Kocha Olarn, CNN for edition.cnn.com
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) – A flamboyant Thai monk who is accused of multiple charges of child abuse as well as ignoring his monastic vows has returned home after being extradited from the US. Wiraphon Sukphon, who was seen in a YouTube video in 2013 holding wads of cash on a private plane, returned to Bangkok […]
Read More...Forced migration was UK’s worst child abuse scandal, Gordon Brown says
July 21, 2017 · By Press Association for www.theguardian.com
Former PM says that now scale of abuse of those sent to Australia and Canada up to 1970s is clearer, compensation is needed The former prime minister Gordon Brown has described the forced migration of British children as a bigger sex abuse scandal than that perpetrated by Jimmy Savile. Giving evidence to the Independent Inquiry […]
Read More...Map charts early massacres of indigenous Australians
July 20, 2017 · By Australia for www.bbc.com
Researchers have created what they say is the most comprehensive map yet to detail the massacres of indigenous Australians by European settlers. More than 150 locations feature on the online map, which presently covers only the nation’s east coast. The total number of deaths following British settlement in 1788 has long been debated, but many […]
Read More...Germany debates extending the statute of limitations for sexual abuse
July 20, 2017 · By GERMANY for www.dw.com
As more and more allegations of sexual abuse in Catholic institutions come to light, German politicians debate whether to extend the statute of limitations for civil and criminal prosecution. A rash of reported cases of sexual abuse and molestation in schools and other institutions run by the Catholic Church in Germany has led to a […]
Read More...Dutchman Caught for Child Pornography Charges
July 20, 2017 · By aplecambodia.org
Siem Reap, Police from Siem Reap Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Unit yesterday arrested a 53-year-old Dutchman while he was photographing naked boys aged between 11 and 15 years by the lakeside in Aranh Sarkor village, Sangkat Siem Reap. According to police report, seven victims have so far confirmed abuse, but the number could reach […]
Read More...Bavarian justice minister calls for longer statue of limitations in sex abuse
July 20, 2017 · By GERMANY for www.dw.com
The Bavarian justice minister’s call to lengthen the statute of limitations for sex abuse cases came alongside new revelations that a private school in Hessen had ignored students’ reports of abuse. The ongoing and ever-deepening scandal over physical and sexual abuse in German Catholic institutions has led Bavarian Justice Minister Beate Merk to call for […]
Read More...Catholic Church paid A$276m to abuse victims in Australia
July 20, 2017 · By Australia for www.bbc.com
The Australian Catholic Church has paid A$276m (£171m; $213m) to victims of sexual abuse since 1980, an inquiry has heard. The money was divided between thousands of victims, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse was told. The data, released on Thursday, showed the average payment was A$91,000. The landmark royal commission […]
Read More...Hundreds of German choir boys abused over six decades – report
July 19, 2017 · By Europe for www.bbc.com
At least 547 young members of the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir in Germany were subjected to physical and in some instances sexual abuse over a period of 60 years, a new report says. The report accuses 49 members of the Catholic Church of carrying out the abuse between 1945 and the early 1990s. The alleged […]
Read More...Man is sentenced to 70 years in prison for traveling to Cambodia to sexually abuse children
July 19, 2017 ·
A former Palos Verdes resident found guilty of traveling to Cambodia to sexually exploit children was sentenced to 70 years in federal prison Monday. Ronald Gerard Boyajian was convicted in March on federal counts of international travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with minors, engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor […]
Read More...The Cambodian Organisation that Stalks Western Child Molesters
July 19, 2017 · By SIMON HENDERSON AND PETER HOLSLIN for www.vice.com
Rong Rattana was watching. Rattana, a Child Protection Coordinator for the Cambodian non-governmental organization Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), had been on the American man’s trail after seeing him ride through the city of Siem Reap on a motorbike with a young Cambodian boy in tow. For months, Rattana and other APLE investigators followed the […]
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