3/20/10
Pope Benedict apologizes to Irish victims of abuse
by priests
But the pontiff specifies no punishment of accused
clergy even as the crisis spreads across Europe.
He calls on wrongdoers to submit 'to the demands
of justice,' but activists are left disappointed.
Reporting from Vatican City and Brighton, England
Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to victims of
priestly abuse in Ireland, acknowledging that the scandal
had brought the church into disrepute but offering
no specific action to punish clergy accused of involvement
even as the crisis spread across Europe.
"You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry.
I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured," the
pope wrote to Irish victims and their families. "I
openly express the shame and remorse that we all feel."
Amid charges of coverups, he acknowledged that church leaders had made "grave
errors of judgment" in how they dealt with the problem of sexual abuse,
and he called on offending priests and religious workers to submit "to
the demands of justice."
An
inquiry is vital, but the church's moral authority
is lost for ever There is only one conceivable
reaction to the fast-spreading
crisis in the Catholic church: horror. Only the
most virulent anti-papist could ever have quite envisaged
the scale of child abuse and the doggedness of the
church's desire to stifle scandal. The rest of us are
astonished and appalled. Quite rightly, Angela Merkel saw
fit to intervene. After decades – perhaps
we should rather be referring to centuries – of
obfuscation, the Catholic church has to be called to
account for what has happened. Since abuse allegations
first emerged in the early 90s in the UK and Ireland,
the denials, both those of officials and those which
ordinary Catholics told themselves, have shifted several
times. Initially the church authorities declared it
was just a few bad apples, but last summer the Ryan
report exposed decades of systematic abuse of thousands
of children in Ireland. Another line of defence was
that it was a particular Anglophone problem with roots
in Ireland's excessively deferential Catholic culture,
which had then been exported to the US and Australia....the
rest of the horrible story at the link.....
3/16/10
Scottish
government cover-up of Hollie Greig, part 2: notification
of crime & reaction
UK, March 15, 2010 (Pal Telegraph; commentary by
Peter Eyre) -In Part 1 of this series we covered
the general overview of the Hollie Greig story as
told by Robert Green. We will now continue by explaining
the initial notification to the Grampian Police and
to other authorities and events that followed after
this initial response.
It was back in 2000 that Hollie's mum had been beaten
by her husband and she decided to leave him and went
to a hostel with Hollie. It was whilst they were
alone together in the hostel that Hollie told her
mum that they had to go and get the dogs. Anne said
not to worry we will get the dogs but Hollie insisted
that they go otherwise he will kill her two pet dogs.
Anne then started to question Hollie on this issue
and the story of abuse slowly came out. Apparently
her father used this tool as a leverage for him to
carry out his activities.....he had also told Hollie
that he would also kill her mum. Hollie by this time
was 20 years old.
The next day Hollie's Carer came around and so Anne
decided to discuss this with her. Anne was shocked
with her response to the story.....it later came
out that the Carer was part of the ring of peodophiles.....the
whole story at the link...
German
Priests' Sex Abuse Scandalizes Church Back in April
2005, Germany was overjoyed when a native son was elevated
to the papacy. But in the past week, the Catholic Church
in the country has faced a barrage of criticism from
politicians and the media as well as from the faithful — and
much of the ire is focused on the German who is now
Supreme Pontiff in Rome. On Monday, the daily Süddeutsche
Zeitung splashed the headline "Benedict
XVI Remains Silent" on a front-page story describing
how the Pope declined to comment on the growing priestly
sexual-abuse scandal in his native Germany during
public prayers in the Vatican on Sunday. "The
abuse scandal has been a nightmare," Alois Glück,
president of Germany's lay organization, the Central
Committee of German Catholics, tells TIME. "It's
one of the worst crises that we've seen in the Catholic
Church here in Germany."
3/15/10
Nine-Year-Old's
Abortion Outrages Brazil's Catholic Church The
case of the pregnant 9-year-old was shocking enough.
But it was the response of the Catholic Church that
infuriated many Brazilians. Archibishop Jose Cardoso
Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that
the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local
girl who had been raped and impregnated with twins
by her stepfather, because they had chosen to have
the girl undergo an abortion. The Church excommunicated
the doctors who performed the procedure as well. "God's laws," said the archbishop,
dictate that abortion is a sin and that transgressors
are no longer welcome in the Roman Catholic Church. "They
took the life of an innocent," Sobrinho told
TIME in a telephone interview. "Abortion is
much more serious than killing an adult. An adult
may or may not be an innocent, but an unborn child
is most definitely innocent. Taking that life cannot
be ignored."
3/11/10
System
failed family of ‘the British Fritzl’ A
father who repeatedly raped his two daughters and
made them pregnant 18 times during a tyrannical
35-year campaign of physical and sexual abuse escaped
detection because of a litany of failings by care
professionals, a report revealed yesterday.
Agencies involved with the family failed to confront
the man even though they strongly suspected for many
years that he was the father of the girls’ seven
babies, some of them born with severe genetic defects.
An independent review of the case, whose summary
was published yesterday, disclosed that more than
100 care professionals from 28 agencies were involved
with the family in Sheffield and Lincolnshire from
1973 to 2008. ...and he gets only 14 and a half years....after
ruining the lives of these children and the fathered
ones..!!! He deserves the death penalty!..so much
for helping the children...child protective services!
3/7/10
Illinois
Inmate Tried to Have 2 Kids Killed, Sheriff Says (AP
)CHICAGO — Cook
County Jail inmate is charged with trying to hire
a hit man to kill two children he's accused of
molesting and their parents.
Cook County Sheriff
Tom Dart says 32-year-old Edward Floyd faces six
counts of solicitation to commit murder.
He's been ordered
held without bond on the new charges. He's been in
custody since a September 2008 arrest for two counts
of criminal sexual assault of a child.
3/6/10
Psychological
Rape as "Sex Education"
By Richard Evans in Houston
This is a report on a bit of
local behavioral engineering in a local middle school
here in Texas that sparked parent reaction last week.
The school in the county between south Houston and
Galveston, mostly white blue collar.
A middle aged black female school board trustee was
scheduled to give a 'motivational talk' to 6th-8th
grade girls, ages 11-14, who were excused from classes
to go to the assembly hall. The speaker, Shirley
Price, told the school principal to leave the hall,
which he did.
Then the woman proceeded with a graphic speech
about how to avoid pregnancy by having oral sex. Two
girls presented a 'sketch' (skit) with an undisclosed
demonstration, at the end of which Price kissed one
of the girls on the cheek before the whole assembly.
Before dismissing the students Price told them
not to tell their parents about the speech.
But many girls did tell their parents.
www.henrymakow.com/psychological_rape_poses_as_se.html
2/27/10
A
chance encounter revived memories of molestation decades
ago Officials charged
Claude Edward Foulk after alleged victim saw him at
Napa State Hospital and contacted police. The child
molestation case against the fired head of Napa State
Hospital began with a chance meeting last September.
A man, who as a boy in the early 1970s lived a few
doors from Claude Edward Foulk in Long Beach, was visiting
the hospital as part of his job as a vendor. He turned
the corner of a hallway and made eye contact with Foulk,
who ran the 1,200-patient facility that houses mentally
ill criminals.
The encounter triggered memories of alleged abuse by
Foulk nearly four decades ago, his attorney told The
Times. The man told his wife and went to Long Beach
police, who began investigating.
On Friday, the Los Angeles County district attorney's
office filed court documents providing details about
Foulk's alleged history of molestation. Authorities
alleged that Foulk molested at least five victims but
are now looking at eight additional allegations that
date to 1965.
2/15/10
Pediatrician
Charged With Molesting 103 Patients, Videotaping Sex
Acts(KTLA)
DOVER, Del. -- Prosecutors expect to add more counts
to a lengthy indictment against a Delaware pediatrician
charged with serial molestation of 103 children.
A grand jury returned a 160-page indictment Monday
against Dr. Earl Bradley of Lewes with 471 counts
of sexual crimes.
The case has shocked the close-knit coastal community
of Lewes and the central Delaware town of Milford,
where Bradley closed an office in 2005 after police
investigated him.
Bradley's attorney, Eugene Maurer, said he would
seek to move the trial out of Sussex County.
But he said the "real battleground" in
the case will be Bradley's mental state, not what
is seen on videotapes seized from Bradley's home
and office or alleged in the indictment.
Announcing the grand jury's indictment, Attorney
General Beau Biden said all of the alleged victims,
mainly girls but including one boy, were caught on
more than 13 hours of video recordings, some dating
to 1998.
...
the rest of the story at the link
2/23/10
Man
brought to L.A. to face charges in Cambodian sex
case A convicted sex
offender who had traveled to Cambodia allegedly to
have sex with a minor was returned to the United
States to face trial in Los Angeles, the FBI said
Monday night.Michael James Dodd, 59, who taught English
in Cambodia, had sex with a 14-year-old girl and
was seen with her on several occasions in the Cambodian
capital of Phnom Penh, according to an affidavit
for arrest filed in federal court.
2/22/10
Vatican
official dismisses calls for resignation The
Vatican's top bioethics official on Monday dismissed
calls for his resignation following an uproar over
his defense of doctors who aborted the twin fetuses
of a 9-year-old child who was raped by her stepfather.Monsignor
Renato Fisichella told The Associated Press he refused
to respond to five members of the Vatican's Pontifical
Academy for
Life who questioned his suitability to lead the institution.
Fisichella wrote an article in the Vatican's newspaper
in March saying the Brazilian doctors didn't deserve
excommunication as mandated by church law because
they were saving the girl's life. The call for mercy
sparked heated criticism from some academy members
who said it implied the Vatican was opening up to
so-called "therapeutic abortion" to save
the mother's life.
2/18/10
Terrified Scottish Establishment Desperate
To Suppress Exposure Of Their Paedophile Ring A
ring that connects into the 'heart' (wrong word) of
the Scottish and British governments and the Westminster
Parliament and involved Dunblane mass child killer,
Thomas Hamilton. Reporter Robert Green was
arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of exposing these
sick and depraved people who get their 'kicks' from
sexually abusing and raping children, including the
Down's Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig - but was released
from court after a massive phone and email protest
from all over the United Kingdon and indeed the world.
But we must not let this issue drop - it must be followed
through to its conclusion. Please help.
Legal
aide to Hollie’s family in abuse claim appears
in court THE legal adviser to the family of a disabled
woman who claims she was abused by a paedophile ring
as a child has appeared in court charged with breach
of the peace.Robert Green, 63, appeared from custody
at Stonehaven Sheriff Court yesterday accused of an
offence spanning eight months.The political hopeful
represents the mother of Hollie Greig, a 30-year-old
woman with Down’s Syndrome.
(Ed Note: Paedophilia seems to
be one of the most epidemic and sickening signs
that our whole culture as 'human beings' ....this
'human experiment' has failed! That there are so
many who target/use/abuse/steal/kill/damage the
children of this world is indeed something all
governments should be uncovering and focusing on,
for these children, these gifts from God are entitled
to have love, care, comfort and saftey and are part
of creating the future for the planet and for all.
Please, don't turn a blind eye to anyone who is doing
this, don't abandon your duty as a human being to
stand up for what is right and to anyone who is involved
in anyway, in keeping this sickness, this evil expanding
and destroying each person and society as a whole.
....this has to stop! Not tomorrow, but NOW! )
2/16/10
'Blair
covering up paedophile scandal?' While
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is under criminal
suspicion in the "honours-for-cash" scandal
that has rocked his Labour
government, we have been told that there is an even
more explosive scandal that Blair, up to now, has
managed to hide behind the draconian British policy
of issuing "D-Notices," government orders
that prohibit the British media from reporting on
certain "national security" cases.
‘Sex
abuse’ family’s
legal adviser arrested
2/12/10
1,000
Kids a Year Forced Into Sex Slavery—in
Ohio Ohio's weak laws on human trafficking, its
growing demand for cheap labor and its proximity to
the Canadian border are key contributors to the illegal
activity, according to a report by the Trafficking
in Persons Study Commission."Ohio is not only
a destination place for foreign-born trafficking victims,
but it's also a recruitment place," said Celia
Williamson, an associate professor at the University
of Toledo who led the research.Formed last year by
Ohio Attorney General Richard Condray, the commission
also found that hundreds more in the state are at risk
of being forced into sex trafficking or to work against
their will in fields, restaurants, sweatshops or constructions
sites.Nationwide, between 45,000 and 50,000 people
are trafficked into the United States, according to
a 2001 report by the U.S. State Department. But Williamson
noted that the problem is hard to quantify because
of the underground nature of human trafficking, and
studies often rely on estimates. Even the Ohio study,
which analyzed law enforcement and government databases,
is limited, she said.
2/5/10
Australia: Children
shifted to violent families - Bath report ABORIGINAL
children in care are routinely being placed with
relatives in remote communities where they are
exposed to sexual abuse and alcohol-fuelled violence,
a wide-ranging report on child protection - kept
hidden by the Northern Territory government - has
revealed.
The Bath report - compiled after an audit of scores
of cases of children deemed at high risk who were
in the care of the state - exposes the near-total
breakdown of child protection systems in the Territory,
where background checks on carers are rarely carried
out, ministers regularly fail to review the progress
of cases, and social services for troubled families
are in critically short supply.
Howard Bath, who was appointed Children's Commissioner
in the Territory after compiling the extensive report,
documents case after case where children were failed
by the system that was supposed to protect them, The
Australian reports.
1/29/10
Breaking:
Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is
Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom– Kevin
Jennings and the GLSEN Reading List Safe
Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was
the founder, and for many years, Executive Director
of an organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight
Education Network (GLSEN).
GLSEN started essentially as Jennings’ personal
project and grew to become the culmination of his
life’s work. And he was chosen by President
Obama to be the nation’s Safe
Schools Czar primarily because he had
founded and led GLSEN (scroll for bio).
This is quite an extensive article and specific
of 'who' he is and 'what he is about'....please read
the whole story at the link......You/we need to be
informed! How could President Obama do this?
(from the website at the link)
Out of curiosity to
see exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and
his organization think American students should be
reading in school, our team chose a handful at random
from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s
grades 7-12 list, and began reading through.
What we discovered shocked us.
We were flabbergasted. Rendered speechless.
We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book
after book after book contained stories and anecdotes
that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic,
but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts
between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote
and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories
of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs
between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing
sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir
even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase
one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed
to have less to do with promoting tolerance than
with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students
into a hyper-sexualized worldview.
We knew that unless we carefully documented what
we were reading, the public would have a hard time
accepting it. Mere descriptions on our part could
not convey the emotional gut reaction one gets when
seeing what Kevin Jennings wants kids to read as
school assignments. So we began scanning pages from
each of the books, and then made exact transcriptions
of the relevant passages on each page.
Are we exaggerating, or misconstruing quotes that
could be interpreted a different way? No: Read the
passages below and judge for yourself. There’s
no wiggle room. The language is explicit, the intent
clear.
To be specific, the books we read were:Queer
13
Being
Different
The
Full Spectrum
Revolutionary
Voices
Reflections
of a Rock Lobster
Passages
of Pride
Growing
Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian
The
Order of the Poison Oak
In
Your Face
Mama’s
Boy, Preacher’s Son
Love & Sex:
Ten Stories of Truth
One had BETTER BE ASKING......what kind of an administration
would bring someone like this into head up such an
important position and what 'agenda' is this heading
towards?........Wake up people...and scream your
heads off!
1/16/10
Ex-UN
Inspector Faces Child-Sex Charges
A former chief U.N. weapons inspector was recently
arrested on charges of making unlawful sexual contact
with a minor over the Internet, again.
Scott Ritter, who searched Iraq for weapons of mass
destruction from 1991 to 1998, has been accused of
using an online chat client to send sexually explicit
videos to an undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old
girl, thePocono
Record reports.
The incident allegedly took place in February 2009,
but Ritter wasn't arrested until November because
investigators had to obtain court orders to search
his cell phone and computer for evidence. He is presently
free on $25,000 bail and is set to face trial March
9.
1/12/10
U.S.
justices question sex offender confinement law Supreme
Court justices on
Tuesday expressed skepticism about the Obama administration's
argument that the U.S. Congress can keep sex offenders
in custody for an indefinite time beyond their prison
sentences.Solicitor General Elena
Kagan, the administration's top courtroom
lawyer, urged the justices to uphold a 2006 federal
law providing for the continued detention of sexually
dangerous federal inmates who
have completed their prison terms.Chief
Justice John Roberts asked Kagan why
the federal government's authority in such cases
does not end when the prisoner's sentence is done.The Supreme
Court in
1997 ruled that U.S. states could confine dangerous
sex offenders to mental institutions after they serve
their sentences. The issue on Tuesday was whether
the federal government also had that authority.....(color
us confused then.....why are so many of the heinous
crimes that are being committed lately are from prisoned
offenders that 'they' released?)
1/4/10
Ex-BC
Lions GM pleads guilty to sexual assault Former
BC Lions general manager and current Saskatchewan Roughriders
GM Eric Tillman stood up in a Regina
courtroom Monday and said he was "profoundly
sorry" for sexually assaulting a teenage girl
at his home. Tillman, whose trial in the case was
set to begin Monday, pleaded guilty to a single sexual
assault charge stemming from the incident involving
his children's teenaged babysitter. Tillman wiped
tears from his eyes as he apologized for what he
did to the girl, his family and the Roughrider organization.
Both Crown and defence lawyers have asked for a discharge,
but it is unclear if they are seeking an absolute
or conditional discharge. (at that point we ask.............say
what?!)
12/30/09
One
mother's devastating revenge on the 52-year-old
paedophile who groomed her child on Facebook Deborah
Carver will never forget the moment her confused
young daughter called her over to the family computer
to read a message she'd been sent. 'Look at
this, Mummy,' said 11-year-old Sarah who, while
too young to understand exactly what it meant,
felt something was not quite right. Deborah,
32, took one look at the message and went cold. Unknown
to her mother, two months before, Sarah had been
contacted via her Facebook page by a 52-year-old
man posing as a teenage boy called Tommy. He was
now trying to arrange to meet her.
12/2209
The
IRA boasted about shooting child abusers. How very
odd that they ignored the vile crimes of Gerry
Adams' father and brother Shed a tear for Gerry
Adams MP, as he tours the TV studios trying to save
his career and his reputation in the face of those
'with political axes to grind' who are determined to
judge a good man harshly just because of family embarrassments.
Well, no. Please don't. This horrible man is now
rightly on the rack because his niece Aine - who
as a 13-year-old in 1987 told Uncle Gerry that his
brother Liam had raped and abused her from the age
of four - has very belatedly gone public on the allegations.What's
more, Uncle Gerry admits that he believed her all
those years ago, which makes it inexplicable that
Liam was later allowed to work for several years
with the young in Adams's West Belfast fiefdom.
12/8/09
Irish
Bishop Quits Over Child Sex ScandalVATICAN MUM
ABOUT SCATHING REPORT, GOVERNMENT FURIOUS
The bishop of Limerick is offering his resignation
to Pope Benedict XVI today in the wake of a damning
report on the church's cover up of multiple child
sexual abuse cases. Donal Murray acted "inexcusably" in
one case and handled others badly, the report concluded.
The report has caused widespread public anger in
Ireland and more resignations are expected to follow
Murray's, theIndependent reports.
The two highest-ranking Catholics in Ireland,
Cardinal Sean Brady and Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid
Marti, have been summoned to the Vatican this week
to discuss the report with the pontiff. Brady has
promised to resign if it's found that any child was
abused as the result of failings on his part. The
Irish government has expressed "deep disappointment" at
the Vatican's failure to offer a detailed response
to the report.
11/18/09
Horrific
allegations detail years of abuse
HORRIFIC new allegations suggesting children as young
as five were ordered to murder a man have emerged in
a case already involving claims of ritualistic child
sex abuse.
Details of the so-called "Mohler case" were
first revealed last week, when authorities arrested
a 77-year-old man and his four sons and filed a string
of sex abuse charges, including rape, sodomy and bestiality,
against them.
11/16/09
I
was abused by a woman and it haunts me every day It
seems unthinkable, but ChildLine says calls from
boys abused by women have doubled in a year. This
deeply disturbing investigation reveals the terrible
impact of a crime that society has never dared
to confront.
Bill Jenkins's memories of the childhood abuse
he suffered are as sharp as the pain that accompanies
them. read more at the link, the hotline of boys
being abused by women has doubled. In the past,
an unthinkable act, with images in our heads of
'mothers' and women, being motherly and loving,
now exponentially seems to be another lost art
of caring.
11/4/09
Top
official stole from children's center, bought a
pool, went shopping The former chief financial
officer of Orange County’s Orangewood Children’s
Foundation was convicted today of stealing more
than $780,000 from the nonprofit for abused children.
Tracy Lynn Salcido, 40, pleaded guilty in Orange
County Superior Court to 206 felony counts of forgery
and 20 felony counts of falsifying records. She
was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered
to pay $1.15 million in restitution and legal and
accounting fees stemming from the case. Founded
in 1981, Orangewood built and supports the county’s
only emergency shelter for neglected and abused
children. (Obviously this is someone who really
'cares' about children!.....We give her and 'F'!)
10/31/09
Man
Abused for His Cheating Heart Arrested A man prosecutors say was tied
up, humiliated and assaulted by his wife, two of his lovers and another woman
as payback for his cheating ways has been jailed on accusations of child
abuse and other misdeeds.
The 36-year-old Fond du Lac man was arrested on allegations that also include
theft, unlawful phone use and harassment with a death threat in a domestic
abuse investigation, Fond du Lac Police Capt. Steve Klein said Wednesday.
The AP is not naming the man to protect his identity as an alleged victim
of sexual assault.
(SAY WHAT?????.......)
10/30/09Murderers,
rapists and paedophiles among 750 criminals on the run from prisonMurderers,
paedophiles and rapists are among 750 criminals on the run who should have
been returned to prison, the Ministry of Justice has admitted.They are convicts
who committed new crimes or broke the terms of their early release but have
not been found by the police.Among them are 16 murderers, nine rapists and
six paedophiles, in addition to 70 burglars, 75 robbers, and more than 120
drug offenders, the statistics showed.More than one in ten is a foreign national
and a handful have been on the run for up to 25 years.
Gay
rights campaigner James Rennie jailed for life over paedophile ring The
mother of a six-year-old boy who was subjected to what a judge described
as “truly appalling” abuse from a man she had regarded as a
close friend said yesterday that her child had been “shaped and moulded” for
life by the experience. Welcoming the life sentences passed on James Rennie
and Neil Strachan, the woman said that she had moved on from feelings of
anger. Rennie 38, the former chief executive of a gay youth organisation,
was responsible for “a colossal breach of trust”, Lord Bannatyne
said at the High Court in Edinburgh. He had abused the boy — identified
as Child F — almost
from birth to the age of four years. He distributed images and films of his
attacks to a gang of seven other men.
Opion: (the sentences they have been given are
way too light.....)
10/1/09 Elizabeth
Smart says she was raped daily Elizabeth
Smart (kidnapped when 14 years old) testified Thursday she was raped
repeatedly each day after she was abducted from her bedroom seven years ago
and told she would be killed if she yelled or tried to escape.She described Brian
David Mitchell, her alleged kidnapper, as "evil, wicked, manipulative,
stinky, slimy, selfish, not spiritual, not religious, not close to God."
Kids Found Starved in Texas Hotel Bathroom
DALLAS — Three children were kept in a hotel bathroom
for about a year and were "horribly emaciated" when police found
them earlier this month, authorities said. One claimed to have been repeatedly
sexually assaulted.
The children's mother, 30-year-old Abneris Santiago, is charged with injury
to a child. Her 37-year-old live-in boyfriend, Alfred Santiago, is charged
with aggravated sexual assault and continuous sexual abuse.
Children
abused at Catholic-run schools in Ireland, report says An Irish commission
finds that students at more than 200 schools were molested and subjected
to excessive punishment over a six-decade period while the church covered
up misdeeds. Reporting from London -- Boys and girls in Ireland were beaten,
sexually abused and emotionally terrorized for decades in workhouse-style schools
run by the Roman Catholic Church where a "culture of silence" protected
victimizers rather than the children in their care, according to a long-awaited
report.
For more than half a century, chronic, excessive and arbitrary punishment
created "a
climate of fear" in which students at schools administered by Catholic
religious orders lived "with the daily terror of not knowing where the
next beating was coming from."
Report
Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories Tens of thousands of Irish children
were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others
over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care
for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted, according to a report released
in Dublin on Wednesday.The 2,600-page report paints
a picture of institutions run more like Dickensian orphanages than 20th-century
schools, characterized by privation and cruelty that could be both casual
and choreographed.
Mother to testify
against Jerusalem child abuse ringleader The partner of Elior Chen, a
spiritual leader who is suspected of orchestrating the worst case of systematic
child abuse in Israel's history, signed a plea bargain with Jerusalem prosecutors.
The deal obligates Chen's romantic partner to testify against Chen and other
accomplices suspected of abusing a number of children. The woman admitted
to authorities that she did not act to prevent Chen and others from abusing
his children. In her statement to prosecutors, she included incriminating
statements against Chen which are believed to significantly strengthen the
government's case and the investigation against Chen. Chen is the leader
of a group whose members are accused of abusing a number of children in Jerusalem.
It was later revealed that the alleged victims include the children of one
of the members of the group. At this point, Chen fled to Canada together
with his family.
N.Y. to battle
sexual abuse among ultra-Orthodox Jews A team of New York prosecutors,
counselors and religious leaders will work to combat sexual abuse in Brooklyn's
ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. The centerpiece of the outreach program,
which was announced Wednesday by
District Attorney Charles Hynes and leaders from community-based organizations
that serve Jewish communities, is a hot line abuse victims can call and speak
to a culturally sensitive social worker.The establishment of the team, which
will focus on child sex abuse, comes partly in response to a discussion on State
Assemblyman Dov Hikind's radio show in the summer of 2008.
U.S. rabbi gets 30
years for molesting his daughter Monsey rabbi Israel Weingarten was found
guilty in March of abusing his daughter throughout much of her childhood. The
trial was traumatic for his victim, now 27. Weingarten acted as his own attorney
and put his daughter through a grueling cross examination.
The Pedophocracy, Part I: From Brussels...
The Pedophocracy, Part II: ...to Washington
The Pedophocracy, Part III: Uncle Sam Wants Your Children
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3/25/09
Germany and EU to Legalise Paedophilia German
Government Publication Promotes Incestuous Pedophilia as Healthy Sex Ed Micheal
O'Brien, author on crisis of culture in West, says this "German state
intervention in family life is a new level of auto-destruction"
1/2/09
California
Man Pleads Guilty in International Child Exploitation Enterprise Case Raymond
Roy of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., today
became the sixth defendant to plead guilty for his involvement in a global
child pornography trafficking enterprise, Acting Assistant
Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division, U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Florida Thomas
F. Kirwin and FBI Executive Assistant Director
J. Stephen Tidwell announced.
Haringey
Boy's Link to Child Abuse Rings
Eileen
Fairweather, in the Mail on Sunday, has linked Haringey to Islington and Jersey
('I
have known about Jersey paedophiles for 15 years,' says award-winning journalist.)
The Haringey boy, from Labour-run Haringey in London, was tortured to death
by a satanist.
Jason
Swift
In 1985, 14-year-old
Jason Swift was killed by a child-abuse
gang.
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