Survivors of clergy sex abuse on Wednesday demanded transparency, zero tolerance for abuse and accountability for religious superiors who cover up for rapists, setting a confrontational tone on the eve of Pope Francis’ high-stakes abuse prevention summit. The Rite Phil Saviano, an American who played a crucial role in exposing clergy abuse in the United States decades ago. The victims also demanded to meet with Francis himself, but had to settle instead for a two-hour round-table with members of the organizing committee fo…
John Coughlin, a two-time pairs U.S. figure skating champion,has died at the age of 33, a day after he was suspended by the U.S. Center for SafeSport and U.S. Figure Skating following sexual misconduct allegations. His sister, Angela Laune, said her brother took his own life following the sanctions against him. SafeSport is a non-profit that was set up in 2017 with the goal of eliminating all forms of abuse in U.S. sports. Laune wrote in her tragic Facebook post, “My wonderful, strong, amazingly compassionate brother John Coughlin too…
A former coach at a southwest suburban Channahon gymnastics facility has been charged with sexually abusing a student. Jose Vilchis, 68, was charged with six counts of criminal sexual assault and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, according to a statement from the Will County state’s attorney’s office. Vilchis is accused of performing sex acts on the girl, who was between 13 and 17 years old, while he was coaching her at I&M Gymnastics in Channahon between Dec. 1, 2012, and Dec. 1, 2013, prosecutors said. …
Soccer idol Cristiano Ronaldo Is Being Sued Over Alleged Rape in Las Vegas. Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is being sued by a Nevada woman who said he raped her in the penthouse suite of a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and then dispatched a team of “fixers” to obstruct the criminal investigation and trick her into keeping quiet .
Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell arrived at a court in his native Australia on Wednesday for his first appearance to face historical sex charges as the most senior Roman Catholic official to face such accusations. Pell, 76, a top adviser to Pope Francis, was escorted into Melbourne Magistrates' Court by police through a large crowd of media, protesters and supporters. Australian police charged Pell last month with "historical sexual offences" from multiple complainants. Pell has previously said he was…
Eleven men were arrested over suspected sexual abuse at Spain’s infamous bull running festival in Pamplona this year, according to local authorities. Depicted in the Ernest Hemingway novel ‘The Sun Also Rises,’ the nine-day San Fermin festival has been plagued in the past by sexual violence and animal cruelty claims. This year’s festival saw 11 men arrested over sexual abuse. According to the local council, there were 14 complaints regarding unwanted sexual contact at San Fermin this year, with two of the cases involving se…
Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics doctor who is accused of sexually abusing more than 100 of his female patients, agreed to plead guilty to federal child pornography charges, multiple outlets reported on Monday. Nassar is expected to formally accept the plea deal on Tuesday morning during a hearing in federal court in Grand Rapids, Mich. The agreement relates only to the federal child pornography charges filed in December against Nassar. The 53-year-old has agreed to plead guilty to receiving child pornography, possessi…
The shameful legacy left by former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is proving hard to overcome for the company, which is already embroiled in multiple sex scandals. Now, several employees are adding a racial discrimination suit to the litany of alleged abuses. former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Fox payroll manager Tichaona Brown and payroll coordinator Tabrese Wright have accused co-worker Judy Slater of making “racially charged comments, including suggestions that black men were ‘women beaters’ and that black people wanted to physically har…
SPARTANBURG, S.C., Nov. 3 A woman who's been missing for two months was found alive Thursday kept captive in a storage container, authorities said. Kala Victoria Brown Kala Victoria Brown disappeared in August, prompting a community-wide search and endless speculation about what might have happened to her. Thursday, police who were serving a warrant at the home of a suspect heard sounds of Brown knocking inside the 30x15 storage container in Spartanburg. Officials sai…
A 73-year-old Seminole County man was sentenced to nearly two decades in federal prison for attempting to have sex with a child, officials said Monday. George Adrien Brooks U.S. District Judge Carlos Mendoza on Monday sentenced George Adrien Brooks of Winter Springs for attempting to induce a child to engage in illicit sexual conduct, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida s#aid. A federal jury found him guilty on March 4. Mendoza sentenced Brooks in an Orlando fed…
Former Orange County Deputy Tramaine McCray is facing sex-attack charges after he was accused of forcing at least two prostitutes to have sex with him while he was still a deputy. Two prostitutes relayed stories about how McCray approached them and asked for sex and offered to pay them, a report says. Both alleged victims said they were afraid that if they didn't have sex with McCray, they could be arrested. McCray resigned last year amid a separate internal investigation that began after he was accused of ha…
A Pennsylvania man faces charges including sexual assault after police say they found him living with 12 girls, including an 18-year-old and two children he fathered with her. Police in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia, arrested Lee Kaplan, 51, on Thursday. Police said the girls living with Kaplan at his house ranged in age from 6 months to 18 years. In a related case, authorities nearly 100 miles away in Lancaster County arrested the parents of …
The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of "bacha bazi" -- paedophilic boy play -- to infiltrate security ranks, multiple officials and survivors of such assaults told AFP. Taliban uses boy sex slaves to dupe & kill Afghan police, survivors reveal Exploiting the pedophilic boy play ‘bacha bazi’, the Taliban infiltrates the Afghan security forces to attack and kill police commande…
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Almost immediately after Deepti's wedding at a traditional ceremony in the Indian capital, the horrific abuse began -- behind closed doors at the hands of her new husband. "He was brutal. He forcefully had sex with me even when I was admitted sick to hospital," she told AFP, shuddering at the memory of the assaults which she endured for months before running away. Deepti has spent three years since then fighting for justice, but she doubts…
LAGOS, Nigeria – One of the teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists over two years ago from a school in northeastern Nigeria has been found with a baby and was reunited Wednesday with her mother — the first of the Chibok girls to be freed since the mass abduction. http://praticaradionews.blogspot.it/search?q=boko+haram RELATED : Boko Haram stoned captive girls to death as rescuers approached - See more at: http://praticaradionews.blogspot.it…
A south suburban man is facing sexual assault charges on accusations that he forced a woman to have sex by threatening to release his pit bull on her if she didn't comply with his advances. Bond was set at $20,000 bail for Kristen Hall when he appeared for a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Saturday. Hall, 29, of the 16800 block of Glen Oaks Drive in Country Club Hills, was charged with criminal sexual assault for the attack that occurred April 1…
UN officials say they are investigating "extremely troubling" claims of sexual abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR). Last year, there were 69 allegations of child rape and other sexual offences by peacekeepers from 10 missions. RELATED ARTICLES : UN struck by new sex abuse allegations in Central African Republic Sex Crimes : UN struck by new sex abuse allegations in Central African Republic One advocacy group says it has passed on new reports to the UN that a soldier made four girls have …
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