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NORTH WALES - More than 140 people have told police they were the victims of abuse at 18 children's homes across north Wales over a span of three decades. (Guardian UK) REPORT: Operation Pallial Report .pdf North Wales child abuse scandal |
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HALIFAX - Police in Nova Scotia say they can't lay criminal charges following an investigation into long-standing allegations of physical and sexual abuse at a Halifax orphanage. The RCMP and Halifax police issued a joint statement Thursday saying they have concluded their investigation into accusations that former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children were abused. (CTV) |
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PORTLAND - Decades of confidential sexual abuse allegations from within the Boy Scouts of America spilled into public view later today when more than 1,200 of the organization’s “perversion files” were released by order of the Oregon Supreme Court. The files will offer the public an unprecedented look at how suspected molestations were handled by one of the nation’s leading youth organizations from the early 1960s through 1985. (LA Times) |
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LA Times: Inside the 'perversion files' Scouts Canada files could be made public Scouts didn't report all abuse Scouts to be 'safest possible' |
Boy Scout ineligible volunteer files 1965-1985 |
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Two studies from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center suggest that sexting isn’t nearly as wide spread as previously believed. Published in the journal Pediatrics Monday, the first study found that the percentage of youth who send nude pictures of themselves that would actually qualify as child pornography is extremely low. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Sexting warning |
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CORNWALL, Ont. - Rumours that have swirled around this eastern Ontario city for years that children were abused at the hands of a pedophile ring were neither put to rest nor given credence Tuesday by a $53-million public inquiry report four years in the making. The Cornwall inquiry's official mandate was to examine institutional responses to historical claims of sexual abuse, but the sensational allegation that fuelled it went unresolved in the more than 1600-page report. (CP) |
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McGuinty questions inquiry's price tag |
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OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada ruled the province of Prince Edward Island is not responsible for any abuse that occurred at the Mt. Herbert Orphanage. (CBC) |
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Their names, breezy and alive, conjure the girls they used to be before they collided with horror. There was Megan Kanka, the 7-year-old from New Jersey. Her rape and murder at the hands of a neighbor who - unknown to her parents - was a sex offender inspired Megan's Law. That statute led to electronic lists of offenders' addresses. There was Jessica Lunsford, the 9-year-old from Florida. Her rape and murder 150 yards from her home led to Jessica's Law, which banned predators from living near where children congregate. There was Amber Hagerman, the 9-year-old from Texas. Her abduction and murder led to the creation of Amber Alerts, advising the public about missing children. (LA Times) PREVIOUS: Murder of Chelsea King |
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Security breaks child porn laws LONDON - Airport security chiefs have been banned from subjecting children to a controversial new X-ray scanner that produces ‘naked’ pictures of passengers because of legal warnings the images may break child pornography laws. Child protection experts have warned that the image produced by the Rapiscan machines may break the law which prevents the creation of an indecent image or pseudo-image of a child. (Daily Mail) Rapiscan Systems Watchdog oks see-through scanners |
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Body-parts registry proposed to fight child porn |
How to buy parental-control software |
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WASHINGTON - More than 50 members of a child pornography ring who engaged in what authorities describe as "horrific" and "unspeakable" crimes have been arrested for sexually exploiting children from 12 years old to as young as infants. 72 members of the online site called Dreamboard have been charged. (CNN) |
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OTTAWA - Bill C-22 came into effect and makes it mandatory for providers of Internet services to report online child pornography. Prior to the bill, Internet providers didn't have to monitor what their clients were doing. (QMI) MORE: SCC sends internet predator to prison |
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Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses - the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen. (AP) |
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Child porn scanner averts cop burnout VICTORIA - Every day, Bob Elder turns on his computer and sees some of the worst humanity has to offer. It's his job to scan the hundreds of thousands of child-porn pictures and videos that Victoria police find on computers around the city. Flipping through a never-ending series of images of exploited young children, often captured performing sex acts, can be a horrific task, even for a veteran cop. (Times Colonist) |
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Brain differences in pedophiles Researchers at the sexual medicine department at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) have publicized specific findings about the brains of pedophiles. Doctors have now identified a number of signs that can point to a successful diagnosis. (Deutsche Welle) |
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Sex offender website operating Wi-Fi cloaks a new breed of intruder |
Community protection.wa.gov.au Trial by computer: Digital evidence not always as reliable as it seems |
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OTTAWA - An increase in Canada's age of consent law from 14 to 16 was supposed to protect teens from sexual exploitation, but a new study suggests the legislation may not be helping kids who are most at risk. The federal government's rationale for changing the law in 2008 was to protect 14- and 15-year-olds from adult sexual predators and to prevent adolescents from making poor sexual decisions because of their age. But Elizabeth Saewyc, a professor of nursing and adolescent medicine at UBC, said children younger than 13 are actually at greatest risk of exploitation because they're most likely to have had sex with adults. (CP) |
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Raising age didn't protect those at risk FBI 'sex tour' site lured predators |
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OTTAWA - A Canadian Orthodox archbishop has stepped down amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving pre-teen boys. The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) says in a news release that Archbishop Seraphim of Ottawa, the head of the church's Canadian archdiocese, asked for and was granted, a three-month leave. (CTV) MORE: Seraphim Storheim |
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DARTMOUTH - A Dartmouth man who coaches and referees youth volleyball is facing sex and child pornography charges. Joseph Emile "Luc" Potvin is charged with luring a child, sexual exploitation and possession of child pornography, following a week-long investigation by Halifax Regional Police. (CTV) MORE: Coach faces sex charges |
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Soccer coach ruling helps to define sexual exploitation Coach guilty of sexual exploitation Teacher pleads guilty to sexual exploitation Charge dropped against teacher Lifting the lid on women paedophiles |
Coach forced players to have sex Strike two for female predator Tennis coach jailed for molesting girl Deaf victims end 40-year silence Victims demand inquiry into school abuse When Ms. teacher goes after male pupil |
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Healing the scars of sexual abuse MONTREAL - For years, childhood sexual abuse was something rarely talked about. Now that the phenomenon has come out of the closet, a specialized centre that would have been almost unheard of 10 years ago has begun to make a difference for young abuse victims in Montreal. (Montreal Gazette) MORE: Men more likely than women to hide past victimization |
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OTTAWA - Justice Minister Robert Nicholson introduced new legislation that, if enacted, will establish mandatory disclosure requirements for Internet providers to report child pornography websites or subscribers they believe are using their service to violate child pornography laws. The second concern arises from the bigger picture shift of the role of Internet providers. (Toronto Star) |
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KENYA - More than 1,000 teachers have been sacked in Kenya for sexually abusing girls over the past two years, the authorities say. Senior government official Ahmed Hussein told the BBC that most of the victims were aged between 12 and 15. He said a nationwide confidential helpline set up to help victims had revealed that the problem was much more widespread than previously thought. Most of the cases have occurred in rural primary schools. (BBC) MORE: Teachers sent home for sex abuse Sex abuse in schools |
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A British teacher is facing up to six months in jail after being convicted of defamation for comments she made in exposing pedophiles at a children's charity in Ethiopia 10 years ago. Jill Campbell and her husband Gary Campbell compiled evidence in 1999 that helped convict the director of an Ethiopian orphanage run by the Swiss charity Terre Des Hommes-Lausanne. The charity acknowledged the abuse took place, but brought a successful defamation case against the Campbells for their claims that the charity's senior staff covered up the scandal. (AP) |
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Chad to tighten charity controls CHAD is to review the credentials of all aid agencies operating following an alleged child-trafficking scandal. Six French aid workers remain in custody in N'Djamena awaiting trial after they tried to fly out 103 children for adoption in Europe. (BBC) PREVIOUS: 7 freed in Chad child row French held over Darfur 'adoptions' |
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More than 110 Sri Lankan peacekeepers serving with the UN mission in Haiti are to be sent home over charges that they sexually exploited people, including minors, in the impoverished nation, the United Nations said yesterday. It is the latest in a series of such scandals to besmirch the world body. (Montreal Gazette) |
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UN staff accused of raping children in Sudan |
UN probes 'abuse' in Ivory Coast UN says scores of Peacekeepers ousted |
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Pedophilia is sexual contact with a child who has not yet reached puberty. Sexual relations with older adolescents past puberty is accurately termed "hebophilia" or "ephebophilia." |
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