Just in case you think I'm making this stuff up or over-selling it - here are stories in the news today from some supposedly civilized countries.
Northern Ireland (OK, civilized may be a stretch here)
The trial of three men, who face a combined total of 85 child sex abuse charges, is expected to last a minimum of six weeks, Londonderry Crown Court has been told.
The charges cover dates between 1972 and 1998.
The charges include rape, cruelty to children, gross indecency and making indecent photographs of children.
Some good news here for a change.
England
A police campaign is helping the public identify signs of child sexual exploitation.
West Midlands Police has produced posters and billboards to educate people on the signs of abuse.
The force will also work more closely with schools, parents, carers, social services, charities and local authorities.
Former child abuse victim Elizabeth Wood waived her right to anonymity to stress the importance of identifying the signs of child abuse in children.
Addiction or demonic influence?
Wales
A 70-year-old Anglesey pensioner who had 235,000 images of child sex abuse was "in the grip of a compulsion to collect them", a court has heard.
Robert O'Brien from Benllech, admitted making and possessing indecent photographs of children and having 870 indecent videos of them.
James Conod, defending, said: "Mr O'Brien found himself in the grip of a compulsion to collect these images, that was his primary motivation.
"He is extremely ashamed and deeply sorry."
Canada
Northern Ontario's Thunder Bay is in the news again today - see yesterday's post.
A Thunder Bay man in an ongoing sexual assault investigation will be in court to face more charges Wednesday.
Thunder Bay's Jeff Paxton now faces 23 sexual assault charges stemming from incidents that allegedly happened between 1983 and 2004. Thunder Bay police report they have identified 11 victims who were children at the time of the incidents.
The charges include sexual assault, gross indecency and invitation to sexual touching.
Canada's Atlantic Provinces
A former pastor was in a Corner Brook courtroom this morning to face child sex-related charges, but he didn't enter a plea.
Donnie Snook is accused of assaulting a boy while he was a pastor with the Salvation Army in Mount Moriah in the mid 1990s.
Snook now faces two counts of sexual assault and two counts of sexual interference involving a boy who was under the age of 14 at the time of the alleged offences in 1995-96.
Snook has been in custody since January after pleading guilty to 46 child exploitation charges in Saint John, New Brunswick, where he was a city councillor.
Those offences date back to 2001 and involve 17 boys as young as five years old, making it one of the biggest sex-abuse cases in New Brunswick's history.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/08/20/nl-snook-court-820.html
Halifax
A high-risk sex offender has moved to the Halifax area, police warned Wednesday.
Roger Ernest Joseph Roberge, 62, was released from a federal penitentiary earlier this year after serving all of his 12-year sentence for forcible confinement and sexual assault.
He stayed in New Brunswick for a while, but now is in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
"He has been professionally assessed as a high risk to re-offend in terms of both sexual and non-sexual violence," said Cst. Tracy J. MacDonald.
I don't understand. He is expected to commit violent sexual crimes, yet he walks free in society. In Canada, there is a policy of minimal sentencing. This guy got 12 years when he already had a 30 year history of violent crimes including violent sex crimes. This guy's freedom is not worth the brutal abuse of one woman or girl. The courts fall all over themselves protecting the rights of criminals while enabling them to access more victims to destroy. What a screwed-up world!
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