Iraqi Militia Finds Horrifying Pics of Slave Market in Saudi Arabia

Fighters from the state-backed Popular Mobilization Units found the picture of a slave for sale on the phone of a dead ISIS fighter

    A young Yazidi woman for sale in a slave market. (Photo: People's Mobilization Units, Iraq)

Fighters of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) seized a jihadi’s phone after he was killed fighting in the Iraqi town of Al-Shirqat. On it they found a picture of a young woman, believed to be a Yazidi, kneeling on the floor in front of a crowd of men.

Using location tracking data from the phone the militia identified the event as a slave auction in Saudi Arabia.

“Our investigation officer was appalled at the set of images involving what we believe to be an Iraqi Yazidi woman taken as a sex slave,” a spokesperson from the PMU told the Sun Online.

The Yazidis are an Iraqi ethnic group with their own religion, who have been persecuted by the Islamic State who regard them as devil worshippers. Many Yazidi women and girls were kidnapped in 2014 and taken into sex-slavery.

There were "images were of the auction in Saudi Arabia of the woman and sexually explicit materials of the fighter and the woman in a hotel. Location data was observed on the image file as enabled by default on many smart phones,” he added.

Of course, you never hear of Saudi Arabia being involved in the purchase of Yazidi sex slaves, but I'm willing to bet there are hundreds of Yazidi girls living as slaves in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. This heinous act needs to be investigated as a crime against humanity, but with Saudi Arabia's overreaching influence in the UN, that will never happen.

Faisal bin Hassan Trad, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador at the UN in Geneva, has been elected as chair of a panel of independent experts on the UN Human Rights Council. That's like electing Hitler to lead the Palestinian peace initiative. Another nail in the coffin of redundancy for the UN. Actually, redundancy might not be the right word; 'malignancy' might be more accurate.

"Further images involved ISIS members in Iraqi-areas occupied by ISIS including Mosul and Baiji, which indicates this fighter has been with ISIS for a long period of time as Baiji was liberated by us months ago," he said.

The unit has announced it will attempt to find and rescue the woman in the photo.

‘"We are engaging with our Yazidi members to find the family of the woman, location and health status," the spokesman added. “We hope to liberate her and all Iraqi women taken as sexual slaves by ISIS within Iraq or outside of Iraq as their basic human rights are being denied.”

This is not the first time revelations about the brutal sex trade have surfaced. In 2015, a Yazidi woman named Jinan escaped ISIS slavery and wrote a book chronicling her three months in captivity.

She spoke of slave markets taking place in large halls, where the women were displayed like “livestock” for the inspection of male buyers from Iraq and Syria but also Westerners and Saudi and Gulf Arabs.

She reports an owner as saying “a man cannot buy more than three women unless he is from Syria, Turkey or the Gulf.” Another man reportedly responded, "It's good for business... A Saudi buyer has transport and food costs that a member of the Islamic State does not. He has a higher quota to make his purchases profitable.It is a good deal. the Islamic State increases its profits to support the mujahideen and our foreign brothers are satisfied."

Jinan also said she was tortured and abused, including being forced to drink mice infested water and chained up outside in the hot sun.

She said: "These men are not human. They only think of death. They take drugs constantly. They seek vengeance against everyone. They say that one day Islamic State will rule over the whole world."

Is it any wonder this is happening:

Veiled Woman Assassinates ISIS Jihadis at Checkpoint

For the third time in a month, a veiled woman has shot dead Islamic State fighters in Mosul, causing concerns among the terrorist fighters.

“A veiled woman carrying a pistol killed two fighters of the Islamic State, in the early hours of the morning, near a checkpoint in the vicinity of Numaniya neighborhood in the city of Mosul. This phenomenon has raised ISIS concerns during the past weeks,” says a report from the news outlet Al-Sumaria quoted by Iraqi News.

ISIS has warned its fighters in the al-Sharqat area, which the terror group has controlled since June 2014.


Iraq forces, with U.S. air support, are currently advancing on Mosul and preparing to retake the city.

ISIS soldiers don't like to be shot by a woman, it apparently ruins their chances of going to paradise with 72 virgins.

Another Rotherham Child Sex Abuse, Gang Rape Trial

Child sex abuse trial: Men deny abusing girl at flat

Rotherham Town Centre

TWO men accused of taking a schoolgirl to a flat and forcing her to perform sex acts on five men have denied she was held against her will and abused.

The complainant told police in 2003, when she was 13, she had been picked up by Masoued Malik (32) and an Iraqi man and taken to a flat where she was forced to perform sex acts on five men, including Malik.

The girl, now 27, also told police Naeem Rafiq (33) was at the flat and she was held against her will, “like somebody was holding the bedroom door shut from the outside”.

Malik told police in 2003 he had had sex with the girl but believed she was 16.

Both men admitted being at the flat, but denied she was held against her will and abused at an ongoing trial at Sheffield Crown Court.

Six other men on trial also deny sexually exploiting her during the same time period.

Malik denies rape, false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit indecent assault and Rafiq denies conspiracy to commit indecent assault and false imprisonment.

Giving evidence, Malik said in 2003 when he was 18 to 19 years-old he used to hang around Rotherham town centre and Boots alleyway quite often.

He said at the time he was working at the KP Nuts factory and would occasionally associate with Rafiq.

Malik said he had sex with the complainant twice in 2003 and she had told him she was at college.

Because 13 year olds look and talk like college girls! Or maybe it's just that all those little white girls look the same.

Giving evidence Malik and Rafiq both admitted to being in a flat with the complainant around August 2003, an Iraqi man and another man, but deny any sexual activity took place.

The jury heard a phone call was made on Rafiq’s mobile phone to the girl and Malik and the Iraqi man went to pick her up while Rafiq stayed at the flat.

Miss Michelle Colborne, prosecuting, said Malik went to pick her up as he knew the girl would get in the car if he was there because she thought at the time he was “kind” and Rafiq invited other men round “to have a turn on her”.

Miss Colborne said in his October 2003 police interview Malik said he went to pick her up because “Nemy wanted to see her” and “it was obvious sex was taking place in the flat but didn’t see it”.

Malik also told police 13 years ago that three men, including Rafiq, were in the bedroom with the girl for 30 minutes each.

Miss Colborne asked if he thought it was strange different men were going in and coming out or if he thought to check on her.

Malik said he didn’t and the girl would have said if she was uncomfortable, adding he “didn’t know what went on behind closed doors”.

Miss Colborne said: “You could hear her calling: ‘Masy’ while another man was in the room and you told her she had to ‘get on with it’ and you were all laughing at her.”

Miss Colborne said Rafiq was lying when he said no sexual activity took place at the flat and he had not engaged in any.

Rafiq said: “I’ve taken an oath, I’ve not come here to lie, I’ve come here to tell the truth.”

Miss Colborne replied: “You left the living room and went into the bedroom and it was your idea to pick the girl up.”

Rafiq responded: “No.”

All eight men on trial deny the charges. The trial continues.

Texas Jury Acquits 21-Year-Old Defendant in Child Sex Abuse Case

By Field Walsh

After more than three hours of deliberation, a Bowie County jury found a Little Rock man not guilty of sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl in 2013.

Strodney Deron Davis faced as many as 20 years in prison and registration as a sex offender if a jury had convicted him of indecency with a child by contact. A jury of four men and eight women chosen Tuesday listened to two days of testimony before 202nd District Judge Leon Pesek Jr. gave them the case to decide mid-afternoon Thursday.

Davis’ attorney, First Assistant Public Defender Will Williams said he and Davis are grateful for the jury’s service. During the trial and in his closing arguments, Williams emphasized contradictions between what the girl told a forensic interviewer at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Texarkana in July 2013 and what she testified to during the trial this week.

First Assistant District Attorney Michael Shepherd and Assistant District Attorney Kate Carter argued that the differences in the girl’s account of details could be attributed to her age. Williams argued reasonable doubt exists.

In fact, it is quite normal for a child to give conflicting evidence in a trial. It should be expected. A six year old barely knows the difference between reality and imagination. But a 6 year old imagination is not likely to invent something that is completely foreign to her. A child experiencing something totally inappropriate for her age is going to have a myriad of thoughts about it and will find it difficult to articulate it in a clear and consistent manner. The DA should have known that and expected to have had to use it.

The girl, who turned 10 in July, testified that Davis taught her a “handshake,” between June 23 and June 28, 2013, which involved sexual contact. Williams argued that the girl could have seen the behavior on the internet or television.

Carter argued that the girl has remained steadfast in her accusation involving Davis though small details may change. Shepherd held up a drawing the girl made during her interview at the Children’s Advocacy Center which he described as “powerful evidence.”

Numerous defense witnesses testified that Davis has never behaved inappropriately with children. Michael Abrahamson, who coaches for Bryant, Ark., High School, said he doesn’t believe Davis could have violated a child.

“He wasn’t a star player, but he was the ultimate team player,” Abrahamson said. “He worked incredibly hard.”

Abrahamson said Davis was a leader even though he spent a lot of time on the bench. He said Davis was the first to congratulate him and his fellow team mates after a hard-fought match and that his willingness to push himself was “outstanding.”

“I am here because I want to do the right thing,” Abrahamson said. “I don’t believe he’s capable of this. I’m here because this is the right thing to do.”

I wonder if Davis offered to shake the girl's hand after the trial?

Child Abuse Victim tells Court He was Forced to Perform Oral Sex on a Police Officer

BY DEE NEWS SERVICE

Gordon Anglesea denies two indecent assaults and one serious sexual assault against one boy, and the indecent assault of another    

Former police Chief Superintendent charged with historic sex offences Gordon Anglesea, arrives for trial at Mold Crown Court in North Wales

A man told police how, as a child, he was taken by a convicted paedophile to a house in Mold and forced to perform oral sex on a police officer.

During extensive police interviews - heard by a jury at Mold Crown Court - the man did not actually name defendant Gordon Anglesea .

The court has heard how he later, at the end of last year, said he had first seen the defendant at Wrexham police station and noticed the birthmark on his face.


'Intimidating and frightening'

He next saw him at a sandstone house in Mold some weeks later but did not recognise him at first.

The man said he had been told the man’s name was Gordon but said he found him intimidating and frightening.

The jury at Mold Crown Court heard further video recorded interviews with the man in which he went into great detail about the abuse he suffered while at Bryn Alyn Children’s home, where he said he was passed around as a toy.

He was bullied by residents, attacked by staff and sexually abused by the home owner John Allen, currently serving life for sex offences against children.

The prosecution says that he was taken to various addresses by Allen where he performed sexual acts with men and he claimed he was made to perform oral sex on a man he later identified as Gordon Anglesea.

'Horrible piece of work'

In an interview in September 2013 while detailing the abuse at the hands of john Allen and others he said : “One fella there, I can’t remember his name, he was a nasty, horrible piece of work, he had like a birth mark on his face and he had glasses, he’s something to do with the police.”

“He grabbed me by the hair. I didn’t like him and he wanted me to perform oral sex on him and I didn’t want to.

He said: “He grabbed hold of me, you know. He was really rough, it was horrible.”

The complainant said that he had been threatened.

“He was saying I would never see my parents again, he would send me away, he had the power to send me away, far, far away and I’d never see my family again.

“I was scum, cos I have been nicking around the shops and that.”


'Stay in the shadows'

Asked how he knew he was something to do with the police, he said: “I heard it mentioned, I don’t know who by. It might be one of them fellas.

“He was there a couple of times, this fella.

“He never really got involved, he always stood back, you know, he never got involved abusing me, he was part of it, he would stand back and masturbating, you know, stay in the shadows type of thing. He’s something to do with authority.”

But on the one occasion he sexually abuse him, he said it was in a big house in Mold, a dark sandstone building, with a long driveway and no gate.

There had been others too, he said, but he had pushed it all into the back of his mind.

“I’ve done my hardest to forget,” he said.


Still frightened of him

Eleanor Laws QC has told the jury that in July last year the complainant had told police the reason he had been unable to make disclosures about the defendant was that he was still frightened of him, his power, and his connections with authority.

He said he had no faith in the police and had issues with authority.

He will be cross-examined on Monday on behalf of Anglesea.

Anglesea, 78, who retired as a police superintendent, of Gwynant, Old Colwyn , denies a charge of indecent assault upon the man when he was a child - and two charges of indecent assault and buggery on another complainant, between 1982 and 1987, when he was a police inspector who ran an attendance centre at Wrexham.

Retired Police Superintendent 'Strongly Denied' Child Sex Abuse Claims when Arrested

Gordon Anglesea, 79, faces four child sex abuse charges. Anglesea is on trial at Mold Crown Court

BY ELWYN ROBERTS

A former North Wales Police superintendent told investigators he “strongly denied” child sex abuse allegations made against him.

Jurors trying retired police chief Gordon Anglesea at Mold Crown Court heard junior prosecuting barrister Catherine Donnelly and National Crime Agency officer Calvin Martin read out the first interview the 79-year-old gave when arrested in 2013.

Having been detained and cautioned on an allegation of indecent assault and a serious sexual assault Anglesea replied: “I strongly deny these allegations.”

At the time of the alleged offences Anglesea was a police inspector based in Wrexham , who ran a Home Office attendance centre where tearaway teenage boys would be given a military-style regime.

He is now standing trial accused of four child sexual abuse allegations dating back to the 1980s, which he denies.

During his interview three years ago following his arrest Anglesea explained how he began his career as a police officer in Cheshire in 1967 but later resigned following a marriage breakdown.

He then went on to join Flintshire Constabulary, he said, before later transferring to Wrexham in 1976 where he married his present wife.

In 1978, he said, he became responsible for the Bromfield area outside Wrexham, which included the Bryn Estyn children’s home, while in the same year he set up the attendance centre where he oversaw the work of five staff.

Wrexhamtown

Pocket books 'destroyed'

Eight years later, in 1986, he attained the rank of chief inspector before becoming a superintendent in 1988 in Colwyn Bay. He said he retired in 1991.

Outlining his responsibilities in Wrexham he said inspectors would caution people at the police station but explained how the principal of Bryn Estyn asked the force whether, due to staff shortages, officers could attend the home to administer cautions.

The defendant, in his interview, said he did not think he had visited the home on more than six occasions. He said the visits were entered in his police pocket book but added he had been told the books had gone missing and he believed they had been destroyed.

When he cautioned children members of staff were always present, he told the interviewers.

Anglesea also said he had been to Bryn Estyn for a Christmas dinner on one occasion.

He explained how he was deeply involved in the church and had five children while in the late 1980s he and his wife had a daughter who later died after a heart operation.

Anglesea, 79, from Colwyn Bay, denies a count of indecent assault against one complainant and two other counts of indecent assault and one count of a serious sexual offence against another boy, with both complainants aged 14 or 15 at the time of the alleged offences, between 1982 and 1987.

The trial is due to continue on Monday.

Rape-Kit Backlog Results in Lawsuits Against Police Departments

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The backlog of evidence taken from the bodies of sexual assault victims after attacks is a national problem. But a San Francisco woman hopes to send a message to the police department that waited two years to test her kit by taking both the city and those who handled her case to court.

Heather Marlowe’s rape kit was one of an estimated 400,000 nationwide that went untested, according to the US Department of Justice. After having a rape kit collected after a 2010 sexual assault, it took two years for it to be tested and another four for her to learn that they had done so.

In fact, she was only informed that her kit lacked sufficient evidence when she sued the city of San Francisco, California along with the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) over mishandling the investigation in January. With that action, she became one of many frustrated women who are taking police departments to court over the low priority their claims are given.

Marlowe is suing the city, the president of the SFPD, the chief of police, the deputy chief of police and the officer that handled her case. She claims that the plaintiffs violated her right to due process and equal protection under both the US Constitution and the California Constitution.

The city argued that Marlowe cannot claim gender-based discrimination because there is no evidence that they handle rape kits collected from men any differently. Marlowe's attorney, Alexander Zalkin, is not concerned about this argument: "The statistics show that 90 percent of sexual or rape crimes are against women. When you take a step back, this is almost universally affecting women,” he told Vice.

In California, rape kits are legally required to be tested within 14 days of DNA collection and the information must be uploaded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Combined DNA Index System – or CODIS, a national database of offenders’ DNA.

While that might be the rule, it does not mean that it is always followed.

“The 14 days that it was supposed to take for my kit to be processed turned into 868 days," Marlowe told the San Francisco Police Commission during a meeting in 2013, Vice reported. "I got to a point where following up [and] trying to attain any information was becoming very frustrating and re-traumatizing, because I was continually being told that my kit was not a priority."

While this rule may help victims going forward, it has done little to ease the backlog of untested rape kits in San Francisco where some date back to the 1980s, according to a 2013 investigation by ABC Bay Area channel KGO.

Marlowe is far from the first victim to feel this frustration or to take legal action as a result. In 2014, three rape victims filed a lawsuit against the City of Memphis, Tennessee; Shelby County; police director Toney Armstrong; former director Larry Godwin; District Attorney Amy Weirich; and convicted rapist Anthony Alliano, among others.

The three victims ‒ Meaghan Ybos, Madison Graves and Rachel Johnson ‒ each had evidence from reported rapes collected and “transported to the City of Memphis, Shelby County and its agents for testing, evidentiary and custodial purposes,” the lawsuit claims.

However, in the years it took for the kits to actually be tested, “total spoilage or a significant degree of spoilage had likely occurred such that the submission of the evidence had been effectively rendered a nullity,” the lawsuit reads.

Ybos was 16-years-old when she was attacked by Alliano, but when she reported the crime immediately after the rape, she was met with disbelief: “The inquiries focused largely on her and presupposed the falsity of her story rather than on the particular facts relevant to the assault.”

In addition, she was also assured that her kit would be tested in a timely manner. This was the basis for her consenting to have evidence removed from her genital areas, as the lawsuit explains, “it was never contemplated nor imagined that said rape kit would be misplaced, discarded or otherwise forgotten about. No such disclaimer was made.”

Both Graves and Johnson received similar treatment from the police, and Alliano was only caught when he attempted to use a credit card he stole from Johnson after her attack.

The treatment these three women received from investigating officers is not restricted to Memphis. Marlowe told Vice that police told her that she "should not have been out partying with the rest of the city on the day she was drugged, kidnapped, and forcibly raped."

This is an excellent example of the Culture of Rape in America.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) found that police officers in Baltimore engaged in similar conversations with sexual assault victims, such as asking victims, “Why are you messing that guy’s life up?” according to their report on the Baltimore Police Department.

Astonishing! No concern that the 'guy' had just messed up her life. Someone is in the wrong business.

The report also notes Baltimore’s rape kit backlog, saying “BPD detectives request testing of rape kits in fewer than one in five of BPD’s adult sexual assault cases, leaving these rape kits to sit untested in BPD’s evidence collection unit.”

Last year, seven women in Harvey, Illinois settled a lawsuit against the city that claimed it had spent years mishandling sexual assault cases. Arguing that the Chicago suburb had violated their civil rights as women, six of the women received $241,250. One woman received $1.2 million after the department was found to have egregiously mishandled her case. Due to the department’s errors, the stepdaughter of a Cook County correctional officer was molested for years, according to The Chicago Tribune.

Many of Harvey’s sexual assault cases were not solved until Cook County prosecutors seized evidence from Harvey and tested it themselves.

The need for rape kit testing was highlighted in a 2016 study that examined 900 untested rape kits from Detroit, Michigan and found 259 CODIS profile matches, 69 of whom were serial rapists.

Those numbers were not a fluke. A 2015 study from The Detroit Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Action Research Project (ARP) tested 1,595 kits in Detroit, and found that almost half of them had CODIS eligible profiles, 28 percent were linked to already existing CODIS profiles and 8 percent of the tests examined matched serial sexual assaults.


While numerous women find it necessary to battle police departments and local governments in court, the DOJ announced on Monday that it would allocate over $38 million to testing preexisting sexual assault kits.

They will have their work cut out for them. On Thursday, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced that the Big Sky State will begin testing 1,400 rape kits that date back to 1994.

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Moses Lake man caught during Washington State Patrol child sex abuse operation

By Cameron Probert 

OLYMPIA – A man was reportedly caught arranging to have sex with a minor.

Travis P. Green, a 30-year-old Moses Lake resident, is charged in Thurston County Superior Court with:

Two counts of attempted rape of a child in the first degree
Attempted rape of a child in the second degree
Commercial sex abuse of a minor

Bail was set at $200,000 and he is in custody in the Thurston County Jail.

Green allegedly responded to an ad for an “incest family” posted by Washington State Patrol’s Missing and Exploited Children Task Force, according to court records. He reportedly began sending text messages to detectives posing as the mother of a 13-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl.

He allegedly offered $100 to have intercourse with the girls, and described several sex acts he wanted the children to perform.

Green reportedly drove from Moses Lake to Tumwater (Olympia) on Sept. 26, according to court records. The detectives had Green purchase a drink in a store while he was under surveillance, before directing him to an address where he was arrested.

When he was interviewed, the defendant allegedly admitted to molesting other children, and being a sexual predator.

The Olympian reports Green was the 23rd person caught in the Washington State Patrol’s child sex abuse sting operation.

Horrendous sex-abuse case ends with conviction

By NATALIE ST. JOHN  EO Media Group

SOUTH BEND, Wash. — A former Ocean Park man who sexually abused a child has been found guilty of 18 separate felony charges.

When John Keone Lopaka Aylward, 46, is sentenced on Oct. 7, he faces the possibility of life in prison, according to Pacific County Prosecutor Mark McClain.

Through his investigation, Deputy Sean Eastham learned that Aylward had been showing sexually explicit images to the younger child. While executing a search warrant on the home, deputies discovered a memory card hidden in a hutch in the family’s living room that contained numerous pornographic images of children, including recordings of Aylward having intercourse with the girl. Deputies also found firearms, which Aylward, a convicted felon, was not allowed to possess. Aylward denied abusing the child at first, but eventually confessed to Eastham, and blamed the abuse “on his meth use and being tempted by Satan,” according to a probable cause statement.

Aylward, who allegedly ran an illegal, unlicensed tattoo business out of his home, was charged with first-degree incest, first-degree rape of a child, sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography.

Aylward decided to waive his right to a jury trial, electing instead to have Superior Court Judge Michael Sullivan decide the case.

Sullivan listened to two days of testimony in September from the victim, forensic experts, police and others, and reviewed the video evidence, before returning guilty verdicts on six counts of first-degree rape of a child, six counts of first-degree incest, three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and one count each of dealing in child pornography, possessing child pornography, and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.

McClain said securing testimony and documentation from experts can be challenging in a rural community, but is extremely important for prosecuting child-abuse cases.

“These are awful, gut-wrenching trials, not only because of the subject matter, but also because children do not often tell their story clearly. That is why the interviews and investigation make or break these cases,” McClain said. Currently, there is no local facility to perform the required physical examinations and forensic interviews. In this case, McClain said, he was able to arrange for the victim to undergo both examinations in Lewis County on the same day. However, in the past, local kids have often had to travel to Grays Harbor for the interview, and then make a second trip to Olympia for the examination.

“This was very difficult for these kids, especially for those living on the peninsula,” McClain said. However, he noted that the situation is improving, saying the prosecutor’s office has been working with the local nonprofit crime and abuse victims advocacy group Crisis Support Network to establish a local Children’s Advocacy Center. McClain said the Pacific County Department of Health recently became involved in the effort, and the Advocacy Center is close to becoming a reality.


McClain praised the deputies and forensic experts for building a strong case against Aylward, and said special recognition should go to the girl who was courageous enough to report the crimes, and the Crisis Support Network, who worked with the victim and made her comfortable enough to tell her story.

    South Bend, WA

2 brothers indicted on child sex abuse charges in Wilson County

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Ramiro Limon; Fernando Limon (Courtesy: Wilson County Sheriff's Office)

WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Two brothers have been arrested and indicted on multiple child sex abuse charges following an investigation by the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the United States Marshal’s Task Force.

Fernando Limon, 23, and Ramiro Limon, 28, each face four counts of rape of a child.

Both were arrested in Antioch, Tennessee on September 20.

Detectives said the case was especially egregious because it involved children “considerably younger” than the 13-year-old age limit sentencing guidelines involving adults charged with sex crimes involving children.

Both men are being held at the Wilson County jail under $150,000 bond. They also have a hold placed against them by federal immigration officials because they are Mexican nationals and not citizens of the United States.

If convicted, the suspects face up to 25 years in prison on each count of child rape involving a child less than 13 years of age. They could also be deported without the ability to re-enter the United States without Federal prosecution.

State rests in Texas child sex abuse trial

By Field Walsh 

The state rested its case Wednesday afternoon in the trial of a Little Rock man accused of sexual misconduct with a 6-year-old Bowie County girl in 2013.

Strodney Deron Davis, 21, faces two to 20 years in prison if convicted of indecency with a child by sexual contact involving a relative who turned 10 in July and who was 6 in June 2013. The girl answered questions from Bowie County Assistant District Attorney Kate Carter.

“He called it the handshake,” the girl testified about a night in her family’s Wake Village, Texas, home while Davis was visiting from June 23, 2013, to June 28, 2013.

The girl said Davis told her to keep the handshake a secret and that he engaged in sexual misconduct with her in a hotel bathroom in Little Rock, Ark., where Davis lives, during the same month. Bowie County First Assistant Public Defender questioned the girl about differences and inconsistencies in answers she gave during a forensic interview at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Texarkana in July 2013 and during her testimony.

While some details differed, the allegation concerning a handshake remained the same. The girl told forensic interviewer Melanie Halbrook in 2013 that she had gotten out of bed to get a tissue because her nose was bleeding. On the stand Wednesday, the girl said she was getting a tissue because her nose was stuffy.

Halbrook testified that the girl did not appear to have been coached when she met with her in 2013 and that the descriptions she gave of Davis’ alleged conduct seemed genuine.

The girl’s father testified that his daughter came to him in July 2013 and disclosed the alleged abuse. The father and his wife, the girl’s mother, went to Wake Village police immediately, they testified. Officer Christy Whisenhunt, who currently works for Texas A&M police, testified she was a Wake Village detective when the girl’s family reported the allegations against Davis. Whisenhunt said she arranged to interview Davis but he did not show for the July 22 meeting and did not reschedule. Whisenhunt agreed under questioning from Williams that Davis has the right not to answer questions.

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Kathy Lach testified the girl described sexual misconduct by Davis to her several days after her parents went to the authorities. Lach said the nature of the abuse alleged would have not left evidence, such as DNA, even if the girl had been examined within hours of such contact.

First Assistant District Attorney Michael Shepherd rested the case for the state Wednesday afternoon. Williams called four witnesses for the defense before 202nd District Judge Leon Pesek Jr. adjourned the trial for an evening recess.

The witnesses Williams called include Davis’ uncle, Davis’ brother, and two women who described themselves as close friends of Davis’ mother who have known him for substantial periods of his life. All of the defense witnesses described Davis as a well-mannered person who behaves appropriately around children.

The trial is expected to continue Thursday morning with more testimony from defense witnesses. Once both sides have closed their cases, the jury of four men and eight women will hear closing arguments before beginning deliberations.


If convicted, Davis faces two to 20 years in prison. He is currently free on a $40,000 bond.

    Bowie Co., TX

Maryland school bus aide charged with sexual abuse of two special-needs children

(WUSA9) By Lynh Bui and Donna St. George 

A Prince George’s County school-bus aide has been charged with multiple counts of child abuse and sexual abuse in connection with incidents involving two young students with special needs.

Michael Paul Patopie, 38, of Capitol Heights, is accused of inappropriately touching a 4- and 5-year-old while working on a bus that serves special-needs children, according to charging documents filed in Prince George's County District Court.

Patopie was arrested Tuesday morning, according to county police.

The woman who drove the bus reported two incidents to authorities that occurred on Nov. 19 and May 31, saying she occasionally saw Patopie kiss the 5-year-old child, documents state. The student’s mother said her child reported inappropriate touching, police allege in court papers.

The 4-year-old’s great-aunt said she noticed that the child’s pants were “open multiple times when getting off the bus,” charging documents state.

Video footage from the bus captured on Nov. 19 shows Patopie sitting next to the 4-year-old, according to court documents. Although his hand is out of view, the video shows Patopie touching the child, the records state. After the child is dropped off, Patopie touches the 5-year-old in a similar manner, puts the child on his lap and kisses the child’s forehead, police allege.

Kevin M. Maxwell, chief executive for Prince George’s County Public Schools, said in a statement Tuesday that he is seeking to fire Patopie immediately, given his arrest.

“I am horrified by the nature of these crimes, sickened and angry that this individual may have preyed upon our students,” Maxwell said in the statement. “We will cooperate fully with our law enforcement partners to ensure that he is held accountable. Our focus remains on providing all children with a quality education in a safe learning environment.”

The bus aide and a supervisor were placed on administrative leave during the first week of school in August after Maxwell learned of the allegations, school officials have earlier said.

John Erzen, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office, said the case is under investigation and prosecutors would file more charges if there is evidence of additional victims.

“Certainly anytime that children are victims, it tears at our hearts,” Erzen said.

The father of a 4-year-old who thinks his child was molested but was not one of the victims who Patopie was charged with abusing told The Washington Post this month that it was “unacceptable” that school officials did not inform the family of the November incident until August. On Tuesday, he said he was glad to hear of the charges but continued to question the process.

“I just thank God they finally locked him up,” he said.

Patopie is being held on a $300,000 bond and is scheduled for a bail review Wednesday, prosecutors said. When reached by phone, Patopie’s mother declined to comment, and online court records do not list an attorney for him.

The charges against the bus aide follow a string of child-abuse allegations in Prince George’s public schools.

In February, elementary school volunteer Deonte Carraway was indicted on 270 counts of child pornography and related charges after allegedly recording children as young as 9 performing sex acts both on and off campus. Cases against him are pending.

More recently, federal authorities revoked a $6.4 million grant from the county after finding corporal punishment and humiliation of children in the district’s Head Start preschool program.

Last week, police said they were investigating a separate allegation of physical abuse on a school bus of an adult student who attends a special-needs school in Mitchellville. The incident occurred the morning of Sept. 1, outside the C. Elizabeth Rieg Regional School.

    Prince George Co., MD

Former Florida man's retrial begins in

child sexual abuse case

Leonard Cuminotto, 49, sits in a Palm Beach County courtroom Tuesday during jury selection for his retrial on four child sex crime charges. Cuminotto was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to 55 years in prison, but an appellate court later granted him a new trial. The second trial began Wednesday. (Marc Freeman/Sun Sentinel)

Marc Freeman Contact Reporter  Sun Sentinel

A Palm Beach County jury on Wednesday began hearing testimony in the case of a man on trial for the second time on four charges of sexually abusing a girl in Boynton Beach between 2004 and 2007.

Leonard Cuminotto, 49, was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to 55 years in prison. But a state appellate court later awarded him a new trial after ruling his lawyer was unfairly denied extra time to prepare a defense.

After attempts in recent years to serve as his own attorney because of a stated distrust of the criminal justice system, Cuminotto is now represented by court-appointed attorney Jacob Noble.

In his opening statement to the jury, Noble said prosecutors have no evidence of any abuse and are relying solely on lies by the accuser. "These are nothing but false accusations," Noble said, adding the accuser's statements have had inconsistencies. "This is an ugly, ugly case."

Cuminotto last year told a judge that his "rights have been conspired against since the beginning of this case," and he should be set free.

Instead, Cuminotto has remained in custody still facing two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation; lewd or lascivious exhibition; and sexual activity with a child between 12 and 17 years old. The alleged incidents include masturbating in front of the girl and touching her breasts.

A former stay-at-home dad, Cuminotto once rejected a plea offer of four years in prison. The allegations surfaced in 2008 when Boynton Beach Police received a complaint from a caller in Michigan, claiming Cuminotto molested a 12- or 13-year-old girl over several months in 2007.

Later, prosecutors amended the charges to accuse the defendant of abusing the girl over a five-year period beginning in 2002.

The Sun Sentinel is not identifying the accuser because of the nature of the allegations.

On Wednesday, the accuser, now 22, testified she was sexually abused by Cuminotto since age 11 when she was in the fifth grade and Cuminotto asked her to touch his genitalia. She also said she suffered pain after forced vaginal penetration during one incident.

"I always tried to fight him off," she said. "He would always win."

The accuser said she delayed reporting the abuse because she had been too intimidated by Cuminotto and concerned about his threats to commit suicide. The accuser also testified during Cuminotto's first trial, when he was convicted of four charges and acquitted of three others.

The defense then did not put on any evidence. But for the retrial, Noble says he will be calling witnesses.

Since the first trial, Cuminotto has argued the claims have been contradicted by two medical exam reports. One, from a Michigan physician, indicates there were no physical signs of sexual abuse, the defendant said.

But prosecutors Brianna Coakley and Justin Hoover have countered that the reports don't absolve Cuminotto of blame.

"He told her if she ever told anyone about these things he would kill himself," Coakley told the jury Wednesday.

The evidence, over the defense's objection, includes a recorded phone call between the accuser and Cuminotto prior to his arrest.

On the call, Cuminotto cried and apologized, said he didn't want to hurt the child, and talked about turning himself in to authorities. But nothing specific about the alleged abuse is cited on the call, which also was played for the jury at the first trial.

Circuit Judge John Kastrenakes is now presiding over the case, which has been assigned to different judges since its inception. He said the trial should conclude by the end of the week.

    Boynton Beach, FL

Former altar boy coordinator charged with

child rape, sex abuse

KRISTIN TOUSSAINT

Prosecutors say the former priest used his position to

"groom and sexually assault" his victim.

A former priest who once served as an altar boy coordinator at St. Brendan’s Church in Dorchester was arraigned Wednesday on charges of rape and assault related to incidents from the 1980s and 1990s. 

Michael Walsh, who will be 80 years old on Friday, allegedly used his position in the church and as a coach with the Cedar Grove Baseball League “to gain access to, groom, and ultimately sexually assault” a boy while he was the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, according to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley's office.

Walsh was indicted earlier this month on two counts of rape of a child and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. Clerk Magistrate Anne Kaczmarek ordered him to wear a GPS monitor, remain in Massachusetts and surrender his passport while the case was pending.

In 2006, Massachusetts legislation was passed that eliminated the statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases. In such cases, prosecutors are required to come forward with "objective, corroborative evidence" of the abuse if it occurred more than 27 years earlier, the DA's office said.

Walsh also resided outside of Massachusetts for extended periods of time between the alleged abuse and the indictment, which stopped "the proverbial clock" on the statute of limitations, according to the DA's office.

The victim, now in his late 30s, came forward to law enforcement earlier this year, officials said.

“Changes in the statute of limitations law for child sexual abuse cases help us, but it means nothing without the bravery of abuse survivors who overcome their fear and shame to disclose trauma,” Conley said in a statement. “Survivors, young or old, should know that they can always count on us to help, support, and speak for them.”

Walsh allegedly took the victim and other children out to eat and to the movies. The alleged abuse took place in Walsh's car, home and office, according to the DA's office.

Assistant District Attorney Ashley Polin of the Child Protection Unit told the court that Walsh was ordained as a priest but relieved of those duties in 2002 after being accused of abuse that took place while he was assigned to the St. Francis de Sales Church in Charlestown. 

Those allegations are not related to the current Suffolk County indictment, the DA's office said.

    Dorchester, MA

Princess Madeleine of Sweden: Why I’m Campaigning to End Child Sex Abuse

By Princess Madeleine of Sweden

Ending the cycle begins with parental action

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly 60,000 children were sexually abused in the United States in 2014.

Globally, 18% of women and 8% of men report being victims of childhood sexual abuse. Despite these astronomical numbers, child sexual abuse is rarely discussed and solutions do not adequately address the public health crisis affecting such a large number of children.

We know that children who are sexually abused are at a greater risk for later mental health and anxiety syndromes, including depression and suicidal thoughts. The societal and economic consequences of not addressing the problem, or investing in prevention of, sexual abuse of children are grave. In 1999, my mother decided to use her voice to speak about children’s rights and founded the World Childhood Foundation, which has since funded more than 1,000 projects in 20 countries. I have always admired my mother’s courage and aim to continue her work in combatting child sexual abuse. Now as a mother of two, I am even more determined to help create a world free from sexual abuse for all children in our lifetime.

But it is not our children’s obligation to keep themselves safe. We, as adults, have an obligation to ensure that our children are surrounded by child protectors.

Child sexual abuse thrives in silence. The first step in combatting sexual abuse is removing the stigma from discussing the abuse, which requires learning the facts, talking about it with our children and investing in prevention.

Learn the facts. We live in a digital world and it is crucial that technology is integrated in our fight. The new mobile app “Stewards of Children Prevention Toolkit” provides tools and educational resources for adults to prevent, recognize and respond to child sexual abuse.

Talk about it. Create a safe environment to talk to your child about sexual abuse, including body safety, anatomical language and personal boundaries.

Recognize the signs. The most common signs of sexual abuse are emotional and behavioral changes, such as “too perfect” behavior, withdrawal, fear, depression, unexplained anger and rebellion. Indirect physical signs can include anxiety, chronic stomach pain and headaches.

React responsibly. If a child shares that they have been abused, stay calm, praise the child’s courage and listen.

As a new school year begins, let us commit together to keep our #EyesWideOpen and ensure that we keep the children in our lives safe from all forms of violence.

Her Royal Highness Princess Madeleine of Sweden works with the World Childhood Foundation and is the creator of the #EyesWideOpen initiative, to mobilize people to take action against childhood sexual assault.

And God bless her for it!

Berlin Police Shoot & Kill Refugee as He Attacks 8yo Daughter's Alleged Sexual Abuser

Double tragedy for one young family of migrants

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German police shot and killed a refugee at a shelter in Berlin after he tried to attack a man who allegedly sexually abused his eight-year-old daughter. An investigation has been launched into the man's death.

Authorities led the accused suspect, a 27-year-old Pakistani man, (Pakistani - who would ever believe that?) to a police car in handcuffs on Tuesday evening, following the accusation of sexual abuse. As he was sitting in the vehicle, the young girl's Iraqi father rushed towards the car with a knife. Witnesses cited by the International Business Times said they heard the father screaming, “you will not survive this!”

Three officers opened fire on the father, claiming he ignored multiple calls to stop. He was treated on the spot and taken to hospital, where he died from his wounds several hours later.

"Yesterday evening, police officers shot a 29-year-old attacker in Moabit," Berlin police said in a statement on Wednesday, as quoted by Deutsche Welle.

"A 27-year-old man against whom there is suspicion of sexual abuse was arrested and brought into a police vehicle. While he was sitting in the vehicle, the 29-year-old man carrying a knife stormed out of the shelter towards the man in the car. He ignored multiple calls to stop, after which several police officers shot at the man."

An investigation has been launched into his death by the Berlin police's homicide division. Investigations are automatic anytime a German police officer opens fire.

The father had three children between the ages of three and eight, Sascha Langenbach, a spokesman for the city authorities, told Deutsche Welle.

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Langenbach added that his family has been moved to another shelter, and that authorities “have made sure that the mother and children will be cared for psychologically and medically.”

How horrible! A young mother with young children, one of which was raped, the father now dead; she is alone with her children in a foreign country with no idea what will happen to them now. She must be wondering if they would have been better off staying in Iraq. How tragic! Please pray for this poor family.

It's not the first instance of alleged sexual abuse to take place at an asylum shelter in Germany. In July, a member of the left-wing Die Linke party told German parliament there had been 128 allegations of children being sexually abused at refugee centers in the first quarter of 2016.

Also in July, the German parliament unanimously passed a tougher law on sex offenses, making any form of non-consensual sexual contact a crime, and easing the deportation procedure for refugees involved in sexual assaults. The vote followed a string of sexual assaults on New Year's Eve, which were allegedly committed by men from North Africa and the Middle East.

In April, the country launched a €200 million ($225mn) initiative to safeguard women and children against sexual assaults and trauma in refugee centers. 

The tactic of keeping large numbers of refugees in large shelters has been slammed by the Berlin Refugee Council and other organizations which claim the procedure leads to social problems and conflicts, and hinders integration.

However, Langenbach stressed on Wednesday that he thinks there are also conflicts when people aren't kept in mass shelters.

“Considering the fact that last year a million people came to Germany, I think looking at the larger picture, there have been relatively few incidents,” he said.

Germany continues to deal with the biggest refugee crisis since World War II, which brought more than one million asylum seekers to the country in 2015. Most of the refugees hail from Syria, where a civil war has claimed the lives of over 250,000 people and displaced 12 million others since 2011, according to UN figures.

14 y/o Girl Abducted and Raped by Two Men on Her Way to School in Oxford

Police warning parents to make sure their children

don't walk alone

FILE PHOTO © Darren Staples / Reuters

A teenager was kidnapped by two men on her walk to school on a busy Oxford street on Wednesday morning and “subjected to a serious sexual assault,” possibly inside a car, before she was found alone, knocking on doors, four hours later.

The 14-year-old girl was wearing her school uniform when she was abducted by two white men driving a silver car. She was later found over a mile away from where she was taken.

Thames Valley Police have launched an appeal for witnesses and warned parents to make sure their children travel to school in groups. Extra police officers will be patrolling the area until the suspects are found.

“We are in the early stages of this investigation and we are carrying out extensive inquiries,” Detective Chief Inspector Simon Steel said.

“But I would appreciate the public’s help in relation to this very serious incident.

“This happened in what would have been a very busy area at this time of the day and I appeal to anybody who was in that area and saw an incident which matches the above report to call police immediately. It is possible you may have witnessed this incident and may not have realized the severity of the situation.”

His colleague Detective Superintendent Chris Ward said the girl, who is now under specialized care, was extremely traumatized by the incident. He added he did not believe she knew her attackers and was “possibly hugged” rather than dragged into the car.

The local policing area commander for Oxford, Superintendent Christian Blunt, argued the attack had been a “very concerning incident for all involved.”

“I would also ask people to remain vigilant and report anything suspicious”, he added.

Ward councillor Elizabeth Wade described it as “every parent’s nightmare.”

Child Porn Live Streams And Sex Tapes Are Growing Cyber Crimes, Europol Says

BY CORTNEY DRAKEFORD

The live streaming of child pornography is on the rise in Europe. The cyber crime targets vulnerable children who fall victim to sexual predators, the European Union’s law enforcement agency announced Wednesday.

Live Streaming

Europol released a list detailing eight trends that are becoming the norm in the underworld of cybercrime in some EU countries. Among them was online child sexual abuse. “The use of end-to-end encrypted platforms for sharing media, coupled with the use of largely anonymous payment systems, has facilitated an escalation in the live streaming of child abuse,” the report said.

Live streaming of child sex abuse “involves a perpetrator directing the live abuse of children on a [pre-arranged] specific time frame through video sharing platforms,” Europol said in its 72-page report. “The abuse can be ‘tailored’ to the requests of the soliciting offender[s] and recorded.”

Darknet

Most of the illegal activities take pace in the Darknet, according to the annual cyber organized crime assessment report released at Europol Headquarters in The Hauge. The Darknet was described as something that “continues to enable criminals involved in a range of illicit activities, such as the exchange of child sexual exploitation material.”

The report also warned of other threats: “The extent to which extremist groups currently use cyber techniques to conduct attacks are limited, but the availability of cybercrime tools and services, and illicit commodities such as firearms on the Darknet, provides opportunity for this to change.”

Revenge porn

Another cyber crime known as “revenge porn" is also seeing an increasing presence online. It consists of the release of sexually explicit images online without the consent of the other person in order to cause the victim distress or harm.

Europol plans to distribute informational videos into schools across Europe that will spotlight the growing cyber crimes. In the past, child abuse videos were initially streamed in Southeast Asia but recent reports have shown that it has begun to spread to other countries.

Good. Schools really need to teach children, especially young girls, of the myriad dangers of internet sexual exploitation.

UK Child Sex Inquiry Suffers Another Serious Blow

Secrecy over announcement that lead lawyer Ben Emmerson QC is to be put under investigation raises concerns among victims’ groups

Ben Emmerson QC has been suspended from duty on the public inquiry into child abuse, a statement said. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

Sandra Laville and Owen Bowcott

The most senior lawyer on the public inquiry into institutional child abuse in England and Wales was suddenly suspended on Wednesday over what the inquiry said were concerns over aspects of his leadership.

Ben Emmerson QC had been expected to resign in the coming days, apparently over disagreements over the remit of the inquiry under its fourth chair, Alexis Jay. But in a move that surprised those close to the discussions, the inquiry announced late on Wednesday that Emmerson, a respected human rights lawyer, was to be suspended and put under investigation.

“The inquiry has recently become very concerned about aspects of Mr Emmerson’s leadership of the counsel team,” the statement from the independent inquiry said.

“He has therefore been suspended from duty so that these can be properly investigated. Suggestions in the press that Mr Emmerson was considering resigning after raising disagreements over the future direction of the inquiry are untrue. They are not a matter on which he has advised the chair or panel.”

Whatever the reasons behind Emmerson’s suspension, the apparent secrecy surrounding events is the latest issue to cause concern among victims’ groups.

Lawyers acting for Emmerson said: “Mr Emmerson has read this evening on the internet that he has been suspended from the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. If, and when, allegations are put to him, he will respond appropriately.”

An inquiry spokeswoman refused to elaborate when asked why Emmerson had been suspended and what allegations had been made about his behaviour.

Denmark Reverses Decision on Separating Refugee ‘Child Brides’ from Partners in Asylum Centers

Just one of the many dilemmas created

by the mass influx of a culture that is

diametrically opposed to western values

FILE PHOTO © Claus Fisker / Reuters

Denmark has acknowledged that its earlier decision to separate married couples in refugee centers if a spouse happened to be below the age of 18 violated international conventions, with local MPs calling it “completely outrageous.”

Now that the decision has been reversed, the Danish Immigration Service (DIS) will reunite several married couples who have been forced to live separately for over six months. The country’s Integration Ministry earlier revealed that there were up to 27 minors living as part of married couples in the Danish asylum system.

Child brides “cried, fainted and threatened to commit suicide” when separated from their partners, Denmark’s Metroxpress daily reported in June.

“In some of these cases it has been estimated that it would not be compatible with Denmark’s international obligations to maintain the separate living accommodations, thus these couples have been offered to be housed together,” DIS wrote in an official response to a parliamentary enquiry.

Josephine Fock, who raised the issue in parliament, welcomed the reversal.

“It is completely outrageous. We are talking about people who have fled to Denmark who are being split from each other. Some of them have children together and investigating individual [asylum] cases takes an unbelievably long time,” Fock, an MP for The Alternative (a green political party) told Denmark’s Metroxpress daily.

She's right to a point. Separating a child from her 'partner' (I don't think that is the right word here, a child bride is unlikely to be anywhere close to equal with her adult husband, so a partnership is a poor description of the relationship), is obviously traumatic and leaves the child frightened, alone, possibly with babies, and vulnerable. 

On the other hand, it is already giving in to a separate legal system for migrants, making Sharia one step closer to reality.

See also: Legally Married Child Brides are OK with Home Office
Child Brides Sometimes Tolerated in Nordic Asylum Centers Despite Bans
Germany to Write New Law to Stem the Flood of Child Brides

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg said in February that married refugees aged under 18 and entering the country would be separated from their spouses. The decision came in the wake of a Metroxpress report of 14-year-old brides living in asylum centers in Denmark.

Støjberg stated in a press release that underage spouses already living in the country will be separated from their husbands, warning that couples arriving in Denmark will not be allowed to live together if one is a minor.

“It is totally unacceptable that there are currently minors living with their spouses or partners within the Danish asylum system, and I have asked the Immigration Service to immediately put a stop to it,” Støjberg said.

“Of course, we must ensure that young girls are not being forced to live in a relationship with an adult at the asylum centers,” she added.

Some 21,000 refugees entered Denmark in 2015, with the same number expected to apply for asylum in 2016. The number of migrants arriving in Denmark has, in fact, nearly tripled compared to three years ago. The country lies between the two most popular destinations for refugees in Europe – Germany and Sweden. In the wake of the migrant influx, Danish officials have tried to make the state less attractive for newcomers by cutting social benefits for refugees by 45 percent.