Spanish doctor jailed in Sweden for sex abuse
of dozens of children
By Agence France-Presse
A Swedish court Tuesday jailed a Spanish doctor for 10 years for the sexual assault and rape of around 50 children aged two to 12.
Cristian Carretero, (One source adds 'Sanchez' to his name) 29, was convicted of four rapes and 46 sexual assaults of minors, mainly young girls, as well as for inciting adults to fondle their children and possession of child pornography.
A primary care physician who studied at the University of Barcelona, Carretero faces expulsion from Sweden once he has served his sentence.
The court found that between 2015-2017, he committed the crimes at several Swedish medical centers and during online consultations.
He was arrested in December 2017 after children who were brought to him for minor ailments were subjected to needless genital examinations.
In online consultations, Carretero convinced parents to examine their children’s genitals, while he filmed the act.
The court found him guilty of rape with aggravating circumstances “owing to the fact that he used his position as a doctor and abused a specific trust, well as the victim’s ages.”
Almost 80 people registered as plaintiffs in the case, of which 55 were children.
10 years is a pathetically short sentence for this creep.
Rochdale abuse: 'Insufficient evidence' for perjury charges against council chair
Richard Farnell was in charge of Rochdale Council between 1986 and 1992
No further criminal action will be taken against a former Rochdale Council leader who was investigated for perjury after giving evidence to an inquiry into child sex abuse.
Richard Farnell was accused of "lying under oath" about being unaware of child sex abuse in Rochdale.
Police said after a "full review" there was insufficient evidence to charge him.
Mr Farnell said he was telling the truth and this decision vindicated him.
Pupils at Knowl View residential school were abused at the school and sexually exploited in the town centre over a 20-year period.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) report branded Mr Farnell as "shameful" and said that it "defied belief" he was unaware of what was happening.
In May last year, Greater Manchester Police asked the Met Police to review an allegation of perjury.
Acting Det Ch Insp Gail Granville has written to Mr Farnell to inform him they will not be taking matters any further following a "full review" of the evidence.
Rochdale's Knowl View residential school closed in the mid-1990s
Mr Farnell told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "There is not one scrap of evidence that I knew about the failings at Knowl View almost 30 years ago.
"The council's most senior officers at the time all told the inquiry they did not inform me.
"The inquiry examined over 100,000 pages of letters, reports and documents and not a single one was addressed to me or informed me about Knowl View."
Anyone that stupid should be made to pay back all the wages he made as council chair. He's either a liar or spectacularly incompetent.
He said it had been "extremely stressful" to have the allegation hanging over him for 12 months, but said he was confident it would "come to nothing" as he was telling the truth.
"We must never, never forget the victims in this tragedy," he added.
3-year-old girl allegedly raped by local boy in Jammu/Kashmir, Police arrest accused
Srinagar: A three year old girl was allegedly raped by a local boy at village Malikpora, Trehgam area of Sumbal in Bandipora district.
Acting on complaint of the victim’s family, police has arrested the accused, identified as Tahir Ahmad Mir (20), son of Abdul Rehman Mir resident of Malikpora, Trehgam, Sumbal.
A senior police official said that they have arrested the accused, and have started investigation into the matter.
A case FIR number 81/2019, under section 363/342/376 RPC has been registered in this connection at Police Station Sumbal, he added.
Locals demanded strict action against culprit. “The culprit should be punished strictly and the case should be on handled on a fast-track basis,” they said.
Malikpora, Jammu and Kashmir
Former UK solicitor jailed for second time
over child sex abuse
The TimesA former solicitor has been jailed for four years after being convicted of indecently assaulting a boy in the 1980s.
Portsmouth crown court was told that Stuart Eager, 70, who was also a chorister at the time, had allowed the victim, who was aged about 11 or 12, to sit on his lap and steer his car around a farm in Hampshire.
According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Eager was struck off the roll in 1989 after a separate jail sentence for indecent assault.
Eager was convicted of three charges of indecent assault. Detective Sergeant Julia Nicol, who led the investigation for Hampshire Constabulary, said that the abuse by Eager had a significantly detrimental effect on the victim’s life.
The News, Portsmouth
Eager is also accused of putting his hand down the then boy’s pants.
Serious case review to be held into historic child sexual abuse in Bradford, UK
By Michael BlackThe Telegraph & Argus
A SERIOUS case review is to be held into historic child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Bradford.
It follows a case earlier this year where nine men were jailed for a total of 132 years for their roles in the “wicked and relentless” grooming, rape and sexual exploitation of two vulnerable girls from a Bradford care home.
The court heard the abused girls became friends in the children's home before they were “relentlessly sexually abused.”
The teenager abused by all nine defendants was taken to other cities, and men from elsewhere in the country attended at the “party house” in Bradford where drugs and alcohol were freely available.
She read out her victim personal statement to a hushed and packed courtroom back in February.
The young woman told of the multiple mental health problems she had suffered daily since the age of 15 and the nightmares and panic attacks that left her struggling to breathe.
“I can’t change what happened but getting justice is the first step to moving on from this,” she said.
Gladys Rhodes White, Interim Strategic Director of Children’s Services, said: “Carrying out a serious case review (SCR) is best practice when a serious incident has occurred. In my view, the Chair of the Children’s Safeguarding Board is right to assess that the horrendous CSE crimes committed by nine men who have been recently convicted. SCRs focus on learning and how to develop best practice.
"We can’t stop people committing crime, but we can ensure that agencies in our district are able to respond as effectively as possible to protect young people from abuse.
“I welcome the fact that this SCR will go further than just these crimes and look at other previous CSE cases and will endeavour to contact survivors. We would encourage any victims of CSE, past or present, to come forward so they can get the right support and help us work with the police to pursue those who committed these crimes.”
While Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, Leader of Bradford Council, said: “We welcome the fact that the Bradford Safeguarding Children Board has announced that it will commission a thematic review of child sexual exploitation in the light of the recent conviction of nine men for serious historic CSE crimes.
"It will allow for a thorough review of the agency working around CSE at that time and how practice is carried out now. The recent convictions mean that this is timely. We would not have been able to carry out this review prior to the conclusion of the trial and the conviction of the perpetrators involved.
“Importantly, the review will also listen to victims and we will be actively working to encourage others to come forward. We know it takes real bravery to come forward if you have suffered from this terrible crime. If new victims come forward, we will do everything we can to work with the police and support them.”
4-yr prison sentence in Finland child sexual abuse case
The case was the first in a series of eight involving migrants and the same underage victim
The female victim was 13 years old at the time of the crimes. They took place between April and September of last year in a private residence in the northern city of Oulu.
Muslim women are often invisible, but Muslim men are only invisible when they are attending court
for raping little white girls.
According to the Finnish News Agency STT, the perpetrator is a 21-year-old who came from Afghanistan as an asylum seeker.
Special prosecutor Pia Mäenpää said she is satisfied with the court's decision, while council for the defence, Jaana Piipar said both she and her client were disappointed with it, saying they plan to initiate appeal proceedings.
I'm with you on this! 4 years is just a slap on the wrist. Give him twice that, then send him back to Afghanistan.
Oulu eight
The case is one of a series of crimes that came to light in Oulu at the end of last year. Altogether eight men are suspected of aggravated sexual abuse and violent assault of the same victim over the course of nearly five months.
Police say all the suspects came to Finland as refugees or asylum seekers. Some have already been granted Finnish citizenship. Yle has learned that at least three of the men lived at the same reception centre.
The cases are being handled separately. One other case has been passed on to the district court. The six others will probably go to trial this summer.
South-west German town rocked by
child sex abuse allegations
DPA/The Local
The picturesque town of Staufen, where the abuse is said to have occurred. Image: DPA
The mother of one of the alleged victims brought a complaint in February, telling police that her son was sexually abused by a volunteer caretaker when aged between nine and eleven.
DPA reports that three other victims, also from the scout group, have been identified. The police have set up a 12-person task force to investigate the abuses. The suspect, a 41-year-old man from the town, has been arrested and taken into custody.
The man was previously the subject of a sexual abuse investigation for alleged activities between 2004 and 2007, but was later acquitted due to a lack of evidence.
The abuse of two of the alleged victims is said to have taken place between 2009 and 2013, while the other two are said to have been abused between 2014 and 2018.
'Very manipulative'
Police suggest that the man was “very manipulative” in abusing his power as a scout leader, spending time with the children and giving them gifts before engaging in the sexual activity.
Investigators allege that the man told the children the acts were “completely normal”.
“We cannot rule out the possibility that there are more victims”, the investigators told DPA. So far more than 100 children have been interviewed.
“We’ve tried to build a bridge between ourselves and the possibly traumatized children and adolescents,” said Mathias Kaiser, the head of the investigation team. “Not everyone is ready to cross this bridge and open up.”
A second set of allegations from the same scout group
While early indications are that the accused acted alone, another man from the scout group is also being investigated in relation to separate abuse allegations.
In that case, a female victim has come forward to indicate that she had been abused seven years ago while aged between 13 and 14.
Police have indicated that the second suspect is currently ‘at large’, with investigators unaware of his whereabouts.
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