West Yorkshire Police make 44 arrests over
historical child sex abuse claims
historical child sex abuse claims
Thirty-six men and three women have been arrested over the past two weeks, following another five males at the end of last year
Forty-four people have been arrested as part of an investigation into historical child sexual abuse allegations in West Yorkshire.
Police said 36 men and three women from addresses across Kirklees, Bradford and Leeds had been taken into custody over the past fortnight, with five other males detained at the end of last year.
All of them have been interviewed following allegations made by four women that sexual abuse was committed against them when they were children, mainly in the Dewsbury and Batley areas of Kirklees between 1995 and 2002.
The complainants were aged between 12 and 16 at the time.
Detective Inspector Seth Robinson, leading the investigation, said: "Safeguarding and protecting children remains the top priority for West Yorkshire Police.
"We hope that these recent arrests reassure our local communities that we are wholly committed to tackling child sexual exploitation in Kirklees, both current and non-recent.
"Child sexual abuse and exploitation is an abhorrent and heinous crime and one which affects some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
"West Yorkshire Police has specialist safeguarding units across each of the five districts, which include police officers and detectives dedicated to dealing with both current and non-recent child abuse and child sexual exploitation.
"We would urge anyone who has been a victim of sexual abuse, whether recent or historic, to report it to the police. Please be assured that you will be listened to, taken seriously and supported by professionals with experience of dealing with these kind of offences."
All of those arrested have been released under investigation.
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China rescues over 1,100 foreign women 'sold as wives'
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A shortage of women in China has led to an increase in "marriage scams" or being forced into prostitution.
© Manan VATSYAYANA
© Manan VATSYAYANA
Chinese police have rescued over 1,100 women from Southeast Asia who were "sold" as wives last year, authorities said Friday.
Seventeen children were also saved in the joint operations with police from Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand between July and December, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement.
More than 1,300 suspects, including 260 foreigners, were detained in the raids for "abducting and selling people and marriage fraud," the statement said.
"In recent years, some domestic and foreign criminals have colluded to lure women from neighbouring countries to China promising work or marriage, and even abducted some women and sold them as wives,” ministry spokesman Guo Lin said.
Beijing's decades-long one-child policy and a preference for boys has led to a shortfall of nearly 33 million women in China, with the same number of men facing life on the shelf.
Largely driven by poverty, young women from the Mekong region have gambled on marriage in China. But some women have fallen prey to "marriage scams" leaving them at risk of abuse, detention under Chinese immigration law or being forced into prostitution.
In one case in central China's Anhui province, police said they had found 11 Vietnamese women with expired tourist visas living in a safe house belonging to a "marriage agency."
The agency charged 3,000 to 10,000 yuan ($450 to $10,500) to introduce a Chinese man to a Vietnamese wife.
Police said some cases also involved "fake labour agencies" that lured women into China with the promise of work, but ended up selling them into "forced marriages."
The worst cases involve kidnapping and trafficking across porous borders.
Huddersfield grooming gang members who
raped 12-y/o girl jailed for 27 years
Mohammed Akram and Usman Khalid have been put behind bars
for their rape of a young girl
By Milo Boyd, MirrorGrooming gang members who sexually abused a 12-year-old girl have been sentenced to a collective 27 years in prison.
In May Mohammed Akram and Usman Khalid were found guilty of sexual abuse following a three week trial at Leeds Crown Court.
Their target was picked up by a grooming gang at the age of just 11 and was raped numerous times over a number of years.
She was 12 when Akram, 33, sexually abused her for the first time, with 31-year-old Khalid's single assault of the girl happening when she was the same age.
Khalid was sentenced to five years and Akram 22 years, to run concurrently to the 17 year sentence he was already serving.
The pair are the latest to be jailed following investigations by West Yorkshire Police as part of Operation Tendersea, Examiner Live reported.
Usman Khalis and Mohammed Akram
Looking confused. All they did was to obey the Quran.
Almost every one convicted was a Pakistani Muslim!
Fifteen girls were targeted.
Prosecutor Richard Wright QC said the girl was particularly vulnerable, having been taken away from her drug addicted mother and put in care.
The first man to target her was Zahid Hassan - known locally as Little Manny - who is currently serving an 18 year sentence for multiple rapes.
Akram stood trial over the crime having already been imprisoned for 17 years for two counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation and two counts of rape in relation to two victims.
In May he was also found guilty of trafficking for sexual exploitation, abduction, rape of a child under the age of 13 and three counts of rape, with his argument that he believed the girl was 18 failing to convince jurors. He was acquitted on one count of rape.
Khalid was found guilty of one count of sexual assault. His defence lawyer Gillian Batts argued his age at the time of the crime - either 16 or 17 - provided mitigation for what was a "one off offence".
She also pointed to his community work and strong character references from his mother, sister and wife as reason for him receiving a more lenient sentence.
Kitty Colley, mitigating for Akram, said he settled down in his twenties and adopted a different approach to life. She said he stopped drink and taking drugs, despite suffering the loss of his baby during the May 2018 trial.
Following their convictions DCI Richard McNamara, of Kirklees District Police, said: “This investigation in Kirklees has been extremely sensitive and complex and we are pleased that these convictions have been secured for the victim.
“I would like to praise the victim for her courage in coming forward and firstly disclosing the offences, then going on to bravely give evidence.
“I hope the outcome of this trial will enable her to start to put this trauma behind her and reassure any other potential victims that we will treat them with the utmost sensitivity and take positive action against perpetrators.
“Child sexual exploitation is one of the most important challenges facing the police and is a top priority for West Yorkshire Police.”
Police knew Enniskillen businessmen met for sex at Council toilets where alleged child abuse took place
But no-one was ever charged
By Rodney Edwards The Impartial Reporter
POLICE in Enniskillen were informed of inappropriate sexual activity in public toilets at Nugent’s Entry during the 90s involving local businessmen and mounted a surveillance operation but nobody was ever arrested or prosecuted, The Impartial Reporter has learned.
A business owner claims observing highly regarded men and even young boys frequent the Council-run toilets at least twice a week and recalls contacting the RUC on at least three occasions after growing concerned about the ages of those using the public amenities.
“I saw the same faces again and again, I recognised four of the businessmen. When I saw parents waiting at the top of the entry on high street and their children running down to use the toilets I was concerned in case they walked in on something. I phoned the police three times and they took it seriously once.
“Nobody was ever charged or anything,” said the source.
The claim comes months after a man broke his silence to allege that he was sexually abused by businessmen in the toilets when he was a schoolboy and one week after Fermanagh and Omagh District Council said it “did not hold any record” of reports of child sex abuse at the facility.
Two police sources have also alleged that officers launched a surveillance operation on the men entering and leaving the toilets and took photographs of them for two weeks. The former officers, both of whom served in the RUC, have contacted this newspaper to claim the operation was carried out in the late 90s [possibly 1996/`97] on the toilets after suspicions that married men were meeting up for sex during the day.
“There was a circle cut in the side of the cubicle and one of them used to stick their penis through and get the other to touch them,” said a source.
“Two officers [provides their names] worked on it and photographs were taken. People in business were involved, not just your average man on the street. Word spread that they were being watched,” he said.
Police knew what was going on but evidence was hard to obtain with the concern over a breach of privacy, said the source.
A second source said: “The men were approached and told to stop what they were doing, none of them were prosecuted. It was thought to have been a homosexual ring.”
Meanwhile the business owner claims the men, whose names have been given to this newspaper, were usually seen on Friday and Saturday afternoons for up to four hours.
“It was a regular thing, it wasn’t just me, we could all see it. A businessman beside me noticed it too. You kept thinking ‘that doesn’t seem right’. It went on for months and months. There was one man who stood beside where Benetton was previously with a view to the entry. He stood in that doorway all afternoon to see who was going down, then he’d go down.
“I can’t say what was going on but they were definitely in there for long periods of times. There was one young boy, I think he was at the Tech. Once he arrived that was when you could see all the activity taking place, one man after another into the toilets. It was all definitely organised.”
Messages written in speech bubbles were etched on the walls and indicated appointments and times. “The messages said ‘I will meet you here next week, same time,’ another said ‘I’ll meet you at 3.30pm, or whatever. That was every Friday afternoon -- every Friday afternoon.”
After contacting police twice and nothing being done, the business owner made another phone call back in the 90s and within half an hour officers arrived at the toilets.
“They entered the toilets and pulled out six men. One of the men was in his 80s, he was a very old gentleman,” said the source.
Immediately after police had apprehended the men an officer walked into the business owner’s property and in front of the individuals requested a statement.
“I had already told them on the phone that I did not want to get involved. I said I was doing my public duty. The next day he came back to say just to update you ‘we are not pressing charges, there won’t be a case, we couldn’t prove anything because there were six men behind three cubicle doors.”
2 men per cubicle? Hmmm, wonder what else they could have been doing?
The business owner always thought the toilets were a meeting place for homosexuals then three months ago a man claimed he had been abused in the cubicles when he was a schoolboy as part of a suspected paedophile ring.
“The assault happened in the toilet, in the cubicle and I came outside and I was actually physically sick on the floor. I wasn’t really sure what had just happened to me, I was 12 so I wasn’t really that aware of things,” he told this newspaper.
“That has shocked me,” said the business owner. “I thought it was just homosexual men, everyone knew that’s where they went. It is really upsetting to think that was going on in there. This is why I reported it to police because I was afraid that something like that was happening. It is sickening, it is awful. I know it was a different time, I think people were naïve. But this was the job of the police, to protect children.”
‘Nobody Told Me it Was Illegal!’
Claim of Migrant Accused of Child Rape in Sweden
Breitbart
A migrant suspected of raping and sexually abusing a much younger girl claims that he did not know it was illegal in Sweden because no-one had told him.
The suspected sexual abuse took place in April of this year at a family home with the young girl, whose exact age has not been revealed. It is alleged she was forced to have sex with the supposedly 17-year-old migrant, newspaper Lokaltidningen reports.
When questioned, the migrant reportedly admitted that he had sex with the young girl but said that it had not been a crime and was just something that “happened between two children.”
In an Administrative court, it was argued that while the migrant did admit to the crime he was not aware of the laws regarding sexual relations and that no-one in Sweden had taught him what the laws and expected norms were.
The representative argued that the court should not proceed with a prosecution, claiming that the young man had been doing well in school and that his school progress would be harmed if he were to be prosecuted.
The court did not agree with the representative, saying that the migrant may be prosecuted for rape against a child. Investigators also revealed suspicions that the teen may actually be over 20-years-old.
Last year, the Swedish government announced a plan that became known as the “high school law” which allowed around 9,000 Afghan “children” to remain in Sweden despite reports claiming that 78 per cent of the migrants were actually adults.
Of course his age needs to be determined, as well as the age of the child who was raped.
The case comes after another rape case earlier this month involving seven Afghan migrant suspects and one Swedish citizen, with one of the Afghan migrants having been employed by an asylum seeker integration charity.
Last year, many on the left expressed outrage after Swedish national broadcaster SVT revealed (2nd story on link) that 58 per cent of men convicted of rapes in the previous five years had been born overseas and that number increased to 85 per cent in cases where the victim did not know the attacker beforehand.
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