Family's disgust as Hull, UK, paedophile who had sick baby abuse images 'released from jail and living near school'
Christopher Sansam bragged about incest when he was jailed for eight months
By Hannah Robinson
Hull Live
The relative of a convicted paedophile has spoken of his disgust after finding out he is reportedly living close to a school after being released from jail halfway through his sentence.
Christopher Sansam was jailed in February after he was found with 237 indecent images including of babies and toddlers being sexually abused, as well as two movies lasting more than seven minutes.
Hull Crown Court heard how he also boasted about incest, referring to getting his daughter pregnant in an online chat, despite not having one, and had used file-sharing software KIK to distribute the most extreme category of images.
Sansam’s barrister described him as “simple” during the sentencing hearing, hoping it may be “some mitigation for him”.
But speaking after finding out he had been released, one of Sansam's close family members, who wanted to remain anonymous, claimed this is not true.
“People should see his photograph so they can protect their children from him”, said the relative.
“He’s not simple at all. He did well at school getting his GCSEs and he went on to gain a full mechanics qualification at college.
“He even worked as a temporary supervisor at Cranswick Foods – he’s not simple at all. He knows right from wrong and I’m so ashamed of what he has done.”
Sansam, 24, admitted to liking children between the ages of eight to fourteen, and his online behaviour was brought to the attention of Humberside Police in March 2018.
He admitted three offences of possessing indecent images, and two of distributing them.
Judge Mark Bury sentenced him to eight months in prison, and he was also made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for ten years and was ordered to sign the sex offender’s registers for a decade.
But Sansam's relative said he was now living near a primary school in the east Hull area.
“He’s only served four months and he’s out already,” claims Sansam’s relative.
“The whole family are ashamed of him and we are sickened he has been moved to near a school. I just can’t believe he has been near my children when he was charged with all of this and none of us ever knew.
“It wasn’t until he was in court we knew anything about it. What Christopher did makes me sick and everyone needs to know what he has done.”
Shocking footage reveals monstrous physical
abuse of children by day-care owner,
provoking protests across Israel
Israel First
Thousands of Israeli's across the country protest daycare abuse as anger boils over Sunday; Demonstrators block roads in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and elsewhere, call for state oversight of private childcare centers after video of child abuse emerges.
Thousands of people protested Sunday at dozens of sites across Israel calling for state oversight of daycare centers, amid outrage over abuse of kids by caregivers after a manager at a private kindergarten was charged with harming kids under her care. Parents and others chanted “the country demands justice for the children” and other slogans at some 25 spots around Israel, including Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv, where some protesters blocked roads in anger.
In Tel Aviv, thousands of people blocked the intersection of Kaplan and Hashalom roads in front of the Azrieli towers, a major junction, leading to massive traffic congestion. In Jerusalem, roads near the Prime Minister’s Residence were also blocked by protesters. The roads were reopened after several hours.
Parents waved signs reading “Mother, father save me” and “Don’t abandon our children” at the demonstrations, called days after video footage emerged of Rosh Ha’ayin caregiver Carmel Mauda allegedly tying up, beating and force-feeding kids. The nationwide protests Sunday came just days after Ethiopian Israelis demonstrated across the country against police violence and racism, blocking roads and clashing with officers amid simmering anger over the shooting death of an unarmed teen from the community.
Protesters on Sunday were demanding that the Education Ministry take responsibility for overseeing private daycare. Currently, the government only regulates facilities for children aged 3 and up, when children are eligible to enter public pre-schools. Parents are also demanding changes to childcare oversight laws, including tougher sentences for abusive daycare workers and better regulations for supervision of daycare centers.
In recent years, numerous cases of abuse have been reported, including the killing of an 18-month old baby girl by a caregiver. In June of 2018, the government came under fire for the continued delay of a proposed supervision law as ministries squabbled over funding the project. The law was finally passed in December, but only mandates security cameras in all daycare centers starting in September 2020, as long as 70 percent of the parents do not object.
Mauda, 25, was accused of systematic violence against 11 children, three months to three years old, between May 27 and June 16.
According to the charge sheet, Mauda, who ran the Baby Love daycare center, would “on numerous occasions” attack the children, including covering them with blankets and sitting on them to prevent them from moving; tying up a child “for minutes to hours”; lifting the toddlers by the arms and throwing them to the ground; shaking babies; forcing children to stand, facing a wall, for hours; hitting the toddlers with diapers, slapping them, and pulling their heads back while obstructing their breathing.
“In one of the cases, the minor was forced to eat the contents of a plate on which he had vomited,” the indictment said. Prosecutors are seeking to keep Mauda behind bars until the end of the legal proceedings, calling her a danger to public safety. Mauda was arrested in June, but on Thursday, police released footage of the alleged abuse, leading to widespread anger against her and protests outside her home. On Saturday, her home, which is where the daycare center was located, went up in flames in what police suspect to be an arson, and authorities banned future protests there.
The graphic security camera footage showed Mauda tying up children, force-feeding them, using blankets to smother toddlers who didn’t fall asleep and physically abusing them. In one of them “she throws my daughter on the floor and force feeds her,” Naor Kahalani told the Ynet news site. “Now I know why she cried every time she came home from daycare.”
“I hope they are harsh with her, that they give her a punishment that will make sure everybody knows that raising a hand to a child will lead to the same fate,”he said. “She’s a monster. She did not physically kill them, but she murdered their souls.” According to Hebrew media reports, Mauda initially denied abusing the children. But when she was presented with the filmed evidence, she told investigators, “I am a monster,” and “I was Satan here.”
The case emerged after Mauda hired and fired eight different employees to work in her daycare center over the past year, the last of whom alerted the authorities to the abuse, the Walla news site reported. An unnamed assistant was also arrested on suspicion that she had witnessed the abuse and may also have resorted to violence. An off-duty soldier suspected of setting Mauda’s house on fire over the weekend is expected to appear before judge Sunday for a remand hearing. Police said Saturday evening that they arrested the 18-year-old combat soldier from Karnei Shomron in connection with the suspected arson.
Hebrew-language media said the suspect is related to parents of a boy who had previously attended the daycare. According to Channel 13 news, there is security camera footage of him at the scene of the fire. “The parents of the children are angry and shocked over the grave crimes that were committed, but are not criminals and I have no doubt that a thorough investigation will conclude they have no connection to the fire,” Benjamin Malka, a lawyer for the families, told Hebrew media Saturday.
The Taoiseach apologises on behalf of State to people sexually abused in Ireland's day schools
By Michelle Devane
Irish Mirror
The Taoiseach has apologised on behalf of the State to people who were sexually abused in the country's day schools.
Leo Varadkar also apologised for the State's delay in acknowledging that it had the responsibility to protect the children who suffered abuse.
It comes after a judge found on Monday that the Government had misrepresented a ruling (2nd story on link) by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by excluding children abused in Irish schools from a redress scheme.
In the Dail on Tuesday Mr Varadkar said: "I believe that sexual abuse is the most heinous of all crimes especially when the victims are children.
"It stays with them forever, trust is betrayed, lives forever destroyed and families broken."
"So on behalf of the State I want to apologise to people who were sexually abused when they were children in our day schools before 1992 and for the state's delay thereafter in acknowledging that it had a responsibility to protect them.
"As Judge Iarfhlaith O'Neill has reported had a system to report abuse, and I quote, been in place in the years before 1992, when all of the historic child sex abuse occurred in national schools, the prevailing culture of impunity which permitted these crimes to occur could not existed or survived."
The Taoiseach thanked Judge O'Neill for the two years of work he had completed since he was appointed by minister Bruton.
"Procedures should have been in place before 1992 to record and act on allegations of sexual abuse by teachers and staff," Mr Varadkar continued.
"They were not and governments prior to 1992 failed in their responsibility to do so.
"Since then successive governments, including this one, have not put right this historic wrong, and so have perpetuated it and we will seek to right that wrong now.
"The intentions may have been honourable, to provide for abuse survivors while protecting the taxpayer who ultimately has to pay the bill for things that they weren't responsible for, but it was wrong to make the terms of the ex-gratia scheme so restrictive."
He said the state would now make payments to the 13 payments to the people whose appeals were successful "without undue delay".
The Taoiseach added that there were other cases where survivors did not appeal or survivors did not apply and he said these would have to be re-examined.
He said this could involve reopening the scheme. He called on patron bodies to make any information they have available.
Mr Varadkar also told the Dail that without meaningful action, apologies do not count for very much.
"The best apology we can make to Louise O'Keeffe and to all other survivors is to say that further action will now be taken," he said.
"The state failed them at the time, failed them again a second time when it did not own up to its responsibility. We won't fail them a third time."
Irish man accused of historic child sex abuse in Louth
Dundalk courthouse
A 55 year old man accused of historic child sex abuse in County Louth over two decades ago, has been returned for trial at Dundalk Circuit Court.
The accused - who can’t be named to protect the complainant’s identity, is charged with 10 alleged offences - three counts of indecently assaulting a boy and a further seven charges of sexually assaulting him, on dates unknown between June first 1990 and August 31st 1992.
At Dundalk District Court last Wednesday after hearing a book of evidence had been served on the defendant, Judge Deirdre Gearty sent him forward to the present sitting of the Circuit Court today (Tuesday).
Four and a half year prison sentence in 6th Oulu, Finland child sex abuse case
The man is the sixth to be convicted in a case involving eight suspects and a single underage victim.
The Oulu District Court sentenced Hassan Mohamed Mohamud to four and a half years in prison on the charges of aggravated child sexual abuse and aggravated rape. The offences were committed on three separate occasions between July and October last year at two different hotels in Oulu.
As in the previous cases, the court found that the crime was further aggravated by the age difference between the defendant and the victim, and that the defendant had taken advantage of the girl's interest in him. The court also ruled that the defendant should have been aware of the victim's limited decision-making ability, which was a sign of the victim's young age and vulnerability.
The defendant and the victim had initially met online and kept in contact through the Kik messaging application.
Sixth of eight cases
Tuesday’s conviction and sentencing is the sixth in a series of similar cases in which the same 13-year-old girl is believed to have suffered abuse at the hands of eight men of foreign background last summer and autumn. Two additional cases are still to be tried in court.
District prosecutor Pia Mäenpää previously told Yle that there is no evidence to suggest that the suspects - all of whom did not know each other - abused the victim at the same time and or in the same place. Yle has learned that at least three of the men lived at the same reception centre.
Police say all the suspects came to Finland as refugees or asylum seekers, and that some of the eight have already been granted refugee status or Finnish citizenship.
The case was heard by two district judges and two jurors, and the court's judgment was unanimous.
Iraqi refugee gets life in prison for rape,
murder of German girl
By Nicholas Sakelaris(UPI) -- A 22-year-old Iraqi man who fled to Germany was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for raping and killing a 14-year-old Jewish girl.
Bashar argued the sex was consensual and that he attacked her when she threatened to call police. He took her phone and later sent messages to the victim's mother saying she had fled the country.
Bashar returned to Iraq with his family when they were denied asylum in Germany, but was ultimately extradited for trial.
Bashar won't be eligible for parole for 15 years. He also faces charges in a separate sexual assault case involving an 11-year-old girl.
The case has sparked debate in Germany about Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door immigration policies, considering the perpetrator had been denied asylum but was still living in the country.
Police said there was no evidence to suggest this was a hate crime.
Kiwi man confesses to paying $80 to abuse boy
in Manila hotel room
By: Sam HurleyNew Zealand Herald court reporter.
A Canadian company alerted New Zealand authorities last year to an Auckland man uploading objectionable images to the internet but what investigators later found him sharing on the dark web was far more sinister. The Herald continues its investigation into Kiwis guilty of the international exploitation of children.
Departing on flight PR219 in September 2016 was a young Auckland man - but he wasn't leaving for a holiday or to see family.
Instead he was destined for specific Manila hotel, where he would pay someone $80 to film himself sexually abusing a child.
It would later be revealed the man, who continues to hold name suppression, had more the 14,000 objectionable (read child sex abuse) images on his computer.
There is more to this story at nzherald; it is, however, by subscription.
Jersey child sex abuse victim praised for speaking out
Following Carrel’s sentencing by the Royal Court, from where he was removed for swearing and calling the justice system ‘corrupt’, Detective Inspector Cathy Davison praised his victim for speaking out.
She said: ‘This victim has shown great strength and immense courage throughout this long investigation. She has been supported throughout by a specially trained sexual offence liaison officer and will receive any further support that is required.
‘Sexual abuse of children is the most detestable of crimes and we will work tirelessly to bring perpetrators to justice, no matter how long ago the offences took place.’
Carrel was brought back to Jersey in 2018, eight years after he was convicted for other child sex crimes in the UK.
A spokesperson for NSPCC Jersey said the case showed that victims of abuse would be listened to no matter how much time had passed.
The charity said: ‘It is testament to her bravery in speaking out that he is now facing the consequences of his actions.
‘Often children won’t realise that what is happening to them is abuse, so it is vital that they are taught from an early age how to recognise the signs and where to turn to for help. The NSPCC’s Speak Out Stay Safe programme has reached thousands of primary school children in Jersey this year with these important messages.
‘This case also highlights that all survivors of abuse will be listened to, no matter how much time has passed.’
Anyone who has concerns about suspected child sexual abuse or exploitation can contact the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub on 519000 or the Public Protection Unit at police headquarters on 612612. The sexual assault referral centre, known as Dewberry House, can be contacted on 888222.
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