Indian police arrest priest & school teacher after they attempt to ‘sacrifice’ 3yo girl
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Police in India have saved a 3-year-old girl from imminent death at the hands of her own relatives, as they planned to “sacrifice” the toddler after getting the green light from her parents, local media reports.
The chilling incident took place in the Ganakpara village of Udalguri district on Saturday. Police arrived at the scene after they were alerted by villagers who spotted smoke billowing from the house of a local science teacher, identified as Jadab Saharia.
They became even more alarmed when they saw the teacher, along with his male and female family members, taking off their clothes after putting the 3-year-old on an impromptu altar, NDTV reports. The blood-curdling ceremony was to be conducted by a priest, armed with a long sword. The situation escalated quickly when the “priest” began brandishing his sword in an attempt to chop off the toddler’s head as part of the gruesome ritual.
All pleas to the family to stop the bloodshed were in vain, and only angered the priest, who started threatening the villagers who sought to prevent the crime, with an axe and a sword. The family was unperturbed by the arrival of media and police, and the group’s erratic behavior only grew worse, as they started hurling rocks and utensils at police and set fire to their belongings, including a motorcycle, TV set, car, and fridge.
Having exhausted all other options, police were forced to fire several shots in the air to bring the teacher, priest, and co-conspirators to their senses. Eventually, the officers wrestled the child away from the gang and placed the family members and their machete-wielding religious leader under arrest.
The child turned out to be a relative of her tormentors – the daughter of the science teacher’s sister-in-law. The toddler was reportedly handed over to the man voluntarily by her father. The girl was apparently to be killed with her own mother watching.
What insanity! Good grief!
Udalguri District, India
Ex-High Court judge finds in favour of 13 Irish survivors of child sex abuse whose claims for compensation were previously refused
Retired High Court judge Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O’Neill
Katherine Donnelly
Independent
A RETIRED High Court judge has found in favour of 13 of 19 survivors of child sex abuse in day schools whose claims for compensation had previously been refused.
Judge Iarfhlaith O’Neill’s determination clears the way for 13 of 19 survivors, whose claims were declined by the State Claims Agency (SCA), to receive payments of up to €84,000 compensation, as well as legal expenses.
The SCA has been asked to make the payments an immediate priority, according to the Department of Education.
It arises from the landmark victory for Louise O’Keeffe in 2014, when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Irish State had been negligent in failing to protect her from abuse in national school.
It opened the doors for similar cases and, in 2015, an Ex Gratia Scheme was set up to deal with claims.
It was put in place to facilitate those who instituted legal proceedings in relation to day school child sexual abuse and who had discontinued those proceedings in the wake of judgments in the Irish Courts, but before the subsequent European court judgment in the O’Keeffe case.
But the State had insisted that anyone claiming under the scheme had to produce evidence that they were abused by a school employee against whom a prior complaint of sexual abuse had been made.
Judge O’Neill was appointed in 2017 as an Independent Assessor to adjudicate on claims that had been declined under the Ex Gratia scheme. He assessed 19 applications.
He found that ‘prior complaint’ condition was incompatible with a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Louise O’Keefe.
Judge O’Neill said it risked a “continuing breach” of rights.
He said the inclusion of this condition “effectively excludes any possibility of a holistic and flexible approach to the settlement of historic child sexual abuse claims”.
In the other six cases, Judge O’Neill said they did not fulfil an additional ground for eligibility – that they did not have litigation against the State that they had discontinued - and were not entitled to a payment from the Ex Gratia Scheme.
A Department of Education spokesperson said that anyone who had relevant proceedings against the State which were discontinued of foot of the domestic court’s judgments and before O’Keeffe ruling, and which were not statute barred at the time of discontinuance, were potentially eligible for the scheme.
So the six who hadn't previously sued the state would now have to begin proceedings, if the statute of limitations permits, which is pretty unlikely, I suspect. I don't know what the SoL is for civil suits on child sex abuse in the predominantly Catholic state, but I doubt that it is child-friendly.
Education Minister Joe McHugh said: “First and foremost my thoughts are with those who were sexually abused in schools. It is a heinous act which left some people feeling robbed of their youth, and others their lives, while other survivors railed against the trauma and overcame it.
“I hope that the work of Judge O’Neill will bring some measure of closure to some people who were affected by abuse in school and went on to challenge the State.
He said the ruling was a complex one which would “require in-depth analysis before decisions are taken on how to respond to the issues raised.”
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission welcomed the O’Neill decision.
The Commission has been raising concerns, at both European and national level, about the scheme since 2015, specifically in relation to the requirement that survivors of historic child sexual abuse in schools must establish a prior complaint of child sex abuse.
Nepal Court Orders 16-Year Jail Term For Ex-UN Worker For Child Sex Abuse
World | ANI |KATHMANDU: A court in Nepal's Kathmandu on Monday announced 16 years of prison sentence and penalty worth one million (in Nepali Rupees) (about $9,000 USD) for a former United Nations official from Canada found guilty of child abuse.
The single bench, headed by Judge Arjun Adhikari, made the final announcement over the case placing an order to pay five lakhs rupees each ($4,500 USD approx.) victim under cases 295 and 296 (Code to hide the identity of the victims).
The court also awarded Dalgish with jail terms of nine years for case 295 and seven years for case 296.
The Nepal Police have rescued two boys, aged 12 and 14, from his villa in Kavre District in April last year.The investigation found him guilty of sexually abusing children and charged with being a paedophile. Dalgish, however, has denied the allegations.
Dalgish was a former UN humanitarian agency worker for the UN-Habitat in Afghanistan, UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response in Liberia and also in Darfur of Sudan.
He had helped found the charity named "Street Kids International" to help the impoverished children.
Officials drew the conclusion that Dalgish used to lure children from a weak economic background with promises of education, jobs and trips, and later sexually abusing them.
Kavre District, Nepal
Ex-Watford FC physio Phil Edwards dies
after child sex abuse arrest
And could this be yet another paedophile suicide?
It seems to be happening weekly, somewhere in the world. I'm OK with paedophiles suiciding,
but I'm not sure if it helps or hinders a victim finding closure so they can move on.
Phil Edwards, 60, was found dead weeks after being arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a teenage boy.
Hertfordshire Police said "certain lines of inquiry are still being looked into" before the inquiry was closed.
Mr Edwards was arrested on 31 May as the force investigated an allegation of sexual activity and abuse of a position of trust with a child at an address in Watford.
He was bailed pending further inquiries but found dead weeks later. Police are not treating his death as suspicious.
Watford FC said it was taking the allegations against its former employee "extremely seriously".
"We understand there will be levels of concern at the accusations of historic abuse during a period in the 1990s and the club is determined to discover the veracity of these allegations and how they may have impacted on those who came in contact with Mr Edwards via Watford FC," it said in a statement.
A spokesman said those calling would be dealt with confidentially and "evidence gathered before determining the next course of action".
Child sex abuse scandal emerging at Lyon, France,
U16 female football
Mediapart report this morning that a sexual abuse scandal relating to Lyon’s women’s set-up is threatening to engulf the club.
Women footballers at youth level, between the ages of 15 & 18, are not protected by any formal contract, which is unlike for men at the same stage of their careers. This inequality is not merely symbolic, but it has concrete implications.
These rules enabled Lyon to unceremoniously and without obvious cause remove a young female footballer from their academy just days after she levelled accusations of sexual assault against her manager in June 2018, the Head Coach of the women’s U16s.
The young girl’s lawyer, Slim Ben Achour, has taken the club to court. Confronted by these accusations, the manager in question did not respond when asked for comment by Mediapart, and preferred to resign from his position.
Court sources indicate that another alleged victim of his sexual abuse is enlisted in the same lawsuit.
The outlet claims that the manager in question would send messages to his U16 players which had nothing to do with football, such as “I feel good that you are here.”
The girl in question, who is being called Myriam in this article to protect her identity, informed her lawyer of a situation at an international tournament at Colmar from 18th to 20th May 2018, when the manager in question ensured that his bedroom was situated next to that of Myriam and her best friend. The manager then asked the two girls to come to his room to talk about the match that was happening the following day – they stayed in that room until 01:30.
According to Myriam’s testimony, the following day, the manager went into the two girls’ room on multiple occasions, “slipping his hand under the duvet covers, and circulating his hand.”
The following day, Myriam alerted a professional female player and her own family. Myriam also explained that throughout the season, the manager offered to make her captain if she sent him videos of her friend.
Upon returning from Colmar, Lyon representatives tell the U16 team that their manager was leaving, explaining that his attitude was against club values and the law. Up until that point, the club claims to have never heard of any suspect behaviour on his behalf.
On May 30th, at their request, Myriam’s parents were received in Lyon by Sonia Bompastor, head of the women’s youth set-up at Lyon, who told them in front of a witness that the club had gone to court on the manager.
But a few days later, on June 5, Sonia Bompastor wrote to them: “I spoke this morning with my management regarding [Myriam] and financial support. I confirm that the bookings and the assumption of financial expenses of transport, accommodation and meals will be entirely your responsibility until June 30, 2019.”
The club knew very well that this measure, according to the outlet, would lead to Myriam quitting Lyon, as her family could not afford to pay for these costs, which had all previously been covered by the club as they are for all other youth team players.
When asked about this by Mediapart, Lyon did not deny removing Myriam from the team, but claimed that their reasoning for doing so was due to her on-pitch performances, that she had not progressed enough as a footballer. How could they make this consideration when the disgraced manager who had just resigned was the only individual who spent enough time with the U16s to be able evaluate their performance levels?
Myriam’s lawyer is fighting this legal battle to ensure that his client is reintegrated into Lyon’s female youth set-up. Her own family wants this too, to reclaim dignity for their child.
Amish aid worker indicted for child sex abuse in Ohio
after fleeing from Haiti
By Matthew Chapman Raw Story
Jeriah Mast, Amish-Mennonite aid worker who fled back to the United States to escape from accusations of sexually abusing five boys in Haiti has been indicted by a grand jury in Ohio, according to Christian News.
“He confessed multiple instances of immoral sexual relationships with boys, which began in his youth,” said Mast’s church, Shining Light Christian Fellowship, in a statement. “He acknowledged to living a life of deception and hypocrisy. He also confessed that he lied to cover up his sins … an appointment was made to report this to our local sheriff department. Jeriah voluntarily went in person for an interview and confessed to a local detective and an FBI agent (including giving names of victims).”
A Haitian court has reportedly also requested that Mast and the leadership of Christian Aid Ministries to appear, but none of them have showed up.
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