Dubai-based girl abused by Indian salesman
after buying bread
Defendant chased the girl to the lift, muzzled her mouth before molesting her
Ali Al Shouk, Senior Reporter
Gulf News
Dubai: A Dubai salesman has been accused of sexually abusing a girl, 10, when she was sent by her mother to buy bread.
The Dubai Court of First instance heard on Monday that the 37-year-old Kenyan mother asked her daughter to go to a nearby supermarket at Al Qusais to buy bread in January this year when the 23-year-old Indian salesman followed her out of the supermarket and into the lift to sexually abuse her.
“My daughter returned after five minutes with the bread and asked me to call the police. She told me that a worker touched her body inside the lift,” the mother said in records.
The girl’s father went to the supermarket and called Dubai Police who arrested the defendant.
“My daughter claimed that the defendant asked her to wait for him inside the supermarket but she ignored him and left. He chased her to the lift and muzzled her mouth before abusing her. My daughter was shaking with fear,” the mother added.
Security cameras showed the defendant following the victim to the lift. He admitted to touching the girl’s breast with his elbow.
His elbow.... right!
Dubai Public Prosecution charged the defendant with sexually abusing the girl.
The verdict is expected on February 20.
Indian woman confronts police chief husband about affair,
he beats her up
Karishma H. Nandkeolyar, Web EditorGulf News
Narendra Suryavanshi in a screengrab from the video
Madhya Pradesh: When a woman confronted her cheating husband in Madhya Pradesh, she may have expected an apology for or him to be contrite. Instead she got a volley of hate and abuse.
The husband, who has been named as Gandhwani Police Station Incharge Narendra Suryavanshi, assaulted her on the road, as passers-by tried to stop him. A video of the incident was posted online on February 11, which shows him pulling her by the hair after she opposes his extra marital affair.
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#WATCH Madhya Pradesh: Gandhwani Police Station Incharge Narendra Suryavanshi assaulted his wife in Dhar allegedly after she opposed his illicit relationship with another woman. SDOP Manawar says, “Narendra has been sent to district lines. Investigation is underway.” (11.02.2020)
His superior said after the incident came to life that Suryavanshi has been sent to district lines (another district?) and an investigation is under way.
India: Girls forced to remove innerwear in Gujarat college for menstruation checks
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"There are no words to describe the humiliation that we faced."
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The students are now demanding action legal action against the authorities of the education institution for making such a move.
The students were told to undress after a used sanitary napkin was found in a garden outside Sahjanand Girls Institute, where they are banned from the hostel when they are having their periods.
"There are no words to describe the humiliation that we faced," said one of the students protesting outside the college in Bhuj, in the western state of Gujarat.
Deep-rooted social taboos remain in India around menstruating women. In some rural areas, women are made to sleep separately during periods. They are banned from entering some temples.
College authorities lined up 68 students in the washroom and ordered them to undress one by one, the students told reporters.
The college is run by the conservative Hindu sect Swaminarayan. The sect runs lavish temples around the world, including in London. Its rules bar students from staying in the hostel during their periods.
Menstruating women students must stay in an isolated basement area and keep away from the kitchen and the place of worship. They also have to sit at the back of the classroom during lectures.
A view of the Shree Sahajanand Girls Institute
Image Credit: Courtesy of www.ssgi.co.in
The college said it had set up an inquiry and indicated action could be taken against the staff behind the checks. College trustee Pravin Pindoria said: "The girls were informed about the hostel rules before they took admission. I have called a meeting of the administrative committee which will take action against the responsible persons."
NCW takes cognisance of 'strip test' incident
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken cognisance of a media report of the incident in which girls were allegedly forced to undergo 'strip' test to check if they were menstruating.
"The Commission is disturbed by the report of this incident at Sahjanand Girls' Institute in Bhuj, Gujarat. The report also states that the Kutch University authorities have taken the matter for internal query and based on the finding they would take further actions," read a statement from the NCW.
"NCW will set up an inquiry team and visit the girls at the institute hostel, to speak and inquire about the incident. NCW has also appraised the Kutch University in-charge Vice Chancellor Darshna Dholakia and the DGP of Gujarat, Shivanand Jha, to look into the matter thoroughly and report to the Commission at the earliest on their action taken reports to date," the statement added.
Besides this, NCW has also written to the Sahjanand Girls' Institute Trustee, Pravin Pindora, and Principal Rita Raniga to "give explanation of this shameful exercise" that has taken place in their institute.
"The Commission encourages the girls from the institute to come forward and speak without fear on their grievances from this experience to the finding authority, or on any other similar incidents of exploitation if occurred to them in the past, and was not addressed before," the statement read.
India: family forced girl to commit suicide for compensation
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Village politics and the lure of compensation made the family sacrifice the girl
Gulf News
Meerut: In a shocking twist in the suicide by a 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped at gunpoint a few weeks ago, it has now emerged that the minor was forced to hang herself by her own family members.
The family had forced the girl to blame a 65-year-old man for raping her and then drove her to suicide, accusing the police of inaction.
Apparently, village politics and the lure of compensation made the family sacrifice the girl. The family had a dispute with the alleged rape accused.
A senior police official said that the matter came to light during investigations when the girl's mobile phone was screened. Two members of the girl's family were arrested on Friday after the audio clips in the phone revealed the family's role.
"There were some audio clips in which the girl is talking to the 65-year-old man and also his family members and telling them how she is being pressured to blame him," the official said.
Superintendent of Police, Avinash Pandey said that the post mortem report of the girl also did not confirm rape.
The girl had hanged herself at her house in a Meerut village on Wednesday afternoon reportedly due to police inaction. The father of the Class 9 student claimed that she had committed suicide because of police inaction in her complaint of rape.
"The FIR was registered on January 25 as the SHO called my daughter for recording the statement and also for medical examination at least eight times only to harass us. The police had also put pressure on us for a compromise with the accused by taking money as compensation from him," the father of the girl said in a complaint with the police.
He also alleged that the accused had attempted to molest the younger sister of the victim in December last year and at that time too, the local police had refused to lodge an FIR.
After the girl committed suicide, residents of the area protested against police inaction and refused to hand over the body to the police. They relented only after BJP MLA Dinesh Khatik assured speedy action.
Meanwhile, Senior Superintendent of Police (Meerut) Ajay Sahni has asked SP (Rural), Avinash Pandey, to probe the causes leading to the incident.
Did she really commit suicide, or did she have some help? It's amazing how insignificant girls are to some Indian families. The culture is sick and may be beyond fixing.
Mexican protesters demand action on femicides
after 25-y/o woman's death
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"I don't want femicides to distract from the raffle," - Obrador
By Christen McCurdy
A hooded woman lights an aerosol to partially flame one of the doors of the National Palace as a group of activists protest against feminicides in Mexico City, Mexico Friday. Some 100 women took part in this collective action against femicides in Mexico's capital, sparked by the recent murder and dismemberment of Ingrid Escamilla, one of the latest cases of gender violence in the North American country. By Jorge Nunez/EPA-EFE
(UPI) -- Dozens of women tossed paint and sprayed red graffiti on Mexico's National Palace Friday to protest government and media handling of the death of a 25-year-old woman in Mexico City as well as the high rate of murders of young women in the country -- most of which go unsolved.
Ingrid Escamilla was found dead and extensively mutilated in a Mexico City home Sunday. Police immediately arrested a 46-year-old man who prosecutors say was Escamilla's husband, and who confessed to the slaying when police arrived.
Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said prosecutors would demand the maximum sentence against the alleged perpetrator.
"Femicide is an absolutely condemnable crime. It is appalling when hatred reaches extremes like in the case of Ingrid Escamilla," Sheinbaum wrote on Twitter.
The case has drawn outrage in the country in part because it is part of a trend that has largely gone unaddressed: according to Mexico's Attorney General Alejandro Gertz, femicides -- crimes committed against women specifically because of their gender -- have increased 137 percent in the last five years.
In 2019, 1006 femicides were reported in Mexico, compared with 912 in 2018.
Less than 10 percent of such crimes are solved.
Escamilla's death has also been a flashpoint for anger about the ongoing crimes because it was so gruesome, and because its gruesomeness was so well-publicized.
Photos of Escamilla's body -- from which her skin and several organs had been removed -- were leaked to two tabloids, drawing criticism on social media and prompting the creation of hashtag campaigns to commemorate Escamilla with beautiful photos.
"You deserve to be remembered for who you were, not what they did to you," one Twitter user wrote.
Gertz recently sparked outrage by saying he didn't think femicides should be classified as its own category of homicide.
And Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador sparked new outrage when he chastised a journalist for asking questions about femicides during a news conference about a government raffle: "I don't want femicides to distract from the raffle," he said.
On Friday he said he didn't intend to dismiss the problem.
Well, he certainly didn't intend to address the problem.
On the same day -- Valentine's Day -- protesters traveled to the National Palace, where López Obrador lives and works to demand he apologize for his remarks and to demand an end to impunity for crimes against women.
Marches were expected to continue Saturday.
This accused sex offender has been on the run for nine years, so why doesn't anyone know it?
ABC Kimberley By Erin Parke
PHOTO: Accused sex offender Charles Batham was well-known in Broome for running an ultralight aeroplane tour company. (ABC News)
Charles Batham is the aristocratic-sounding Brit who became a fixture in the tropical Western Australian tourist town of Broome and has been described as creepy, charming, and eccentric. He is also an alleged child molester.
For a decade, Mr Batham was best known for his shock of wiry, ginger hair, and an unconventional lifestyle — living in a converted double-decker bus and taking tourists on ultralight plane tours.
But in 2011 it all fell apart in a paedophilia scandal that exposed not just Mr Batham, but the weaknesses in the international legal system that has allowed him to remain on the run for nine years.
PHOTO: Charles Batham was a well-known figure in Broome, by the time child abuse allegations began to emerge. (Supplied)
Now the ABC can reveal the alleged sex offender has not only evaded arrest, but been issued with a new British passport under a different name, apparently allowing him to move freely around the world.
"I just feel terrible that this has happened," Broome local, Robyn Maher, said. "I feel annoyed that he's not had to go to court and face up to what he's accused of doing … and it makes you wonder, what is he getting up to now in some other part of the world?"
For former policeman and child protection advocate Glenn Hulley, the case highlighted weaknesses in the international systems aimed at tracking and catching serious offenders. "Cases like this definitely highlight the gaps in the system," he said.
"The system has clearly failed, and I think here needs to be an investigation, because the public deserves answers."
PHOTO: Charles Batham photographed with a passenger at Broome International Airport in 2006.
Nine years a fugitive
Mr Batham has never been convicted, nor acquitted, of the child molestation accusations because, after being charged, he breached bail and fled to Malaysia.
On the run since February 2011, Mr Batham would now be 77 years old; an aging international fugitive with an Interpol Red Notice out for his arrest.
Nine years on from his absconding, one of his alleged victims has spoken out for the first time.
Vanessa* described not just the devastating effect Mr Batham has had on her life, but her confusion about the hush-hush approach by authorities.
"I spend a lot of time just waiting for a sense of justice or closure, or anything like that," she said. I feel like I can't move forward in my life until this is in some way finished."
A disabled child was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 67-y/o man in a public toilet in Spain
As reported by the National Police, the teenager who suffers from learning difficulties had been using a public toilet at the Santander train station in Cantabria. The man had seen the young boy leave the restroom, forcing him back inside into a cubicle. It was here that he ordered the teenager to perform oral sex on him.
Investigators state that the child was extremely scared and ran home after the assault, informing his legal guardians of what happened to him who in turn went to the police.
Thanks to the description provided by the child, investigations were able to identify the suspect through analysing CCTV footage at the station. He was subsequently arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a minor.
As Euro Weekly News understands has since been remanded in custody with investigators indicating that the detainee has an extensive criminal record for similar crimes.
Ex-scout leader arrested over alleged sex abuse released without charge in Ireland
Barry Roche Southern Correspondent
Irish Times
A man in his 70s arrested in connection with an investigation into Scouting Ireland was released without charge on Friday night. File Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
A man in his 70s arrested in connection with an investigation into Scouting Ireland was released without charge on Saturday.
The former scout leader was arrested and questioned about the sexual abuse of young boys in the city over a 30-year period.
Detectives arrested the man at his home in Cork city at 7am on Friday for questioning after more than 20 men made complaints that they were abused by the man.
The men, who range in age from their 20s to their 40s, have alleged they were each abused by the man when they were teenagers and were alone with him. They have alleged the abuse happened at various locations including at the man’s home, a scout hall and a scout camp between 1980s and the 2000s.
In some cases the men have alleged the abuse began when the man plied them with alcohol and showed them pornographic movies at his home.
The man was arrested under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act which allows gardaí detain suspects for up to 24 hours before they are released or charged. The man was taken by gardaí to Togher Garda station where he was being questioned by officers on Friday night about the allegations by the complainants.
Gardaí also carried out searches at the man’s home, a business premises, a scout hall and a scout camp all in Cork as well as a holiday residence in Co Kerry. They seized laptops, mobile phones and other electronic equipment for examination by Garda computer experts to see if they contain any evidence relating to sexual abuse.
In all, more than 20 gardaí including detectives attached to the Protective Services Unit based at Anglesea Street Garda station were involved in the operation.
It is the second time that the man has been arrested by gardaí investigating allegations of child sex abuse by a member of Scouting Ireland in Cork city. He was previously arrested in October 2018 and questioned for several hours at Togher Garda station before being released without charge.
It is understood the man was stood down by the scouting authorities a number of years ago when they learned of the first complaint made against him.
A file will now be prepared for the information of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Who, if he is true to form, will decide there is not enough evidence to prosecute and let him go again!
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