Man with 'devil gremlin' tattoo sought after teen dragged into bushes and raped
Metropolitan Police detectives say they want to speak to William Trotter, 39, after a young woman was dragged into bushes and left with two black eyes following a sex attack in Bromley, south-east London
By Henry Vaughan, Neil Murphy - The Mirror
A man with a "devil gremlin" tattoo is being sought by detectives after a teenager was dragged into bushes and raped by a stranger.
The woman, who is in her late teens, was taken to hospital and left with a head injury and two black eyes following the attack in Bromley, south-east London.
The Metropolitan Police say they want to speak to William Trotter, 39, and have warned women walking alone in the area to remain vigilant.
Trotter, who was last seen wearing a pink face mask, dark blue jacket and dark trousers, while holding a blue carrier bag, is described as 5ft 6ins with a shaved head and green eyes.
One of his upper teeth is believed to be missing and he has a tattoo of a "devil gremlin", with the name "Rhys" written above and "Daniel" below, on his right arm.
Detectives previously released a CCTV image of a man, who was on the N199 bus with the victim before they both alighted at the Southborough Library stop on Southborough Lane.
Pictured wearing a white jacket with a fur-lined hood, blue jeans and black shoes, while carrying a mobile phone in one hand and a plastic shopping bag in the other, he was the last person to be seen alongside the victim close to the attack.
Detectives say he should not be approached (Image: Met Police)
Detective Chief Inspector Dan O'Sullivan said: "Following a previous appeal we would now urgently like to speak to William Trotter in connection with this investigation. Anyone seeing Trotter should not approach him, but should dial 999 immediately.
"This is an inquiry into the violent rape of a young woman and I would ask anyone with any information to search their conscience and do the right thing by calling police.
"If you do not want to give your name you can call Crimestoppers, who will not ask for your details, but however you want to do it, call and tell us what you know.
"In the meantime we are asking women who are walking alone to remain vigilant and to report anything suspicious to police - always call 999 in an emergency."
Police were called to the scene in Turpington Lane at around 12.40am on Friday March 20 to reports of a man restraining and assaulting a woman.
She told officers she had been dragged into bushes by a stranger and raped.
Trotter is said to have links to Glasgow, as well as the Bromley, Lewisham and Lambeth areas of London.
500 shackled children freed from third Islamic boarding school in north Nigeria
Children freed by policemen after they raided a building in Daura, Nigeria CREDIT: SADDIQ MUSTAPHA/AP
Adrian Blomfield, Africa correspondent
Telegraph, UK
Police have freed hundreds of manacled boys from a madrassa in northern Nigeria for the third time in a month, raising fears of systemic torture and sexual abuse in the region’s Islamic schools.
Officers leading a raid on the Mal Niga school in the city of Katsina late on Wednesday found more than 500 boys and young men, many of whom had been chained to walls, molested and beaten.
The discovery followed a pattern that has become grimly familiar in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north. More than 1,200 males, some as young as five, have been freed in three police operations since late September.
In all three cases, many were found to have been beaten, starved, sexually abused and held in chains, sometimes for so long that they were unable to walk unaided after their rescue.
As in the previous two cases, Mal Niga separated its pupils. One building was well-kept and students living there were not regularly mistreated.
Fears have been raised of systemic torture and sexual abuse in the region’s Islamic schools
CREDIT: SADDIQ MUSTAPHA/AP
CREDIT: SADDIQ MUSTAPHA/AP
But a second, filled with shackles, essentially functioned as a torture centre, a common feature at all three madrassas raided so far. Here inmates were held in chains and starved.
Newcomers and rebels were generally held in the second building, victims said, although students in the first were sometimes taken there to be beaten and molested.
The almost identical nature of the alleged abuse in the three madrassas, which are located across two separate states, has raised fears that the scale of the abuse could be much deeper than at first believed.
As many as 10m children are educated in privately owned madrassas across Nigeria, mostly in the north, according to Muslim Rights Concern, a local advocacy group.
Parents often send their children to private madrassas because they provide a better quality education than state schools — as well as providing more in-depth religious learning.
Adults also attend the schools, either to study the Koran or because they purport to offer university degrees.
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president and a native of Katsina state, pledged to shut down madrassas in June before the abuses came to light. This week, he promised again to close those that treat students badly.
“The government cannot allow centres where people, male or female, are maltreated in the name of religion,” a spokesman for Mr Buhari said.
The owner and five members of staff at Mal Niga have been arrested, police said.
I will be surprised if they are ever punished appropriately for the evil they have done those children.
Full-out Manchester Monster Sentenced Like
He Got a Speeding Ticket
OK, that's an exaggeration, but it is unfortunately closer to the truth than common sense and decency would allow.
A part-time DJ who fantasised about raping and murdering a child has been sentenced for making and showing some of the worst child sexual abuse images NCA investigators have ever seen.
Haitch Macklin, 38, sold access to his horrendous catalogue to other offenders via an encrypted messaging app from his home in Higher Broughton, Salford, Greater Manchester.
He also told another offender that he wanted to murder someone and film it.
He admitted three counts of making indecent images of children (IIOC) and two of showing it. Late yesterday afternoon, at Manchester Crown Court he was jailed for 20 months.
20 months!!!! 20 years is not long enough for this monster. What kind of pathetic sentence is that. It seems the judge has absolutely no concern for the victims of the abuse he watches, or for the potential victims that will likely be raped, and/or murdered next year.
NCA operations manager Hazel Stewart said: “A team of officers viewed, assessed and graded the material Macklin sold access to, and all noted that this is some of the most horrific and disturbing content they’ve ever seen in many years investigating child sexual abuse.
“Macklin posed a very real and dangerous threat to children.
And he will be 10 or 20 months from now.
“Not only was he viewing and profiteering from indecent images of children, he was also harbouring thoughts of committing rape and murder.
“The NCA knows there is a direct link between offenders looking at abuse images and going on to commit even more severe acts.”
Apparently, the judge doesn't know that.
Macklin’s sentencing comes at a time when the NCA has revealed there is an increased risk to children from online offenders during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Offenders are seeking to exploit the fact that more young people and children are at home and are online. The agency has stepped up its pursuit of high-risk online offenders to ensure they are arrested and children are safeguarded.
In the last four weeks alone the NCA has developed and disseminated 1,060 online child sexual abuse (CSA) packages for police forces to investigate; the agency has executed eight warrants against high risk CSA offenders making five arrests including two suspected transnational child sex offenders. The agency has also responded by boosting its preventative messaging through an online safety at home campaign to those most at risk , through CEOP (the Child Exploitation and Online Protection command at the NCA).
The agency also revealed recently that it estimates there are at least 300,000 people in the UK who pose a sexual threat to children.
In December 2018, in an online chatroom using the name ‘UK Perv’, Macklin advertised access to imagery via a server for a monthly subscription of £10.
Macklin, who was born David Bradley but formerly known as Haitch Bradley, advertised in various chatrooms, explained he was a paedophile and signed off one advert “NO MORALS!!!!”. He sent users instructions about how to stream the material from his server.
NCA officers arrested Macklin, who performed under the name DJ Spook, in February 2019. In April 2018, Greater Manchester Police officers (GMP) had arrested him in an unrelated investigation into indecent images of children (IIOC). Charges relating to the GMP investigation are lying on file.
At court Macklin was made to sign the offenders register for 10 years. He was also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order putting stringent conditions on his computer and internet use.
The NCA and UK police arrest around 500 child sex offenders a month and safeguard about 700 children a month.
For advice about online safety and protecting children during the coronavirus pandemic, visit Thinkuknow.co.uk
Child Protection Charity The Lucy Faithfull Foundation runs the Stop It Now! helpline which offers confidential advice to anyone concerned about their own or someone else’s behaviour towards children.
BJP leader-school teacher held for
sexually abusing girl in Kerala
sexually abusing girl in Kerala
By PTI
KANNUR: A local BJP leader, also a school teacher, was arrested on Wednesday on the charge of sexually abusing a 10-year-old student nearly a month ago, police said.
BJP - Bharatiya Janata Party. A right wing political party.
Kuniyil Padmarajan (45), a BJP panchayat president and district leader of National Teachers' Union (NTU), the teachers' wing of the BJP, was arrested from a Poyilur area near here when he tried to escape after seeing the police," an investigating officer told PTI.
"As per the complaint, Padmarajan had abused the child a few days before January 15, and on February 2. The parents approached the police with a complaint and we arrested him," Thalassery Deputy Superintendent of Police Venugopal told PTI.
The child's statement was earlier recorded before the magistrate and the child had narrated her ordeal to the doctor who examined her. The medical examination of the child had also revealed that she was abused.
"We had gathered all the scientific evidences against Padmarajan. The complaint says he had taken her to the school bathroom and abused her," police said.
Even as the complaint was filed on March 16, police had not arrested him saying he was absconding.
The police came under strong criticism for not arresting the BJP leader accused in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case even after a month with all political parties protesting against the law enforcers for their attitude which they termed as shoddy.
The Congress party and the Indian Union Muslim League had protested against not arresting Padmarajan despite having strong evidence and child's statement.
The CPI(M) district committee had approached the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is also the home minister, against the alleged careless attitude of the police in a POCSO case.
The police have registered a case under necessary provisions of the POCSO Act and recorded the arrest. The BJP leader would be produced before the Magistrate soon.
Child sex abuse in Pakistan's religious schools is endemic
Pakpattan (Pakistan)
Muhimman proudly writes his name slowly, carefully, one letter at a time, grinning broadly as he finishes. He's just 11 years old and was a good student who had dreams of being a doctor.
School frightens him now. Earlier this year, a cleric at the religious school he faithfully attended in the southern Punjab town of Pakpattan took him into a washroom and tried to rape him.
Muhimman's aunt, Shazia, who wanted only her first name used, said she believes the abuse of young children is endemic in Pakistan's religious schools. She said she has known the cleric, Moeed Shah, since she was a little girl and describes him as a habitual abuser who used to ask little girls to pull up their shirts.
“He has done wrong with boys and also with two or three girls,” Shazia said, recalling one girl the cleric brutalized so badly he broke her back.
An investigation by The Associated Press found dozens of police reports, known here as First Information Reports, alleging sexual harassment, rape and physical abuse by Islamic clerics teaching in madrassas or religious schools throughout Pakistan, where many of the country's poorest study.
There are more than 22,000 registered madrassas in Pakistan, teaching more than 2 million children. But there are many more religious schools that are unregistered.
They are typically started by a local cleric in a poor neighbourhood, attracting students with a promise of a meal and free lodging. There is no central body of clerics that governs madrassas. Nor is there a central authority that can investigate or respond to allegations of abuse by clerics, unlike the Catholic Church, which has a clear hierarchy topped by the Vatican.
The government of Prime Minister Imran Khan has promised to modernize the curriculum and make the madrassas more accountable, but there is little oversight.
Police say the problem of sexual abuse of children by clerics is pervasive and the scores of police reports they have received are just the tip of the iceberg. Yet despite the dozens of reports, none have resulted in the conviction of a cleric.
Religious clerics are a powerful group in Pakistan and they close ranks when allegations of abuse are brought against one of them. They have been able to hide the widespread abuse by accusing victims of blasphemy or defamation of Islam.
How do they sleep at night, accusing victims of blasphemy and defamation of Islam when it is they who blasphemed and defamed Islam. Obviously, they have no conscience at all.
Families in Pakistan are often coerced into “forgiving” clerics, said Deputy Police Superintendent Sadiq Baloch, speaking in his office in the country's northwest, toward the border with Afghanistan.
Overcome by shame and fear that the stigma of being sexually abused will follow a child into adulthood, families choose instead to drop the charges, he said. Most often, when a family forgives the cleric the investigation ends because the charges are dropped.
“It is the hypocrisy of some of these mullahs, who wear the long beard and take on the cloak of piety only to do these horrible acts behind closed doors, while openly they criticize those who are clean-shaven, who are liberal and open-minded,” Baloch said.
“In our society, so many of these men, who say they are religious, are involved in these immoral activities.”
Police officials say they have no idea how many children are abused by religious clerics in Pakistan. The officials said clerics often target young boys who have not yet reached puberty in part because of the restrictive nature of Pakistan's still mostly conservative society, where male interaction with girls and women is unacceptable.
The clerics, for the most part, had access to and trust with boys, who are less likely to report a sexual assault.
Eight-year-old Yaous from Pakistan's remote northern Kohistan region is one of those boys. Yaous is small for his eight years. His features are slight. In an interview with the AP, with his uncle interpreting, Yaous' tiny body shivered as he told of his ordeal.
“It was so cold. I didn't understand why he was taking my warm clothes off,” Yaous said, his voice was barely a whisper.
As Yaous remembered what happened, he buried his head deeper into his jacket. The cleric grabbed a stick, he said. It was small, maybe about 12 inches. The first few sharp slaps stung.
“The pain made me scream and cry, but he wouldn't stop,” Yaous said. The boy was held prisoner for two days, raped repeatedly until he was so sick the cleric feared he would die and took him to the hospital.
At the hospital, Dr Faisal Manan Salarzai said Yaous screamed each time he tried to approach him. Yaous was so small and frail-looking, Salarzai called him the “baby.” “The baby was having a lot of bruises on his body — on his head, on his chest, on his legs, so many bruises on other parts of his body,” Salarzai said.
Suspicious, Salarzai ordered Yaous moved to the isolation ward where he examined him, suspecting he had been sexually assaulted. The examination revealed brutal and repetitive assaults.
The cleric was arrested and is now in jail. Police have matched his DNA samples to those found on Yaous. But despite the arrest, fellow clerics and worshippers at the Madrassah-e-Taleem-ul-Quran mosque located in a remote region of northwest Pakistan dispute the charges. They say Shamsuddin is innocent, the victim of anti-Islamic elements in the country.
Yaous' father, Abdul Qayyum, said he was ashamed he had not spoken to his son in more than three months before the attack happened. “I want this mullah hanged. Nothing else will do,” Qayyum said. — AP
Online sex trafficker arrested in Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
Philippine authorities urge communities to be 'extra' vigilant as online sex traffickers may be taking advantage of the lockdown
Rappler.comMANILA, Philippines – While Cebu province was on lockdown, a team of cops arrested a 25-year-old woman in Lapu-Lapu City for online sex trafficking.
The office of Justice Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay-Villar, who is undersecretary-in-charge of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT), said in a statement on Saturday, April 18, that the arrest of the woman and her partner was conducted on April 6.
The arresting team, led by Police Lieutenant Colonel Mary Grace Madayag of the Women and Children Protection Center- Visayas Field Unit (WCPC-VFU) and Lapu-Lapu police arrested the couple in separate locations in the city.
The arrested woman – referred to as “Jade” to protect her victim’s identity – is accused of livestreaming the sexual abuse of her underaged female cousin to a child sex offender based abroad, and also selling child sexual exploitation materials to the latter. Jade’s live-in partner allegedly sexually abused the victim.
The victim was abused from 2016, when she was 11 years old, until she was 13. She was rescued in July 2019, and had since received aftercare services from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 7.
The WCPC-VFU team arrested the couple based on warrants issued by Lapu-Lapu City Regional Trial Court Branch 70 Judge Christine Muga-Abad on February 26, 2020.
The couple’s 3 children, all under the age of 7, were placed in the custody of DSWD-7 for assessment.
The case stemmed from a referral of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the Philippine Internet Crimes Against Children Center (PICACC) in March 2019.
Former Edmonton group home worker sentenced to 12 years for child exploitation offences
Investigators uncovered 144 videos involving 11-year-old victim in his care
Natasha Riebe · CBC News
A former group home worker has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty Friday to several sexual offences against two children, including one who was in his care in 2018.
Samer Temraz pleaded guilty in Alberta Court of Queen's Bench court via video to making child pornography, distributing child pornography, sexual interference and unlawfully touching a minor against an 11-year-old youth between July and November 2018.
The Crown prosecutor and defence presented a joint submission to Justice John Little, who agreed to the 12-year sentence, minus 25 months for time already served.
In her closing arguments, Crown prosecutor Johal Parm called Temraz's offences depraved and calculating. "This is one of the most abhorrent cases of child sexual exploitation," Parm said, noting Temraz had made 144 videos involving the first victim over a two-month span.
That's 5 every two days! Good grief!
"This was not one lapse of judgment, this was repeated, abhorrent conduct," she said. Parm paused in emotion at one point. "I struggle with words."
In total, authorities uncovered 1,400 videos and 500 images, including some of bondage with young infants.
Court heard three victim impact statements, including the mother of the 11-year-old victim, whom the courts referred to by the initials S.A. "You took our trust and ruined it," she said, as she read out her victim impact statement.
She read a few lines, yelled an expletive and stormed out of the courtroom.
A social worker who counselled S.A. read the two other victim impacts statements, describing Temraz's actions as "disgusting, filthy abuse of power of authority."
The social worker pointed out that the group home was supposed to be a safe place for the youth to heal from a previous situation of abuse. "You betrayed his trust and took advantage of him in the most hideous way," the social worker said.
Temraz has been in custody since he was arrested in Dec. 2018.
The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) began investigating after the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre reported a suspect accessing child pornography.
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