Germany: Muslim migrants rape 14-y/o,
sexually assault 13-y/o, get 3 1/2 years prison
sexually assault 13-y/o, get 3 1/2 years prison
“This is the punishment for the accused of gang rape in the Laupheim solar park,”
translated from “Das ist die Strafe für die Angeklagten der Gruppenvergewaltigung im Laupheimer Solarpark,” by Laura Liboschik, SWP.de, May 27, 2020
For Judge Franz Bernhard it is clear: on November 13, 2019, the three men, at the age of 19, 20 and 32 years, raped a 14-year-old and sexually assaulted her 13-year-old friend. They did this in Laupheim, in the Vorholz solar park on the B30. All three were sentenced to prison terms of several years.
Victims were rendered lacking in will by means of alcohol and drugs.
The men, who have been in pre-trial detention since the crime, admitted to the sexual acts, but they said they were consensual and that the girls did not tell them their age. “We don’t believe that,” said Judge Franz Bernhard in the justification for the judgment. According to the court, the 14-year-old girl had been rendered lacking in will – through alcohol and drugs. She even vomited several times and fell asleep.
According to the court, that night the two girls asked on social media about where they could do something. As a result, the three men now convicted reportedly responded. They picked up the girls at night and took them to the garage in the Laupheim solar park on the B30. There they then committed sexual assault on the victims.
These are the punishments for rape in Laupheim
The oldest defendant, 32 at the time, was sentenced to a total of 3 years and 6 months for a violation of the Narcotics Act and for sexual acts on the 14-year-old girl. He had also rented the garage in the solar park where the deed took place.
The judge sentenced the youngest perpetrator, aged 19 at the time, to 3.6 years – both for rape and other sexual acts with the 14-year-old. Also because of the sexual abuse of children on the 13-year-old, who had to watch her friend’s rape. However, he was convicted under juvenile justice provisions. The personality of the Syrian has significant deficits, both “in terms of his image of women as well as in education and language,” said the judge.
Of course, he's a Muslim, isn't he? What bothers me the most is that these young girls will still be in their teens when these rapists are set free. That shouldn't happen. They shouldn't have to live with the fear of bumping into them again. There's no justice in that!
The district court of Ravensburg sentenced the then-20-year-old brother to 3 years and 6 months under adult criminal law. This was because of the sexual abuse of children to the detriment of the 13-year-old, and because of sexual acts with her 14-year-old friend.
Two other men aged 27 and 34 were said to have been present. They were investigated for failure to intervene and for drug-related offenses. They are still at large, since the conditions for an arrest warrant have not been met.
Italian Court Sentences Foreign People-Smugglers
to 20 Years for Torture
AP/Santi Palaciosto 20 Years for Torture
CHRIS TOMLINSON
An Italian court has sentenced three foreign people-smugglers to 20 years each after they were found guilty of torturing migrants who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
The three men, 27-year-old Guinean Mohammed Conde, 26-year-old Egyptian Hameda Ahmed, and 24-year-old Egyptian Mahmoud Ashuia, were found guilty of belonging to a criminal organisation that engaged in human trafficking, torture, sexual violence, murder, and extortionary kidnapping.
According to testimony and evidence presented in court, the three men are said to have tortured and beaten migrants aboard boats in the Mediterranean as well as in a prison on the Libyan mainland, Italian newspaper Gazzetta del Sud reports.
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The three men were arrested last year in August in the Sicilian city of Messina following a joint investigation into their people-smuggling activities by law enforcement in Messina and Palermo.
They were also linked to the landing of 59 migrants on the island of Lampedusa on the 5th and 7th of July in 2019, aboard a vessel operated by the left-wing Italian migrant transport NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans.
The NGO has had trouble in the past regarding allegations of abetting illegal migration, with its head Luca Casarini interrogated by Italian officials last year when populist League leader Matteo Salvini served as the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior.
Over the last several years, Italy has arrested a number of people-smugglers and disrupted several trafficking networks.
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Perhaps the most brutal case of recent years took place in 2016, involving the infamous Eritrean trafficking kingpin Medhanie Yehdego Mered.
Nicknamed “The General”, the man believed to be Mered was arrested in Sudan and extradited to Italy in June of that year. A mobile phone revealed not only acts of torture on migrants but videos and photos of dismembered bodies, murders, and even acts of cannibalism.
In 2019, however, the convicted man was released after a judge concluded that he was in fact Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, a much lower level people-smuggler who had been wrongly identified as Mered.
“The General” made millions of euros from not only people-smuggling but also from harvesting and selling the organs of migrants as well.
Former Middlesbrough councillor Dave Smith's
sex abuse trial delayed in UK
By Graeme Hetherington The Northern Echo
THE trial of a former conservative councillor has been delayed until next year.
The 31-year-old, of Rainsford Crescent, Middlesbrough, was expected to stand trial yesterday but the case was adjourned due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Teesside Crown Court held a brief hearing, which Mr Smith was excused from attending, to set a new date for the trial on April 12 next year.
The former councillor is accused of having sex with a child, engaging in sexual activity with two other children and four teenagers.
In July last year, the former councillor, who represented Coulby Newham, stood down from the Conservative party and resigned as a councillor in January.
In a statement he previously said: “I completely reject these spurious allegations and removing myself from the party will ensure I can focus all my efforts on fighting to clear my name.”
The trial at Teesside Crown Court is expected to last four days.
'Dangerous sexual predator' from Thornton jailed for 11 years for child sex offences in Blackpool
By Sean Gleaves, The Gazette
Richard McAdam, 60, was arrested in August 2017 after a victim came forward to police to report she had been raped by McAdam in 2001 when she was 12-years-old.
Officers launched an investigation and McAdam was summoned to appear at court where he pleaded not guilty.
Following a trial in December he was convicted of 20 sexual offences, including four offences of sexual assault, four offences of rape, two offences of assaulting a child by penetration and ten offences of sexual activity with a child.
McAdam, of Rixton Grove, Thornton, was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
DC Ryder-Jones, of Lancashire Police, said: "Richard McAdam is a dangerous sexual predator and this sentence reflects the gravity of his crimes.
"He abused the victims, both vulnerable girls, to satisfy his own depraved sexual desires. The victims suffered in silence for many years before reporting the abuse to police. We commend their bravery in supporting the investigation and subsequent trial.
“Lancashire Constabulary remains committed to investigating offences of this nature, no matter how historic, and no matter what the role, position and status of the alleged offender. We would encourage anyone who has been a victim of a sexual offence to come forward safe in the knowledge that they will be treated sensitively and professionally.”
If you have been the victim of a serious sexual assault report it to police by calling 101.
Remember in an emergency or if a crime is taking place always ring 999.
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NL appeals court acquits Botwood man of child sexual abuse in 'recovered memories' case
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Not enough evidence to prove complainant's changing story
Ryan Cooke · CBC News
A Botwood man convicted in 2016 of child abuse has been acquitted, after he served out his sentence.
(Glenn Payette/CBC)
While a jury deemed Angus Waterman guilty of sexually assaulting a child between 1975 and 1981, two appeals court judges ruled the jury did not have enough evidence to convict.
Waterman was sentenced to 12 months house arrest in 2016. Now — after the time has already been served — he's been acquitted.
12 months house arrest - like - 'Go to your room', for sexual abuse of a child. Only in Canada, eh!
"The evidence of the complainant was not credible, and could not have been accepted by a fact-finder acting judicially," wrote Justice Charles White.
White and fellow Justice Gale Welsh stopped short of fully exonerating Waterman, but stressed there was not enough evidence to determine with certainty what did and did not happen.
Drastic changes in foggy memories
In 2015, the complainant — a former Botwood resident — wrote a lengthy Facebook post stating he was coming back to his hometown to put Angus Waterman behind bars.
In the post, he detailed shocking allegations of childhood sexual abuse, including rape, urination and defecation for sexual gratification.
The allegations that made it to the courtroom differed greatly than those in the Facebook post. Five allegations of molestation were brought before the jury, and when asked what happened to the other allegations, the complainant said they were not real life, but rather nightmares he suffered for several years.
Images of the alleged incidents came flooding to the complainant in 2015, when he was shown a video of a robbery committed by Waterman's son that was circulating on social media.
This amounted to a failure by the Crown to provide
the necessary evidentiary basis for a conviction.
- Justice Gale Welsh
The complainant went to police in London, Ont., where he was living, and gave a statement about the allegations of abuse he remembered. He would later give a much different version of events at the preliminary inquiry and more variations at the trial.
There were discrepancies in the five allegations — including where they took place, what year they happened in, who was present and how the incidents were initiated.
The judge cautioned the jurors to consider all the discrepancies before arriving at a verdict. They returned with a guilty verdict.
Crown failed to provide expert witness, judge says
On appeal, Waterman's lawyer, Randy Piercey, took no issue with the judge's instructions but argued the jury couldn't have had enough information to convict him for historical allegations of sexual abuse.
Justices White and Welsh agreed, while Justice Gillian Butler voted to uphold the guilty verdict.
Welsh took particular issue with prosecution's decision not to call an expert witness to inform the jury on recovered memories. Despite him telling the jury he pieced together the story over years of counselling like "pieces of a puzzle," the Crown did not call his therapist or any other expert witness.
"The Crown, which had the onus of proving the offences beyond a reasonable doubt, did not adduce expert evidence to assist the jury in assessing the possible effect of counselling on the complainant's explanation for the numerous and substantial changes in his story," Welsh wrote in her decision.
"This amounted to a failure by the Crown to provide the necessary evidentiary basis for a conviction."
The lone dissenting judge, Gillian Butler, cautioned against her fellow judges playing the role of a "13th juror," and said she took no issue with the lack of an expert witness to explain why the complainant could have altered his story over the years.
"In my view, it would be dangerous to suggest that expert opinion was required in order for the jury to accept the complainant's explanation," Butler wrote.
While she acknowledged huge variations in some parts of the complainant's story, Butler said the facts of the five allegations that made it to court only varied slightly and could easily be chalked up to the passing of 40 years.
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