'Chilling' child rapist subjected his younger sister
to years of violent sexual attacks - UK
The victim was so afraid to speak out that it was feared a prosecution would be impossible but now her abuser has been locked up for nearly 10 years
LeedsLive
A rapist who subjected his sister to a campaign of violent sexual abuse when they were children has been locked up for nearly 10 years.
He regularly abused the girl over the course of seven years and would do it on occasions when their mother would be absent or pre-occupied.
The defendant, who LeedsLive have chosen not to name in order to tell the full story and protect the victim's identity, told the girl he would kill her if she told anyone.
She suffered severe psychological harm and was so afraid to speak about the abuse that it was feared that a prosecution would not be possible.
Leeds Crown Court heard the defendant, now aged 20, is still not remorseful and his attitude towards his offending was described as 'chilling'.
He was jailed for nine years and four months today (Monday) after pleading guilty to six counts of rape, four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity.
The children lived with their mother and stepfather in Leeds.
Prosecutor Kama Melly QC said the children were not raised in an abusive home, there was no suggestion the defendant had been exposed to pornography at an early age and he does not have learning difficulties.
She said the defendant was aged 10 and the victim was aged eight when he first abused her.
He called her into his bedroom and put LEGO behind the door so she would go behind the door. He touched her sexually, including her vagina. He told her it was normal and he had to do it because he wanted to be a doctor. The victim knew it was not but was too embarrassed to tell anyone.
He would abuse his sister when their mother was pre-occupied with cooking or went out shopping.
Ms Melly said: "There was no area or place where [the victim] felt safe through her childhood to her teenage years."
The defendant would tell the victim to touch his penis and she would do it. He would also masturbate in front of her.
He later moved on to forcefully raping her and she would lay there and beg him to stop, telling him repeatedly how much it hurt. Afterwards, he would tell her: "Get up, get out and if you tell anyone I'll kill you."
The victim repeatedly threatened to speak up about the abuse and sometimes he would look scared and sometimes he would laugh - but the abuse continued.
On one occasion, she told her mother she was bleeding from the vagina and she was taken to hospital where she had an ultrasound.
After she hit puberty, he began anally raping her.
The evil child would call her a "b**ch" and a "s**g" during the abuse.
On one occasion, he entered the room as she was watching CBBC and told her to 'pretend' he was raping her. When she struggled, he said: "If you don't stop, I will turn you around and rip your a** to shreds."
On another occasion when she escaped his bedroom, he raped her at the top of the stairs. He bent her over the banister and pulled on her hair, only stopping when he noticed she had bled on him.
The pair pretended everything was fine so that from the outside it looked like they were only arguing like brother and sister.
As a teenager, the girl broke down and told close friends about the abuse and they encouraged her to tell a member of staff at school. The school suspected she was self-harming and noted she was very difficult to engage with and found it difficult to speak about her feelings.
She admitted she had a secret and was suicidal but refused to tell it as she was too scared did not want to hurt her mother. After a couple of years under pastoral care, she wrote the secret down on a page with a shaking hand.
The prosecutor described a "long and torturous" investigation thereafter. The victim gave police two recorded interviews but was unable to verbalise her account and had to write down her answers to questions.
Ms Melly said: "There was real concern such a state would not be fit for court evidence."
She said an expert in mutism worked with the victim but a year later she still had to write her answers down, allowing an intermediary to read them out.
The defendant was interviewed after the victim's third interview and made no comment, except to laugh when he was asked if he had ever had sex and to challenge the dates of when the abuse occured.
Any further discussions about the case caused the victim to be physically unwell and for her own mental health she did not want to provide a statement outlining the affect the abuse had on her or attend the sentencing hearing.
Ms Melly said the abuse had a severe psychological affect on the victim, who began having suicidal thoughts at the age of 13, which got worse as time went on, and who self-harmed by burning and cutting herslf.
She said the victim's education was affected by the abuse and she would leave classes to pace around the school until she tired herself out.
'The memories haunt me daily'
There was a real concern the victim was suicidal and she wished she would get pregnant so that the abuse would stop. A child mental health practitioner said the victim's mutism was a direct response to the abuse.
The victim told police: "It has affected my life. I don't trust anyone. I don't feel safe in my home. I feel worthless, dirty and horrible. The memories haunt me daily."
She also said: "What annoys me is he can walk around happy when I am miserable. He did this to me for seven years. How can he be unaffected by this?"
In a pre-sentence report, a probation officer described the defendant's attitude to his offending as "chilling".
A psychologist also prepared a report on the defendant. The court was told that his mother said: "Whatever the psychologist says, he has always known the difference between right and wrong."
He just chose 'wrong'!
Alberta man who 'married' 15-y/o child in Cree ceremony - convicted of child sexual assault
Michel Bouvier, 59, acquitted on criminal charge of marrying person under 16
Janice Johnston · CBC News
The last time Ashley went trick or treating was in 2016. She was 15.
The teen returned to a house in Hinton, Alta., and sat down on the bed to sort through her candy. That's when the 55-year old man she would come to think of as her husband assaulted her for the first time.
"He punched me in the teeth and my body was so in shock," Ashley said. "It was blood everywhere and I kept crying and crying."
The following day, Michel Frank Bouvier staged a ceremony that he led Ashley to believe was a Cree wedding. The ritual included the use of a pipe, kneeling on cushions, praying, exchanging feathers and kissing.
"That's the beginning of the abusive torture relationship with him, all of six months of him and I together," Ashley told an RCMP officer years later.
The abuse ended in May 2017 when RCMP officers found them together on ceremonial grounds outside Hinton. Ashley had been reported missing by her family and was returned to them.
Bouvier, who was unlawfully at large on a long-term supervision order, was taken into custody and charged with possession of a prohibited firearm.
But Ashley wouldn't tell police about Bouvier's assaults for another two years.
After she was interviewed by an RCMP investigator at the Zebra Child Protection Centre in April 2019, Bouvier was charged with eight criminal offences, including two counts of sexual assault, two counts of assault, aggravated assault and two counts of uttering death threats.
He was also accused of taking part in a marriage ceremony with a person under the age of 16.
There is much more to this story on CBC.
South Korea to investigate case of defector raped by police
By Elizabeth Shim
South Korea police will investigate sexual misconduct and negligence among its ranks following the disappearance of a defector accused of sexual assault. File Photo by Yonhap
July 29 (UPI) -- South Korea's National Police Agency is launching an investigation into the case of a local officer accused of raping a North Korean defector at least a dozen times.
The decision to launch the investigation follows a separate case in which a defector accused of sexually assaulting another in the South escaped to the North.
The two cases could shed light on the plight of North Korean women in the South.
The case of police misconduct involves a police officer in Seoul's Seocho district and a North Korean woman who was under his observation.
The woman accuses the officer of sexually assaulting her 12 times over two years, beginning in May 2016. The defector requested help from district police, but according to her legal counsel, the report was not investigated, News 1 reported.
The separate case of the runaway defector involves alleged police negligence in the city of Gimpo, where the man lived before escaping across the border. Police in the South Korean city may have not taken immediate measures to detain the suspect, according to News 1.
South Korea could be seeking the repatriation of the defector.
Seoul unification ministry spokesman Yoh Sang-key said Wednesday at a regular press briefing the case is under investigation, Yonhap reported.
The decision to request the return of the defector to the South is to be made after a comprehensive review, including "accounting for inter-Korea relations," Yoh said.
The defector, identified as a 24-year-old man with the surname Kim, may have used an open storm drain to cross into the North from the South's Ganghwa Island.
Witnesses in his apartment complex said they saw him move out of the building days before the incident, according to local press reports.
NT man charged with repeated sexual abuse of young girl
This is a joint media release between Australian Federal Police and Northern Territory Police.
A Northern Territory man accused of sexually abusing a young girl over several years is expected to face Darwin Local Court today (30 July 2020) after he was charged by the Northern Territory Child Abuse Taskforce (NT CAT).
An investigation was launched in May after a young girl was diagnosed and treated in the Northern Territory for a sexually transmitted infection.
She spoke to police about incidents in 2019 and 2020 where a man known to her family allegedly sexually assaulted her twice.
Police will allege that on a third occasion this year (2020), the man attempted to sexually assault her again but she fought back and he let her go.
Investigations by NT CAT members resulted in the identification of a further alleged historical offence. Police will allege the man first sexually assaulted the girl between December 2012 and June 2013, when she was aged about five and he was in his mid-forties.
NT CAT officers arrested and charged the man on Tuesday (28 July 2020).
He was remanded in custody by a Local Court Judge to appear in Darwin Local Court today (30 July 2020), charged with:
One count of sexual intercourse or gross indecency involving a child under 10 years, contrary to section 127(1) of the Criminal Code NT. This charge carries a maximum penalty of 25 years imprisonment;
Two counts of sexual intercourse or gross indecency involving a child under 16 years, contrary to section 127(1) of the Criminal Code NT. This offence carries a maximum penalty of 16 years imprisonment.
One count of attempted sexual intercourse without consent of a person aged under 16, contrary to section 192(6) of the Criminal Code NT. This offence carries a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment.
AFP Superintendent Paula Hudson, Child Protection and Human Trafficking Operations, said Australian Federal Police and Northern Territory Police are relentless in their pursuit of anyone who preys on children and will do what we can to keep children safe from harm.
“Sexual abuse causes irreparable trauma; it steals a young person’s innocence and their childhood,” Supt. Hudson said.
Hawker, South Australia man charged following
investigation into alleged child abuse material
Kathryn Lewis
Canberra Times
A 33-year-old Hawker man allegedly caught with child sexual abuse material on his phone and storage devices has been charged.
ACT Policing executed a warrant at a Hawker residence on Wednesday following an investigation by the Joint Anti-Child Exploitation Team. Police received information on June 17 regarding the uploading and transmission of child sexual abuse material via social media.
During the search, child abuse material was allegedly found on Raymond James Choi Hurt's mobile phone and multiple storage devices.
The 33-year-old fronted the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday morning, charged with possession of child abuse material and using a carriage service to access child abuse material.
The court heard Mr Hurt allegedly accessed the material between June 22 and June 25 this year.
Mr Hurt did not enter pleas to the charges and did not apply for bail. He is due to appear in court again on August 20.
Members of the public who have any information about people involved in the possession or sharing of child exploitation material are urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
You can also make a report online by alerting the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation via the report abuse button.
Border Officials Stop Large Number Of Child Sex Dolls
From Coming Into Australia
STEWART PERRIE, LAD Bible
Australian Border Force officers have stopped large numbers of lifelike child sex dolls from being imported into the country.
The dolls are purchased through international online retailers, like Alibaba, with the listings marketing the dolls as 'young girl', 'flat chest' and 'sex dolls for men'.
Figures obtained from News Corp show there have been 31 child sex dolls intercepted in the first six months of this year, with a total of 86 in the 12 months to June 30, 2020.
That means 55 in the last 6 months of 2019, about a 44% drop this year. Excellent!
The Australian government introduced new legislation in September last year that made it an offence to possess a childlike sex doll, with the punishment being as long as 15 years behind bars.
In addition to that, it's also an offence to use a carrier service like the internet to send child sex dolls to anyone in Australia. The punishment for that is up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $525,000.
A spokesperson for the Australian Border Force told news.com.au: "Child-like sex dolls and other child abuse material are symptomatic of the broader global threat posed by child sexual abuse, that's why the ABF works with its law enforcement and intelligence partners to further investigate these imports," a spokesman for the agency said.
"ABF officers at our air cargo and mail facilities are actively targeting these dolls, which are a prohibited import and are considered child abuse material. The ABF has a zero-tolerance approach to child abuse material, including childlike sex dolls, and we use all powers available to us to protect Australians from anyone associated with these sickening activities."
While some people might argue that it's better pedophiles use these dolls than real children, the latest research suggests these items only increase a child sex offenders desire to escalate. "Recent research by the Australian Institute of Criminology found...there is no evidence that these dolls have a therapeutic benefit in preventing child sexual abuse," the spokesperson said.
Some of the dolls found online were about the height of a six-month-old baby. The listings were selling the dolls between $250 and $500.
Alibaba has since taken down all the child sex doll listings on its website and has promised to ensure no more ever pop up again. The online retailer will be putting in additional measures to stop child abuse material from being sold.
"We maintain a robust product listing policy that prohibits the listing by third-party sellers of any items depicting or suggestive of sex involving minors, and third-party sellers in breach of the policy are subject to our disciplinary measures," a spokesperson said.
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