Pakistan: 6-y/o allegedly raped, murdered in Nowshera
India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 25 Aug 2020, 11:30 pm
Nowshera: A minor girl was allegedly raped and then brutally murdered in Pakistan's Nowshera city on Monday, triggering massive protest on the social media platforms.
The child had left her home to go outside and play when the incident reportedly occurred.
When she failed to return home, mosques played calls on their loudspeakers on behalf of the girl's parents, reported The Daily Mail.
People found a sack later and called the police.
Police were quoted as saying by The Daily Mail that she had been tortured before her death, struck over the head and other parts of her body with a stone repeatedly.
Human rights group Voice of Pakistan Minority tweeted: "Once again an angel left the Earth in pain and tears. A 6 yr old girl, Seema from Bajaur was raped and brutally murdered in Nowshera. Is this the kind of atmosphere we are creating for our children? #JusticeForSeema @NJLahori @bilalfqi @Asma_Jahangir @HRCP87."
It seems VoPM has the impression that this kind of madness is new to Pakistan. I am inclined to believe that it was always so.
Man at centre of sexual harassment allegations at Canadian Museum for Human Rights resigns
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Access to Information documents shed light on incidents
at museum in Winnipeg
Austin Grabish · CBC News
People gather outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg in June, in solidarity with demonstrators in the United States and around the world protesting the death of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis on May 25. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)
The man at the centre of allegations of sexual harassment at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has resigned, CBC News has learned.
The man, who worked with visitors at the national museum in Winnipeg since 2016, resigned effective Aug. 19. CBC News has learned his direct supervisor also stepped down earlier this month.
His resignation comes less than two months after five current and former staff members came forward to CBC News alleging they had been sexually harassed by the man.
The women alleged the employee, who worked with visitors at the museum, had grabbed and touched them, stared at their genital areas and made inappropriate comments about them and other women for years.
After the women complained about him formally to the human resources department, he was put on paid leave and the museum hired an outside law firm to probe his conduct. He was later allowed to return to work.
CBC News has agreed not to identify the women because they fear reprisals for speaking out, and is not naming the man they've accused, who has not been charged with any offence in connection with the allegations.
Madeleine McLeod, one of the women who alleged he harassed her, told CBC News in June a lawyer concluded the allegations were just rumours in the workplace and the women were bullying the man.
McLeod said she found the investigative process by HR at the museum degrading.
The museum, which has previously hired external law firms to probe sexual harassment allegations at least twice, previously said it's followed all recommendations provided.
The man at the centre of the allegations maintained his innocence on Thursday and denied all of the allegations. He declined to do an interview, citing a confidentiality agreement.
Other allegations revealed
New HR documents CBC News has obtained show that in 2018, the museum concluded that five allegations of sexual harassment were unfounded. It's not clear whom the allegations were made against. The next year, there was one more unfounded allegation.
However, in each of 2018 and 2019, there was one founded complaint about inappropriate behaviour and conduct in the workplace.
The documents, which were obtained through a federal Access to Information request, also show that in 2016 there was one founded sexual harassment complaint that led to an employee being fired. Details of the complaint are heavily redacted but show video footage was used to corroborate the incident.
"The behaviour of [the employee] demonstrates a lack of discretion and emotional maturity. His comments were out of line and unprofessional," one document says. "The impact of his behaviour has caused female employees to feel uncomfortable in his presence."
Winnipeg lawyer Laurelle Harris has been hired to probe systemic racism and other forms of discrimination at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. (Submitted by Laurelle Harris)
A recent report by Winnipeg lawyer Laurelle Harris, who has been hired to probe systemic racism and other forms of discrimination at the CMHR, says a woman was sexually harassed by a security guard at the museum in 2014 or 2015.
She reported it to management but was told the guard had friends in "high places" and not to bother reporting it to HR, the report said, adding she didn't pursue it further. In 2018, the same guard faced several allegations of sexual harassment and was fired.
The report also found that another woman who had a case of sexual harassment substantiated reported feeling alone, judged and unsupported by HR. She said several weeks after she made the complaint, an HR rep called her in and informed her she was found to be telling the truth.
She said she was then asked if she was sure she wanted to move forward with the complaint "because there are serious consequences for him if you do."
The report found this was a manifestation of unconscious bias because the woman was Black and the man was Caucasian.
"She was treated as though she was responsible for her own harassment. The corollary to that treatment is the white man harassing her was not fully responsible for his actions and therefore should not have been penalized by being removed from his placement at the museum."
There is more to this story, including a frightening stalking case, at CBC.
Manitoba man facing 67 charges after 11 victims allege
child sexual abuse
Kayla Rosen
Editorial Producer
CTV News
WINNIPEG -- RCMP officers have charged a Manitoba man with 67 charges following a child abuse investigation in which 11 victims were identified.
Officers in Lynn Lake, Man., began the investigation on July 23, 2020, following a report a man was allegedly sexually exploiting boys in the community.
During this investigation, Mounties said they discovered a suspect who had boys under the age of 16 over to his home, which was in breach of a court-imposed condition.
Police arrested Arnold Collier for sexual assault, sexual interference, and other related offences.
Collier is facing a total of 67 criminal charges. He remains in custody and is set to appear in court in Thompson, Man., on Sept. 3. None of these charges have been proven in court.
To date, police have identified 11 male victims, all under the age of 16. These boys told police they had been victims of sexual abuse from 2017 to the present day and allege they were groomed using rewards such as money, alcohol, and drugs.
So, no-one checked up on this guy's adherence to court-ordered conditions, for 3 years?
Mounties searched the suspect’s home and seized a number of items, which they say is of “evidentiary value.”
“What occurred in this small community is devastating. The RCMP, along with external partners, are ensuring that support is being provided to all of the young victims,” said Sgt. Paul Manaigre of the Manitoba RCMP in a news release.
“Providing gifts is a common way offenders groom their young victims, it’s very important that parents are aware of this tactic and speak to their children about grooming.”
Officers are confident they have found all of the victims but said there is still a possibility that more are out there. Anyone who was a victim or has any information can contact police at 204-356-8862 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Mounties have also partnered with Klinic Community Health, which can accept reports from sexual assault survivors in Manitoba over the age of 16. Through Klinic, the survivors can remain anonymous and work with counsellors to determine their next steps. The Klinic 24/7 Sexual Assault Crisis Line is available at 1-888-292-7565.
After Ukrainian journalist beaten & sexually assaulted in front of her young son on train, Kiev will place guards on services
Passengers get off the special train №906/905 Kiev-Moscow-Kiev, which arrived at the railway station in Kiev. © Sputnik / Stringer
By Jonny Tickle
Ukrainian Railways has put guards on long-distance trains, initially temporarily, after a female journalist was attacked and molested on a locomotive traveling from the capital Kiev to the coastal city of Mariupol.
Writing on his Telegram channel, Infrastructure Minister Vladislav Krikliy explained that "passenger safety is the number one priority" and, therefore, Ukrainian Railways "is starting a pilot project to protect passenger trains" with paramilitary guards. In the first stage of the pilot, 10 trains will be guarded.
The decision to re-introduce security on the railway network was taken after journalist Anastasia Lugovaya was beaten and sexually assaulted in front of her young son.
According to the victim, at about 3am on July 31, she was woken up by a man beating her. Lugovaya began to scream, causing her son to also awaken. The accused then took Lugovaya to his compartment on the train, where she was molested.
The man, named Vitaly Rudzko, was detained by police upon arrival in Kiev, and is currently remanded in custody without bail.
Ukrainian Railways is a state-run monopoly controlling the vast majority of the country's railway transportation. Controlled by the Ministry of Infrastructure, the enterprise is one of Ukraine's most profitable companies, ranking fourth in 2017, behind Naftogaz (oil and gas), Energorynok (electricity), and UkrGasVydobuvannya (gas).
Major child sexual abuse trial begins in Germany
A cook has gone on trial in Cologne accused of sexually abusing his baby daughter, in Germany's biggest post-war paedophile investigation.
Police say tens of thousands of people in paedophile networks viewed the pictures that Jörg L, 43, posted on the Swiss secure messaging service Threema.
A raid on his home last October in Bergisch Gladbach, near Cologne, led police to investigate dozens more alleged paedophiles.
His wife will testify against him.
Eighty-seven suspected paedophiles have been identified in all 16 German states as a result of this case, and 50 children, aged from three months to 15 years, have been removed from abusive parents.
Three investigators traumatised by the images have taken sick leave. German media say 130 investigators are still combing through terabytes of video and image files in this case.
Court spokesperson Michaela Brunssen said Jörg L "is alleged to have committed sexual violence, sometimes severe violence, against his daughter in 61 cases".
For legal reasons Jörg L's full name has not been given and, in order to protect his young daughter, his testimony and that of his wife will be given behind closed doors. The trial is expected to last 11 days and Jörg L could face 15 years in jail.
61 cases of incest, sometimes violent, and all he is eligible for is 15 years. It should be 150 years!
As many as 30,000 people are believed to be linked to the paedophile chat groups under investigation. Some of the online chats had up to 1,800 participants at a time.
The indictment says Jörg L met up with one chat partner several times and they sexually abused each other's children.
In May that man, a 27-year-old former Bundeswehr soldier, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for severe sexual abuse.
10 years! Good grief! Did they give him a gold watch too?
Germany, and specifically North Rhine-Westphalia, has been rocked by several recent child abuse scandals:
In June, 11 people were arrested (9th story on link) for alleged sexual abuse of children after photographs and videos were found in a cellar in Münster. At the time investigators said they had identified three victims aged five, 10 and 12
In an earlier scandal (2nd story on link), it was discovered that several men had abused children several hundred times at a campsite in Lügde between 1998 and 2018. Most of the victims were between the ages of three and 14 at the time.
'Lynch-mob brutally raped Russian man with iron rod & battered him to death after children ‘joked’ that he touched them
FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / South_agency
In central Russia, a lynch mob violently killed a man in revenge for the alleged sexual abuse of two underage girls. But he was likely targeted by mistake. The incident happened in Ural mountain region, last weekend.
A woman left two girls, the youngest of them her daughter, at the house of her ex-husband’s aunt while she went to a party in the small town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, close to the regional capital, Yekaterinburg, on August 23.
The children, who were three and 10 years old, later told her that a male acquaintance there had “touched them” inappropriately.
The next day, the woman, her partner and three male friends went to the house. They raped a 48-year-old man with an iron rod and then proceeded to smash his skull with it, according to investigators, cited by local media.
Police then promptly arrested the woman and two of her accomplices. They are awaiting trial on charges of “murder committed by a group with particular cruelty.” Two other suspects remain at large. They all may face life in prison if convicted.
The alleged sexual harassment may have never happened, as the girls involved admitted it was “just a joke”, according to investigators, local online outlet Znak reports.
Media identified the murder victim as Dmitry Chikvarkin. Apparently he was at the house to help transport the children.
Chikvarkin was hospitalized but died during surgery. Local sources say he will be buried in a sealed coffin because his head was severely deformed. He had two daughters himself, aged six and 19 years old.
The owner of the house, who witnessed the lynching, has reportedly gone into hiding, fearing that the suspects’ relatives might attempt to kill her.
Police arrest Bangladeshi over sexual abuse of special needs,
Maldives woman
Shahudha Mohamed
The Edition
Maldives Police Service, on Saturday, arrested an expatriate suspected of sexually assaulting a special needs woman, aged 31, in Thoddoo, Alif Alif Atoll.
According to Police, the 43-year-old Bangladeshi was arrested with a court order, after receiving initial reports of the sexual assault on Friday.
Although no further details were disclosed, police stated that the matter is currently under investigation.
Public ire continues to soar over the government's meagre record of arresting and convicting perpetrators of sexual offences despite several promises to support the rights of children and women.
Protesters demanding justice for rape and sexual assault victims held demonstrations during June and July in front of Ministry of Gender, Family and Social Services as well as the roads of capital Male', following an upsurge of reported cases and alleged misconduct of police during investigations.
Recently, a collective of gender equality advocates originating from Family Legal Clinic (FLC), Nufoshey and Uthema Maldives also launched the #FundOurSafety initiative, voicing demands to reallocate state funds for the protection of victims.
Meanwhile, the police have warned over increasing incidents of child abuse and exploitation, urging parents and guardians to be aware and report any such cases to the police's Family and Child Protection Wing at +960 3000600 or the Ministry of Gender, Family and Social Services at 1412.
Newcastle, UK, paedophile told vigilantes he was
into children from ‘birth and upwards’
He needs to be in prison from 'now and forever'
James Hockaday
This is the moment a convicted sex offender claimed to be a paedophile hunter when confronted by vigilantes who he unwittingly told he liked children. John Wray, 36, boasted about belonging to paedophile chatrooms where sharing child abuse videos is a condition of membership.
The fitness coach said he was ‘into birth and upwards when it came to images and videos’ when chatting online.
Using the alias James Craig, he offered to take two 14-year-old girls shopping for ‘underwear and bikinis’ and said he wanted their friends, as young as nine, to dance topless for him in a hot tub.
John Wray told vigilantes that he was a pedophile hunter (Picture: North News and Pictures)
But what he didn’t know was that the people he was chatting to in July were actually members of a paedophile hunter group called The Soloceptors/Soul Survivors. When the vigilantes confronted him on camera at his home in Byker, Newcastle, he claimed he was also a paedophile hunter and had helped convict 500 sexual predators. Claiming his fake name was merely a ‘cover’, he said: ‘I’m trying to trap them. The way we do things, how we do it is we try to make sure they slip up and tell us things, it’s how we do it.
‘I know it’s not how you do it, our way of doing things would be classed in some cases as entrapment. We get them to admit things that they’re up to, that’s what we’re about.’ Wray claimed he had been running his group, called Scarlettos, for 13 years.
But the group didn’t buy his story and called in the police, leading to him being locked up for five years and four months. Upon examining the pervert’s phone, police discovered a 50 second clip of child sexual abuse and found he was a member of child exploitation groups. Wray already had convictions for engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and making indecent photos of children, MailOnline reports.
Appearing at Newcastle Crown Court he pleaded guilty to three breaches of a sexual harm prevention order, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and making an indecent photograph of a child.
Western Australia police uncover cyber child sex abuse network
A group of adults extorted a network of 140 teenagers, some as young as 13, for sexual acts, West Australian police allege.
Investigators from the force’s Sex Offender Management Squad began inquiries in April to find out whether ‘Reportable Offenders’ - convicted sex offenders who have to report their movements to police - were meeting their obligations.
They discovered a group of 11, including four who were already registered child sex offenders, had made contact via Facebook and Instagram with 140 teenagers aged between 13 and 19.
Police alleged one of the offenders physically met with a victim.
Of the 140 youths, 23 are alleged to have been the victims of sexual offending.
WA police have laid more than 200 charges on the group, who are aged between 18 and 41. About a third of the alleged offences are sexual in nature.
They say the probe has highlighted the importance of cyber safety and for parents to be aware of who their children are talking to online.
“Mobile phones and the ongoing rise of social media platforms provides offenders with new ways to reach out to youths in order to commit crimes and we’re working hard to crackdown on this behaviour,” Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Matt Daly said on Saturday.
Those who are already convicted sex offenders are subject to mandatory reporting with strict limits on contact with children. Breaching these obligations can lead to imprisonment.
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