Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Premier Leaguer; Media Boss; Olympic Champion; Maradona, Connery, Pistorius, Depp

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Premier League footballer arrested on suspicion of

rape and false imprisonment at his home

Alex Winter, The Sun

13 Nov 2020, 15:18

A PREMIER League footballer in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment and rape.

Cops made the arrest after an alleged incident at his home last month.

A Premier League footballer in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of rape and false imprisonment 

Credit: Getty Images - Getty

Today, cops confirmed officers had executed a warrant at an address and arrested a man on suspicion of rape and false imprisonment.

In the statement to MailOnline, detectives said the man is no longer in their custody.

They said: "He has since been released under investigation pending further enquiries."

The man has not yet been named for legal reasons.

No indication of what city he plays for! I'm sure there will be more to this story before long.

Aussie Media Conglomerate Boss, Hugh Marks, resigns over indiscretion

By Zoe Samios

November 14, 2020 — 3.33pm

Nine Entertainment Co chief executive Hugh Marks will step down after revealing he was in a relationship with a former colleague, bringing an end to five years at the top of one of the country’s biggest media companies.

Mr Marks told staff in an email on Saturday afternoon that he had begun the "process of moving on" and that the $4.2 billion television, publishing, digital and radio company would begin the job of finding his replacement on Monday. The announcement was made after the Nine board met at noon on Saturday and comes before News Corporation's Sunday Telegraph is expected to publish an article focussing on Mr Marks's personal life.

"I want to take this opportunity to tell you what a privilege it has been leading this business over a truly transformational period for both the media market generally, and particularly our business," said Mr Marks who indicated he wanted to help with a "smooth" transition to the next CEO.

The abrupt announcement of Mr Marks' resignation follows one of the best performing weeks for Nine on the ASX since it merged with Fairfax Media in 2018. Mr Marks told shareholders operating earnings would be 30 per cent up for the first half of the 2020-21 financial year at the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday. Nine's streaming service, Stan, launched sports channel on Monday after securing broadcast deals with Rugby Australia, Wimbledon and The French Open.

However, the Nine board also held meetings last week to discuss human resources issues including Mr Marks' relationship with Nine's former managing director of commercial, Alexi Baker, according to sources familiar with the discussions. Mr Marks told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, in an article published earlier on Saturday, that his relationship with Ms Baker began when the pair were working together and she reported to the chief executive. The article said the relationship began in recent months.

Nine declined to answer questions about whether Ms Baker had received promotions or bonuses while working for Mr Marks.

Nine chairman Peter Costello was also asked at the company's AGM this week about an article in The Daily Telegraph from May which suggested Mr Marks was in a relationship with his executive assistant, Jane Routledge. Mr Costello said Mr Marks had not breached any company policies. Mr Marks has declined to comment further on the article other than to say “a lot of gossip is out of control”.

Mr Marks' departure has already sparked widespread speculation about his replacement with an executive search firm likely to be appointed to identify internal and external candidates. Industry sources said Stan chief executive Mike Sneesby and Nine publishing boss Chris Janz were the leading internal candidates.

Both Stan and the publishing divisions have performed strongly under their respective bosses. Nine sources who did not want to go on the record said chief sales officer Michael Stephenson and managing director of group and local markets Lizzie Young might consider applying for the top job.

Mr Marks was in charge of Ms Baker's salary and any bonuses she received before she resigned on October 1. Nine does not have a policy regarding relationships between staff.

Some Nine sources who did not want to go on the record claim the relationship with Ms Baker had nothing to do with Mr Marks' departure and that he always planned to leave after five years. Other sources close to Mr Marks said he believed some directors did not support him. Nine confirmed that the board was made aware of the relationship.

Mr Marks' thanked Nine chairman and former Liberal Treasurer Mr Costello in his note to staff "for the extraordinary support he has given to me and to the entire business over the past five years". The paragraph about Mr Costello appeared to be formated differently to the rest of the note.

The announcement of Mr Marks' resignation took place at the end of a week filled with coverage about whether relationships and affairs between colleagues is appropriate. ABC's Four Corners made allegations about allegedly inappropriate behaviour of Attorney-General Christian Porter and population minister Alan Tudge with female staffers on Monday.

Mr Marks is not the first television executive to resign amid scrutiny about relationships with staff. Seven West Media boss Tim Worner was embroiled in a scandal involving a former employee, Amber Harrison. He did not leave Seven until August 2019.

Mr Marks will continue in his role until a new chief executive is appointed, with some Nine sources saying this process could take months. Nine sources speaking on the condition of anonymity said that in the last few weeks Mr Marks has not been in the office because of persistent bad headaches. He was described as "emotional" in the Herald article in which he revealed his relationship with Ms Baker.

"Everyone wants to be happy," Mr Marks told journalist Andrew Hornery. "People think you should be superhuman in these roles, but you are still just a person."

As the first chief executive of the merged Nine and Fairfax Media business, Mr Marks will be remembered as one of the more influential media executives of the past decade. He took over the role of chief executive in November 2015 from long-standing Nine boss David Gyngell after two years as a non-executive director of the company. In the five years Mr Marks has run Nine, the business has changed dramatically.

After media ownership laws were relaxed, Mr Marks and then Fairfax boss Greg Hywood struck one of the biggest media deals of the decade, combining newspaper, online real-estate listings, radio and free-to-air television into a single organisation. Nine's brands include Domain, stations 3AW and 2GB and Pedestrian Group.

Mr Marks also led the company as it ended its four decade relationship with cricket and bought the broadcast rights to tennis tournaments such as The Australian Open. He has been one of media executives to lobby government and push for legislation to make tech giants Google and Facebook pay for the existence of news articles in the search engine and newsfeed.

"We have gone from being three separate, legacy media businesses in Nine, Fairfax Media and Macquarie Media, each with their own structural challenges, and created a business that now has a diversified revenue base across both advertising and subscription, and that has a clear growth strategy for decades to come," he said in his note to staff.

"We have demonstrated the importance of great content, be that in the powerful and unique journalism we create every day, across all platforms, or in entertainment, where the shows we build become household names and engage Australians in their millions. Because at the end of the day, we are, and will remain, a content business."

Nine was the only media organisation that cut costs without large redundancy rounds, renegotiating with banks or putting all staff on JobKeeper. Nines shares were trading at $1.55 when Mr Marks was appointed in November 2015. They closed at $2.44 on Friday. The company has outperformed its media peers in recent years.

Kenyan Olympic champion pleads not guilty to defilement of minor

By Sommer Brokaw

Conseslus Kipruto (on left), who won the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, appeared before a magistrate Monday on charges of defilement of a 15-year-old girl. File Photo by Kevin DIestsch | License Photo

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Kenyan Olympic champion runner Conseslus Kipruto pleaded not guilty Monday where he appeared in court on charges of defilement of a 15-year-old girl.

Kipruto, 25, pleaded not guilty Monday morning in a court in Kenya in his hometown Kapsabet, which is the capital of Nandi County. The court released the man, who won gold for the 3,000 meter Steeplechase final at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on $1,850 cash bond.

Prosecutors said that the charges stem from a report to a local police station the teenager's parents made, alleging Kipruto eloped with their daughter on Oct. 20.

The 15-year-old allegedly went missing for three days, and once she returned home she refused to disclose where she had been, according to the police report, but upon looking at her phone log, police found that she had constantly been communicating with Kipruto.

With the age of consent being 18 in Kenya, the Olympic runner was charged with defilement of a 15-year-old girl. If found guilty, under the Sexual Offenses Act 2006, he could receive up to a 14-year prison sentence.

Kipruto appeared in the court before the magistrate through Zoom because of the COVID-19 pandemic with tight security and wearing a hood to avoid media pictures. The trial is set to begin on May 10.

Kipruto, who has also won a world championship in London in 2017 and in Doha, Qatar, in 2019, competed in only one race this year after testing positive for COVID-19 in August.

Well, I hope someone tests the girl for Covid19.

‘Rapist, pedophile and abuser’: Female Spanish player

refuses to pay tribute to Diego Maradona

30 Nov, 2020 16:18 /

While much of the football world has been mourning the passing of Diego Maradona, a female Spanish player refused to stand during a minute's silence, saying she would not do it for an 'abuser.'

Paula Dapena, who plays for Viajes Interrias FF, ignored the moment's silence in remembrance of Maradona by sitting on the pitch with her back turned while the rest of her teammates stood.

The act was taken before a friendly game between Viajes Interrias FF and Deportivo Abanca, with Dapena being widely discussed following her act of disobedience.

The 24-year-old, who is also known in her team as a woman of strong feminist ideals, later explained that she didn't want to observe the minute's silence for a person who she thought to be an 'abuser.'

"As soon as I found out that there would be an act in his memory, I refused to observe the minute's silence for a rapist, pedophile and abuser," she said, adding that there were no minutes of silence in recognition of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Her name is Paula Dapena, she plays for Viajes Interrías Female Football Club in Galicia,

northwestern Spain. She refused to keep a minute of silence for Maradona as a protest

because he was an abuser against women. Stand up for your values is easier said than done. Well done. pic.twitter.com/K4DP6KCDYA

— Jordi Arrufat (@Jordiarrufat) November 29, 2020

"A minute's silence was not observed for the victims. So, obviously, I'm not willing to observe one for an abuser and not for the victims," Dapena said.

The player's behavior was widely condemned on social media with many users pointing out that the Argentinian football legend was never found guilty any such crimes described by Dapena.

Of course, heroes are never found guilty of anything. But I admit this is the first I have heard of such accusations. But having heard of his penchant for drug use - anything is possible.

Maradona died on November 25 after suffering a heart attack at his home on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. He was buried next to his parents in a private ceremony attended by only two dozen people.

Tributes to Maradona show how easily violence against women is ignored

Joan Smith, The Guardian

Fri 27 Nov 2020 13.52 GMT

Too often we’re in denial about the fact that heroes – such as Maradona and 

Sean Connery – might also be abusers

An image commemorating Diego Maradona in Naples, Italy, November 2020.

Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP

Imagine a man hitting his partner. The picture that comes to mind probably involves a scruffy individual, his hand raised and his face contorted with fury. We can all condemn that, can’t we? But what if the angry face is familiar, seen thousands of times in a very different context? If it belongs, say, to the world’s most famous and admired footballer, Diego Maradona?

Judging by the outpouring of grief that followed his death, at the age of 60, it seems too big an ask to admit that our heroes, especially our sporting heroes, have been credibly accused of domestic violence. Maradona’s face just doesn’t fit in that unpleasant picture – unless you’ve seen the video.

First aired on an Argentine TV channel six years ago, it appears to show Maradona hitting his then girlfriend, a former professional football player called Rocio Oliva, who was three decades his junior. Unsteady on his feet, Maradona shouts at her and then appears to strike her twice. The slaps are clearly audible on the soundtrack, as is Oliva shouting at him in Spanish: “Stop, stop.”

Maradona didn’t challenge the video’s authenticity, but he did deny hitting Oliva. “I grabbed the phone but I swear to God that I have never hit a woman,” he insisted. It wasn’t the first time Oliva accused Maradona of abusing her, although charges were never brought. Another incident occurred on a plane, in front of dozens of witnesses, when Maradona verbally abused Oliva before grabbing her by the neck. The couple split and got back together several times before Oliva left Maradona for good two years ago.

Maradona’s death on Wednesday happened to coincide with the international day for the elimination of violence against women. On the same day, official statistics revealed that a fifth of offences recorded by police in England and Wales during and immediately after the first national lockdown – amounting to more than a quarter of a million in three months – involved domestic abuse. These statistics might have given Maradona’s obituarists pause for thought, but they didn’t.

Domestic abuse is routinely overlooked or rendered invisible, especially if the alleged perpetrator is an elite sportsman or famous actor. When the Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, commentators initially bought his story that he believed she was an intruder. It was only much later, and after protracted legal proceedings, that Pistorius was found guilty of murder.

Relationships in which women are abused are often described as volatile, depersonalising blame. But Maradona’s jealous outbursts – he once threw Oliva out of his home in Dubai after wrongly accusing her of flirting with the Manchester United goalkeeper, David de Gea – will be horribly familiar to any woman who has experienced coercive control.

Last month glowing tributes were paid to the Scottish actor Sean Connery – recipient of a knighthood, among other honours – who had died at the age of 90. Like Maradona’s, his biography had an irresistible rags-to-riches element, with lots of references to the fact that he left school at 14 and did manual labour before becoming a hugely successful actor. “Our nation is today mourning one of our best-loved sons,” said Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

Predictably, most of the accounts of his life glossed over allegations that Connery was violent towards his first wife, the Australian actress Diane Cilento, leaving her bruised and battered. In her autobiography, published in 2006, Cilento described locking herself in a bathroom for protection after Connery hit her in the face, knocking her to the floor, and a second blow “sent me flying”.

It’s not even as if he was a repentant abuser. “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman – although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man,” he said in an interview with Playboy in 1965. “An open-handed slap is justified, if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning.” He confirmed his views in an interview with Barbara Walters in 1987, not condemning domestic violence until 2006.

It is not as though these men are exceptions. There are a great many of them, and they aren’t defined by class, wealth or education. Abusers can be talented and attractive, something that fans of the actor Johnny Depp evidently struggled to believe when the judge in his libel action accepted most of the allegations made by his former wife, Amber Heard.

It may be painful for fans of elite sports stars and Oscar-winning actors to admit that their heroes have abused women. But domestic violence is an epidemic, and it won’t stop while it’s being airbrushed from fan sites and obituaries. We all have a responsibility in these matters – and it can’t be shrugged off because of someone’s talent.

• Joan Smith is a journalist and chair of the Mayor of London’s violence against women and girls board

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Gender Madness - The #PCMadness of the Woke Generation is Destroying a Generation of Children and Their Families

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Australian authorities seize child, rule parents ABUSIVE for resisting hormone therapy to help daughter become son

29 Nov, 2020 21:53 

An Australian couple whose child was reportedly seized by state authorities is appealing a magistrate's ruling finding them abusive and “dangerous” for resisting testosterone therapy for their daughter, who identifies as male.

Lawyers for the unidentified parents filed papers last week seeking to appeal a magistrate's October decision, setting up what appears to be the country's first test case on parental rights regarding gender dysphoria medicine, the Australian newspaper reported on Saturday. Their child, then 15, was taken away from the family last year, after discussing suicide online.

“The authorities say we will not allow her to change gender, so it's dangerous for told her to come back to our house because we will mentally abuse her,” the father the Australian. “They want us to consent to testosterone treatment.”

The parents are seeking an independent psychological review of all possible causes of their child's depression, as well as consideration of non-invasive treatment options. The teen struggled after losing friends at 13, when the family relocated, and those difficulties were compounded by a difficult start to puberty and anxiety about eating and body image, the mother said.

The family migrated to Australia a decade ago, the newspaper said, without identifying their native country. The magistrate found that the teen likely suffered verbal abuse over “his feelings and expression of gender identity,” which the parents denied.

“the end of parenting as we knew it.”

Lawyers for the child earlier this month filed papers seeking approval to begin hormone therapy.

A Twitter commenter who said her own daughter suffered from rapid onset gender dysphoria, said state interventions such as in the Australia case mark “the end of parenting as we knew it.”

We have no rights. Our children can be seriously harmed by the government and medical profession, and we are powerless to stop it.

As the debate on treatment for gender dysphoria heats up in Australia, some US states are creating exceptions to parental consent laws to enable children to get such treatments as hormone therapy and sex-change surgeries without parental consent. 

Starting this year, children as young as 13 in Washington state have been allowed to obtain confidential treatment for gender dysphoria, billed to their parent's insurance plan and done without parental consent.

“Hard to overstate how radical this is,” Abigail Shrier, journalist and ‘Irreversible Damage’ author, tweeted. “States are intervening in a loving relationship between parent and minor child and declaring: 

‘We will physically transform the child against your wishes and behind your back.’”

What madness! More than 50% of girls who transition to boys attempt suicide afterward. 85% of gender-confused kids will revert to the biological sex after puberty. Puberty blockers should be illegal and are certainly utterly evil.

This Week's Catholic Pervs and Paedos List > UK Cardinal Won't Step Down; 2 Montreal Cardinals Enable Paedo Priest; Pope Sued

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Cardinal Nichols of England and Wales, Refuses Call to Step Down After Damning Report From IICSA

ON: 11/20/2020,  BY SIMON CALDWELL, The Pilot

MANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster said he will not "walk away" from leadership of the church amid pressure to resign over his handling of child abuse cases.

Cardinal Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, has faced calls from sexual abuse survivors, lawyers and the media to step down since an inquiry into child abuse concluded that he showed neither compassion nor leadership in confronting the problem in at least two instances.

But in a Nov. 20 virtual news conference to announce wide-ranging reforms to child protection systems in the English and Welsh church, he said he had "no wish whatsoever to turn my back on this challenge, no wish to walk away at all."

"I want to be there doing everything I can to take these important recommendations forward," he said.

"I won't be doing the work myself. It is the work given to professionals designated to do it, but they can be sure they will have my full support and enabling ability to bring this to a proper end."

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse, convened by former Home Secretary Theresa May nearly a decade ago, accused Cardinal Nichols of "preferring to protect the reputation of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and in Rome" over the welfare of vulnerable children.

The 154-page "Roman Catholic Church: Investigation Report" said that the inquiry found "no acknowledgement of any personal responsibility to lead or influence change" on the part of the cardinal, saying "he did not always exercise the leadership expected of a senior member of the church."

But, speaking to media, Cardinal Nichols emphasized that his "first thoughts are and were" for those who suffered abuse.

"To each and every one I express my profound apologies," he said. "I have spent many hours listening to survivors, I have sat and talked with them, I have shared meals with them and I have wept with them. Nothing removes from my soul the horror of what has happened."

"I remain shocked and ashamed," he said. "It's a reality that hangs like a dark cloud over my mind and heart."

"Abuse is terrible wickedness. It can destroy or severely damage the capacity for trust and love. It can create of a life an empty shell," he said.

"I say again I am very sorry for all that has happened over these years," he added.

And, what about your part? Are you willing to admit that you were part of the problem? Why should we assume that you would now be part of the solution? 

The national inquiry has examined abuse in more than a dozen institutions, including social care, government and the Anglican Church, and will report on each area before it publishes a final general report.

In its report on the Catholic Church, it revealed that between 1970 and 2015 approximately 900 complaints were received into 3,000 instances of child sexual abuse against more than 900 individuals in the church, including priests, monks and volunteers.

In the same period, the report said, there were 177 prosecutions resulting in 133 convictions, with millions of pounds paid in compensation.

The report made seven recommendations in such areas as leadership, training, auditing and compliance, and requested a change in the Code of Canon Law to explicitly recognize abuse as a crime against a child.

It should also be recognized as a crime against God! But I see no such reference in the Cardinal's remarks. I wonder how you get to be a Cardinal and still have so little knowledge of God?

But in the Nov. 20 news conference, child protection specialist Ian Elliott, who chaired the new review of safeguarding in the church, established in July 2019, told journalists the conclusions of his review panel exceeded the demands of the inquiry.

Besides structural improvements, he said, they included plans for the creation of a National Tribunal Service to address the canonical matters connected to clergy discipline and canonical offenses.

Carol Lawrence, a member of the review panel, added, "If we look at the recommendations around auditing, around complaints-handling, and around training -- all of which came through the work of the panel and are in Ian's report -- ours are much more far-reaching than IICSA suggested they needed to be.

"The intention is to be as far-reaching as we can in this," she continued. "More details have been thought out and the intention is there to make this happen as quickly as it can be implemented."

The reforms, which will place Catholic safeguarding under a "One Church" model covering religious institutions and other areas of ecclesial life as well as parishes and schools, will see the abolition of existing structures in favor of the creation of a single Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency with the power to enforce uniformly high standards of protection.

Subsidiary groups include a survivor/victim panel.

The bishops have accepted the conclusions of the Elliott Report and plan to implement them immediately.

A Nov. 20 statement from the bishops' conference said the Elliott Report was "fashioned with the participation of survivors of abuse. Their insight and wisdom has been crucial," it said. "We thank them for their great courage and generosity in working with us, and we look forward to continuing this growing collaboration."

Report blames top Montreal Church officials for ignoring complaints about priest who preyed on young boys

Catholic Church officials protected Brian Boucher's reputation for years

before he was arrested, report says

Benjamin Shingler · CBC News · 

Posted: Nov 25, 2020 2:36 PM ET

Brian Boucher is serving an eight-year sentence for sex crimes against young boys. 'The primary culprit is the lack of accountability of the people involved in Boucher's education, training and career,' says a report, released Wednesday, into the Church's conduct.

A Montreal priest was able to sexually abuse two young boys and terrorize several others over a 20-year span because top officials in the Catholic Church ignored complaints about his behaviour and, in some cases, tried to keep serious allegations secret, according to a damning new report.

The priest, Brian Boucher, worked at 10 churches in Montreal during his career, which began in the early 1980s. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2019 after being found guilty in one case and pleading guilty in another.

After Boucher was sentenced, the church commissioned former Quebec Superior Court justice Pepita Capriolo to investigate how the crimes could have gone undetected for so long.

As she released her report on Wednesday, Capriolo placed blame on the upper echelons of Montreal's Catholic Church. She said officials preferred to turn a blind eye rather than investigate mounting complaints about Boucher. 

"What struck me most was the passing of the buck," Capriolo said at a news conference. "The need to protect the reputation of Boucher seemed to be paramount."

Report found years of inaction by superiors

Capriolo's report documents years of inaction by Boucher's superiors and, in some cases, efforts to keep troubling allegations secret. That allowed Boucher to keep working as a parish priest despite a multitude of warning signs.

"The primary culprit is the lack of accountability of the people involved in Boucher's education, training and career. Complaints were 'passed on' and no one took responsibility for acting on them," Capriolo said in her 276-page report.

Two of the province's most powerful Catholic figures in the last half-century — Cardinal Marc Ouellet, once a candidate for the papacy, and Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, now deceased — were among those aware of Boucher's behaviour, according to the report.

Brian Boucher became the parish priest at Our Lady of the Annunciation in the Town of Mount Royal in 2005. He was convicted last year of sexually abusing an altar boy from that church. (Louis-Marie Philidor/CBC)

But for decades, the only action taken was to send Boucher to therapy and psychological assessments. 

Capriolo said she spoke with more than 60 people and read through hundreds of documents while preparing her report. Though she was granted complete independence, she said that at times key documents were missing.

She said the "shredding of documents was a well-known practice" in Turcotte's Montreal office.

"The culture of secrecy, which reigned in the Church during the period covered by this investigation, caused the disappearance of important documents and the general lack of a paper trail," she said.

Capriolo's report builds on an investigation conducted last year by CBC News, which relayed how Montreal parishioners had raised concern about bullying and worrisome relationships with young boys.

'Worrisome' relationships went unchecked

Capriolo's report notes that many raised concerns about Boucher's unacceptable behaviour early on. He was described as "rude, authoritarian, overly intense, homophobic, racist, misogynist and verbally, and sometimes even physically, aggressive."

Interesting that he was called homophobic when he was a homosexual! 

Those concerns were "repeatedly reported to his superiors" and there were rumours about his "untoward interest in young boys" since the 1980s.

At the end of the 1990s, he had a "very close and worrisome relationship" with a young boy she refers to as "Jeremy." The boy was frequently alone with Boucher and, according to the report, church members noticed marks on his neck.

The report details a separate incident during the 1998 ice storm. After a night of smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol, an 18-year-old student from Mexico fled from the rectory, without his shoes, after Boucher made a sexual advance.

In 2003, the report says, there was also an abusive relationship with a 19-year-old that led to Boucher receiving psychological treatment. Again, no disciplinary action was taken.

There were further allegations of inappropriate behaviour in 2006. They, too, were dismissed.

The report states that in 2011, "a senior official of the Church wrote a lengthy, detailed summary of Boucher's ongoing failings in order to stop his reappointment as a pastor of a parish. The official left on extended sick leave and Boucher was reappointed."

In 2015, Boucher was finally subjected to a more thorough internal investigation, after he claimed he had been the victim of sexual abuse by a "much younger fellow priest." It turned out Boucher was the "perpetrator and not the victim," according to Capriolo's findings.

That investigation, conducted by Bishop Thomas Dowd, resulted in the conclusion that there were "at least two child victims."

Archbishop commits to decisive action

Capriolo's report includes 31 recommendations. Many of them are aimed at ensuring priests in the Catholic Church are held more accountable for their actions.

The first recommendation is that an external ombudsperson be tasked with investigating the conduct of priests at each stage of their career.

Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine, who commissioned the report last November, apologized to Boucher's victims at Wednesday's news conference.

"In the name of the Catholic Church in Montreal, and speaking for myself personally, I wish to say how sorry we are that you have had to experience the effects of such terrible acts, which should never have occurred," he said.

Years before Brian Boucher became a priest, families warned of his troubling behaviour with boys

He committed to "acting decisively" to ensuring such abuse doesn't occur again.

Capriolo will chair a committee along with Lépine to follow through on the recommendations. 

Lépine also said he would oversee a broader examination of church records, beginning early next year, to explore whether other cases of abuse had not been acted upon.

Pope Francis sued by three Australians allegedly sexually assaulted by Melbourne paedophile priest Michael Glennon

Posted 27 Nov 2020

ABC News, AU

Pope Francis is named in the lawsuit because he is the only person in the church who can defrock a priest.(AP: Andrew Medichini)

Three men who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a paedophile priest are suing Pope Francis, the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, and the Catholic Church.

It is the first known case in Australia where victims have claimed compensation from a pope for failing to take action to stop the clerical sexual abuse by a known abuser.

The three men from one extended family were allegedly abused — repeatedly and regularly — by serial paedophile Michael Glennon in the 1980s.

A writ has been lodged with the Victorian Supreme Court, claiming damages against Pope Francis, the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Peter Comensoli and one of his predecessors, Frank Little. The entity representing the church is also named.

Glennon was sentenced a number of times for child sex offences and died in prison in 2014.

"There were requests made to defrock him but that didn't occur until well after our clients' alleged abuse occurred," said Angela Sdrinis, the lawyer representing the men.

She said the Pope had been included because only he can sack a priest.

"Unfortunately it wasn't within the power of the Archbishop of Melbourne or indeed the Melbourne archdiocese to laicise the priest. That is a function of the Pope," she said.

"That's why we've been led to a position where we feel we almost have no choice but to join the Pope. We say that step should have been taken much earlier. It should have been taken after the first conviction, which was 1978."

Negative Stories in the War on Child Sexual Abuse - Episode XII > Scotland Fail; Mozambique Horror; Nigeria Going Nowhere; EU Going Backwards

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Scottish ministers led to believe child sex abuse not 'systemic failure'

A former MSP has said government ministers were led to believe the sexual abuse of children in care was not a systemic failure and therefore did not justify a public inquiry.

By Emma O'Neill, The Scotsman

Wednesday, 18th November 2020, 6:31 pm

Lady Smith chairs the sexual abuse inquiry

Peter Peacock, who served as Education Minister from 2003 to 2006 and was an MSP from 1999 to 2011, gave evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry on Wednesday.

Mr Peacock said ministers on the Scottish Executive - now named the Scottish Government - were led to believe it was "rogue individuals" carrying out the abuse, in a briefing note at a meeting in September 2003.

The latest phase of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry is exploring reasons why calls between August 2002 to December 2014 for a public inquiry to be held were resisted by ministers.

Ministers were told in a memo from senior civil servant Colin MacLean in May 2003: "The pressure for the [Scottish] Executive to act has not been intense.

"Aside from the [Daly] petition and two stories in The Sunday Mail, there has not been widespread Parliament or public interest. Noticeably, cross-party interest hasn't been taken up and The Sunday Mail received less than 20 responses to a request for stories."

It added: "The criminal convictions have been isolated and there is no evidence emerged of widespread abuse. It would therefore be feasible to do nothing. We do not recommend a full inquiry as allegations are not substantial enough to justify."

Mr Peacock said: "In rereading this [statement], I was asking myself this question of systemic failure and whether that referred to it being systemic in one institution so everybody in that situation was abusing, or was it a systemic failure across the entirety of care?

"We took it as an individual institution - it was systemic in that institution.

"You could also say there was no systemic failure, but a failure in the supervision of a system which allowed abuse. By standards of today, I thought it was more in terms of a systemic failure of supervision."

Prosecutor James Peoples QC asked Mr Peacock: "So what appears to be said [in the 2003 memo] is that the problem of abuse was not a widespread problem?"

The former government minister replied: "It presented itself as individuals acting alone, as problems sporadically arising and not part of a pattern."

And no effort was made to verify that theory!!!!

Mozambique: Early pregnancy increases due to child sexual abuse – UNHCR

By LUSA

The war in Cabo Delgado is causing an increase in cases of early pregnancy due to child sexual abuse, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned in a summary of the conflict between rebels and Mozambique’s government.

“Women and adolescents have been abducted, forced to marry, raped and subjected to other forms of sexual violence, highlighted by the increase in teenage pregnancies in affected districts, as well as worrying reports of forced marriages,” the UNHCR said in a document released on Tuesday.

The reports include forced recruitment of children for armed groups that plague the region where Africa’s largest private investment for natural gas extraction is beginning.

The situation in Cabo Delgado is critical, with widespread reports of human rights violations, the organisation said.

The alert comes after another launched three weeks ago by the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), a Mozambican NGO, on sexual abuse against displaced women in exchange for humanitarian aid, saying there was silence from the government and the United Nations on the matter.

Despite the questions raised by Lusa, there were no reactions to the CIP report.

According to the latest UNHCR document, more than 3,000 structures, mainly traditional houses, but also shops, banks, infrastructure and public facilities have been looted, damaged or destroyed.

Those displaced in camps, with tents or taking advantage of public spaces (usually schools) are a minority. About 90% of the internally displaced are living with relatives or friends in already precarious houses, so there are problems of overcrowding.

“Sometimes 20 to 30 people share a common space, creating health concerns, particularly in the context of Covid-19,” the document said.

The UNHCR believes that the violence and humanitarian crisis will persist and even increase, with no sign of a reversal of the scenario, the summary in which it calls for strengthening its own funding said.

“The UNHCR’s new financial requirements for the emergency response to the situation in Cabo Delgado in 2020-2021 total $19.2 million (€16 million), with 39% of the needs being financed by 13 November,” it said.

The response aims to benefit 300,000 people in Cabo Delgado and neighbouring provinces that host internally displaced people.

The armed violence is causing a humanitarian crisis with some 2,000 deaths and 435,000 displaced people, without housing or enough food – mainly concentrated in the provincial capital, Pemba.

Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

The girl-child: Sexual/domestic violence and subdued leadership dreams

November 28, 2020 in Crime Diary,

News Update, Saturday Magazine

It is exactly one year this November that Nigeria launched its first National Sex Offenders Register. It signposted the launching of a sex offenders database of those convicted for sexual violence since 2015. Sadly, of the 36 states in Nigeria, only two states, Lagos and Ekiti have launched their own Sexual Offenders Register. 

Names have been published in Ekiti. Three men, Ajayi Peter, a 51 year old man, who was convicted for raping a 12 year old girl, Basiru Adeyanju for the sexual assault of a 17 year old girl and one Rev. Asateru Gabriel for sexually violating a 7 year old.

All their details including addresses have been published and in the Sexual offences register in Ekiti state. It is curious that the other states including the Federal capital territory, Abuja has not deemed it appropriate to domesticate the law which in the very least can serve as deterrent to some future rapists, pedophiles and Incestuous sexual perverts. 

The lockdown periods recorded an increase in the number of victims of sexual and other domestic violence against girls, women and sometimes young boys too.

The Roundtable Conversation in digging into reasons for the lack of gender parity in political leadership in Nigeria has discovered that beyond some socio-cultural and religious factors that discourage women from full participation in politics in the country sexual violence from very early age has been discovered as one danger that socially and psychologically beat down the girl-child. The mental consequences of sexual violence on the girl-child and women are enormous.

Dr. Ann Okigbo, a former Health Specialist at the World Bank and an International Consultant on Social  and Community Development expressed shock that just like many policies that are not followed through to implementation, the National Sex Offenders Register seems not to appeal to a lot of state governments seeing that they have not done anything since last year that it was launched.  

Having been in the health sector for many years, she believes that successive Nigerian governments have not really taken the health sector seriously enough given that despite the 26% UN global benchmark for budgetary allocation to the health sector, Nigeria has always done below 10% which invariably shows that a lot is left undone and adolescent  sexual health gets affected too.

According to Okigbo,  successive  governments seem to always appear lethargic in implementing treaties and global agreements that  they are signatories to. She insists that governments must realize that girls grow into women and if they must contribute to leadership or be optimally productive in the country, their sexual health must be taken care of. Girls and women must be protected by the state from sexual predators and although the laws are there, the issue of implementation does not always get the needed fillip.

There is more to this article at The Nation

EU tech ban seen putting children worldwide at risk of online sex abuse

By Isaac Novak, UpNewsInfo

November 27, 2020

Online child sexual abuse could become harder to detect due to privacy protections set to take effect in the European Union next month – putting millions of children at increased risk worldwide, critics of the proposals have warned.

Under the changes, big tech firms like Facebook and Microsoft would be banned from using automatic detection tools that are routinely employed to identify material containing images of child abuse, or to detect online grooming.

Opponents say such automatic scanning infringes the privacy of people using chat and messaging apps, but the looming ban has drawn strong criticism around the world – from children’s rights advocates to U.S. actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher.

“Time is running out to ensure proactive and voluntary online child abuse detection methods are preserved in the EU,” Kutcher wrote on Twitter earlier this month as European lawmakers (MEPs) prepare to vote on the new directive.

Critics say the reform, set to come into force on Dec. 20, would prevent law enforcement and child protection agencies from identifying millions of child sexual abuse cases each year – not just in the 27-member state EU, but globally.

“Online child sexual abuse is a borderless crime,” Chloe Setter, head of policy at WePROTECT Global Alliance – a British nonprofit that fights child exploitation, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“Europe is already host to the vast majority of known child sexual abuse material on the internet, but victims and perpetrators can be anywhere. The restriction of automated detection tools in Europe would have major implications for children globally,” she said.

Sex offenders in European countries use social media platforms to contact children around the world with the aim of grooming them, said Dorothea Czarnecki, vice chair of ECPAT Germany, an alliance of 28 children’s rights institutions. Some use translation apps to communicate with victims in countries as far afield as Vietnam, she said.

Opponents of the new directive, called the European Electronic Communications Code, also fear that banning detection tools in Europe could prompt tech firms to stop using them elsewhere, because they have global teams to moderate content.

“If a company in the EU stops using this technology overnight they would stop using it all over the world,” said Emilio Puccio, coordinator of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights.

HIGHLY EFFECTIVE

The tools have proven highly effective at tackling online abuse and tech companies provide law enforcement authorities with about two thirds of the child sexual abuse reports they receive, children’s rights campaigners say.

Facebook, Microsoft and Google did not respond to requests for comment.

In 2019, the U.S.-based nonprofit National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 16.9 million reports from technology companies related to suspected online child sexual exploitation.

If the directive is approved, the ban would cover anti-grooming tools used to detect suspicious activity and “classifier” tools, which help identify pictures and videos that are not already in a database of illegal content.

Leftist members of the European Parliament led by German Socialist Birgit Sippel led the push to ban the use of automatic scanning, arguing that the way the tools are currently used violates privacy and data protection rights.

They were particularly concerned that users of chat and other communication platforms could have the content of private conversations analysed.

“Even voluntary measures by private companies constitute an interference with those rights when the measures involve monitoring and analysis of content of communications and processing of personal data,” their draft proposals said.

Sippel could not be reached to comment, but those in favour of keeping automatic scanning say privacy fears are unfounded.

“Their sole purpose is to identify and flag abuse of children, not to read or spy into private communications,” Setter said.

Anti-grooming technology uses the same mechanisms as spam or malware filters, so poses no greater threat to privacy, said MEP Hilde Vautmans.

“We use these technologies to protect our computers, and we should be able to continue to use the same technologies to protect our own children from sexual abuse,” she said.

So, Birgit wants to throw millions of children under the bus for the sake of imaginary threats to privacy. I'm guessing she doesn't have children.

Today's Global Pervs and Paedos List > 25 y/o SK Man Gets 40 Years; 2 Monstrous Gay Rapists Get 20 Months - Go to Finland Child Rapists

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Young leader of massive, ‘unprecedented in history’ sex blackmail ring online is sentenced to 40 years in South Korean prison

26 Nov, 2020 13:36

Cho Ju-bin, leader of South Korea's online sexual blackmail ring which is so called 'Nth room', walks out of a police station as he is transferred to a prosecutor's office in Seoul, South Korea, March 25, 2020. © Reuters / Kim Hong-Ji;  Pool TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

The 25-year-old leader of an online sexual blackmail ring was sentenced to 40 years in prison in South Korea after being found guilty of coercing at least 74 women, including 16 minors, into providing sexual imagery of themselves.

Cho Ju-bin, convicted on Thursday, was the head of one of the largest online blackmail operations in the world. Prosecutors initially sought a life sentence for Cho, calling his crimes “unprecedented in history.”

“The defendant lured and threatened multiple victims in various ways to produce pornography, and distributed it for a long time to many people,” the judge said of Cho’s modus operandi, according to the Yonhap news agency, adding, “He in particular inflicted irrecoverable damage to many victims by publishing their identities.”

In what authorities described as “virtual enslavement,” Cho was forcing his dozens of victims to share increasingly explicit, degrading and sometimes violent sexual pictures and videos of themselves. The criminal, going by the online nickname ‘baksa’ (Korean for ‘doctor’), was then distributing the material to the members of his chatroom, ‘Baksabang,’ on the messaging app Telegram.

Cho’s ‘Baksabang’ associates were sentenced to jail time from seven to fifteen years.

The ‘doctor’ had been practicing since May 2019 until February this year, and was sentenced by the Seoul Central District Court for violating criminal and child protection laws, Yonhap reported.

“Thank you for putting a brake on the life of a devil that could not be stopped,” the young criminal mastermind said of his own 40-year-sentence, adding, “I apologize to those who were hurt by me.”

Besides getting decades of prison time, Cho was also fined 10.64 million Korean won ($9,600), and will be wearing a monitoring ankle bracelet for 30 years after being released.

Cho’s high-profile case sparked nationwide outrage, (5th story on link), with citizens urging authorities to prosecute not only the ‘Baksabang’ organizers, but also the network’s customers, who collectively paid 1.5 million won ($1.360) for the illegal sexual content. The final verdict has received mixed reaction from the public, with some praising its harshness, and others arguing the punishment was not hard enough.

South Korean law enforcement arrested 124 suspects and 18 operators of chat rooms, including Cho, on the heels of similar sex crimes which took place last year.

'He wanted us as his slaves,' Mark Aspin child sex trial hears

Aspin and his partner Debbie Pickersgill face 27 charges

Debbie Pickersgill told Grimsby Crown Court that Mark Aspin wanted 'his personal sex slaves'

A Hull woman feared she "would be killed" when she told her partner she did not want to participate in threesomes with an underage girl.

Debbie Pickersgill, 46, of Buckingham Street is charged with four counts of sexual activity with a child.

Her partner Mark Aspin is charged with 23 sickening sex offences against children including rape, sexual activity with a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

The pair, who are standing trial at Grimsby Crown Court, deny all of the charges against them.

On Thursday, Ms Pickersgill took to the witness box to tell the jury that she participated in group sex with two underage girls because she was scared she would be "beaten up or killed" by Mr Aspin.

It is alleged Mr Aspin targeted three girls under the age of 16 and sexually abused them.

He claims he was "in love" with one of them and admits he had sex with them, but says he was not sexually attracted to any of them until they turned 16 years old, and did not touch them until then.

Ms Pickersgill claims Mr Aspin was regularly violent with her and all three alleged victims.

She told the jury she often heard "shouting, screaming and swearing", and says Mr Aspin told her he was having sexual relations with one of them, and was "in love" with another, before either of them turned 16.

Ms Pickersgill said her partner started to turn violent just six months into their relationship and would often kick, punch and slap her.

She said when the pair first got together, she "didn't feel very attractive or loved" and within six months, Mr Aspin had "changed" and had turned violent and controlling.

She told the jury the first time it had happened, Mr Aspin "pushed me off the bed, screamed at me and slapped me". "After that he said sorry and started crying and saying he wouldn't do it again and I believed him," she added.

Ms Pickersgill said she recalled two incidents when Mr Aspin "strangled" her - once to the point where she passed out.

Along with his alleged threats, she came to believe he would kill her if she ever told anyone about the alleged sexual abuse of the three underage girls.

She also told of another time when she was dragged across a room and kicked in the ribs.

Ms Pickersgill said the first incident where she had sexual interaction with Mr Aspin and a girl under the age of 16 happened after Mr Aspin had told her he was in love with the girl.

She said: "He just said it. I was a bit shocked and he kept reiterating 'you can't help who you fall in love with', and I thought 'no you can't', but I wasn't best pleased.

"I didn't say anything because if I did say anything out of turn I thought I would be beaten up. He used to ask if I had ever thought about having a threesome with her and when I said 'no' he said I was a prude."

Ms Pickersgill said Mr Aspin told her to kiss and touch one of the girls.

Although Ms Pickersgill said she did not want to, and did not hear the girl consent, she said she was too scared to say "no" as she feared she would be beaten or killed.

She added: "Sometimes the covers would go over her and he [Mr Aspin] would ask 'are you doing it?' and I would say yes but I wasn't."

She said neither of them spoke about it again but the pair would regularly engage in group sex with the same girl and another.

"When I said 'no', he would beat me up," she said, "I would say it was wrong and he would kick and punch me. I just wanted to get away but I was scared he would find me."

Ms Pickersgill told the jury that Mr Aspin later told her he was having sexual intercourse with a third underage girl.

When asked why she did not tell anyone about the abuse, Ms Pickersgill said she had no one she could trust.

The pair are on trial at Grimsby Crown Court (Image: Grimsby Live)

She added that Mr Aspin would threaten her and she was "too scared to speak to anyone in case he found out. He just wanted us as his personal sex slaves," he said.

After an incident in 2014 where Mr Aspin allegedly slapped Ms Pickersgill, she says she left the home in Endeavour Crescent and "walked the streets of Hull" until she ended up at Preston Road Women's Centre, where she told a member of staff about the physical abuse.

The next day, she says she provided a statement to the police, detailing only the physical abuse against herself by Mr Aspin, but withdrew it a day later under his instructions.

Ms Pickersgill told the court: "I saw him at home and he said it was my fault and that he was sorry. He got on his knees and said he loved me and I said to him 'I don't love you, I haven't loved you in a long time'.

"He said 'don't say that', but I said 'I'm saying it'. I didn't care what he did."

Kendal, UK man jailed for five years at Preston Crown Court

for child sex offences

By George Lythgoe NWEM

A MAN who attempted to groom a person he believed to be a child into sexual activity has been jailed for five years.

Aron Bennett, aged 39, of Wildman Street, Kendal, was sentenced on November 6 at Preston Crown Court for the attempt to cause or incite a girl of 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity, send by public communication network an indecent message, attempt to arrange or facilitate the commission of a child sex offence, and as an adult, attempt to engage in sexual communication with a child.

Bennett’s offences came to light when officers were passed information by an online child abuse activist group. The group had used an adult decoy who posed as a 13-year-old girl.

Bennett contacted the decoy in March 2018 attempting to engage them in sexual communication. Bennett sent numerous indecent messages over the subsequent days. Once the information was passed to officers, Bennett was quickly arrested.

A Cumbria Constabulary spokesperson said: “Bennett was persistent in his communications with the person who he believed to be 13 years old, frequently sending them messages of an inappropriate nature, asking for responses and discussing at length sexual acts he wanted to commit.

“Fortunately, the person he chose to communicate with was a decoy, but Bennett’s intent was clearly evident.

“Once the information was known to police, we swiftly arrested Bennett and began our own enquiries which found further offending.”

Supervisor at pool where Kyle Daniels is accused of sexually abusing girls is asked whether she smiled at him in court – as he’s interrogated over a chat with alleged victim's father

By AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 04:11 EST, 26 November 2020

A Sydney pool supervisor who says a father's shocking claim about swim coach Kyle Daniels was 'burnt into my mind' has been challenged over her evidence.

The crown witness, who can't be named, has told the District Court jury the father reported his daughter as having said Daniels 'may' have touched near her front area.

But prosecutor Karl Prince on Thursday referred to her email written soon after the call saying the father said the girl stated her teacher 'put' his hand near her private area.

Daniels, 22, has pleaded not guilty to 26 charges, including multiple counts of having sexual intercourse with a child under 10 and indecently assaulting a person under 16.

He is accused of touching nine of his students aged between five and 10 on or near their genitals while instructing them between February 2018 and February 2019 at a pool on Sydney's north shore.

Mr Prince asked the supervisor on Thursday if she had smiled at Daniels when she went into the witness box on Wednesday.

'I don't think I intentionally did,' she replied. 'It's my first time in court and I was just trying to smile and be normal.'

Smiling in court is not really very normal!

She told Mr Prince the email was not 'quote for quote' about the father's February 2019 phone call, which ultimately led to the police investigation.

By saying 'may have touched' to the jury she said she meant the father said he had not seen the incident himself.

'It was a lot of information. I was quite shocked,' she said. 'I would never have thought anyone would say that about Kyle.'

She had worked with Daniels all the time he was employed at the pool, but 'we never hung out outside work because he was very young, I was a lot older'. She was 'friendly' with him just as she was friendly with all her staff members.

Mr Prince also noted her email said the father reported another daughter coming out of class the following week and saying the same thing about Daniels, but he wasn't sure if she had heard her sibling say this.

But the supervisor told the jury the father said the younger girl's complaint emerged after he directly questioned her.

She again said her email was not 'quote for quote', but agreed this part of the conversation she revealed to the jury was not in the email.

The trial continues before Judge Kara Shead.

Child Rapists - go to Finland, it's almost legal there. Multiple child rapes from 5-15 years old; one child drugged and raped for 10 hours. Penalty - 20 months in prison!!!!!!

Two men convicted of child rapes, get 20 months in prison

Western Uusimaa district court has handed down prison sentences to two men convicted of multiple rapes of children aged between five and 15.

The worst case involved a child drugged and raped for ten hours, according to a statement from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) investigation lead Sanna Springare last year.

Court proceedings were held behind closed doors and the court records were sealed, although the verdict is public.

A former parish councillor and travel industry entrepreneur aged 59 was convicted of two counts of child sexual abuse. The court ruled that the man's actions were sexual in nature and damaging to the victims' development.

The second defendant, aged 51, was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse, keeping indecent images of children and narcotics crimes.

Both men received prison sentences of one year and eight months, and were told to pay compensation of between 1,750 and 6,000 euros plus court costs.

The same two men are also accused of a series of similar crimes in South Ostrobothnia. Yle is not naming them at this stage.

The verdict in that case is due to be handed down on 17 December.

The NBI announced in 2019 that it suspected several Finnish men of involvement in violent sexual abuse of children, and producing images and videos of their crimes.

Police confiscated some 400 hours of illegal video material, some of which was played during the trial. Police say that some of the material depicted especially cruel acts.

The victims were all boys aged between five and 15 when the crimes took place. The crimes themselves were committed between 2004 and 2014.

Unbelievable! How could these monsters get anything less than 40 years in prison? 20 months is pathetic and infuriating! Has the judge absolutely no concern for the welfare of Finish children?

Uusimaa, Finland

Kyabram, AU man to stand trial over child sex crimes

Nov 26 2020

by IVY JENSEN  

Bendigo County Court.

A KYABRAM man charged over historical child sex offences has been committed to stand trial.

Geoffrey Anderson, 69, faced a committal hearing at Bendigo Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday and Thursday, November 25 and 26, where magistrate Megan Aumair determined there was enough evidence for the case to go to trial.

Anderson is charged with 19 sex-related offences, including sexual penetration of a child under 16 and indecent act with a child under 16.

The offences are alleged to have occurred between 1999 and 2004 when the male victim was aged between 11 and 17.

Anderson's bail conditions included surrendering his passports, not to attend points of international departure and not to contact witnesses for the prosecution other than the informant.

A directions hearing has been listed for February 9, 2021, at Bendigo County Court, with a trial date to be fixed.

Anderson was arrested by Bendigo’s Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team on May 20, 2020.