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Greek Olympic Gold Medalist Testifies against sailing coach arrested for allegedly raping 11yo girl
25 Jan 2021 16:25
Straits Times
Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou leaves the prosecutor's office © REUTERS / Alkis Konstantinidis
A Greek sailing coach, whose name hasn’t been revealed, was arrested on Sunday on accusations of raping an 11-year-old girl more than nine years ago, the latest development in a sex abuse scandal that has rocked the country.
The 38-year-old was detained on the island of Samos as police opened an investigation into allegations of rape brought by Olympic champion Sofia Bekatorou, who gave evidence to prosecutors after speaking to the alleged victim, who is now 20 years old.
She and her parents also gave statements to the police regarding the Greek official’s alleged crime.
The coach reportedly denied the allegations, claiming that he had been in a relationship with her and that wanted to marry her.
So, she was 11 and he was 29, and he was in a 'relationship' with her!!!???
Bekatorou, a famed Greek sailor who scooped an Olympic gold in 2004 and a bronze four years later, came forward last week to make the shocking revelation that she had been sexually assaulted when she was a national team member.
Appearing on an online event dedicated to the protection of children, Bekatorou said she was the victim of sexual assault and that the incident took place ahead of the 2000 Sydney Olympics when she was 21.
“I said no, I repeated that I didn't want to go on and he used fake sweet talk and said it is nothing,” Bekatorou said.
“He said he would stop if I didn't want it but he didn't, no matter what I said to him,” she added.
The retired athlete, 43, has inspired others to speak up about their own experience of sexual abuse, uncovering scandals that were hidden for decades.
Aristeidis Adamopoulos stepped down as vice president of the Hellenic Sailing Federation (HSF) last week in the wake of the scandal that undermined the body’s credibility.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee and the Greek government have urged other sex abuse victims to speak out.
Really, every organization in the world where children are involved needs to do an in-depth study on the degree of child sexual abuse. It's not a question of 'if' there was child sex abuse, only a question of how much and how bad it was, and who were the perverts.
Few politicians have the courage to open that can of worms, so children will continue to be sexually assaulted in all venues.
Patriots owner gets happy ending in massage parlor sting case
as judge orders video evidence be destroyed
26 Jan 2021 18:51
Thumbs up: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. © USA Today Sport
Robert Kraft, owner of the NFL's New England Patriots, won't be the star of the internet's latest sex tape after a judge ordered that video evidence against him allegedly engaging in illicit acts in a massage parlor be destroyed.
A Federal judge in Florida ruled that video footage featuring Kraft and several others must be wiped from existence after police surveillance of a massage parlor which was allegedly participating in prostitution and human trafficking was deemed unlawful.
A misdemeanor charge of solicitation against Kraft, who is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Kraft Group, was dropped last year after it was ruled in an appeals court that video evidence featuring Kraft was inadmissible. Legal representatives for Kraft had argued that they were fearful that footage would be leaked to the internet in what would be a highly embarrassing issue for their client.
When reality is embarrassing, someone deserves the embarrassment.
"Considering that the videos never should have been created according to judicial rulings that are binding and conclusive, the videos should be destroyed so that they can never be subject to any misuse, intentional or otherwise," his attorneys stated.
Kraft, 79, was among several people charged in February 2019 in a wide-ranging investigation of massage parlors which were suspected of being engaged in illegal acts with their customers.
Police conducted surveillance of several sites which included installing hidden camera in lobbies and massage rooms, with authorities naming Kraft as being suspected of paying for sex acts with massage parlor workers.
The incidents are alleged to have occurred on consecutive days in January 2019 at the Orchids of Asia spa in Jupiter, Florida.
Kraft pleaded not guilty to the charges but subsequently issued a public apology in relation to them.
The hypocrisy is astounding!
"I am truly sorry. I know I have hurt and disappointed my family, my close friends, my co-workers, our fans and many others who rightfully hold me to a higher standard," he said.
The Florida court also ruled that a "neutral third party" will oversee the destruction of the offending evidence.
Westminster paedophile ring: Jailed Charles Napier
will be told to name VIP abusers
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The former treasurer of the Paedophile Information Exchange and half-brother
of a Tory MP will be questioned again by detectives after being jailed last week
By Keir Mudie
08:42, 28 DEC 2014
Caged child abuser Charles Napier faces a grilling by detectives who believe he could help expose a network of VIP paedophiles with links to Westminster.
Officers probing claims that span decades think the former teacher – jailed last week for abusing 23 boys – can name Establishment figures including peers, Government ministers, civil servants and police.
Napier, 67, was treasurer of the twisted Paedophile Information Exchange, which campaigned on behalf of paedophiles in the 1970s and 1980s and argued that the age of consent should be lowered to FOUR.
Dossiers compiled by campaigning MP Geoffrey Dickens and handed to former Home Secretary Leon Brittan in the 1980s were said to contain damning evidence about the group.
The allegations now form a key part of the large-scale Scotland Yard probe, which includes claims three young boys were murdered by a powerful VIP network.
A source close to the investigation said: “Now that he has been jailed police are going to want to talk to him again. He was treasurer of the PIE. That means he would know the names of a lot of the people involved. He must have more to tell the police.”
Napier was sentenced to 13 years for sex attacks on 23 boys between 1967 and 1983. The pervert admitted 30 indecent assault charges and one offence of indecency against a child.
Abuser: Charles Napier was treasurer of the Paedophile Information Exchange
Several high-profile abusers are thought have been members of PIE, including Peter Righton and former spy Geoffrey Prime.
The late Labour politician Barbara Castle is said to have named members of the group in a dossier seized by Special Branch in the 1980s amid allegations of a cover-up.
The Met Police are now trying to find the missing files and those compiled by Mr Dickens.
Officers recently revealed there are now 18 separate operations probing historic allegations in the 70s and 80s – and campaigners believe Napier would have had a full list of those involved with PIE.
Whistleblower Peter McKelvie, a former local authority child protection chief who has been fighting to bring abusers to justice, said: “Napier is an evil, calculating, manipulative paedophile.
"The charges he was found guilty on were the tip of the iceberg.
“In 1993 I spoke to three victims who refused to give evidence.
“One told me very convincingly that Napier took him to parties where he was introduced to the rich and famous and that Righton was involved in all these activities.”
On the trail: The People has led the way in investigating the Westminster VIP paedophile network
Mr McKelvie believes Napier – who has said he regrets his actions – should now come clean about everything he knows.
He added: “I don’t believe he has shown one iota of remorse in an adulthood dedicated to the ruthless pursuit of vulnerable children purely to abuse sexually.
“As a test of his newfound ‘remorse’, he can share all the names of the rich and famous who attended the parties that his victims referred to.
“As PIE treasurer in its peak period of membership in the mid-1970s, Napier holds the key to the identity of hundreds of dangerous abusers who continued to abuse thousands of children over many decades.
“He can now pass all this to police as testament to his newfound regret and remorse.”
The Sunday People was the first newspaper to track down Napier, who is the half-brother of Conservative MP John Whittingdale. He was found in picturesque Sherborne, Dorset.
After we passed our information to police, Napier was arrested as part of Operation Cayacos – an offshoot of Fairbank, which was set up to investigate allegations of historical child abuse.
Fellow pervert: Former child care expert and secret PIE member Peter Righton
At the time of our probe we spoke to respected author and journalist Francis Wheen, a former pupil at the boarding school Napier taught at.
The 57-year-old said: “He recruited a few of us, saying ‘Spend more time in the gym’ and appointed himself gym master.
"There was a room off the gym and that became his haunt. Four or five of us started going down there, vaulting over horses and things like that, in our gym shorts in all our innocence.
“At the end of it he would take us into his room off the gym and give us beer and cigarettes – bottles of Mackeson’s and Senior Service untipped.
“We thought this was all terrifically exciting. Here we were, 11 years old, being given beer and fags. We were thinking that he was on our side, not like any of the other masters.
“Of course, this was for an ulterior purpose, which very soon became clear when he stuck his hand down my gym shorts and I had to sort of fight him off.”
Exposed: The People found Napier in 2012
Sick Napier then revealed his technique for grooming the youngsters by trying to humiliate him.
Mr Wheen said: “He said ‘Don’t be such a baby’ and said I wasn’t grown-up enough for that sort of thing.
“He would point to a couple of other boys, saying ‘They let me do it, you just won’t let me because you’re so babyish’.
“I think he was hoping I’d say ‘No, I’m as grown up as them’ and let him get on with it but I didn’t.
“It meant I was excluded from his ‘charmed circle’ but by then I knew where he kept his beer and cigarettes. I used to break into his room, steal them and then go and sit in the woods.”
Mr Wheen visited Southwark Crown Court last week to see Napier sentenced.
He described the jail term as “a signal the judge was giving – these things will be pursued now, even if it’s 46 years later don’t think you’ve got away with it”.
Victim: Journalist and former pupil Francis Wheen (Image: Nick Cunard/Writer Pictures)
Mr Wheen admitted there had been times before the sentence when he almost felt pity for the pervert – but those feelings quickly evaporated.
He said: “I am glad that it’s been done. I’m glad that it’s happened after all these years.
“I thought in the last year or two, ‘Well, he’s getting quite old, maybe it wasn’t that serious,’ feeling a tiny bit of pity occasionally.
“But I don’t feel that now, hearing as we’ve heard about the sheer extent of what he was doing right under our noses while I was at school with all these other boys.
“We just had no idea of the scale of what he was doing and how damaged some of them were by what he did. Any element of pity disappeared fairly quickly.”
Former Arsenal ace jailed for sexual activity with 14-yo girl
27 Jan 2021 16:30
Tyrell Robinson © Global Look Press / Thomas Gadd
Ex-Bradford City winger Tyrell Robinson, who was also a member Arsenal's academy, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after admitting to sexual activity with an underage girl.
His friend Korie Berman received six years in jail after being found guilty of five charges of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a girl aged 14.
Robinson invited three underage girls to his flat in Bradford in August 2018 with Berman also joining the party.
The ex-player, who was subsequently sacked by Bradford, knew about the girls’ age, as he discussed with Berman that they were underage, joking on Snapchat about feeling like pedophiles.
"Bro, I feel like a paedo," Berman messaged Robinson.
The three girls, who had been drinking, came to the players' flat where Berman and Robinson gave them more alcohol.
Robinson took his victim to his bedroom and had sex with her, while Berman had sex with the other two girls who said they had little or no recollection of what he had done to them.
Robinson also took a photograph of his flatmate, Berman, lying in bed with the two naked victims before sending the photo to him on Snapchat.
Judge Richard Mansell, who delivered the verdict at Bradford Crown Court, said that the harm the two men caused was "considerable."
"The harm you have caused to the three young girls and their families is considerable. It is perfectly clear that you were sexually attracted to one or more of these girls,” he said.
Making him a paedophile, or, at least, a pederast.
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