Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Hollywood Politician Ed Buck Convicted; Amber Rudd's Daughter; Pr. Charles Foundation Chair

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Ed Buck convicted in meth overdose deaths of

Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean

Dane Brown hugs Assistant U.S. Atty. Lindsay Bailey outside a Los Angeles federal courthouse.

Dane Brown, who nearly died of a meth overdose in Ed Buck’s apartment, hugs Assistant U.S. Atty. Lindsay Bailey after a federal jury convicted Buck of every charge in a nine-count indictment. Buck was found guilty of supplying the meth that killed Gemmel Moore, whose mother, LaTisha Nixon, left, is smiling. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

BY MICHAEL FINNEGAN, HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS

JULY 27, 2021 UPDATED 7:16 PM PT

Ed Buck, a longtime fixture of West Hollywood politics, was convicted Tuesday of charges that he supplied the methamphetamine that killed two men during “party and play” encounters at his apartment.

In a gruesome case of an older white man using his power and money to exploit the poverty and drug addiction of younger Black men, the jury found Buck guilty of every charge in a nine-count indictment. Among them were maintaining a drug den, distribution of methamphetamine and enticement to cross state lines to engage in prostitution.

Buck, 66, could spend the rest of his life in prison. His two convictions for supplying the meth that resulted in death each carry a minimum sentence of 20 years.

The verdict concluded a two-week trial that featured harrowing testimony by men hired by Buck to show off their bodies in underwear and get high on crystal meth and the party drug GHB. Excerpts from Buck’s hundreds of graphic videos and photos of the drugs-and-sex sessions left spectators wincing at the trial.

Buck’s obsessive pursuit of his dangerous fetish led to the overdose deaths of two Black men in his apartment: Gemmel Moore, 26, in July 2017, and Timothy Dean, 55, in January 2019.

It was only in September 2019, after a third Black man nearly died of an overdose, that Buck was arrested — a delay that fueled angry protests by activists who accused law enforcement officials of failing to aggressively investigate a politically influential white man. Buck, a onetime candidate for West Hollywood’s City Council, made more than $500,000 in campaign donations over the last couple of decades, nearly all of it to Democrats.

“Ed Buck will never harm anyone else, and I thank God for that,” said Joyce Jackson, who with her sister Joann Campbell flew to L.A. from Tampa, Fla., to join their brother Timothy Dean’s tight circle of friends at the trial.

Dean was an avid basketball player — one friend described his style as “poetic” — who worked as a fashion consultant at Saks Fifth Avenue.

ED BUCK is facing charges of running a drug house where he preyed on vulnerable black men.

Al Seib,  Los Angeles Times, CALIFORNIA

The trial wound up giving voice to the men Buck victimized. Some of them were homeless and doing escort work to survive when Buck first invited them over; one lived in a tent under a 105 Freeway overpass. Buck paid the men extra when they let him inject them with meth, they testified. They said he enjoyed seeing them get so high that they lost control.

There is more on this story at the Los Angeles Times.

Journalist & daughter of former Tory MP tweets then deletes

(im)modest proposal

29 Jul, 2021 18:21

After proposing the creation of “entry-level porn” for teens, British journalist Flora Gill deleted her tweets and asked that they be forgotten. As the daughter of former Tory MP Amber Rudd found out, Twitter isn’t very forgiving.

“Hear me out,” Gill tweeted on Thursday, proposing that “Someone needs to create porn for children.” Teenagers are already watching pornography, she argued, but all they see are hardcore, “aggressive videos that give a terrible view of sex,” so they “need entry-level porn!” 

In her view, this would look like a “softcore site where everyone asks for consent and no one gets choked,” and so on.

The take was so nuclear – or would that be toxic? – that Gill found herself trending and quickly deleted both the original post and the clarification that she was referring to teens when she said “children.”

“One of the most vile things I’ve read on here,” commented Breitbart UK journalist Chris Tomlinson in response. “Utterly evil.”

Gill also made it on the notorious ‘List’ of people who should get their phones taken away, humorously maintained by US journalist Siraj Hashmi. 

Faced with the backlash, Gill said she deleted the tweets so she wouldn’t get “swept up into another twitter cesspool,” adding that her proposal was “Obviously not an actual solution,” to a “real problem.”

That wasn’t going to help make her “stupid” tweet about pornography for children get forgotten, another writer replied.

A lot of the reactions brought up nepotism, as Gill is the daughter of Amber Rudd, a longtime Conservative member of parliament, best remembered as Home Secretary in Theresa May’s cabinet.

Rudd resigned as MP and surrendered the party whip after a debacle between Tory MPs over whether to lean towards a ‘no-deal’ Brexit.

Gill’s Twitter biography lists pronouns and bylines in outlets like GQ, The Sunday Times Magazine, Evening Standard, and a podcast on Radio Times, among other things.

A pinned link leads to a Times article about nudism from May, while a tweet from June features a photo of her brother with a phallic-themed cake.

Good grief!

Prince Charles' ex-aide denies introducing Jeffrey Epstein victim

to paedophile

Eileen Guggenheim, pictured left, and Brooke Shields (Image: Getty)

EXCLUSIVE: Former Prince’s Foundation vice-chair Eileen Guggenheim, now dean of the New York Academy of Arts, is alleged by a former student to have introduced her to Epstein, who later abused her

By Christopher Bucktin, United States Editor 

Chris White, 14:43, 26 Aug 2020

A former aide to Prince Charles has denied claims by a victim of Jeffrey Epstein that she introduced her to the billionaire paedophile.

Former Prince’s Foundation vice-chair Eileen Guggenheim, now dean of the New York Academy of Arts, is claimed by a former student to have introduced her to Epstein, who later abused her.

Lawyers for Guggenheim have vehemently denied the accusations.

Maria Farmer, 50, alleges she flew to his New Mexico ranch in 1995 for a study trip where she was encouraged to flirt with him as he was a big NYAA donor.

She claims she and her younger sister, Annie, were later abused by him and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.

A report by the NYAA insists Guggenheim, 69, played “no role” in introducing the Farmers to Epstein, concluding there was “no evidence to credibly support” her claims.

Maria Farmer alleges she flew to Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 1995 for a study trip where she was encouraged to flirt ( Image: CBS/YouTube)

Another student who went to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe in 1995 said the young women were pressured to play games that involved “sexual objects” with Epstein and Maxwell. Guggenheim denied being present.

Three ex-students confirmed the meeting, one calling it the “weirdest dinner party I’ve ever been to”. Guggenheim had denied ever being in the ranch.

When Farmer, Ursula Ruedenberg, and one other went public with their claims, Guggenheim said she saw the property under construction but “did not visit any home there or have a meal there”.

Her lawyers said: “Ms Farmer’s claims with regard to the ranch are inconsistent and have changed over time.

“Ms Guggenheim’s visit was very brief; she took a tour of the grounds with the former students and left shortly thereafter. That explains her initial failure to recollect having ever travelled to the ranch.

Sounds like Guggenheim's claims have changed over time.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ( Image: Getty)

“It was only after seeing a photograph which depicted Ms Guggenheim, Ms Farmer, and three former students during the daylight... on the grounds, that she recalled her brief visit.

She does not recall being inside any building on the property, anything out of the ordinary occurring, nor any of the students reporting an incident to her.

“Ms Farmer has said she found her visit unsettling, which she has attributed to the presence of Epstein and Maxwell.

Notwithstanding her explanations long after the event, in the context of how events transpired, she subsequently accepted a job with Epstein.”

Guggenheim said: “Had any student expressed to me their personal discomfort over actions by Mr Epstein I would have immediately addressed the situation and offered my support. At that time neither I nor anyone at the NYAA had any knowledge of Mr Epstein’s predatory behaviour.”

Farmer claims Guggenheim “asked me to sit on his lap and flirt with him... ‘Do it for the academy, Maria’.”

Guggenheim’s lawyers said: “The allegation Ms Guggenheim encouraged Ms Farmer to flirt and sit on Epstein’s knee is categorically denied and completely baseless."

Bill Clinton and Eileen Guggenheim ( Image: Getty)

Zorro Ranch, one of the properties of financier and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein ( Image: Reuters)

In a report commissioned by the NYAA, lawyer Jim Walden – who was previously the Academy and Guggenheim’s personal lawyer – found there was no evidence linking Guggenheim to any of Epstein’s abuse.

No chance of any bias there!!!

The report said: “It is difficult to give any credence to Farmer’s claim that Guggenheim was in any way responsible for Annie Farmer’s meeting of Epstein or her sexual abuse by Epstein and Maxwell.”

Several NYAA board members quit over the response.

An open letter signed by nearly 100 students and alumni last month slammed its “victim-blaming rhetoric” and a “focus on discrediting Farmer’s testimony rather than delving into Epstein’s involvement with the NYAA board, financial ties to the school or his relationship to Guggenheim”.

The Academy’s executive committee apologised to Farmer and vowed to give £22,650 to a charity for victims of sexual assault.

The board said: “Some conclusions in the report blamed Ms Farmer, and we regret they were included.”

Approaching Sodom > Female Inmates Molested by Trans; Kids Told to Hide Survey from Parents; WHO and Abortion Laws

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Prison Guards Protected Trans Paedophile

Who Molested Female Inmates

17:58 GMT 24.07.2021

by James Tweedie,

The Daily Mail

The Ministry of Justice adopted a policy in 2016 of allowing convicts declaring themselves transgender to be housed in prisons for their assumed sex, not their biological one, whether or not they hold an official Gender Recognition Certificate. It later emerged that one in 50 men being sent to prison was self-identifying as a trans woman.

This decision was made with absolutely no scientific data to support it. It is one of the most spectacularly stupid policies man has ever devised. 

UK prison officers allowed a transgender convicted child rapist in a woman's prison to sexually harass and assault other inmates for fear of being branded "transphobic", a victim has revealed.

Feminist lesbian writer Julie Bindel interviewed 'Amy', a former female inmate at  HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Middlesex, for Saturday's edition of the Daily Mail. The former convict said the prisoner referred to only as 'J' grabbed her breasts in one attack.

"The look in her eyes was frightening," Amy said. "She leered at me before lunging forward and grabbing my breasts hard. She squeezed them and I cried out in pain. I was terrified she would rape me."

38-year-old mother of one Amy said J, who was serving time for the rape of a 13-year-old girl, manipulated officials with claims prison rules infringed 'her' rights — and intimidated female prisoners by exposing her penis to them.

"When J went for a shower, the prison put a sign on the door saying that no one else should enter, because they knew it could upset the women if they saw her naked, but J objected to this and said it was an infringement of her human rights," Amy said.

"She said, 'I am a woman and I want to shower with other women.' Just before she assaulted me, she was seen with the shower curtain open, her genitals in full view of the other women."

Amy, who was raped at 13 — the same age as J's victim — and became a drug addict by 15, said the women's prison was at least a safe haven from the abuse she had long suffered from male sexual predators.

She worked in the prison's gym, but was appalled when J was given a job cleaning the toilets there — where the assault eventually took place.

"It was supposed to be my sanctuary," Amy said. "I felt so distressed. Prison is an awful place to be under any circumstances, and this just made it 100 times worse."

Another woman complained to guards that J had rubbed her erect penis against her buttocks while they queued for food in the prison canteen — which Amy said was not an isolated incident — but no action was taken.

"She would wear very tight trousers which made it obvious she had male genitals," Amy recalled. "The prison officers protected her more than they did us. They were terrified of being accused of transphobia."

The former prisoner, now trying to rebuild her life on the outside, likened the policy to putting a drunk in charge of a bar.

“What were the officers even thinking, letting her clean toilets in which women would be in a state of undress and alone? Why was there a child sex offender with a penis cleaning the toilets of the gym in a women's prison?" Amy asked.

“If a trans woman is in for violence against women, or sex offences against women or children, you should not be in prison with women. It's like putting a crack addict in a crack house, or an alcoholic in a pub," she stressed.

“Sex offenders should never be in prison with women. Most women in there have gone through child abuse and domestic violence and rape. What if someone is raped?”

Amy took action against the prison service to force them to transfer her to another jail. Eventually, she was moved to HMP Downview in Banstead, Surrey — only to find to her horror later that J had also been transferred to a new 15-place transgender wing at the same prison.

"The reception officer told me and I felt like I had been punched in the stomach," Amy said. "They moved me for my own protection, and then I ended up back in the same prison as this person who had sexually assaulted me."

'Self-Identification' Policy 

The Ministry of Justice adopted a policy in 2016 of allowing convicts declaring themselves transgender to be housed in prisons for their assumed sex, not their biological one, whether or not they hold an official Gender Recognition Certificate. It later emerged that one in 50 men being sent to prison was self-identifying as a trans woman. 

In 2018 trans woman Karen White was convicted of the rape of two women prisoners at a prison where she was being held on remand for another sexual offence. The judge who sentenced White called her "highly manipulative".

Amy recently brought an unsuccessful judicial review case against the ministry in a bid to that policy, and a civil action for compensation against the prison and the ministry.

In his judicial review judgement, Lord Justice Holroyde conceded that many women prisoners would "suffer fear and acute anxiety if required to share prison accommodation and facilities with transgender women with male genitalia and convictions for sexual and violent offences against women".

Minnesota Student Says Teacher Told Her to Hide

‘Equity Survey’ Questions From Parents

July 24, 2021 

A Sartell-St. Stephen School District student is speaking out after the school required grade-school children to take an equity survey.

Some students didn’t understand some of the surveys questions, but were told by a teacher they couldn’t repeat the survey questions to their parents, according to a video uploaded by Alphanews.

The survey asked questions that some students didn’t understand. Even after hearing an explanation from their teacher, some still couldn’t comprehend the survey questions.

But a teacher told the students they couldn’t ask their parents for help, according to student Haylee Yasgar.

“My teacher said that I could not skip any questions even when I didn’t understand them. One question asked us what gender we identify with. I was very confused along with a lot of other classmates,” Yasgar said during Monday night’s meeting.

She said students were told they could not “repeat any of the questions to our parents.”

Hayley Yasgar spoke to her school board about how 'uncomfortable and nervous' she felt when her teacher told her not to discuss the questions of the equity survey with her parents

The school district hasn’t yet responded to a request for comment. It’s unclear what value a survey holds if respondents don’t understand the questions.

It would appear that the students were too young for that particular survey. Either that or the survey just makes no sense to normal people.

“Being asked to hide this from my mom made me very uncomfortable, like I was doing something wrong,” she told the school board.

School teachers should never be teaching children to lie to, or hide something from their parents. This is a form of moral abuse. Lying to a parent is often the cause of teenage rebellion and loss of communication between parents and teens.

The equity survey is part of a reckoning of how school systems nationwide should teach issues related not only to sexuality but as well as race in a state where George Floyd died in police custody last year.

Now that the city settled a lawsuit for $27 million and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for third-degree murder and manslaughter, the question now remains how school systems should explain similar events to children.

Some parents call the curriculum divisive while supporters say it’s teaching history and showing how racist attitudes and activities such as redlining are embedded into daily life.

Despite being more than 40 years old, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has evolved to a flashpoint between political parties over the past year.

CRT holds that “the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans,” according to Britannica.

CRT scholars allege many societal problems are rooted in the country’s white majority using laws and other power to suppress the non-white population, whether consciously or subconsciously.

CRT opponents claim its conclusions rely on anecdotes and storytelling, rather than a comprehensive examination of evidence. They say its supporters focus on disproportionate outcomes from those individual stories, incorrectly drawing conclusions about institutional racism and white privilege and failing to take into account strides that the nation has made toward racial equality.

Critics say CRT employs heavy use of the Marxist “struggle” ideology and tactic that advocates for the destruction of history, traditions, and culture of a society.

Around the United States, there has been a growing movement of parents who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the CRT-derived curriculum being taught in their children’s classrooms.

It's disappointing to me that the only question referred to in this piece was one of gender identity, but the writer of this article goes off on the Critical Race Theory completely ignoring the gender issue which is probably far more important.

The instructions to keep parents in the dark came from Equity Alliance of Minnesota and school admin. It appears that Equity Alliance diverted questions from media to the Critical Race Theory avoiding any discussion of gender fluidity.

World Health Organization Prepares to Escalate Attack

on Pro-Life Laws

By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. |

 July 29, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 30 (C-Fam) The World Health Organization (WHO) is updating its technical and policy guidance on “safe abortion.” A recent publication strongly suggests that the forthcoming guidance will increase pressure on countries to remove legal protections from unborn children and health workers who object to participating in abortions.

A paper published in BMJ Global Health presents a method for linking abortion laws and policies with health outcomes in order to help policymakers “produce stronger guidance related to abortion” and potentially other areas of law.

The paper was commissioned as part of WHO’s process of updating its 2012 guidance on “safe abortion,” which was notable for promoting as “safe” methods of abortion in developing regions what would be unacceptable in more developed countries.  This trend in WHO guidance has only increased in recent years, from delegating the provision of abortion to lower-tier health workers to promoting abortion as a “self-care” intervention without involving health professionals at all.

The WHO is working to remove legal as well as medical safeguards around abortion.  In 2017, it launched a legal and policy database on abortion intended to “eliminate the barriers that women encounter in accessing safe abortion services.”  The BMJ Global Health paper seeks to build on that database to draw causal links between pro-life laws and adverse health outcomes from “unsafe” abortions.

For data on health outcomes, the WHO often looks to the work of pro-abortion research groups like the Guttmacher Institute and others who explicitly advocate for liberalized abortion laws.

Specifically, the paper focuses on laws mandating waiting periods, parental or spousal involvement, gestational limits, criminalization, provider restrictions and conscientious objection by health care providers.  According to the authors, “[c]urrently, WHO guidelines make no recommendations related to these legal interventions, but describe them as regulatory and policy barriers that may influence access to timely, safe abortion care.”

This may be about to change.  The updated WHO “safe abortion” guidance has not yet been published, but the WHO pledged to “disseminat[e] updated guidelines on safe abortion” as one of its commitments at the recent Generation Equality Forum in Paris.

In June, the organization She Decides, which was founded to oppose former U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-life foreign policies, published an open letter stating that “every woman everywhere has the right to safe, legal abortion.”  The letter goes on to say, “[w]e want to see the upcoming revised WHO guidelines on safe abortion implemented,” strongly implying that the guidelines will represent a more aggressive attack on pro-life laws in countries around the world.

The WHO has a long and well-documented history of promoting abortion, asserting that “[a]ccess to safe abortion protects women’s and girls’ health and human rights.”

Abortion has never been accepted as a human right by any global agreement, nor in any binding global human rights treaty.  At the landmark International Conference on Population and Development, the consensus position was that abortion laws are solely for countries to determine—a standard that remains in place after a quarter of a century of UN debates.

The WHO justifies its position based on the non-binding opinions of members of treaty monitoring bodies and other experts within the UN’s human rights bodies.  These groups and individuals have long been criticized for exceeding their mandates on abortion and other social issues, but little has been done to meaningfully hold them to account.

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This Week's Catholic Pervs and Paedos List > 25% of Poland's Paedos are Priests; Priest Gagged by AB; No Sign of Repentance in Catholic Church

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Every fourth pedophilia suspect in Poland is a priest,

state commission reveals

27 Jul, 2021 11:32

FILE PHOTO: People carry a banner, reading “Bishop, hiding pedophilia is a crime,”

during a protest in Warsaw. © Reuters / Jacek Marczewski

Nearly 30% of all sexual offences against minors in Poland are linked to representatives of the clergy, the State Commission on Pedophilia revealed in its first report.

The commission, which was established by the government in 2019, shared the results of its work on Monday in a 250-page paper. 

The experts examined 349 pedophilia cases during this period, with priests being suspects in around 100 of them. More than 50 of these cases have been forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office, the report said.

The commission also criticized the Polish Catholic Church for its unwillingness to cooperate with the government on the controversial issue.

“In countries like Australia and the US, the church leaders have long understood that tackling pedophilia and working together with the authorities in this area is a matter of elementary credibility of their institutions,” but this wasn’t the case in Poland, the paper stated.

The materials contained in the report were “frightening,” but they only proved that the fight against these “heinous crimes” must continue, Blazej Kmieciak, the commission’s chairman, said.

But not only priests and strangers were accused of molesting children, with some offences attributed to family members, including parents, in 35% of the cases, the report read. The majority were men (94%), it added.

Most of the victims were aged between 11 and 15, but there were also many between 3 and 10. The youngest child to suffer sexual abuse among the cases viewed by the commission was just one year old.

The report emphasized the severe psychological trauma suffered by sexually abused children. It urged the cases against pedophiles to be prioritized by prosecutors and recommended that a special position of ‘child advocate’ be introduced to deal with them.

Poland is a mainly Catholic country, and the church has been plagued by accusations of sexual abuse against minors for year. In 2019, public pressure forced it to release a report saying it had recorded almost 400 cases of priests molesting 625 children since 1990. However, the names of the offenders remained undisclosed. 

A documentary which came out the same year claimed that the pedophile priests were never punished for their sins, but were only transferred to another parish where they could continue their criminal behavior.

I'm pretty sure priests don't make up a quarter of the population of men in Poland, so they are vastly over-represented in Paedophile ranks. Is this only in Poland, or is it like that in other mainly Catholic countries?

Priest gagged for saying Canada residential-school victims lied about

abuse for ‘extra money’ & joke about shooting church vandals

29 Jul, 2021 15:36

© Getty Images / Pascal Deloche / Godong

A Catholic priest has been barred from speaking publicly by a Canadian archdiocese, after accusing residential-school survivors of lying about sexual abuse to get more money, and of speaking about wanting to shoot church vandals.

The inflammatory statements, made over a number of weeks by Father Rhéal Forest at St. Emile Roman Catholic Church in Winnipeg, were even shared on the church’s Facebook page, but have since been taken down.

During a mass on July 10, Forest said the survivors lied about being sexually abused in a ploy to receive more money in the settlement process with the federal government. He blamed “evil” media for raking up the “fake news” issue of abuse in residential schools.

“If they wanted extra money, from the money that was given to them, they had to lie sometimes – lie that they were abused sexually and another $50,000,” he said, adding: “It’s kind of hard if you’re poor not to lie.”

It might be the kind of thing that he would do in that position, but most child sex abuse survivors are not after money but acknowledgment. I expect this does happen in all countries where the Catholic Church is making reparations for its inconceivable sins, but I believe it to be very rare. Forest has a naive view of his brother priests.

In the same sermon, he said that most of the indigenous people he knew from spending 22 years working “up north” had good experiences at residential schools. He noted that there may have been some instances of abuse like “in any institution” but said this was not at the hands of the priests and nuns, but “lay workers.”

Then, at a mass on July 18, Forest spoke of having “thoughts of anger” as he passed by a local church that had been vandalized with the words “Save the children”. This has been a phrase used by indigenous groups during protests relating to residential schools.

“If I had a shotgun at night and I’d see them, I’d go, ‘Boom!’ just to scare them and if they don’t run away, I’ll shoot them,” Forest said and laughed.

However, he quickly backtracked and said “this would not help.”

“It’s bad to do that. I’d go have a chat with them,” said Forest, who was temporarily placed at the church while the regular pastor was on vacation.

His anger should be directed at the priests and Catholic lay workers who created that atmosphere that resulted in the defacement and burning of Catholic churches.

Daniel Bahuaud, a spokesperson for the archdiocese, told CBC news that Archbishop Albert LeGatt had “completely disavow(ed)” Forest’s comments and banned him from public speaking.

“We very much regret the pain they may have caused to many people, not least of course indigenous people and, more specifically, survivors of the residential school system,” said Bahuaud, who added that Archbishop LeGatt would decide if any further punishment was necessary.

In recent months, several churches across the country have been targeted in arson and vandalism attacks, as public anger grew following the discovery of more than 1,000 unmarked graves at former residential school sites.

Catholic church spent millions meant for Canada residential school

victims on lawyers & expenses – court documents seen by media

29 Jul, 2021 14:27

Staked red dresses are seen along the highway near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School

in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, on June 3, 2021. © Cole BURSTON / AFP

Millions of dollars that were supposed to go to Canadian residential school survivors as part of a 2005 settlement were reportedly spent by the Catholic Church on lawyers, fundraising, administration costs and unapproved loans.

At least 150,000 indigenous children were forced to attend some 140 residential schools across the country, which were funded by the federal government and run by churches. The children had been forcibly taken from their families in order to strip them of their cultural identity.

Under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) between the Canadian federal government, indigenous representatives and the various church bodies that operated the schools, more than Can$3 billion (US$2.4 billion) has been paid to compensate survivors, as of March 2021.

While the other churches have apparently paid their amounts-due in full, the Catholic Church has failed to meet its quota. Besides being required to make a lump cash payment of Can$29 million (US$23.2 million) and provide Can$25 million (US$ 20 million) of “in-kind services,” the church was to give its “best efforts” to raise Can$25 million (US$20 million) for survivors.

The church had claimed to have paid most of the cash amount and fulfilled its “in-kind services” commitment. In 2015, it invoked the “best efforts” clause in court where a judge absolved it of the legal obligation to pay the remaining unpaid sum of $21 million (US$16.8 million) from that fundraising campaign.

In recent weeks, it has emerged that the church was able to raise around $300 million (US$240 million) for construction and renovation projects during the same time period that it claimed it could only raise a total of $3.9 million (US$3.1 million) for residential school survivors.

Now, court documents accessed by CBC news reportedly contradict the church’s claims. A federal government “factum” document that summarized the evidence from the 2015 court case pointed to “a large number of serious accounting discrepancies that are alarming to Canada.”

The church had also not filed its mandatory annual financial statements to the government until 2012 – five years after IRSSA went into effect in 2007, according to the documents seen by the CBC.

From the Can$29-million cash payment, some $2.7 million (US$2.1 million) was reportedly paid to lawyers and an additional $2.3 million (US$1.84 million) was spent on administration expenses – something no other church group claimed.

As well, Can$1.6 million (US$1.28 million) was claimed as donations made to projects related to indigenous issues. These projects were not covered in the approval process and no explanation or invoices have reportedly been provided to back these claims.

The church’s accountant testified that it had provided the Can$25 million of “in-kind services” but he had admitted that he relied only on “minutes of meetings” supplied by church officials.

As for the Can$25-million fundraising campaign that eventually only raised $3.9 million, the accountant told the court that many donations came with a “string attached” that instructed him on where to put the money. This was, again, apparently contrary to the agreement.

Federal government lawyers had also asked the judge to declare the church had not fulfilled its obligations and order an independent review of the expenses, among other recommendations.

However, ahead of the 2015 hearing on the case, the judge approved a controversial $1.2 million (US$962,418) church buyout proposal and the case was closed without it having to justify any expenditure.

Court officials recently declined to make that 2015 court document public. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents First Nations communities in Saskatchewan province, claimed this refusal was an example of “systemic racism.”

A Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) official told CBC news that it is “committed to continue engaging and listening” but declined to comment on the issue.

In recent months, more than 1,000 unmarked graves believed to belong to indigenous children have been found at former residential school sites across the country. The discoveries have prompted public anger over the failure of government and church bodies to properly address what has been termed as a “cultural genocide.”

How could it be anything else when the motto was to 'destroy the Indian in the child'? The Catholic response to the settlement agreement revealed a complete lack of repentance and a culture that more resembles the Mafia than a God-fearing church.

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Canadian Fertility Doctor Used Own Sperm To Produce At Least 17 Births

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Disgraced fertility doctor agrees to $13M settlement with families, including 17 'Barwin babies'

$75K set aside for DNA database to help children identify their biological fathers

Amanda Pfeffer · CBC News · 

Posted: Jul 28, 2021 12:47 PM ET 

Rebecca Dixon, left, is shown with her parents, Davina and Dan. The family members are named as the lead plaintiffs on a class-action lawsuit against disgraced fertility doctor Norman Barwin. (Submitted)

Families who claim disgraced Ottawa fertility doctor Norman Barwin used the wrong sperm — or even his own sperm — in the conception of at least 100 children could receive a portion of a multi-million-dollar payout after a judge certified the class-action lawsuit launched in 2016.

The Ontario Superior Court certified the class-action suit in the landmark case at a hearing on Wednesday, which includes a negotiated proposed settlement worth $13.375 million. 

"While I am aware of a few other doctors in the world who did what Dr. Barwin did, I am not aware of any other class action or settlement like this anywhere else in the world," said Peter Cronyn, the lawyer representing the families.

The class action has grown to 226 members, including former patients and children conceived through artificial insemination — 17 of whom have discovered Barwin is their biological father through DNA.

The lead plaintiffs, Dan and Davina Dixon, had sought Barwin's help to conceive a child together, with their daughter Rebecca born in 1990. Only in recent years did the family learn that Barwin — not Dan Dixon — is Rebecca's biological father.

In 2019, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario stripped Barwin of his medical licence, finding he had committed professional misconduct by using his own sperm to inseminate several patients and using the wrong sperm with many others. Barwin pleaded no contest at the time and was ordered to pay a fine of $10,730.

The class-action agreement states the negotiated settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing by Barwin, who "has denied and continues to deny all of the plaintiffs' claims in this action," according to the document certified Wednesday.

Norman Barwin was stripped of his licence to practise medicine in 2019. (CBC)

Bernard Norman Barwin is a former general practitioner and medical professor. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1997, but resigned the award in 2013 after admitting to professional misconduct. Wikipedia

The document also states Barwin agreed to the negotiated settlement, concluding "this agreement is desirable in order to avoid the time, risk and expense of continuing with the litigation."

Settlement funds would be distributed among claimants according to "categories of harm," as well as cover legal and administrative costs. And $75,000 would be set aside to set up and operate a DNA database for Barwin's patients, sperm donors and the children conceived, who will all be offered a chance to voluntarily contribute to the database. 

"The primary purpose of the DNA database will be to provide the children class with the opportunity to identify their biological fathers, obtain medical health history, and locate half-siblings," reads the proposed settlement.

Maximum payout: $50K per claimant

Barwin and his lawyer refused to comment on the proposed settlement, which calls for compensation as much as $50,000, depending on the "category of harm" to the individual. 

The highest payout is reserved for patients "where they have DNA evidence showing that the child or children conceived with Dr. Barwin's assistance, or with semen previously entrusted to Dr. Barwin, are not the biological child of the man in the couple."

The first child of those patients can receive $40,000, and each additional child in the same family is "entitled up to a further $10,000 each, in total."

Patients who entrusted sperm for storage and safekeeping, which then resulted in the conception of a child for an unrelated patient, have access to up to $25,000. The children in those cases can get a maximum of $40,000. 

Number of claimants could change

The current payment amounts for each claimant could increase or decrease depending on how many claimants successfully qualify under the class action. 

Between now and November, members currently signed on can opt out. For 120 days after November others who qualify can enter the suit, and the $13,375,000 set aside would get reallocated accordingly.

Cronyn estimates there were probably 500 successful births through artificial insemination linked to Barwin during the claim period between 1973 and 2012, so he said there is potential for the number of claimants to increase beyond the current 226.

The amount negotiated in the proposed settlement came through what Cronyn called "hard fought" negotiations. "By the end of the process, we were certain there was no more to be had and that was the number," he said.

The parties are expected to return to court in November.

It's hard to imagine a fertility doctor with so little respect for children.

Today's Global Pervs and Paedos List > Hundreds of CSA Victims in Lambeth; 2 Paedos Murdered; Human Trafficking

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Hundreds of children sexually abused over several decades in

London council's care on a scale ‘hard to comprehend’ – inquiry

27 Jul, 2021 12:58

Lambeth Council

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has found that more than 700 children in the care of London's Lambeth Council were abused for several decades as part of a “toxic power game.”

In a Tuesday report, the inquiry alleged that children in the care of Lambeth Council “were subjected to levels of cruelty and sexual abuse that are hard to comprehend” at three care homes – Shirley Oaks, South Vale, and Angell Road – “where violence and sexual assault were allowed to flourish.”

Since the 1960s, Lambeth Council allegedly received complaints of sexual abuse from 705 former residents of the care homes, however only “one senior employee” was ever disciplined by the council.

He must have been a really busy guy!

“The report finds that the true scale of the sexual abuse against children in Lambeth's care will never be known, but it is certain to be significantly higher than is formally recorded,” declared the inquiry, which also alleged that black children in the care of the council experienced racism and “abusive treatment.”

Following the revelation that a child who was found dead at Shirley Oaks in 1977 had complained about sexual abuse in the care home, the inquiry is now calling on the Metropolitan Police to consider whether a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death should be launched.

Inquiry Chairwoman Alexis Jay – who led the similar 2014 investigation into Rotherham child sexual abuse, which found at least 1,400 victims and implicated members of the council – said the children in Lambeth “became pawns in a toxic power game” between “the Council and central government.”

“There was a vicious and regressive culture, for which a succession of leading elected members were mainly responsible, aided and abetted in some instances by self-serving senior officials,” Jay declared, adding that the culture “contributed to allowing children in their care to suffer the most horrendous sexual abuse.”

Lambeth Council formally apologised on Tuesday for its failure to protect vulnerable children, with council leader Claire Holland calling the report “deeply shocking.”

“On behalf of the council, I want to restate our profound and sincere apology to all victims and survivors of abuse and neglect while in Lambeth's care,” she said, before going on to blame the “council of the past.”

Holland argued that while the council accepts its “inexcusable failings” and that it “failed so many,” there is a “big difference between the council of the past with Lambeth of today,” which is a “different, more child-focused and positive place for young people.”

The council also promoted its redress scheme, which allows victims of the abuse to apply for financial compensation and free counselling.

Mother who killed paedophile, 77, by stabbing him eight times

reveals she did it because he had abused her 12-year-old son

By SHARI MILLER and CLARE MCCARTHY FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 03:16 EDT, 26 July 2021

A mother-of-five who stabbed her neighbour to death with a knife after learning he was a paedophile today revealed her son was one of his victims.

Sarah Sands, 38, attacked Michael Pleasted, 77, in the living room of his east London flat weeks after discovering he had abused young boys. 

During her trial in 2015 - for which she was convicted of manslaughter - it emerged Pleasted had 24 convictions for sex offences over three decades.

At the point of living next door to Sands, he had changed his name, while his crimes had pre-dated the sex offenders register, meaning that few knew about his past. 

Sands received a seven-year prison term and spent almost four years behind bars before she was released.

Now for the first time she revealed her motive and said she did not regret her actions.

Sarah Sands, now 38, (pictured) stabbed convicted paedophile Michael Pleasted, 77, to death in his east London flat in in 2014. Today for the first time she revealed her motive, saying she attacked him after discovering he abused her son, Bradley, then 12

Speaking to The Sun, she said: 'I did what any mother would do, because he did this to my son Bradley, my little boy.

'I never dreamt I'd be capable. I have no pride in it, but at least I know he can't hurt anyone else.' 

In 2014, when Bradley was aged 12, Pleasted had offered the young boy a job in the shop where he volunteered.

Sands said she had no reason not to trust her older neighbour, who she enjoyed chatting to and cooking meals for and thought it would be a good way for her son to earn pocket money.

Just weeks later, she was informed that Pleasted had been accused of molesting two children.  

Her son denied anything had happened to him, but months later in November 2014, the youngster broke down and admitted he had been groomed and abused. 

Bradley, now 19, is waiving his anonymity to speak of his ordeal revealing how he was 'too embarrassed' at first and thought he would get in trouble, but was having nightmares the paedophile would come after him again.

Pleasted denied the charges made against him, meaning his young victims would have to go to court to testify against him.

During her trial, Sands told the court she had gone to Pleasted to plead with him to admit his crimes and spare his young accusers from having to go to court.

But when he answered the door, he ignored her request and just 'smirked' as he told her the boys were all liars who had ruined his life, she said.

Sands, who had armed herself with a 12-inch kitchen knife before visiting, said she 'lost control' and stabbed Pleasted eight times. 

Within hours, Sands handed herself into police, telling an officer: 'Who houses a f****** paedophile on an estate, like, seriously? He was, like, asking for trouble.'

Following a trial at the Old Bailey, she was cleared of murder but convicted of the lesser offence of manslaughter by reason of loss of control.

Sands lived on the same estate as the victim and occasionally visited his flat to give him some home-cooked food. She originally thought he was a 'positive male role model' for local children and defended him when he was accused of being a 'paedo'.

But unbeknownst to Sands, Pleasted was a convicted paedophile with a history of child sex attacks when the fresh allegations emerged.

During her case at London’s Old Bailey, it emerged that Pleasted, who had changed his name from Robin Moult so that authorities couldn't track him, had previous child sex offences dating between 1971 and 1990.

Pleasted first appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court in mid-November 2014 charged with two counts of sexual assault on a child under the age of 13. The Crown Prosecution Service were also considering a charge involving a third boy. Pleasted denied the charges and was due to stand trial on June 1, 2015.

On the night of November 29, 2014, Sands drank two bottles of wine and a small bottle of whisky before arming herself with a knife and making her way to Pleastead's flat, the court heard.  

She was caught on CCTV going to Mr Pleasted's third floor flat. Twenty minutes later she left the building carrying a bloodstained knife in her left hand. Sands returned to her flat and changed out of her bloodstained clothes, having told a neighbour, 'pretend you never saw me.'

Sarah said: 'I did what any mother would do, because he did this to my son Bradley, my little boy. ' Pictured: Sands seen on CCTV carrying a 12in knife in the lift shortly before killing Mike Pleasted

She then took a taxi to see her stepson Paul Penn and tearfully confessed to stabbing Pleasted. Mr Penn, 27, told the court: 'We were sitting there chatting away and she came out that she had stabbed him.

'It was like joking about, I didn't think it was being serious. She kept saying she had stabbed him. She said when the door opened she went in and stabbed him, nothing else at all.

'She got the knife out and showed me. It was a kitchen knife, about a foot long, it had a very pink substance on it.'

Pleasted was found dead in the hallway of his flat the next day after Sands handed herself in to the police. 

Sands sobbed in the witness box as she insisted that she did not mean to hurt Pleasted when she went to his flat armed with a knife. She told jurors she had gone there to plead with him to admit his crimes and spare his young accusers from having to go to court.

Sands said: 'I was frightened. It was not how it was meant to go. He was meant to listen to me.' 

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC argued that Sands had 'decided to take revenge on Mr Pleasted for the hurt and turmoil she believed he had inflicted.' He added: 'It is not a defence to a charge of murder to say something along the following lines, "the victim got what he deserved because he was a paedophile".

'Just a moment's thought will confirm what all fair and reasonable people appreciate, namely that members of the public can not be allowed to take the law into their own hands, however appallingly their fellow citizens might be thought to have behaved.' 

The jury deliberated for three days before clearing her of murder and convicting her of manslaughter. Sentencing was adjourned for reports and will take place in September.

Trial Judge Nicholas Cooke QC told the jury that an inquiry was underway into the decision to bail Pleasted, adding that the jurors were clearly 'troubled by the background' of the case. 

The jury were right to clear Sands of murder, police have said. Speaking after the verdict, DS Perry Benton said: 'The jury have taken a considerable time to reach the verdict... but eventually reached the right verdict.'

Asked why convicted paedophile Pleasted was on bail after fresh child sex abuse allegations emerged, he said: 'That is a difficult question. The local officers had conducted a thorough investigation. They had made an arrest and put him through the courts and it was the courts' decision to release him on bail.'

When pressed on the threat Pleasted posed to the community, the officer added: 'The police arrested him and charged him, remanding him in custody to go to court as part of the judicial process and it was the courts' decision to grant him bail.' 

Seems like a judge has some blood on his hands.

Paedophile gave girl, 15, alcohol and cocaine before

'extreme sexual abuse'

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Martin Yankey's victim tried to take her own life after the abuse (Image: Greater Manchester Police / SWNS)

A paedophile martial arts instructor groomed a 15-year-old girl in care before subjecting her to "extreme sexual abuse".

Martin Yankey, then 34, targeted his victim between February and May 2019.

He took her from a children’s care home to his property in Atherton, Greater Manchester, where he would ply her with drink and drugs.

The victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was given so much cocaine that the septum in her nose was damaged.

After a few visits, she thought she was in a relationship with Yankey and would visit regularly.

A statement from her read: "I was given drink and drugs and suffered extreme sexual abuse. I started showering excessive amounts and self-harming, I tried to make sense of it but I couldn't."

The care home often reported her missing and police visited Yankey's home on April 13, 2018, where taxi drivers had reported taking her.

Yankey denied knowing the girl when he was quizzed by officers, but on May 18 they found her hiding in a kitchen cupboard and he was arrested.

He admitted to sexual activity with a child, abduction and possession of indecent images of a child at Manchester Crown Court. He was jailed for 13 years and given an indefinite restraining order and a sexual harm prevention order.

Judge Hilary Manley said: "You executed classic methods of grooming, being loving and making her feel like an adult. You are a devious and selfish man. She doesn't feel she will ever recover and has tried to take her own life. You have shown no remorse and have no real idea the damage you have done.

"It is interesting and disturbing that your latest partner is 20, it's not illegal but there is a significant age gap again."

Yankey told police he believed the victim was 17 and denied their relationship was sexual.

Defending Yankey, Jo Morris said that he was now in a committed relationship and he should be given credit for entering guilty pleas.

Ms Morris also said Yankey had been diagnosed with psychosis and epilepsy in 2019 and had not been making sensible decisions at the time.

Drugs will do that to ya!

Global mission led by Interpol sees over 280 human smuggling

suspects arrested, 430 victims freed

26 Jul, 2021 17:33

FILE PHOTO. A Libyan coast guardsman stands on a boat during the rescue of 147 illegal immigrants attempting to reach Europe off the coastal town of Zawiyah, 45 kilometres west of the capital Tripoli. © AFP / Taha JAWASHI

Crime agency Interpol has released details of ‘Operation Liberterra’, a mission coordinated by authorities in dozens of states which led to the rescue of 430 human trafficking victims and the arrest of 286 suspects.

Law enforcement agencies across 47 countries participated in the mission, under which some 500,000 inspections were carried out at checkpoints and airports following local intelligence and tip-offs, Interpol said in a statement on Monday. 

As well as the overarching mission to combat migrant smuggling, the agency said that a further 60 transnational investigations have been launched to focus on forged identification, after an influx of fake or stolen identity documents were seized during the assignment.

Operation Liberterra ran from July 5 to 9, and on the first day of the mission authorities in Tanzania arrested a Ugandan bus driver carrying a box of 169 forged passports from Kampala to Dar es Salaam, according to Interpol.

Among the arrests made during the operation, authorities in Brazil, Colombia, Curacao, and Panama detained fugitives wanted for crimes such as drug trafficking, rape, and money laundering. Six people were arrested in the UK who were sought by authorities over sex-trafficking charges.

Interpol Secretary-General Jurgen Stock said the operation underscored “how multinational, highly organized criminal networks only focus on one thing – profit.”

“With 22 criminal groups dismantled, it also shows what coordinated, global law enforcement action can achieve,” Stock added.

The results of Operation Liberterra also highlighted a concerning level of human trafficking from Africa and the Middle East into Europe. In Spain, one organized crime group which reportedly smuggled migrants by sea from Algeria to the Spanish coast was brought down. Authorities in North Macedonia arrested six gang members who, Interpol said, liaised with partners in the Middle East to smuggle migrants to Greece from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Syria.

Many of the trafficking victims located as part of the mission were rescued in Sudan, Interpol said, with authorities there freeing 253. They also arrested 32 suspects as part of the joint operation.

The law enforcement body also noted that some of the 430 trafficking victims found via Operation Liberterra were underage girls, some of whom had been “coerced into sexual exploitation through death threats from human traffickers.”

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Man who murdered ‘Britain’s worst paedophile’

laughs as he’s jailed for 34 years

James Hockaday, Metro, UK

Tuesday 24 Nov 2020 9:03 pm

Warning: Graphic content

An inmate who brutally murdered ‘Britain’s worst paedophile’ in prison has been told he will spend a minimum of 34 years in jail.

Paul Fitzgerald, 30, strangled Richard Huckle with an electrical cable sheath, inserted a pen into his brain through his nostril, raped him and penetrated his anus with a spoon handle in a 78-minute attack in his cell at HMP Full Sutton, East Yorkshire.

He said he would have liked to cook and eat parts of his target’s body and would have gone on to kill more inmates but was ‘having too much fun’.

Huckle was given 22 life sentences at the Old Bailey in 2016 for an unprecedented number of offences against children aged between six months and 12 years.

In what he called a ‘poetic act of justice, Fitzgerald said he wanted the 33-year-old paedophile to feel what his victims had felt.

Claiming that he had ‘taken the law into his own hands’ at Hull Crown Court today, Mr Justice Lavender said: ‘You are a psychopath and you derive pleasure from fantasising about raping, torturing, killing, and even eating others.

‘On this occasion you derived pleasure from acting out your fantasies.’

Fitzgerald went into Huckle’s cell on October 13 last year, armed with makeshift weapons, made out of a toothbrush and a pen, a ligature and items to gag him and bind his arms and legs.

After tying him up and raping his victim, he strangled him with so much force his hands still require treatment.

Fitzgerald also smashed his face on to the floor, punched him, broke his jaw, stabbed him in the neck and inserted the pen so far up his nostril that it penetrated the bone and went into his brain.

Mr Justice Lavender said: ‘You intended to rape and kill Mr Huckle and, if possible, cook parts of him and eat them.

‘You did this for your own pleasure and also to inflict what you called poetic justice on a convicted paedophile.

‘The attack last over an hour and a quarter. At the end of which Mr Huckle was either dead or dying.

‘Describing the events afterwards, you said: “I got carried away by how much fun I was having doing what I was doing to him”.’

The court heard that Fitzgerald, has a range of conditions including psychopathy, anti-social personality disorder and gender identity disorder.

He has previous convictions for violent and sexual offences, starting from the age of 13, including the false imprisonment of a female prison officer.

The judge said the only mitigating features of the case were Fitzgerald’s mental health issues, which were the result of physical and sexual abuse he suffered as a child.

He said: ‘They were the source of your urge to kill, which motivated you. I am sure you could have resisted that urge if you chose to do so, just as you have resisted it for the whole of your adult life.’

Fitzgerald appeared at the sentencing hearing by video link to prison, wearing rosary beads and with a shaven head and long, goatee beard.

He appeared to laugh at several points throughout the hearing and yawned and stretched his arms as the judge passed his life sentence.

Huckle, from Ashford, in Kent, awarded himself ‘paedo-points’ for different acts of abuse against 191 youngsters and sold images of his depravity on the dark web.

In online posts, he bragged that it was easier to target impoverished children in Malaysia (2nd story on link) than those from wealthy western backgrounds.

At the time of his arrest, at Gatwick Airport in 2014, he was writing a guide to teach fellow paedophiles how to abuse children and avoid detection.