Gay paedophile ring sentenced in Germany
AFP
A court in Germany has found members of a paedophile ring guilty of multiple counts of child abuse.
The main defendant, a 28-year-old man identified as Adrian V, will spend 14 years in prison.
Three other men received terms of between 10 and 12 years, while Adrian V's mother was sentenced to five years for aiding and abetting the abuse.
The judge in the case described the actions of the group as "horrific" and "deeply disturbing".
Among the allegations the men faced was that they drugged a group of boys and kept them in a building in a garden in Münster over a number of days. They then uploaded the footage to the dark web, according to German media.
One of the victims of Adrian V's abuse was his partner's son, now aged 11.
Adrian V was found guilty of 29 counts of abuse. He will be kept in preventative detention after his sentence is complete due to the risk of reoffending.
He is believed to have met the other defendants, who are from other parts of Germany and are aged between 31 and 43, online.
Presiding judge Matthias Pheiler said the trial "clearly showed how paedophiles operate: they trick, they lie, they manipulate those around" the victims. He also expressed his relief that the victims did not have to testify during the trial.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the offences took place, has been rocked by a number of recent scandals, including the abuse of hundreds of children by several men at a campsite.
Germany's Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht announced plans to increase sentences for those convicted of child abuse last month.
The decision comes a year after German officials announced they were investigating 30,000 suspects (4th story on link) in connection with an online paedophile network.
Turkey outraged over verdict in child sexual abuse case
in southern Antalya province
Jun 29 2021 10:49 Gmt+3
ahvalnews
Turkish social media on Tuesday erupted with reactions to an ongoing child sexual abuse case in the country’s southern Antalya province.
Posts of condemnation flooded Twitter after the drawings of two children, aged seven and 10, depicting their abuse, were published on social media in what has come to be known as the Elmalı case, named after the Antalya district where the incident took place.
A child painted her torture instead of drawing her dreams. A 7-year-old girl was sexually abused and wrote down her experiences on a piece of paper. Do not be quiet!!!
#elmalıdavası #UNICEF #Adaletistiyoruz #CocukSusarSenSUSMA #cocukistismarinahayir #AdaletBakanlığı pic.twitter.com/6aS8i2Mxef
— yıkıkme (@slmbencml) June 29, 2021
The case began in May 2020, when the children’s’ grandmother filed legal case against their mother and stepfather on the charges. The pair was arrested in Oct. 2020, only to be released from police custody on judicial control three months later in January, Diken news site reported.
The social media backlash over the case has also been sparked by a written statement by Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Services, which said the office had requested the arrest of the mother and the stepfather in a number of hearings after their release to no avail, and they were closely following the judicial process.
Meanwhile, Elmalı’s Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday said it had rejected the ruling calling for the perpetrators’ release, but an Antalya court had contested the decision, Cumhuriyet newspaper reported.
Turkish Twitter was inundated with the hashtag #ElmalıDavası (Elmalı Trial) on Tuesday from users condemning the release of the perpetrators, as they urged the country’s judiciary and government to take action on the matter.
Today, 2 children in Turkey had to draw and explain the abuse they lived through
by their parents and friends.
Abusers were released by the court despite the evidences. Don't be silent about this!
Use these tags.#ELMALIDAVASI #Elmalida2Cocuk pic.twitter.com/NUAa6EahZx
— ecem (@ecemyw) June 29, 2021
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for September.
Anarcho-feminists storm Austrian newspaper over ‘racist’
reporting in high-profile teen gang-rape & murder case
9 Jul, 2021 00:24
FILE PHOTO. © Reuters / Leonhard Foeger
Austria is reeling from a tragedy that saw a 13-year-old girl dying after being drugged and gang-raped. Yet a local feminist group seemed more enraged by media reporting the suspects’ nationality and casting shadow on refugees.
A group of activists from the group ‘Alerta Feminista’ broke into the offices of oe24 – the web portal of the Vienna-based daily newspaper Österreich – late on Wednesday, seeking to force their way into the editorial newsroom. The left-wing anarchist group eventually reached the sales office, where they engaged in a heated verbal exchange with the eo24 employees. The outlet claimed some of its female employees were physically attacked by the activists but sustained no injuries.
The 20 or so activists that had their faces covered sought to protest what they called “racist reporting” on a high-profile incident that shocked the Alpine nation almost two weeks ago. Their outrage was apparently triggered by the fact that oe24 revealed the nationalities of suspects in a horrific rape and murder case that is still under investigation. Four Afghan nationals have been accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl who was found dead in Vienna on June 26.
“You say sexual violence against… women, lesbians, intersex non-binary and trans people is imported. We say violence against [them] is the cruel consequence of a sexist society, capitalism and patriarchy,” read a leaflet brought by the activists, according to eo24. Eventually, the group fled once police arrived at the scene.
Niki Fellner, the oe24 managing director, condemned what he called a “violent incursion” and denounced the attacks against their female employees, who were “terrified” by the encounter. He also demanded the authorities take harsh measures against those responsible.
Pumped full of ecstasy
The case of the brutalized 13-year-old, identified only as Leonie, continues to roil Austria. She was found wrapped in carpet on a strip of grass in northeastern Vienna, and paramedics failed to revive her. While a detailed autopsy is still pending, on Wednesday multiple media outlets reported some of the grisly details.
Citing initial investigation results, the newspaper Kurier reported that Leonie met two of the suspects at the Danube Canal, where they “pumped her full” of ecstasy and later drove her to an apartment of another Afghan, where the fourth suspect awaited as well. There she was given more drugs and raped “for hours” by at least two of the men, until her heart eventually gave out.
A medical examiner found fingerprints on the girl’s neck as well as signs of compression on her chest, suggesting that someone could have pressed his knees against her body, Kurier reported.
When the girl showed no signs of life, the suspects allegedly tried to “revive” her by pouring milk and yogurt into her mouth and putting her body in a shower. Eventually, they wrapped her in a carpet and left her on the side of the road nearby. Their apartment was later found by a police sniffer dog.
According to the investigation sources cited by Kurier, traces of a “massive” dose of ecstasy were found in Leonie’s body. She might have been given heroin as well, the paper claimed.
Criminal records & no residence permit
Austrian police managed to arrest three of the four suspects, who continue to deny all the charges related to rape and murder while blaming each other for the incident, local media reported. All are Afghan nationals, ranging in age between 16 and 23.
One of the suspects, a 18-year-old, allegedly pleaded guilty to a failure to administer help, but denied all other charges. He also mocked the victim by saying that -
it was her “own fault that she died.”
“She took drugs and ran away from home,” he told interrogators, according to the Heute newspaper.
In Islam, that makes her equal to a prostitute and eligible for gang-rape and death.
Two of the four suspects have had their asylum applications denied and were known to the police due to previous convictions, including drug trafficking. One of them, a 22-year-old who is still on the run and was put on an international wanted list, had been convicted three times already and was cleared for deportation back in 2017.
The victim’s family is planning to sue the Austrian government. Their lawyer, Florian Hoellwarth, said the suspects “presented a threat to the population” and had to be better monitored by the authorities.
‘Racist distractions’?
A group of Austrian pro-asylum and anti-racism NGOs have pushed back, accusing the media and politicians of trying to play an ethnic card in this case. The NGOs demanded a stop to “racist diversionary actions” and called on the authorities to focus on preventing murders of women instead.
A debate on asylum-seekers would stir up “generalized racist prejudices” that would harm some 40,000 Afghans living in Austria, said the group, which includes Asylum Coordination Austria and the Association of Autonomous Austrian Women's Shelters.
The NGOs claimed that Leonie’s death would be “politically instrumentalized” to launch an attack on a group that “cannot defend itself,” which would be “disrespectful and reprehensible.” They also called for a halt to deportations to Afghanistan, arguing that a criminal sentence does not justify sending people to a country where they could face death or torture.
Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, however, said such talk was reversing the victim and the offender.
“To speak of a 'racist diversion' here is a mockery of the victim and a slap in the face of the bereaved. I deeply reject that,” Kurz said, adding that there is no excuse for such a “bestial act.”
There has to be a Muslim organization behind all this protesting. They are brilliant at turning criminals into victims. Alerta Feminista is throwing the 13 y/o victim and her family, and who knows how many future victims under the bus for the sake of incredibly evil criminals who have no right to live let alone live in Austria.
Paedophile Aylesbury football coach faces jail
By George Roberts
Crime & Court Reporter
Bucksfreepress
A paedophile football coach who kept nearly 500 sexual images of children and admitted he was “sexually attracted to girls as young as eight years old” has been warned he faces jail.
Appearing at Aylesbury Crown Court this afternoon (Friday) Marc Kenny, aged 45, of Misbourne Close in Aylesbury, pleaded guilty to three counts of making an indecent image of a child and one count of distributing an indecent image of a child.
Kenny, who was the welfare officer and director of football at youth football club Aylesbury Town Corinthians FC, was due to be sentenced today, but after hearing the cases of both the prosecution and the defence, judge Francis Sheridan opted to delay until next week while he considers the sentence.
Before adjourning the hearing, Judge Sheridan warned Kenny that he should expect to be locked up at next week’s hearing.
The judge said: “There will be a custodial sentence, it will be immediate. I regard this as a deeply, deeply serious case.”
What did Kenny do?
The court heard from prosecutor, Nigel Ogborne, how Kenny had a collection of nearly 500 child sex images and videos and would fantasise with other paedophiles about having sexual relations with young girls on messaging apps Kik and Wickr.
On October 29, 2020, officers searched Kenny’s home in Aylesbury, and when they found naked images of children on his phone, they arrested him.
After his arrest, Kenny admitted his crimes and told the officers he had been offending for the past nine months, before telling officers that he was “sexually attracted to girls as young as eight years old.”
The court heard graphic and upsetting details of some of the images and videos that Kenny had in his possession, including a 16-second video of a baby less than one-year-old being sexually abused.
Mr Ogborne explained that on October 26, Kenny shared an image of an 11-year-old girl being sexually abused on a Kik group chat that had 130 other members, along with a message that read “wow so sexy, and what a good girl she is.”
The court heard how the next day, Kenny shared the same image on another Kik group chat, which had 304 members.
Mr Ogborne said: “He admitted that he knew what he was doing was wrong, and he had undertaken child safeguarding training with the FA. “He had a problem which he accepted he was unable to stop. He admitted he had been sent indecent images of a child and he had distributed them to others including a closed group where child abuse was discussed.”
What did Kenny have to say for himself?
The offender’s defence lawyer, Mr English, told the judge that his client is a man of “previous good character” and that Kenny was experiencing “enormous problems” in his family life after admitting his crimes.
Reading from a letter which Aylesbury Town Corinthians FC had written to the court, Mr English told the court how Kenny was seen as someone who had been “helpful” and “important” in setting up the club, and that its members were “shocked” to hear of his offences.
Mr English said: “There’s no suggestion of anything untoward having occurred within the coaching group itself, these offences have nothing to do with the members of the coaching group.”
The barrister asked the judge to consider giving his client a suspended sentence, reasoning “there are not an overly high number of images, they are not in the thousands” and added that his client Kenny felt “crystal clear” remorse.
What did the judge say?
After listening to the two lawyers, Judge Francis Sheridan ruled out the possibility that Kenny would escape only with a suspended sentence.
Before passing the sentence next week, Judge Sheridan asked the National Crime Agency to find out how many children were being abused in all of Kenny’s photos and videos.
He said: “These children are real children. Somebody abused them, this is not a victimless crime. How many children are we talking about? I have to know. The court has to have in mind the protection of the public.”
Setting a new sentencing date of Friday, July 16, Judge Sheridan remanded Kenny in custody and warned him to expect harsh punishment when he returns to court.
He said: “There will be a custodial sentence, it will be immediate. I regard this as a deeply, deeply serious case.”
Montreal Man Brought Girl, 8, from Ivory Coast to Canada as a ‘Sex Slave’
The man, identified by local media as 60-year-old Sylvain Villemaire, made the girl sign a “contract” saying he could do whatever he wanted to her.
By Brennan Doherty
9.7.21
The Crown prosector is calling for Sylvain Villemaire, 60, from Montreal, to face 18 years in prison for distributing child pornography, human trafficking, and sexual abuse.
Warning: This story contains graphic information about the sexual assault of a child.
A 60-year-old Montreal man who worked for decades as a high school “psychoeducator” could face nearly two decades in prison for bringing an 8-year-old girl from Ivory Coast and subjecting her to three years of horrific sexual abuse.
Sylvain Villemaire was convicted in a Montreal courthouse in February for a range of sexual offences, according to the Montreal Gazette and La Presse, including sexual interference. Court documents obtained by VICE World News that only identify him by the initials S.V. say they also include distributing child pornography and human trafficking of a person under the age of 18. At the time, Quebec Court Judge Pierre Labelle described S.V.’s victim—who cannot be identified under a publication ban—as “bought, sacrificed, and abandoned,” in his judgement.
“The treatment she suffered at the hands of this man was nothing less than enslavement, since he used her like a puppet,” Labelle’s judgement in French read.
S.V. pleaded guilty last year to all charges except human trafficking and distribution of child pornography, according to the court documents. This week Crown prosecutors called for him to face 18 years behind bars, La Presse reported, while Villemaire—who is representing himself in court—is asking for just two years. (In Canada, the mandatory minimum sentence for human trafficking of a minor ranges from 5 to 6 years, depending on the circumstances).
According to court documents, the girl travelled alone from Ivory Coast. S.V. had met the girl’s mother on a dating site and then in person in Ivory Coast, the documents say. S.V. told her he wanted her daughter to have a good education and promised to look after her until the three could be united in Canada.
The court documents say the girl’s mother was supposed to join her daughter in Canada, but despite several attempts between 2015 and 2018, that never happened. They also say S.V. had previously discussed bringing another girl in online chats, but that was unsuccessful.
While the girl moved into S.V.’s home and was welcomed by his family, the court documents say “her life turned into a nightmare” just a few days after her arrival in Canada.
S.V. began sexually assaulted her “an average of three to four times a week,” according to the documents, and ordered her to penetrate him with a sex toy. The documents say he engaged in inappropriate touching, penetration, and sodomy.
In court, the girl testified that S.V. ordered her to perform an unspecified sexual act on a woman that he was having sex with at the time. After finishing cancer treatment in 2017, the documents say, he asked the girl to “play doctor with him,” which involved sex toys.
The documents say S.V.’s attacks on her continued “with regularity” until he was arrested.
S.V. also tried to control the girl, the court documents say. He told her that her mother had “sold” her to him (court found that he sent money to the girl’s mother after she arrived in Canada) and made her sign a contract saying she accepted that S.V., described as her “tutor,” could do whatever he wanted to her—and that she agreed “to never tell anyone, in any way, what he does to me. I will never testify against him, at any level, and I will never allude to it in any way.”
S.V. was caught through a child sexual abuse investigation by the Montreal police in 2018, according to court documents, after an investigator who was digging into the transfer of child sexual abuse material traced it back to its source. The Gazette reported that the probe led to an apartment in Montreal’s Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie borough in May of 2018.
After officers surrounded the building, the Gazette reported, an investigator noticed the girl leaving and asked her who she was. The girl told the officer she was living with her tutor and was going to school. Villemaire was later arrested, according to the Gazette.
The resulting search of Villemaire’s apartment turned up child abuse content and the contract signed by the girl. She was later placed into child protective services.
According to the Gazette, Crown Prosecutor Amélie Rivard told the court that Villemaire’s crimes “have an impact on her now, had an impact on her in the past, and will have a major impact on her in the future.” She said the girl feels betrayed by her mother and isn’t in contact with her biological family anymore.
“He profited from a vulnerability where the mother and (the victim) lived in conditions in Africa where, according to everyone, it was miserable: no water, no electricity, and poor education,” Rivard told the court, according to the Gazette. “And Mr. Villemaire used his status as a rich Canadian man to make the promise of a better life.”
In response to the evidence, Villemaire told Judge Labelle on Wednesday that he was a “good man,” according to La Presse. He is representing himself in court and is refusing psychiatric evaluation, local media reported, although a psychologist from the Phillipe-Pinel psychiatric hospital in Montreal believes he may meet the diagnosis of pedophilia as well as narcissistic and antisocial personality traits.
According to La Presse, an 18-year prison sentence has never been handed down in Quebec for sexual crimes against a child, although stiffer sentences have been imposed in other Canadian provinces. In 2019, an Alberta judge sentenced a man to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting his three teenage daughters at a paramilitary compound in Wildwood.
Villemaire will be sentenced on August 18.
‘Unprecedented’ case of Alberta man who sexually abused his
three daughters warrants unprecedented sentence, Crown says
By Claire Theobald, Star Edmonton
Mon., Sept. 16, 2019
WARNING: This article contains graphic content.
EDMONTON—Crown prosecutors are seeking an “unprecedented” 29-year sentence for a man who admitted to sexually abusing and exploiting his three daughters.
“This man is an unprecedented offender,” said Crown prosecutor Suvidha Kalra in closing arguments in Edmonton court on Monday.
Most of the details of the abuse his teenage daughters suffered are too horrific to publish.
“This is the stuff of nightmares,” Kalra said, adding that for his victims, “they don’t get to wake up.”
According to an agreed statement of facts, the man — who cannot be named to protect the identity of his daughters — isolated his family on a rented-acreage-turned-paramilitary-compound outside the hamlet of Wildwood, Alta. He kept 24 restricted guns and more than 15,000 rounds of ammunition on site and home-schooled his five children in using firearms, military combat tactics and survival techniques for half a decade.
Their mother worked long hours out of the house. While she was gone, beginning in 2014, the man would take his second-born daughter into his bedroom and sexually assault her. These assaults occurred multiple times a week.
When she was 16, the father made an online account where he arranged to have strangers sexually assault her.
Twice, court heard, the man bound and gagged his daughter “like an animal,” Kalra described, before driving her and her abuser to a location where he filmed, directed and participated in the violent and degrading sexual assault.
While enduring the torturous abuse, Kalra said his daughter didn’t scream.
Hard to scream when you're gagged! Or, if you are out in rural Alberta, there's just no point.
“Could you imagine what has happened to this human soul … that she doesn’t make a sound?” Kalra asked.
The man had tried to arrange half a dozen other such encounters with strange men before he was arrested. He made his daughter rewatch the tape of her assaults.
When the arrangements he made fell through, the man drove his daughter home and assaulted her.
While the most heinous abuse was perpetrated against his middle daughter, all three daughters were sexually abused.
He would assault the oldest daughter, who court heard is developmentally delayed, at the same time as his second-oldest daughter.
He told all three of his daughters he was abusing them as a way of preparing them for married life, and would sometimes make them exchange sexual favours for food.
Police seized child porn in the form of videos and photographs documenting the abuse, as well as lengthy messages between the man and two other men in the United States trying to arrange a “gang rape party,” where they would pay $250,000 to sexually assault the middle daughter as a group.
The abuse only stopped after one of his son’s girlfriends found a USB drive with videos and photographs of the middle daughter being abused and reported it in 2016.
The man already pleaded guilty to 10 charges relating to sexual assault, sexual exploitation, incest, making child pornography and improperly storing guns, but both the Crown and the defence made it clear that his guilty plea was not rooted in remorse.
“This accused is not remorseful,” said Kalra.
The Crown said they were showing “tremendous restraint” in suggesting 29 years for the man, saying that while sentences for each crime added up individually could warrant a much higher term, they reduced the overall sentence in keeping with court sentencing principles of proportionality and to not subject an offender to a sentence that leaves them without hope.
Defence lawyer Alexandra Seaman said that “a 29-year sentence would be crushing,” arguing that a more appropriate sentence for her client would be in the range of 16 to 18 years.
She said that while it is difficult to find a similar case to compare this to — adding, “as a society, I think we can be glad for that” — there are other cases that a judge could use to help set an appropriate sentence.
One such case, R. v. K.D.H., involved an Edmonton man sentenced to 18 years behind bars on 28 offences after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing and exploiting four children over the course of nine years — two of his own, and two others related to a common-law partner and a fiancée — involving elements of forced incest and bestiality.
While Seaman acknowledged that “the facts before this court would frankly shock the community,” she said “emotion has no place in this courtroom” when deciding a fit and just sentence.
Whatever sentence is decided, the man will have more than seven years of credit for time served in pretrial custody, including extra credit for conditions he suffered while in administrative segregation at the Edmonton Remand Centre, which were said to have been so deplorable as to have violated his charter rights.
Court is expected to hear the judge’s decision Thursday.
His decision was to sentence the creep to more than 23 years. With 7 years removed he will be in for a maximum of 14 more years. At least the girls will be fully adults before they encounter him again.
Wildwood, Ab
Cambridge, UK man jailed for sexually assaulting child
Published: 4:54 PM July 9, 2021
A man who sexually assaulted a child on three separate occasions has been jailed.
The crimes only came to light after the girl confided in someone close to her.
Cassidy, 42, was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13.
He denied the offences but, on May 14, after a six-day trial at Cambridge Crown Court, was found guilty on three counts of assaulting a girl under the age of 13 by touching. Jurors took less than three hours to reach their verdict.
Cassidy was sentenced at the same court today (July 9) where he was handed four years in prison.
He must also sign the sex offenders’ register for life and was handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for life, preventing contact with female children under 16.
DC Matthew Roe, who investigated, said: “I would like to commend the victim for her bravery and for giving evidence at the trial.
“She has understandably been affected by what happened and I hope the conclusion of the case brings some closure and allows her to move forward.
“Child abuse comes in various forms and can affect anyone. Whether you’re a victim, friend or adult, it’s everyone’s responsibility to help stop the abuse and tell someone.
“We urge all members of the public to be aware of adults who pay an unusual amount of attention to a child. Sharing any concerns, no matter how small, could save a life; you don’t have to be sure.”
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