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WHO officials ‘horrified’ after report blames Congo sex abuse

claims on ‘structural failures’ at UN agency

28 Sep, 2021 16:05

FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021. © REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

An independent investigation into allegations of sexual abuse perpetrated by World Health Organization (WHO) staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo has criticized the agency for “clear structural failures” over the complaints.

The report focused on allegations of abuses committed by WHO personnel who were hired locally, as well as some of its international staff deployed to the country while the agency was fighting an Ebola outbreak in the DRC between 2018 and 2020.

The investigation interviewed numerous women who said they were subjected to abuse, with the report saying it had established “with certainty” that 21 out of 83 identified alleged perpetrators were WHO workers. The findings come after media reports exposed concerns that senior WHO figures failed to halt harassment or exploitation.

The report, which claimed abuses occurred due to “clear structural failures” and “individual negligence,” left the WHO’s regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, “humbled, horrified and heartbroken,” she said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Seriously, this stuff has been going on for decades at probably every UN mission in the world. How can you be surprised?

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the report as “harrowing,” and said he is “sorry” for the actions of “people employed by the WHO to serve and protect” citizens in the Congo.

Tedros appointed independent investigators to handle complaints raised in October 2020 about the actions of humanitarian officials in the region, which the WHO chief had stated at the time left him “outraged.”

One of the alleged victims, named only as Shekinah, stated following the report’s release that she would like her attacker to “be punished severely, so that it will serve as a lesson to other untouchable doctors of the WHO.”

Sorry, Shekinah, but that's not going to happen. They have to be punished by the country from which they came and most are not interested in finding enough evidence to prosecute one or more of its soldiers.

Julie London, from the Congolese Union of Media Women, which has supported victims of alleged abuse, called for compensation from the UN agency, stating that the “WHO must also think about reparation for the women who were traumatized by the rapes and the dozens of children who were born with unwanted pregnancies as a result of the rapes.”

That should be the least they do. And they should bill the country of origin of the UN employees.

‘Russian virgins & cocaine’: Moscow protests over racy human trafficking

ad from Spanish NGO ‘offering’ teenage girls to passersby

28 Sep, 2021 09:01

© Facebook / Asociación NUEVA VIDA

The Russian Embassy in Madrid has lodged a protest with Spanish officials after a human rights group placed billboards in cities nationwide, apparently listing hardcore drugs and young Russian women for sale as part of a campaign.

The adverts, posted last week to mark World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, feature a restaurant-style whiteboard offering a special dish of “Russian virgins and cocaine.” Other listings include “Katia, 17 years old,” and “Sophia, 20 years old,” for €50 each ($58). Would-be punters are also told that for an extra fee, they can smoke cannabis, snort banned narcotics and dispense with the use of a condom.

The organization that placed the ads, Asociación NUEVA VIDA, describes them as part of efforts to “abolish prostitution,” evidently aiming to shock viewers into supporting an end to the exploitation of trafficked women. Supporters are challenged to find the marketing materials in the street and upload the supposed menu of teenage girls with the caption “do not buy.”

However, the apparent reliance on stereotypes about Russian women has drawn a furious response from the country’s Spanish embassy. In a statement issued on Monday, Moscow’s envoys said that “our compatriots living in Spain are outraged by the PR-stunt from the NGO, sharing online the placement of provocative banners on the street, mentioning Russian girls as part of the campaign to bring attention to the problem of prostitution in the country.”

The diplomats went on to brand the publicity appeal as “inappropriate” and demanded that authorities “take urgent measures to eliminate the posters and prevent further such incidents.”

Along with other former Eastern Bloc nations like Ukraine, which has previously seen the situation declared as a crisis, Russia has faced comparatively high levels of human trafficking in recent years, with citizens promised jobs and a better life elsewhere before being coerced into working to pay back supposed debts to people-smugglers. The Global Slavery Index estimated in 2016 that around 794,000 people live in conditions described as modern slavery within Russia. The year prior, 1,473 individuals were prosecuted for their role in schemes to deprive people of their liberty, and more than 80% were convicted.

However, the issue has also been a point of political contention in recent years. In 2013, Moscow slammed an annual ‘Trafficking in Persons Report’ published by the US State Department, which ranked Russia as among the worst countries in the world for dealing with criminal networks responsible for exploitation. “The authors of the report again used the unacceptable ideological approach that divides nations into rating groups depending on the US State Department’s political sympathies or antipathies,” one Russian human rights official said, decrying the analysis as politically motivated.

New Zealand to abandon forcible removal of ‘at risk’ children

after anger from Maori families

29 Sep, 2021 10:46

FILE PHOTO. Ministers address hundreds of Maori protesters gathered to demonstrate against what protesters say is the disproportionate number of Maori children taken by social service agencies from their families, outside parliament in Wellington, New Zealand. © Reuters / Praveen Menon

The New Zealand government has announced that the removal of ‘at risk’ children from their families will end, after Maori families complained that the process, known as ‘uplifting’, racially discriminates against them.

Speaking on Wednesday, Children’s Minister Kelvin Davis said the government will “end uplifts as we have known them,” accepting all the recommendations made in a report on how to fix the child care and protection system. The process will only be used as an absolute last resort going forward.

Documents on the ministry’s website showed that 1,334 children were taken into care between 2019 and 2020, with around 60% of them from the indigenous Maori community. Maori families had previously complained that the practice racially discriminated against them and furthered a legacy of colonization, referring to children forcibly removed as the “stolen generation.” That phrase is a reference to the Maori split up from their families as children under the Aboriginal assimilation policy.

The decision comes more than a year after New Zealand was accused of “unprecedented breaches of human rights” by the head of a Maori-led inquiry into the country’s child services agency, Naida Glavish.

Glavish’s inquiry was one of several that began in the wake of a protest in 2019 by thousands of Maori people over the Children’s Ministry’s attempt to seize a baby from a mother shortly after birth. At the time, activists had gathered in front of the country’s parliament to demand authorities take their “hands off our tamariki” – the Maori word for children.

Canada has similar problems with social services removing First Nations children from reserves and giving them to white people. This has been going on for 150 years here, but has greatly diminished in recent decades. 

Between poverty and the many issues that fell out of the Residential School System, I have many concerns about children growing up in 'at risk' situations. It's is important that they have a chance to grow up in their native culture, but it is also very important that they be safe from abuse.

I hope this works out for New Zealand!

Approaching Sodom > Brussels Buys Souls of 3 More Polish Regions; Gay Porn in US High Schools; Feminist Activists Injure 27 Policewomen in Mexico City

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3 more Polish provinces revoke anti-LGBT declarations

after EU threat to pull funding

28 Sep, 2021 09:24

Demonstrators take part in the Equality March in support of the LGBT community, in Lodz, Poland June 26, 2021. © Reuters / Marcin Stepien / Agencja Gazeta

Three more Polish regions have rescinded their self-declared anti-LGBT statuses over fears of losing funds from the European Union after Swietokrzyskie became the first province to revoke its status last week.

On Monday, councillors in the southeastern regions of Podkarpackie and Lubelskie, as well as the southerly Małopolska, announced they had repealed their LGBT-free statements.

In a statement on the decision to ditch the opposition to “LGBT” ideology, Małopolska Councillor Witold Kozłowski said no officials “were ready to take responsibility” for leaving the region without the EU funds.

He explained that the initial declaration had been made to voice the “importance and value of the family” in the strongly Catholic region. 

Which, when compared to money, doesn't seem very important anymore.

The latest revocations come after Swietokrzyskie became the first region to bin its 2019 ruling last week. It had been implemented to demonstrate the province’s “opposition to the attempts to introduce LGBT ideology to local government communities and the promotion of this ideology in public life.” 

Earlier this month, Brussels gave the regional authorities of five Polish provinces an ultimatum: either ditch the anti-LGBT statuses or lose EU funding. 

Unlike the other regions, Małopolska’s move marks a complete U-turn from its previous actions. In August, its regional council voted to keep its anti-LGBT status despite some €2.5 billion [$3 billion] in EU funding being at stake. 

Warsaw and Budapest’s treatment of their LGBT populations has been a point of contention between Brussels and the two central European countries.

In July, the European Commission announced it was starting legal action against the two member states for violating the human rights of its LGBT citizens. 

Poland’s legal infringements concerned the declarations of around 100 “LGBT free” zones across the country. Brussels considers this to be incompatible with the bloc’s ethos of non-discrimination.

Earlier this year, the European Parliament declared the whole bloc an “LGBTIQ Freedom Zone” partially in response to Poland’s declarations, but also to the deteriorating situation in Hungary. 

Mom blasts school board for allowing books promoting

pedophilia in school libraries

By Ryan Foley, 

Christian Post Reporter| Monday, 

September 27, 2021

Stacy Langton, the mother of a student at Fairfax High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, reads aloud sexually explicit content from two books distributed in the school district’s libraries at a Fairfax County School Board meeting, Sept. 23, 2021. | Screenshot: YouTube/Do Better FCPS

WARNING: The following article contains sexually explicit content

A concerned mother has slammed one of the largest school districts in the United States for including sexually explicit books in their high school libraries, which she classified as “pornography” for their graphic descriptions of sex acts between men and boys. 

The parent of a student in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia read aloud sexually explicit material and shared graphic images featured in two books available in the district’s high school libraries at a school board meeting on Thursday. A video of her addressing the board, uploaded by the advocacy group Do Better FCPS, has received more than 300,000 views. 

Stacy Langton explained, “After seeing a September 9 school board meeting in Texas on pornography in the schools, I decided to check the titles at my child’s school, Fairfax High School.” Langton held up the two books singled out at the Texas school board meeting that are also available in several public high schools in Fairfax County. She said that “both of these books include pedophilia, [and] sex between men and boys.” 

“Both books describe different acts,” she added. “One book describes a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male. The other book has detailed illustrations of a man having sex with a boy.” 

Langton added, “The illustrations include fellatio, sex toys, masturbation and violent nudity.” She read aloud from one of the books, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe: “I can’t wait to have your c**k in my mouth. I am going to give you the b**w job of your life and then I want you inside me.” 

She then read an excerpt from the other book, titled Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison: “What if I told you I touched another guy’s d**k? What if I told you I sucked it? I was 10 years old but it’s true. I s**ked Doug Goble’s d**k, the real estate guy, and he s**ked mine too.”

As Langton maintained that “this is not an oversight at Fairfax High School,” a school board member interrupted and told her that “there are children in the audience here.”

I wonder if he realized the absurdity of that remark?

In an article on Substack, Asra Normani, the vice president for strategy and investigations at the grassroots advocacy organization Parents Defending Education, who attended the meeting, disputed the assertion that children were present at the meeting. 

Langton, who didn't appreciate the board member's interruption of her time to speak, added: “Do not interrupt my time. I will stand here until my time is restored and my time is finished. These books are in stock and available in the libraries of Robinson, Langley and Annandale High Schools.” 

A school board member then suggested that teenagers' access to the books is OK because they're only available “for high school students.” However, the majority of high school students are younger than 18, which is the age of consent in Virginia. 

Before her time was up, Langton replied to the board member's assertion, saying, “Pornography is offensive to all people; it is offensive to common decency.” When Langton’s time came to a close, the school board attempted to introduce the next speaker as many in the crowd gave the mother a round of applause. 

Langton remained at the podium as parents expressed their anger at the school board by chanting, “Go to jail!” As a security official tried to escort her away from the podium, Langton alleged that “This board is in violation of the law of the state of Virginia called 18.2-376! This board should be charged accordingly!”

The law cited by Langton is one of Virginia’s “Crimes Involving Morals and Decency.” It declares that “It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly prepare, print, publish, or circulate, or cause to be prepared, printed, published or circulated, any notice or advertisement of any obscene performance or exhibition.”

Another member of the audience remarked that “this is child pornography and every one of you all should be arrested for allowing this bullcrap to be perpetrated in our schools and infecting the minds of these children.” 

In response to the criticism, one member of the board, Karl Frisch, took to Twitter and implicitly defended the inclusion of the book in high school libraries: “It’s not every week the School Board receives two exorcisms during public comment. To be clear, nothing will disrupt our Board’s commitment to LGBTQIA+ students, families, and staff. Nothing.”

Obviously, the exorcism failed!

Fairfax County Public Schools released a statement Friday announcing that “The circulation of these books has been suspended, while a committee reviews and makes recommendations about the text.” After outlining the process for the “Request for Reconsideration of Library or Instructional Material,” the statement indicated that two committees had been formed to determine whether to remove the books from the schools. 

“Each committee will include two teachers, two parents, one school-based administrator, one member of the Equity and Cultural Responsiveness team, and two high school students. Each year, we identify potential committee members by working with our schools and regions. The committee members will be randomly selected from the list, though we will ensure that the students selected are 18 years of age given the concerns.” 

The controversy is the latest example of school boards facing pushback over some of the material taught to children in public schools. In nearby Loudoun County, Virginia, parents read aloud similar literature their high school children were exposed to in a high school English class at a school board meeting this past spring. 

Earlier this month, Mayor Craig Shubert of Hudson, Ohio, called on the school board to resign or face criminal charges for allowing a book titled, 642 Things to Write About.

The book features sexually explicit writing prompts intended for use in a college-level English class taught in the district’s high school. Like Langton and parents in Loudoun County, parents of students in the Hudson City School District read some of the sexually explicit writing prompts that children taking the class were asked to write about to the board.

Prompts students were asked to write about included instructions to “explain a time when you wanted to orgasm but couldn’t” and “write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom.”

Concerns about the kind of material children are exposed to in public schools have led to the foundation of several advocacy organizations, including Parents Defending Education and the 1776 Project PAC, which seeks to “get school board people in there who can actually start reversing it.” 

27 policewomen injured in clashes with abortion rights activists

in Mexico City

29 Sep, 2021 12:04

Protesters and police officers face each other in Mexico City, September 28, 2021. © Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters

Protesters tore down fences outside the National Palace and vandalized buildings in Mexico City on International Safe Abortion Day. More than 20 female police officers were hurt in the clashes, a senior security official said.

Women marched across Mexico’s capital and other cities on Tuesday, banging drums and wearing green scarves, which have become the symbols of reproductive rights in Latin America.

“Abortion – yes, abortion – no, that’s for me to decide,” the activists chanted, and “We must abort the system of the patriarchy,” and “Take your rosaries out of our ovaries.”

The termination of pregnancies is severely restricted in most parts of Mexico. In September, the country’s top court set a possible precedent by ordering the northern state of Coahuila to decriminalize abortion.

Members of the radical left-wing Black Bloc also participated in the protests. Wearing black and pink ski masks, they smashed the windows of an Autonomous University of Mexico State campus with hammers and vandalized its walls with spray cans.

On their way downtown, protesters clashed with police. Some were filmed shooting spray-paint at officers’ face shields.

A group of protesters also tried using spray cans to set fires to the fence surrounding the capital’s main Catholic church. 

Others attempted to scale the fence that protects a tall monument to Mexico’s independence.

Once the crowd gathered outside the National Palace, the official residence of the country’s president, people tore down some of the fencing.

Firecrackers were used, creating thick plumes of smoke. Local media quoted protesters claiming that firecrackers were set off by the police.

Marcela Figueroa, Mexico City’s top security official, denied this, saying the officers carried only personal protective gear, helmets and shields, and some carried fire extinguishers.

Some policewomen wore green and pink masks to show solidarity with reproductive rights and feminist causes.

Figueroa said that 37 people were injured during the protests, including 27 female officers, a government official and nine civilians.

Feminism just isn't what it used to be.

Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Odd Decision by Judge in M Manson Case; How Long Can Andrew Avoid Summons? Chicago Blackhawks Sued; R Kelly Guilty

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Judge dismisses sexual assault case against Marilyn Manson,

but ‘Antichrist Superstar’ not yet off the hook

FILE PHOTO: Musician Marilyn Manson performs during a concert at Campo Pequeno bullring

in Lisbon, Portugal, June 27, 2018 © Reuters / Rafael Marchante

A judge has dismissed a woman’s lawsuit accusing Marilyn Manson of raping her and threatening to kill her. However, the shock rocker is facing three other suits accusing him of sexual assault and battery.

The lawsuit was brought against Manson this May by an unnamed woman, who accused the singer-songwriter of raping and threatening to kill her in 2011, shortly after they began dating. It was dismissed on Tuesday, with a judge ruling that the statute of limitations on the woman’s accusations had expired, US celebrity and entertainment outlet TMZ reported.

The woman claimed she hadn’t accused Manson (real name Brian Warner) earlier owing to having repressed memories of the alleged abuse. However, the judge dismissed the suit when she couldn’t explain what had caused this repression, and why she hadn’t remembered the incident during the previous 10 years. She now has 20 days to refile her case.

She had to explain why she had memory suppression? Is she a psychologist? What madness is that?

Manson’s music and videos have always portrayed a dark and provocative sexuality, but a number of recent cases have had his fans wondering whether it’s a case of art imitating life.

After testifying before Congress in support of the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act in 2018, and in front of the California Senate in support of extending the statute of limitations a year later, actress Evan Rachel Wood named Manson as her abuser (2nd story on link) earlier this year. She claimed she had been “groomed” by the rock star as a teenager, and was “horrifically abused” by him during the time they dated.

Three other women – model Ashley Morgan Smithline, former assistant Ashley Walters, and ‘Game of Thrones’ actress Esmé Bianco – have all since sued Manson for sexual abuse.

Manson has denied any wrongdoing, and insisted his relationships with these women – who all accuse the singer of threatening and inflicting sadistic punishments on them – were “consensual.”

While those cases are still to be heard, the allegations themselves have done a number on Manson’s career and reputation. The 52-year-old rocker was dropped by his record label when Wood went public with her accusations in February, has been denounced by his fellow celebrities and former partners, and even had California lawmakers threaten to involve the FBI.

New York judge rules Prince Andrew’s accuser can serve him

with legal papers via his US lawyer

Will Andrew fire his US lawyer before he gets served?

17 Sep, 2021 16:09

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Andrew leaves St Mary the Virgin church in Hillington, near royal Sandringham estate, in Norfolk, Britain January 19, 2020. © REUTERS/Chris Radburn

New York judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Friday that Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, can be served with legal papers in the ongoing civil case launched by Virginia Giuffre, who claims the royal assaulted her at three locations.

The decision by the American judicial figure comes amid a dispute between Giuffre’s lawyers and the Prince’s representatives over whether he has been officially notified of the civil claim and legal proceedings against him.

“Service on the defendant’s US counsel is reasonably calculated to bring the papers served to the defendant’s attention, regardless of whether his US counsel is ‘authorised’ to accept service on his behalf,” Judge Kaplan stated.

Lawyers representing Giuffre claim to have made five attempts to reach the royal, with representatives from the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner having released photographs showing an envelope being posted on September 9, which they claim contains papers informing him of the case.

Separately, the UK High Court accepted a request earlier this week by Giuffre’s lawyers, setting a one-week deadline for the Duke of York to challenge the London court’s decision to formally contact the Prince to inform him of the start of legal proceedings.

Previously, Giuffre’s representatives have accused 61-year-old Andrew of “actively evading” attempts to serve him with legal documents, stating that he cannot play a “game of hide and seek behind palace walls.”

The case is based on Giuffre’s claims that the Prince sexually assaulted her at three locations, including New York City and the London home of Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations, most infamously in a BBC Newsnight interview prior to his departure from public life.

His desperate attempts to avoid the summons just tell us how afraid he is of this lawsuit. 

On the 24th Sept, Prince Andrew finally acknowledged receipt of the documents.

Ex-Chicago NHL player sues team, alleges sexual assault

by former assistant

Unidentified player says alleged sexual assault occurred during 2010 Stanley Cup run

The Associated Press · 

Posted: Jun 24, 2021 6:31 PM ET

An attorney for former Chicago assistant coach Bradley Aldrich, has said his client denied the allegations in the lawsuit. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

An unidentified former Chicago player says in a lawsuit against the team that a then-assistant coach sexually assaulted him in 2010 during a playoff run to a Stanley Cup title and that the team did nothing after he informed a now-retired employee.

Chicago's WBEZ reported that former assistant coach Bradley Aldrich was convicted in 2013 in Michigan of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a student.

The former player's attorney says inaction by Chicago helped enable Aldrich to go on and assault the Michigan student, and possibly others.

An attorney for Aldrich told WBEZ his client denied the allegations in the lawsuit. The team has said the allegations directed at it were groundless.

Bishop names Enoch Powell in paedophile ring,

satanic worship scandal - Bishop

By Cahal Milmo

Belfast Telegraph

March 29 2015 11:47 PM

Enoch Powell - the former South Down MP and late Conservative anti-immigrant firebrand who died in 1998 - is being investigated as a member of an alleged Westminster paedophile network after his name was supplied to police by a senior Anglican bishop.

'A senior Anglican bishop!' - I wonder where he got his information from?

The name of the former MP was provided to Scotland Yard after a clergyman came forward with claims from the 1980s relating to satanic abuse.

Powell, who achieved notoriety with his "Rivers of Blood" speech decrying migration to Britain, is the latest senior Parliamentarian to be made the subject of police inquiries into an alleged Establishment sex ring.

The Metropolitan Police has several ongoing investigations relating to claims against suspected abusers, including the former Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Detectives are also investigating allegations against former Home Secretary Leon Brittan.

It's understood the claims against Powell were passed to police by the Right Reverend Paul Butler, the Bishop of Durham, more than a year ago but have only now been made public.

The Rt Rev Butler contacted police after details of the allegations against the late Conservative politician were passed to him by a fellow clergyman, Dominic Walker, the former Bishop of Monmouth. It is understood that the Rt Rev Walker first heard the claims when he was counselling young adults as a curate in the 1980s and claims were made that an unknown number of MPs had been involved in satanic cult-type abuse.

The claim was originally submitted to Operation Fernbridge, a police investigation into abuse claims relating to the Elm guest house in London - which is at the centre of allegations that it was used by powerful individuals during the 1970s and 1980s for organised sexual abuse.

Fernbridge has now closed but allegations submitted to it remain the subject of other ongoing investigations.

The Church of England said: "The name of Enoch Powell was passed to Operation Fernbridge by one of our safeguarding team on the instruction of Bishop Paul Butler."

Multiple claims of satanic abuse were made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the notorious case in the Orkney Islands during which children were removed from their homes.

A subsequent government-backed inquiry found no evidence to substantiate any of the 86 separate alleged cases.

It is understood the allegations against Powell came from a single individual. Institutions such as the Church of England now automatically pass allegations of abuse to the police for assessment.

Profile

Enoch Powell was one of the most divisive politicians of the late 20th century. An integrationist, he became disillusioned with Ted Heath's approach to Northern Ireland and ended his Westminster career as the Ulster Unionist MP for South Down from 1974 to 1987. A powerful orator, Powell's time as a frontline politician came to an abrupt end when he was sacked from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 the morning after the "Rivers of Blood" speech. It was revealed by a confidante after his death that he had had at least one gay relationship, although this has been disputed.

R. Kelly found guilty of 9 charges in sex trafficking trial

Published 10 hours ago, BBC

Singer R. Kelly has been found guilty of exploiting his superstar status to run a scheme to sexually abuse women and children over two decades.

Eleven accusers - nine women and two men - took the stand over the searing six-week trial to describe sexual humiliation and violence at his hands.

After two days of deliberation, the jury found the US star guilty on all nine charges he was facing.

Sentencing is due on 4 May and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The jury found Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was the ringleader of a violent and coercive scheme that lured women and children for him to sexually abuse.

The singer - most famous for the hit songs I Believe I Can Fly and Ignition (Remix) - was also found to have trafficked women between different US states.

Along with eight counts of sex trafficking, Kelly was found guilty of racketeering - a charge normally used against organised crime associations.

During the trial, prosecutors detailed how his managers, security guards and other entourage members worked to assist him in his criminal enterprise.

The court also heard how Kelly had illegally obtained paperwork to marry Aaliyah when she was 15 in 1994, seven years before the singer died in a plane crash.

The certificate, leaked at the time, listed Aaliyah's age as 18. The marriage was annulled months later.

Her 1994 debut album, Age Ain't Nothing But a Number, was produced and written by R. Kelly.

One woman who testified that Kelly imprisoned, drugged and raped her said in a written statement after the verdict that she had "been hiding" from Kelly due to threats made against her since she went public with her accusations.

"I'm ready to start living my life free from fear and to start the healing process," added the woman, identified in court as Sonja.

Another woman who testified in court, Lizette Martinez, said she was "relieved" by the verdict. "I'm so proud of the women who were able to speak their truths," she added.

Legal documents have revealed the mental torment that Kelly subjected his victims to. They were not allowed to eat or use the bathroom without his permission, he controlled what clothes they wore and made them call him "Daddy".

Gloria Allred, a lawyer who represented several victims, told reporters: "I've been practising law for 47 years. During this time, I've pursued many sexual predators who have committed crimes against women and children.

"Of all the predators that I have pursued, Mr Kelly is the worst."

At a news conference outside the court on Monday, prosecutor Jacquelyn Kasulis said that the jury had sent a message to other powerful men like Kelly. "No matter how long it takes, the long arm of the law will catch up with you," said Ms Kasulis.

The verdict comes 13 years after Kelly was acquitted of child pornography charges after a trial in the state of Illinois.

Many of the allegations heard in the trial were first laid out in the 2019 documentary Surviving R Kelly.

Victims were sometimes selected from his concert audiences, or were enticed to join him after being offered help with their fledgling music careers after chance encounters with the singer.

But after joining his entourage, they found that they were subjected to strict rules and aggressively punished if they violated what his team had dubbed "Rob's rules".

Approaching Sodom > The Lancet Goes Overboard 'Woke'; Stark Raving Madness in California; Catholic Microstate Decriminalizes Abortion; Sex Slavery, Trafficking - The cost of Doing Business - FB

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‘Bodies with vaginas’?! Lancet slammed for ‘erasing women’

after promoting latest issue with controversial quote

24 Sep, 2021 23:49

The September 25, 2021 cover of The Lancet, Volume 398 Number 10306 ©  Twitter/screenshot

The prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, is in hot water over its latest issue. A quote on the cover from a senior editor has triggered widespread outrage on social media for “dehumanizing” and “erasing” women.

“Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected,”

says the pull quote on the cover of its latest issue, with a publication date of September 25.

By Friday evening, it had accumulated fewer than 300 likes and retweets combined – against the 4,600-plus replies and quote-tweets altogether, in a rather impressive ratio, which was also commented upon.

“Bodies with vaginas? You mean women? Where does this stop?!?” was the reaction by tennis great Martina Navratilova.

“The dehumanizing language has now infected the Lancet,” tweeted Dennis Kavanagh of Lesbian & Gay News. 

“How completely awful. Just wrote the Lancet to tell them to take me off their list of statistical reviewers and cancel my subscription and never contact me about anything ever again,” tweeted Dave Curtis, a retired psychiatrist doing genetics research. “Absolutely inexcusable language to refer to women and girls.”

“We wish to make a formal complaint about the dehumanizing and straight-up sexist cover story on the latest edition of the Lancet,” said the group Women Make Glasgow.

Others commented that The Lancet editors seem to have “lost their minds,” or that “body with a vagina” is a step down from “birthing person,” the most recent politically correct phrase coming from the US.

The contentious phrase appears in the two-page article by The Lancet’s senior editor Sophia Davis, reviewing an exhibition called ‘Periods on Display’ at the Vagina Museum in London’s Camden Market. While the pull quote is accurate, Davis does use the term “women” several times, as well as “people who menstruate.” 

There's a vagina museum? 

Florence Schechter, who makes an appearance in Davis’ article, founded the Vagina Museum in 2017, after discovering there was a penis museum in Iceland. Surely in Iceland, it's a pretty small museum. How pathetic the world is becoming!

After doing pop-up exhibitions, the museum moved into its current space in 2019, but faces closure at the end of September when its lease runs out. Davis makes a case for providing it with funding because it has “a strong sense of social purpose and is bold and exuberant in its aim and messaging.”

The Lancet is among the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals, established in 1823. 

And yet, they found this ding-a-ling to be senior editor. Good grief!

Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Children to Hide Abortions,

Transgender Treatments from Parents

Michael Foust | 

ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | 

Friday, September 24, 2021

Gavin Newsom, Newsom releases new guidelines that will allow churches to start reopening

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill into law that critics say forces insurance companies to conceal from parents the medical services their children are receiving, including when it involves such controversial ones as abortion, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

The new law, AB 1184, prohibits insurance companies from requiring minors to receive authorization from the policy-holding parents for “sensitive services.” The law defines “sensitive” services as “mental or behavioral health, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, substance use disorder, gender-affirming care, and intimate partner violence.” The phrase “gender-affirming” care includes gender-transition treatments for transgenderism.

Further, the law requires the insurance company to “direct all communications” about the service to the child and prohibits the company from disclosing the information to the parents unless the child allows it.

In signing the bill, Newsom said it was needed to protect the “privacy rights of people receiving sensitive health care services.”

Stark-raving madness! Is there an age limit in this bill or can a 3 y/o decide to become transgender without parental knowledge?

Critics, though, say it infringes on parental rights.

“How can moms and dads protect their children if insurance companies deliberately keep them in the dark?” said Jonathan Keller, president of the California Family Council. “Parents are responsible for the health and safety of their sons and daughters. Even the best-intentioned medical providers cannot replace the role of mothers and fathers. California should not force doctors to hide the truth about irreversible medical procedures like abortion and sterilizing hormone treatments.”

The California Senate’s nine Republicans urged Newsom to veto the bill, saying in a letter that “parents have a right to be involved in sensitive medical decisions for their young children.” The now-law, they said, puts “policyholders in the impossible position of being financially responsible for bills they did not incur and cannot verify as being legitimate.”

Astonishing! This will end up in court very soon.

“We should be encouraging parents and families to be involved in their children’s lives, not removing them further from it,” the letter said.

The new law passed the Assembly, 61-14, and the Senate, 29-8.

Majority-Catholic San Marino decriminalizes abortion,

over 77% vote to abolish 1865 law in historic referendum

27 Sep, 2021 00:44 / Updated 13 hours ago

FILE PHOTO: Members of the "Yes" campaign to legalise abortion in San Marino hand out leaflets ahead of the September 26th referendum in San Marino, September 15, 2021. Picture taken September 15, 2021. © REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini

San Marino, a predominately Catholic microstate surrounded by Italian territory, has voted to legalize abortion, thus rendering obsolete a more than century-old law that punished women with imprisonment.

About 77.3% of those eligible to vote in the referendum answered yes to the question whether women should be allowed to “voluntarily terminate pregnancy until the twelfth week of gestation,” and thereafter if a woman’s health is jeopardized by the pregnancy, or if the fetus’ “abnormalities and malformations” pose “a serious risk to the physical or psychological health of the woman.”

Turnout was low, however – around 41% of the tiny state’s population of 35,000 cast their ballots on Sunday. Just over 60% of San Marino citizens currently living in the city-state turned out, while only around 5% of those living abroad took part.

The result of the referendum means that San Marino will be abolishing its strict abortion ban, enshrined in law as far back as 1865. The parliament will now work out a draft bill that would make abortion legal.

Commenting on the results, San Marino’s interior minister, Elena Tonnini, called it “a clear victory of those in favor [of abortion legalization].” Under the old law, San Marino women faced up to three years in prison, while doctors who performed abortion risked being jailed for up to six years.

Women seeking to terminate their pregnancies would travel to countries where the abortion laws are more liberalized, including Italy, rendering the 1865 law effectively useless. No one has ever been convicted under its provisions.

While abortion and the moral questions surrounding the procedure remain among the most hotly debated issues across the globe, the general trend has seen abortion laws gradually relaxed in nearly 50 countries over the past several decades, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Around 41% of women of reproductive age, or 700 million people, however, still live “under restrictive laws,” according to the advocacy group, while 90 million (5%) live in countries where abortion is banned under all circumstances.

Facebook is banning Christians but allowing sex traffickers on platform,

says Movieguide’s Ted Baehr

By Anugrah Kumar, 

Christian Post Contributor| 

Monday, September 27, 2021

The Instagram and Facebook logos are displayed at the 2018 CeBIT technology trade fair on June 12, 2018, in Hanover, Germany. | Alexander Koerner/Getty Images

While Facebook is known for cracking down on accounts linked to Christians and politically conservative individuals and groups, the platform is doing little to stop criminal organizations that use the networking site to profit off sex trafficking, said entertainment critic Ted Baehr.

The connection between human trafficking and drug cartels on social media is a “gigantic” problem, Baehr told CBN News.

“I was one of the founding board members of the National Coalition on Sexual Exploitation. It’s been a bigger and bigger problem, especially when we talk about the crackdown on conservative sites or Christian sites,” he said. “Because they say on Facebook that the cost of doing business in Africa and the Middle East is allowing all of these different businesses to use it. These businesses are sex slavery. These businesses are trafficking.”

"The cost of doing business in Africa and the Middle East is allowing

all of these different businesses to use it. 

These businesses are sex slavery. These businesses are trafficking.”

Facebook employees sent numerous alerts to their bosses to report on human traffickers in the Middle East and armed groups in Ethiopia that are using the platform for sex trafficking and inciting violence against ethnic minorities, according to internal documents released by The Wall Street Journal in an investigative report.  

Facebook was informed that a Mexican drug cartel was using the platform to recruit, train and pay hitmen, but the company didn’t stop the cartel from posting on Facebook or Instagram, the documents show.

“Anybody will tell you who’s concerned about this issue that there’s more slavery today than there’s ever been in terms of sex slavery," Baehr said. "So these cartels are using Facebook. Facebook has said, ‘We are going to address the issue.’ They’ve never really addressed it.”

For Facebook, harm in developing countries is “simply the cost of doing business,” Brian Boland, a former Facebook vice president who oversaw partnerships with internet providers in Africa and Asia before resigning last year, told the Journal.

Facebook’s safety efforts are focused on wealthier markets with powerful governments and media institutions, he added, noting that more than 90% of monthly users are now outside the U.S. and Canada.

“There is very rarely a significant, concerted effort to invest in fixing those areas,” he added.

In the U.S., Facebook and other social media platforms use Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act to protect themselves from lawsuits over what users post online. One of the clauses of Section 230 states that what users say or write online is not akin to a publisher conveying the same message. However, the same clause that shields online platforms from liability is often used to ban conservative viewpoints.

In 2018, Facebook restricted Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng’s campaign from placing a video ad, deeming it too “shocking, disrespectful or sensational” because it featured her American immigrant parents who survived brutalities by the Khmer Rouge communists during the Cambodian Civil War.

In 2017, a Christian mother said Facebook censored her page, which was suspended over posts on what the Bible says about homosexuality and sin.

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Global Pervs and Paedos List > The Horror of Child Sex Abuse in Pakistan; The Futility of Reporting Rape at University; Beast of Bangor Bows Out

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This story was presented on Pakistani TV and poorly translated into English.

Nevertheless, it is worth the effort to read.

Child Abuse: More Horrible than a Person Could Imagine

By Mussab Tariq, Baaghitv

Sep 24, 2021, 11:20 Am  

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Pakistan is confronted with an expanding threat of youngster misuse and a greater part of cases in the nation go unreported. The nation has a few laws to ensure kids yet specialists say that with helpless execution and low conviction rate, youngster misuse has turned into an industrious issue.

The NGO Sahil in its yearly report expressed that there has been a 4 percent expansion in archived instances of significant wrongdoings against kids (2,960 instances of kid sexual abuse, seizing, missing youngsters, and child marriages) in 2020 from the earlier year. To place this consider along with the point of view, this implies that somewhere around eight kids were manhandled every day last year.

The report expressed that the information shows that 80 kids were killed after sexual abuse in 2020 out of the all-out revealed instances of 2,960. The number of homicide cases after sexual maltreatment was 70 every 2019.

The culprits of this intolerable wrongdoing either undermine youngsters with critical outcomes or bait them through warmth, cash, or confections and a significant number of these kids keep on languishing maltreatment over years.

A few child abuse cases including the assault and murder of 7-year-old Zainab Ansari in Kasur, and assault and murder of a 5-year-old young lady in Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, and the assault of a 6-year-old young lady in Sukkur, Sindh region have sent a shockwave among individuals.

An investigation of the information uncovers that in 2020 alone, out of the all-out revealed cases, 985 cases were accounted for of homosexuality, 787 cases were assault, 89 cases were porn and child sexual abuse, and 80 cases were accounted for of homicide after kid sexual maltreatment, though 834 cases were accounted for of kidnapping, reported The Express Tribune.

Sexual maltreatment against young men is considerably more typical than individuals think, as per Developmental Psychologist at the Aga Khan University Waliyah Mughis.

“Both, female and male casualties can battle to be accepted by others yet the no-no encompassing male youngster casualties might be significantly higher. Notwithstanding sex, the hurtful impacts of sexual savagery are simply something very similar for guys and females: blame, self-fault, outrage, dread, disarray, doubt, trouble at school and work, trouble shaping and keeping up with confiding seeing someone, expanded danger of substance abuse and self-hurt,” she noted.

On other hand, Child Protection Bureau Chairperson Sarah Ahmed focused on the requirement for additional endeavors to forestall sexual and physical abuse of kids.

 

“The Government is finding a way substantial ways to check sexual brutality against kids. Notwithstanding, the ascent in child sexual abuse over the course of the years is disturbing,” she added, focusing on the need to make mindfulness about the reasons for sexual abuse of kids and measures to forestall it.

“Stricter laws are being presented for culprits of sexual savagery against youngsters and ladies,” Ahmed said.

Experts say the public authority ought to improve and give really preparation and assets to guarantee that the police, specialists, court authorities, social laborers, and youngster government assistance specialists react appropriately to claims of kid sexual maltreatment. Pakistan’s youngsters merit protected adolescence.

The merciless and abhorrent hijacking, assault, and murder of Zainab set off banter in Pakistan about whether to show kids how to prepare for sex misuse and in its battle to guarantee the assurance of kids, the public authority sanctioned the Zainab Alert Response and Recovery Act, 2020. The public authority additionally settled the Zainab Alert Response and Recovery Agency for missing and snatched kids.

Be that as it may, activists keep up with this will not end the youngster misuse cases as kids are should have been given information on the issue. Proceeded with correspondence among kids and guardians is important to support a kid’s certainty. Specialists say this will urge kids to express their real thoughts if there should be an occurrence of any sort of approach.

Eyewitnesses say that much can be as yet accomplished for the assurance of youngsters and in such manner proposals incorporate kid cordial courts, unique work areas at police headquarters, and mindfulness for kids and guardians.

Children need to be taught what is safe-touch and unsafe-touch, plus who to tell and how to tell in schools and madrassas. This gives the voiceless a voice. They also need child-friendly courts that will not force a small child to testify in front of the pervert who attacked and threatened them.

The Rape Culture is alive and well in Canadian Universities, and I expect all other western universities as well.

I was raped at university. Here's why I never reported it

The assault was my fault, according to the system that should have protected me

Meghan Simard · 

For CBC First Person · 

Posted: Sep 25, 2021 10:00 AM ET 

Meghan Simard writes she tried to report her sexual assault but was thwarted at every turn by a system that didn’t believe her. (Hailley Furkalo/CBC)

Warning: This First Person column contains graphic content and may be triggering for those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. It is written by Meghan Simard who lives in Toronto. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ. 

Back to school is a hard time for me every year. It aligns with the anniversary of my rape at university in 2014. This anniversary was made even harder by the news coming out of Western University.

Police are investigating four reported sexual assaults since school began this month. On TikTok and other social media platforms, there have been allegations of more sexual assaults. It might be tempting to look at this as a Western problem, or a class of 2021 problem. It's not.

Every year, approximately 600,000 sexual assaults occur in Canada. An estimated five per cent of sexual assaults against people 15 or older were reported to police. This makes sexual assault the violent crime least likely to be reported to police. I am one of the 95 percent who does not have an official report of my sexual assault — but not for lack of trying.

I was raped in my third year of university by a so-called friend. I had turned down his sexual advances earlier in the week, but agreed to watch a movie with him and two other people. When I arrived at his house for the movie, the other people were nowhere to be found. I told him twice I didn't want to have sex. I tried to leave. I removed his hands from my breasts and genitals four times. I still remember the moment when I realized what was going to happen, whether I wanted it or not.

Distraught, I turned to institutions that should have protected me for support. I received next to none.

I went to Kingston General Hospital to have a rape kit done. At the request of the nurses, I recited my story at least twice but no one wrote anything down. I surrendered my jeans and underwear. I expect they have since been destroyed to make room for clothing from more recent rapes. 

I spread my legs for an internal swab and was told after the fact that DNA evidence would be useless in a 'he said, she said'. He wouldn't deny that he was in me, but would just say it was consensual. I wanted to report my rape then and there, along with the rape kit. The nurse said I would have to make a report to the police. I could not report it at the hospital.

I went to the Queen's University Human Rights and Equity Office to speak with the school's sexual harassment prevention co-ordinator. She asked me to explain what had happened. Again, I recited my story — this time with many interruptions and incredulous outcries from the co-ordinator. 

At one point, she interrupted me to ask for more detail about the sexual positions in which I was raped. Despite demanding every sordid detail, she didn't take any notes. When I'd finished, she asked what I would like to see happen. I said I would like to see him expelled, or at least suspended until I graduate. 

The response was another incredulous outcry: "He has rights too, you know!" 

That same academic year, one of my friends was not at school because his grades were not sufficient to stay in his program. Apparently, you can be suspended for poor grades but not for raping another student. 

My trauma isn’t limited to the rape itself, writes Meghan Simard. It extends to my denied attempts to report my assault and from my denied attempts to seek justice. (Meghan Simard)

The co-ordinator tried to dissuade me from making a report with campus security or local police, but eventually agreed to set up a meeting with a detective from Kingston Police.

I met with the detective a few days later on campus. She asked me to recite my story again. Again, no one wrote anything down. Face wet with defiant tears, I asked the detective what my chances of a conviction were. She said none. Then she proceeded to tell me why:

Because it was he said, she said.

Because I didn't leave when I started to feel unsafe.

Because it took me four days to realize what had happened.

Because I didn't scream.

Because I had slept with him before in the previous school year.

Because I stayed the night and left in the morning.

All of the reasons she provided laid the blame at my feet. I had failed to be the "perfect rape victim," and so I had no chances of securing a conviction. 

She then offered some advice. She said I am too nice and need to learn to teach people how I want to be treated. She then said that if I really wanted to make a report (I have a faint memory of this being accompanied by a labored sigh) that I would have to go to the police station where they would take my statement, and then close the file without an investigation. I could not make a statement from campus or my student house. I didn't even know where the police station was — nor did she offer to tell me.

I left these meetings with a hatred for myself I did not know was possible. I thought to myself that if I could just take responsibility for my actions, for my failure to stand up for myself, for my meekness and weakness, that I could accept it was my fault and move on.

According to Statistics Canada, 71 per cent of post-secondary students have experienced or witnessed unwanted sexualized behaviour in a post-secondary setting in 2019. (Kate Dubinski/CBC News)

The meetings with the human rights office and the Kingston Police were more traumatizing than the rape itself. 

I'm not saying that to diminish the trauma rape inflicts, because the assault caused immeasurable harm all on its own. But being failed by one person is more manageable than being failed by system after system. 

The rest of my school year was more or less a garbage fire. Attending university classes with newly developed, untreated, and severe PTSD is hard enough, but I also had to see my rapist regularly on and around campus. I am indebted to my friends who held my hands through panic attacks and to my family who picked up the phone in the middle of the night when all I wanted to do was die.

The summer following the assault, I was back home, living with my family — away from my rapist and the place I was raped. I'd achieved some form of stability and calm for the first time in eight months. I thought that perhaps here, in my hometown, while I felt safe(r) I could report the crime. I even had a constable in mind, one I trusted and had known since childhood. I mentioned this to a social worker I was seeing at the time. 

She said that she thought I would have to report the assault to Kingston Police, that my local police wouldn't take the report since it had not happened in their jurisdiction. 

By this point, I had been defeated so many times. It was not worth the effort or the disappointment to find out for certain if I could report locally. All it took was one hint of discouragement to scare me off.

I was raped and never reported it. Our systems are an obstacle course that keeps us from reporting. My trauma isn't limited to the rape itself, but extends to my denied attempts to report my assault and from my denied attempts to seek justice.

I am in some ways heartened to see a media, police, and institutional response, however insufficient, to the reports of sexual assault at Western. For far too long, survivors have been silenced and disbelieved. To see news coverage and student walkouts over these assaults is a welcome change.

To my fellow survivors, I see you. I hear you. I believe you. Your assault is valid even if you never reported it. 

If you are a victim of sexual violence, reach out to your provincial hotline.

Editor's note: CBC News contacted the Kingston Police, which did not provide a response to questions about Meghan Simard's experience by the time of publication. It was one of many police forces across Canada that decided to review sexual assault cases after a Globe and Mail investigation revealed that one in five sexual assault cases across Canada was classified as unfounded, meaning the investigator didn't believe an offence occurred or was attempted.

The Kingston General Hospital said it could not provide information on Simard's experience due to provincial privacy laws.

Queen's University declined to comment on the specifics of Simard's case. The school hired an outside consulting firm to investigate complaints against the co-ordinator at the human rights office. There was no finding of impropriety by the staff member, the university confirmed to CBC in an email. A spokesperson said the school has developed a policy on sexual violence involving students.

‘Beast of Bangor’ paedophile Gary McNeill dies suddenly after jail release

Ciaran Barnes 

September 26 2021 07:00 AM

Belfast Telegraph

A notorious paedophile jailed for abusing a four-year-old girl has died suddenly after being freed from prison.

Gary McNeill — known as the ‘Beast of Bangor’ — passed away unexpectedly earlier this month.

Former pals say the one time North Down UDA drug dealer, who was aged in his 30s, was struggling to come to terms with being known as a child sex predator.

“McNeill couldn’t come back to Bangor —  loyalists would have lynched him if he tried —  and he found that hard,” a former friend told Sunday Life.

“Before his conviction he strutted about the Rathgill estate in the town acting the big man, but all that disappeared when he was convicted of abusing that wee girl who was only at nursery school when he attacked her.”

McNeill pleaded guilty to a single charge of sexual assault on his young victim at Belfast Crown Court in January 2020. He was freed from prison earlier this year with his reputation in ruins and without a friend. Members of his family also turned their back on him.

Hold on: He raped a 4-year-old girl and spent little more than a year in prison for it? How insane is that?

Loyalists sources in Bangor were dismissive of his death, saying: “He won’t be missed.”

The sex attack McNeill was convicted of occurred in August 2019 while he was in the company of the little girl. She later complained to a family member of feeling sore when using the toilet. This alarmed her relative who immediately contacted the PSNI. Medical examinations of the child found she had been the victim of sexual abuse.

McNeill, who was living at a flat on Rathgill Avenue in Bangor at the time, was arrested and charged. He initially denied any wrongdoing following a court appearance in Newtownards, but later changed his plea to guilty.

After confessing to being a paedophile McNeill was warned by police that he was under threat from loyalist paramilitaries.