This Week's Global Pervs and Paedos List > Sex Offences spike in UK; Names and faces of NE UK pervs; Dad gets slap on wrist for brutal assaults on daughter, Gang-rape on Cyprus

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Sexual offenses spike to record high in England & Wales

Newly-released Office for National Statistics data shows England and Wales

reported nearly 171,000 sexual offenses in the past 12 months

The headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police force. 

Police across England and Wales reported a record high number of rapes and sexual offenses in the year to September, according to official data released on Thursday. 

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) saw a total of 170,973 sexual offenses reported, an increase of 12% from the last 12 month period, with officials seeing “noticeable increases [in crimes] since April 2021.”

Among the sexual offenses reported, 37%, or 63,136, were rapes, a spike of 13%, with the ONS warning the “overall trend” is “difficult to disentangle from the impact of lockdowns.”

“The winter 2020 to 2021 lockdowns saw a smaller reduction in the number of sexual offences recorded by the police but a greater level of increase in these offences in the subsequent quarters,” the ONS stated.

The figures released by the UK data agency reflect a “number of factors,” including the “impact of high-profile incidents, media coverage and campaigns on people’s willingness to report incidents,” the ONS said, as it urged people to cautiously interpret the data.

Remember, these are only those cases that are reported to police, hence the numbers should be considerably higher.

The ONS data was released on the same day it was reported that British police have released as many as 12,000 suspected sex offenders into the community without imposing bail conditions to protect their victims or the public.

The Home Office data to March 2021 shows an additional 55,207 people arrested for violent offenses in England and Wales were released under investigation.

The names and pictures of North East, UK paedophiles and perverts

jailed for their sick crimes

These men have all been convicted of sex offences involving children

in North East courts recently

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These are some of the faces of men recently jailed for their crimes against children

These are the faces of paedophiles and perverts from the North East who have been jailed recently for their sick crimes.

The predators were exposed to the world recently after being convicted for their heinous crimes involving children.

These include Mark Duffield who had more than 5,500 indecent images in his possession and "deviant" paedophile Mark Paul Copeland who carried out sickening sexual assaults on two children.

And today, we reveal the faces of the men convicted recently for their despicable sex offences involving children. 

Please go to Chronicle Live for the rest of this story.

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‘How can anyone admit these crimes and receive a sentence like that’ – Aimee Foley tells of sexual abuse by her father

The DPP is now appealing the five-year term handed down to Michael O’Donoghue

Aimee Foley at home in Ennistymon, Co Clare. Photograph by Eamon Ward

Eavan Murray, Independent

January 30 2022 05:01 PM

AIMEE FOLEY walked out of court 12 in the Criminal Courts of Justice and collapsed into her mother's arms. "Why did I bother," she cried out.

Her mother, Camille, held Aimee for as long as she could before they both fell on the cold marble floor.

Moments earlier, her father, Michael O'Donoghue (44) from Ennistymon, Co Clare was sentenced to five years for brutally raping and abusing his only daughter.

O'Donoghue, with an address of Colmanstown, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, pleaded guilty to 31 counts of sexually assaulting Aimee, one count of raping her and one count of producing child pornography.

Today Aimee (20) breaks her silence. She can't make peace with the fact that any man that brutalises a child could be jailed for five years.

The Director of Public Prosecutions recently informed Aimee they would appeal the leniency of the sentence handed down by Mr Justice David Keane on December 13.

The Central Criminal Court heard O'Donoghue plied his daughter with alcohol and drugs before assaulting her when she was on access visits to his home.

When Aimee was 12, he began having "highly sexualised" conversations with her. He told her he liked to watch "daddy/daughter porn".

Why were there no charges for plying the child with drugs and alcohol, and exposing her to child pornography?

The abuse grew increasingly brazen and depraved.

On one occasion at a family wedding, when Aimee was aged 13, she was told by other family members to escort her intoxicated father to his hotel bedroom.

O'Donoghue grabbed her in the hotel corridor and said if he wanted, he could "bend her over and rape her", the court heard.

He then pinned her to a wall and sexually assaulted her. This attack was witnessed by a member of his extended family who came to Aimee's aid.

Such was Aimee's terror following the assault; she climbed out of a window in the hotel room to escape him.

When confronted by members of his family, O'Donoghue said he mistook Aimee for his wife.

In December 2016, when Aimee was aged 15, she was alone with her father overnight.

He gave her alcohol with cannabis and showed her how to snort cocaine. He then brutally raped her. The court heard O'Donoghue recorded the abuse on his phone.

The burden placed on her young life by Michael O'Donoghue is almost more than anyone person could bear.

But there is something about Aimee. She's beautiful, warm, highly intelligent and funny. She carries the whole room with her when she speaks. Aimee deserves so much more than the hand she was dealt in life and by the justice system.

In his sentencing, Judge Keane said O'Donoghue, a painter and decorator, was guilty of a grotesque "betrayal of parental responsibilities".

Setting a headline sentence of 12 years, he reduced it to seven years, taking mitigating factors into account. He then suspended the final two years; given time served, O'Donoghue will be a free man in less than three years.

It was a good day in court for Michael O'Donoghue.

"I walked out of that courtroom and I burst into tears," says Aimee.

"We were on the fourth floor, court 12. I was looking down and it came into my mind to jump.

"I thought I might as well be dead because he is going to be out before you can blink. "I was gasping for breath. I just kept thinking, was that it? What do I do now? Everyone in the courthouse could hear me crying." 

Her mother recalls desperately trying to hold Aimee upright. Tears slowly falling down her face, Camille says: "I held her until I couldn't hold her up anymore.

"She was almost screaming, saying, 'let them see what they are after doing to me’. It was one of the worst moments of my life.”

Throughout the whole criminal process, Aimee's family and the investigating gardaí had never seen her cry. "I am numb and I approach it in a matter-of-fact way. It's the only way I think I can survive it all," says Aimee.

"I feel like everyone I know views me differently now. It's almost like I'm not the same person they grew up with anymore. I want people to treat me the way they always did. I'm still me. But I have to speak out now because I have almost been given no choice.

"How can anyone admit these crimes and receive a sentence like that?"

The mitigating factors Justice Keane took into account when he spared O'Donoghue lengthier jail time included his "unusual" admissions to gardaí.

There is much more on this horrible story including Aimee's nightmarish experiences, at the Independent.

Cyprus court exonerates British woman from lying about gang rape

   

Activists stage a demonstration outside the Famagusta District Court in support of a British woman and alleged victim of gang rape after she was convicted of public mischief in Paralimni, Cyprus, on January 7, 2020. The Supreme Court overturned the conviction Monday. Katia Christodoulou/EPA-EFE Jan. 31 (UPI) --

The Cyprus Supreme Court on Monday overturned the conviction of a British woman accused of lying about being gang-raped in the country.

The unnamed woman from Derbyshire, Britain, was given a suspended four-month jail sentence in 2020 after a Famagusta District Court judge found her guilty of public mischief.

She told police she was attacked by 12 Israeli tourists in a hotel room on July 17, 2019. The woman, who was 19 at the time, was charged after signing a retraction statement 10 days later.

The university student maintained that she was pressured by officials in Cyprus to withdraw her original statement.

"It is a great relief we hear that the authorities in Cyprus have recognized the flaws in their legal process," her family said in a statement, according to Sky News. "Whilst this decision doesn't excuse the way she was treated by the police or the judge or those in authority, it does bring with it the hope that my daughter's suffering will at least bring positive changes in the way that victims of crime are treated."

The woman was held on Cyprus for more than six months while awaiting her trial. She continued to insist that the rape allegation was genuine.

Approaching Sodom > Woke Madness in CA school; Woke Madness in Cdn school; The stupidity of the new Swiss sex change law is obvious; GOP will ban trans athletes

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Mom Sues School, Says Teachers 'Planted the Seed' in

11-Year-Old Daughter That 'She Was Transgender'

Michael Foust | 

ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | 

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

A California mother alleges in a new lawsuit that teachers recruited her sixth-grade daughter to join an LGBT Equality Club and then “planted the seed” in her mind that she was transgender while hiding the information from the mom.

The lawsuit, filed by mom Jessica Konen against Spreckels Union School District, claims the school violated her parental rights under California law and the U.S. Constitution. Konen is represented by the Center for American Liberty.

At the time, the daughter – known as “A.G.” in the suit – was 11 years old.

“Parents absolutely have a right to know what is being taught in their kids’ school, especially with respect to sensitive issues like gender and sexuality,” the center said in a news release. “... But parents are denied that right when activist teachers think they know better and intentionally hide information from moms and dads.”

The controversy began when the daughter attended an Equality Club meeting at the invitation of a friend. After the meeting, she decided she “was not interested in the LGBT+ discussion” and chose not to go back, but about two weeks later, a teacher who helps run the club, Ms. Caldiera, told her she “fit in perfectly” and encouraged her to return, according to the suit. The daughter agreed to do so.

“At these meetings and in other discussions,” the teachers “planted the seed in A.G.’s mind that she was bisexual,” the suit says. “That idea did not originate with A.G. In fact, she did not fully understand what that term meant.

“Shortly thereafter,” the teachers “planted the seed in A.G.’s mind that she was transgender. As with bisexuality, that idea did not originate with A.G., nor did A.G. fully understand what it meant.”

Feeling depressed and stressed, A.G. went to a school counselor, who, along with a teacher, told her the feelings were due to her “not being who she was,” the suit says.

Teachers then “encouraged A.G. to change her name to a boy’s name as an expression of the new identity they were encouraging her to take on.” A.G. began wearing boys’ clothes. All along, the teachers “instructed A.G. not to tell her mother about her new identity or new name, saying that her mother might not be supportive of her and that she couldn’t trust her mother,” the suit says. Other teachers began to refer to A.G. by her new name without the mother knowing.

Absolute madness!!!!

When A.G. was in seventh grade, the principal set up a school meeting that involved A.G., the mother, the principal and another teacher. There, the mom was informed that A.G. had changed her name, that teachers “would be referring to her daughter by her new name, that she would be referred to with male pronouns, and that she would be allowed to use the unisex teachers’ bathroom.”

“Ms. Konen was taken aback by this news, and she reasonably believed that if she did not process what was going on quickly enough, Respondents would take efforts to attempt to have her daughter taken from her,” the suit says.

A.G. is now in high school and no longer identifies as transgender but instead goes by her female name and female pronouns. The suit says she “is confused about issues relating to her sexuality and gender, and she believes that Respondents caused this confusion.”

“A.G. believes that she was pressured by [teachers] into portraying a character they created, a character that, by being inhabited and hidden from her mother, has taken on elements of reality that A.G. must now learn to understand and live with,” the suit says. “A.G. also believes that Respondents tried to turn her mother against her and that her relationship with her mother has been seriously damaged because of the actions.”

Ontario school board punishes teacher for raising concerns

over trans books in libraries

By Anugrah Kumar, 

Christian Post Contributor| 

Monday, January 24, 2022

An Ontario school teacher Carolyn Burjoski speaks in a video she posted on Twitter. | Screenshot / Twitter

An Ontario teacher was placed on leave after being accused of using “transphobic” language for voicing concern during a board meeting last Monday about the presence of books that celebrate medical gender transition in school libraries.

The teacher, Carolyn Burjoski, claims she is being “bullied, slandered and abused” for arguing that some books in libraries were inappropriate for children.

The Waterloo Region District School Board Chair Scott Piatkowski cut short Burjoski’s presentation after she said the school libraries have books that make the medical transition seem "simple" and “cool" available to kindergartners through sixth-grade students, The National Post reported.

The board, which oversees over 100 schools in the region, voted 5-4 to back up the chair’s decision.

In a video posted on Twitter, Burjoski said that she was informed the following morning by human resources that she was “immediately assigned to home, pending a formal investigation and banned from contacting my colleagues and students.”

“This was particularly upsetting to me because I love my students, and I have not seen them since December,” she said. “When my students excitedly returned to school on Tuesday — the first day of in-class learning after yet another lockdown — their teacher was not there, and they did not know why. I have been silenced and punished.” 

During her presentation, the teacher started reading from the book Rick by Alex Gina, in which the protagonist discovers that he is asexual.

“While reading this book, I was thinking: ‘Maybe Rick doesn’t have sexual feelings yet because he is a child,’” she said in the meeting, according to CTV News. “It concerns me that it leaves young boys wondering if there is something wrong with them if they aren’t thinking about naked girls all the time. What message does this send to girls in Grade 3 or 4? They are children. Let them grow up in their own time and stop pressuring them to be sexual so soon.”

The teacher contends that she is “not a transphobic person.” “It’s crazy that just because you ask a question, the first thing people do is call you that,” she told The National Post.

In her social media video, Burjoski said that “board members have taken to radio, television, social media to grossly misrepresent my remarks.”

“I feel bullied, slandered and abused,” she said. “The school board has removed the video of the meeting from their YouTube channel, so people are not able to hear what I actually said.”

“Most of the video is me reading excerpts from two books available to any young child who is able to read,” she continued. “My few comments expressed concern about age-inappropriate sexual content. I did not and do not question the rights of trans persons to exist in any way. I fully support the human rights of transgender people.”

She argues that “cancel culture needs to stop.” 

“We need to recover our ability to listen to each other and speak with one another with open mind. Respectful dialogue is the core of democracy. 

Not to mention 'truth'!

Piatkowski was quoted as saying that it was “unfortunate that it was necessary, but it was necessary.”

“I’m hearing from school board chairs and other boards that they would not have allowed that either. I’m hearing from past chairs of this board.”

Burjoski’s case comes as parents in the United States have raised concerns about the content that their children are being exposed to in their school districts. 

Last November, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, the largest school district in the U.S., said it was reinstating two books — Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison and Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe — to its high school libraries after a review into concerns raised by a mother that they contain “pornography” with graphic descriptions of sex acts between men and boys.

At a school board meeting in September, Stacy Langton, a parent of a student at Fairfax High School, said, “both of these books include pedophilia, [and] sex between men and boys.”

“Both books describe different acts. One book describes a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male,” she said. “The other book has detailed illustrations of a man having sex with a boy… The illustrations include fellatio, sex toys, masturbation and violent nudity.”

Last August, the highest court in Virginia rejected a request by the Loudoun County School Board to uphold the suspension of a Christian teacher, Byron Tanner Cross, who was punished for criticizing a proposed policy requiring teachers to use trans students’ preferred names and pronouns. A lower court had struck down the school district’s suspension of the teacher. 

“Looking to federal precedent as persuasive, it is settled law that the government may not take adverse employment actions against its employees in reprisal for their exercising their right to speak on matters of public concern,” read the order in part.

Apparently, not so in Ontario. PCMadness prevails in most Canadian school districts. And, as always, it's the children who suffer from adult madness.

Man declares himself woman to retire early – media

A savvy male has reportedly been able to profit from a loophole in Switzerland’s

new sex-change legislation 

© Getty Images / Letizia Le Fur

A Swiss man reportedly exploited a loophole in the country's new simplified sex-change legislation and registered as a woman so that he could become eligible for a lavish pension a year earlier.

Starting from January 1, a ten-minute-long interview and a payment of 75 Swiss francs (about $80) is enough for a person in Switzerland to change their sex on paper. Such procedures as a physical examination and hormonal testing have been eliminated.

One citizen, a man from the canton of Lucerne in the German-speaking central part of the country, saw this as a good opportunity to profit, the local Luzerner Zeitung reported.

In the wealthy Alpine state, the retirement age for men is 65 years, compared to 64 for women, and the pensions are really high, varying from 13,480 euro (about $15to nearly 27,000 annually.

The as-yet-unnamed person apparently decided not to wait another year for the money, by simply going and registering as a female with the authorities. 

The sex change only occurred on paper, with the claimant later confirming to family and friends that it was done only to speed up the retirement, according to media.

There have so far been no reports of the authorities in Lucerne planning to challenge this reported application.

However, the reportedly isolated incident has pointed to significant flaws in the sex-change rules. The local media have swiftly come up with several other scenarios, in which they can also be exploited by the country’s male population.

The young men could register as women to avoid military service, as it’s only compulsory for men in the country. Widowers could also tend to turn into widows to receive the higher compensations that women in Switzerland are entitled to. 

It took less than a month for the sheer stupidity of this new law to become apparent. Far-left politicians rarely think through the consequences. Switzerland used to be such a sensible country.

Defiant Trump vows to ban trans athletes

Donald Trump has pledged that US Republicans will ban trans athletes

from competing against women if they take back power

Brandon Bell/Getty Images © Getty Images

Donald Trump has waded into the growing debate surrounding transgender athletes in the United States while speaking at a 'Save America' rally in Texas, vowing that they will no longer be permitted to compete against biologically-born women when the Republican Party wrestles back control from their Democrat counterparts. 

Trump, who stopped short of committing to a presidential run in 2024, gave a lengthy 80-minute speech to the assembled masses in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday night where he touched on a range of issues from illegal immigration to the possibility of pardons for those convicted in relation to the January 6 2021 riots at the US Capitol.

But it was the issue of transgender rights, and the fairness of them competing against naturally-born women in athletic competition, which appeared to be one of the central tenets of Trump's polemic. 

Trans rights has been a political battleground between the contrasting philosophies within the US political sphere. More and more figures within sport have begun speaking out against the efficacy of having trans athletes competing alongside cisgender women, with stories from the worlds of weightlifting, swimming another others drawing global attention in recent months.

But as far as Trump is concerned, this is exactly where the Republican party should draw the line.

"We will ban men from participating in women's sports. So ridiculous," Trump said. 

"Did you see the man that was on a swimming team at a certain school that I know very well? The record held for like 11 years, he beat it by 38 seconds.

"But the best is the weightlifting records - they're going. One guy walks in with one hand... he broke the record that held up for 20 years. For 20 years they're putting a little half an ounce on each side of the weights and the women are working so hard.

"Take a look at the weightlifting records. Two ounces in unacceptable, they beat 'em by many, many, many, many, many, many pounds."

Whether designed to or not, Trump's comments will enflame tensions between a chasm of opinion in the United States (and likely beyond) in which the terms 'woke' and 'cancel culture' have become implements of political branding.

The 45th US president suggested that issues such as these should be central to Republicans' thoughts as they navigate the upcoming midterm elections later this year, as well as the drive to reassume Republican control of the presidency in two years.

Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Josh Duggar wants acquittal; Jake Virtanen charged; Andrew wants Spacey as witness!!!?? Raducanu stalker guilty

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Josh Duggar asks for acquittal in child sex abuse image trial

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1/21/2022 8:33:00 AM

Josh Duggar asks for acquittal in child sex abuse image trial

Josh Duggar's defense team has filed a motion for acquittal or a new trial.

During his pre-trial hearing, Department of Homeland Security Special Agent Gerald Faulkner, who has worked on more than 1,000 child exploitation cases in the last 11 years, testified that materials found on a computer belonging to Duggar included files that were the “top five worst I’ve ever had to examine” and included child sex abuse images and videos of minors as young as 18 months.

He faces up to 20 years in prison for each of the two counts of which he was convicted. Duggar’s sentence has not yet been announced.

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Former Vancouver Canuck Jake Virtanen charged

in sex assault investigation

Now-former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen at a game against the Calgary Flames.

(Larry MacDougal/CP)

By Hana Mae Nassar and Martin MacMahon

Posted Jan 27, 2022, 12:27PM PST.

City News

Former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen has been charged with sexual assault.

Vancouver police say the BC Prosecution Service approved the count against the 25-year-old, who currently plays in Russia, in connection with an incident that’s said to have happened in September 2017.

Virtanen’s first court appearance on this charge is set for Feb. 10 at 9 a.m. in Vancouver Provincial Court.

“Crown is in contact with his lawyer, so I presume that they will have conversations surrounding how to compel him to court or what the best way would be to compel him to court,” said Cst. Tania Visintin Thursday.

In May 2021, the VPD confirmed it was looking into sexual misconduct allegations against the hockey player after claims surfaced on social media. In posts, a woman claimed Virtanen sexually assaulted her in a Vancouver hotel when she was 18, despite her pleading for him to stop.

Shortly after accusations emerged, the Canucks placed Virtanen on leave as an independent investigation was conducted.

A civil suit was filed in Kelowna against him that same month, to which he responded on June 1 saying what happened between him and the woman was consensual.

In his response, Virtanen denied the woman “expressed any indication, verbal or physical, that she did not want to engage in physical activity.” He asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed and for the court to award him special costs, due to the nature of the allegations.

In August 2021, Virtanen’s agent questioned the complainant’s decision to pursue a civil suit over seeking civil charges, saying the way the accusation unfolded was “unusual and troubling.”

Visintin says the VPD’s investigation has concluded. There had been some confusion initially as to where exactly the assault was said to have taken place, with court documents citing a West Vancouver hotel as the location.

Visintin confirms the VPD’s probe was the only one before the courts.

“This charge is for an incident that happened in Vancouver on Sept. 26, 2017, and that was led by Vancouver police,” she said.

Vancouver police say Virtanen is not currently in custody.

No further details have been provided.

Prince Andrew wants disgraced actor to testify at trial - media

The royal reportedly wants Kevin Spacey to admit that he invited

convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Buckingham Palace

Prince Andrew is allegedly seeking the assistance of actor and accused sex predator Kevin Spacey in clearing his name, the Sun reported, citing sources.

The Duke of York’s legal team allegedly wants the actor to tell a jury that recently-convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein “madam” Ghislaine Maxwell was Spacey’s guest - not the prince’s - during a 2002 tour of Buckingham Palace.

Photos have circulated of Maxwell and Spacey in the palace, and the source told the Sun that while the prince had invited the actor, it was Spacey who had invited Maxwell.

The tour was apparently arranged for former US president Bill Clinton - a figure who has also been linked to the deceased Epstein, and who was also a friend of Spacey. 

The prince reportedly planned to ask for Spacey’s help as he prepares to battle the sex assault lawsuit filed against him by Epstein’s “sex slave” Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

Spacey was fired from a very successful TV series after reports of him abusing boys and young men. Two of his accusers died before any lawsuits or charges were processed. 

Despite the existence of a now-infamous photograph where the Duke of York and Roberts are pictured together with Maxwell, the prince has claimed he never met the young woman.

Roberts has claimed she was trafficked to the prince by Epstein and forced to have sex with him three times when she was 17. She is seeking unspecified damages, thought to be millions of pounds, on charges of rape, sexual assault and battery.

The Duke of York earlier this week demanded a “trial by jury” regarding the accusations of rape and sexual assault Roberts leveled against him. Responding officially to his accuser’s claims five months ago, he rejected 41 accusations of wrongdoing - while admitting 40 times that he “lack[ed] sufficient information to admit or deny” other claims.

One of the claims he apparently denied was that he and Maxwell were close friends. The two were photographed together multiple times dating back to the 1980s.

Earlier this month, former head of Prince Andrew’s security, Paul Page, told an ITV documentary that Maxwell was a regular guest at the Buckingham Palace

He stated that a colleague of his “remembered her coming in four times in one day” at one point.

What a sad, sad case! Good grief!

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Man guilty of stalking tennis star Raducanu

A 35-year-old man has been found guilty in a UK court of stalking teenage tennis ace Emma Raducanu

James D. Morgan/Getty Images

Ex-Amazon delivery driver Amrit Magar will be sentenced at a later date for a stalking campaign of US Open winner, 19-year-old Brit Emma Raducanu, after being found guilty at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Friday.

Raducanu, ranked 18th in the world, told police that she remains nervous to leave her house after being inundated with unwanted notes and gifts from the 35-year-old Magar, who is married.

The court heard that Magar became besotted with Raducanu after watching her compete on television while he was unemployed, and later discovered her home address by asking locals in the area of London she lives with her parents. 

He left the tennis star a series of notes, with one saying that she "deserved love" and another providing an illustration of the 23 miles he claims he walked from his home in north London to her residence.

The court was also told that in early December Magar decorated a tree on the Raducanu property with Christmas ornaments and decorations, as well as stealing a tennis shoe from the garden thinking it was Raducanu's - but instead it belonged to her father.

When he was later arrested, Magar was carrying the shoe in a bag and told officers that it was a "memento".

In a victim impact statement which was read to court, Raducanu detailed exactly how the ordeal has affected her and that it has left her fearful of leaving her house alone.

"Since all this has happened, I have felt creeped out. I feel very apprehensive if I go out, especially if I am on my own," she detailed to officers.

"Because of this I feel like my freedom has been taken away from me. I am constantly looking over my shoulder. I feel on edge and worried this could happen again. I don't feel safe in my own home which is where I should feel safest.

"I want to move to a new house with better security because I am worried he might come back as he knows where my home is."

Speaking to the court on Friday, Magar detailed the "shame" he says he feels for having put the teenage star through such an ordeal - but District Judge Sushil Kumar refuted suggestions that he wasn't aware that what he was doing was illegal, saying: "His inability to explain how he did not think this was harassment is incapable of belief."

Magar is expected to be sentenced in February and was released on bail under strict instruction to not contact Raducanu or her family or to visit the street on which they live.

Approaching Sodom > Civilizational Collapse - Gender Dysphoria - Peterson; Snapchat addiction suicide; University cautions reading 1984; Conversion therapy; San Fransicko;

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Jordan Peterson discusses Civilizational Collapse and

Causes of Gender Dysphoria

Throughout his appearance on a Joe Rogan podcast, Peterson spoke about what he saw as the decline of Western civilization. He specifically pointed to the obsession with gender as a sign of civilizational collapse, which caught the ire of the far-left progressive activist group Media Matters, which frequently demands that advertisers boycott conservative news commentators

The conversation about gender began when Rogan brought up remarks by Douglas Murray, associate editor of The Spectator and author of The Madness of Crowds, who also contends that civilization is collapsing. Rogan noted that in a previous episode of his show, Murray observed that when societies start collapsing, “they become obsessed with gender.”

“He was saying that you could trace it back to the ancient Romans, the Greeks,” Rogan continued.

Or, to Sodom and Gomorrah, for that matter.

Peterson expanded on that assertion, contending that “It’s not so much an obsession with gender, it’s a disintegration of categories as a precursor ... like so it’s a marker for — if categories just dissolve, especially fundamental ones, the culture is dissolving.” From there, he and Rogan began to engage in the conversation about the Bible.

At another point in the podcast, Rogan asked Peterson: “What do you think it means when someone is so attracted to the idea that they were born in the wrong body … that they’re willing to go through surgery?”

Peterson responded by saying, “A lot of the people who are manifesting serious issues with gender identity are on the autistic spectrum.” He further likened the widespread phenomenon of people identifying as transgender to the “satanic ritual abuse allegations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s.” Peterson attributed the aforementioned hysteria to “women going into the workforce en masse, leaving their children with strangers and starting to have pathological fantasies about it, especially if they were borderline schizophrenic.”

“Those fantasies propagated into the population,” he recalled. He suggested that something similar was happening with the widespread adoption of transgender identities, telling Rogan that a relationship exists between “creativity” and gender dysphoria.”

“They’re not stable in their identity” because “they’re creative,” Peterson insisted, adding that “creative people by definition aren’t stable in their identities, that’s what makes them creative.” 

Later, Rogan sought to clarify that the motivating factor between “people who want to change their gender identity is creativity.” Peterson replied, declaring: “I don’t think so, I know so.” 

Peterson’s latest appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” comes about a year after he began to speak openly about his faith journey. Peterson grew up Protestant and had spent much of his time as a public figure as a religious skeptic but appears to have embraced his faith following health problems.

Rogan, the former host of “Fear Factor,” continues to draw millions of listeners to his podcast despite receiving significant opposition for sharing what critics decry as coronavirus misinformation. When singer Neil Young threatened to remove his music from Spotify if it refused to cut ties with Rogan, the streaming platform elected to scrub Young’s songs from Spotify.

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Instagram, Snapchat sued over alleged role in girl’s suicide

The social media platforms are addictive to an extent that caused a kid

to kill herself, mother claims in lawsuit

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Eleven-year-old Selena was apparently so addicted to Instagram and Snapchat that she suffered depression, eating disorders and sleep deprivation, before eventually killing herself, her mother Tammy Rodriguez claims. The woman, from Connecticut, sued the companies in San Francisco federal court this week.

According to the lawsuit, filed on Thursday against the platforms’ respective parent companies, Meta (formerly Facebook) and Snap, the photo-sharing and messaging apps lack parental control and “seek to exploit users’ susceptibility.” As an alleged result, the girl had “struggled for more than two years with an extreme addiction” and then took her own life in July last year.

While there are terms of service that warn that a person can only create an account from age 13 and older, the platforms lack strong age-verification checks, the lawsuit asserts. The absence of parental controls made it almost impossible for the mother to limit her child’s screen time on the social media, and apparently only caused further confrontations in the family.

“The only way for Tammy Rodriguez to effectively limit access to Defendants’ products would be to physically confiscate Selena’s internet-enabled devices,” the suit claims. To access her accounts through other means, the girl simply ran away from home.

A therapist to whom the girl had been taken evaluated the harm, saying that the practice has never before seen “a patient as addicted to social media.”

“There is a mental health epidemic among American teens,” attorney Matthew Bergman, founder of Social Media Victims Law Center in Seattle, told Bloomberg. His company represents Tammy Rodriguez in the case. The attorney also filed a separate complaint this week, representing a mother in Oregon. “Numerous mental health conditions” of a 15-year-old are blamed on Snap and Meta.

Last year, anxiety over the wellbeing of young social-media users came under a spotlight and reached the US senate. Tech companies appeared in hearings, after product-manager-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen accused Mark Zuckerberg’s company of prioritizing money over children’s and teenagers’ safety. She called for more regulation, in particular of Instagram. Haugen also spoke before a European Parliament committee, discussing the social media companies’ negative impact on users.

University finds novel 1984 ‘offensive and upsetting’

Students are being warned of ‘explicit material’ awaiting them in a novel that,

ironically, describes the dangers of censorship

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The University of Northampton has issued a harsh warning over potentially “offensive and upsetting” material contained in the famous dystopia by George Orwell, ‘1984.’

The novel, which describes the dangers of totalitarian rule and censorship, is now red-flagged, as it addresses “challenging issues related to violence, gender, sexuality, class, race, abuses, sexual abuse, political ideas and offensive language.”

The warning, issued to students taking a module called ‘Identity Under Construction,’ became public following a Freedom of Information request by The Mail on Sunday.

The news raised eyebrows among social media users, with one saying that Orwell is “grave turning” and another reacting with an emotional “Get me off this planet. I can't deal.”

“There’s something very Big Brother about it,” Conservative MP Andre Bridgen commented on Twitter.

“If a trigger warning prevents even one student from reading 1984, the University of Northampton has utterly failed in its mission. This book, more than any, should be read widely at the moment,” an Australian professor Andrew Timming noted.

However, Orwell’s classic novel is not the only one students at Northampton should beware of, according to the university’s management. Samuel Beckett’s play ‘Endgame,’ the graphic novel ‘V For Vendetta’ by Alan Moore and David Lloyd and Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Sexing The Cherry’ have also been listed by the university as “offensive and upsetting.”

Apparently, there are also some problems with books taught in other modules of Northampton’s English degree course as well. Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel ‘The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time,’ for example, might be upsetting for readers, as it includes the “death of an animal, ableism and disability and offensive language”, the warning explains.

The educational institution, currently ranked 108 out of 132 UK universities in the 2022 edition of The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, has issued a statement to defend its warnings. As quoted by The Daily Mail, Northampton says that “while it is not university policy, we may warn students of content in relation to violence, sexual violence, domestic abuse and suicide” because “some texts might be challenging for some students.” 

And, Oh God, we wouldn't want to challenge our students, would we?

EU country bans gay ‘conversion therapy’

The new French law, which authorizes jail time and fines for practitioners,

was unanimously passed

Lawmakers in France’s National Assembly have given their unanimous backing to a new law which prohibits so-called ‘gay conversion therapy’, voting 142-0.

The new law, passed on Tuesday, prohibits attempts to “convert” LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender roles. It also grants authorities the right to seek criminal charges against practitioners of conversion therapy. 

Sustained efforts to “aim to modify or reprimand sexual orientation or gender identity,” which negatively influence the physical or mental health of victims, will be punishable by up to two years imprisonment and €30,000 ($34,000) in fines.

Penalties can be increased to three years imprisonment and fines of €45,000 ($50,000) when the victim is a minor or another vulnerable member of society. 

Under the new legislation, campaigners will now be able file civil suits on behalf of victims of conversion therapy. The measure was hailed in parliament as a vital move to safeguard those who hesitate or are unable to alert police themselves.

Lawmaker Laurence Vanceunebrock-Mialon, who played a key role in the law’s passage, claimed it would target “all those who equated an identity or a sexual orientation with sickness.” 

“There is nothing to cure,” she added, speaking to fellow lawmakers. 

The law will come into effect in the next two weeks, with President Emmanuel Macron’s consent. The French leader hailed the bill’s passage, tweeting: “Because being oneself is not a crime.”

The practice is not widely prohibited across Europe. It is illegal in Albania and is prohibited for minors in Malta and Germany. The EU has urged nation states to ban conversion therapy. In October, the UK Government launched a consultation on banning conversion therapy in England and Wales.

Yet, those who convince children to become transgendered are easily the worst criminals in all this. More than half of all girls who transition to boys will attempt suicide. If that is not mental illness, then what is it? 

Stossel: How Progressives Made San Francisco a Sick City

John Stossel

January 26, 2022

San Francisco’s liberal mayor declared a “state of emergency” to try to deal with the city’s “nasty streets.” How did it get so bad?

Journalist Michael Shellenberger’s new book, “San Fransicko,” argues that it happened because of progressive ideas. ”The town I love is sick,” says Shellenberger in my new video.

He came to San Francisco when he was in his 20s to support social justice causes. He still supports those ideas, but “it just went too far.” In 2014, California politicians decided to end mass incarceration. It’s a noble goal. America locks up a higher percentage of its people than any other country. Jails are overcrowded. People in jail are more likely to learn to be better criminals than to be rehabilitated.

So California converted many nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors. People who steal less than $950 worth of items are no longer jailed. Proponents said this would divert money from prisons that could go to mental health and drug treatment programs.

But not jailing people who break laws had nasty unintended consequences.

Shoplifters steal right in front of security guards. Police look the other way. They know if they make an arrest, they’ll face hours of paperwork and the person arrested will just return to the street. Cars are broken into 74 times a day.

“None of us want mass incarceration,” says Shellenberger, who voted for the law to stop jailing people. “But that was a recipe for disaster.”

Because no one is arrested for camping on the street, San Francisco is now filled with tent cities that supposedly house the “homeless.” But most campers are the mentally ill and drug users who choose life on the street. They shoot up or light up in public, confident no one will interfere.

In my video, one crack addict said she stays in San Francisco because it is “more lenient.” In other cities, she said, she’d be in jail. Other cities, like Miami, do treat the homeless differently. “They don’t let people use drugs in public, and they built sufficient homeless shelters,” says Shellenberger.

In San Francisco, new homeless shelters are blocked by progressive activists who argue that everyone deserves an apartment. Yet it costs $700,000 to build one apartment in San Francisco.

A few years ago, I made a video suggesting that the high cost of apartments was a major reason for San Francisco’s tent cities. California’s excessive regulation discourages new construction, so there’s a housing shortage. That keeps rental prices high and leads people to live on the street.

“It’s not true,” says Shellenberger. “If it were true that expensive places made for homelessness, why don’t we see large open-air drug scenes in Carmel? Why don’t we see large open drug scenes in many fancy neighborhoods? Homelessness is just a function of whether or not you allow people to camp in public or not.”

"Homelessness is just a function of whether or not you allow people

to camp in public or not.”

But if people are homeless, should the government arrest them? The Constitution gives us the right to peaceably assemble. “People have a right to be outdoors,” I tell Shellenberger. “We don’t have a right to force them off the street if they aren’t directly threatening anybody.”

“We should defend those rights because that’s part of our freedom,” he replies, “but you don’t have a right to shoot heroin at the public park.”

There need to be “consequences for people’s behaviors.” After researching his city’s problems, Shellenberger decided he could no longer identify as progressive. “Progressivism has become the abdication of personal responsibility.”

“Progressivism has become the abdication of personal responsibility.”

I think it has always meant that. But now parts of San Francisco have become such a sewer that even liberal politicians have changed their positions. The mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, recently declared it’s time to end the “reign of criminals who are destroying our city!”

Not long ago, when protesters shouted, “Defund the police,” Breed cut San Francisco’s policing budget by $120 million. Now she says her town will be “more aggressive with law enforcement … and less tolerant of all the bulls—t that has destroyed our city.”

Progressive ideas almost always end badly.

As I have mentioned many times on this blog - sin is progressive!

John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

This Week's Global Pervs and Paedos List > Australia's new cyber abuse program; Horrible cop in Thailand; FGM Outlawed again in UK; Scottish soldier loses landmark rape case

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Online Safety Act to tackle cyber bullying and child sex abuse

Ellen Ransley

NCA NewsWire

January 22, 2022 4:23PM

Social media giants, sexual predators and online bullies have been put on notice, with Australia’s eSafety commissioner granted greater powers to police the internet.

The Online Safety Act, which passed parliament in 2021, officially came into effect on Sunday.

Changes included in the Act include a world-first cyber abuse take-down scheme to better protect children and adults from online bullying.

The eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has also been given the authority to order online platforms to remove the “worst of the worst” content – including child sexual abuse material and terrorist material – no matter where it is hosted.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has committed to making the internet safer for Australians.

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Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said the Act also gave the eSafety Commissioner stronger “information gathering and investigative powers” to obtain identity information behind anonymous online accounts used to bully, abuse, or exchange illegal content.

Ms Inman Grant has been reappointed for another five years in the powerful role.

She said the new laws cemented her office’s role as a “world leader” in online safety.

“They place Australia at the international forefront in the fight against online abuse and harm – providing additional protections for Australians in the fight against online harms through our approach of prevention, protection, and proactive change in the online space,” she said.

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has been reappointed for another five years. Supplied

Mr Fletcher said the Act was another key step in the Morrison government’s commitment to online safety.

“As more Australians work, learn and conduct business online, the government will make sure they can do so safely, and that perpetrators are being held accountable for abusive and threatening behaviour,” Mr Fletcher said.

The Act also puts big tech on notice, with basic online safety expectations now in place, setting a new benchmark for platforms to take responsibility in protecting Australian users.

“The internet has brought immense advantages, but also new risks, and Australians rightly expect the big tech companies to do more to make their products safer for users,” Mr Fletcher said.

“Australians deserve to be able to use online platforms in the knowledge that they will be safe from vile and unacceptable online abuse, along with other dangers.”

Thai Officer suspended over child sex abuse claim refuses to talk

PUBLISHED : 23 JAN 2022 AT 04:00

Trang: A policeman accused of sexually assaulting two girls over an extended period has been charged with four counts of rape and suspended from the force, said the provincial police chief yesterday.

Pol Maj Gen Santat Winson, commander of Trang police, said the 53-year-old officer, a deputy inspector, was arrested and charged on Wednesday, two days after a complaint was lodged.

The victims, aged 12 and 16, were cousins of his girlfriend and the offences allegedly began in December 2020, weeks after the girls' mother was arrested on drugs charges by officers including the suspect.

What a great guy - arrests his girlfriend then rapes her children!!!

Pol Maj Gen Santat said the officer denied the charges and refused to talk during the interrogation, after which he was released on bail while the girls had given their statements and police were waiting for results of a physical examination.

Earlier, Pavena Hongsakula, president of Pavena Hongsakul Foundation for Children and Women, raised concerns about the girls' safety after their grandmother sought help from the foundation.

Ms Pavena said yesterday the policeman faced serious charges so she questioned their decision to grant him temporary release.

The grandmother said the accused asked the girls' cousin to take the 12-year-old to live with them after her mother was arrested. The girl was repeatedly raped and asked her cousin to take her back home.

Her granddaughter then told her about the assault and when her 16-year-old sister heard about the story she also broke her silence to claim that she too had been raped.

Hymen repair surgery to be outlawed in UK

The UK government is criminalizing hymen reconstruction procedures

to protect vulnerable women and girls

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UK Minister for Care and Mental Health Gillian Keegan has confirmed the government will ban the “indefensible” cosmetic surgeries that are linked to conservative cultures.

Hymen repair surgery, known as hymenoplasty, (or female genital mutilation - FGM) is currently available in UK clinics for up to £3,000 ($4,055.79) and is catering to groups that value virginity before marriage.

The procedure is closely linked with virginity testing. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that virginity testing is currently practiced in at least 20 countries, subjecting women to an intrusive examination of the hymen area.

The legislation, which is set to be introduced this year, will see parliament criminalize “aiding or abetting” a person carrying out hymenoplasty in the UK, as well as making it a crime to take a girl abroad for the procedure.

Those found guilty could face up to five years in prison. The UK government hopes that the new legislation will safeguard “vulnerable women and girls in this country.”

Actually, FGM has been illegal in the UK  for many years and no-one has been convicted of it yet.

“Hymenoplasty causes trauma and in around half of cases, it fails to make the woman or girl bleed the next time she has intercourse, leaving her highly vulnerable to 'honor'-based abuse or even 'honor' killing,” Diana Nammi, executive director of the Iranian & Kurdish Women's Rights Organization, said.

The Iranian & Kurdish Women's Rights Organization has campaigned for a ban on the surgical procedure, calling it an “invasive surgery” that is often carried out “under duress.”

In Islam, men can be rapists or child rapists, but women have to be virgins.

Scottish civil court rules soldier raped woman in landmark case

By Simon Druker

   

A Scottish civil court ruled Thursday that a serving British soldier raped a woman after meeting her at nightclub in 2015. The court awarded her approximately $160,000 in damages. This comes after the charges were found to be "not proven" in criminal trial in 2017. File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Photo

Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A civil court in Scotland ruled Thursday, that an active-duty British soldier raped a woman in 2015, after a criminal court in that country found the charges were "not proven."

The civil court awarded the woman, who is only identified by the pseudonym AB, approximately $159,824 in damages, according to court documents.

The ruling is only the second of its kind in recent Scottish legal history, according to The Guardian.

The victim met Sean Diamond, now 28, in a nightclub in July in the coastal city of Dundee, not far from where he was stationed at a military base, according to court records. They later returned to her friend's apartment where the woman fell asleep. She testified that she woke up with Diamond on top of her. She told him to stop and get off of her, but he didn't and she lost consciousness.

She filed a police report the next day and Diamond was prosecuted in 2017.

In the ensuing criminal trial, Diamond claimed the sex was consensual and the court returned a "not proven" verdict, which neither finds a person guilty nor fully exonerates them.

"The way you're treated is literally like you've committed a crime," AB told The Guardian.

A friend convinced her to file a civil suit against Diamond.

"I do not accept the defender's version of what happened in the living room. It is a radically different account of events from that given by the pursuer. It does not account for the pursuer's evidence of apparent loss of consciousness, now attributed to a dissociative state," Sheriff KJ Campbell QC wrote in his ruling.

"It is the cogency of that evidence, which leads me to prefer the pursuer's account of what happened in the living room when she and the defender were the only people present. These strands are supported by the consistent evidence of the pursuer's distress in the early hours of 15 July 2015.

"There was no evidence that the pursuer indicated express consent in any way. As I have indicated above, I do not accept the defender's account of what happened when he and the pursuer were alone. There was no other evidence which might amount to an indication of consent by the pursuer. Accordingly, I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the defender raped the pursuer. That is sufficient to establish liability."

The amount of damages includes a calculation to account for interest since 2015, however the court found money was not a motivating factor.

"It is important to emphasize that this action is of course not an appeal against the decision of a jury in properly constituted criminal proceedings, but it is a separate vindication of civil rights, in a different court, operating a different standard of proof," wrote Campbell.

"No amount of money would remove the memory and the trauma that I've lived with over the last six and a half years," AB told The Guardian.

The victim was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, eventually losing her job. She has since moved to Morocco and gotten married.