Madeleine McCann > German Arrest Warrant Issued for Christian Bruckner in Madeleine Case

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New arrest warrant issued for Madeleine McCann prime suspect

‘Christian B’

By Olivia Land, NY Post

November 29, 2022 11:44am  Updated

An urgent new arrest warrant has been issued for the prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann over a series of rapes and horrific child sex abuse.

A German court issued the warrant for a 45-year-old male tied to a string of sex crimes in Portugal on Monday, the Telegraph reported.

Although the man is not formally identified, he is believed to be Christian Brückner, a convicted drug dealer and sex offender who was formally linked to the McCann case in April.

Christian Brückner is a convicted drug dealer and sex offender. AP

He became a suspect as early as September 2020.

Brückner, referred to as “Christian B” in all official communication to accommodate Germany’s strict privacy laws, is serving a seven-year sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in September 2005 at the same Praia da Luz vacation resort where Madeleine vanished on May 3, 2007.

He was charged last month with five additional sex crimes, including the assault of a 10-year-old girl on a nearby beach less than one month before Madeleine disappeared.

“The accused is the same person against whom charges were brought in connection with the disappearance of the then 3-year-old British girl Madeleine Beth McCann,”  the prosecutor’s office confirmed at the time.

Kate and Gerry McCann hold a poster of their missing daughter Madeleine at a news conference in 2012. AP

Madeleine, of Leicestershire, was last seen sleeping alongside her infant siblings in her family’s vacation rental while her parents, Gerry and Kate, dined with friends at a nearby restaurant. When Kate McCann checked on her children around 10 p.m., she found the bedroom door and window open and Madeleine gone.

Brückner came to the attention of authorities over 10 years later, when he bragged to a friend that he “knew all about” what happened to the missing girl. In 2021, lead prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters announced his team was “confident we have the man who took and killed [Madeleine].”

Brückner has reportedly denied any involvement in the McCann kidnapping to authorities. A known drifter, the court’s latest warrant claims that he will be a flight risk if released as planned in 2025.

Madeleine McCann, 3, vanished in May 2007. AP

The arrest warrant needs to be approved by Italy, where Brückner was arrested in 2018 before being extradited to his native Germany, the Sun reported. A decision on whether to send him to trial for five additional cases is still pending.

Perverted Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous > Connecticut socialite jailed for child voyeurism; Balenciaga's BDSM & Kids ads; U of Florida Quarterback sacked

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Connecticut socialite Hadley Palmer sentenced on voyeurism charges

for secretly filming minor

By Mark Lungariello

November 29, 2022 1:10pm  Updated

A wealthy Connecticut woman went from socialite to registered sex offender Tuesday when she was slapped with a one-year prison sentence for secretly filming a minor and other people at her ritzy seaside mansion.

Hadley Palmer, 54, will have to spend 10 years on the sex offender registry and 20 years on probation after copping a plea deal and admitting to the charges in January — even as details of her case have mysteriously been kept from public view.

Palmer didn’t speak at her sentencing in Stamford Superior Court except to answer “yes” and “no” questions, but her lawyer called the punishment just.

“She’s taken responsibility for her actions,” defense attorney Michael Meehan said of Palmer, who already did 90 days behind bars. “This is a very caring, loving and sincere human being.”

Hadley Palmer mugshot

Socialite Hadley Palmer will have to spend 10 years on the sex offender registry and 20 years on probation.

Greenwich Police Department

The disgraced socialite was seen before entering court embracing and kissing an unidentified man. She cried and wiped away tears before entering the courtroom and was later escorted out in cuffs.

The unidentified man left court and covered his face with a hood. He didn’t answer questions from news photographers outside the courthouse.

Palmer, a mother of four who comes from a wealthy family, admitted she filmed people who were naked or in their underwear from 2017 to 2018 with the “intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desire of such person [Palmer] or any other person.”

Despite pleading guilty on Jan. 19 to three counts of voyeurism and risk of injury to a minor, further details of the accusations against her remain shrouded in mystery.

Palmer’s case file remains sealed in a move that open-government advocates called highly unusual. The Associated Press argued that Palmer’s records could have been made public with the names of victims redacted or changed to fake names to protect their privacy, as is typical with Connecticut sex-crime cases.

Hadley Palmer pictured with husband Bradley Palmer, who she is reportedly divorcing. Patrick McMullan/PMC

But Judge John Blawie opted to keep the details of the case largely out of public view, although he rejected a defense request to close the court during portions of the sentencing and trial, the AP reported.

Palmer was arrested in October 2021 and she was quickly accepted into an accelerated rehabilitation program, which requires that cases be sealed. But the charges against her were so serious, she should’ve been ineligible for the program, according to the AP.

The two highest charges against her — employing a minor in an obscene performance and possession of child pornography — were dropped as part of her plea deal.

Palmer is the daughter of hedge fund founder Jerrold Fine and is in the process of divorcing venture capitalist Bradley Palmer.

Balenciaga finally cops to mistakes in disturbing BDSM ad campaign,

condemns child abuse amid scandal

BDSM - Wikipedia

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, etc.

By Ben Cost

November 28, 2022 2:42pm  Updated

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They weren’t content to grin and “bear” it.

Amid fierce backlash, Balenciaga has doubled down on its stance for the controversial ad campaign that depicted kids alongside bondage-style attire and a child pornography court ruling. The Kering-owned fashion house released its mea culpa in an Instagram post on Monday afternoon.

“We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in the narrative,” the luxury couture company wrote in the statement. Balenciaga — which has been associated with the likes of Kim Kardashian — was referring to a series of ads featuring children in Balenciaga apparel, holding plush toys that wear bondage get-ups.

Needless to say, the brand was quick to pull the ads, and now is condemning the controversial campaign, writing: “Our plush bear bags and the gift collection should have not been featured with children.”

“This was a wrong choice by Balenciaga, combined with our failure in assessing and validating images,” the fashion label added. “The responsibility for this lies with Balenciaga alone.”

Elsewhere in the apology, the company addressed the inclusion in one of the ads of legal documents from a Supreme Court case that ruled on child porn laws.

“The second, separate campaign for spring 2023, which was meant to replicate a business office environment, included a photo from a page in the background from a Supreme Court ruling ‘United States v. Williams’ 2008 which confirms as illegal and not protected by freedom of speech the promotion of child pornography,” Balenciaga wrote. “All the items included in this shooting were provided by third parties that confirmed in writing that these props were fake office documents.”

They added, “They turned out to be [real legal] papers most likely coming from the filming of a television drama.”

The ads featured child models holding plush toys in bondage-style attire. Balenciaga

Balenciaga attributed the “inclusion of these unapproved documents” to “reckless negligence,” presumably by a contract worker hired for the photo shoot, whom “Balenciaga has filed a complaint” over. Indeed, the brand has reportedly since filed a $25 million lawsuit against the parties allegedly responsible: production company North Six and set designer Nicholas Des Jardins and his namesake company.

Nonetheless, Balenciaga wrote on Instagram that it takes “full accountability for our lack of oversight and control of the documents in the background.”

The company added that it “could have done things differently” and pledged to do so going forward amid ongoing investigations.

"We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in the narrative," Balenciaga wrote.

“We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in the narrative,” 

Balenciaga wrote of the ad campaign. Jam Press/Balenciaga

“We are closely revising our organization and collective ways of working,” Balenciaga declared. “We are reinforcing the structures around our creative processes and validation steps. We want to ensure that new controls mark a pivot and will prevent this from happening again.”

The company even claimed to be working with “organizations who specialize in child protection and aims at ending child abuse and exploitation.”

“We want to learn from our mistakes and identify ways we can contribute,” the brand concluded. “Balenciaga reiterates its sincere apologies for the offense we have caused and extends its apologies to talents and partners.”

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Florida QB Jalen Kitna arrested on child pornography charges

By Ryan Glasspiegel

November 30, 2022 4:48pm  Updated

Florida quarterback Jalen Kitna has been arrested on child pornography charges, according to multiple reports.

Kitna, the son of former NFL quarterback Jon Kitna, was booked into Alachua County Jail at 3:20 p.m. on Wednesday, per sheriff’s records. CBS 4 in Gainesville reports that a police spokesperson said Kitna was booked on charges related to child pornography.

Kitna is facing three counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of distribution of child exploitation material, according to TMZ. He has been suspended from the football team.

Florida quarterback Jalen Kitna was arrested on child pornography charges on Wednesday.

Alachua County Jail

“We are shocked and saddened to hear of the news involving Jalen Kitna,” the school said in a statement to multiple outlets. “These are extremely serious charges and the University of Florida and the UAA have zero tolerance for such behavior. Jalen has been suspended indefinitely from the football program.”

According to CBS 4, the Gainesville Police Department said that they were tipped by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a Discord user had shared a photo of child sexual abuse. Further investigation revealed it was Kitna’s Discord account that shared the photo. A second photo was also discovered.

Kitna allegedly told police he did share the photos but thought it was “legal” because he found them online. A subsequent search of his devices found three more child sex abuse images.

Kitna is a redshirt freshman who appeared in four games for the Gators this season. In 2022, he completed 10 of his 14 passes for 181 yards and a touchdown. He was a three-star recruit out of Burleson, Texas, in the class of 2021, according to 247’s rankings.

He was considered a candidate to start for Florida in their bowl game if starting quarterback Anthony Richardson sits out.

Jon Kitna played for the Seahawks, Bengals, Lions and Cowboys during his 14-year NFL career.

Approaching Sodom > Biden's Gender fluid official charged with felony theft; What's really driving the spectacular rise in Gender Dysphoria numbers

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Man Charged with Felony Theft Identified as 'Gender Fluid' Biden Official

By Abby Liebing, Wall Street Journal

November 28, 2022 at 11:52am

Sam Brinton, who originally made headlines for being “gender fluid” and receiving a position in the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of Energy, made the news again for being charged with a felony after allegedly stealing luggage at the Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport.

Earlier in the year, Brinton became the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Energy Department, as he announced on Twitter in June.

“It’s official. As of June 19th, I now serve my nation as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Department of Energy,” Brinton tweeted.

“As one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership, I was welcomed with open arms into the Department of Energy all the way up to the Secretary whom I shared the stage with in a Pride month celebration panel just today,” Brinton added in the Twitter thread.

Brinton also has a background as a “non-binary drag queen” and is a transgender activist, notably associated with the Order of Perpetual Indulgence, “a non-profit group who dress up as nuns to raise awareness of sexual intolerance and transphobia,” the Daily Mail reported.

And he was selected by Joe Biden, theoretically a Catholic.

But, on Sept. 16 there was a complaint at the MSP airport from a female that her bag was missing when she went to pick it up at baggage claim, Alpha News reported.

Law enforcement checked surveillance video which reportedly showed Brinton taking the bag and removing the luggage tag and then returning to the airport two days later with the bag.

Later, surveillance video also reportedly showed Brinton with the bag yet again on Oct. 9 at the Dulles International Airport in Virginia, Alpha News reported.

The woman to whom the bag originally belonged to, claimed that the bag and her belonging in it were worth over $2,000, Alpha News noted.

According to Alpha News’ reporting, the police asked Brinton about the bag and he admitted that he had taken it but that his clothes were in it.

“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have any clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag,” Brinton reportedly told the police.

Alpha News reported that Brinton is scheduled for a hearing on Dec. 19 in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

I'm sure he's telling the truth! After all, would a transgender, non-binary Drag Queen who dresses up as a nun, ever tell a lie? God forbid! 

Transgenderism is a mental illness, and, like anorexia, should not be encouraged. 

Growing Body Of Evidence Shows What's Really Causing

Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria in Teens

By Laurel Duggan, Wall Street Journal

November 25, 2022 at 8:47am

The recent surge in transgender identification is caused in part by peer influence, a growing body of evidence suggests, and some transgender advocates are acknowledging this issue.

Many activists argue that transgenderism has become more prevalent because growing social acceptance allows more transgender people, who would otherwise keep their gender identity a secret, to live openly. Critics of youth gender transitions, however, argue that the growing rate of transgender identification in adolescents, along with rapidly changing demographics of transgender people, are evidence that peer influence is driving young people to identify as transgender who otherwise wouldn’t.

I have been reporting this phenomenon for years, and it's disappointing that it took MSM this long to start to catch on.

Gender dysphoria used to be observed primarily in males, according to Reuters. That trend has been fully reversed over the past 15 years; among adolescents seeking transgender medical interventions, biological females outnumber biological males by a factor of 2.5 to 7.1.

This drastic change in the transgender population was driven by peer influence, some medical professionals argue. Dr. Erica Anderson, a psychologist who works with transgender children, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that peer influence, particularly through social media as a result of teens’ social isolation, is at least partially to blame for soaring rates of gender identity issues among adolescent girls.

“I think the people who are on the far right who say it’s all social influence are wrong. But people on the far left who say there can be no social influence are also wrong,” Anderson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Adolescents are very susceptible to peer influence, so to suggest there can be no influence on young people is preposterous and flies in the face of everything we know about teenagers.”

I may be considered by those on the left to be on the far-right - however, I don't believe 'it’s all social influence'. I suspect in recent years that the majority of girls are influenced by social media, but certainly not all. Transgenderism is basically a mental illness. The most dreadful thing about girls who are not mentally ill and who transition to boys is that they come to regret it. When they realize that it's not completely reversible, many become suicidal. In a large English study, more than 50% of girls who transitioned to boys attempted suicide while still quite young.

A study published in the scientific journal Plos One surveyed 256 parents whose children experienced rapid onset of gender dysphoria. The vast majority, 86.7 percent, of adolescents either started spending more time online or were in a friend group with at least one other transgender person prior to identifying as transgender, according to the study.

The study was meant to explore growing reports from parents of their children suddenly adopting transgender identities after puberty after apparent peer influence. In 36.8 percent of the friendship groups reported in the study, parent participants said the majority of its members identified as transgender. Parents also reported a decline in their children’s mental health and in parent-child relationships following adoption of transgender identities.

Childhood gender dysphoria diagnoses rose 70 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to medical records of 330 million Americans analyzed by Komodo Health Inc. From 2017 to 2021, childhood diagnoses more than doubled, according to the same data set.

Anderson, who is transgender, has voiced criticism of doctors who put minors through medical interventions without thorough psychological screening. Anderson rejects the notion that surging rates of transgender affiliation are driven wholly by social acceptance.

“I do not believe that there was this huge hidden number of transgender people in previous generations,” Anderson said.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which supports medical interventions for children who believe they’re transgender, acknowledged the social contagion phenomenon in its newest standards of care. The guidelines acknowledged a sudden surge in “nonbinary” identities, as well as a growing number of patients who didn’t experience gender dysphoria in childhood — both signs of possible peer influence.

“For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider,” the standards of care read. “However, caution must be taken to avoid assuming these phenomena occur prematurely in an individual adolescent.”

WPATH is careful to avoid suggesting doctors should be skeptical of young people’s transgender identities or assume social influence is driving them.

A growing group of so-called detransitioners — individuals who underwent cross-sex medical procedures but eventually came to regret it — have come out against childhood transitions, and many of them say they were influenced by social media and online communities.

I wonder why Lauren, the writer of this article, chose to describe detransitioners as "so-called"?

“I would definitely say social media played a role in keeping the process of everything going, as well as some issues with being groomed and preyed upon by people online,” Luka, a 20-year-old detransitioner, recently told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The youth-dominated platform TikTok is flooded with content promoting medical interventions, including surgeries, as the solution to common adolescent woes such as discomfort with one’s body.

Was there ever an adolescent who was comfortable with their body?

“Rising rates of transgender identification are driven by a combination of factors: the pandemic, social isolation and a huge upswing in consumption of social media. Deplorably, there are medical providers on TikTok telling kids that if they’re unhappy with their body, maybe they’re in the wrong body and should consider transition,” Anderson told the DCNF. “It’s horrible that kids are getting this kind of advice from unvetted strangers on the internet, most of whom have no medical qualifications.”

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Approaching Sodom > Trudeau is a shameless disgrace - Promoting Drag Queens

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Trudeau makes appearance on Canada's Drag Race spinoff

PM appeared on pre-taped Crave series the same day he testified before

Emergencies Act inquiry

The Canadian Press · 

Posted: Nov 25, 2022 10:47 PM ET | 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an appearance on Friday's episode of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World to offer the contestants words of inspiration before the main challenge.

Trudeau is touted as being the first world leader to visit the competition series founded by RuPaul.

During the episode, the prime minister shared his thoughts on Canada's efforts to embrace diversity, noting there is a lot more work to do toward building allyship in Canada.

After his remarks, the queens were touched by his words.

Competitor Stephanie Prince was teary-eyed, saying Trudeau's work on immigration made it easier for the performer to migrate to Canada for a better life.

The pre-taped Crave series aired on the same day Trudeau testified before the public inquiry examining his government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to help clear last winter's convoy protests.

Justin - disgraceful Prime Minister of Canada - teaching our children to embrace depravity and insanity and reject anything Biblical.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV 

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV 

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire

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This Week's Catholic Pervs and Paedos List > Mount Cashel's horrific legacy spread to Vancouver

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Who let the wolves in?

Mount Cashel survivors horrified as more than 60 Vancouver men come forward

with allegations against the teachers who abused them

By Ryan Cooke

CBC News

Nov. 24, 2022

​Warning: This story contains details of sexual abuse and suicide

Bob Connors is waiting for a reckoning.

At 59 years of age, he spends many nights trapped in the orphanage where he grew up. The walls of his suburban home transform into a darkened dormitory, and he’s haunted by the men who crept from one bed to the next.

His dreams reflect the terror he experienced as a little boy at the hands of the Christian Brothers at Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John’s, Newfoundland. His abusers may have disappeared from the dormitories, but Connors has spent his entire life fighting off their forceful hands in the dark.

“The scars and the bad memories — that’ll stay with me for the rest of my life,” he said in a rare interview from his home near Kitchener, Ont.

Newfoundland and Labrador has spent decades trying to quantify the horrors at Mount Cashel. Hundreds abused. More than a dozen men charged. Tens of millions paid out in settlements.

Bob Connors chooses to measure Mount Cashel by its death toll — how many young men couldn’t stand the nightmares anymore?

It’s a count that includes his two younger brothers, Greg and Darrin, whom he tried so hard to protect.

“There was no other way out for them and eventually they took their lives,” Connors said. “And it all had to do with what happened in Mount Cashel.”

Connors holds a devastating place in Newfoundland and Labrador’s history: he was one of the boys who went to police in 1975 and told them children were being abused at the orphanage. His statement, along with about 23 others, were buried in a coverup that saw six Christian Brothers sent away and the investigation called off without charges.

The Catholic Church's penchant for molesting boys could have been 'outed' more than 25 years before it was had St John's had something equivalent to Boston Globe's Spotlight. 

Connors is only now learning what happened after the coverup, as new allegations emerge in a Vancouver courtroom, and another city struggles to quantify allegations of systemic, institutional abuse by the very same men who were removed from Mount Cashel.

Connors is waiting for a reckoning — but not for the people who abused him or those who covered it up. Instead, he’s waiting for the day it all catches up with him and the gates he’s built around his suburban life come crashing down.

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Colin Wilson says his experience at Vancouver College left him with trauma he’s struggled with for decades.

(Ben Nelms/CBC)

II. ‘I never told my parents’

Colin Wilson remembers the rain hitting the roof of the van as he sat in silence, his teacher gripping the wheel as they drove farther from the school.

It was a cold evening in December 1984. Some kids at Vancouver College were helping out with the annual Christmas tree sale in the parking lot, but Wilson and three other boys were inside.

Wilson remembers the four Grade 9 boys sitting outside Joseph Burke’s office at the back of the cafeteria. Burke, a math teacher, called them in one at a time, checking over their schoolwork. It was late by the time Burke called for him, Wilson said, and he could tell he was angry.

Wilson wasn’t always afraid of his math teacher. He was an athletic student, and Burke was the coach of the football team. In a school filled with more “militant” Christian Brothers, Wilson said he trusted Burke and found they had things in common.

“He started to kind of take me under his wing with a few other kids and have us after school,” Wilson said. “Check up on our homework and make sure that we were being good students.”

Joseph Burke, left, became the head coach of the Vancouver College Fighting Irish football team after a stint across town at St. Thomas More Collegiate. A former standout football player himself, he returned to teach and coach in the 1980s. (St. Thomas More Collegiate yearbook)

Burke was collegial in the corridors and on the football field, Wilson said, but he began to show a different side of himself as the after-school sessions progressed. There were days where Burke would be looking for problems, Wilson said, and he was quick to anger.

Wilson said there were three stages to Burke’s discipline: spanking over the pants with the palm of his hand, spanking with a piece of wood about as thick as a hockey stick, and a bare-bottom spanking.

Burke has not responded to CBC’s requests for comment on the allegations in this story. Wilson’s allegations have yet to be tested in court.

On this particular December evening, Wilson said Burke told him they were going straight to Stage 3 — but it was too late to stay at the school.

Wilson said Burke took him along as he locked up, and then told him to get in his van. He said they sat in silence as Burke drove south to the Marpole neighbourhood, stopping outside his apartment and telling the 13-year-old boy to go inside.

Wilson recounts the story without hesitation.

“He then asked me to drop my pants, which I did, and I stood there in my underwear, and he said, ‘All of it.’ At this point I’m crying, you know, snot and everything coming out of my nose, and he put me across his lap and hit me.”

Wilson said Burke hit his bare bottom about 10 times while they were alone in his apartment, then told him to get dressed. He remembers sobbing as they got back in the van, and drove to a bus stop.

“I never told my parents.”

Colin Wilson was in eighth grade when he transferred to Vancouver College, a private Catholic school.

He says his life was turned upside down a year later when he was abused by a teacher.

(Submitted by Colin Wilson)

Wilson’s parents were devout Catholics, and Vancouver College was considered an elite private school for Catholic boys. It was run by the Christian Brothers of Ireland in Canada, who operated institutions across the country and were revered by the communities they served.

The brothers were something less than priests, but their charitable work and close ties with the Catholic Church made them respected figures. Wilson said his parents would have never believed they could allow something so heinous to happen.

The bishops who arranged the transfer of these perverts should have been sent to prison for enabling the destruction of so many children's lives. Many of the survivors of Mount Cashel ended up in prison. Many of them got into hard drugs to numb the pain. Terrible things happen when you are on hard drugs.

There is so much more to this disturbing story at CBC.

Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Old 'Squid Game' actor charged with touching woman; Arcade Fire still touring after CSA accusations; Rock Star Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years

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'Squid Game' star Oh Yeong-su indicted for sexual misconduct

By Karen Butler

   

Lee Jung-jae (L) and Oh Young-soo in a scene from "Squid Game." Photo courtesy of Netflix

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Squid Game Golden Globe winner Oh Yeong-su has been indicted in South Korea on sexual misconduct charges.

Prosecutors announced Friday that the 78-year-old actor had been charged recently and released without detention.

He was accused in December 2021 of inappropriately touching a woman in 2017. Police had closed the case in April without filing charges but prosecutors reopened the case following a request from the victim.

Oh, who plays Oh Il-nam on the Netflix hit, Squid Game, has denied the charges.

"I just held her hand to guide the way around the lake," Oh told Korean news broadcaster JTBC.

"I apologized because [the person] said she wouldn't make a fuss about it but it doesn't mean that I admit the charges."

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Arcade Fire's lead singer was accused of sexual misconduct.

Why can't fans get ticket refunds?

Jenna Benchetrit · CBC News · 

Posted: Nov 24, 2022 9:42 PM ET | Last Updated: November 26

WARNING: This article contains content about sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it.

When tickets to Arcade Fire's tour dates went on sale in May, Adam Lazarus quickly snatched up a pair for himself and his wife. Both were huge fans of the Canadian rock band, which rose to supernova status in the early-2000s with a critically acclaimed sound and a global audience.

"At this moment in the pandemic, I was really excited that they were coming back. I liked the new album a lot and wanted to go see it as a celebration," the Toronto theatre professor told CBC News.

But just a few months later, music publication Pitchfork reported that Arcade Fire's lead singer, Win Butler, had been accused of sexual misconduct by four people. A fifth allegation was published by the same outlet this week.

As the band's two opening acts — first Leslie Feist, then Beck — left the tour, Lazarus and other fans quickly made a decision to get a refund on their tickets. 

Please go to CBC for the rest of this story.

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Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years in China

on rape, group sex charges

Performer was accused of luring women, teens with promises of jobs and other opportunities

The Associated Press · 

Posted: Nov 25, 2022 7:48 AM ET |

Kris Wu arrives on the red carpet at the iHeartRadio MMVAs in Toronto on Aug. 26, 2018.

(Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)

A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in prison on charges including rape.

Beijing's Chaoyang District Court said Wu was given 11 years and six months for raping three women in 2020, and one year and 10 months for the "crime of assembling a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity" for a 2018 event in which he and others assaulted two women they had gotten drunk.

The court said the three victims in the rape case had also been drunk and were unable to consent.

It said a combined 13-year sentence was agreed on and Wu would be immediately deported after serving his time.

"According to the facts ... the nature, circumstances and harmful consequences of the crime, the court made the above judgment," the court said in an online statement.

A Canadian diplomat was in court to hear the sentencing, it said.

Fine for tax evasion

Wu was also slapped with a fine of 600 million yuan ($110 million Cdn) for evading taxes by massively underreporting his earnings from performances, advertisements and other sources of income.

The June trial of the 32-year-old former member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band EXO was closed to the public to protect the victims' privacy.

Wu has been detained since August 2021 while police conducted an investigation in response to comments online that he "repeatedly lured young women" to have sex, according to a police statement at that time.

That year, a teenager accused him of having sex with her while she was drunk. Wu, known in Chinese as Wu Yifan, denied the accusation.

The teenager then said seven other women contacted her to say Wu seduced them with promises of jobs and other opportunities. She said some were under 18.

Rape is punishable by three to 10 years in prison, although exceptional cases can result in harsher sentences up to death. The second charge Wu faced is punishable by up to five years in prison.

Wu grew up in Guangzhou in China and in Vancouver. He left the group EXO in 2014 after being a member for two years to pursue a solo career in China.

At the time of his detention, Wu was an ambassador for 15 brands, such as Bulgari, Lancome, Louis Vuitton and Porsche, all of which immediately severed ties with him.

Apparently, any form of vetting was trumped by popularity.

Islam - Current Day > Boys not seen as Victims of CSA in Morocco; Iranian Women continue protest; Islamic Insanity taught to children in London

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Boys in Morocco are not being recognised as victims of sexual exploitation

“Sexual violence against boys is only viewed as sexual assault,

while for girls it is considered as rape.”

Gender stereotypes and the taboos associated with sex and sexuality are keeping boys in Morocco silent about sexual violence. 

Gender norms that place boys as ‘strong’ and ‘able to protect themselves’, means that there is an assumption that they are invulnerable to sexual exploitation and abuse. Not only do these rigid gender norms contribute to boys’ reluctance to disclose sexual violence, or seek help, but they also reinforce self-blame and shame of the male victims. 

Additionally, the long-held taboos associated with discussing sex and sexuality that are deeply entrenched in Moroccan culture perpetuate an environment of silence, which further discourages boys from opening up about their experience(s) of sexual exploitation.

“It is important to encourage males to report and to negate the notion that only girls are victims of such crimes. This does not emasculate them in any way.” 

~ frontline worker 

For more on this story, please go to ECPAT.

"The Regime's Legitimacy Is Eroding"

Iran Protests Continue Despite Brutal Repression

Protesters in Iranian Kurdistan: Despite regime violence, the demonstrations are continuing. Foto: SalamPix / Abaca Press picture alliance

The uprising against the Islamist dictatorship in Iran is entering a new phase and the regime is doing all it can to survive. For how much longer can the mullahs cling to power?

By Anne Armbrecht, Julia Amalia Heyer, Muriel Kalisch, Mina Khani, Maximilian Popp, Christoph Reuter, Omid Rezaee und Özlem Topçu

25.11.2022, 17.49 Uhr

There isn’t a single place where she is safe from the regime’s henchmen, says Anoush, not even in her dreams.

It has been just over a month since DER SPIEGEL first spoke with Anoush, a teacher from the Iranian capital of Tehran in her mid-20s. At the time, the protests that erupted following the September death of the young Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini had already spread throughout the country. Anoush says she began taking part in the demonstrations from the very beginning. Now, she has again decided to share her experiences, using long chat messages to do so. She has, however, changed the service she uses: She no longer feels that WhatsApp is secure enough.

The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 48/2022 (November 26th, 2022) of DER SPIEGEL.

The regime, she says, has drastically ratcheted up the pressure. The terror, she says, is everywhere, with only a fraction of it making it into the media. An acquaintance of hers, she says, was raped in prison after being arrested, with the guards having fired at her genitals with paintball guns. "Since then, I have been having a recurring nightmare of being raped myself," she says.

Despite the violence, people in Tehran and elsewhere in the country are continuing to take to the streets. Their primary focus this week has been the massacres in the Kurdish areas of the country. It is difficult, however, to determine where the demonstrations are taking place and how large they are since the internet has been blocked in many parts of the country.

"We cry ourselves to sleep and wake up with new hope."

Anoush, a teacher from Tehran

The fight against the dictatorship is no longer finding its expression only in street protests, says Anoush. "We are screaming from the windows, even if security forces are opening fire more frequently. We are boycotting companies that advertise on state television. We are using cash instead of credit cards, collecting money for the people in the Kurdish areas. It is difficult to get help to them, but some people are trying. When we cross the streets, we give each other the V for victory sign. We cry ourselves to sleep and wake up with new hope."

There is much more to this article in Spiegel International.

UK: Children at Islamic Republic of Iran School sing-song that

references apocalyptic myth about massacring Jews

NOV 26, 2022 3:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Yes, there is an Islamic Republic of Iran School in London. Why? Because Britain is mad.

Children chant massacre-Jews song at North London school

by David Rose, 

The Jewish Chronicle, 

November 24, 2022:

An Iranian propaganda video in which dozens of children sing a song that references an apocalyptic myth about massacring Jews was filmed at a school just 15 minutes’ walk from the New London synagogue in St John’s Wood, a JC investigation has revealed.

In the video, shot earlier this year in the playground of the Islamic Republic of Iran School (IRIS) near Queen’s Park station, the children sing about joining 313 mythical warriors in a conflict against the infidels, when (according to the present Iranian regime) Israel will be obliterated and Jews killed.

Some scenes were also shot at the nearby Islamic Centre of England (ICE), which is controlled by the Iranian regime and linked to the school. ICE is currently the subject of a statutory inquiry by the Charity Commission, as the JC disclosed last week.

The song, entitled Hello Commander, has been praised by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who claims its popularity proves his people’s “loyalty to the system”, Iranian pro-regime media has reported.

Its recording in St John’s Wood, in easy reach of several synagogues and Jewish centres, has raised serious concerns among community security officials.

In the London video, rows of boys in white shirts and pressed black trousers and girls in blue flares, white blouses and matching hijabs can be seen saluting and singing their allegiance to their “commander”, Ayatollah Khamenei.

The children, aged between eight and 15, sing: “Without you, this life has no meaning. This life comes alive when you are here for me.”

They then sing about fighting in history’s final battle for the mythical leader known as the Mahdi, last seen supposedly almost 1,200 years ago.

The Mahdi, could very possibly be the anti-Christ of the Bible.

Shia theology says the Mahdi will return to Earth to lead Muslim forces in the war of the apocalypse, accompanied by an elite band of 313 fighters — including, the song suggests, the children in the video.

They sing: “We wait for under the flag of our leaders. Tell me beloved, will you arrive soon? May Allah hasten your reappearance…

“We may be young but do not see us as too young. For you I will rise up and you will not see me fall. From the 313, you will see I will answer the call… Take my oath of loyalty as a warrior and servant.”…

Mir Abbas Hussein, a spokesman for the ICE, denied that what he called the “local” version of the song had this meaning.

He told the JC that he accepted that IRGC leaders said Israel must be obliterated before the Mahdi’s return, but said there was “nothing in the [religious] books about destroying Israel” and the song as recorded in London “is nothing to do with a political agenda. Here we focus on religion.”

The ICE’s constitution stipulates that one of its trustees will always be the UK’s personal representative of Ayatollah Khamenei.

Versions of the song recorded in Iran and elsewhere dominate the country’s official airways.

A report by the pro-regime Iran Press News Agency states: “Hello Commander educates the new generation on the ambitions of the Islamic Revolution and encourages them to be guardians to protect those ideals, which is seen as a step towards promoting the revolution among the generation to come.”…

The school is owned by the Iranian government and ICE’s previous director Mohammad Shomali, the previous ICE director and reportedly its Khamenei representative, has spoken there.

The ICE has received £139,000 from taxpayers under the Covid furlough scheme. Meanwhile, the school’s pastoral and educational standards have been scathingly criticised by Ofsted….

The ICE has hosted numerous speakers over many years who have spewed a torrent of Jew-hatred. In recent weeks, these included an ayatollah who says Jews were responsible for killing of Muslims in Burma and that Zionism “harms all mankind”.

The ICE is one of several centres across Britain and Europe that are controlled by Iran. Police and security services uncovered links to terrorism at one pro-regime hub in Germany.

The ICE and its northern UK counterpart, the Manchester Islamic Centre, have hosted prominent Labour politicians including Jeremy Corbyn the year before he became party leader. He made a speech at the ICE in 2014 on what he called “The Case for Iran”….

It's hard not to agree with Robert Spencer that the existence of schools like this in England is sheer madness. 

This Week's USA Pervs and Pedos List > ICE arrests 12 Illegal Aliens Convicted of CSA; Pa man convicted of 13,000 charges; Lawsuit against Military Academy

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ERO New York arrests multiple sex offenders during national operation

NOVEMBER 23, 2022, NEW YORK, 

NYENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL

NEW YORK — Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York Field Office apprehended 12 unlawfully present noncitizens convicted of sex offenses during a nationwide enforcement effort Oct. 22 through Nov. 4. 

The law enforcement action conducted by ERO resulted in a total of 138 arrests nationally, including some who had already been ordered removed from the United States but failed to depart.

This enforcement operation was implemented to address unlawfully present noncitizens convicted of sex offenses. Cases amenable to federal criminal prosecution may be presented to the appropriate U.S. attorney’s office.

“The emotional damage inflicted by sexual perpetrators on their victims can last a lifetime,” said ERO New York Field Office Acting Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo. “The work of our officers on this operation has prevented future potential victims from such harm. This invaluable contribution to community safety should be specially valued at this time of year when families all over gather to celebrate together.”

The following people were arrested in the New York Field Office area of responsibility:

A 42-year-old citizen of Bolivia in Levittown, NY, convicted by the Nassau County Court of felony rape in the first degree.

A 27-year-old citizen of Honduras in New York, convicted by the New York County Criminal Court of felony sexual abuse in the first degree: contact with victim less than 13/defendant 21 or older.

A 56-year-old citizen of Mexico in Middletown, New York convicted by the Warwick Town Court of misdemeanor stalking in the third degree: cause person to fear injury/sex offense/kidnapping/death.

A 34-year-old citizen of Guatemala in Smithtown, New York convicted by the Suffolk County Court of rape in the third degree: victim did not consent, factor other than incapacity to consent.

A 43-year-old citizen of Haiti in Springfield Gardens, New York convicted by the Queens County Supreme Court of felony possessing sexual performance by a child.

A 39-year-old citizen of Honduras in Newburgh, New York convicted by the Supreme Court of California of felony lewd or lascivious acts with a child less than 14 years old.

A 46-year-old citizen of Mexico in Wyandanch, New York, convicted in the Circuit Court of LaSalle County of felony criminal sexual assault.

A 54-year-old citizen of Uruguay in Brentwood, New York, convicted in the Suffolk County Court of felony course of sexual conduct in the second degree: actor over 17, two or more acts on a child under 13.

A 47-year-old citizen of Canada in Spring Valley, New York, convicted in the Putnam County Court of felony promotion of an obscene sexual performance by child less than 17 years of age.

A 44-year-old citizen of Haiti in Queens Village, New York, convicted in the Queens County Supreme Court of felony rape in the second degree, promoting prostitution in the second degree, and promoting prostitution in the third degree.

A 48-year-old citizen of Guyana in Brooklyn, New York convicted in the Queens County Supreme Court of felony sexual abuse in the first degree: sexual contact with individual less than 11 years old.

A 29-year-old citizen of El Salvador in West Islip, New York, convicted in the Nassau County First District Court of misdemeanor forcible touching, sexual abuse in the third degree and acting in manner that injured a child less than 17 years of age.

ICE officers make enforcement decisions on a case-by-case basis in a professional and responsible manner, informed by their experience as law enforcement officials and in a way that best protects against the greatest threats to the homeland.

Noncitizens placed into removal proceedings receive their legal due process from federal immigration judges in the immigration courts, which are administered by the Executive Office for Immigration Review. EOIR is an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice and is separate from the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Immigration judges in these courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case. ICE officers carry out removal decisions made by the federal immigration judges.

In fiscal year 2021, ERO arrested 12,025 individuals with aggravated felony convictions. Offenses associated with noncitizens arrested in FY 2021 included 1,506 homicide related offenses, 3,415 sexual assaults, 19,549 assaults, 2,717 robberies and 1,063 kidnappings.

Well done!!!

Pensylvania man convicted of 13,000 CSA charges

Mike Jones 

Nov 22, 2022 

Observer-Reporter

A Greene County man already convicted last year of molesting a young girl was found guilty Friday on thousands of counts for sexually abusing a different child over several years.

Matthew S. Perry, 44, of Monongahela, was convicted by the jury more than 13,000 separate charges following a three-day trial at the Greene County Courthouse.

State police charged him in October 2020 for the ongoing abuse of the girl dating back to 2008.

The jury convicted Perry on all felony charges that include child rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault and corruption of a minor, along with misdemeanor counts of indecent assault of a child. It’s not known when Perry will be sentenced, although he’s been incarcerated since 2017 since his arrest.

“The true heroes here are the victims who were brave enough to face the defendant in the courtroom and tell their story to 12 jurors,” Greene County District Attorney David Russo said in a written statement. “They detailed the horrible crimes committed.”

Perry was previously convicted by a different Greene County jury last December in another case involving a different girl he abused on several occasions in 2016 and 2017. President Judge Lou Dayich sentenced him in May to serve 40 to 80 years in prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender with the state police’s Megan’s Law list for the rest of his life.

“It is unimaginable the horrifying things that human beings are capable of. Specifically in this case, where the defendant was raping a child for years,” Russo said.

Perry has been jailed since he was arrested in Morgantown, W.Va., in August 2017, nearly three months after state police filed charges in the original case. It took more than four years for Perry to go to trial after he was originally deemed incompetent to face the charges and was admitted for mental health treatment on three separate occasions at Torrance State Hospital near Blairsville.

His wife, Cheyenna Perry, 40, pleaded guilty in December 2018 to recording videos and taking photographs of a girl engaged in sexual acts, and then sending them to her husband while he was trying to evade capture in the summer of 2017. She was sentenced to serve 3½ to 7 years in state prison and ordered to register for life as a sex offender after she pleaded guilty to all charges in exchange for her cooperation in her husband’s case.

Greene Co., Pa

Lawsuit alleges past child sex abuse at St. John's Northwestern

Military Academy

Alec Johnson

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A lawsuit has been filed against St. John's Northwestern Military Academy alleging that child sex abuse was allowed to occur and that the school ignored reports of physical and sexual violence on campus.

A Chicago-based law firm has filed a lawsuit alleging child sex abuse against St. John's Northwestern Military Academy, its governing entity and an alleged abuser who was an older, senior-ranked student at the time of the alleged incidents.

Romanucci & Blandin filed the lawsuit against the academy, the St. John's Northwestern Military Academy Foundation and Pablo Gonzalez Carvajal, the firm said in an emailed news release Nov. 21. The school is now known as St. John's Northwestern Academies, according to its website.

The allegations date to the 2011-12 school year.

In its news release, Romanucci & Blandin alleges that the Delafield-based school "fostered a "Lord of the Flies” atmosphere among the student cadets, allowing and encouraging a prefect-style model of student self-governance while turning a blind eye to multiple known and reported on-campus incidents of physical and sexual violence between cadets."

The lawsuit, which the firm said was filed Nov. 10 in the federal Eastern District of Wisconsin court, "details the alleged negligent actions of the academy allowing for a then-minor plaintiff ... to suffer repeated abuse by a fellow cadet several years ago despite assurances to (the victim's) parents that the Academy would provide a safe and adequately staffed environment for their son," according to the release.

The complaint alleges violations of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation, assault and battery among the nine counts listed, and "hopes to rectify long-held practices of the Academy that have and continue to have severe physical and psychological effects on its cadets," the release said.

“Not only did the school administration repeatedly fail to act as mandatory reporters regarding these conditions, they fostered a climate in which unlawful and unacceptable conduct was encouraged,” said Romanucci & Blandin Partner Martin D. Gould in the release. “The courage of our client to come forward regarding this abuse will help protect the future classes of the Academy by forcing them to have zero tolerance when it comes to the sexual abuse of children.” 

Online court records show the plaintiffs, listed in the complaint as John Doe, Father Doe and Mother Doe, are seeking $75 million and a jury trial. All three live in Rhode Island, records show.

In an emailed statement, St. John's Northwestern Academies said it was notified of the lawsuit and made aware of the allegations at the end of the 2011-12 school year through a Delafield Police Department investigation.

"As reported at that time, SJNA fully cooperated with authorities during their investigation. SJNA will respond to the lawsuit through the legal system", the school said in its statement. "St. John’s Northwestern Academies takes all allegations of sexual violence and assault very seriously. Our dedicated faculty and staff have been and will remain steadfast on the safety and well-being of our students and our entire community."

The Journal Sentinel has attempted to contact Carvajal and is awaiting a reply.

Online court records show that Gould and Matthew O'Neill, an attorney representing St. John's Northwestern Military Academy and its foundation, signed a document Nov. 22 agreeing to a two-week extension of the filing deadline to Dec. 16 for the school to file a response to the complaint. Those online court records also show no attorney listed for Carvajal as of the morning of Nov. 23.

Details of the complaint

According to the complaint:

During the 2011-12 school year, Carvajal was provided a master key for the younger cadets' dormitory rooms "either deliberately or by carelessness," and used the key to access other cadets' dormitory rooms, including John Doe's room. It alleges that Carvajal sexually assaulted and abused John Doe on multiple occasions and at night after the school's staff left the dormitories unmonitored.

School staff observed John Doe's changed behavior, such as "running away and hiding under his bed to avoid Carvajal but took no action to address John Doe's changed behavior or its causes," according to the complaint.

The complaint also alleges that the school failed to report Carvajal to the City of Delafield Police Department and that they allowed the misconduct to continue until Carvajal fled the country to Mexico "ahead of a police investigation of sexual assaults on campus."

John Doe also alleges that he has suffered physically, emotionally and psychologically as a result of the alleged conduct by Carvajal and the school.

John Doe also alleges that the effects and constant fear of repeated attacks created a hostile environment that caused his grades and education to suffer, which led him to withdraw from the academy.

Previous lawsuits have been filed against the school

There have been previous instances of the school being the target of lawsuits.

In 2018 in federal court and again in 2019 in Waukesha County Circuit Court, a Florida couple filed a lawsuit against the school claiming their then-12-year-old son was sexually assaulted by an older cadet at a summer camp session at the school in 2012. The federal case was dismissed in January 2019. In May, the Waukesha County Circuit Court case was dismissed, according to online court records.

In 1999, parents in Illinois filed a lawsuit against the school in Cook County Circuit Court, alleging that cadets "were subjected to beatings by other cadets, hazings and verbal assaults," and that gambling and drug use were allowed to occur on school grounds. Online court records appear to show the case worked its way to the federal courts before eventually being dismissed.