So far in the 21st century nearly a third of a billion children have been sexually abused, most of them multiple times, some thousands of times. 6 out of 7 are girls. Anything you can do to get this message to as many people as possible will help save abused children all over the world, and maybe even some of the abusers. Please read "Save A Child from Sexual Abuse by 3:15 PM" under "First Time Visitor?" May God bless you and anoint this ministry.
Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!
3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
The Joint Jury Court of Athens announced today its decision for the 23-year-old Pakistani, who, in the summer of 2022, had murdered his 17-year-old girlfriend Nicoleta in the Athens neighbourhood of Peristeri because, as he said, she cursed Muhammed, the founder of Islam, during an argument.
What else could he do? He's a Muslim!
With its decision, the court unanimously found the Pakistani defendant guilty of the murder of the young girl and, without recognising any mitigating circumstances, imposed a life sentence on him, Proto Thema reported….
During his testimony in court, the 23-year-old claimed that he had been in a relationship with the girl for 1.5 years and claimed that the reason for their fight was his decision to leave Greece and go to Italy. The girl, as he said, giving his own version of the events, asked him to be baptised a Christian, and during an argument, she cursed Mohammed.
Describing the moments in which he committed the crime, the 23-year-old gave his own version, saying in his testimony: “I went to leave and she started throwing my clothes. I told her to sit on the bed, she started cursing me and cursing Muhammad. I pushed her off the bed and told her to stay there.
Islamic Hysteria
“She kept cursing me and Mohammed, and I got angry. I grabbed her by the neck and started telling her, ‘Who is telling you such things all the time I’m listening to you?’. I grabbed her at that time by the head and told her to apologise.
“She grabbed my hand and told me to let her go. I didn’t let her go and kept telling her to apologise. After some seconds, I saw that her eyes were closed. Then I gave her water, gave her air. I was nervous and left the house.”…
At the start of the hearing and later, there was tension with the victim’s father breaking out shouting at the accused: “Don’t look at me at all, rot in prison”.
Police removed him from the courtroom to calm him down, where the distraught father was heard saying: “To lose my daughter in a car accident, I understand that, but to lose her in this way to have her strangled?”…
It is recalled that the father saidin [sic] August that he not only disapproved of the relationship, but of any type of relationship with “these people”.
“Finally, here it is, what happened. She thought that her relationship will be very good and here is the result,” he said.
The autopsy results found that the Pakistani allegedly used his hands to suffocate his 17-year-old girlfriend.
With his left hand, he allegedly pressed her nose and head, and left marks, bruises and small abrasions on her face. With his right hand he closed her mouth, probably using some small cloth.
According to a report by the Free Press, police have so far detected dozens of threatening messages on Nicoletta’s mobile phone from the Pakistani man.
UK: National Crime Agency to halt new investigations into Rotherham Muslim rape gangs in 2024
It was fear of charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia” that led British authorities to allow the Muslim rape gangs to continue operating with impunity in the first place. “At least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013,” and British officials did nothing; they “described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.”
And now the national inquiry into this monstrous crime is ending, likely over the same fears.
Britain is desperately ill, so deeply diseased in its political culture that it is extremely unlikely that it will recover.
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Rotherham abuse gangs: NCA to halt ‘new investigations’ from 2024
The UK’s largest ever investigation into child abuse will not launch any new investigations from 2024, the National Crime Agency has said.
Operation Stovewood, which the NCA launched in 2014 after shocking revelations about rape gangs in Rotherham, has been investigating non-familial child sexual exploitation in the South Yorkshire town from 1997 to 2013.
A national inquiry by Prof. Alexis Jay found over 1,400 victims in Rotherham from 1997 to 2013. The NCA has since revised that figure to over 1,500.
Since 2014, NCA officers have made more than 200 arrests and secured 26 convictions, with more than 50 active investigations ongoing.
But Rotherham abuse victim Elizabeth, not her real name, told this broadcaster that she feared that this “isn’t going to end well.”
She added: “I hope for the sake of every victim and their families that South Yorkshire Police are really up to the job.”
Jayne Senior, the whistleblower who exposed the scandal in Rotherham, told GB News: “Myself and my charity have had a really positive relationship with the National Crime Agency. It’s difficult to know how things will look with South Yorkshire Police taking over because we’ve never had any contact with their child sexual exploitation team, we don’t know what their operations and investigations will look like.”
Senior added: “We really hope that they are as victim-focused, transparent and hard-working as the NCA officers have been.”…
Muslim men marrying Hindu women more than often involves the Hindu woman converting to Islam. Then the Muslim man fathers multiple offspring from her, all named and raised as Muslims. This is a familiar scene in India. While rational thinkers recognize it as love or grooming jihad, intellectuals call it secular assimilation. Islamic society, meanwhile, welcomes the Hindu bride, for she translates into an increase in numbers for the Muslim community, as she will produce many children for the Muslim population.
Now, what happens when the genders are reversed? We have discussed before that Islam does not allow a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man. Numerous incidents from India establish that such marriages or relationships often end in the murder of either the Hindu man or the couple by the family of the Muslim girl. One such disturbing case has recently emerged from Mumbai, Maharashtra. As per reports, 50-year-old Gora Raeesuddin Khan has been arrested with several others. They are accused in the murder of Gora Raeesuddin Khan’s daughter and son-in-law, a Hindu.
In 2022, Raeesuddin’s 20-year-old daughter, Gulnaz, married 22-year-old Karan Ramesh Chandra and started living in Uttar Pradesh. Gulnaz had taken this defiant step despite her family’s strong objections to her union with the Hindu man.
A few days before their murder, Raeesuddin invited Gulnaz and her husband to Mumbai for reconciliation. The daughter came to meet her father, only to be killed along with her husband. On October 14, strategically, Gora and his Muslim accomplices, including two minors, finished off Gulnaz and Karan.
Police first came across Karan’s dead body, which was found submerged in a well at an isolated telecom factory in the Govandi area. His throat was slit. The grisly discovery prompted the police to get into action. They soon discovered his identity and started looking for Gulnaz, who was reported missing. Subsequent police investigations revealed that Gulnaz was also killed by her father and his accomplices shortly after they murdered her Hindu husband.
“In a horrifying turn of events, they used a rope to strangle her and then discarded her body in the jungle,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone VI) Hemraj Rajput revealed. Police have further confirmed that the accused have confessed their involvement in the killings. The police have since arrested Gora Raeesuddin Khan, Salman Khan, Salman’s friend Mohammad Kaif and three minors who had aided in the twin murders. Here, we would like to highlight the involvement of children in this gory crime. Murder is no petty misconduct like shoplifting or pick-pocketing. It is one of the deadliest crimes listed in the country’s judiciary, and the minors’ involvement lays bare the radicalizing indoctrination wired in the upbringing of these children. Readers may want to read this article illustrating how Muslim minors are no less dangerous to civilized societies than their adult counterparts. Legal proceedings in the Gulnaz-Karan case are currently underway.
Apologists may rush to defend these fanatics by dubbing these murders “honor killings” and disassociating them from Islam. Make no mistakes; these killings were driven solely by Gora Raeesuddin Khan’s religious fanaticism. His wrath was not caused by his daughter marrying a man of her choice, but by her marrying a Hindu man, a kaffir.
This case is just a replay of the Ankit Saxena murder case from Delhi (there, too, a minor was involved in the crime) and the Muslim woman from West Bengal whom her father and brother killed for loving a Hindu man. Saxena was stabbed to death by his Muslim girlfriend’s family in broad daylight in the middle of a crowded Delhi street. In the latter’s case, her father and brother mutilated her face and abandoned her body in the fields. While we have only provided two examples, such instances are found aplenty across India; some are reported, and others are not.
Islamic scholars attest that while the Qur’an allows Muslim men to marry Hindu women if they convert and Jews and Christians even if they do not convert, Muslim women are prohibited from marrying non-Muslim men. Imam Abdullah bin Hamid Ali, head of the Islamic Law program at Zaytuna College, affirms that the Koran is clear that Muslim men are allowed to marry non-Muslim women as long as their brides are “People of the Book” — Christians or Jews, both of whom recognize Abraham as their spiritual forefather, as Muslims do. A Muslim woman, however, cannot marry a non-Muslim man unless he converts.
Muslim recognition of Abraham as their spiritual father is an abomination of reality. They recognize Abraham as the father of Ishmail who was kicked out of Abraham's family as a teen. Ishmail was the son of the flesh, of unbelief; Isaac was the son of the spirit, of promise.
Even God disinherited Ishmail from Abraham when he told Abraham to take His son, his only son, Isaac.... in a type of Christ sacrifice. (Gen 22:2).
Pakistan: Muslim father shoots 18-y/o daughter dead in honor murder over viral social media post
In another instance of Islamic religious zeal, Pakistani police are investigating the honor killing of an 18-year-old woman. Authorities in Kohistan said she was shot dead by her father and uncle last week on orders of a local council , known as a jirga. The killing was over a viral social media photo that was regarded as dishonorable to her family.
Can you imagine a Western city or regional council executing such orders against a young woman? It didn’t even matter that the photo may have been doctored. Western Leftist feminists are silent on honor murder and other Islamically sanctioned abuses of women, such as female genital mutilation and wife-beating (Qur’an 4:34). The rights and wellbeing of Muslim women do not matter to them. Neither do those of the Israeli women who suffered unspeakable horrors on October 7. The only thing that matters to these faux feminists is their hatred for white men, and their concomitant hatred of Western tradition and culture.
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Pakistan police investigate killing of woman over social media photo
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Police in Pakistan are investigating the killing of an 18-year old woman after villager elders called for her death because she had appeared in a picture on social media, police said on Monday, the latest victim of a so-called honour killing.
Police said the woman had been killed after a council of elders, known as a jirga, had ordered that she and a friend, who also appeared in the picture, be killed. Some relatives of the dead woman were among the suspects, police said.
“Some people had uploaded pictures of the two girls,” said Masood Khan, deputy superintendent of police in the Kolai-Palas district in the mountains of northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.
“They shot dead one of them while police rescued the second one,” he said, referring to villagers.
Every year, hundreds of women in Muslim Pakistan are victims of honour killings, carried out by relatives professing to be acting in defence of a family’s honour, rights group say, often in deeply conservative rural areas.
The caretaker chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Syed Irshad Hussain Shah, said he had ordered police to arrest those responsible….
The 18-year-old was reportedly killed by her father and uncle in an alleged honour killing
Two other individuals, a young man and woman, also received death threats after their doctored photo went viral on social media, authorities saidPHOTO BY AMIR QURESHI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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An 18-year old woman was reportedly shot dead by her father and uncle in Pakistan in an alleged honour killing after she appeared in a viral photo that authorities suspect was doctored.
Police in the Kohistan district said the woman had been killed last week on order from elders of a tribal jirga (council), who had also called for the death of the man who appeared in the photo with her.
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Her father was arrested by authorities on a murder complaint.
Two other individuals, a young man and woman, also received death threats after their doctored photo went viral on social media, police said.
Police said both photos seemed to have been photoshopped and distributed on fake social media accounts. An investigation is underway to determine the culprit behind the photos.
Of course, Islamic hysteria does not allow for the time to actually investigate the incident before declaring death sentences.
There are several things we can take away from this story. For instance, there is a relationship between transgenderism and mental illness.
There can also be an element of evil involved in transgenders. Like homosexuality, God calls it an abomination in the Bible (Deu 22:5). Willie's determination to destroy innocent children and churches makes it clear that 'sin is progressive'.
Sometimes changing your gender can improve your looks, but not everytime.
'Bomb the churches': Trans-identified man indicted for threats to sexually assault Christian girls
Court docs: Suspect identified as 'open pedophile,' vowed 'many more and larger attacks on Christians'
Screenshot of video showing booking photo for Jason Lee Willie, of Nashville, Illinois. | Screenshot/YouTube/SocialLifestyle
A trans-identified Illinois man and alleged self-described “pedophile” is facing charges for making social media threats to sexually assault Christian girls and commit copycat attacks similar to the attack at a Christian school in Tennessee earlier this year.
Jason Lee Willie of Nashville, Illinois, was charged Nov. 7 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois with 14 felony counts of interstate communication of a threat to injure, according to a federal indictment.
The threats, which are dated between March and August, include repeated references to Christians, black Americans, the Republican Party, and others.
Among the alleged threats cited in the indictment are threats to “bomb the churches”: "...We're gonna bomb them, we're gonna bomb them. We're gonna bomb the churches. We're gonna bomb them. You know it. We're going to kill you..."
In an online video, Willie — who also goes by “Alexia N. Willie,” according to court documents — made reference to “Christian trash,” adding, “They're transphobic, they're homophobic, they're no different than the [expletive] white supremacists....”
The indictment alleges Willie also frequently used racial epithets and threatened to target anyone "with a cross around your neck.”
Prosecutors say Willie also specifically mentioned harming children, with online video threats such as, “...We're coming for your children. We're not going to hurt you. We're not going to hurt you.
"You have to understand, I know how to get to you, and that's by [pounds fist into palm twice for emphasis] f--- your children. By hurting your children. And that's exactly what we're going to do."
In August, Willie made an online video in which he allegedly said, "Well, I guarantee I'll be in the bathroom raping your Christian daughters and there ain't nothing you f— can do about it. You hear me?"
According to prosecutors, in another August video, Willie appeared to identify himself as a pedophile when he graphically described sexual abuse toward "little girls" and said, "You guys can't do nothing about it. I don't care, I'm openly a pedo. I'm openly a pedophile ..."
In another video, prosecutors say Willie said trans-identified people are “tired of being picked on and we're going to go into the schools and we're going to kill their f— children out here, and that's the end of it.
“We're at war."
Both the Perry County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI declined comment on the case Monday.
While authorities also declined to provide a booking photo, self-described “pro-woman” magazine Reduxx shared a booking photo of Willie on social media.
A proffer of evidence in support of a motion to detain filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office states that prior to the most recent investigation, “Willie’s online communications generated complaints to the FBI on at least four occasions from 2018 to 2022,” including following the Covenant School shooting in Nashville.
According to that document, on March 28, just one day after the shooting by a heavily-armed woman which left six people dead, including three children, the FBI received a report about an alleged Facebook post in which Wille stated “that there would be many more and larger attacks on Christians by transgender people and that Christians would come to know fear like never before.”
The document also cites an interview with Willie’s roommate, identified only as Kennedy, who told investigators that Willie frequently went online to tell people he was going to “have sex with their kids in the bathroom and stuff like that.”
Earlier this month, leaked pages from a manifesto written by Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old shooter at the Covenant School, indicated Hale sought to kill “cr*ckers” with “white privileges.”
“Kill those kids!!!” one page of the manifesto reads. “Those cr*ckers going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis and sports backpacks, with their daddies [sic] Mustangs and convertibles. F*** you little sh**s. I wish to shoot you weaka** d***s w/ your mop yellow hair. Wanna kill all you little cr*ckers!!! Bunch of little f***ots with your white privileges. F*** you f***ots.”
“Louder with Crowder” host Steven Crowder released pages allegedly from the manifesto on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The writings have been sealed since the March 27 attack where 28-year-old Audrey Hale opened fire at The Covenant School in Green Hills, killing Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old, as well as Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61. Hale was shot and killed by police just minutes after launching her attack.
An exclusively female Catholic college will now allow men who identify as women to enroll, with the school's revised non-discrimination policy stating that an "inclusive campus experience" is essential to empowering women through education.
Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, will allow men who present themselves as women to apply for undergraduate admission in the fall of 2024. Notre Dame's student newspaper, The Observer, first reported the news about the change last Tuesday.
College President Katie Conboy told the faculty in an email last Tuesday that the institution will consider trans-identifying applicants. However, the school is still considering how to put the policy change into practice.
Earlier this year, Conboy assembled a "President's Task Force for Gender Identity and Expression" to gather information from other Catholic colleges and make recommendations about student housing policies.
"We are by no means the first Catholic women's college to adopt a policy with this scope," Conboy wrote. "In drafting the language for this update, I have relied on the guidance of the Executive Team and others to ensure that our message is not only in line with best practices for today's college students, but that it also encompasses our commitment to operate as a Catholic women's college."
I don't think she has read Deuteronomy 22:5. “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."
Saint Mary's College did not immediately respond to The Christian Post's request for comment.
Clare Ann Ath, a St. Mary's alumna who serves as the government affairs manager for the pro-life group Human Coalition, criticized the decision in a Nov. 21 social media post questioning whether the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend had responded to the situation.
"Just found out my alma mater @saintmarys, an all-women's Catholic college, will be accepting BIOLOGICAL MEN starting next fall," Ath wrote. "This decision is blasphemous & a complete rejection of the Church and it's teachings on gender and sexuality."
According to the school's website, St. Mary's Board of Trustees approved a change to the college's non-discrimination policy in June 2023, a change that states the school considers admission for undergraduate applicants whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women. Graduate degree programs are open to all."
The policy further states that the college does not discriminate based on sexuality or gender identity, adding that it's in compliance with all federal laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
"The mission of Saint Mary's College is to empower women, through education, at all stages in life. Essential to this mission is fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus experience," the website states.
It would be nice if that mission statement included obedience to and honouring of Jesus Christ, which they are apparently abandoning.
In the email sent to faculty members, Conboy cited Pope Francis' quote about loving people for who they are and how that love "'moves us to seek the best for their lives,'"The Daily Signal reported.
But it moves us and them further from God's Presence.
"The revised non-discrimination clause seeks to advance just this kind of community, where we honor the dignity of all persons who work at the college and we follow an inclusive admission process that retains our identity as a Catholic women's college," Conboy wrote.
As CP previously reported, Pope Francis invited a group of trans-identifying men to join him and about 1,000 other poor and homeless people for a lunch last Sunday. The event was intended to commemorate the Catholic Church's World Day of the Poor, according to The Associated Press.
According to the AP, Pope Francis grew closer to the group of trans-identifying individuals after he helped them during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group that joined him for the lunch consisted of Latin American migrants and prostitutes who lived in Torvaianica near Rome.
The luncheon came after the Vatican's doctrinal office issued a document explaining that trans-identified individuals can be baptized and serve as godparents in some circumstances.
However, Pope Francis has criticized transgenderism in the past, describing it to La Nacion in March as "one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations." He also noted that there is a difference between pastoral care for LGBT-identifying people and endorsing the lifestyle.
St Mary's actions appear to be endorsing the lifestyle. It appears the Task Force has been picking and choosing from the Pope's statements, and ignoring the Bible.
For all its other faults, It seems almost paradoxical that Russia would have the most Biblical attitude in the world toward the sexual revolution. But it does! Go figure!
Russia’s Supreme Court bans 'international LGBT movement', effectively outlawing activism
Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism, in the most drastic step against advocates of gay, lesbian and transgender rights in the increasingly conservative country.
In a statement announcing a lawsuit filed to the court earlier this month, the Justice Ministry argued that authorities had identified “signs and manifestations of an extremist nature” by an LGBTQ+ “movement” operating in Russia, including “incitement of social and religious discord,” although it offered no details or evidence. In its ruling, the court declared the “movement” to be extremist and banned it in Russia.
The hearing took place behind closed doors and with no defendant. Multiple rights activists have pointed out that the lawsuit targeted the “international civic LGBT movement,” which is not an entity but rather a broad and vague definition that would allow Russian authorities to crack down on any individuals or groups deemed to be part of the “movement.”
“Despite the fact that the Justice Ministry demands to label a nonexistent organization – ‘the international civic LGBT movement’ – extremist, in practice it could happen that the Russian authorities, with this court ruling at hand, will enforce it against LGBTQ+ initiatives that work in Russia, considering them a part of this civic movement,” Max Olenichev, a human rights lawyer who works with the Russian LGBTQ+ community, told The Associated Press ahead of the hearing.
Some LGBTQ+ activists have said they sought to become a party to the lawsuit, arguing that it concerns their rights, but were rejected by the court. The Justice Ministry has not responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
The Supreme Court ruling is the latest step in a decade-long crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Russia begun under President Vladimir Putin, who has put “traditional family values” at the cornerstone of his rule.
In 2013, the Kremlin adopted the first legislation restricting LGBTQ+ rights, known as the “gay propaganda” law, banning any public endorsement of “nontraditional sexual relations” among minors. In 2020, constitutional reforms pushed through by Putin to extend his rule by two more terms also included a provision to outlaw same-sex marriage.
After sending troops into Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin ramped up its comments about protecting “traditional values” from what it called the West’s “degrading” influence, in what rights advocates saw as an attempt to legitimize the war. That same year, the authorities adopted a law banning propaganda of “nontraditional sexual relations” among adults, also, effectively outlawing any public endorsement of LGBTQ+ people.
Another law passed earlier this year prohibited gender transitioning procedures and gender-affirming care for transgender people.The legislation prohibited any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,” as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records. It also amended Russia’s Family Code by listing gender change as a reason to annul a marriage and adding those “who had changed gender” to a list of people who can’t become foster or adoptive parents.
“Do we really want to have here, in our country, in Russia, ‘Parent No. 1, No. 2, No. 3’ instead of ‘mom’ and ‘dad?’” Putin said in September 2022. “Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed in our schools from the primary grades?”
Authorities have rejected accusations of discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. Earlier this month, Russian media quoted Andrei Loginov, a deputy justice minister, as saying that “the rights of LGBT people in Russia are protected” legally. Loginov spoke in Geneva, while presenting a report on human rights in Russia to the U.N. Human Rights Council, and argued that “restraining public demonstration of non-traditional sexual relationships or preferences is not a form of censure for them.”
Amanda Todd's Mom expresses relief U.S. man sentenced for sexually exploiting 3 B.C. youths
By Darrian Matassa-Fung Global News
Posted October 29, 2023 3:32 pm
Updated October 30, 2023 2:22 pm
The mother of Amanda Todd says she's relieved to hear an Oregon man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of three B.C. youths. As Travis Prasad reports, Carol Todd says the ruling serves as a reminder for parents and caregivers to understand the risks online.
Warning: This story contains graphic detail about child sexual abuse that may disturb some readers.
Amanda Todd’s mother Carol spoke on the recent sentencing of an American man who pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting three B.C. youths.
Carol Todd said her response to the news of the sentencing of Kevin Robert McCarty, of Happy Valley, Ore., was one of relief.
“When I first heard that there was an Oregon man convicted and sentenced to 20 years … it gave me a sense of relief that these crimes are finally being recognized and that when it was reported to the RCMP, it got taken seriously,” she told Global News.
“I’ve been waiting for a long time to see the offenders get what they deserve. Twenty years is good.”
On Feb. 15, McCarty pleaded guilty to one count of enticing a minor online and two counts of sexually exploiting children. He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by supervised release in the U.S.
In May 2021, the Comox Valley RCMP began its investigation after being notified a local youth was being sexually exploited online. As the investigation progressed, a suspect was identified in the United States.
B.C. RCMP said the two other youths, who led to the conviction and sentencing, are from Surrey and Westshore.
I believe Westshore refers to the Colwood area west of Victoria.
Todd, whose daughter Amanda committed suicide after her sextortion nightmare, said vulnerable youths need to be protected.
“This is a message to the exploitation offenders out there … you can’t hide behind the screen and VPNs. The goal is to have these offenders found and convicted,” Todd said.
“I am so proud of those young people — to step up, report, and get the help they need. These are adult-sized problems and kids can’t deal with them on their own.”
Carol’s daughter Amanda Todd died by suicide at age 15 in October 2012, a few weeks after posting a video using flash cards to describe being tormented by an online predator.
Aydin Corbin / Amanda Todd
Ten years after Amanda’s death, Dutch man Aydin Coban was sentenced in Canada to 13 years behind bars for harassment, extortion, child luring, and possession and distribution of child pornography in connection with the “sextortion” of the Port Coquitlam teen.
Justice Martha Devlin took the unusual step of handing down a longer sentence than Crown counsel had argued for Coban, who was already serving a nearly 11-year term in the Netherlands for similar crimes.
Carol said in this day and age of social media and the access to internet, it’s extremely important for both parents/guardians and children to know the signs of sextortion and what to do if they are being targeted.
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has resources including a short video geared towards teens called DontGetSextorted.ca
Earlier this year, Centre officials called the growing number of sextortion offences in Canada an “epidemic.”
“To be completely frank, the situation is completely out of control. We can barely keep up with the sextortion reports that are coming in to us,” said Signy Arnason, associate executive director of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, in an April interview with Global News.
Statistics Canada data reports a nearly 80 per cent increase in cyber-related extortion offences in 2020 from the year before. Arnason said that number has continued to rise.
Police urge anyone in danger, or anyone who knows someone in danger to immediately call 911. Child sexual exploitation can be reported online through the CyberTipline or by call 1-800-846-5678.
12-year-old boy in B.C. dies by suicide in response to online sextortion, police say
Thanks, Sam
By Amy Judd Global News Posted November 27, 2023 10:37 am
WATCH: The parents of a 12-year-old Prince George boy who took his own life are speaking out. RCMP say he was the victim of online sextortion. As Angela Jung reports, a majority of reported sextortion victims are boys.
The family of a 12-year-old boy who died by suicide after he was sexually extorted online is speaking out about what happened.
Carson Cleland took his life on Oct. 12 after being the victim of online sextortion, Prince George RCMP said Monday.
“Nothing was worth doing this,” Ryan Cleland, Carson’s father, told CKPG News.
Reports of sextortion, the practice of extorting money or sexual favours from someone by threatening to reveal evidence of their online sexual activity, are on the rise, Prince George RCMP said.
Sextortion is most prevalent in youth between the ages of 13 and 18, police said.
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B.C. aims to protect children, teens from sextortion
So far this year, Prince George RCMP has received 62 reports of online sextortion, already surpassing the 56 reports received in 2022, police confirmed.
Prince George, B.C. has a population of 74,000.
“Be more active with your kids, even if you are active, which we were,” Carson’s mother, Nicola Smith, told CKPG News.
“Talk to your kids about predators and all the things that’s happening and the safety of online. As much as younger kids hate parents going on their phones, maybe they have to.”
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Province to introduce legislation over intimate images being shared without consent
Police said parents need to know about the dangers for kids online.
“We are calling for parents and caregivers to be honest with their youth about the dangers of online activity, especially if they are engaging in chats with people they don’t know in real life,” Cpl. Jennifer Cooper said in a news release.
“While not every case of online sextortion will end in tragedy, the consequences of this kind of activity can follow a youth for their entire life, which needs to be something we talk about openly with our kids.”
Carson’s family said he preferred to use Snapchat to talk to others.
“They’re just not built for problems like this yet,” Cleland said. “They’re not built for adult problems like this yet.”
Here's a parenting hint that should help with this:
Parents, be willing to talk to your children about anything, without getting angry! Explain to them that being able to talk about anything is vitally important but that keeping secrets from each other will damage that relationship and cause one or the other to start lying. This is how rebellion often starts. Teach your kids to not do anything that they might have to lie about afterward.
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Why teen boys are the top target for sextortion
Law enforcement agencies have seen a huge increase in cases relating to online sexual abuse against children as outlined in thisreport from The New Reality.
Although internet blackmailers target all youth, the largest increase in cases involves teen boys.
“About 90 per cent of the sextortion victims that are reporting to us are young males,” Stephen Sauer, director of Canada’s national youth tipline for online sexual crimes, Cybertip.ca. told The New Reality.
Teen boys between 14 to 17 are the most impacted by these crimes. Experts said boys are more likely to start communicating with someone on social media – especially when they think it’s with someone their own age who is sexually interested in them.
If you are the victim of sextortion, it is important that you stop all communication immediately with that person and do not give in to their demands. Deactivate the accounts that you are using to communicate with that person and, most importantly, reach out for help and report it. Call your local police and contact NeedHelpNow.ca and Cybertip.ca for support.
In Carson’s case, police said they are still looking for a suspect.
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Sextortion warning after Prince George boy dies by suicide
If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help, resources are available. In case of an emergency, please call 911.
B.C. boy’s death underscores rise of sextortion in Canada. What can be done?
By Sean Boynton Global News Posted Nov. 28, 2023 4:00 am Updated Nov. 28, 2023 11:20 am
The death of a 12-year-old boy in British Columbia who police and his family say fell victim to online sextortion has advocates warning the issue is getting worse in Canada.
For years, law enforcement and researchers have been warning about the dangers of rising incidents of criminals targeting minors through sextortion, calling the problem an “epidemic” that is leading to mental health issues and suicide. Despite some steps taken by governments and social media companies to increase safety online, the number of reported instances continues to rise.
No steps have been taken by Trudeau's Government since he took office in 2015. Canada is one of very few western countries who have done nothing on this file, not just sextortion but the pandemic of child sexual abuse too.
“We have a public health emergency on our hands,”Signy Arnason, the associated executive director of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CCCP), told Global News in an interview.
Back in September, the CCCP’s national tip line for reporting online child sexual abuse, Cybertip.ca, reported they were receiving on average 40 reports of sextortion per week. Today, that number has increased to 50 per week.
Cybertip says when the gender of victims is known, 91 per cent of those targeted in sextortion cases have been male, with teen boys between the ages of 14 and 17 most likely to be impacted.
The agency says male victims are predominantly exploited for money, as opposed to female victims who are coerced into providing more sexual images.
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Why teen boys are the top target for sextortion
Statistics Canada reported last year that police-reported extortion cases in Canada rose by nearly 300 per cent in the last decade. It also says non-consensual distribution of intimate images involving adult or child victims increased by 194 cases in 2021, a nine-per-cent jump from the year before, and a 52-per-cent increase compared with the previous five-year average.
Prince George RCMP, who reported 12-year-old Carson Cleland’s death, said it has received 62 reports of online sextortion so far this year — already surpassing the 56 reports received in 2022.
Carson, who took his life on Oct. 12, largely used Snapchat to talk with others, his family said. His mother told CKPG News in Prince George, B.C., that she and Carson’s father were already talking to their son about online safety and how to protect himself before he died, but urged other parents to be “more active” with their own kids.
Arnason said part of the issue is parents are being made to feel solely responsible for protecting their kids from online predators when it should be up to governments and tech companies to establish proper safety guardrails.
“We know it’s absolutely impossible to be managing your kids’ online activity because you’re not with them 24/7, but their devices are” she said. “We’ve unfairly saddled this issue on parents … and we feel like we’re screaming into an echo chamber. We need action. We need governments to step in. Otherwise we’re going to continue to talk about this.”
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B.C. aims to protect children, teens from sextortion
Police also say sextortion cases can be incredibly complex and time-consuming. Investigators can face extreme difficulty obtaining evidence — both the images and correspondence between the aggressor and the victim — because social media and online messaging platforms encrypt and often delete messages from their servers. Snapchat’s servers are designed to automatically delete all one-on-one and group-chat messages as soon as they’re viewed.
Snapchat should be illegal for children of any age.
Cpl. Jennifer Cooper of Prince George RCMP told CKPG News that perpetrators of online sextortion have international reach, further complicating efforts to bring them to justice in Canada.
“You get into issues of ‘where are they?’ — having to trace IP addresses across continents — and ‘is this a crime in the country that they are residing in?'” she said. “So then we have to start looking at international crime (law), and that can be incredibly time-consuming. It’s very resource-intensive to do these sorts of investigations.”
Those complexities were made clear in the lengthy prosecution of the Dutch man convicted last year of extorting, blackmailing and harassing B.C. teen Amanda Todd, whose death by suicide in 2012 at the age of 15 thrust the issue of sextortion into the national spotlight.
But not to the point where Trudeau's government would actually do something about it.
Aydin Coban was first charged in 2014, but first had to face trial in the Netherlands for a series of related charges in his home country. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison for those crimes in 2017, then finally extradited to Canada in 2020 to face trial for the charges related to Todd, which led to a conviction last year.
His 13-year sentence is to be served in the Netherlands after his current sentence ends next year, but has been delayed as an Amsterdam court considers amending it to one consistent with Dutch law, which could shorten the prison stint to four-and-a-half years.
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Dutch national found guilty in Amanda Todd case
In B.C., Todd’s case and a continued rise in sextortion incidents helped inspire the Intimate Images Protection Act, passed earlier this year, which creates an expedited legal process for victims to seek the removal of intimate images and videos uploaded to online platforms without their consent.
Other provinces including Manitoba, Alberta and Nova Scotia have similar laws and have sought to strengthen them in recent months. Manitoba’s updated law, for instance, shifts the burden of proof in lawsuits filed over shared images on the accused to show they had permission from the victim.
Federal legislation was adopted last month that adds sextortion to the list of offences that would require a perpetrator to register with the National Sex Offender Registry.
The Criminal Code of Canada made it illegal to share intimate images without consent in 2014, but the code does not include responsibility for online platforms that publish them, or compel them to comply with requests for removal.
Those platforms, including Instagram and Snapchat, have introduced updated safety measures in recent years. But most of them — like Snapchat’s new feature that warns minors if they are adding a follower who is not shared by mutual friends — puts the onus on the users. Parents can still enable controls that block sensitive content, but those don’t cover direct messages from followers.
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Expert advice to fight teen sextortion
Arnason said Canada should look to model new legislation on sweeping online safety laws passed in the United Kingdom and European Union. Those laws impose regulations on social media and tech platforms and opens the door for federal lawsuits against those that don’t actively crack down on explicit, non-consensual materials as well as hate speech and misinformation.
She added the urgency is further compounded by the rise of artificial intelligence. Last month, the U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation warned that AI-generated deepfake images will overwhelm child exploitation investigators without government action.
“AI is an absolute nightmare in our space,” she said.
In a statement provided by his office, Justice Minister and Attorney General Arif Virani said he will continue to work with other ministers to introduce online harms legislation that includes protections against sexual exploitation of children — “but we must take time to do this properly,” he added, declining to give a timeline for when that bill — first promised in 2019 — may be tabled.
“Too much is at stake,” he said.
How many more lives will be destroyed while you take your time? How is it that you have no sense of urgency about this?
Cybertip and police urge victims of sextortion to cut off contact with perpetrators immediately and inform their parents or a trusted adult, while also keeping a copy of their communication. Victims should never give into the threats they may receive, or else the perpetrators will continue to act.
Parents are also being urged to foster open communication with their children and keep them regularly updated on the potential dangers of online platforms like social media.
But Arnason said she’s getting frustrated by continuing to repeat the same warnings to parents and children while governments and companies continue to delay action.
“Would you ever find a 12-year-old walking into a bar who is then murdered, and then everyone asks why the parents didn’t do more? No — you’d be holding the bar owner accountable for letting a minor into their facility,” she said.
After B.C. sextortion tragedy, online harm bill expected ‘soon’: LeBlanc
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he hopes the federal government will be in a position to introduce its long-promised online harms legislation “soon” in the wake of the death of a 12-year-old B.C. boy whose family and police say was a victim of online sextortion.
The Prince George RCMP first reported 12-year-old Carson Cleland’s death as being linked to sextortion on Monday. The northern B.C. police detachment says it has received 62 complaints of sextortion this year, up from 56 in 2022, and experts have warned it is part of a growing trend.
“I hope and think we’ll be in a position to introduce that legislation soon. But this is a tragic reminder that some of the harms done online are very real and that a 12-year-old boy in British Columbia takes his own life in such a horrible way. He should remind all of us that the online world can be very dangerous and vulnerable people can be preyed upon,” LeBlanc said Tuesday.
The government first promised legislation to better address online harms in 2019, but legislation has not been tabled yet.
