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.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

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Saturday, 28 July 2018

Dr. Phil Interview Exposes Global Elite Pedophiles

This may be one of the most disturbing stories you have ever read. I have posted stories that touched on global sex trafficking of children before, but rarely do you get anything with real meat. You will need your "eatin' teeth" for this one. 

Note: portions of this article are definitely politically biased, but not Kendall's story.

Caution: this could trigger PTSD symptoms
in those of us who are vulnerable
Written by  Alex Newman



In what may be the most explosive episode of his high-profile television career, psychologist and TV show host Dr. Phil exposed the little-known phenomenon of human trafficking of sex slaves among the elite echelons of society. According to Dr. Phil, the victim, and reliable sources who corroborated her story, the girl — now a young woman, perhaps in her mid-20s — was flown around the world on private jets and forced to have sexual relations and engage in unspeakable acts with wealthy businessmen, political leaders, and other establishment figures. Much of what was described on the the Dr. Phil Show sounded satanic, analysts said.

I believe pedophilia to be inherently Satanic, though not consciously so. Pedophilia is, in my opinion, less about sex and more about the destruction of innocence, or the defilement of the sacred. Prepubescent children are the epitome of innocence and the embodiment of what is sacred. That makes pedophilic crimes acts of rebellion and hatred towards God, and thus, Satanic.

Experts who have studied the phenomenon, though, say this story is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg that stretches across the globe and is especially concentrated in power centers such as Washington, D.C., New York City, and London. With President Donald Trump vowing to crack down hard on human trafficking and sex slavery, victims and their advocates hope the scourge can be brought into the open — and that the perpetrators can be brought to justice, regardless of their position in society. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly committed to doing everything within his power to bring down high-level pedophiles and human-traffickers.


       
The victim who appeared on Dr. Phil's enormously popular show, identified only as “Kendall,” said on the program that she was sold to her “owner” by her parents at birth. “I was born into the world of sex trafficking,” she said on the program, which aired nationwide on March 21 and was reportedly seen by millions of Americans. “I was forced to have sex with clients. One of my first memories was to think it was normal for men to be fondling babies.” In one case, she was even forced by her “owner” to kill a baby, she said. In other instances, she was forced to rape children as young as five-years old. 

Her entire existence revolved around the demands of her “owner” and the clients this criminal would pimp her out to. “My whole life I would travel all over the world, and would go to some of the biggest events to meet clients and have sex with them,” the victim explained. “They were all extremely rich and prominent members of society. Sometimes they would just want to have sex with me, and sometimes they would make me have sex with different people.” When her “owner” was not around, she was supervised by “watchers.”

Among those who raped her, she said, were high-ranking law-enforcement officials, major sports figures, and even top U.S. politicians. Oftentimes, she was taken to extravagant mansions where the “clients” would rape, torture, and abuse her and other captive children. Many of the “clients” were “pillars of the community,” Kendall continued, adding that some even owned private islands or large properties where they could rape and “hunt” their victims with impunity.

Indeed, one well-known pedophile with a private island, Bill Clinton's friend and registered sex offender Jeffery Epstein, had a private plane known as the “Lolita Express” that would fly high-level politicians and businessmen to his so-called “Orgy Island” or “Sex Slave Island” in the U.S. Virgin Islands. There, according to reports and alleged victims, trafficked girls as young as 12 would be forced to have sexual relations with Epstein and his friends — billionaires, politicians, royalty, and others. Bill Clinton rode on the Lolita Express at least 26 times, according to flight logs cited by Fox News, and often ditched his Secret Service protection before hopping onboard.   


Lest Ms. Kendall's claims be dismissed, Dr. Phil emphasized that her story had been corroborated prior to putting her on the show. “I can tell you that a very reliable source has confirmed to us that Kendall has in fact been trafficked, raped, molested, and severely abused by a very large, very dangerous organization,” Dr. Phil said. Indeed, as The New American and numerous other media sources have documented, her story is hardly unique, and there does appear to be a pattern linking many “elites” to unspeakable crimes perpetrated in the shadows.

Those wealthy and powerful “clients” were responsible for ghastly crimes against Kendall, stretching back to her early childhood and her earliest memories. “The clients were often physically abusive,” she explained, adding that she was often drugged by her captors as well. “Clients were even allowed to smother me with a pillow or plastic bag while having sex with me. But they were never allowed to leave marks or bruises on my face, because I always had to look pretty.”

Kendall's “owner” told her she was “made for” the abuse, and that her birth parents had created her for that purpose. “It's the only life I've ever known,” she says in the interview, adding that she believed her own three children were also trafficked into slavery and that children would be raped by adults beginning when they were just infants. “All of this was completely normal to me, and I never thought seriously about leaving.... Since I left, it's been so hard.” Her “owner” had rich and powerful friends all over the world, she added.


Asked how old she was when she was first raped, Kendall said “it was before I could talk.” “I was used to it by the time I was 2,” she added, noting that she does not even know her actual age today because she was a sex slave from the time of her earliest memories. In the interview, she explains that she could even tell the difference between children who were born into the slavery and those who were kidnapped. “The girls who weren't born into it, they had a harder time,” Kendall said. “They were always kept tied up or in cages, and they cried a lot.”     

“The man who owns me constantly manipulated me and did horrible things to me,” she said. “He would make me be a dog, he made me eat feces, I was kept in a cage — sometimes he would electrocute me as punishment.” In fact, the monstrous “owner” would give her commands like a dog, “like come, or sit, or stay — I would have to obey them or I'd get in trouble.” Sometimes she would have to “be a dog for days,” she added.  Her punishment for not “behaving” was that her owner would “have really rough sex with me, or take a knife and cut me.” He would also wet her and force her to be in the cold, or pretend to drown her in the bath tub. 

In perhaps one of the most grotesque elements of the story, Kendall's “owner” even brainwashed her into believing her torture and misery were divinely ordained — suggesting that the false “god” of her abusers may be what Christians, Jews, and others recognize as demonic. “He said that all of this was happening because it was god's will, because god made me for this,” Kendall recounted. Her abusers and rapists also told her “this was the best thing for me,” she said, adding that she had believed them and felt guilty for not appreciating the horrors inflicted on her.

The “owner,” whom Kendall said she witnessed murdering some 20 to 25 people, also threatened her to keep silent, telling her, “if I told anybody about what was going on, that nobody would believe me,” she explained. “I 100 percent believed him. I still believe him.” At one point, the “owner” offered her one chance to leave him in the only way he said was possible: shooting herself in the head. She tried, but the gun did not go off, and then she was punished severely, she told Dr. Phil.     

Of course, the networks of establishment pedophiles and perverts alluded to throughout Dr. Phil's explosive program last week has become increasingly well known in the age of the Internet. A 1990s documentary called Conspiracy of Silence, available for free online today, also suggests the problem in the United States has existed for generations and reaches into the highest levels of government and power. And more than a few members of the political, business, and media elite have already been exposed.

Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, for example, was busted last year for attempting to cover up his sexual molestation of underage boys. Unfortunately for the cause of justice, the statute of limitations had already expired on his sexual crimes. But he did plead guilty to charges relating to the cover-up. Illustrating his complete lack of morals or compassion, though, Hastert was recently in the news again for trying to recover the “hush” money he paid to one of his victims because the victim had come forward. The judge in the case called him a “serial child molester.” As The New American reported last year, though, Hastert is just the tip of the iceberg.   



Conspiracy of Silence - Discovery Channel funded this hour-long documentary but pulled the funding before final editing. The documentary was never aired on TV.

Before Hastert, late BBC celebrity Jimmy Savile was exposed as a pedophile monster who sexually abused hundreds of children over a period of decades — sometimes as part of a satanic ring, according to victims cited in news reports. In 2013, after that scandal exploded, British police announced that their investigation into child sex abuse was widening to include members of the British Parliament as well. However, even the police themselves came under fire for declining on multiple occasions to file charges against Savile.


More than a few advocates suggested corrupt forces within the police department were helping to protect the pedophile ring and its high-ranking, influential members. British Parliamentarian Tom Watson with the Labor Party also spoke of the evidence file used in the 1990s to convict pedophile Peter Righton — a former consultant at the National Children’s Bureau and lecturer for the National Institute for Social Work in London — and said it should be re-examined. The MP said it contained “clear intelligence of a widespread pedophile ring” in the U.K. operating at the highest levels of power.

“One of its members boasts of his links to a senior aide of a former prime minister,” Watson explained on the floor of Parliament. “The leads were not followed up, but if the file still exists I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful pedophile network linked to Parliament and [government headquarters at Downing Street] Number 10.”


In America, more than a few Clinton associates have also been ensnared in pedophilia-related scandals. As described above, Clinton buddy and known pedophile Epstein is infamous for his proclivities. “Bill Clinton … associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was a pedophile,” explained Conchita Sarnoff with the non-profit Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking and the author of a book on Epstein's case called TrafficKing. “Why would a former president associate with a man like that?”

The Obama administration was so unfazed by the horrors of pedophilia and child rape that it named a U.S. Navy ship after known pedarastic rapist and homosexual activist Harvey Milk. And as The New American has been documenting for years, the Obama administration continued to boost support to United Nations “peacekeeping” schemes even as UN “peace” troops were exposed all over the world raping and trafficking children. 


Meanwhile, e-mails between failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top aide at the time, Cheryl Mills, deal with Laura Silsby, who was arrested and charged with child abduction and child trafficking in Haiti after the 2010 hurricane there. Silsby and nine others posing as “missionaries” for a phony orphanage were busted by authorities trying to smuggle a busload of 33 Haitian children off the island. And far from being orphans, once Silsby was caught, the parents of the children accused her of lying. Thanks to intervention by Bill and Hillary Clinton, though, Silsby was allowed to leave Haiti with “time served.” 

As The New American's senior editor William F. Jasper reported in a November article about the scandals and horrors revealed in Clinton's e-mails, including tales of bizarre occult rituals, multiple analysts have concluded that Silsby was kidnapping the Haitian children to be sold to child sex rings. “The evidence we have seen thus far does not prove that claim, but neither is it a far-fetched supposition, considering the sordid sexual swamp that many of the high and mighty are mired in, and considering the Epstein-Clinton-Podesta revelations that are pouring out,” Jasper reported. “At the very least, it must be seriously investigated, in light of the evidence available and the global crisis in child sex trafficking.”

A recent “Reality Check” news segment by journalist Ben Swann on the so-called “Pizzagate” scandal, which establishment media outlets have scrambled to declare “fake news,” also links a number of high-profile Clinton associates to pedophilia and human trafficking. After a month-long investigation, Swann — one of the most reputable journalists with a platform on an establishment media outlet — suggests that there is extremely troubling evidence that should be properly investigated. The video report was perhaps the best summary so far of the “Pizzagate” theories.     

In addition to the millions of viewers who watched his show, Dr. Phil's program highlighting the horrifying crimes of human trafficking and sexual slavery made headlines across America in the alternative media around the world. In the United Kingdom, some of that nation's leading newspapers have covered the story. And after the story broke, the word spread across the Internet like wildfire, with countless blogs, forums, and alternative media outlets celebrating the breakthrough. 

Trump has also taken a hard line. “I want to make clear that my administration will focus on ending the absolutely horrific practice of human trafficking,” he said after a recent listening session on domestic and international human trafficking at the White House. “I am prepared to bring the full weight our government at the federal level and the highest levels in order to solve this horrific problem. It's getting worse, and it's happening in the United States, in addition to the rest of the world.... Solving the human-trafficking epidemic is a priority for my administration.”

Trump's hard line has been cited by more than a few commentators as one of the reasons why the establishment is freaking out so hysterically over Trump and his administration. Whether more members of the establishment will be ensnared in the horrifying scandals in the months and years to come, though, remains to be seen.

As horrible as this story is, the top story on this blog may be worse

Thursday, 19 January 2017

2 Big Lawsuits, Ex-Speaker, Minister on Pedophiles and Perverts List

Man files suit against former mid-state youth minister for alleged sex abuse
BY AMY LEIGH WOMACK


A man who attended Macon’s Mulberry United Methodist Church in the 1980s has filed a lawsuit against a former youth minister there, alleging that he was molested as a child.

The lawsuit, which names Perry Sandifer as the sole defendant, alleges that the man was 12 or 13 when Sandifer groped him and engaged in other “unwanted and non-consensual sexual contact.”

Darl Champion, the plaintiff’s lawyer, said his now 46-year-old client suppressed many of his memories from the alleged molestation, but they later resurfaced after he’d become an adult.

“It’s about accountability,” Champion said when asked why his client filed the suit.

Also, the plaintiff has reason to believe there may be other molestation victims and he wants others to know it’s OK to come forward, Champion said.

Until recently, the man’s claims would have been barred by a statute of limitations. Georgia law pertaining to childhood sex abuse now extends the deadline to file a lawsuit until July 1, he said.

The lawsuit alleges the abuse happened in multiple locations between 1982 and 1984, including Sandifer’s home, in Atlanta during a youth service project trip and during a youth service trip to Appalachia.

When confronted by an official from The United Methodist Church’s South Georgia Conference in December 2015, Sandifer “immediately admitted his wrongdoing,” according to a letter addressed to the plaintiff and signed by the church official in early 2016.

Sandifer told the church he entered a year-long treatment program in Atlanta 20 years ago and that he would immediately “remove himself from any continued exposure to children and youth through his mission interests and involvement,” according to the letter.

Contacted by The Telegraph Thursday, Sandifer, who now lives in Illinois, said he wasn’t aware of the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.

Sandifer declined further comment, citing the pending litigation.

The Rev. Rick Lanford, a district superintendent with the church’s South Georgia Conference, issued a statement Thursday saying Sandifer has surrendered his credentials and is no longer a minister or affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

Mulberry United Methodist Church’s senior pastor, the Rev. Jimmy Towson, also issued a statement and said Sandifer has not been a minister at Mulberry since 1984.

“Mulberry Street UMC is committed to providing a safe, christian environment for the nurture and care of children and youth,” Towson said. “We have stringent policies in place to ensure the safety of the children and youth that God has entrusted to us. Our prayers go out to everyone involved in this painful and difficult situation.”

After leaving Macon, Sandifer worked as an associate pastor at Wilmington Island United Methodist Church and Guyton United Methodist Church, according to the South Georgia Conference.

Lanford said Sandifer left the conference and the state in 1993 and has not been involved in area ministries since then.

The ministers said Mulberry and the South Georgia Conference “support the process of seeking the truth” about the allegations and “will continue to cooperate in every way.”

The plaintiff is seeking more than $75,000 in compensation for psychological treatment, therapy and counseling he’s needed for treatment of mental and emotional injuries, according to the suit.

He contends that he has suffered embarrassment, loss of self-esteem, humiliation and psychological injuries.







Dennis Hastert seeks repayment of $1.7 million in hush-money from sex abuse accuser

Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is serving a 15-month sentence in a Minnesota federal prison hospital after pleading guilty in October to a financial crime.

Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune

Imprisoned former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has asked a Kendall County judge to not only reject a sexual abuse victim's breach-of-contract lawsuit, but also to make the man pay back the $1.7 million in secret hush-money payments.

In response to the lawsuit and in his counterclaim, made public Thursday and signed by Hastert, he denied that the oral pact is akin to a valid and enforceable contract and, if so, it would be the plaintiff who breached it when he spoke to federal authorities. Hastert also is seeking "reasonable expenses, attorneys' fees, and costs."

The lawsuit was filed in April by a now middle-age married man whom Hastert coached decades ago at Yorkville High School.

The man, known as Individual A in the federal case against Hastert, said Hastert had agreed in 2010 to pay him $3.5 million if he didn't disclose publicly that Hastert inappropriately touched him in the 1970s, when Individual A was 14, during a wrestling trip while the two stayed overnight in a hotel room. The boy at the time was not yet in high school, but Hastert was close friends with his parents.

The boy went on to become a standout student-athlete in high school. He later suffered panic attacks, unemployment, bouts of depression and psychiatric treatment, according to his lawsuit.

Hastert paid the former wrestler $1.7 million over 41/2 years through 2014, but he stopped making payments that December after the FBI questioned him in his Plano home about the large bank withdrawals. Hastert is serving a 15-month federal prison sentence in Rochester, Minn., for illegally structuring the bank withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements.

In his lawsuit, Individual A seeks the remaining $1.8 million.

At his April sentencing hearing, Hastert admitted to inappropriate conduct with the man and some of his former student-athletes before going into politics in the 1980s. In his response this week to the lawsuit, regarding the sexual abuse allegations, Hastert said he had "insufficient information with which to admit or deny the allegations."

Individual A's attorney, Kristi Browne, said the oral agreement with Hastert was similar to an out-of-court settlement had he filed a personal injury claim. In response, Hastert attorney John Ellis has argued the man would have been barred from pursuing such a claim due to the long-expired statute of limitations. So, Ellis said, the agreement dealt only with selling silence, which is not legally sound.

Ellis also raised several affirmative defenses in his latest response, including that any pact is unenforceable because Hastert would have been under "duress" at the time the contract was formed.

The lawsuit is due in court again March 8. So far, Kendall County Circuit Judge Robert Pilmer has denied Hastert's motion to dismiss the claim and temporarily allowed the man to file it as a James Doe.

Hastert had admitted in a plea agreement with prosecutors that he was making the withdrawals to pay off the man to hide wrongdoing from his past. The statute of limitations barred prosecutors from pursuing child molestation charges.

Browne said her client had asked Hastert if they should involve lawyers and put the agreement in writing, but it was Hastert who urged the man to keep their pact confidential and pledged to pay "every last dollar."

The FBI and U.S. attorney's office determined Individual A did nothing illegal.

Federal prosecutors said Hastert inappropriately touched at least five male students when he was a wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. The statute of limitations to bring charges for sexual abuse had long since run out, and prosecutors said their best option for holding Hastert accountable was for banking violations. His bombshell federal indictment was made public in May 2015.

For nearly a year afterward, federal prosecutors kept any mention of Hastert's sexual abuse of children confidential in the proceedings. But a Tribune investigation uncovered the nature of the allegations and identities of most of Hastert's victims, including Individual A. The man, who retired early from his chosen profession, has declined requests for comment, but his wife has acknowledged to the Tribune that he is a victim.

The Tribune typically does not name victims of sexual crimes without their permission.

Another of Hastert's accusers was Scott Cross, a younger brother of former Illinois House Republican leader Tom Cross. Scott Cross appeared publicly during Hastert's April 27 sentencing hearing in Chicago and detailed a one-time incident in fall 1979 in which he said Hastert inappropriately touched him during a massage after wrestling practice. Scott Cross, 54, of Wheaton, also recently testified before an Illinois Senate committee in support of legislation to lift deadlines for prosecuting several felony crimes involving sexual offenses against children.

The case began to unfold after a Yorkville bank noticed Hastert making suspicious withdrawals. In December 2014, FBI agents confronted Hastert. He told them he was trying to keep his money safe, but he later alleged he was a victim of an extortion plot. At the request of authorities, Hastert secretly recorded two calls to Individual A to catch him making threats, but agents soon realized it was Hastert who was lying.

Hastert, 75, is due to be paroled in August.






Elementary School Didn’t Protect Third-Grader from Janitor’s ‘Extreme’ Sexual Abuse, $10M Lawsuit Alleges
BY KC BAKER

A young victim of sexual abuse is suing his school board and two of its employees in federal court, for $10 million, alleging they failed to protect him and other students from a sexual predator who worked as a janitor at their school, PEOPLE confirms.

The lawsuit claims the school board in Russell County, Virginia, and two principals at the district’s Lebanon Elementary School in Lebanon, Virginia — Phillip Henley and Kimberly Hooker — “turned a blind eye” to “blatant sexual misconduct” against the victim and other male students.

It was not clear if either still worked as a principal in the district. The victim is identified as John Doe in the complaint, which was filed on Dec. 8.

The suit also names Bobby Gobble as a defendant. Gobble, 42, was Lebanon Elementary’s former head janitor and was sentenced in 2014 to 100 years in prison after confessing to sexually abusing four boys ages 14 or younger over a four-and-a-half-year period, according to court records obtained by PEOPLE.

Gobble was reportedly arrested in Februrary 2014. He later pleaded guilty to 150 counts of aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy and attempted forcible sodomy and is serving a sentence of at least 70 years, according to records.

Attorney Jim Guynn, who is representing the school board and its employees, told the Washington Post, “I haven’t seen anything that indicates to me that any of the defendants had any idea that this was going on.”

Not so, according to the boy’s lawyer.

Monica Beck tells PEOPLE the defendants allegedly left John Doe and the other victims vulnerable to Gobble’s abuse — which, according to the lawsuit, was predicated on behavior such as Gobble spending long periods of time alone with children and appearing “obsessive” and “overly friendly.”

At one point John Doe lived with Gobble, though he had no legal custody of the boy. Henley, the school principal at the time, assumed Gobble was a relative or friend, the suit claims.

“The school had a duty to protect John Doe and other students from Gobble’s sexual abuse,” Beck says. “The school, which is federally funded, is obligated to comply with a federal law called Title IX, which prohibits sexual discrimination, which includes sexual assault.”

But school officials did not follow Title IX’s requirements, the boy’s suit claims, causing him to suffer “extreme and severe emotional distress” including fright, horror, grief, shame and psychological trauma.

Escalating Abuse: ‘The School Trusted Gobble’

Gobble began sexually abusing John Doe in 2011, when the boy was in third grade at Lebanon Elementary, the complaint states. The sexual violence was “so extreme in degree that it went beyond all possible bounds of decency.”

The abuse continued for almost two years, when Gobble convinced the boy’s grandmother, who had legal custody of him and his three siblings during the 2011-2012 school year, to allow the boy to come live with him, according to the suit.

As for why the child’s family allowed him to live with Gobble, Beck says: “My understanding is that the grandmother trusted Gobble because the school trusted Gobble.”

The boy lived with Gobble at his home for more than a year before moving to Gobble’s sister’s house, the complaint states. Gobble slept with John Doe, bought him extravagant gifts, drove him to and from school and took him on trips across state lines, during which he sexually abused the boy.

Gobble threatened to kill or harm the boy and his mother if he told anyone about the abuse, the complaint states.

Henley, who was Lebanon’s principal when John Doe was in third grade, knew that Gobble had the child stay at his house and took him on trips, the complaint alleges. Yet “he failed to take any action to protect John from Gobble’s sexual abuse.”

In the spring of 2013, when John Doe was a fourth-grader, Kimberly Hooker, who became the school’s principal, learned that a complaint had been filed with the Department of Social Services about Gobble sexually abusing the child, the lawsuit says.

The complaint was later dismissed as lacking evidence, after both the boy and Gobble denied any inappropriate behavior. Hooker was present when both the child and Gobble were interviewed by DDS, according to the complaint.

“Although DSS found the case unsubstantiated, Principal Hooker — who knew Gobble spent vast amounts of money on and time with John, both during and outside of school hours — failed to undertake any independent investigation, monitor Gobble or take any action to protect John,” the complaint alleges.

Once a school receives a report that a student is being sexually assaulted or abused, Title IX obligates that school to take action, Beck says.

“Russell County Schools did not investigate the report and took no action, other than to tell Gobble it would be a good thing if John would be in an after-school program instead of spending time with Gobble,” Beck says.

“But there is no indication that the school ever increased supervision or undertook any kind of disciplinary action against Gobble or made any effort to ensure that he wasn’t sexually abusing John.”

The defendants allowed Gobble to remove children, including John Doe, from classrooms, failing to bring them back for long periods of time, the complaint alleges. They also allegedly allowed Gobble to be alone and unsupervised with John Doe and other children during and after school.

They failed to provide training to personnel and parents about the sexual abuse of students by school staff, the complaint claims.

The abuse against John Doe began to decrease once he left Lebanon Elementary for middle school, according to his suit.

“During the summer between fourth and fifth grade, he had less contact with Gobble because his mother was concerned,” Beck says.


Helping Other Victims

Beck says she hopes the lawsuit helps other children who are left vulnerable to sexual abuse by adults.

“With cases like this, one of the things we always hope for is justice for the individual plaintiff, and that schools make sure that their administrators and staff are trained in Title IX and recognize signs of sexual abuse and receive grooming techniques that adult perpetrators use to gain the trust of children,” she says.

“Often times, predators like Mr. Gobble will threaten children and frighten them so they are afraid to report the abuse.”

Gobble’s lawyer could not be reached for comment.

“When there is a report, we want to make sure educators know what their obligations are and what the steps [are] to take to make sure a student is protected and that other students are not subjected to the same abuse,” Beck says.

“I also hope that this case helps initiate a national discussion on schools’ obligations in keeping our children safe from sex harassment and sex assault in school.”

Lebanon, VA




Nevada man reindicted in sexual abuse of two children

A Nevada man accused of molesting two girls in 2012 in Burkburnett was re-indicted for 14 different counts of child sex abuse.

Clarence Homer Swegheimer, 59, of Dayton, Nevada, was scheduled to go to trial on Feb. 6 on two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child. He was arrested on June 1, 2015 and remains in the Wichita County Jail in lieu of $150,000 total bail.

Court documents state the two cases were re-indicted into eight counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and six counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact.

According to arrest warrant affidavits:

In August of 2012, a woman reported to Burkburnett police that Swegheimer had sexually assaulted her two daughters, ages 14 and 10 during the initial incident. At the time, the girls didn't provide enough sufficient details to support probable cause.

In December of 2014, the 10-year-old was willing to provide more details to forensic interviewers at Patsy's House. The girl said Swegheimer sexually assaulted her many times but she remembered she was in first grade the first time something happened and described several different sexual acts.

In July of 2015, the older sister said she was now willing to provide detailed information about the incidents when Swegheimer sexually abused her. The 14-year-old said he abused her when she was 10 to 12 years old and more than once he placed her in his truck and "tried to have sex with" her.


The older sister said when she was 12, Swegheimer asked her and her sister to "put on a little fashion show" for him in her swimsuit. During the incident, the girl said Swegheimer began to touch her inappropriately.

Dayton, NV

Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Dennis Hastert’s Alleged Victim Wants to Change Law on Child Sex Abuse

by Chris White, Law Newz

A man who claims he was a victim of sexual abuse in his teens by disgraced former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is now asking legislators in Illinois to change the statute of limitations on sex crimes.

Scott Cross claims he was sexually abused by Hastert when he was 17-years-old. ABC News reports Cross testified before Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday, asking them to change the statute of limitations to ensure a “monster” like Hastert is never allowed to be let off the hook for sex crimes again.

“Hastert inflicted unbelievable pain on the lives of the youth he was entrusted to care for, yet he got a slap on the wrist… As hard as it is to continue to live through the events of the past, the laws of Illinois and across the country have to change,” Cross testified, according to ABC News.

The statute of limitations in Illinois for sex crimes against minors generally runs out 20 years after an alleged victim’s 18th birthday. Cross is now asking legislators to reconsider whether a statute of limitations is appropriate in sex abuse cases.

“It should offend everyone’s faith in the judicial system that Illinois laws today would still allow sexual child molesters to avoid prosecution from heinous acts of sexual abuse because a survivor didn’t come forward in time,” Cross said during his testimony.

He added, “[Sexual predators] know no bounds, have no decency and are devoid of morals. That’s why Illinois General Assembly should provide sexual predators no safe harbor based on the law based on arbitrary deadlines established by the stroke of a pen.”

However, critics say removing the statute of limitations would likely be unconstitutional. In fact, a prominent Chicago defense lawyer told the news outlet the existing 20-year statute of limitations may already be unconstitutional.

“I personally find the long statute of limitations unconstitutional in that it violates equal protection of the law and due process law both found in the 14th Amendment,” defense attorney Michael Ettinger explained. “How does anyone defend themselves against an allegation of misconduct 20-plus years ago? Put an alibi defense together 20 years later? Statutes of limitations are enacted for that very reason.”

The very nature of child sex abuse means most people will not be able to deal with the sexual abuse in less than 20 years at a level that will allow them to go to court. So, while it may be unfair to ask a pervert to try and defend himself 20 or 30 years later, it is even more unfair to tell the victim that he has no redress in court because he's 39 or 40 years old.

To make matters worse, the more extreme the child sex abuse, the less likely the victim will disclose in time to meet the statute of limitations deadline. Consequently, the worse the criminal behaviour, the more likely the pervert is liable to get away scott-free (pardon the pun). 

There ought to be a place in criminal law where the victims have rights that exceed the criminal's, rather than the other way about.

Monday, 2 May 2016

Statute of Limitations for Child Sex Abuse in New York Must Go

Child Sex Abuse Laws


Editor, New York Times,
Re “In Court for Cover-Up, Hastert Admits Sex Abuse” (front page, April 28):

If not for a criminal investigation into the illegal bank transactions of J. Dennis Hastert, the former Republican speaker of the House, the survivors he abused as young boys may have never seen him behind bars. Tragically, many abusers simply run out the clock in states where the statutes of limitation for child sexual abuse expire shortly after survivors reach adulthood.

In New York, for example, victims of most forms of childhood sex abuse must file criminal or civil litigation by their 23rd birthday or their standing expires. With a startling 1 in 10 American children being sexually abused before 18 and tremendous pressure on child victims to remain silent, we must ensure much greater access to justice in our courts.

This is why Safe Horizon, which helped 5,337 child abuse survivors last year alone, supports legislation before the New York Legislature that would greatly expand the ability of adult survivors to seek civil and criminal damages and create a one-year window to retroactively file civil damages against their offenders.

Mr. Hastert’s case is a wake-up call. Legislatures should pass these long-overdue statute-of-limitation bills now.

MICHAEL POLENBERG

Vice President, Government Affairs

Safe Horizon

New York

Please , if you are in New York, let your state Representative know you support this bill.