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.
MLA for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake calls on B.C. to end ‘madness’ of decriminalization
Published 4:36 pm Wednesday, November 5, 2025
By Jennifer Feinberg, The Chilliwack Progress
Á’a:líya Warbus, MLA for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake, takes on the topic of drug overdose in the legislature on Nov. 4, 2025. (Facebook/Screenshot)
Á’a:líya Warbus, MLA for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake, rose in the B.C. legislature this week to ask the NDP government to put an end what she called “decriminalization madness” and the “so-called safe supply.”
Warbus spoke with determination during question period on Nov. 4, taking on a topic that she said was “extremely personal” for her, her family and her community. “We live in a time right now where the leading cause of death for young people is overdose,” Warbus said. “I am beyond angry at the failures of this government to address this issue.”
The Conservative MLA noted that she has shared publicly on previous occasions “how personal” the subject of drug-related fatalities are for her, her family and community. “I don’t know how many funerals that members have had to go to for young people in their lives, who’ve died alone because of toxic drugs, but I’ve attended way too many,” Warbus said, her voice tinged with pain. “The premier said that decriminalization is a failure. I completely agree.”
Warbus was speaking in Victoria on the day that the monthly and year-to-date statistics came out from BC Coroners Service. A total of 158 British Columbians died in September 2025 due to unregulated drug toxicity, in the preliminary numbers released Nov. 3 by the BC Coroners Service.
In Chilliwack there were 28 drug deaths as of the end of September 2025. “So what are we waiting for to end decriminalization and so-called safe supply. What are we waiting for to end this madness in our province today?” the MLA concluded, and sat back down.
A special data set contained in the latest coroners’ report, showed that “poisoning from unregulated drug toxicity” was the leading cause of unnatural deaths among youth from 2019-2023, followed by deaths by suicide and car crashes.
Warbus posted some commentary about the year-to-date total of drug deaths: “In Chilliwack, at least 28 lives have been lost this year alone,” the MLA said. “Each number represents a son, a daughter, a friend, a neighbour, and a community in pain.”
In 2025 among youth (18 years and younger) suspected drug-toxicity deaths in the window between January and September increased from 17 deaths reported in 2024 to 20 reported in 2025. In 2025, deaths among those between the ages of 30 and 59 accounted for 69 per cent of drug-toxicity deaths in the province, and 78 per cent were male.
“Families are grieving while government policies continue to fail the people they claim to help,” Warbus said in her post. “Chilliwack, and communities across B.C., deserve wrap-around recovery treatment immediately and real hope — not failed experiments.”
A 19-year-old woman is facing attempted murder and weapons charges after a child was stabbed and left with life-threatening injuries in downtown Halifax Sunday afternoon.
Halifax Regional Police spokesperson Const. Martin Cromwell has confirmed the victim is a six-year-old boy, who remains at the IWK hospital.
Cromwell said the weapon used in the attack was a knife, and that the child was with his parents at the time.
“This is a very, very tragic incident,” Cromwell said, adding there was no evidence to suggest the suspect knew the child, nor was there evidence that it was a hate crime.
Officers responded to the 1900-block of Barrington Street — in the area of a bus shelter — just before 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Police said the child was found suffering from “multiple” stab wounds and was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The suspect was found at the scene and initially arrested on charges of aggravated assault.
Elliott Chorny, 19, appeared in court Monday afternoon to face charges of attempted murder and possession of a weapon dangerous to public peace. She was remanded to custody until her next court date on March 13.
Court documents show that Chorny is alleged to have assaulted a woman on Jan. 27 in Halifax. Both that charge, which was sworn in last Tuesday, and this latest charge list Chorny as having “no fixed address” on court documents.
“The accused was known to police,” Cromwell said. “To what degree, I would not be able to detail.”
So, to speculate wildly, there are a number of possibilities for this woman's actions? First, is she really a woman? If she is transgender then mental illness is a good possibility. Drugs are another possibility. Drugs can also lead to mental illness. It is unlikely that she is a radicalized Muslim since she is apparently homeless, but, nevertheless, a possibility.
There are many questions as to why this woman was on the loose. I hope there is an inquiry into who and what failed her leading to this tragedy.
Calls for more security
Patricio Garcia, the president of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 508, confirmed the incident happened near a Halifax Transit bus shelter and that one of their bus operators witnessed the attack.
“The driver, once it set in, was quite shaken by the entire turn of events as anybody would witnessing something like that,” said Garcia, who added the union usually follows up in situations like this to offer counselling services.
“It’s certainly very, very, very scary that something like this happened in broad daylight in one of our terminals. Certainly something that we would love to see more security brought in to those terminals.”
Garcia said it’s especially worrisome considering there was another incident the day prior in Spryfield where bus passengers were attacked.
In that case, police said an altercation broke out between passengers and “people driving in two separate vehicles,” which resulted in a physical fight where a hammer was used as a weapon.
Garcia said certain terminals — including Lacewood and the Bridge terminals — have dedicated supervisors on site throughout the day and night. He attributed that visible presence for “a huge reduction in the issues” at those sites.
“A lot of our terminals are starting to get busier and … there’s a lot more issues at them. And certainly having some kind of a presence there all the time is something that we would love to see,” he said.
Mayor Andy Fillmore called the incident an “unthinkable tragedy.”
“I want residents to know that our first priority is always the safety of HRM residents. And to that end, I really want to give credit to the Halifax Regional Police who managed the scene and the first responders who who helped to get the the youth to the IWK,” he said.
“I would always encourage people to be to be vigilant of their surroundings. But look, this was entirely unexpected. It was a surprise attack. I think we just want to encourage people to send good thoughts to the family and to be careful.”
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston expressed “outrage and sadness” after learning about the stabbing.
“My thoughts are with the victim and their family. The person who did this is clearly a threat to the public and should be kept locked behind bars,” Houston wrote on social media.
Claudia Chender, the leader of the NDP and the Official Opposition, said she is sending love and prayers to the child and hoping for a full recovery from “this senseless act.”
“As we await details, and justice, my heart is with this child’s family, friends and community,” Chender posted on social media.
Anyone with information on this incident or has video from the area at the time is asked to call police at 902-490-5020.
— with a file from The Canadian Press
Barendrecht man subjected 18 children to physical sexual abuse: Prosecutor
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) suspects the 45-year-old suspect in the Barendrecht child sex abuse case of the physical sexual abuse of 18 children. Mels van B. also allegedly drugged some of them with sleeping pills. The other 13 children in this case are victims of other crimes. “Think mainly of making recordings of them,” the public prosecutor said in the court in Rotterdam.
The case involves 31 victims, girls aged 9 to 12. The abuse allegedly happened in Van B.’s home in Barendrecht and the campsite in Hoeven (Noord-Brabant) that he frequented. In November, the authorities already said that there were around 30 victims. The man also had child pornography. These are different images than the ones he allegedly produced himself.
The suspect did not attend the second preliminary hearing on Monday. The families of the involved children followed the hearing via a video link from another courtroom.
Van B. is scheduled to be admitted to the Pieter Bann Center at the end of May for a psychiatric and psychological examination. He will fully cooperate, his lawyer said.
The case will continue on May 20 with another preliminary hearing. It is not yet known when the case will come to trial. “There is still a lot of work to be done,” the presiding judge said.
Surely, it must be time to arrest Mark Zuckerburg and lock him away in a small cave somewhere for the rest of his life! It's not bad enough that he does so little to slow down child sex abuse images, indeed, he enables them at a new level with end-to-end encryption. But he also allows illegal drugs to be sold on his platforms, almost certainly with no age verification for the purchasers. Can there be anyone more evil in the world today?
0:33“At a hearing before the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary in January 2024, you personally apologized to the parents of children who have died following their exposure to exploitation, harassment, and drugs online,” the Thursday letter said.
“Despite this and your company’s own Community Standards, Meta approved ads throughout 2024 that displayed obvious drug sales.”
A Meta spokesperson directed The Post to a statement given to the Journal two weeks ago.
“Our systems are designed to proactively detect and enforce against violating content, and we reject hundreds of thousands of ads for violating our drug policies,” Meta said in the statement. “We continue to invest resources and further improve our enforcement on this kind of content.”
It seems obvious that Meta has stretched itself much too far and faster than it is able to manage their platforms. Perhaps they need to reduce their reach until the can properly police the criminals using their networks.
The legislators said the drug ads were not buried in the dark web, but approved and monetized by Meta on Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp.
Some of the illegal ads were promoted by social media pages with obvious names, like one called “Ecstasy Meds,” the letter said.
The letter was signed by 19 bipartisan lawmakers, including Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.).
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In March, the Journal reported that US federal prosecutors were investigating Meta for drug ads found on its platforms. In July, the Journal and the Tech Transparency Project found that Meta was still allowing illicit drug ads on its platforms.
The legislators said they worry about children’s safety, since so many young Americans use Meta platforms.
“In 2022, an average of 22 minors, ages 14 to 18, died in the US each week from drug overdoses,” the letter said. “Fentanyl is often found in counterfeit oxycodone, benzodiazepines, and other prescription pills — all of which have been found on your platforms, including in advertisements.”
The legislators said they are concerned about children’s safety, since so many young Americans use Meta platforms.
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The legislators said they have tried to establish data privacy and security protections for American users on Meta platforms but have “been met with friction” from Meta that such protections would disrupt its personalization features.
“If this personalization you are providing is pushing advertisements of illicit drugs to vulnerable Americans, then it is difficult for us to believe that you are not complicit in the trafficking of illicit drugs,” the letter said.
A Louisiana trucker pulled off the rescue of a lifetime, after spotting a one-year-old missing “miracle baby” crawling along the ditch of a busy highway.
Authorities had been searching for the child for more than a day, after discovering his four-year-old brother dead in a nearby pond in southwest Louisiana on Monday, July 8.
On Tuesday, authorities feared the younger boy was dead, too, and were preparing to search the water in Calcasieu Parish where his older brother’s body was found. But as they got ready to search, a truck driver placed a call to 911.
“As I was going down the highway, I noticed an image to the right over an embankment and I thought maybe it was a doll that someone had thrown out the window,” trucker Reginald Walton, a driver for DHL Supply Chain, told KADN News 15 of his luck.
Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Gary Guillory told a news conference that the baby was taken to hospital and deemed to be in remarkably good condition, having suffered only a few bug bites.
“This kid spent two days out in the weather on the side of the highway,” said Guillory, according to The Associated Press. “Thank God that trucker seen him.”
“We look at this one-year-old as our miracle baby because he was still alive,” Guillory added.
What’s even more incredible is that the baby survived what police believe was at least two days in bad weather, as Hurricane Beryl hammered the area with intermittent heavy rain and high winds.
According to police, the baby and his brother were last seen on Saturday, July 6, with their mother, Aaliyah Jack, 25.
The circumstances surrounding the older boy’s death are not clear, and the sheriff’s office said the investigation into the case in ongoing.
“CPSO detectives are actively working to gather all the information and details surrounding this case and the death of the 4-year-old. We will dedicate all necessary resources to ensure a thorough investigation. Our hearts go out to the family members of these two children,” Guillory said in a news release.
“Detectives are continuing the investigation, and more charges are possible. The coroner will determine cause of death,” the release stated.
The boys’ mother was arrested in Mississippi and charged with failing to report the one-year-old child missing.
“When you’re on the sidelines watching your child self-destruct and you can’t do anything to force them into rehab, it breaks your heart,” grieving father Greg Sword told Global News.
His daughter Kamilahwas only 14 years old when she died from an overdose of MDMA, cocaine and hydromorphone.
In the months leading up to her death, she was hospitalized twice after overdosing and met with counsellors and psychiatrists.
But it wasn’t enough to save her.
“It’s disheartening to be in B.C. and finding out that if I lived in a different province, I could have forced my daughter into rehab,” Sword said.
Under that act, parents can ask for a court protection order and involuntarily commit their child under 18 to a detox and stabilization safe house for up to 15 days.
Sword said his daughter’s situation left him feeling hopeless and alone.
“People judge you,” he said.
“You constantly get judged. And you feel like you’re a bad parent. You feel like you’re you’re screwing up, you feel like you’re making mistakes constantly and anytime you reach out, the answer’s ‘no.'”
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Youth deaths from toxic drugs on the rise
Sword said it was challenging that even when his daughter was ready to receive help, there was no space for her in a rehab facility.
“It’s just a messed up thing where a child can’t vote, can’t drive, can’t get alcohol, but they can make the decision of what drug they want to use,” he said.
“Even though it’s supposed to be illegal for them, but they can choose whatever drug they want and if you’re a parent and you find out, you can’t do anything to stop them from doing it.”
Sword said the experience was frustrating and upsetting.
B.C.’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Jennifer Whiteside, was not available to speak to Global News about the issue but provided a statement.
“We’re taking significant steps to expand access to treatment and create more early intervention services for youth, aiming to prevent small problems from becoming bigger in the future,” Whiteside said in the statement.
“For example, we’re opening Foundry centres in 35 communities, offering free counselling, health, and addiction services for youth as young as 12. We are also expanding youth treatment beds and services, supporting thousands of young people each year to get the help they need.”
In a follow-up statement, the ministry added that it takes the need to balance individual rights with the obligation to help people living with mental illness seriously, and that the government’s priority remains voluntary treatment.
“There are situations where patients need to be held involuntarily, and the BC Mental Health Act does provide tools for physicians in those cases,” it said.
BC, and Canada, for that matter, have yet to realize the connection between the use of drugs by teens and the spectacular rise in mental illnesses.
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UBC prof’s book examine’s youth toxic drug crisis
Critics of the Alberta program say involuntary confinement can harm the relationship between parents and children, worsening their substance use.
His mom, Lana Greene, told Global News that going into the PChAD program with TJ was a desperate decision.
“It’s hard to explain, but he didn’t think anything was wrong, so he wasn’t wanting any help,” Greene said.
She said the process broke the trust between her and her son, who was 17 at the time.
TJ was 23 years old when he took his own life but Greene said she believes the involuntary rehab program was the beginning of the end for them.
“He was very angry,” she said.
Greene said she feels that PChAD was the beginning of the end for any trust her son could have in the rehab system.
“He didn’t want to speak to me. So I went to Edmonton and stayed at some family’s house so I would be nearby if he changed his mind,” she said.
“What ultimately happened, was his program ended and I picked him up and he came home and packed his bag and left again.
Youth and addictions expert, Danya Fast, told Global News that treatment programs like that can have a negative effect.
“They can sometimes conclude that the systems and services in place are absolutely not trying to help them,” she said.
“They’re trying to control them, and actually become very, very effective at evading care.”
Sword said he knows that PChAD isn’t a perfect answer for youth who need help with drugs and substance abuse but he believes it would have made a difference.
Chad Daybell should be put to death for the murders of his first wife and his second wife’s two youngest children, a jury has decided.
The jury in Idaho unanimously agreed Saturday that Daybell, 55, deserves the death sentence for the gruesome murders of Tammy Daybell, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow.
He was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges last Thursday, after a lengthy case where prosecutors argued his crimes were fuelled by sex, money, power and “doomsday” spiritual motivations.
According to CNN, Daybell maintained a neutral expression as the death sentence was read in court. The judge said jurors had “found beyond a reasonable doubt … that the aggravating circumstances when weighed against the mitigating circumstances do not make the imposition of the death penalty unjust.”
FILE – A picture of Tylee Ryan (L) and J.J. Vallow is seen on a fence opposite the property where their bodies were found in 2020, on April 4, 2023 in Rexburg, Idaho. Natalie Behring / Getty Images
To impose the death penalty, the jurors had to unanimously find that Daybell met at least one of the “aggravating circumstances” that state law says qualifies someone for capital punishment. They also had to agree that those aggravating factors weren’t outweighed by any mitigating factors that might have lessened his culpability or justified a lesser sentence.
The jury decided there were aggravating factors including an utter disregard for human life and the murders being especially heinous and cruel.
Last week’s guilty verdict came about a year after Lori Vallow Daybell, Daybell’s second wife, was also convicted for the murder of her children and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She was also convicted of conspiring to murder Daybell’s first wife, Tammy, and has been accused of arranging her fourth husband’s murder so she and Daybell could be together.
FILE – Lori Vallow Daybell sits in a police car after a hearing at the Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho, on Aug. 16, 2022. Tony Blakeslee / East Idaho News via AP
The Daybell and Vallow Daybell investigation began in late 2019 when several family members reported concerns to police that they hadn’t seen or spoken to JJ and Tylee in months. Their bodies were eventually found buried in Chad’s yard in eastern Idaho in 2020.
Friends of the couple would go on to tell police, and testify in court, that the pair held fringe religious beliefs, including that they had been reincarnated in order to gather people before a biblical apocalypse.
Before Vallow Daybell’s two youngest children disappeared, she referred to them as “zombies,” former friend Melanie Gibb testified during last year’s trial. The couple claimed that zombies were people who had been possessed by dark spirits, and the only way to free the person’s trapped soul was to destroy their body by killing them.
FILE – This combination of undated file photos released by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children show missing children Joshua Vallow, left, and Tylee Ryan. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children via AP, File
Authorities believe the two children were killed in September 2019. Tammy was found dead on Oct. 19, 2019, a few weeks before Daybell and Vallow Daybell married, although it was initially believed she died in her sleep.
During Daybell’s nearly two-month-long trial, prosecutors painted a picture of a self-published author who wrote doomsday-laced fiction, promoted unusual spiritual beliefs including apocalyptic prophecies and tales of possession by evil spirits in order to justify the killings.
“This has been a tough case because of its complexity, both in telling the story of an investigation that spanned years and trying to figure out the best way to present it in a way that would make sense to others,” Fremont County Prosecutor Lindsey Blake said outside the Boise courthouse after the sentencing.
Daybell’s lawyer, John Prior, argued during the trial that there wasn’t enough evidence to tie Daybell to the killings, and suggested Vallow Daybell’s older brother, Alex Cox, was the culprit. Cox died in late 2019 and was never charged.
During the sentencing hearing, Prior asked the jurors to judge Daybell on his life before he met Vallow Daybell, describing her as a bomb that blew him off the trajectory of an otherwise wholesome life. But Daybell also declined to offer any mitigating evidence during the sentencing hearing. Mitigating evidence is often used to encourage jurors to have sympathy for a defendant in an effort to show that a life sentence would be more appropriate than capital punishment.
Were Chad and Lori drug users in their past, or were they simply nuts to begin with?
