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Oklahoma woman receives 30-year sentence for enabling child sexual abuse

By Wendy Burton Phoenix Staff Writer
     

A Stilwell woman was ordered in Muskogee County District Court to serve 30 years in prison for enabling child sexual abuse.

Melissa Skelton, wearing a faded orange jumpsuit with chains on her ankles and wrists, cried quietly as an attorney explained the plea deal offered to her Wednesday morning.

Skelton, 26, signed the plea in the courtroom just before the morning's court session began, agreeing to a sentence of 30 years on enabling child sexual abuse and 10 years on a conspiracy charge.

Skelton pleaded guilty to allowing former Muskogee firefighter Zackery Perry (5th story on link) to have sexual relations with a 6-year-old child and providing explicit photos and videos of the child engaged in explicit activities in exchange for money.

She will serve the sentences concurrently and will not be eligible for parole for at least 25.5 years, because enabling child sexual abuse is a crime in which 85 percent of the time sentenced must be served before being considered for parole. 

In addition, she will receive credit for time served and is ordered to serve two years of post-imprisonment supervision under the Department of Corrections after she is released and pay fines.

The charges against Skelton arose out of evidence found during an investigation into a previous case filed against Perry, 30.

Perry was charged Jan. 19 with aggravated possession of child pornography, distributing obscene material, child sexual exploitation and crime against nature. He is held without bond, and is set for jury trial Sept. 18 in the case.

While investigating the Jan. 19 case, investigators found text messages, images and communications on social media between Skelton and Perry that showed they conspired "to determine meeting locations, the exchange of sexual images and videos, and the exchange of money for services rendered," according to a probable cause affidavit.

Perry was then given additional charges of conspiracy and child sexual abuse at the same time as Skelton was charged on Feb. 6. He is held without bond on that case and returns to court Jan. 12 for a disposition docket at which time a date will be set for trial.

Alabama police officer accused of child sexual abuse

By Stephanie Taylor / Staff Writer

A Sulligent police officer has been suspended from duty following allegations of sexual abuse.

Gary Farrior, 60, was charged Tuesday under a 12-count indictment including 10 count of sexual abuse of a child younger than 12, first-degree sexual abuse and attempted sexual abuse.

The allegations involve three female victims, including two who are younger than 12, said 24th Judicial Circuit Chief Assistant District Attorney Andy Hamlin. The abuse is alleged to have happened in Lamar County this year, and was reported to authorities around the first of June.

Farrior has been suspended from the Sulligent force, with pay, since the allegations were made. He is a former Fayette Police officer.

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Bureau of Investigation handled the case because Farrior is a law enforcement officer. They presented the case to a grand jury in August.

State agents arrested him at his home Tuesday morning. Farrior was being held in the Lamar County Jail Wednesday with bond set at $500,000.

Utah man arrested for allegedly raping,

sodomizing 2 children

Bree Burkitt,

A Parowan man was arrested Monday after he allegedly confessed to raping and sodomizing two children.

Robert Randall Titensor, 39, is charged with three counts of sodomy of a child in addition to one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child – all first-degree felonies.

Parowan Police first learned about the alleged assaults after an anonymous caller made a complaint to the Utah Division of Child and Family Services.

Both the 8-year-old female and 7-year-old male were interviewed at the Iron County Children’s Justice Center. The female victim told investigators that Titensor had sexually assaulted her at least two times, Parowan Police Sgt. Mike Berg wrote in the probable cause statement filed in 5th District Court Monday.

Titensor was brought in for questioning on Aug. 4. During the interview, he allegedly confessed to raping the female child victim at least one time. He also provided details on multiple other assaults on both the male and female victims that occurred during a time span of approximately three to four months, according to the report.

Following the interview, Titensor was booked into the Iron County Jail. The setting of the $100,000 cash-only bail was delayed to Tuesday due to the Labor Day holiday. An initial appearance has not been scheduled as of Wednesday.

Under Utah state code, Titensor could face 25 years to life in the Utah State Prison if he were to be convicted on just one of the counts of the four first-degree felonies.

One in four females will be sexually abused before they turn 18, according to Prevent Child Abuse Utah. Utah’s child sexual abuse rate is three times the national average. For more information or to seek help, call the rape and sexual assault crisis line at 1-888-411-1100.

New York man gets 8 years in prison for attempted criminal sex act with child

Anthony Borrelli

An Endicott man will spend eight years in prison for a sex crime against a child victim.

Jared Hotaling, 41, pleaded guilty in Broome County Court to a felony count of attempted first-degree criminal sexual act in connection with a six-count indictment that listed two girls and one boy as victims of alleged abuses going back to 2001.

At sentencing Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Lisa Bideaux said the plea agreement and prearranged prison term was negotiated with consent of the victims "to spare them from the trauma" of further court proceedings. The charge he admitted to carried a possible maximum of 15 years in prison.

"It's despicable," Bideaux said, that Hotaling seemed unwilling to accept responsibility for his conduct when questioned by the probation department for a pre-sentence report.

Regardless of the defendant's statements to a probation officer, Judge Kevin Dooley said, what counts is what Hotaling admitted to in court. 

"You've got some problems, some issues, and you can deny them to other people," Dooley told Hotaling in court Wednesday. "The lives of these children were impacted; they'll have to deal with this for the rest of their lives."

After serving the prison term, Hotaling will spend 15 years on post-release supervision. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.

The Broome County grand jury in September 2016 indicted Hotaling on 10 felony counts, the most severe of which was predatory sexual assault against a child, which carried a possible penalty of 10 years to life in prison if he were convicted.

Prosecutors accused Hotaling of attempting to engage in oral sexual conduct by forcible compulsion with a 15-year-old girl during the summer of 2012.

Hotaling also had been charged with having sex with the same girl at some time between January and March in 2012, according to the indictment.

Endicott police investigated the case, which resulted with Hotaling's arrest in May 2016. At the time, police said, a girl had recently disclosed abuses that were allegedly committed by Hotaling.

N.D. judge won’t dismiss child sex abuse case

By Jamie Kelly 

A judge has declined to dismiss a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child, saying that the jury that hears the case will have to decide whether the charge was filed within the statute of limitations.

In a ruling issued Tuesday, Northwest District Judge Kirsten Sjue wrote that because there is a dispute about when the statute of limitations started to run in the case against Dennis Pitman, the issues should be handled by a jury rather than a judge.

According to an affidavit filed by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a woman in Arizona had told a detective there that Pitman, 70, sexually abused her when she was age 7 through 13. The alleged abuse happened from 1992 through 1998, when she lived in Williams County.

Under North Dakota law, prosecutors have two chances to file charges. If the case involves something that happened before the alleged victim turned 15, the state has 10 years from the alleged victim’s 15th birthday to file charges. If that time expires and the alleged victim makes a report after turning 25, charges can be filed within 3 years of law enforcement being notified.

At a hearing in August, attorneys for Pitman argued that because law enforcement in Arizona was told about the charges in April 2013, the charges against Pitman were filed in October, six months after the statute of limitations had run out.

The prosecution argued that the statute of limitations didn’t start to run until law enforcement in North Dakota were informed of the charges, which happened in 2016.

In her ruling, Sjue pointed out that the North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled several times that when there is a dispute over the facts regarding the statute of limitations, it should be left to a jury.

“Because there are issues of fact concerning whether the statute of limitations in this case has run, the jury must be instructed on the matter at trial,” she wrote. “The State must prove compliance with the statute of limitations by a preponderance of the evidence.”

Sjue asked both sides to submit proposed jury instructions regarding the statute of limitations issue.

Pitman is scheduled to go to trial on the charge on Sept. 18. Continuous sexual abuse of a child is a class AA felony and carries a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if he were to be convicted.

Pitman is currently being held without bond in Cass County awaiting extradition to Arizona to face child abuse charges in that state.

Williams Co., ND

Bronx perv gets 168 years for taping child sex abuse

('Taping' is Victoria's choice of words; it's not a word I have used in this century to describe videoing)

VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Even with time off for good behavior, a Bronx man will have to wait more than a century before he can hurt another kid.

David Keith, 39, was sentenced Tuesday to 168 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting minors — and recording his sick acts on video, officials said.

Keith pleaded guilty in November to five counts related to the child exploitation and related child pornography crimes, as well as lying to the feds about abusing kids, according to the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors said Keith lured a 12-year-old girl into his car on Oct. 13, 2013, and taped “himself engaging in coercive sexual conduct with her.” Keith told the girl he would hurt her if she told anyone what had happened and threatened that he was watching her, prosecutors said.

The day before, Keith lured a girl between ages 8 and 9 into his car and “caused her to remove some of her clothing so that he could record her exposed genitals,” according to the feds.

Keith, who was arrested on Nov. 17, 2015, also downloaded child pornography and admitted he lied about having an alibi during the depraved attacks, officials said.

“For his predatory crimes that included luring a girl as young as 9 years old into his van to make sexually explicit videos and even threatening to harm another if she reported his sexual assault, David Keith has received a lengthy prison sentence,” said Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim. “Protecting children from sexual exploitation is, and will remain, one of the most important missions of this office.”

And God bless ya!

N.M. school employee accused of child sex abuse

By KRQE News 13  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Pecos school employee is accused of sexually abusing a child.

According to court documents, 45-year-old Louis Vigil, of San Jose, is accused of abusing a male relative since the age of nine.

He is facing 35 counts.

Documents allege, that if the child refused, Vigil would threaten to shoot them and their parents and that Vigil may have attempted to assault other relatives.

Prosecutors are asking Vigil remain locked up pending his trial saying he’s a danger to the community.

Second mistrial declared in child sex abuse case in Arizona

By Paulina Pineda 

Defense lawyer Joe Heinzl speaks to the jury for one final time during closing arguments in a sexual molestation case on Sept. 1.

Photo by Paulina Pineda

A judge declared a mistrial Friday when a Superior Court jury could not reach a verdict in the case of a 43-year-old Nogales, AZ man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl while he and his family lived at her home roughly seven to eight years ago, and then exposing himself to her years later while his wife slept in the same room.

The seven men and five women on the jury panel deliberated for approximately five hours but could not come to a unanimous decision by the end of the eighth day of trial. 

The defendant, Joaquin Mohinea, who pleaded not guilty, was facing three counts of sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 15, one count of molestation of a child, a sexual abuse charge, attempted sexual conduct with a minor, and two counts of indecent exposure.

Judge Anna Montoya-Paez set a new trial date of Oct. 17.

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India Supreme Court Allows 13yo to Abort

32-Week Pregnancy

By Solange Reyner   

A 13-year-old girl who said she was raped by her father's colleague has received permission from the Supreme Court of India to terminate her 32-week pregnancy, the BBC reported Wednesday.

The court had rejected a similar petition by a 10-year-old girl several weeks earlier, as India law does not allow abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy. The 13-year-old girl's pregnancy was detected at 27 weeks after her parents took her to her doctor for obesity treatments.

"This is a path-breaking judgment by the Supreme Court," Nikhil Datar, the Mumbai-based gynecologist who discovered the pregnancy, told Reuters.

"I hope the Supreme Court now gives directions to the government to make amendments to India's abortion law."

Child sexual abuse is a major problem in India, with one in every two children reported as victims, according to a survey conducted by humanitarian aid organization World Vision India that surveyed 45,844 respondents. One in five respondents said they do not feel safe because of the fear of being sexually abused.

"Despite one in every two children being a victim of child sexual abuse, there continues to be a huge silence," World Vision India National Director Cherian Thomas said recently in India. "The magnitude of sexual violence against children is unknown."

One in every two children comes from a survey that found more boys admitting they were sexually abused than girls. This is unlikely to be the case in reality. There are many reasons why some girls/women would not report that they were sexually abused even in an anonymous survey. I suggest the real number of children in India who have been, or will be, sexually abused is much closer to two/thirds.

Watford teenager Harry Johnson admits multiple

child sex abuse charges

By martin ford 

St Albans Crown Court

A teenager from Hertfordshire has admitted multiple charges involving the sexual abuse of children.

Harry Johnson, 19, a civil engineering student from Hunter's Lane in Watford, appeared before a judge at St Albans Crown Court this morning (Wednesday, September 6).

He spoke only to enter his plea to each of the 24 charges, his head bowed throughout the proceedings.

Johnson admitted 11 charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two counts of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child.

Rotherham child sexual abuse:

'No-one's fault at council'

From BBC Sheffield & South Yorkshire 

No legal or disciplinary proceedings should be brought against any current or former senior officers at Rotherham Council over its handling of child sexual exploitation, a report has said.

The failure to tackle the problem was "not the fault of any one person" but was the result of "multiple and systemic failures", the report found.

Its author Mark Greenburgh said it was "more cock-up than conspiracy".

More than 1,400 children were sexually abused in the town from 1997 to 2013.

Six reports have been published by the council in response to the Jay Report's findings.

The independent investigations, carried out by solicitors Gowling WLG, covered areas including the performance of senior employees, taxi licensing in the town and reviews of how individual cases were handled.

Rotherham MP Sarah Champion has described the reports as a "wasted opportunity to allow the town to move forward" while survivor Sammy Woodhouse, who has waived her right to anonymity, said: "I want people held accountable and it just feels like it's never going to happen."

'Systemic failures'

On the response of senior officers the report said: "On the evidence available to us we have concluded that the way in which the council responded to CSE in Rotherham was not the responsibility or fault of any one person.

"It was the product of multiple and systemic failures.

"But there were key moments when a substantially different history may have occurred if individual judgements and responses had been better."

The report found "no culpable behaviour" to justify action against senior former employees including Martin Kimber

Regarding ex-officers, including former chief executive Martin Kimber and former head of children's services Joyce Thacker, the report said it had found "no culpable behaviour" to justify any legal action or regulatory involvement.

On current employees it said: "We have not identified that disciplinary and/or capability proceedings are warranted in respect of any senior manager currently in post at the council."

However it urged the current employers of an number of former staff including Ged Fitzgerald, chief executive from 2000-2003, and Jacqueline Wilson, head of children and families within social services from 2000 to 2004, to read the report into their handling of events.

It said: "We have not found that either of these people were uniquely culpable for the council's response to emerging evidence of CSE.

"But there are points at which each missed opportunities to have changed the outcomes."

The report concluded by saying Rotherham Council is "not the same institution it once was" adding: "Whilst the present day managers should look to see how the lessons learned are implemented, in our view it is vital that the council should continue to look forward."

'Wasted opportunity'

Rotherham's MP said in a statement: "I had hoped that today's publication of the reports into Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) preventing child sexual exploitation would draw a line under the catalogue of errors that led to our children being let down so badly by those supposed to protect them.

"However, despite these huge failures, leading to at least 1,400 victims being let down, it appears that no individual at RMBC has yet been held to account for their role."

Chris Read, leader of Rotherham Council said: "Today marks another step in our journey but nothing alters the fact that so many children were let down and that so many abusers have walked free in our town for too long.

"As a councillor, as a member of the Labour Party and as a citizen of Rotherham I'm still deeply sorry for what went wrong.

"We can't change the past, and God knows I wish we could, but I hope these reports help to give some solace and help to prevent further suffering in the future."

But you can change the future and are much more likely to if people were held responsible for the decisions they made to allow the incredible level of abuse continue for so many years. What's the incentive here to change? Labour seems quite happy with things as they are.

16th priest accused in Guam child sex abuse suit

Haidee V Eugenio

After former altar boys tearfully went public with allegations, a law was passed to open doors for lawsuits against the church, clergy and others. Wochit

Another Catholic clergy member on Guam has been accused of child sexual abuse, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday.

Father Louis William Rink, who is now deceased, was sued by a former altar boy identified in documents only as R.R.C. to protect his privacy. The lawsuit accuses Rink of abusing the boy, who was 10, in Dededo in the 1980s. Rink is the 16th Guam clergy member accused in court of child sexual abuse.

Which begs the question - were there any priests in Guam who were not perverts?

Rink allegedly molested the boy in the Santa Barbara Catholic Church sacristy and told him that one of the 10 Commandments is "Thou shall Honor your mother and your father," which also includes the priest, the lawsuit states.

"Rink then told R.R.C., 'no one needs to know'," the lawsuit says. "Luckily, someone walked into the sacristy and R.R.C. was able to get away before sexual abuse escalated."

R.R.C., now 43, is the 104th person to file a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Agana over alleged sex abuse by clergy or others affiliated with the Catholic church.

The lawsuit names the archdiocese, the Congregation of Holy Cross to which Rink belonged, and up to 50 others as defendants.

R.R.C. is represented by attorney David Lujan, and demands $5 million in minimum damages.

After the incident, R.R.C. told Monsignor Zoilo Camacho that Rink had sexually abused him, the lawsuit states. 

Camacho told R.R.C that he just has to keep praying and asking for forgiveness, the complaint states. Camacho also is accused of sexually abusing a minor in a separate case, filed in federal court in June.

Rink first came to Guam in 1985 to serve as chaplain at Father Duenas Memorial School for a year, after spending several years in Congregation of Holy Cross missions to Uganda and Liberia, the lawsuit states. He returned to Guam in 1987 to work for the Archdiocese of Agana, and was assigned to many other places after that.

He died in 2013, when he was about 89, the lawsuit states.

Victorian MP Rachel Carling-Jenkins describes anguish of finding husband's child pornography collection

By state political reporter Richard Willingham

Victorian Upper House MP Rachel Carling-Jenkins has revealed that her estranged husband has been convicted for child pornography possession.

The Australian Conservatives MP said the discovery in February last year turned her life upside down and ended the marriage immediately.

Her husband, Gary Jenkins, has been sentenced to prison, but Dr Carling-Jenkins said he was refusing to sign divorce papers and continued to contact their son.

In a powerful speech, Dr Carling-Jenkins said she felt for the "little girls" in the collection, which she viewed.

"These little girls would not be abused if people like my ex-husband did not provide a market," Dr Carling-Jenkins said.

In June, Dr Carling-Jenkins announced she was leaving the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) to join senator Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives party.

Dr Carling-Jenkins and her son made the grim discovery last year and reported Jenkins to police.

She told Parliament it was an extensive collection.

"I personally viewed deeply distressing images that have caused me immediate and ongoing anguish," she said.

"I have no regrets, as a mother or a wife, in reporting or exposing this dreadful crime, which occurred in the privacy of my home."

In March, Jenkins was sentenced to four months' prison for one count of knowingly possessing child pornography.

"I do not believe a sentence of a few months and inclusion on the sex offenders register was adequate," Dr Carling-Jenkins said.

I completely agree! 

For some time, Dr Carling-Jenkins believed her husband had a mental illness but she said efforts to get him help were rebuffed.

"Gary does not have a mental illness, his behaviour stemmed from something much more sinister," she said.

I agree with that, too. Sinister, evil, demonic, etc., etc.

"Our lives were turned upside down the day of the discovery.

We were gutted. My marriage ended instantly."

Dr Carling-Jenkins said her husband was now subjecting her and her son to financial, psychological and emotional abuse.

She said he was refusing to sign a property settlement, leaving her in insecure accommodation. He has also resisted signing divorce papers.

"Our system is such that whomever holds the assets can continue to abuse, leaving survivors vulnerable," Dr Carling-Jenkins said.

She said she had been subjected to vile stories, harassment and threats.

The faces of the abused girls are etched in her mind, and she revealed that she unconsciously scans faces in the streets.

"These little girls have lost their innocence, their childhood

and control over their destiny."

Dr Carling-Jenkins was hugged by MPs from all sides of Parliament after giving the speech.

If I were there, I would hug you too. God bless you for speaking out.

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The state of child sex abuse in Lagos

13 y/o girl in care gets tortured for reporting rape

Macau father jailed for sexually abusing his children

Over a million searches a day for child porn in India

Commissioner reveals stats and highlights progress for child sex Abuse in Lagos 

By Chijioke Jannah 

The Lagos state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, has said that most of sexual assault cases between January and September 2017 were perpetrated in the afternoon during weekdays.

He stated this on Tuesday at a media parley held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa to commemorate the Domestic and Sexual Violence Awareness Month.

According to him, 95 percent of the perpetrators of sexual violence in the state are known to the victims.

He said, “the revelation necessitated the need to embark on sensitization campaigns for parents on parenting skills and child abuse prevention tips as well as trainings for children on child’s rights, child abuse, safety and how to preserve evidence."

“While some of the cases have been charged to court, the State Government through the Ministry of Youth and Social Development and other stakeholders, provided shelter for the survivors.”

The Commissioner said all the survivors of sexual assault received medical attention from comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres and referral centres, among other efforts to properly rehabilitate and re-integrate them into the society.

Kazeem disclosed that a total 852 cases of domestic violence has so far been recorded this year out of which there were 564 domestic violence cases, 60 defilement cases, 30 rape cases, 11 attempted rape, 123 child neglect and abuse cases, and 84 other cases.

He also said the trend from the data showed an increase in men coming forward to report cases of domestic violence as a total number of 55 men came forward to report in contrast to 14 men that reported last year.

Kazeem, however, noted that under the present administration, the interventions of DSVRT were gradually breaking the silence around issues of sexual and gender based violence in the State.

“There is a growing confidence urging people to speak out more, there is an astronomical increase in reporting of cases in the media. Lagos has indeed revolutionized the way sexual and gender based violence is being tackled in Nigeria with all the pioneering initiatives of Governor Ambode,” Kazeem said.

Besides, the Attorney General revealed that the State Government has concluded plans to launch a short service code that would afford residents the opportunity of reporting cases of domestic violence, sexual abuse, child abuse and other related offences with ease.

He said the initiative was aimed at ensuring that victims of all forms of abuse reach out to the appropriate agencies and receive timely information on what to do and where to get assistance.

“This would be achieved by members of the public using keywords, that is, ‘Child Abuse to 6820’ or *6820# and an interactive menu browser to get the relevant information from users such as name, location, specific case or complaint which would in turn ensure that the whole response team is automatically activated.

“Anybody that needs to report a case of child abuse, rape or domestic violence or requires a child or a woman to be rescued can make use of the platform and should receive timely and accurate information”, Adeniji said.

Rape victim of Gurgaon child care centre reveals torture for reporting rape

The victim used to be a fun loving child but after the alleged sexual abuse, she went into a shell and had been largely reserved

Leena Dhankhar 

Hindustan Times

Ujwal Niketan Child Care Institute during the counselling with child welfare committee chair person Shakuntala Dhull.(Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

A 13-year-old class 5 student, who is alleged to have been sexually abused by the staff at the Ujwal Niketan, a Child Care Institute (CCI), several times during last one year revealed her ordeal during counselling to Child Welfare Committee (CWC) officials on Tuesday.

The victim and her seven-year-old brother were brought to the CCI at Sector 4 in year 2014. Their mother left them at the child care centre as their father was unable to take care of them.

The 65-year-old caretaker of the centre, Sister Lilly Baretto, was arrested on Sunday night from a church in Sukhdev Vihar, Delhi on charges of handing over children under her custody for adoption against the norms. She is also accused of child trafficking and was booked under relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice Act and the Indian Penal Code.

According to the inmates, the victim used to be a fun loving child but after the alleged sexual abuse, she went into a shell and had been largely reserved.

On Tuesday, while she was being counselled, she requested the CWC chairperson to shift her to another CCI saying other inmates of the centre were harassing her for raising her voice against Sister Baretto.

“I have been asked not to reveal anything during the session. The girls who are close to Sister have threatened me and told me that she will take revenge for putting her driver behind the bars,” the victim said. The driver Madan was arrested in mid-July by the Sector 10 police.

The victim said she was under immense pressure and was not ready to speak in front of other girl inmates. Sources said the moment she was taken to the counselling room, she revealed that many other girl inmates were victims of sexual abuse but were not disclosing the truth.

“She cried and revealed that she was tortured for revealing the sexual abuse and torture at the centre. She said other girl inmates, who were close to Sister Lily and were among her favourites, assaulted her and isolated her from fellow inmates for raising her voice against their Didi (Baretto),” Shakuntala Dhull, chairperson, CWC, said.

The victim, who was not aware of Baretto’s arrest, was relieved at the news.

“If Didi comes out (of jail), she will kill me. When I was coming for counselling today, the girls told me to deny the rape allegation and asked me to keep quiet. I was scared to come here, as I thought even didi will be here and will beat me for opening my mouth,” the victim said.

“She has also told us that several men visited the CCI and sexually abused other girls as well. When they complained to Sister Lily, she used to assault them and even threaten them with rape. Many girls had refused to get their medical examination done at the hospital. Since the accused is arrested, we will get their medical tests done as it would help us in our investigation,” Dhull said.

The three-member observation committee was formed in February by the high court. It comprises Suruchi Atreja, chairperson, Arun Shokeen, member, Panel Advocate DLSA- district legal services authority and Nisha Saini, legal probation officer, district child protection unit.

The committee members visited Ujwal Niketan CCI for routine inspection after receiving a complaint on cruelty to child inmates and missing children and also found irregularities with regard to adoption of children at the centre.

The victim was shifted to another CCI after her counselling session on Tuesday evening.

Seven children, including two girls of the centre, were counselled on Tuesday. They also alleged that they were brutally assaulted when they tried to complain about the torture.

Gurgaon, India

Macau father gets 5 1/2 years jail for

sexual abuse of his kids

A local Portuguese resident was sentenced to five years and six months behind bars on Tuesday for sexually abusing his two children, a two-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy, according to the sentence announced by the Court of First Instance (TJB).

According to the three-judge bench, João Tiago Martins was also sentenced to pay MOP 200,000 to each child.

That's about $25,000 USD.

The defendant’s lawyer, Joao Miguel Barros, told the Portuguese media that he was determined to appeal. He said he was convinced of his client’s innocence and complained that the sentence was merely based on testimony by the two children. The judges, however, ruled that the children’s testimony was credible and that they had not been influenced by their mother when testifying against their father.

Good for the judges!

According to the sentence, the sexual abuse took place on weekends between 2011 and 2016. The defendant was arrested in May 2016 after a criminal complaint by his wife, a local Portuguese national.

The defendant was acquitted of exhibitionism, mistreatment of his children and sexual relations with his daughter.

Despite crackdown, India emerges as one of biggest contributors, consumers of child porn

"The content and consumers of child pornography are growing at a sharp rate. There are no exact statistics but our findings show that search engines get over 1,16,000 queries every day related to child pornography," Indian Cyber Army Kislay Chaudhary said.

Shashank Shekhar | Posted by Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar

New Delhi, 

India has emerged as one of the biggest contributors and consumers of child pornography despite a crackdown against such material on the Internet.

Cyber experts told MAIL TODAY that a new smut video is created in India every 40 minutes and Kerala tops the list in uploading such content while Haryana leads in viewing it, on mobile.

Alarmingly, 35-38 per cent of the total porn uploaded on the web is related to children or teenagers. Keywords like "schoolgirls", "teens" and "desi girls" are among the top searched as they lead to child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Analysis by cyber security experts showed that 35-40 per cent of content downloaded daily from India is pornography, which would be in several thousand terabytes.

"The content and consumers of child pornography are growing at a sharp rate. There are no exact statistics but our findings show that search engines get over 1,16,000 queries every day related to child pornography. The volume of such content can be estimated as every second around 380 people are looking for 'adult' content on search engines. Around 25 per cent of all search engine queries are related to pornography which will be about 68 million search queries a day," said Kislay Chaudhary, director of the Indian Cyber Army (ICA).

C.S.A.M. CONTENT: TIER 2, 3, 4 CITIES MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS

Recent trends show that maximum CSAM content is being shot on mobile devices and tier 2, 3 and 4 cities have emerged as major contributors. Children in rural areas and from underprivileged backgrounds are soft targets but a large number of school students in urban areas are also vulnerable.

Pawan Duggal, noted lawyer and IT expert, told Mail Today that despite stringent directives by the Supreme Court, content related to CSAM is growing. "There is a massive demand for Indian content in the global market as it is much cheaper for them to buy. Websites are flooded with child pornography," he said.

Duggal explained that there are stringent punishments under the IT Act against viewing and sharing of such material but enforcement is lax. He pointed out that the government is aiming to block the websites but is not checking the source of the content.

The focus on the matter grew after Delhi police found objectionable photos of 15-20 children in a phone and laptop of an arrested British national who allegedly sexually assaulted three visually impaired minor inmates of the National Association for the Blind (NAB) in south Delhi's RK Puram.

The ICA research shows Kerala is a major contributor of CSAM content while states like Haryana, Assam, Bihar, Punjab, Delhi and West Bengal are high in viewing it.

URBAN CHILDREN USNG DATING, MESSENGER APPS VULNERABLE

Cyber investigator Rakshit Tandon explained that urban children are falling prey to dating and messenger apps from where their personal pictures are getting leaked and are being uploaded on porn websites.

"Young children are glued to the latest dating and messenger apps but they do not know about the side-effects," he said.

There is no fresh government study on the spread or volume of explicit content but official data shows that there was a 100 per cent increase in cases of publication or transmission of obscene material, including child pornography, using electronic means in just one year - 2012 to 2013.

Acting strict against Internet majors like Google, Yahoo and Facebook as well as instant messaging application WhatsApp, the Supreme Court on Monday directed them to furnish details of complaints they have received in India about the uploading of objectionable content on child pornography, rape and gang rape.

Duggal explained that the country has no central database of such crimes and offenders. According to experts, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics do not provide any information on child pornography cases.

CENTRE BLOCKS 3,522 WEBSITES

However, the Centre recently told the Supreme Court that it has adopted several steps to curb online child sexual abuse content, including blocking 3,522 websites carrying child pornographic materials in June this year.

The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has ordered the Internet Service Providers Association of India and the department of telecommunication to disable or remove access to child pornography sites by adopting the IWF list to prevent the distribution and transmission of online CSAM in India.

Earlier, cyber security officials, who function under the CBI, had told the bench that the Internet was a "wild highway" and blocking objectionable content at the source was a technical challenge for which clear guidelines are needed to stop circulation of such material.

A blocked website is up and running again in a matter of days because the business is so lucrative. "Trading of CSAM on the darknet is a bigger worry as it has become a huge market for trading such content. Global buyers are directly buying content from India which gets uploaded to thousands of porn websites," said Amit Dubey, cyber crime expert and ethical hacker.

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Former priest, convicted sex offender,

re-arrested in upstate NY

By Zachary R. Dowdy 

CHARLTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A former Washington County and Long Island priest has been arrested after he’s accused of sexually abusing a child in Charlton.

Michael Hands, 51, of Herrington Hill Road in Greenwich, faces a nine count indictment with charges including criminal sex act and using a child in sexual performance.

He is accused of reaching out to the victims over the internet.

Hands is already a registered sex offender from a previous conviction out of Suffolk County.

At this point, officials do not believe there are any other victims but if there are they want them to call police immediately.

Man wanted for rape, child sexual abuse in Lane County captured in Indiana

By Chelsea Deffenbacher
The Register-Guard

Authorities in Indiana have arrested a 42-year-old man, wanted in Lane County on several charges related to the rape and sexual abuse of a girl under the age of 12.

Travis Wayne Young was booked into the Lane County Jail Sunday afternoon, after being transferred from the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office in New Albany, Ind.

Young is charged with two counts of first-degree rape, three counts of first-degree sodomy, two counts of first-degree unlawful sexual penetration, and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

Young pleaded not guilty Tuesday to all charges in the Lane County Jail’s courtroom.

His next court appearance — a pre-trial hearing in Circuit Court — has been set for Oct. 11.

The abuse allegedly occurred between 2011 and 2014 in Lane County, court records show.

According to Chief Deputy District Attorney Erik Hasselman, the Lane County Grand Jury indicted Young in May.

Young was arrested by New Albany police July 21 on unrelated charges, before he was released to Lane County over the weekend.

Lane Co., Indiana

Detectives Arrest San Rafael Resident in

Sexual Assault of Two Children

San Rafael CA - During the month of August, 2017 SRPD Detectives conducted an investigation into a report of sexual abuse by an adult male. Two minor females who live in San Rafael were the reported victims. 

San Rafael Police Detectives interviewed people close to the suspect and victims to determine the facts and extent of the reported abuse. Detailed forensic interviews of the confidential victims were conducted with the collaboration of the Marin County District Attorney’s Office and assistance from Marin County Child and Family Services. The female victims reported that they suffered abuse on multiple occasions by an acquaintance in 2007.  The abuse appears to have been directed toward these two minors only.

On August 31st 2017 at approximately 6:00AM, SRPD Detectives arrested Abraham Elisio Vargas Lopez, a 31 year old resident of San Rafael, CA.  He was booked for 4 counts PC 288(C)(1) Lewd Acts with a Child Under 14 Years of Age.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call San Rafael Police at (415) 485-3000. Tips can also be made online at http://www.srpd.org/tips.

San Rafael, CA

Orange City man found guilty of sexual abuse

ORANGE CITY, IOWA (KSFY) - Authorities say an Orange City, Iowa, man has been sentenced for third degree sexual abuse.

Sioux County Attorney Thomas G. Kunstle said Tuesday that 22-year-old Chance Jacob Wetter was convicted on August 11.

Kunstle said police learned on October 20, 2015, that Wetter had impregnated a 15-year-old girl. The child’s birth certificate and a paternity test verified Wetter as the father.

Wetter pled not guilty, and his case went to trial without a jury.

He was sentenced on September 1 by the court to a suspended 10 year prison sentence, ordered probation for two years, and required Wetter to register as a sex offender and be supervised on parole for life.

Virginia Man Sentenced To 40 Years For

Repeated Sexual Assault Of A Child

On Aug. 31, 2017, John Tyler Ellis, a 54-year-old Alexandria resident, was sentenced in Alexandria Circuit Court to an active sentence of 40 years of incarceration for repeated offenses of sexual abuse against an 11 year-old-child. Ellis was found guilty of seven felony charges: three counts of Forcible Sodomy, three counts of Aggravated Sexual Battery, and one count of Indecent Liberties With a Child.

The defendant’s crimes were exposed in June 2016 when the child’s stepfather discovered text messages on the child’s phone. When asked about the messages, the child disclosed that they were from the defendant.

The child was interviewed at the Center for Alexandria’s Children, a child advocacy center serving the City of Alexandria. The child disclosed that on three occasions, the defendant had lured the child into the home under false pretenses and sexually abused the child.

Prior to this abuse, Ellis was a trusted family friend and neighbor who had known the child for years. Subsequent investigation revealed that Ellis had been sending text messages to the child for several months prior to the abuse, and the defendant had groomed the child to view him as a friend and confidant.

Ellis received an aggregate sentence of 160 years of incarceration, with all but 40 years of the sentence suspended. Upon his release from prison Ellis will be on supervised probation for the remainder of his life and he will be required to register under the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act.

This case was investigated by Detective Kevin Thomas of the Alexandria Police Department’s Special Victims Unit. Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Amanda Tassa prosecuted the matter on behalf of the Commonwealth with the assistance of the Director of the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Victim Witness Assistance Program, Judy Holl. Mental health providers from the Community Services Board and advocates from the City’s Sexual Assault Center provided support. All of the agencies involved in the investigation and prosecution of this case are members of the City’s Multi-Disciplinary Team. The MDT conducts collaborative and coordinated investigations that prioritize the child’s safety, well-being, and resilience.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter said: “First, my thoughts are with the victim of this horrendous series of sexual assaults and with the victim’s family. There is no doubt that the defendant’s criminal actions have had a devastating effect on the victim. However, in my experience the courage and perseverance of sexual assault survivors allows them to rise above the pain and I am certain that the victim in this case has that courage.”

“In any child sexual assault case the women and men who investigate the case and bring the perpetrator to justice suffer the vicarious trauma of living and then reliving the assault of an innocent victim. I wish to commend by name Detective Kevin Thomas of the Alexandria Police Department who lived this case every day for over a year.”

“In Alexandria, we have an outstanding and experienced Multi-Disciplinary Team that brings professionals from many different fields to collectively work on this type of case. Our MDT is an example for other localities to emulate. The City is lucky to have such dedicated people working together for a common cause.” 

Ellis is currently in custody in the William G. Truesdale Alexandria Adult Detention Center pending his transfer to the Department of Corrections.

Penn State signals possible suit against Sandusky charity

by Jeremy Roebuck, Staff Writer  

Pennsylvania State University has signaled its intention to sue Jerry Sandusky’s former children’s charity, years after the school paid more than $93 million to settle claims from 32 of the former assistant football coach’s accusers.

But with the Second Mile shuttered in the wake of the child sex assault scandal that followed Sandusky’s arrest, it remains unclear just how much money a lawsuit might help the school recover.

At last count, about $750,000 in assets remained in the charity’s coffers — handed over to the Attorney General’s Office as part of a dissolution process that began in October 2012.

Penn State raised the possibility of litigation in a filing Friday in Centre County Court. The document preserved the university’s right to sue but offered no hint of the grounds for any potential lawsuit.

Still, Penn State’s lawyers have suggested that they could seek to recoup some of the steep costs the school incurred in responding to the scandal. That bill has included tens of millions of dollars in NCAA sanctions and legal fees on top of the settlements with victims.

The Second Mile should have shouldered more of that burden, wrote Penn State lawyer Joseph O’Dea in court papers last year in legal wrangling surrounding the charity’s closure.

“The Second Mile … knew or should have known of facts that reasonably suggested that Sandusky was sexually abusing and/or endangering children,” he wrote. “As a result of the Second Mile’s … inequitable and unjustified refusal to accept responsibility for Sandusky’s conduct and the harm to the children, the university paid more than its share of the amounts necessary to settle the claims of the victims and alleged victims of Sandusky who participated in the Second Mile’s programs.”

A vocal group of university trustees and supporters has questioned why former executives of the Second Mile, where Sandusky groomed many of his victims, did not face criminal repercussions while three former Penn State administrators — including ex-president Graham B. Spanier — were sentenced to jail for failing to act on signs of the former coach’s abuse.

An internal probe the charity launched to examine conduct fizzled out when the Second Mile shut its doors in 2012.

But testifying at Spanier’s trial in March, Second Mile former president and CEO Jack Raykovitz spoke publicly for the first time about the Sandusky scandal. He maintained that he had no reason to suspect anything untoward about the former coach’s relationships with the charity’s young clients.

When he learned in 2001 that Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant with the Penn State football program, had reported witnessing a sexual act between Sandusky and a child in a campus locker room shower, Raykovitz said that he took action by checking with the university administrator who was handling McQueary’s report.

“He told me it had been investigated and nothing inappropriate was found,” Raykovitz said. He also testified that he also advised Sandusky to no longer shower in the nude with boys, given concerns about child sexual abuse nationally.

“I told him to wear trunks,” Raykovitz said.

Sandusky founded the Second Mile in 1977 and remained active in the organization even after he retired from its day-to-day operations in 2010. He is serving a prison term of up to 60 years while continuing to appeal his conviction on 45 counts of child sex abuse.

Colorado Man Arrested on Child Sex Crimes

Pleads Guilty

By: Katerina Chryssafis 

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Mesa County Resident Dakota Cribari pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to sex assault of a child in a position of trust, and child abuse negligence resulting in serious bodily injury.

Cribari was advised of his rights and possible penalties prior to accepting a his plea deal.

He will next appear in court on November 30th at the Mesa County Justice Center, when he is expected to be sentenced. Until then, he is being held at the Mesa County Detention Facility.

Former Heavenly ski instructor pleads guilty

to charges of child porn

Marcella Corona

A former children’s ski instructor at a Tahoe resort pleaded guilty to three felony child pornography charges.

Stephan DeGraffenreid, 26, pleaded to one count of sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of attempted sexual exploitation. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison for each charge.

Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre for the District of Nevada made the announcement of DeGraffenreid’s guilty plea in a news release on Tuesday.

DeGraffenreid, who was fired from his job as an assistant at the Heavenly Ski Resort’s school, was accused of photographing children as young as 3 in a bathroom at a daycare center in Gardnerville.

Authorities initially discovered child pornography on an Apple iPod Touch that was found at the ski school. Detectives later learned that the iPod belonged to DeGraffenreid. The device was filled with nude photos of prepubescent girls that he apparently downloaded from the internet.

Officers with the Northern Nevada Online Child Exploitation Task Force conducted a search of DeGraffenreid’s home, where they found a thumb drive with photos of children in a bathroom. DeGraffenreid’s defense lawyer, David Houston, previously said his client took the photos from a distance outside an open bathroom door and never touched the children.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon Bryant told the Associated Press that DeGraffenreid admitted that he could not control his addiction to child pornography or his attraction to children.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office also helped with the investigation. The Child Exploitation Task Force consists of members from the FBI, the Reno Police Department, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office and the Nevada Attorney General’s Office.

The case was part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to fight the growing number of child sexual exploitation and abuse cases.

Anyone with information on child sexual abuse or exploitation can contact the FBI’s Las Vegas Office at 702-385-1281 or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST).