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Sport minister calls for 'change' at Hockey Canada
as calls for resignations mount
St-Onge calls details of video of an alleged assault 'extremely disturbing and horrifying'
Ashley Burke ·
CBC News ·
Posted: Aug 27, 2022 4:00 AM ET |
Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge says it's time for Hockey Canada's leaders to ask themselves
if they're the right people for the job. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press)
Warning: This story contains sexually graphic details that may be disturbing to readers.
As calls mount for the leaders of Canada's national hockey organization to resign over sexual misconduct scandals, federal Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge is calling for "change" within the organization.
St-Onge told CBC Radio's The House that she was horrified by details of a video a man said he viewed of an alleged 2003 group sexual assault involving that year's World Junior hockey players.
Asked whether news of the video and of other misconduct scandals that have come to light recently should lead to resignations among Hockey Canada's leaders, St-Onge said the organization has lost "the trust of Canadians."
"I'm as concerned as all Canadians," she said. "Also my parliamentary colleagues ... have asked for the board to resign and the directors to resign.
"I feel the same, that there needs to be change within the organization."
There is much more on this story at CBC News.
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Chinese prosecutors charge 7 over brutal attack on women in Tangshan
Main suspect Chen Jizhi is also accused of kidnapping, gang violence and other crimes
Initial investigation finds 8 police officers abused their power and took bribes,
according to provincial party disciplinary authorities
Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing
South China Morning Post
Published: 5:00pm, 29 Aug, 2022
A video of a brutal attack on women at a restaurant in a northern Chinese city sparked public outrage
when it went viral in June. Photo: Weibo
Seven people have been charged over a June attack on women in the northern Chinese city of Tangshan, with the main suspect also accused of kidnapping, gang violence and other crimes, prosecutors in Hebei province announced on Monday.
Eight police officials investigated for allegedly protecting the suspect and mishandling the case were also found to have abused their power and taken bribes, according to the provincial Communist Party disciplinary body.
The announcements came more than two months after a viral video of the attack sparked a public outcry. The footage showed a man, later identified as Chen Jizhi, harassing a woman in a restaurant and beating her after she rejected his advances.
Ukraine police uncover child sexual abuse ring involving Russian children
Suspect arrested and 15 children identified but authorities say war
is hampering efforts to pursue case
Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian
Lorenzo Tondo in Kyiv
Thu 8 Sep 2022 10.45 BST
Ukrainian police have uncovered a sprawling child sexual abuse network, involving dozens of Russian children whose images and videos were allegedly traded inside and outside the country, but said it was impossible to pursue the case further because of the war.
A Ukrainian man has been arrested and 15 children, all Russians currently residing in Russia, identified, but prosecutors in the Kyiv region have said they are not able to trace other victims or arrest other suspects because of the severing of Russia-Ukraine relations since the Kremlin’s invasion.
“These kinds of crimes are unfortunately common everywhere, in Ukraine and Europe,” said Oleh Tkalenko, a senior prosecutor for the Kyiv region, who led the investigation. “But what terrifies us is the large scale of these crimes in Russia.”
“The victims of these crimes are the most vulnerable segments of the population,” Tkalenko said. “Parents who push their children to do this are extremely poor. And it’s really hard to stop these files from spreading. And it’s really frustrating because, due to the conflict, all our contacts with Russian colleagues have been cut.”
The investigation began in June, when the Ukrainian police’s cybercrime unit received information that a large number of child sexual abuse images were being downloaded and stored in the Kyiv region.
Prosecutors a month later searched a house in Bucha where files containing more than 100,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse were found.
“We immediately tried to identify the children and victims of these crimes who were involved in the network,” Tkalenko said. “And we were shocked when we found out that they were all Russian citizens. We have identified 15 of them so far, but we are talking of dozens of children involved.”
Some of the victims were as young as nine years of age and came from various areas of Russia, including Moscow, Kaliningrad and Krasnodar.
The suspect has been placed under house arrest by judges pending a verdict. If convicted, the man faces up to five years in prison.
House arrest! Up to 5 years? Does that come with a gold watch in Ukraine?
It's almost always children who suffer the madness of men.
