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.
Former Vancouver Canuck Ryan Kesler faces criminal sexual conduct charges in Michigan
Former Vancouver Canucks centre Ryan Kesler has been charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in Michigan.
Court records show Kesler, 41, was arraigned via Zoom on Monday in Bloomfield Hills District Court and pleaded not guilty to both misdemeanour charges.
The offences are alleged to have occurred on Jan. 1 in Orchard Lake, Mich.
Bond was set at US$50,000, with a 10 per cent deposit, and Kesler was ordered not to leave Michigan without court permission. He must also appear for all scheduled hearings.
A probable-cause conference is set for Nov. 6, followed by a preliminary examination Nov. 13.
The Livonia, Mich., native played for the Vancouver Canucks from 2003 to 2014 before being traded to the Anaheim Ducks, where he played until his retirement in 2019.
He was also a member of the United States Olympic teams in 2010 and 2014 and won the Frank J. Selke Trophy in 2011 as the NHL’s top defensive forward and was part of Vancouver’s run to the Stanley Cup final that year.
Actor Gerard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting 2 women
NOTE: The following article contains graphic details. Please read at your own discretion.
French film star Gerard Depardieu has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women during the filming of a movie in 2021 and will serve an 18-month suspended prison sentence.
He was also fined €29,040, and the court requested that he be registered in France’s national sex offender database.
Depardieu, 76, was convicted of groping two female employees: a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of Les Volets Verts.
The set dresser said Depardieu trapped her between his legs in a narrow corridor before grabbing hold of her hips and groping other parts of her body, including her chest. She also said he used an obscenity to ask her to touch his penis and suggested he wanted to rape her.
She told the court that the actor’s calm and cooperative attitude during the trial bore no resemblance to his behaviour at work.
The other defendant said that Depardieu groped her buttocks and breasts on three separate occasions on-set.
The case was widely viewed as a post-#MeToo movement test of how French society and its film industry would handle allegations of sexual misconduct involving high-profile individuals.
Depardieu, who has denied the accusations, did not attend the hearing in Paris. His lawyer said the actor would appeal the decision.
Following his conviction, Carine Durrieu Diebolt, the set dresser’s lawyer, said, “It is the victory of two women, but it is the victory of all the women beyond this trial.”
French actor Gerard Depardieu is seen leaving the Tribunal de Paris courthouse on March 24, 2025. Depardieu was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women during the filming of a movie in 2021. JULIEN DE ROSA / Getty Images
“Today, we hope to see the end of impunity for an artist in the world of cinema,” she continued. “I think that with this decision, we can no longer say that he is not a sexual abuser. And today, as the Cannes Film Festival opens, I’d like the film world to spare a thought for Gerard Depardieu’s victims,” she concluded.
Depardieu told the courts he has made more than 250 films throughout his illustrious career, propelling him to the pinnacle of French cinema. In 1991, he received an Oscar nomination for his performance in Cyrano de Bergerac as the eponymous lead.
In recent years, the actor has been accused of misconduct by more than 20 women, but only the sexual assault case went to court. Several other cases were dropped due to a lack of evidence or a statute of limitations.
During the four-day trial in March, Depardieu denied the accusations, saying he’s “not like that.”
Nonetheless, he acknowledged that he had used vulgar and sexualized language on the film set and that he grabbed the set dresser’s hips during an argument. He denied that his behaviour was sexual.
The court’s three-judge panel decided that Depardieu’s explanations were “unpersuasive” and “not credible” and stressed both accusers’ “constant, reiterated and substantiated declarations.”
The court also said Depardieu’s defence team employed an “aggressive” defence strategy and considered their comments in court to have caused more harm to the plaintiffs, therefore justifying higher fines.
Depardieu’s lawyer, Jérémie Assous, said he regretted that the court “considered that questioning the accusations is an additional assault,” adding that this type of defence, “even in this type of trial, is no longer accepted.”
World junior complainant finishes testimony after marathon round of questioning
The 27-year-old woman, whose identity is protected under a standard publication ban, has been appearing virtually inside a London, Ont., courtroom since May 2.
She began her testimony against five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team that day and wrapped up on May 5, after which she was subject to tense cross-examination that finished Tuesday.
Crown prosecutors Wednesday followed up on any topics raised in cross-examination. Re-examination, as its known, was bogged by legal arguments that were made without the jury present; matters discussed when the jury is not present can’t be reported until after jurors are sequestered to deliberate.
Not in order
Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have all pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault stemming from what the Crown alleges was non-consensual group sex in McLeod’s room at the Delta hotel in London back in June 2018. McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.
Court has heard the team was in town for events marking its gold-medal performance at that year’s championship, and E.M. was out with friends when they met at a downtown bar on June 18. After being with McLeod and his teammates at the bar, E.M. would go on to have consensual sex with McLeod in his room in the early morning hours of June 19.
Court has heard E.M., who was 20 at the time, was in the washroom after she had sex with McLeod and came out to a group of men in the room allegedly invited for a “3 way” by McLeod in a group chat.
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World junior complainant was allegedly ‘egging on’ players, defence suggests
Throughout the marathon cross-examination, defence lawyers have suggested E.M. wasn’t as drunk as she has testified she was, wanted a “wild night” with the players, was “egging” them on to have sex with her and accused her of having a “clear agenda” at the trial.
E.M. has both pushed back against those claims, and at points outright rejected them, saying she was coaxed into staying in the room, was disrespected and was taken advantage of by the group who she said “could see I was out of my mind.”
When the jury was present Wednesday, Crown prosecutor Meagan Cunningham sought to have E.M. clarify how she knows she wouldn’t have said the things defence lawyers are suggesting she may have said in McLeod’s room.
“I had left with only one person, and that after a sexual encounter, I’m assuming I’m just staying in bed and staying there and not expecting anything else,” she told Cunningham.
“I left under one certain impression that I was leaving with him, and that would be how the night ended.”
After answering Cunningham’s questions, Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia released E.M. Court will now hear from the next Crown witness in the case.
— with files from Sean O’Shea and The Canadian Press
Diddy trial Day 2: Ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testifies about ‘freak-offs’
NOTE: The following article contains disturbing details and video footage. Please read at your own discretion.
Ventura is considered a star witness for the prosecution and her testimony is particularly valuable. Combs was captured on security video violently assaulting Ventura in a hotel hallway in 2016.
The video was obtained and distributed by CNN in May 2024, and showed Combs launching a brutal physical assault on Ventura in which he grabbed her by the back of the neck and threw her to the floor, before kicking her twice while she lay on the ground.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ mother, children arrive at court as sex trafficking trial begins
While giving testimony, Ventura became emotional at times and spoke about feeling the “disgusting” and “humiliated” by Combs’ control over her, particularly during his alleged days-long sex parties, where she says she was forced to have weekly sex with escorts while her boyfriend plied her with drugs, watched, recorded and orchestrated her behaviour.
Day 2
As an eight-month pregnant Ventura entered the court Tuesday, Combs turned in his chair to watch, reports the New York Times. She didn’t meet his gaze, looking straight ahead as she walked to the front of the room.
“There were violent arguments that would usually result in some sort of physical abuse. Dragging, different things of that nature,” she told the court, when asked by the prosecutors to describe her relationship with the rapper.
She testified that Combs would mash her head, drag her, kick her and stomp on her when she was down.
Asked how frequently Combs became violent with her, Ventura softly responded: “Too frequently.”
Cassie Ventura takes an oath before testifying in Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in New York. Elizabeth Williams via AP
She was then asked about her role in Comb’s so-called “freak-offs” — the drug-fuelled, multi-day sex parties her ex allegedly orchestrated.
Ventura told the court the parties stemmed from Combs’ interest in voyeurism, and they would entail hiring an escort and “setting up this experience so that I could perform for Sean,” Ventura said.
Shown still images from the now-infamous 2016 security camera footage of Combs beating her at a Los Angeles hotel, Ventura said prior to the altercation, “We were having an encounter called a ‘freak-off’ and I was leaving there.”
This frame grab taken from hotel security camera video and aired by CNN appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in March 2016. Hotel Security Camera Video / CNN via AP
Please go to Global News for the rest of this sickening story:
The four NHL players who played on Canada’s gold medal-winning 2018 world junior team and who were charged with sexual assault are now free agents after their teams did not re-sign them.
Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Foote and Dillon Dube did not receive offers from their teams by the Sunday deadline.
The four NHL players who played on Canada’s gold medal-winning 2018 world junior team and who were charged with sexual assault are now free agents after their teams did not re-sign them.
Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Foote and Dillon Dube did not receive offers from their teams by the Sunday deadline. London police charged them, along with Alex Formenton, who played in a Swiss league for the past two seasons, in February for an alleged group sexual assault in 2018.
The players are still awaiting trial and their lawyers have said they deny the allegations.
What happened?
A woman sued Hockey Canada in 2022, alleging she was sexually assaulted by eight members of Canada’s world junior team after a fundraising gala in London, Ontario, in 2018.
Hockey Canada settled the lawsuit, and then an investigation revealed the organization had two secret funds to pay settlements on claims of sexual assault and abuse.
According to London Det. Sgt. Katherine Dann, the alleged incident happened in the early morning hours of June 19, 2018, after one of the accused met the victim at a bar and took her to Delta Hotel London Armouries.
According to court documents previously available, the woman, then 20, alleged that “John Doe #1” took her to a hotel room and invited seven other men into the room to perform undisclosed sexual acts, intimidating her and preventing her from leaving.
The woman said in the lawsuit the men directed her to take a shower and asked her to say on video she was sober.
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Hockey Canada CEO says organization undergoing major changes in midst of sexual assault case
Dann said London police received a call later on June 19, 2018, from a relative of the victim and launched an investigation. That was closed in 2019 with no charges.
The 2022 suit, which sought $3.55 million in damages and was dropped after the settlement was reached with Hockey Canada, led to police reopening the investigation and the charges against five members of that team.
Asked about additional players, Dann said in February that charges have been laid “for all the charges we have reasonable grounds for.”
The NHL launched its own investigation in 2022. Officials pledged to release the findings, though commissioner Gary Bettman said in February that would depend on what the league can say given legal proceedings.
Who has been charged?
Hart, formerly of the Philadelphia Flyers; McLeod and Foote, formerly of the New Jersey Devils; Dube, formerly of the Calgary Flames; and ex-NHL player Alex Formenton, now with the Swiss club HC Ambri-Piotta, have been charged with sexual assault.
McLeod is facing an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault, which Dann said was for aiding someone else in committing an offence.
Attorneys for all five said the players are not guilty and will fight the allegations. The four NHL players were on paid leave from their teams until the end of June.
Hart was the Flyers’ No. 1 goaltender, while McLeod and Dube were regulars. Foote, a defenceman and son of former NHL player Adam Foote, primarily spent this past season in the American Hockey League.
Formenton played in 109 games for the Ottawa Senators from 2017 through 2022 before going to Europe.
What's next?
Attorneys for the players involved have requested and been granted a trial by jury. A virtual hearing in June set the stage for another on July 3.
Another court date has been scheduled for Aug. 13 to potentially firm up the date for the trial to begin.
Bettman earlier in the year said he “would be surprised” if any of them play before the case is resolved.
Possible fallout?
If the players are convicted of sexual assault, Canadian law includes jail sentences, depending on several factors, including the age of the accuser.
Bettman made it clear the league will let the legal case play out before taking any steps. He also pointed out that the four NHL players do not have contracts beyond this season.
“They’re all away from their teams on leave, and (then) they’re all free agents,” Bettman said. “They won’t be under contract after this season anyway.”
The NHL’s investigation has not been released and will presumably remain that way until the case is resolved.
Whatever the court decides, Bettman has wide latitude to make decisions in the interest of the game when it comes to off-ice behaviour. The league in 2019 suspended Los Angeles Kings defenceman Slava Voynov for the 2019-20 season and ensuing playoffs after determining he committed acts of domestic violence. Shane Pinto was suspended for 41 games for violating the league’s gambling policy.
There is an appeals process through the NHL Players’ Association and an arbitrator jointly hired by the league and union to rule on disputes, when necessary.
Hockey Canada, meanwhile, has already lost several sponsors, including Nike, and its CEO and board resigned in 2022 in the wake of this and other scandals.
Police details in court documents outline alleged sexual assault
involving 5 world junior hockey players
Amanda Margison · CBC News ·
Posted: Dec 18, 2022 8:51 PM ET | Last Updated: December 19
The Delta Armouries in London, Ont. Police have asked for a search warrant for the room where the alleged sexual assault took place. (Amanda Margison / CBC News)
WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it.
New court documents that include interview transcripts and search warrant requests reveal why police investigators say they have reasonable grounds to accuse five World Junior hockey players of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018.
Details of the documents were first published in the Globe and Mail, which went to court to have them unsealed. CBC News obtained them independently Sunday from the Crown. Some of the material in the 94-page package that was submitted in Oct. has been redacted, including the names of those involved and specific sex acts.
None of the police allegations have been proven in court and no charges have been laid. The case was closed by London Police in 2018, but reopened again in 2022. Hockey Canada and the NHL are also investigating the incident.
The documents provide details of how the morning of June 19, 2018 unfolded from the perspective of the victim, who is referred to as E.M., and the subsequent guilt and shame she expressed to her mother, friend and later a police investigator.
The court filings also reveal that the man referred to as Player #1, who took E.M. back to his hotel room after meeting her for the first time at a downtown London bar, sent text messages to other players who would later come to the room where the alleged assaults took place.
He would also film two videos of E.M. in the hotel room where he would ask if she was OK. In one video she is wiping her eyes and slurring her words, the document said. E.M. told police she believed the video was taken at the end of the night and she had no recollection of it.
More child sex abuse images detected last year than previous
21 years combined - watchdog
A quarter of images detected ‘appeared to have been generated by children themselves’,
Hotline.ie warns
Almost one in 10 of the images were computer generated or drawn to depict gross child sexual abuse.
Photograph: PA Wire
Brian Hutton
Wed Dec 21 2022 - 19:49
Ireland’s illegal online content watchdog detected 14,772 cases of child sexual abuse on the internet last year – more than all of the 21 previous years combined.
In its latest annual report, Hotline.ie said 2021 was the most “onerous” in its history working to detect and remove online abuse.
A quarter of the abuse images detected “appeared to have been generated by children themselves”, the report warned.
That is probably true but it should be understood that the vast majority of them had no intention of those images going online but they were spread by stupid, adolescent teens, and, or, adults who were able to capture them through trickery or extortion by online predators.
Schools are not preparing children for this kind of behaviour. Children need to be taught that once out there, even if it's sent to only one person under the promise of never sharing it, it's out there and you have no control over where it goes or how often it is reproduced.
Schools are so busy teaching children that girls can be boys and boys can be girls that the real dangers of child sexual abuse are ignored.
In these cases, there was evidence of “grooming or coercion by adults, particularly in the video material, such as a child receiving compliments, instructions or even threats [over video chat, other times from someone present in the room whilst not visible on camera]”.
Almost one in 10 (9 per cent) of the images were computer generated or drawn to depict gross child sexual abuse. Such images are illegal under Irish law.
Hotline.ie said “virtual” child abuse online had been steadily increasing over the past five years. Last year marked an “all-time high” in such images being detected.
“It is a concerning trend as it seeks to normalise the consumption of child sexual abuse imagery, in an attempt to desensitise from the physical and psychological harm suffered by real children who suffer sexual abuse and exploitation,” the watchdog said.
The report also details how sexual abuse images and videos of children aged from just four years old to 12 were the “most prevalent”, accounting for two-thirds (66 per cent) of all images detected.
The severity of the abuse ranged from “explicit sexual activity of a child to penetrative sexual assault of a child by an adult, to sadistic sexual torture and bestiality involving a child”.
In September last year, Hotline.ie launched its dedicated service targeting intimate image abuse (IIA) – the sharing of intimate images or videos without consent.
In its first 12 months of operation, it dealt with 773 reports. A similar operation in the UK dealt with 500 reports in its first year of operation, according to Hotline.ie.
Of the Irish reports, 525 contained the necessary information to locate the imagery online where it could be removed.
Hotline.ie said initial analysis suggested men were most likely to be victims of “sextortion” through “webcam blackmail” or a threat to expose sexual images.
Victims reported being threatened over social media, through dating apps or on video-chat services. However, only one in seven opted to have the abuse reported to An Garda Síochána.
Launching the report, acting Minister for Justice Simon Harris underlined the “important, worthy and difficult work” done by Hotline.ie.
“Each image is a crime,” he said. “Each image has a victim, or victims, who have suffered abuse, and who are re-victimised each time their abuse is viewed as it is shared across the globe. We must never become hardened or inured to these figures.”
Ana Niculescu, chief executive of Hotline.ie, said it could be “overwhelming” uncovering the online abuse “but we can’t afford to look away”.
“There is reason to be hopeful with online safety and cybercrime moving up the national and global agenda,” she added.
Last week, it was warned a three-year backlog in Garda forensic examinations of computers and devices used to view child sex abuse material (CSAM) put children at risk of “preventable abuse”.
Dr Conor O’Mahony, special rapporteur on child protection, said of almost 7,000 reports of online CSAM reported by a national hotline to gardaí in 2020, just 160 were investigated.
Describing such inaction by gardaí on CSAM as “alarming”, he said it left perpetrators “at large for extended periods” even after they had come to the attention of the Garda.
This is deplorable! They have to find the money to do better. Children should be the highest priority, not the lowest.
Scots football coach caged for raping boy and sexually abusing
others during reign of terror
One of evil Russell Conn's victims tried to commit suicide after the vile abuse,
with the coach's crimes spanning 19 years in total.
dailyrecord
Paedophile football coach Russell Conn has been jailed for nine years.
An ex-football coach is who inflicted a 19-year reign of sexual terror over boys, including the rape of a young player, was jailed on Thursday for nine years.
Russell Conn, who managed teams for over 26 years in Ayrshire, targeted teenagers when they were alone. The 59-year-old “groomed and abused” three boys between 1995 and 2014, leaving them “deeply damaged”.
Conn, who also worked as a delivery driver and a painter and decorator, abused two of the boys in his work vans. The court heard he earned their trust and had sexual conversations with them before the attacks.
The jury was told he was guilty of “the grooming and manipulation and sexual abuse of teenage boys” and would often give victims money as well as cigarettes.
Conn denied he’d done anything wrong. But, a jury unanimously convicted him of one charge of rape and four of sexual assault.
Judge Andrew Cubie told him at the High Court in Glasgow: “You were convicted of charges which was deliberate, calculated sexual abuse of three young men.
Russell Conn was jailed for nine years for the horrific crimes. (Image: Daily Record.)
“Their evidence was powerful about their shame, experiences and effect it had on them. The offences were motivated by your own sexual appetite and sexual satisfaction.
“You express no remorse, understanding, or empathy for the wrongdoing you have done or the harm you have caused.
"You were able to carry on your own life while the victims suffered the consequences of your actions and you avoided justice into your seventies. Society has a repugnance to such crimes and the court must reflect that.”
Conn, of Stevenston, Ayrshire, was put on the sex offenders register indefinitely. His first victim, now 42, blamed himself for the abuse and said he had planned to die without ever revealing what had happened.
He said he “buried” what happened to him and “withdrew” into his “shell”, adding: “I had made peace with myself and thought I’d take it to my grave with me.
“I put it in a wee box at the back of my head, but there’s barely been a day gone by where I’ve not thought about it.”
His second victim tried to kill himself within seconds of being forced onto a couch and abused in Conn’s home.
Now a 27-year-old dad of three, he is unable to hold down a job because of mental health problems and struggles to go to the toilet due to the abuse.
Conn was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow. (Image: SNS Group)
And his third victim, now 23, was discharged from the Armed Forces and spent time in a mental hospital after revealing what had happened to him.
Geoffrey Forbes, defending, told the court at the sentencing that the dad-of-two continues to protest his innocence.
