This Week's Global Pervs and Paedos List > 1300 harassment cases in Japanese military; One million Tibetan kids in Chinese Residential Schools; 1st Nations forced sterilization class action suit

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Japan reports more than 1,300 harassment cases in its military

By Clyde Hughes

A new report said that more than 1,300 harassment complaints had been filed in Japan's military.

File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Photo

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A special inspection report released on Friday said there were 1,325 harassment reports in the Japanese Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces but nearly 65% of the victims did not seek help.

The Defense Ministry said the harassment survey was conducted in the ministry and all organizations after the sexual harassment complaint by former Japan Ground Self-Defense servicewoman Rina Gonoi.

In many cases, the survey found that victims who did seek help from counselors had received problematic responses. It said that eight senior officials and others that the investigation found engaged in harassment so far have been punished, including 12-month suspensions.

The survey revealed that many victims felt hopelessness in receiving a positive outcome from their complaint. Some of the repeated comments made by victims were that "no improvement can be expected even if I talk to them," "I don't know who to talk to," and "the atmosphere and environment are not conducive to seeking counseling."

Other victims said they felt they would be retaliated against by the perpetrators or "whistle-blower hunters."

The investigation and survey started in September 2022 and were accompanied by recommendations from a panel of experts. Those recommendations called for increased training and education for officials in management positions, who are at higher risk of carrying out harassment.

They also called on the Defense Ministry to assure officials and SDF members that they will suffer no disadvantage if they come forward with their complaints.

There is no indication of child sexual abuse in this story, but, as Russians say, 'where there is honey, there will be flies'. With a million kids, you can bet there will be great swarms of flies.

In Canada, Residential Schools were abandoned several decades ago, and are a source of great shame. But China seems to think they are just what is needed to assimilate Tibetan kids into communism.

U.S. hits Chinese officials with entry bans over

forced assimilation of Tibetan children

By Darryl Coote

The Biden administration on Tuesday imposed visa bans on Chinese officials they say are

participating in a campaign to force the assimilation of some 1 million Tibetan children.

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Aug. 23 (UPI) -- The Biden administration is imposing punitive measures against Chinese officials, banning them from entering the United States on accusations of being involved in the forced assimilation of more than 1 million Tibetan children.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the imposition of the visa resections against an undisclosed number of Chinese officials in a brief statement Tuesday.

"These coercive policies seek to eliminate Tibet's distinct linguistic, cultural and religious traditions among younger generations of Tibetans," he said.

"We urge [the People's Republic of China] authorities to end the coercion of Tibetan children into government-run boarding schools and to cease repressive assimilation policies, both in Tibet and throughout other parts of the PRC."

In February, a panel of United Nations experts in minority issues, education and cultural rights produced a report stating some 1 million Tibetan minority children were forcibly separated from their parents and put into a residential school system to assimilate them culturally, religiously and linguistically into Chinese society.

The report said the children are forced to complete compulsory education curriculum in Mandarin Chinese without access to traditional or culturally relevant learning.

"As a result, Tibetan children are losing their facility with their native language and the ability to communicate easily with their parents and grandparents in the Tibetan language, which contributes to their assimilation and erosion of their identity," the experts said.

The imposition of the visa bans follows the Biden administration in December designating Wy Yingjie, party secretary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and Zhang Hongbo, director of the Tibetan Public Security Bureau, over their involvement in serious human rights abuses committed by the government in Tibet.

The move comes amid already sour relations between China and the United States as they compete for global influence.

For years, Washington has condemned and punished Beijing over its treatment of its minority citizens, in particular Uyghurs in northwestern Xinjiang Province. Since 2021, the United States has accused China of committing genocide against the Muslim minority population.

Quebec judge authorizes class action by Atikamekw women

alleging forced sterilizations

Lawyers believe more women will join lawsuit now that it can move forward

Verity Stevenson · CBC News · 

Posted: Aug 22, 2023 1:00 PM PDT | Last Updated: August 22

The two Atikamekw women leading the class action say they underwent procedures that impaired

their fertility without their informed consent. (Molly Riley/AP/The Canadian Press)

A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class action against three doctors accused of sterilizing Atikamekw women against their will. 

One of the two women leading the class action — which is on behalf of all the women from the Atikamekw First Nation who allegedly didn't consent to a procedure that impaired their fertility — says she was sterilized without any knowledge of it happening beforehand.

The other woman said she succumbed to pressure from one of the three doctors before the procedure. 

The women are not identified in the judgment released Monday by Justice Lukasz Granosik, due to the sensitivity of what they experienced, according to Léa Lemay Langlois, one of the lawyers representing them.

It was unclear to Lemay Langlois why the doctors were not identified by their full names, despite having been in previous public court filings. 

The lawyer believes more victims could come forward as part of the lawsuit. 

'A lot of trauma'

"It's very difficult for class members to come forward and talk about it. There is a lot of trauma and difficulty around it," she said, adding the collective nature of a class action could make it easier for some to seek justice for what happened to them. 

The women say the life-altering procedures were a form of racism carried out in a context of systemic discrimination. They are seeking unspecified compensation for what they and their loved ones suffered as a result.

The class action initially sought to target the health board overseeing the hospital where the procedures took place, but Granosik only authorized the class action against the three doctors, one of whom died in 2019. 

The group first made the request for the class action in November 2021. The case could take years to wind its way through the courts, as there is a grace period allowing defendants time to appeal and more plaintiffs could come forward.

A university study released late last year found there have been at least 22 cases of forced sterilization of First Nations and Inuit women in Quebec since 1980.

The allegations included in the class action have not been proven in court.

Today's Global Pervs and Paedos List > Social Media Aiding Rape Culture; NZ Psyche Hospital Horrors; Tribunal Close to Calling Uyghur Treatment Genocide

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Study finds kids ages 9-12 sharing nudes more than doubled in 2020,

researchers concerned

By Leonardo Blair, 

Christian Post Reporter 

Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Unsplash/Gaelle Marcel

The share of minors ages 9-12 who are sharing self-generated nude images online more than doubled in 2020, and advocates involved in combatting online child sex abuse are worried about the trend, a new study shows.

The report, titled "Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material: Youth Attitudes and Experiences in 2020," was released last month by Thorn, an organization dedicated to combating online child sexual abuse.

The research was conducted through a 20-minute online survey from Oct. 26 to Nov. 12, 2020, in conjunction with a parallel study of caregiver attitudes and behaviors. Some 2,002 children from across the United States participated in the study, with 742 from the 9-12 age group and 1,260 teenagers from age 13-17.

Researchers for Thorn say Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, also referred to as SG-CSAM, is "explicit imagery of a child that appears to have been taken by the child in the image.” The imagery is being produced from both consensual and coercive experiences. Consensual experiences are usually referred to as “sexting” or “sharing nudes.”

Researchers found that while only 6% of 9-12 year olds reported that they shared these explicit self-generated images in 2019, that share more than doubled to 14% in 2020.

This was a much larger increase than that seen among 13-17 year olds whose increase in the activity jumped from 15% in 2019 to 19% in 2020. Overall, in 2019, 11% of all youth reported sharing their own SG-CSAM. By 2020, that number jumped to 17%.

“Self-generated child sexual abuse material has become a vital area of concern for those combating online child sexual exploitation. … [It] presents distinct risks for kids and unique challenges for the communities committed to protecting them,” researchers noted. “The interventions we pursue must be uniquely tailored to the experiences of young people and the offenders who may target them for victimization.”

While the percentage of minors who report they have reshared someone else’s SG-CSAM decreased from 9% to 7% between 2019 and 2020, the percentage of minors who believe their close friends "often or sometimes" re-share another kid's SG-CSAM increased from 11% to 14% over the same period. All of that increase happened among children in the 9-12 age group.

The study showed that between 2019 and 2020, the share of 9-12 year olds holding that belief jumped from 7% to 16%. However, it shrank from 15% to 13% among minors 13-17.

Researchers noted that the survey data suggests that “minors may be operating with less supervision in online spaces, particularly among 9-12-year-olds, compared to 2019 numbers.”

“Use of secondary accounts … intended to keep content private from some groups like caregivers or friends, was up most significantly among this group and 9-12-year-olds reported the most significant drop in their frequencies for following set online safety rules,” researchers explained.

And when it comes to the social medium most frequently used by the group of tweens, YouTube ranks above all others. Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook among others also held a significant draw among the group for their engagement with SG-CSAM.

Some 80% of all minors reported using YouTube at least once daily, and 78% of them said they shared their own SG-CSAM there. Overall, 85% of that group said they were shown material on the platform. Minors appeared more comfortable resharing material on the platform, with 88% of them reporting that.

The study showed that production of SG-CSAM content went up across nearly all demographic variables related to gender, age and sexual identity in 2020 compared to 2019. The increased rates of initial shares were most pronounced among 9-10-year-olds, young boys aged 9-12, and LGBT-identified youth.

When asked if they thought the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns had an impact on the SG-CSAM experiences of their peers, the respondents were divided. Approximately 50% of them did not think the pandemic had an impact on the rates at which their peers send or share SG-CSAM or have intimate images leaked. The remaining 50% felt it did.

According to Thorn, however, more research is needed to ensure the right kinds of interventions are available to safeguard minors using rapidly changing technology.

“Young people continue to engage with SG-CSAM both through exploratory and higher risk coercive pathways. The findings from our 2020 survey underscore the persistence of demographic differences in kids’ attitudes and behaviors related to SG-CSAM,” the group said.

“Continued data collection and analysis related to this topic, along with the impact of COVID, remains a vital need to deliver successful interventions that safeguard and support young people as they navigate their digital experiences.”

School sex education slanted toward the far-left instead of toward saving children from paedophiles, is a major contributor to this phenomena, as well as social media platforms that couldn't care less.

It appears another generation of adolescents will grow up to become part of the rape culture.

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Dangerous paedophile jailed for sexual abuse of vulnerable girl

Georgia Barrow

Published: 3:51 PM December 6, 2021

Andrew Cuckston, 59, from Stevenage, has been jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of a string of sexual offences against a young girl - Credit: Herts police

A paedophile from Stevenage has been jailed for more than 11 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a vulnerable young girl.

Andrew Cuckston, of Jessop Road, was found guilty of assaulting a girl under 13 by penetration, attempting to assault a girl under 13 by penetration, causing/inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity and three counts of assaulting a girl under 13 by touching.

Cuckston stood trial at St Albans Crown Court and was convicted on Friday, September 3, before returning for sentencing on Wednesday, November 24, where he was given a total jail term of 11 years and six months.

The jury had previously heard how the offences occurred at an address in Stevenage in 2018, during a four-month period between September and December.

Cuckston, aged 59, was arrested in January 2019 after the victim bravely disclosed to her family the abuse she had been subjected to at the hands of the defendant.

When interviewed by detectives, Cuckston denied the allegations but he was later charged.

In addition to his custodial sentence, Cuckston must also abide by a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order, the terms of which state that he must not be alone in the company of any child under the age of 16, undertake any activity, either voluntary or paid, which is likely to bring him into contact with children under the age of 16 and he must not stay at an address overnight while in the company of any child under the age of 16.

He will also be placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life, and has been handed a restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim or her family.

Assistant investigator Anne Bradbury, from Hertfordshire Constabulary’s Joint Child Protection Investigation Team, said: “I want to publicly commend the victim in this case for her bravery throughout this investigation.

"Understandably, it has been hugely traumatic for her and I know she has struggled to come to terms with what happened.

“She has had to wait a long time for Cuckston to go before the court and face up to his crimes. Now her abuser has been convicted and sentenced, I hope the victim is able to find a small sense of closure and begin to move forward.

“Cuckston clearly poses a grave danger to children and the terms of the order granted by the judge ensures his activity will be very closely monitored, both while he is serving his sentence and long afterwards.

“Hertfordshire Constabulary works hard to protect children from predators like Cuckston and we promise to always investigate every report we receive – however long ago the incident happened.”

Anyone in Hertfordshire who has experienced sexual abuse or sexual violence can contact the Herts Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) for practical and emotional support.

The centre can arrange face-to-face support, sexual health referrals, and provide forensic medical examinations for those who want them.

To contact Herts SARC, call the 24/7 helpline on 0808 178 4448, email Herts.SARC@nhs.net or visit www.hertssarc.org.

This service is open to everyone – men, women and young people, no matter how long ago the abuse occurred.

Other organisations which provide support include Rape Crisis England & Wales, rapecrisis.org.uk, and Red Kite Support, redkitesupport.org.uk.

New Zealand police charge one staff member over child abuse

at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital

About 200 people alleged in evidence before New Zealand’s royal commission

this year they were tortured and abused at the institution

Lake Alice psychiatric hospital. New Zealand police have laid child abuse charges against one former

staff member. Photograph: Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald

Tess McClure in Wellington

Wed 8 Dec 2021 06.29 GMT

New Zealand police have laid child abuse charges against one of the staff members of the notorious Lake Alice institution, where hundreds of former patients have alleged they were tortured and abused as children in the 1970s.

Their investigation has come too late for charges to be brought against the doctor at the centre of the institution, despite police saying there was enough evidence to charge him. Now 92 years old, police said Dr Selwyn Leeks was medically unfit to stand trial.

About 200 people alleged in evidence before New Zealand’s royal commission this year they were tortured and abused by Leeks and others at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital. Leeks has previously denied those allegations and said his use of electro-convulsive shock therapy (ECT) was therapeutic.

The commission heard evidence from multiple witnesses alleging that Leeks and other staff used ECT without anaesthetic, including on genitals. Many of those testifying to the commission described being electrocuted as punishment for minor misbehaviour. Others allege that Leeks made them electrocute other children. Speaking to the commission, expert witness Dr Barry Parsonson likened the alleged practices to those used by “state organs of terror, namely the Gestapo is a good example”.

The criminal investigation into Lake Alice has been running alongside the royal commission, and police said that their investigation included interviews with former staff of the unit, 63 former patients, and over 46,000 pages of documentary evidence.

Police said on Wednesday that an 89-year-old individual has been charged with wilful ill treatment of a child. They said in a statement that “Police also found sufficient evidence to charge two other former staff members with wilful ill-treatment of a child. However, both those individuals – including 92-year-old former child psychiatrist Selwyn Leeks – are now medically unfit to stand trial.

“It is important to note that this finding does not mean Mr Leeks is guilty of the alleged offence – he cannot be charged as he is unable to defend himself in court.”

He'll be unable to defend himself in a higher court when he stands before Jesus Christ, where only truth will be spoken.

“Police acknowledge the enormous impact these events have had on the lives of those former patients who were children and young people at Lake Alice in the 1970s, and the frustration of those who have been waiting for us to complete this investigation,” Det Supt Fitzgerald said.

“This operation involved unprecedented mass allegations, with complex legal arguments and expert medical evidence, so it was vital that we undertook a methodical and meticulous approach with thorough consideration of culpability.”

Over the past 50 years, both the police and New Zealand medical authorities had received multiple complaints about Leeks and Lake Alice, but those complaints did not result in censure or criminal charges.

After a settlement between victims and the New Zealand government in 2002, dozens of complainants’ files were forwarded to the police, but only one victim was interviewed, and in 2010, the police announced there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute.

Speaking to the commission in mid-2021, New Zealand police apologised to survivors for that investigation.

“Police did not accord sufficient priority and resources to the investigation of allegations of criminal offending” Fitzgerald said at the time. “This resulted in unacceptable delays in the investigation and meant that not all allegations were thoroughly investigated. The police wish to apologise to the Lake Alice survivors for these failings.”

Hayden Rattray, a lawyer representing Leeks at the royal commission had said: “Leeks has a right to give evidence and to make submissions. But he is, by virtue of his age and cognitive capacity, manifestly incapable of doing either.

“When he was cognitively capable of doing so, [Leeks has] always ardently maintained his innocence,” Rattray said.

Of course he did!

China subjected Uyghur Muslims to genocide through forced sterilisations,

abortions 'that must have been authorised at highest levels' tribunal finds

By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE and AFP

PUBLISHED: 13:26 EST, 9 December 2021

China subjected Uyghur Muslims to genocide through forced sterilisations and abortions authorised by Beijing's highest officials, a London tribunal has found.

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people in Xinjiang have been incarcerated without any justification, the tribunal's chair Sir Geoffrey Nice QC said on Thursday.

'This vast apparatus of state repression could not exist if a plan was not authorised at the highest levels,' he said as he delivered the tribunal's findings.

The panel probing alleged human rights abuses - made up of nine lawyers and human rights experts - published their opinion after hearing allegations of torture, rape and inhumane treatment at two evidence sessions this year. 

The panel said it was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that torture of thousands of Uyghurs had occurred, and upheld claims of imprisonment, forced transfer, enforced disappearances, rape and sexual violence, persecution and inhumane acts.

It added that that China's President Xi Jinping and other senior officials 'bear primary responsibility'. 

Beijing has dismissed the findings. 

China subjected Uyghur Muslims to genocide through forced sterilisations and abortions likely authorised by Beijing's highest officials, a London tribunal (pictured on Thursday) has found

The tribunal was set up at the request of the World Uyghur Congress, the largest group representing exiled Uyghurs, which lobbies the international community to act against China over the alleged abuses. 

In a 63-page report, the panel said there was no evidence of mass killing, which has been the traditional test of genocide under international law. 

Although some Uyghurs had been killed in detention, Nice said comparisons with the Nazi holocaust were unhelpful.

But the panel said it was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 'intended to destroy a significant part' of the Muslim Uyghur minority in the country's northwest and as such 'has committed genocide'. 

The CCP put in place 'a comprehensive system of measures to 'optimise' the population in Xinjiang' to reduce the Uyghur birth rate, including forced sterilisation, birth control and abortion.

Nice said China's treatment of the group amounted under the Geneva conventions to an intent to destroy all or part of a group, physically or biologically. The judgement, he said, largely rested on the suppression of births.

Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have been thrown into forced reeducation camps, forcibly sterilized and had their families broken up in a Chinese crackdown on the minority, the report says. Pictured: Images of Uyghurs in a camp in China, released in 2017

'The population of Uyghurs in future generations will be smaller than it would have been without these policies. This will result in a partial destruction of the Uyghurs,' the report said. 

'In accordance with the Genocide Convention's use of the word "destroy" this satisfies a prohibited act required for the proof of genocide.' 

Nice said that those that were detained by China were largely released after indoctrination. This was part of a central government plan, ordered by the most senior of officials, to reintegrate Xinjang province and break up Uyghur culture.

'Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs – with some estimates well in excess of a million – have been detained by PRC [People's Republic of China] authorities without any, or any remotely sufficient reason, and subjected to acts of unconscionable cruelty, depravity and inhumanity,' the tribunal's report says. 

'Sometimes up to 50 have been detained in a cell of 22 sq metres.' 

Some, the report says, sustained extreme sexual violence - including gang rapes and penetration with electric shock rods and iron bars. It also says women were raped by men paying to be allowed into the camp for that purpose.  

The tribunal found evidence of enforced abortions, removal of wombs from women against their will, killing of babies immediately after they were born, and mass enforced sterilisation through the use of IUD devices only removable by surgery.

Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of children have been taken from their families and put into boarding schools, mosques have been destroyed, religious practices have been banned, and burial grounds have been bulldozed or built over, it says. 

The report also says that there is evidence that some Uyghur were confined in containers up to their necks in cold water, shackled by metal chains, and immobilised for months on end. 

It also reported the intrusiveness of the Chinese state, pointing to mass coerced labour and intensive monitoring and facial surveillance. This, the report says, means parts of Xinjiang have become a sort of open prison.

Nice said the tribunal would not have been necessary if an international court had been asked by governments, fearful of Beijing retaliation, to investigate.

He added there was an obligation to know the truth about the suffering of fellow humans, and breaches of international human law. 

Beijing - which offered no cooperation to the tribunal - dismissed its findings, and said the congress 'paid for liars, bought rumours and gave false testimony in an attempt to concoct a political tool to smear China'.

'This so-called tribunal has neither any legal qualifications or any credibility,' the foreign ministry said, calling the hearings 'a political farce'.

China has slapped sanctions on Nice, who prosecuted the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes at the UN tribunal in The Hague.

He and the other members acknowledged that testimony came from people opposed to the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the CCP.

But they also examined thousands of pages of documentary evidence from independent researchers and human rights organisations.

The panel concluded that hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, and possibly more than one million, had been detained without cause, and treated cruelly and inhumanely.

It said it was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that torture had occurred 'by or at the instigation of, or with the consent or acquiescence of, public officials or other persons acting in official capacities of the PRC and/or CCP'.

It upheld claims of imprisonment, forced transfer, enforced disappearances, rape and sexual violence, persecution and inhumane acts to the same standard of proof.

'The tribunal is satisfied that a comprehensive plan for the enactment of multiple but interlinked policies targeting the Uyghurs had been formulated by the PRC,' it added, saying President Xi Jinping and other senior officials 'bear primary responsibility'.

The plight of the Uyghurs has contributed to worsening diplomatic relations between Western powers and Beijing, which denies any abuses.

The United States has called China's treatment of the Uyghurs genocide, and is mounting a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing with several other Western nations.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said Britain would join the boycott, in a move likely to fray ties further after London's repeated criticism of what it sees as creeping Chinese authoritarianism in Hong Kong.

But the British government has resisted calls for it to declare China's treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide, insisting it should be a matter for a court to decide.

The Uyghur Tribunal has no powers of sanction or enforcement and says it is for states and other bodies to consider its conclusions and decide whether to act on them.  

The findings come after China warned the UK, US, Canada and Australia they will 'pay the price' for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Washington announced its boycott earlier in the week, saying it was prompted by widespread rights abuses by China and what it sees as a 'genocide' against the Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang. 

The UK, Australia and Canada followed suit in a flurry of diplomatic bonhomie on Wednesday. The boycott stopped short of not sending athletes but nonetheless infuriated Beijing, which hinted at retaliation on Thursday.

'The US, Australia, Britain and Canada's use of the Olympic platform for political manipulation is unpopular and self-isolating, and they will inevitably pay the price for their wrongdoing,' foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters.

The veiled threat came as France said it would not boycott the February Games because 'sports is a world in itself, which must be protected from political interference.'

The Kremlin, however, criticised the US move, saying the 2022 games should be 'free of politics'. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already accepted an invitation by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to attend. 

Meanwhile International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday that he was staying politically neutral on the matter, while insisting the important point was 'the participation of the athletes in the Olympic Games'. 

Xinjiang, China

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Ex-Tory Campaign Manager GUILTY of

Online Child Sexual Abuse Offences

By James Smith, Politicalite

A FORMER campaign manager for the Conservative Party has admitted online child sexual abuse offences, after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

Mark Lerigo, 49, of Coventry, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to distributing indecent images of children (IIOC), three counts of making IIOC, one count of possessing extreme pornography involving animals, one count of possessing prohibited images of children and one count of publishing an obscene article.

NCA officers arrested Lerigo in November 2018. As well as the images, investigators found a WhatsApp chat with another offender discussing the sexual abuse of children.

Lerigo had an iPad which contained a total of 1,005 illegal images including 146 category A (the most serious) abuse pictures of children, and 258 images of extreme pornography.

He also had a laptop which contained evidence of a total of 414 illegal images – including 59 category A images.

He will be sentenced on 21 August.

Graham Ellis, NCA operations manager, said: “Offenders who view indecent images are fuelling more and more sexual abuse of children. Every time an abuse image is shared or viewed the child is revictimised.

“Child sexual abuse is a priority threat for the NCA. It doesn’t matter what walk of life an offender is from, we will do everything in our power to catch them.”

The NCA is responsible for developing the threat assessment for child sexual abuse (CSA) in the UK and orchestrating the response to it. As well as conducting its own investigations, the NCA is responsible for developing intelligence around cases and sharing them with policing partners for individual forces to investigate.

Between the start of the coronavirus lockdown on 23 March and 19 July, the NCA developed and disseminated 5,707 online CSA packages to UK policing.

During this time the agency has arrested 62 CSA offenders and safeguarded or protected 147 children.

At the start of lockdown the NCA launched its #OnlineSafetyAtHome campaign in response to the threat from CSA, to reach those most at risk. 

Resources aimed at parents, carers and children have now been downloaded nearly 450,000 times.

Child protection charity the Lucy Faithfull Foundation runs the Stop It Now! helpline which offers confidential advice to anyone concerned about their own or someone else’s behaviour towards children.

If you are concerned a crime has been committed against a child contact your local police. For child safety advice visit Thinkuknow.co.uk

Auckland man who tried to buy girl on Dark Web

loses name suppression

Edward Gay

DAVID WHITE/STUFF

Aaron Hutton has admitted charges of dealing in someone under the age of 18 for sexual exploitation and possessing 417 objectionable material images.

Aaron Joseph Hutton thought he was chatting to fellow paedophiles on the internet. Unbeknownst to him, he was actually talking to agents for the Department of Internal Affairs.

Hutton hid behind the profile name “Kiwipedo” on the secretive Dark Web, where he dealt in child sexual abuse images and tried to buy a girl under the age of 7.

On Thursday, Hutton admitted charges of dealing in someone under the age of 18 for sexual exploitation and possessing 417 objectionable material images.

But his name has been covered by a suppression order, which was lifted by Judge Allan Roberts on Friday.

According to court documents released to Stuff, the Department of Internal Affairs believed Hutton used the Dark Web to talk to other paedophiles and attempted to get access to a girl.

The Dark Web is an area of the internet that allows users to operate anonymously. While the Dark Web itself is not illegal, it does lend itself to illegal uses, such as the sale of drugs and weapons.

Aaron Hutton can now be named as the paedophile who used the profile name Kiwipedo on the Dark Web.
DAVID WHITE/STUFF

Hutton's conversations with other Dark Web users – secretly agents with the Department of International Affairs – show that he was looking for someone who could “traffic children internationally”.

He is said to have posted that he was “not wasting time” and was “serious!!!”

The pair then went on to exchange a number of messages over the following six weeks, with Hutton asking how the agent’s “search” was going and offering help.

In one message Hutton said: “As for the trafficking still keen just trying to organise my life so I can accept the item.”

He described the notorious Austrian sex offender Josef Fritzl as his “hero”. Fritzl kept his own daughter as a sex slave for 24 years in a cellar in their garden and fathered seven children with her.

Exactly how the DIA agents were able to identify Hutton as Kiwipedo is suppressed. However, Stuff is able to report that the agents used a tracing device that led them to Hutton’s workplace.

In August 2015, police and agents for the Department of Internal Affairs executed a search warrant at Hutton’s work. When agents searched his computer, they found traces of his Dark Web identity.

At his home, agents found drugs and another hard drive containing more than 400 images of children being sexually abused. Another device contained encrypted folders with the titles “Pure Evil & Darkness” and “Sick & Twisted”.

One of the hard drives contained a folder called Silk Road – the same name as an online black market accessible only on the Dark Web. Silk Road has since been shut down. Run by a man in the United States, it allowed users to browse anonymously and purchase child sex abuse material, people, weapons, drugs and even order assassinations.

That folder was inaccessible, however through a forensic application two other folders, called “illegal porn” and “child porn”, were found.

A password-protected excel file spreadsheet had a number of worksheets called “next week’s funds, smokes, child payments” on the bottom and included a number of online accounts.

Through forensic analysis, a file containing a number of search terms relating to child sex abuse material was found. The court heard this could have been a stored list for possible search terms for users on the Dark Web.

Hutton’s case took the best part of five years to come to trial. Three days into the evidence and shortly before the defence was due to open its case, Hutton pleaded guilty.

He will be sentenced in September.

Police unearth human foetus at home of Madrassa teacher accused of sexual assaulting daughter with 5 others

The Kasargod police have booked 6 persons including the victim’s father, a Madrassa teacher, for sexual assault.

Sreedevi Jayarajan, The News Minute

The Nileshwar police in Kasaragod unearthed a 3-month-old human foetus in the house of the Madrassa teacher, who was accused of sexually assaulting his 16-year-old daughter along with 5 other men.

The accused Madrassa teacher admitted that he had buried the foetus, which belonged to the minor child who was sexually abused, after an illegal abortion.

The evidence has now been sent for forensic examination by the Kasargod police. A case has also been registered against the doctor who conducted the illegal abortion.

The shocking case came to light on July 19, when the child’s maternal uncle complained to the police that he suspected sexual abuse.

Upon investigation, it was revealed that the 50-year-old Madrassa teacher had been repeatedly sexually abusing the minor for over two years. The police registered cases against the father and five other youths under various sections of the POCSO, Juvenile Justice Acts and the Indian Penal Code.

The accused have been identified as Mohammad Riyas, Mohammad Shareef, Ahmed, Eijas and Mohammad Ali, who have all now been arrested.

The child’s mother is being investigated for her possible role in the abuse. However, she is yet to be arrested,  Nileshwar police confirmed.

“We have registered cases under Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act (Punishment for Cruelty to Child), section 376 (2) (m) (punishment for rape), Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) section 5 read with 6 (punishment for aggravated penetrative sexual assault) and others,” an officer at the Nileshwar police station confirmed to TNM.

According to reports, the accused Madrassa teacher is a repeat offender, having cases in the Bekal station for abusing four minor boys in 2017. Although he was booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) act, he received bail in the case as the court proceedings dragged on.

A native of Karnataka, he came to Kasargod to teach in the Madrassa and was reported sacked after the sexual assault case was reported in the Bekal station. 

UK paedophile ‘used Amazon vouchers to buy

child sex abuse images online’

BY BRINKWIRE 

A paedophile teaching assistant who swapped Amazon vouchers for child sexual abuse pornography is facing jail.

Kevin Sheppard offered eight coupons worth £365 to an online seller in exchange for the sick footage between June and September 2018.

The 26-year-old, who worked at Huxlow Science College in Northamptonshire, admitted his desire for underage girls in a police interview. He requested a video of a 15-year-old girl from the seller, who is now under police investigation.

None of Sheppard’s offences were linked to the college and he resigned the day after officers arrested him in June 2019. He was detained at his home in Kettering where police recovered his iPhone and laptop.

Sheppard’s phone had an app which contained 46 category A (the most severe) images of child abuse; 19 category B and 35 category C. His laptop contained 17 category B videos of child sexual abuse and 10 category C images, Northampton Magistrates’ Court heard.

Sheppard admitted three counts of making indecent images of children (IIOC) between September 2014 and July 2019, and one count of encouraging the distribution of IIOC in July 2018.

NCA operations manager Robbie Slater said: ‘There is no greater priority for the NCA than protecting children from sexual abuse. Offenders like Sheppard who view indecent images fuel more and more sexual abuse of children.’

Steve Gordon, principal of Huxlow Science College, said: ‘We are appalled to learn of the conduct of a former teaching assistant. The safety of all students at our school is our highest priority and we have stringent procedures in place which have been fully complied with.

‘Immediately after his arrest, Mr Sheppard was no longer permitted to enter the school grounds and he resigned from his post. We are reassured that the NCA investigation confirmed that no students or school equipment were involved in any of the offences.’

Sheppard will be sentenced at Northampton Crown Court on 25 August.

Five Yorkshire men arrested in Rotherham child sex abuse investigation

They were arrested as part of the National Crime Agency's investigation Operation Stovewood

Five men from Yorkshire have been arrested in connection with allegations of abuse relating to four girls in Rotherham.

It is part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the alleged offences which are said to have taken place around 20 years ago. At the time the girls would have been aged between 11 and 16.

National Crime Agency officers working as part of Operation Stovewood made the arrests over the course of three days this week starting on Tuesday, July 28.

Four of the men arrested are from Rotherham and the other man from Leeds.

All were aged between 38 and 50. They were questioned and then released while investigations continue.

Philip Marshall, senior investigating officer for Operation Stovewood, said: “Our priority in all these investigations is to support victims, and I’d urge anyone who was the victim of child sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 to come speak to us in the strictest of confidence.

"We will do all we can to support you.

“Operations like those that have taken place this week demonstrate that we, together with partners in South Yorkshire, are determined to bring offenders to justice, and more arrests are to come.”

Victims or witnesses who might have information to help can find contact details on the Stovewood pages of the NCA's website.

Stovewood is the single largest law enforcement investigation into non-familial child sexual abuse (CSA) in the UK.

To date, 134 people have been arrested, with 20 convicted and sentenced to jail terms totaling 248 years.

And they are almost all Pakistani Muslims, which this cowardly report neglects to mention, thereby being guilty of the very same attitude that allowed the disgusting state of child trafficking to flourish in Rotherham for decades. 

Paedophile woman, 48, is jailed for 12 years after committing ‘exceptionally depraved’ sex assaults on a child in Teesside

By KATIE FEEHAN FOR MAILONLINE

A Teesside woman who committed a string of sex offences against a child has been jailed for 12 years.

Sandra O'Rourke sexually assaulted the victim and encouraged them to engage in sexual activity.

Teesside Crown Court heard how the 48-year-old also carried out sexual acts while she was in the child's presence. Richard Bennett, prosecuting, said the child was told to keep it a 'secret' and that nobody would believe them if they spoke out.

In a statement, read to the court by Mr Bennett, the victim was said to suffer from flashbacks and be receiving counselling.

O'Rourke, of Harbour Walk, Hartlepool, pleaded guilty to seven counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and four sexual assault charges. She also admitted two counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

Stephen Constantine, defending, said O'Rourke was under the influence of cannabis for a 'substantial' amount of the time the abuse took place.

He told Judge Stephen Ashurst that he 'can't do any better' than to remind him of the defendant's words. He said: 'She says this: "I'm angry with myself and disgusted with what has happened to say the least. I can't find the words to describe my remorse and regret for what has happened."

'She herself recognises that she must be punished, that she will engage with whatever help will be provided to her. 'I ask, your honour, to keep the inevitable sentence as short as you can in the circumstances.'

Judge Ashurst told O'Rourke that the crimes she committed were 'exceptionally depraved and serious'. He said her victim has flashbacks and believes they will never be able to forget what has happened.

Judge Ashurst sentenced O'Rourke to 12 years in prison with an extended licence period of one year.

Sgt Paul West from Cleveland Police's Child Abuse Vulnerable Adults (CAVA) unit said: 'The court heard in a victim impact statement how this offending has had a significant impact on the victim's life.

'I'd like to praise their bravery in coming forward and their strength throughout the court process. 'We welcome today's sentence and hope it will give the victim some closure.'

Meet the Maltese women who are speaking out on sexual abuse / child sexual abuse

NationalSociety
Claudia Calleja
Times of Malta

As the international Me Too movement gains momentum in Malta, several women are finally revealing their sexual abuse trauma. Claudia Calleja lifts the lid on their stories. 

Becky* was about 12 years old when her mother would leave her with her partner’s father, who she trusted. The mother never suspected he was sexually abusing her young daughter.

“I can’t remember how old I was. But I remember I used to like Teletubbies at the time... I don’t remember all of the abuse either. But I remember on seve­ral occasions he used to abuse me orally. At the time, the worst thing was I didn’t even think it was bad. I can’t remember how long this went on for either, but I know we moved far away and I never saw him again and he later died. My mother doesn’t know till this day,” wrote Becky.

She was one of the dozens of women who told her story of sexual abuse on the Facebook community page Women for Women.

Becky, who is now in her late 20s, consented that her story be published in Times of Malta on condition of anonymity to raise awareness of these realities.

Many others posted their experience in the closed Facebook group, under #MeTooMalta. These Maltese women joined the international #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and sexual abuse.

Many of the disturbing stories had common threads. The women often said they were abused when they were children or teens, and abused by people they trusted – relatives, friends and teachers. Some were too young to even realise what was happening, while others felt something was wrong and suffered psychological repercussions as they kept their shame bottled up for years.

Others managed to stop things before they got out of hand. Carmen* was one of them. Now in her early 30s, Carmen was about six years old when she, together with some other students, were summoned to the headmaster’s office “to read to him”.

“We were waiting in line outside his office... and at one point he called me, it was my turn. I started reading this book and at one point he told me to put the book down. Then he got both of my hands and put them on his groin... and started kind of rubbing... and rubbing my hands more and more. At one point (in hindsight) I remember I was like... uhhh... why is it getting so hard?

“And then my six-year-old me told him: mummy tells us not to touch other people’s private parts. I must have shocked him or something.

“He said: but it’s OK... then he stopped and told me to go back to class,” she wrote in her post, which she consented to Times of Malta to reproduce.

Carmen adds: “This specific headmaster has nowadays passed away. But the memories remain. Bottom line... always, always teach your kids about private parts from a young age.”

The need to change the law

Women for Women founder Francesca Fenech Conti was shocked at the number of women who came forward.

“I hope this response will act as a wake-up call to our authorities that we have a massive problem.

At one point he told me to put the book down.

Then he got both of my hands and put them on his groin

“We need to acknowledge it and dig deep and conduct research into the root causes to ensure our future generations of children do not suffer sexual abuse and trauma of this kind at the hands of those who are meant to protect them,” she said.

Francesca Fenech Conti

Many of the women who were abused as children cannot seek justice today since too much time has passed. As the law stands, crimes are time-barred after a number of years, depending on the severity of the case and the penalty associated with it. The higher the penalty, the longer the prescription period.

Lawyer Kaylie Chetcuti, who graduated last year, made this the focus of her dissertation titled ‘A study on the limitations of prescription in cases of rape, defilement and sexual assault in Maltese criminal law’.

Her recommendation is to amend the law to start the prescription period once the victim turns 18.

“Unfortunately, when children are abused it is often by people they trust, even parents. They do not know the system and their very abusers block them from reporting the crime.

“By the time they become adults, it’s too late to report,” she said, adding that turning 18 might offer more understanding and financial independence to victims wishing to report abuse.

Support for victims

Rebecca Farrugia, 28, is one of the founding members of online support group White Tulip Malta. She set it up last year following her personal experience nine years ago when she was sexually assaulted after being drugged by someone she trusted.

“I felt shock and shame for a very long time and never spoke up about what happened. Then one day I was speaking to a friend of mine and she told me about her experience when she was a child. I thought: ‘This is happening to many people. We are led to feel we have done something wrong.’ So out of anger and want to make a difference it was set up with the aim of offering education, compassion and empowerment,” she says.

This is happening to many people. 

We are led to feel we have done something wrong

NGO Victim Support Malta also provides a range of support services for victims of sexual assault and rape. This support ranges from access to a social worker (throughout the initial stages of accessing support, and to ensure that clients are well supported and well informed) and free access to psychotherapeutics, counsellors, and free legal support.

If one wishes to check whether or not the case can be prosecuted at law, VSM is able to offer free legal consultation, and to support the individual in filing the report if this can be done. For information, contact executive direc­tor Krista Tabone on 2122 8333 or krista@victimsupport.org.mt.

The Women’s Rights Foundation also offers free legal advice to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, hu­man trafficking and gender discrimination through a free legal helpline 8006 2149.

White Tulip can be reached via Facebook or by sending an e-mail to whitetulipmalta@gmail.com.

*Not their real names.

Forced Into Sterilisation, Sexual Violence, Uyghur Women Shine Light on Campaign of Control by Beijing

Uyghur exile Gulbakhar Jalilova says she suffered sexual abuse while she was held in detention centers in Xinjiang. (CNN)

For years, Uyghur women both inside Xinjiang and around the world have accused the Chinese government of a campaign of abuse, including forced sterilization, cultural indoctrination and incidents of sexual violence.

CNN

Zumrat Dawut said she was forcibly sterilized by the Chinese government for having one too many children.

A former resident of Urumqi, the capital of China's western Xinjiang region, the 38-year-old Uyghur woman said she was fined 18,400 yuan ($2,600) in 2018 for having three children, one more than she was allowed to under Chinese rule.

When she went to pay the fine, Dawut said she was told she'd also need to have a mandatory "birth control procedure."

She said she was taken to a clinic, where she was hooked up to an IV and given a general anesthetic. A local doctor later told her she'd undergone a tubal ligation, a procedure that uses keyhole surgery to clip, cut or tie a woman's fallopian tubes.

The doctor said the procedure was permanent -- she wouldn't be able to have any more children.

Dawut's story is not unique. For years, Uyghur women both inside Xinjiang and around the world have accused the Chinese government of a campaign of abuse, including forced sterilization, cultural indoctrination and incidents of sexual violence.

It's part of a wider pattern of human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang, where authorities are accused of detaining up to two million Muslim-majority Uyghurs and other minority ethnic groups inside vast, fortified centers as part of efforts to enforce greater control over the region.

Rahima Mahmut, a Xinjiang exile and project director for the World Uyghur Congress in London, said women in Xinjiang are living in "hell."

"Just like any genocide, women are always the number one target ... There is a very, very serious crime happening at such a large scale," she said.

The Chinese government has consistently denied all allegations, presenting its efforts in Xinjiang as legal and necessary measures to prevent extremism, and has used a series of what state-run media refers to as terrorist attacks in 2014 and 2015 to justify its crackdown.

It has also attempted to discredit Dawut's account specifically, with the state-owned newspaper the Global Times quoting claims from her own brother that she's "peddling lies online."

CRACKDOWN ON WOMEN

Beijing has a history of policing women's reproductive rights as part of the "one-child policy," a mass campaign to slow birth rates in China. From its introduction in 1980, the policy officially saw 400 million births "prevented," amid reports of state-enforced abortions and mandatory contraception.

The one-child policy was changed to allow two children in 2015 amid a rapidly-shrinking birth rate. In Xinjiang, rural couples are allowed to have up to three children, which authorities claim is out of respect for ethnic minorities' cultural traditions of large families.

Now a new report, titled "The (Chinese Communist Party's) campaign to suppress Uyghur birthrates in Xinjiang," alleges that Beijing is trying to reduce the Uyghur population through enforced contraception and sterilizations.

It was compiled by Adrian Zenz, a leading Xinjiang scholar, and is backed up by years of witness reports and statements from women both in Xinjiang and around the world.

Xinjiang is culturally and ethnically different from the rest of China, with a large population of Turkic minority groups who until recently were the majority in the region. For years, the region has maintained an uneasy relationship with the government in Beijing.

For some reason, this report refuses to point out the Uyghurs are almost entirely Muslim. Consequently, their allegiance is to Mohammed, not to the CCP. This is intolerable to Communists.

For decades, Zenz said Uyghurs often had larger families than officially permitted, sometimes with as many as nine or 10 children, and when authorities decided to discipline them it was usually only a fine.

But beginning in 2017, Zenz quotes official Chinese government policy directives calling on administrators to "severely attack behaviors that violate family planning (policies)." From that year onwards, minority regions began a "special campaign to control birth control violations."

According to the report, the stricter enforcement led to increased prosecutions of birth control violators and harsher punishments.

Xinjiang accounted for 80% of new IUD insertions throughout China in 2018, according to official government records outlined in the report and confirmed by CNN. The statistics are primarily due to a massive drop in the use of IUDs in the rest of the country, as Beijing pushes women in the rest of China to have more children.

In Xinjiang, the opposite is happening. There, the number of sterilizations has skyrocketed, according to government records. In 2014, the year before the start of the government crackdown in Xinjiang, there were 3,214 sterilizations in the region -- in 2018, there were 60,440.

In his report, Zenz claimed that as a result of these policies, the natural birth rate in parts of Xinjiang with a large Uyghur population had seen a significant decrease in population growth.

According to Zenz's calculations, across all parts of Xinjiang predominantly populated by Turkic minorities, natural population growth dropped from more than 15% in 2014 to just over 4% in 2018.

Zenz estimated the birthrates by combining official Chinese government statistics for Xinjiang prefectures and weighting them by population. Worryingly, Zenz said that some predominantly Uyghur prefectures such as Kashgar didn't publish their population growth rates at all in 2019.

The Global Times news outlet has claimed that Zenz's math is wrong, and attributed the slower population growth to increased education and income levels in Xinjiang.

In response to the report, the Chinese government said that between 1978 and 2018, the Uyghur population in Xinjiang had grown from 5.5 million to more than 11 million.

However, Zenz claims that he has found evidence of a deliberate campaign to control Uyghur population growth that goes far beyond stricter enforcement of the two-child policy.

The report claims that Chinese authorities imposed targets for up to 80% of child-bearing women in four southern prefectures, with large Uyghur populations, to undergo "birth control measures with long-term effectiveness."

In some cases, women had IUDs inserted after only their first child, according to Zenz's report.

"China is trying to reduce birth rates in Xinjiang because this was a region where birth rates were the higher than the rest of the country. And in a sense it was seen to be out of control. And of course it makes the Uyghurs harder to control. The more people you have, the harder they are to account for," Zenz said.

The report also aligns with witness testimony from Xinjiang detention centers where multiple women have described being given injections and pills which stopped their periods.

Uyghur exile Dawut said she spent about three months in a detention center from March 2018. Inside the center, she said she was forcibly given medication, after which she stopped menstruating.

CNN spoke to an ethnic Uyghur and doctor from Xinjiang, who asked to go only by her first name, Gulgine, for fear of retribution.

Gulgine fled to Turkey in 2012 and set up a clinic in Istanbul in 2013. She said since then she has examined around 300 exiled Uyghur women from Xinjiang, and almost all of them had some form of birth control. About 80 had been sterilized.

Many of the women who had been permanently sterilized told Gulgine that they didn't know they had undergone the procedure until she told them.

Zenz said that his findings were the firmest proof yet of "genocide" in Xinjiang. "It specifically fulfills one of the five criteria of the United Nations convention for the prevention of genocide, which is the suppression of births," he said.

There is much more on this horrible story on News18.

Xinjiang, China