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Pakistan: Landlord chops off teen’s legs for refusing order in Muzaffargarh

Published:  October 07, 2020 18:44

Falah Gulzar, Social Media Reporter, Gulf News

  

In Pakistan’s Muzaffargarh city in the province of Punjab, a landlord chopped off both legs of a youngster for not lending him a tractor on October 6.

The incident occurred in the Alipur area of the city.

Furious at the teenager’s refusal, the man, along with his accomplices, subjected the youth to severe torture and chopped off both his legs.

On being informed, police and rescue officials rushed to the scene and took the teenager to a local hospital in critical condition. Meanwhile, the landlord managed to escape from the scene, according to local media reports.

While details are unclear, it is speculated that the victim worked for the accused.

The police have registered a case against the culprit and launched an investigation into the incident, according to reports.

Earlier on August 2, a landlord in the state had beaten his seven-year-old female domestic helper with rods and sticks in Dera Ghazi Khan.

According to local media reports, the victim, Farzana Sanjrani was living at the residence of the accused Kaleem Ullah Khan.

The girl was shifted to a local hospital for medical treatment. The police registered a case against the accused and arrested him after carrying out raids.

Pakistan: 70-year-old rickshaw driver arrested for allegedly

sexually abusing minor girl in Rawalpindi

Afshan Colony locals reportedly caught the accused red-handed and beat him up

Published:  October 09, 2020 17:45

Falah Gulzar, Social Media Reporter, Gulf News

  

Police in the province of Punjab, in Pakistan, have arrested a 70-year-old rickshaw driver on charges of attempting to sexually assault a minor girl.

According to news reports, the accused, identified as Abid Hussain, allegedly sexually abused the minor, a seven-year-old girl in Afshan Colony in Rawalpindi city. He lured her with promises of giving her a ride on his rickshaw.

Reportedly, the residents of the area caught the offender red-handed. When the locals caught the man, they beat him up before handing him to the police officials who arrived at the scene.

Police have registered a case against the man, based on the complaint of the father of the girl.

Tweeting about the arrest, Rawalpindi police said that they arrested the accused within an hour of the act.

Further investigations are underway, and Station House Officer (SHO) Imran Abbas has reassured the family that further legal action will be taken against the accused, local news outlets reported.

India: Woman raped at gunpoint in Uttar Pradesh’s

Muzaffarnagar, accused arrested

The incident comes weeks after Hathras rape case

Published:  October 06, 2020 20:05

Falah Gulzar, Social Media Reporter, Gulf News

  

A woman was allegedly raped by a man at gunpoint in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, following which the accused was arrested on October 5.

The incident occurred in the city of Muzaffarnagar on October 4.

According to a complaint lodged by the victim, the man allegedly raped her in a sugarcane field on Sunday.

A case was registered against the accused, identified as 26-year-old Shravan Kumar and he was arrested, police told local media outlets.

The incident comes weeks after a 19-year-old woman was gang-raped in Hathras district in the state by four men. After fighting for her life for two weeks, she died in a hospital in Delhi.

The Hathras victim's brother claimed that no arrests were made in the first 10 days after the incident took place. After her death, the victim was cremated by the police without the consent of her family, however, according to a government affidavit district administration convinced her parents to carry out the cremation.

The incident caused an uproar across social media and sparked protests by activists and the political opposition.

India: 30-year-old man arrested for raping five-y/o in Mumbai

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Angry Twitter users in India are demanding severe punishment for rapists

Published:  October 07, 2020 13:18

Evangeline Elsa, Social Media Editor, Gulf News

  

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl on Monday. The shocking incident has left Indian social media users angry at the rising instances of rape in the country and the lack of immediate judicial action.

Police officials told news media outlets that the man was an acquaintance of the girl’s father. An official said that the accused knew the family and would often visit their residence in Mumbai's suburb Goregaon.

On Monday afternoon, the accused visited the girl’s home and found her alone. Taking advantage of the situation, he sexually assaulted the girl.

The girl's elder brother reached home around the same time and immediately alerted his neighbours. He also quickly informed his parents about the incident.

The parents went to the local police station and lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against the accused, the official added.

According to news reports, cops arrested the accused on the same day. Police have charged him under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for rape, and also under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).

Many took to Twitter to urge severe punishment. @athimoolamias posted: “It is very sad... The culprit should be punished severely.”

Tweep @MadMonkIndie wrote: “These men are not scared of the consequences, they are so consumed by evil that they commit this sort of a crime with a child… Such people have no guilt.”

According to India’s National Crimes Records Bureau, in 2016 the rape of minor girls increased by 82 percent compared with the previous year. And, across all rape cases, 95 per cent of rapists were not strangers but family, friends, and neighbours.

Tweep @liyakat7070 added: “Minors easily targeted by rapists, so parents have to take extra care of them.”

India: 16-y/o pregnant girl strangled to death by father for 'shaming' family

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The UP girl had remained quiet after she was allegedly raped by an acquaintance

Published:  October 07, 2020 

Evangeline Elsa, Social Media Editor, Gulf News

  

A 16-year-old pregnant girl was allegedly killed by her father and elder brother in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for “bringing shame to the family”. Apparently, the Dalit (lowest caste in India's outlawed caste system) girl had been raped by an acquaintance and gotten pregnant.

The shocking incident came to light on Tuesday after the police found the mutilated body of the girl, buried in a riverbed, in the Shahjahanpur district of the state. The police identified the girl and reached her family for further details.

According to an Indian news report, when the police asked them about the girl, the family initially said that she was living with a relative. Later, the father of the girl confessed to the crime. A police official said: “The father has confessed to having killed his daughter because she was pregnant, and people had started insulting him publicly.”

Police found that the girl had remained silent about the alleged rape, till her baby bump betrayed her ordeal.

When the news of the unmarried girl’s pregnancy spread in the village, villagers started insulting her family members, who felt ashamed. The father and brother of the girl beat her up and strangled her to death. Her body was then decapitated and buried in a nearby riverbed.

The police said: “The girl’s elder brother is also involved in the murder, and we have booked both of them under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. We have also questioned the mother and other relatives, but we didn’t find their involvement in the murder.”

According to the police, the minor girl didn’t reveal the name of the rapist to the family. Police are now trying to find the accused.

This will go down as another honour-killing, but it has nothing to do with honour and everything to do with pride. The men are unable to accept insults because their pride is too strong, even as Dalits. They would rather torture and murder their daughter or sister than to be insulted. How pathetic they are as men.

India: Man’s hand cut off by teenager after he tried to rape her sister

Incident took place in remote village of Andhra Pradesh

Published:  October 09, 2020 14:46

Mohammad Siddique, Correspondent, Gulf News

  

Hyderabad: A brave teenager cut the hand off a man using a sickle after he tired to rape her sister in a remote village of Andhra Pradesh.

According to the police the incident occurred in Tirumalareddipalli village of Chittoor district when a 15 year old girl had gone into a forest for grazing the cattle. A labourer by the name of Sankarappa followed her and sexually attacked her.

On hearing her cries, her elder sister rushed to help her. As Sankarappa did not pay heed to her warning, the elder sister attacked him with a sickle and cut his hand off to release her sister from his clutches.

I'm so proud of you, big sister. God bless you!

A terrified Sankarappa fled from the scene to escape from further attacks. Later both the sisters with their parents lodged a complaint at the Ramasundaram police station.

Sub-inspector of police G Ravi Kumar said, “we have arrested Sankarappa and admitted to a hospital for treatment of his injuries”.

Police have booked a case against Sankarappa under various sections of Protection of Chidren from Sexual Offences, and Indian Penal Code on charges of stalking, making unwelcome sexual advances and violating the modesty of a minor girl.

India: A 15-y/o girl allegedly raped, beaten by her father in Odisha

The girl said her father threatened her with dire consequences if she told anyone

Published:  October 08, 2020 20:30

Evangeline Elsa, Social Media Editor, Gulf News

  

This week, a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father in a village in the Indian state of Odisha. The incident happened in the state’s Kendrapara district on Tuesday night.

According to an Indian news report, the victim went to a nearby police station to complain on Wednesday. She alleged that her father, Debaraj Dalei, a truck driver, had not only raped her but also assaulted her when she protested.

The victim, a student of grade 10, said that her 45-year-old father threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed the matter to anyone.

Apparently, the accused has four sons and three daughters, and the victim is the eldest.

A Kendrapara police official said that they had filed a First Information Report (FIR) against the accused under relevant sections of the Indian Penal code and the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act.

Police also sent the victim for a medical examination at a district hospital.

The police were not able to arrest the accused, because he fled the village after committing the crime. The police official added that a manhunt had been launched to nab him.

IPL in UAE: CSK captain Dhoni's 5 y/o daughter Ziva

gets rape threats for dad's failure

Social media threats followed Chennai Super Kings' loss to Kolkata Knight Riders

IPL is the Indian Premier League of cricket. Teams are cloistered in UAE. Both teams involved are Indian teams and the threats appear to come from Chennai fanatic fans.

Published:  October 09, 2020 21:33

IANS

  

Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni wears a black armband in the match against Delhi Capitals.

Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni (File photo) Image Credit: Ron Gaunt / Sportzpics for BCCI

New Delhi: In a disturbing incident, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's five-year-old daughter Ziva received rape threats from social media trolls following Chennai Super Kings' loss to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Tuesday night.

CSK failed to chase a 168-run target, losing the game to KKR by 10 runs.

Dhoni's wife, Sakshi, got the threats on her Instagram account. The threats created an outrage on social media, especially from women.

Actor-turned-politician Nagma tweeted, "Where are we headed as a Nation? It's disgusting Dhoni's 5-Year-Old Daughter Ziva is Getting Rape Threats after CSK Lost IPL Match to KKR. Mr #PM what is this happening In our country??"

This tweet belies the naivety of many Indian politicians with regard to just how much child sexual abuse occurs in the country. It's not so much 'where you're headed' as to 'where you are'. This is not unusual behaviour for anywhere on the sub-continent, in my humble opinion.

 

Sowmya Reddy, MLA from Jayanagara, Karnataka, wrote on her timeline, "This is just nasty! What's happening to our country? Where are we heading?"

Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi tweeted, "This has to be the most disgusting example of how social media platforms are being misused."

Nope! Not even close! If you know where to look, you can find lots of 5 y/os actually being raped on video, and some even being murdered afterwards, or during.

Fans have often taken out their ire on the players. In earlier days, they have even pelted stones at players' homes, burnt posters and shouted abuses.

However, targeting the daughter of a player in such a way has been unheard of before.

That's not to say it never happened, just that it was never announced beforehand prior to social media.

No Justice for CSA Victims on Sub-Continent and Many More Stories on Today's Global PnP List

Kasur sex abuse victims appeal to CJP for retrial, fulfilment of govt promises

In February, I wrote that Kashmir was the Worst Place in the World to be a Child Sex Abuse Victim. It is quite obvious that Pakistan is not much better, if better at all.

National8 BY ABDULLAH NIAZI

LAHORE: Victims of the 2015 Kasur child sex abuse scandal are appealing to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar to grant them retrials as their ongoing cases draw closer, claiming that they have been misled by NGOs, pro bono lawyers and members of the media during the course of the past few years.

A letter penned by Danish Ali, one of the victims of the 2015 scandal, has asked the CJP to take suo motu notice of the government’s inability to fulfil their promises towards the victims.

The 19-year-old Danish Ali, who has emerged as a leader among the victimised boys, talking to Pakistan Today tells a tale of ostracisation, victim blaming and constant sidelining by the government and their own people.

Expressing lack of hope from the ongoing court proceedings, he said that he is pleading with the chief justice to intervene and give him and his friends justice.

“I have noticed that the chief justice has been taking up a lot of cases, so I would implore him to take up ours as well,” he said.

“Some of the perpetrators against whom there is video evidence had already been released last year (5th story on link) by the anti-terrorism court (ATC). We were made promises by the government that we would be provided lawyers and that our education would be taken care of, but none of this has come to fruition,” he added.

“How can the current cases be considered justice? Our cases have become so muddled that we do not even know what we are fighting for anymore. We are ostracised in our own city. We have been taunted and harrassed to the extent that fake First Information Reports (FIR) have been registered against us and many of us have had to leave Kasur,” he said.

Danish further said that when the story of the abuse scandal broke out back in 2015, a number of people and lawyers had promised to help and support them, but later disappeared after getting as much publicity as they could from the incident.

“Our case was picked up by some NGOs and lawyers such as Latif Sattar, however they would never appear in court and would weaken our case as they were only looking for fame through the case and not to our situation,” he revealed.

“The government had also promised to provide us legal aid but we are yet to see any of this. Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif himself promised to take care of our education but we are still lagging behind because of the time we missed,” complained Danish, who is still trying to clear the second part of his intermediate examinations while many of his friends have graduated already.

Meanwhile, Hassan Niazi, who is lawyer to Danish and many other victims told Pakistan Today that a retrial had become a necessity by all legal standings.

“An unfair trial has been dragging on since 2015 which has caused the victims financial and social challenges. They are the victims but they are being further victimised and pushed into the corner,” he said.

“Some of these kids have been forced to accept paltry sums as compensation money to ruin their cases. Others are being defamed with fake FIRs and their case dirtied. At this rate, any decision will be a clear miscarriage of justice,” the lawyer said.

The lawyer also asserted that this was one of the biggest cases in the country and it was shocking that such a blatant miscarriage of justice should happen in it.

Seriously, Niazi, it is not shocking! A just and fair trial would have been shocking!

Kasur, Pakistan

But then, India is not much better either. The entire sub-continent is a dreadful place to be a child sex abuse victim and is, unfortunately, one area of the world where children are most likely to become victims of child sex abuse. It is rampant there and has been for centuries.

Child sexual abuse victims face hurdles

at every step in India

Sonam Saigal

Report brought out by Majlis, an NGO, highlights the problems they face at police station, hospital, court, child welfare committee, and govt. dept.

Mumbai: Victims of child sexual abuse face hardships when they approach the police, hospital, child welfare committee (CWC), court, and even the department of women and child development. Majlis, a non-governmental organisation, which has been working with such cases for the last 25 years, released a report, highlighting the teething problems in the system, at Jan Sunvayi (public hearing) on Tuesday.

Hours at police station

The report says filing an FIR and recording the victim’s statement takes around seven hours. Even though the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) states the statement can be recorded at a venue of the victim’s choice, the child is still brought to the police station. The victim is taken for a medical examination in the middle of the night or early morning immediately after the registration of the FIR, even though there is no emergency or likelihood of loss of evidence. The police record the victim’s statement, take for a medical test, and then take the child to the place of offence, without a break, and this lasts about 15 hours. Besides, there is usually a delay of weeks in the submission of the FIR.

Trauma at hospitals

The medical examination, the report points out, takes about nearly eight hours to complete. There is no single window, and the child has to keep visiting different departments. In several hospitals, the process takes almost four days due to lack of doctors. If the victim goes directly to the hospital, there is an inordinate delay in informing the police. Many times, the victim is not given a copy of the medical examination. Many hospitals have one-stop-help centres to report CSA cases to the CWC, but they fail to do so.

No relief at court

Majlis says there is an inordinate delay in recording the evidence of the victim, which often results in the victim turning hostile or getting pressured by the defence. Special courts are designated to hear the POCSO cases, but some judges and prosecutors lack the specialised training to handle sensitive cases. Public prosecutors do not spend adequate time studying the facts due to which objections are not raised during cross-examination. A better coordination between the police and the public prosecutor is essential to ensure a strong charge sheet. Some judges and public prosecutors are not well-versed with the role of ‘support person’ (a person assigned by the CWC to assist the child through investigation and trial).

CWC has no time

A thorough home investigation report, care plan, and progress report for each case at a child care institution is the CWC’s priority. It is required to hold sittings at different children’s homes to ensure accessibility, which rarely occurs. Some CWCs do not have fixed days and timings for sittings, resulting in inconvenience to the victim and family. There is no standardised method of maintaining documents, records, and hearings before the committee, and lack of digitisation leads to a loss of dockets.

Delay in disbursement

Recent changes to the Manodhariya scheme have caused a delay in disbursement of compensation. The department of women and child development has failed to set up ‘district trauma teams’ in each district as per the government resolution. There are also issues like vacancies in the CWC, non-payment of honorarium to members, and lack of adequate infrastructure.

Adelaide archbishop's fate in the balance

A NSW magistrate is considering a submission from Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson to drop the case against the clergyman involving claims he covered up child sex abuse by a fellow priest.

After prosecutor Gareth Harrison formally closed the crown case against Wilson in the Newcastle Local Court on Tuesday, defence barrister Stephen Odgers SC handed up a detailed "no case to answer" submission to magistrate Robert Stone.

Mr Odgers noted the density of the material and suggested the magistrate would need some time to go over it before deciding if the case against Wilson should be dropped.

The defence lawyer said the submission dealt with evidence from two former altar boys who claim they told Wilson in 1976 how priest James Fletcher had sexually abused them.

One of Fletcher's victims, Peter Creigh, says Wilson had a "look of horror" when he told him about the abuse but never reported the matter to police.

The second victim, who can't be named, states Wilson told him the abuse claims were lies because Fletcher "was a good bloke".

Wilson, 67, is the most senior Catholic official in the world to be charged with concealing child sex assault.

That is not quite true: French cardinal to stand trial (7th story on link) in child sex abuse cover-up.

Fletcher was found guilty in December 2004 of nine counts of child sexual abuse and died in jail of a stroke in January 2006.

Mr Odgers told the court on Tuesday the "no case" submission questioned if the evidence from the two former altar boys proved Wilson had a tendency to conceal child sex abuse by the Catholic clergy.

The defence barrister had earlier told the court Wilson did not dispute meeting Mr Creigh in 1976 but believed he had a false memory when it came to discussing Fletcher's abuse.

Mr Stone adjourned the trial to Tuesday afternoon to give him time to consider the defence submission which is the fourth time Wilson's lawyers have attempted to have the case thrown out.

The magistrate in February 2016 initially refused to quash or permanently stay the proceedings and then a NSW Supreme Court judge dismissed the archbishop's appeal against that decision eight months later. The NSW Court of Appeal also ruled against Wilson in mid-2017.

The case finally began in December after Wilson was found fit to stand trial despite being diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

And he's questioning the memory of the survivors?

Jury told to keep open mind in historical N.Z.

child sexual abuse trial

The jury in the trial of a man accused of historical sexual abuse against his daughter and niece have been told to keep an open mind while hearing the evidence.

The Hawke's Bay man, who cannot be named, is standing trial in the Napier District Court after pleading not guilty to 11 charges of molesting his daughter and niece more than four decades ago.

Yesterday, Monday, the jury of seven males and five females were told by the man's defence lawyer Bill Calver the charges were historical, the oldest dating back 46 years.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to rape, attempted rape, four charges of indecency with a girl aged between 12 and 16 and five charges of indecency with a girl under 12 years old. Most of the charges are representative.

In her opening address, Crown prosecutor Jo Rielly said the daughter's account of events was that the defendant began molesting her when she was a young child, often telling her to go to her bedroom while other adults weren't around.

"She said he would tell her to be quiet and never to tell anyone, especially not mum."

The prosecutor said he would perform sexual acts on her on a regular basis, normally around bedtime, and that these acts progressed to what she would later learn was sexual intercourse.

"She would pick a spot on the ceiling and look at it while this was happening until it finished," Ms Rielly said.

Calver told the jury to wait until they had heard all of the evidence before making up their minds.

"The defence in this case is quite simple; [the defendant] is not a child molester. He didn't interfere with his daughter, he did not interfere with his niece and by the way he did not attempt to interfere with his granddaughter."

The court was told the jury would hear from the defendant's granddaughter, one of the complainant's daughters, as a propensity witness in support of the Crown's case.

The alleged offending was said to have occurred in Auckland and Hawke's Bay between the early 1970s and 80s; a timeframe that came to the fore when the defendant's niece was called as a witness yesterday afternoon.

The court had heard the woman was molested by the defendant in the bed she slept in when visiting his home in the school holidays, often on occasions when other adults had left the property to play housie.

"She remembers waking to him pulling the covers off ... and putting his hand down the front [of] her pants and underwear ... she said she would lie still with her eyes closed because she was frightened," Rielly said.

In cross-examination, Calver put to the woman that what she alleged occurred at the man's home when she was 12 years old could not have happened as property records showed the house wasn't built until she was at least 14.

The woman said she couldn't remember, having earlier recalled being touched when she was 12.

The court heard the woman hadn't told anyone about what had happened despite seeing the defendant several times in the years that followed her childhood.

"I haven't really spoken a lot about it ... I haven't told her [the defendant's daughter] anything at all about what he'd done to me. I haven't told anybody. My children don't even know and some of them are adults."

The trial is set down for the remainder of the week with the Crown set to call five witnesses, including the defendant's ex-wife.

Woman takes stand to testify against father in historical N.Z. sex abuse trial

The jury in the trial of a Hawke's Bay man accused of historical sexual abuse has heard from his daughter. Photo/FileThe jury in the trial of a Hawke's Bay man accused of historical sexual abuse has heard from his daughter. Photo/File

Hawkes Bay Today

A woman has told a jury she kept quiet about being molested by her father until her brother took his own life.

A Hawke's Bay man, who cannot be named, is standing trial in the Napier District Court this week after pleading not guilty to 11 charges that allege he molested his daughter and niece decades ago.

Yesterday, Tuesday, the man's daughter took the stand and told the jury of seven males and five females her father molested her as a child so regularly "it was normal".

The court heard the woman had vague memories of being touched as a baby in nappies and would be ordered to her father's room to lie on his bed so he could touch her in later years.

"I remember he would spit on his hands and use that spit to rub on my private parts."

"When you're a little baby you don't understand what these things are...You just do what your mum and dad tell you to do and you don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing."

The defendant pleaded not guilty to rape, attempted rape, four charges of indecency with a girl aged between 12 and 16 and five charges of indecency with a girl under 12 years old.

The charges, most of which are representative, are historical, the oldest dating back 46 years.

Yesterday the man's daughter told the court she didn't tell anyone about the alleged offending until she was about 17 years old at a family get-together.

"I told them everything that had been going on. I didn't go into the little details."

The jury heard her father called her shortly after she spoke out to her family and gave what she thought was a sincere apology.

"He said 'sorry'. I really believe he was sincerely sorry at that time," the woman said.

In cross-examination the man's defence lawyer Bill Calver asked the woman if her brother's death was the "catalyst" for taking her father to court.

"That was a breaking point, a changing point," she said. "Where it was no longer [able] to be swept under the carpet, the things we endured, now that a life has gone."

Calver put to her that her allegations were false and had been made to "get back" at her father for things that had happened in both her and her brother's lives.

"I don't have to get back at him I just need to speak up and tell the truth," the woman said.

The trial continues.

Hawkes Bay, NZ (centre)

Paedophile David Lindner hid a heart of darkness

Tim Clarke  |  The West Australian

To those who knew David Lindner - or thought they knew him - in the south-west, he seemed like the kind of man you wished there were more of in your community.

In between caretaking and nurturing the gorgeous gardens of a beautiful beachtown property, Lindner was active in his local church and more active in his own grassroots organisation, Desert Heart Outreach.

Working with the Aboriginal communities living in central Australia, Lindner said it was now his life’s work to build community vegetable gardens so those there could improve nutrition and well-being through what they ate.

So worthy was the cause that Bunnings donated a trailer full of equipment, and other organisations boxes of clothes, for a Lindner-led trip to the Northern Territory.

“I am hoping to plant citrus trees, apparently citrus trees do really well out there and the children love oranges, we brought a couple of sack loads from Alice Springs and the children ate them like lollies,” Lindner told the local newspaper upon his return in June 2016.

What a great guy.

Except he wasn’t. Beneath Lindner’s silver beard and sweet smile lay a heart of darkness, grown from a childhood of abuse and tragedy which he then passed on, first to his own family, and then to others - an horrific legacy that will live with those families forever.

Even as Lindner was telling the public about his good works, in private he had been dishing out horrendous sexual abuse to a young boy trusted to him by a local family.

And that trust had been placed in a man who WA Police knew already had an horrific track record - having been deported from Canada part way through a prison term for raping his 12 year-old stepson.

What local police exactly knew about Lindner, and what they did to monitor him, is now the subject of serious questions at the highest level of police and state government.

Having been born in Adelaide, North American authorities sent him back to Australia, and he made his way to Perth and then south.

Once there he presented as a public pillar of the community.

But in private he battled his own demons, borne of sexual abuse in his own childhood by a pastor and then a Sunday school teacher, which he would eventually detail to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

“In a sense, this is a full cycle of that abuse,” Judge Laurie Levy said during his sentencing.

“The abuser abuses the victim. The victim then becomes the abuser.”

This unfortunate report fails to tell us what he was actually sentence to and what he was actually sentenced for. Guess we will have to wait for more reports to come out.

Sexual Abuse: Group Condemns Recurrence Among Nigerian Girls-Child

Girls and Youth Re-integration Network (GYRIN), an NGO, has decried the recurring sexual abuse among girl-children in the country.

It described such abuse as sad and a total deviation from the norms.

Ms Kehinde Awujoola, Founder of the NGO, said this while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja.

She noted that the ugly trend of the girl-child abuse must be arrested forthwith, adding that a nation with such menace will degenerate and alter the future of the girl-child.

Awujoola canvassed for capital punishment for perpetrators of such dastard act, suggesting that anyone caught with such act should be sentenced to 10 years imprison with hard labour.

She condemned the recent abuse of a school-girl by her teacher in a school in Lagos State, stressing that such people posed threat to the country and their activities inimical to the teaching environment.

The founder of GYRIN called for vigilance in and around schools across the country, adding that many children have fallen victims of such acts without the boldness to expose them.

She recommended measures to curtail such abuse, including the imperative to teach and talk to children about body at their formative stage.

Awujoola said that the girls must be taught that some body parts are private and a no-go area for the opposite sex, which must not be touched.

She said that the girl-child should know that no one should take pictures of their private parts including their relatives.

She called on parents to be vigilant and quickly respond when they notice any changes in their girl-child, advising that parents to take up the responsibility of checking up their children and wards often.

UK Muslim man guilty of historic child abuse 

Court news STEWART CARR

A man has been found guilty of two counts of child sexual abuse dating back ten years after a trial at Luton Crown Court. 

Faisal Ahmed, 42, of Maple Road West, Luton, appeared at Luton Crown Court on Friday (6 April) where he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child. 

In 2006 Ahmed began grooming his victim, then aged just 15, after he met her at a local leisure centre. He would buy her alcohol or cigarettes, as well as giving her a new phone, before getting her drunk and having sex with her. 

Ahmed continued exploiting the girl, including taking her on a shopping trip before forcing her to engage in more sexual activity. 

DS Sandra Wharton said: “This was a clear case of child sexual exploitation. Ahmed took advantage of the vulnerability of his victim, plying her with gifts and alcohol and manipulating her into having sex with him, despite knowing how young she was." 

“We will not tolerate any form of child sexual abuse and we’re pleased that despite the length of time since the offences took place, we have managed to secure a conviction against Ahmed. “We hope this will give other people the confidence to come forward and report abuse, no matter how long ago it may have taken place. 

“We work closely with all of our partner agencies to protect young people from sexual exploitation and are continuing to raise awareness of this very important issue.” 

Ahmed has been remanded ahead of sentencing on 4 May. 

To report child sexual abuse or exploitation contact police on 101, or Crimestoppers, anonymously, via 0800 555 111.

Two people arrested over allegations of

child sex abuse in Co Down

Picture by: Paul Faith/PA Archive/PA Images

The PSNI say two people have been arrested as part of an investigation into allegations of historical child sex abuse in Co Down.

Officers from PSNI's Public Protection Branch arrested a 58-year-old man from Belfast and 39-year-old woman from Downpatrick on Tuesday.

This is in relation to an investigation into allegations of serious historical child sexual abuse in the Co Down area.

They have been taken to Antrim police station to assist police with their enquiries.

Marines Told to Ignore Child Rapes by Afghan Paramilitary

"At night we can hear them screaming"

By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
NY Times

Dan Quinn was relieved of his Special Forces command after a fight with a
U.S.-backed militia leader who had a boy as a sex slave chained to his bed.
Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.

“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”

Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, (Not to mention Pakistan, Bangladesh, India - the whole sub-continent!) particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records.

Gregory Buckley Sr. believes the policy of looking the other way was a factor
in his son's killing. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and doing little when they began abusing children.

“The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave. “But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.”

The policy of instructing soldiers to ignore child sexual abuse by their Afghan allies is coming under new scrutiny, particularly as it emerges that service members like Captain Quinn have faced discipline, even career ruin, for disobeying it.

After the beating, the Army relieved Captain Quinn of his command and pulled him from Afghanistan. He has since left the military.

Four years later, the Army is also trying to forcibly retire Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, a Special Forces member who joined Captain Quinn in beating up the commander.

“The Army contends that Martland and others should have looked the other way (a contention that I believe is nonsense),” Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who hopes to save Sergeant Martland’s career, wrote last week to the Pentagon’s inspector general.

In Sergeant Martland’s case, the Army said it could not comment because of the Privacy Act.

When asked about American military policy, the spokesman for the American command in Afghanistan, Col. Brian Tribus, wrote in an email: “Generally, allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan criminal law.” He added that “there would be no express requirement that U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan report it.” An exception, he said, is when rape is being used as a weapon of war.

The American policy of nonintervention is intended to maintain good relations with the Afghan police and militia units the United States has trained to fight the Taliban. It also reflects a reluctance to impose cultural values in a country where pederasty is rife, particularly among powerful men, for whom being surrounded by young teenagers can be a mark of social status.

Apparently, village elders didn't think pederasty was culturally acceptable.

Some soldiers believed that the policy made sense, even if they were personally distressed at the sexual predation they witnessed or heard about.

“The bigger picture was fighting the Taliban,” a former Marine lance corporal reflected. “It wasn’t to stop molestation.”

Still, the former lance corporal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid offending fellow Marines, recalled feeling sickened the day he entered a room on a base and saw three or four men lying on the floor with children between them. “I’m not a hundred percent sure what was happening under the sheet, but I have a pretty good idea of what was going on,” he said.

But the American policy of treating child sexual abuse as a cultural issue has often alienated the villages whose children are being preyed upon. The pitfalls of the policy emerged clearly as American Special Forces soldiers began to form Afghan Local Police militias to hold villages that American forces had retaken from the Taliban in 2010 and 2011.

By the summer of 2011, Captain Quinn and Sergeant Martland, both Green Berets on their second tour in northern Kunduz Province, began to receive dire complaints about the Afghan Local Police units they were training and supporting.

First, they were told, one of the militia commanders raped a 14- or 15-year-old girl whom he had spotted working in the fields. Captain Quinn informed the provincial police chief, who soon levied punishment. “He got one day in jail, and then she was forced to marry him,” Mr. Quinn said.

Great, now he can rape her every day!

When he asked a superior officer what more he could do, he was told that he had done well to bring it up with local officials but that there was nothing else to be done. “We’re being praised for doing the right thing, and a guy just got away with raping a 14-year-old girl,” Mr. Quinn said.

A portrait of Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. in his family's home in Oceanside,
N.Y. He was shot to death in 2012 by a teenage "tea boy" living on his base
 in Helmand Province. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

Village elders grew more upset at the predatory behavior of American-backed commanders. After each case, Captain Quinn would gather the Afghan commanders and lecture them on human rights.

Soon another commander absconded with his men’s wages. Mr. Quinn said he later heard that the commander had spent the money on dancing boys. Another commander murdered his 12-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing for having kissed a boy. “There were no repercussions,” Mr. Quinn recalled.

In September 2011, an Afghan woman, visibly bruised, showed up at an American base with her son, who was limping. One of the Afghan police commanders in the area, Abdul Rahman, had abducted the boy and forced him to become a sex slave, chained to his bed, the woman explained. When she sought her son’s return, she herself was beaten. Her son had eventually been released, but she was afraid it would happen again, she told the Americans on the base.

She explained that because “her son was such a good-looking kid, he was a status symbol” coveted by local commanders, recalled Mr. Quinn, who did not speak to the woman directly but was told about her visit when he returned to the base from a mission later that day.

So Captain Quinn summoned Abdul Rahman and confronted him about what he had done. The police commander acknowledged that it was true, but brushed it off. When the American officer began to lecture about “how you are held to a higher standard if you are working with U.S. forces, and people expect more of you,” the commander began to laugh.

“I picked him up and threw him onto the ground,” Mr. Quinn said. Sergeant Martland joined in, he said. “I did this to make sure the message was understood that if he went back to the boy, that it was not going to be tolerated,” Mr. Quinn recalled.

There is disagreement over the extent of the commander’s injuries. Mr. Quinn said they were not serious, which was corroborated by an Afghan official who saw the commander afterward.

(The commander, Abdul Rahman, was killed two years ago in a Taliban ambush. His brother said in an interview that his brother had never raped the boy, but was the victim of a false accusation engineered by his enemies.)

Sergeant Martland, who received a Bronze Star for valor for his actions during a Taliban ambush, wrote in a letter to the Army this year that he and Mr. Quinn “felt that morally we could no longer stand by and allow our A.L.P. to commit atrocities,” referring to the Afghan Local Police.

The father of Lance Corporal Buckley believes the policy of looking away from sexual abuse was a factor in his son’s death, and he has filed a lawsuit to press the Marine Corps for more information about it.

Lance Corporal Buckley and two other Marines were killed in 2012 by one of a large entourage of boys living at their base with an Afghan police commander named Sarwar Jan.

Mr. Jan had long had a bad reputation; in 2010, two Marine officers managed to persuade the Afghan authorities to arrest him following a litany of abuses, including corruption, support for the Taliban and child abduction. But just two years later, the police commander was back with a different unit, working at Lance Corporal Buckley’s post, Forward Operating Base Delhi, in Helmand Province.

Lance Corporal Buckley had noticed that a large entourage of “tea boys” — domestic servants who are sometimes pressed into sexual slavery — had arrived with Mr. Jan and moved into the same barracks, one floor below the Marines. He told his father about it during his final call home.

Word of Mr. Jan’s new position also reached the Marine officers who had gotten him arrested in 2010. One of them, Maj. Jason Brezler, dashed out an email to Marine officers at F.O.B. Delhi, warning them about Mr. Jan and attaching a dossier about him.

The warning was never heeded. About two weeks later, one of the older boys with Mr. Jan — around 17 years old — grabbed a rifle and killed Lance Corporal Buckley and the other Marines.

Lance Corporal Buckley’s father still agonizes about whether the killing occurred because of the sexual abuse by an American ally. “As far as the young boys are concerned, the Marines are allowing it to happen and so they’re guilty by association,” Mr. Buckley said. “They don’t know our Marines are sick to their stomachs.”

The one American service member who was punished in the investigation that followed was Major Brezler, who had sent the email warning about Mr. Jan, his lawyers said. In one of Major Brezler’s hearings, Marine Corps lawyers warned that information about the police commander’s penchant for abusing boys might be classified. The Marine Corps has initiated proceedings to discharge Major Brezler.

Mr. Jan appears to have moved on, to a higher-ranking police command in the same province. In an interview, he denied keeping boys as sex slaves or having any relationship with the boy who killed the three Marines. “No, it’s all untrue,” Mr. Jan said. But people who know him say he still suffers from “a toothache problem,” a euphemism here for child sexual abuse.

Unfortunately, this appears to be another example of US Forces going into a country and making things worse. Here they enabled pedophiles or pederasts by putting them in positions of authority by which they could practice their perversion. They also probably made the Taliban look good to many of the villagers whose sons and daughters were sexually abused.

They had a chance to make a difference in an otherwise hopelessly pathetic, perverted society; a chance to leave the country better than how they found it, but failed because of an asinine policy. He who developed that policy should be the one who is disciplined, not Maj Brezler.