So far in the 21st century nearly a third of a billion children have been sexually abused, most of them multiple times, some thousands of times. 6 out of 7 are girls. Anything you can do to get this message to as many people as possible will help save abused children all over the world, and maybe even some of the abusers. Please read "Save A Child from Sexual Abuse by 3:15 PM" under "First Time Visitor?" May God bless you and anoint this ministry.
Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!
3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Two grandparents have been found guilty of the murder of their two-year-old grandson while his mother was upstairs.
Ethan Ives-Griffithswas dangerously dehydrated and severely underweight, with 40 visible bruises or marks, when he collapsed with a catastrophic head injury at his grandparents’ home in Flintshire, North Wales, on Aug 14, 2021.
A jury at Mold Crown Court convicted Michael Ives, 47, and Kerry Ives, 46, of his murder and of cruelty to a child under 16.
Shannon Ives, Ethan’s mother, 28, who had been staying with her son at her parents’ home in Garden City when the court heard he was “targeted for abuse and subjected to casual cruelty”, was found guilty of causing or allowing his death and of child cruelty.
A jury heard that Ethan’s fatal head injury was caused by deliberate force or shaking and occurred at the time, or in the minutes before, he collapsed.
A jury convicted Michael Ives, 47, and Kerry Ives, 46, of the murder of the two-year-old - North Wales Police/PA
Michael and Kerry Ives, originally from Wolverhampton, were in the living room with Ethan at the time of his collapse while his mother was on the phone upstairs.
Both told the jury “nothing” had happened to the toddler before he fainted as they watched television.
Kerry Ives said she immediately called Ethan’s mother to come downstairs, but the court heard it was 18 minutes before she called emergency services.
Kerry Ives and her husband were in the living room with Ethan at the time of his collapse - North Wales Police/PA
Ethan was taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital and later transferred to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, where he died two days later.
The court heard Ethan had been placed on the child protection register, requiring him to be seen every 10 days, but when Shannon Ives last saw her social worker, on August 5, she spoke to him on the doorstep and told him Ethan was having a nap.
No one answered the door when Michael Cornish, a social worker, went to visit in the days before Ethan’s death and a scheduled appointment with a health visitor on August 13 was cancelled.
Shannon Ives had fled domestic violence from her home in Mold in June that year, the jury was told.
Her parents accused her of hitting her son, with Michael Ives telling the jury his daughter was “quick-tempered” and would slap Ethan a couple of times a day.
But Shannon Ives told the court her parents were “horrible” and abused her as a child.
Shannon Ives had fled domestic violence in June that year - North Wales Police/PA
Jurors were visibly upset at points during the five-and-a-half week trial, particularly when CCTV footage from August 4, taken from the back garden of the family’s four-bedroom home, showed Ethan appearing unsteady on the trampoline, or lying down, while other children bounced. The video appeared to show Michael Ives point the garden hose at him, place the toddler’s hands on his head and gesture to another child to punch Ethan.
After watching the recording in court, Michael Ives said he felt “ashamed” and admitted being cruel and neglectful of the toddler, but denied mistreating him in other ways.
The cameras did not show Ethan leave the house after August 4 until August 12, when Michael Ives was seen again carrying him by the upper arm, putting him into a car seat and appearing to punch towards the youngster.
Caroline Rees KC, prosecuting, described the act “as though Ethan was just a bag of rubbish to be slung out”.
When Ethan was examined by doctors after his death, he was found to have abdominal injuries likely to have been caused by blows in the days before his collapse.
Other injuries included bruises which were consistent with grip marks on his leg and face.
Michael Ives said he felt ‘ashamed’ and admitted being cruel and neglectful of the toddler - North Wales Police/PA
Experts said Ethan would have died of dehydration within days had he not suffered the head injury. At the time of his death, he weighed just 10kg, the court was told.
The jury deliberated for six hours and 54 minutes before returning their verdicts on Tuesday morning.
Mr Justice Griffiths told them that because of the “unusually distressing” subject matter in the trial, they could be exempted from jury service for the rest of their lives if they wished.
He said Michael Ives and Kerry Ives would be given life sentences and Shannon Ives faced a “substantial prison sentence”.
A prominent French LGBT activist has been arrested and charged with subjecting a severely developmentally disabled toddler to horrific sexual and physical abuse. Pierre-Alain Cottineau, 32, was arrested on September 23 after landing at Nantes Airport upon return from a vacation in Tunisia.
Cottineau was well-known within his region of Loire-Atlantique for his political activism, which included advocacy for the LGBT community, youth, and minority populations. In 2021, he stood for departmental elections under the banner of La France Insoumise (LFI), a left-wing political party that has a hard-line “zero-tolerance” policy on “sexist, racist, anti-Semitic or LGBTIphobic remarks or behavior” amongst its members.
In 2018, Cottineau was elected the president of The Rainbow Shelter (Le Refuge Arc-en-ciel), and hosted the community’s first-ever “forum” to combat homophobia and transphobia.
Cottineau, a professional caregiver and family aide, co-founded multiple activist organizations, including the Oudon Solidarity and Mutual Aid Collective, as well as the LGBTQI+ Association of Ancenis (EsAc). Since 2022, he has also contributed to the organization of the annual pride parade in Ancenis-Saint-Géréon.
During an interview with FranceBleu, Cottineau identified himself as a member of the LGBT community, stating: “We suffer from invisibility. This walk is there to make people understand that LGBTQI+ people also exist in the [French] countryside.”
Disturbingly, Cottineau’s respected history working with “vulnerable populations” may have contributed to his ability to be approved as a foster father, facilitating his abuse of a disabled toddler.
Cottineau obtained approval from Child Welfare services to become a foster parent on December, 1, 2023, specifically requesting children under the age of 6. He was rapidly matched with a developmentally disabled 4-year-old girl on December 7, 2023, who was then placed directly in his home.
According to Ouest-France, the Council claims that Cottineau’s criminal record had been “double-checked” and that the “approval procedure, recruitment, and regular monitoring … had not revealed any warning signs.”
Men, especially single men, or married gay men who want to look after someone else's children, ought to ring alarm bells.
Should LGBTQs be eligible to Foster or adopt children? Not in my biased and not so humble opinion. People like Cottineau are the resaon why.
Immediately, investigators got to work to identify the child’s location using the few details they were able to ascertain from the video. The key element: a medical bed that was seen in the video. Within a week, investigators were able to locate the child by tracing the distribution channel of the exact model of the bed.
Arriving at Cottineau’s home, police learned he had gone on vacation to Tunisia after hospitalizing the child.
On September 23, Cottineau was arrested at the airport after arriving on his flight from Tunisia. Upon police interrogation, he admitted to sexually and physically abusing the toddler, and distributing videos through pedophile networks in France.
While in custody, Cottineau professed to being a pedophile. He has since been indicted for rape, torture, and barbarism.
I can't imagine what 'barbarism' entails, and probably wouldn't be able to stand finding out.
Investigators are currently working to determine if there are additional victims, and Cottineau will remain in custody awaiting a hearing. He is facing life imprisonment if convicted.
A man who identifies as a woman has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting multiple young boys. In their statement on the sentence, Lancashire Police declined to use pronouns for Joanne Evans, while local media referred to him as “they/them.”
Evans, 40, was first arrested in 2020 after police became aware that he had been sexually preying on young boys in Swansea. The youngest victim was just 8 years old at the time he was sexually assaulted, and two additional victims who came forward were both under the age of 13.
Evans was charged with assault by penetration of a child and sexual assault by touching of a child, but was not remanded to custody.Earlier this month, he was expected in Burnley Crown Court but refused to appear, resulting in a jury finding him guilty in his absence.
On May 17, Evans was sentenced to a total of 17 years, with 16 years in prison and 1 year on community license.
In a statement on his sentencing, Detective Constable Hannah Brown of the East Child Protection Team said: “Evans is a manipulative individual who sexually assaulted the three young victims for sexual gratification … I want to praise the victims in this case who showed immense bravery, having to re-live their ordeal while giving evidence.”
She added: “I hope the outcome of this case will encourage other victims to come forward, knowing they will be believed, listened to, and that we will do everything in our power to put the perpetrator before the courts.”
In the statement, Lancashire Police did not use pronouns for Evans, but noted that he “uses different male and female names and identities.” The statement did not include what other names or identities Evans utilized.
In media coverage of the sentence, most outlets referred to Evans by gender neutral “they/them” pronouns.
In February of 2023, a new prison policy came into force in Britain stipulating that transgender inmates would no longer be housed in women’s prisons if they had male genitalia or had committed a sexual crime. The policy was later extended to include men who had committed any crimes classified as violent.
The policy had come into force after a heated debate broke out over the transfer of a repeat rapist who identified as transgender to a women’s prison.
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A trans-identified male inmate appears to have been transferred back to a men’s prison after being charged with rape while in custody at a women’s prison. Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, a male who identifies as a woman, was housed at the Central California Women’s Facility when the sexual assault took place but has since been moved to Kern Valley State Prison.
Carroll’s criminal history dates back to 1988, when he began participating in organized crime at just 15 years old. In 1990, Carroll would be convicted for his participation in an armed robbery where he and several other men broke into an apartment occupied by two women. The women were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and held under demand of ransom.
Despite being only 17 years old, the brutality of the crime resulted in Carroll being charged as an adult with three counts of kidnapping for ransom, two counts of robbery, and three counts of oral copulation by force. However, a hung jury along with a number of other technical issues during the trial process resulted in the need for a retrial. Carroll ultimately pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping in an effort to avoid a retrial on all of the charges.
In 1998, Carroll committed his third violent felony, but while in prison awaiting trial he was found in possession of a metal wire shank he had crafted with the intention of stabbing someone.
Because of his extensive criminal history, Carroll was ultimately sentenced to 25-to-life under California’s Three Strikes Law. The law dramatically increases punishment for persons convicted of a felony who have previously been convicted of one or more “serious” or “violent” felonies.
While in the custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Carroll filed dozens of legal complaints alleging mistreatment, discrimination, and even sexual abuse at the hands of CDCR officials and prison staff, along with demanding his conviction under the Three Strikes Law be overturned. But Carroll was a problem inmate, and between 2001 and 2015, he received over a dozen Rules Violation Reports, one of which was related to filing false reports against a Peace Officer.
In a 2019 legal complaint, Carroll revealed he had been moved around within CDCR facilities over 200 times since 2009, something he claimed was “retaliation” for his allegations of employee misconduct. But many of those moves appear to have been to or from medical centers, where Carroll had been receiving treatment for mental health episodes.
In an earlier legal complaint, Carroll referred to himself as “mentally disturbed” and stated he was on high doses of anti-psychotic medication.
In another filing, an unnamed witness called upon by Carroll to provide a statement in support of his claim alleges that Carroll suffers from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, PTSD, and Rubinstein–Taybi Syndrome, a genetic condition characterized by physical and developmental issues.
In the vast majority of his complaints, Carroll refers to himself by “he/him” pronouns, and does not mention his gender identity or sexuality.
But in a case filed in March of 2021, Carroll suddenly invoked SB-132, also known as the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act. The law had been implemented just three months prior, and formally established the ability of inmates to be housed on the basis of their gender identity in California.
In March of 2022, Carroll penned an article for the San Francisco Bay View, a newspaper serving the African-American community in the Bay Area. In the article, Carroll referred to himself as a “trans woman” and portrayed himself as the victim of systemic discrimination by the criminal justice system. He also claimed he was in prison for “non-violent” offenses, in contradiction of his criminal history.
Madera County court records obtained by Reduxx show that the District Attorney filed multiple charges against Carroll, including two counts of rape, and one count of dissuading a witness from testifying.
The incident is said to have occurred in January of 2024, and would have occurred while Carroll was incarcerated at the women’s prison. While the complaint by the District Attorney refers to the victim as “Jane Doe,” it is unconfirmed if she was a female inmate or a female member of the prison’s staff.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s inmate locator now shows that Carroll is housed at Kern Valley State Prison, a male-only facility almost two hours away from CCWF.
While CDCR did not respond to Reduxx‘s inquiry on the exact date of Carroll’s move, the transfer appears to have occurred after the rape charges were filed, as court records confirm that Carroll was still addressed at CCWF in late 2023.
Ironically, Carroll is one of the trans-identified males intervening in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent males from being housed in women’s prisons in California. The lawsuit, launched against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, includes four female inmates who all stated they had been victimized by trans-identified male transfers.
In 2022, the ACLU intervened in the case, suggesting that the state of California could not adequately fight the lawsuit and represent the interests of trans-identified males.
In his sworn testimony collected by the ACLU for the case, Carroll declared: “I know what it feels like to live in fear and to carry the weight of the past abuse by men. But I am not a threat [to women]. I strongly believe that everyone here at CCWF would benefit from more structured interaction — opportunities to sit and talk with each other and realize that we’re all in the same boat.”
Speaking to Reduxx on Carroll’s charges, Amie Ichikawa – a former inmate and advocate for incarcerated women in California – said she had personal interactions with Carroll that left her fearful for the safety of the women at CCWF.
“Tremaine Carroll fit the description of everything I feared for women in prison when I learned about Senator Scott Wiener’s SB-132,” Ichikawa said. “I was face to face with Tremaine when I went inside CCWF last year. We shared enough correspondence for me to know that even having almost 10 years of freedom from prison and 5 years free from narcissistic abuse was not enough to qualify me as a woman beyond his reach.”
Ichikawa is the co-founder of WomanIIWoman Inc., a Christian charity that focuses on supporting both incarcerated women and former female inmates. The organization has campaigned extensively against SB-132 and the transfer of male inmates to the state’s female correctional institutions.
Ichikawa adds that assaults on female inmates extend far beyond the immediate victims, and impact the general female population due to the close bonds incarcerated women often form.
“The domestic violence that ensued did not only impact the women walking around bloodied and bruised. It impacts the entire population, because when you hurt one woman in prison it hurts all of us. We move collectively and work like a unit,” she says.
“One woman breaking down and moving backwards affects the ability of the power they had to move forward. Now they’re stuck and there’s not going to be forward motion in their growth or rehabilitation until this stops.”
New York -A toddler rapist is being featured on a website dedicated to female inmates, with his quotes prominently displayed despite his well-documented criminal history of child abuse. Xena Grandichelli, born Jeffrey Willsea, is a high-risk sex offender in the state of New York.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Grandichelli pleaded guilty to 11 counts of sexual abuse involving a 3 year-old girl in 1994, and was initially sentenced to 19 to 59 years in prison, dropped to 5 to 15 years at a later hearing. Upon release in 2014, he was assigned to the sex offender registry and categorized at the highest level, designating him a major recidivism risk and an ongoing threat to public safety.
Yet despite his horrific criminal record, Grandichelli became a highly-regarded trans activist and has spoken at top-tier universities since his release from prison.
That just goes to show you how spectacularly stupid university students have become.
In 2016, Grandichelli spoke at NYU on the topic of incarceration and trauma, and led a workshop on trans issues for the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People of Color Health Conference. The next year, he was a panelist representing “women’s experiences of incarceration” at Columbia University, which houses a gender identity program staffed by at least one member and former president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Walter Bockting.
As of May 2024, Grandichelli is still featured by the Women and Justice Project in a dedicated infographic highlighting “The Incarceration of Trans, Nonbinary & Gender Expansive People,” this is despite a recent wave of media attention surrounding his history of child rape.
The page features quotes and data from a number of trans activists and formerly incarcerated trans-identified males. It argues that “trans, non-binary and gender expansive people, particularly Black, Indigenous and People of Color, and especially Black trans women, are targeted, criminalized, and incarcerated at extremely disproportionate rates.”
On the page, Grandichelli is presented as a “trans activist and community organizer,” and is quoted as saying: “[I] break down crying when trying to explain to somebody what it’s like to be in a state prison or Rikers Island and to be physically beat half to death and raped, and misgendered and abused so much that you’re ready to take your own life.”
Another prominent activist credited with helping on the infographic is the ACLU’s Chase Strangio. Despite frequently portraying trans-identified male inmates as vulnerable, the ACLU is currently representing multiple violent male offenders in their demand to either be transferred to a women’s prison or receive “gender affirming” accessories while incarcerated.
Reduxx reached out to the Women and Justice Project for comment on Grandichelli’s continued inclusion in the infographic, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
North Korea sentenced Christian toddler to life in a prison camp;
regime praises Arab world
North Korea's town Kaesong is seen from the Dorasan Observatory in the Civilian Control area near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Paju, South Korea, on May 2, 2023. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Photo
MAY 28, 2023 / 12:54 PM
By Adam Schrader
May 28 (UPI) -- North Korea once sentenced a toddler to life in a prison camp because the baby's family had been caught with a copy of the Bible, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.
While the incident happened in 2009, it was highlighted in the State Department's Report on International Religious Freedom: Democratic People's Republic of Korea for 2022 published earlier this month.
"The entire family, including a two-year-old child, were given life sentences in political prison camps," the report reads.
The report, based on the accounts of defectors who fled the brutal regime between 2007 and 2020, also documented the tales of other Christians who have been imprisoned or have faced the death penalty under the reign of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un.
Open Doors USA, a non-governmental organization that documents the persecution of Christians worldwide, estimates that there are around 400,000 Christians in North Korea -- just 1.5% of the national population -- of which an estimated 70,000 are in "horrendous" prison camps.
The North Korean government also particularly targets Shamanism and Cheondoism, also known as Cheondogyo, a modern religious movement based on a 19th-century Korean neo-Confucian movement.
"The government ruled by the Kim family views Christians as the most dangerous political class of people, and the persecution is violent and intense," according to Open Doors.
"North Korean parents often hide their faith from their children. Churches of more than a few people are non-existent and most worship is done as secretly as possible."
The State Department said in its report that there are a small number of registered religious institutions that include churches but that they operate "under tight state control" and are mostly "showpieces" for foreigners visiting the exclusive country.
The punishments for religious practices largely fall under two provisions in the country's legal code, one which makes it illegal to possess or distribute media "that reflect decadent, carnal, or foul contents" and another that bans "superstitious activities in exchange for money and goods."
"There were reports the government continued to execute, torture, arrest, and physically abuse individuals engaged in almost any religious activities," the report reads.
The COVID-19 pandemic also exacerbated the problems faced by Christians and people of other faiths in North Korea, a dominantly atheist country, according to U.S. officials.
It's a communist country, which the reporter has managed to avoid writing in this entire report.
Border restrictions levied during the pandemic resulted in "further reductions in the flow of escapees" which has made it difficult for the world to grasp the extent of the problems within North Korea.
The State Department report cited another report from 2021 released by Korea Future, a non-profit organization whose mission is to investigate and document human rights violations in North Korea.
According to that report, women and girls made up more than 70% of victims of religious persecution in North Korea.
"[Officials] worked us hard without feeding us properly," one victim said.
"I suffered from malnutrition and was sure I would not survive. I kept having diarrhea, even when I only drank water, and I weighed just 35 kilograms [77 pounds]. Today I weigh 60 kilograms [132 pounds], so I was like a skeleton back then."
The report came as Jung Young-lim, a North Korean official, issued a statement praising the Arab League of Nations for considering "taking joint action to reject foreign interference in the region" which the regime believes shows the "catastrophic consequences" of the "U.S.-driven Arab Spring" in 2011.
While it may be news, or even considered 'fake news' that the USA was behind the Arab Spring initiative, there is certainly an element of truth to it.
The Pew Research Center estimated in 2011 that the population of Muslims in North Korea was just around 3,000. There is only one mosque in North Korea.
Justice systems under fire in Spain, Canada, Ireland, Scotland and Israel
Spanish child sex abuse victims demand legal changes
AP
MADRID — Spanish campaigners on Thursday delivered a petition with more than half a million signatures to Parliament in Madrid, demanding an extension of the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases.
Many alleged child abusers in church, state, and sports institutions have gone unpunished because their alleged crimes were reported only many years later by their victims, the organizers of the event said.
Miguel Hurtado, a spokesman for victims’ group Stolen Childhood Association, said the 15-year statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases should begin to run only after an alleged victim reaches 50 years of age.
Currently, it begins after an alleged victim turns 18. The Spanish government has proposed to raise that to 30.
By the age of 33, I was still in complete denial of the sexual abuse I suffered as a toddler. It was a few years later before I became aware of it, and many years after that before I could actually talk to anyone about it.
Hurtado said he initially wanted the statute of limitations for child sex crimes to be scrapped, but legal experts told him that would be unconstitutional.
With Spain poised to hold a snap general election, Hurtado said it was too late for Parliament to take any measures.
‘‘It’s not going to happen,’’ he told The Associated Press on Thursday. “But we want political parties to include [the measure] in their election manifestos. That way, it becomes locked in.’’
Hurtado was the first person to accuse a Spanish Benedictine monk of sexual abuse, in 1999. Nine others later came forward with stories about alleged abuse that occurred decades ago.
Canadian man convicted in brutal death of 14y/o boy set free
Another story without child sex implications but another story of
just how screwed up Canada's justice system is. I often complain
about 3rd world justice systems, but Canada's is not much better.
Tracy McLaughlin / Toronto Sun
Nick Bullock, previously convicted of first-degree murder in the death of his 14-year-old cousin, leaves court in Barrie on Wednesday, Feb. 13 2019. Tracy McLaughlin / Toronto Sun
BARRIE – Hot tears of anger, pain and anguish flowed in court as parents watched the man who savagely stabbed their 14-year-old son to death walk away a free man Wednesday.
Killer Nick Bullock, previously sentenced as an adult to life in prison for the murder of his younger cousin, was released on a plea deal to manslaughter after the Court of Appeal tossed the verdict.
The cousin, Brayton Bullock, was lured into the woods and stabbed 13 times in the face, eye, head, chest and back on March 9, 2006.
“This is not justice – this is a lie!” said the dead boy’s mother, Tammy Warren-Bullock, who trembled and wept in the crowded courtroom as she read out her victim impact statement.
Brayton Bullock, 14. Submitted
“The courts have tidied up this case up in a neat little bow to get a conviction, but make no mistake Nick — you are a child killer.”
With tears rolling down her cheeks, the grief-stricken mother looked into the eyes of her son’s killer, who stared her down with no emotion.
During the first trial, court heard how Bullock — now 29 — was 16 and held a resentment for his younger cousin who was an A student.
Caan and Abel, all over again. Society has not progressed beyond the first set of brothers.
He lured him into the woods in the south end of Barrie and stabbed him to death, then coolly walked to a nearby recreation centre to wash off the blood and discard the knife.
He then developed an alibi by purchasing two cokes with his debit card at a nearby store so he could tell police Brayton was with him.
Later he told his friends, “some guys dragged Brayton into the bush” and lead them to the body. At the scene, Nick pretended to “freak out” and rolled in the bloodied snow beside the body to throw off police evidence.
At his sentencing hearing, a psychiatrist testified Bullock had “psychopathic tendencies.”
The appeal court last year tossed the murder verdict after it found Barrie police failed to give Bullock his proper rights as a youthful offender.
And, consequently, the Court of Appeals has failed to give Brayton his proper rights to justice. But they are completely blind to that logic. A psychopathic murderer has his rights ensured; an innocent victim has no rights under Canadian law, apparently.
Justice Michelle Fuerst accepted his guilty plea to manslaughter — which means he did not intend to kill — and sentenced Bullock to the 12 years he has already served in prison.
“This was a vicious crime … it showed sophisticated and calculated thinking,” the judge said.
Wait! What? You are saying it was murder, but you accept a plea of manslaughter? What kind of lunacy is that?
Brayton’s father, Colin Bullock of Sudbury, became so emotional he stormed out of the courtroom.
“My son was savagely murdered,” he said outside of court. “This is a broken justice system that has failed to protect its citizens.”
Not completely true! It is determined to protect criminals and murderers, just not innocent Canadians.
Moments later his son’s killer walked out of court with his mother, a free man.
Biological male identifying as female sexually assaults 10y/o girl in supermarket bathroom in Scotland
Gets community service
By Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridghead
This is the sort of story that should make every parent tremble with rage and remind all of us that there is a real cost to accepting the premises of the transgender movement—and that, as always, that cost will be largely paid by children. According to the UK’s Courier, which obediently and ludicrously refers to a violent male as a “she,” a biological man identifying as a woman named Katie Dolatowski has escaped with a slap on the wrist after sexually assaulting a ten-year-old girl in the women’s bathroom at a supermarket:
The woman – who cannot be named to protect the identity of her child – voiced fury that Katie Dolatowski had been freed to serve her sentence in the community. Dolatowski, 18, sexually assaulted the girl in the toilets of Morrisons, Kirkcaldy.
She grabbed the terrified youngster by the face, shoved her into the cubicle and ordered her to remove her trousers.But instead of being jailed at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, Dolatowski, who identifies as a woman but was believed by her victim’s family to be a man, was given community payback and tagging orders.
The mum felt “very, very let down” and said: “I don’t have any confidence whatsoever that he will not go out and do something equally as bad or worse.” The girl had been sledging when the assault occurred on March 4, last year, a month after Dolatowski had filmed a 12-year-old girl on the toilet in another supermarket in Dunfermline.
When she came out of her cubicle, Dolatowski shoved her back in and told her there was a man outside who would kill her mother. The brave schoolgirl, however, punched Dolatowski in the face, stomach and groin and ran to her father and siblings waiting just outside the toilets.
Her mother said the girl was hysterical after the attack and continued to suffer flashbacks. She said: “This is something that will remain with her for the rest of her life. He was stalking the toilets. He went there specifically to attack a child.
“We were so, so lucky that nothing worse happened. It was only her reaction that stopped that. It could have been a five-year-old child that wouldn’t have been able to fight back.”
The court heard Dolatowski had been in the social care system since the age of three and had mental health issues. But the mother said:“A lot of people have been in care but they do not go out and assault children. I don’t care that he has issues or what his background is, he is a paedophile and he has been let out on a supervision order.”
Dolatowski admitted sexually assaulting the girl and following another girl into the toilets at Asda Halbeath, Dunfermline, on February 8, and trying to film her urinating by holding her mobile phone over the cubicle partition.Banning her from having contact with children, Sheriff James Williamson gave her what he described as a “stringent” community-based sentence, allowing her to be released from Polmont Young Offenders Institution to supported accommodation.
Dolatowski was considered to pose a “moderate risk” of reoffending but Sheriff Williamson said: “I have come to the conclusion that the public will be better protected by the imposition of a stringent community payback order.” Seriously? I will need that explained to me!
The simple fact is that when you remove all identifiable standards for who is actually a woman and instead say that men with beards and penises can not only identify as women, but gain access to women-only spaces by doing so, you place people in danger.
It is insane to think that there are not those who will take advantage of the obliteration of our safety standards, just like the biological men who have decided to identify as women to get sent to female prisons (and rape women there) are doing, and just like this young man who managed to escape jail despite going after female children in the women’s bathroom twice. I’ll bet “Katie” is still allowed in women’s bathrooms, too—you’ll notice that the media and the courts obediently treated this biological male as a woman.
The outraged mother speaks for many of us. The fact that children would be put at risk for the sake of a doomed social experiment advocated by those who wish to do away with the foundations of our civilization is disgusting.
Lawyers offer closing arguments in northern Ontario sex abuse case
In the courtroom
by: Linda Richardson
The Sault Ste. Marie Courthouse is pictured in this file photo. Michael Purvis/SooToday
The defence position: The woman who has accused Bonaventure Sabourin of sexually abusing her "manufactured the events" she described to the court this week.
The Crown position: The complainant has "no motive to fabricate" and came forward after nearly 40 years to disclose what had occurred because she "couldn't live with this anymore."
The lawyers made their closing arguments Thursday in the Marathon, Ont. man's indecent assault trial at the Sault Ste. Marie courthouse. And after hearing their submissions, Superior Court Justice Edward Gareau reserved his decision until April 17.
Sabourin has pleaded not guilty to the charge, which stems from incidents alleged to have occurred in the town of White River in the early 1980s.
During the trial, which began Monday, Gareau heard from two Crown witnesses - the complainant and her brother - and two called by the defence - Sabourin and his sister.
The complainant described three incidents that she said occurred when she was a pre-teen and the accused a young adult.
She testified that Sabourin touched her inappropriately, fondling her breasts and kissing her when she was at his parents' home, attempted to have intercourse with her during another visit and on a third occasion tried to force her to perform oral sex on him.
Sabourin took the witness stand to deny the allegations, repeatedly telling the court it never happened.
On Thursday, his lawyer Bruce Willson attacked the woman's credibility, as well as what he called a "terrible investigation" that had brought his client to court.
He noted the woman has a good job, is educated and is knowledgeable about sexual abuse matters. "She has the ability to emulate a victim of sexual assault."
Willson said the complainant "had the signature trait of a person" who is making something up."
I wonder if Willson has the signature trait of a person who is making something up?
Pointing to parts of her evidence he suggested had changed when she was pressed during cross-examination, he said people don't do a good job when they make things up.
Assistant Crown attorney Robert Skeggs countered that the woman's evidence "came out rather unblemished. I didn't hear any inconsistencies," he said, noting the complainant was a child at the time of the alleged incidents while Sabourin was an adult.
She testified there were more incidents, but "could clearly remember only three."
Skeggs described her as a strong woman, who is now able to stand up for herself. She has become very introspective later in life," and is someone who years later doesn't know why she didn't say anything earlier as suggested by the defence.
This is an example of why we "shouldn't have pre-conceived ideas" about responses to sexual abuse, he said.
The woman told the court the extent of what she had shared earlier as an adult - general statements that something had happened with Sabourin, he said. "We don't have anybody who can go back years to tell us about her allegations that go back years."
Skeggs called Sabourin's evidence "unbelievable."
If the accused's testimony that he didn't meet the complainant until he was in his mid-20s is accepted then there would be no reason to fabricate, he suggested.
Sabourin testified that he never saw the complainant at his family home, but his sister indicated she recalls her occasionally coming over to the house.
While the woman didn't want to go into details in the past, she indicated on the witness stand that she came forward because she "wants to have peace," to help herself, Skeggs said.
Criticizing the investigation, Willson questioned why the half dozen people the complainant said she had told over the years about something happening with Sabourin weren't called to testify.
He suggested her parents, who she said she told when she as 21, "could corroborate her evidence that the abuse was disclosed prior to her going to police (in 2016)."
"This all goes to her credibility that they are not here," Willson said.
Why didn't you subpoena them yourself?
"We have a middle-aged lady testifying about matters that occurred 40 years ago," Willson said, noting this is the case with all the witnesses, including Sabourin.
"You can't hold the accused to a higher standard than the complainant when assessing credibility," he said. "What can he do except say I didn't do it about something that occurred 40 years ago."
Maybe Sabourin has trouble with dates and is not educated, but "he's very clear this didn't happen," Willson said.
He described the complainant as a "tough lady who had no problem going toe-to-toe with the defence during cross--examination. "She was argumentative and didn't seem to be the type of character to keep this bottled up for 35 years," Willson said. "She seemed to be the type of person to confront him."
In response, Skeggs argued that the defence wants to conclude because these other people weren't in court "she must have made up the events."
He noted she was able to describe the first floor of the home, a second-floor bedroom and a sun porch that she said had a mattress on the floor and was used as a bedroom.
'There was uncanny confirming evidence" that the porch was Sabourin's bedroom at one time, the prosecutor said.
Skeggs suggested if Sabourin's evidence and that of his sister that the complainant was never in the porch is to be believed how did the woman know what it looked like?
No new investigation into woman's sex abuse complaint in 2010, Irish High Court hears
By Ann O'Loughlin, Irish Times
Gardaí did not carry out a new investigation when a woman suing her father, for allegedly sexually abusing her as a child and facilitating neighbours to do the same, made a complaint as an adult in 2010, the High Court has heard.
In 1988, two years after the woman, her sister and mother left the family home for a refuge, a file was sent to the DPP on foot of a garda and health board investigation of the original abuse allegations. The DPP did not recommend prosecution because the child, who was between four and six when the abuse allegedly occurred, was too young to give evidence, the court heard.
So, in Irish eyes, toddlers are fair game for paedophiles?
The father says it never happened.
In 2010, when the woman was in her 20s, she made her own complaint to gardaí who took her prepared statement.
A detective garda from her locality told the court today he took that prepared statement from her and asked her a number of questions. She also made a declaration in relation to her personal details and other details.
After he tracked down the 1988 file on the matter through the DPP's office, he then forwarded his own report to the DPP, along with the woman's own statement, "to have the entire matter reviewed". The DPP directed in October 2011 that there be no prosecution against the father, the garda said. Why, was she too old now in her 20s?
The case was on its fourth day before a judge and jury. Nothing can be reported that might identify the woman.
Under cross-examination by Bernard Madden SC, for the father, the detective garda agreed there had been no new investigation in relation to matters in the woman's statement, including an interview with the father or any of the other parties accused of abuse.
He agreed with counsel that none of the allegations made in the woman's prepared statement of 2010 were investigated by him or any other garda.
The garda also said he did not see it as "a fresh complaint" as it had been investigated before (in 1988) and he had sought a review from the DPP as to what could be done.
Another garda, now retired, who investigated the 1988 complaint, which arose out of interviews between the child and social workers at that time, told Sasha Gayer SC, for the woman, that she (garda) questioned the then eight-year-old child in detail about the allegations.
Under cross-examination, Mr Madden, for the father, put it to the retired garda that the three-page statement from 1988 was "not the language of a child of eight". The garda replied: "All I can say is it is a statement of what the child said".
A consultant liaison psychiatrist who first saw the woman in 2013, told the court she formed the opinion that she had post-traumatic stress disorder and a damaged personality.
The case, before Mr Justice Michael McGrath and a jury of 10 men and two women, resumes on Tuesday.
I complain a lot about Canada's justice system, but Ireland's is barely into the 20th century, IMHO.
London paedophile who raped girl in the 1980s and 90s gets 10 years
Luke Acton
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard Michael Paule, of St George’s Road, Dagenham, raped and sexually assaulted his young victim a number of times over several years.
In November 2016 detectives launched an investigation after his victim reported the sex attacks to the police and he was arrested in September 2017.
He had denied any wrongdoing and last week was found guilty of four counts of rape of a girl under 16 years old and three counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14.
Today he was jailed for 10 years.
PC Clare Henson, investigating officer, said: “The victim has shown a huge amount of courage in coming forward to report the abuse suffered as a child, which can only be described as a deeply traumatic experience. “I would like to commend her for coming forward to police, providing a video recorded interview and attending court to see this predatory man stand trial and face the justice he so rightly deserves. “I would urge anyone who has been the victim of such offences to come forward to police when they feel comfortable enough to do so.”
Israel's Deputy Health Minister Accused of Threatening Gov't Psychiatrists in Sex Abuse Case
New details emerge in case involving Australian ultra-Orthodox principal accused of sexual assault on minors, reveals Litzman's attempts to have Malka Leifer declared unfit for trial and block her extradition
Ido Efrati and Aaron Rabinowitz, Haaretz
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman on his way to the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 18, 2018.Emil Salman
As the scope of the Malka Leifer extradition affair becomes clear, so too are the efforts made in Israel to prevent the former principal of a religious school in Australia from being returned to that country to face charges of 74 child sex offenses against three sisters.
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has been questioned by the Israel Police over allegations that he tried to use his influence, including the use of threats, to get government psychiatrists to have Leifer declared unfit for trial and to block her extradition.
The anti-extradition campaign, which began with an Australian extradition request and Leifer’s subsequent arrest in Israel in 2014, has involved lawyers, media advisers and ultra-Orthodox “fixers.” According to sources in the Gerer (or Gur) Hasidic sect, the campaign has been funded by Leifer’s family, as well as loans and donations. One source said that the community does not deny the gravity of the acts with which Leifer has been charged or think that she shouldn’t be punished; rather, the argument is that she should be in an Israeli prison, rather than in an Australian facility alongside non-Jewish inmates.
Good grief! That surely can't be the reason Israel protects paedophiles with such tenacity? These creatures have no rights to be anywhere. They just need to be locked up. Protecting them from extradition is a heinous criminal act. I can't possibly imagine how God would approve of such insanity.
According to information obtained by Haaretz, Leifer’s family offered psychiatrists tens of thousands of shekels for a medical opinion on her condition, far above the usual fee. There was no explicit request for a specific conclusion, but apparently the intention was clear, and a number of the psychiatrists were uncomfortable with it. The information has been submitted to the Health Ministry and to the state prosecution.
Senior government psychiatrists refused interview requests from Haaretz this weekend on the case. “To everything there is a season. I’m not interested,” was the response of one who is familiar with the details.
Health care officials are not commenting on the case — or on the pressure that Litzman is known to apply routinely in regard to the sensitive issue of psychiatric services provided to the Haredi community. One of Litzman’s avenues of influence in this regard leads to the psychiatry department of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center, whose director is Prof. Omer Boneh. A source at Hadassah says Haredi patients are given priority in the department. “Doctors in the department say that while the department will refuse to admit a patient because the department is full, when it’s a Haredi patient the request comes from an aide to Litzman and within 10 minutes room is found for him.... It has to do with the stigma — it’s easier and simpler to visit a patient at Hadassah than at Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital.” Boneh did not respond to requests for comment.
Boneh and his ties to Litzman were mentioned in a 2012 report in Haaretz by Yair Ettinger on the use of psychiatry by Israel’s Haredi establishment, including the prescribing to male yeshiva students of antidepressants whose side effects are known to include a decline in sexual desire. “Sometimes psychiatrists are liable to become agents of the Haredi establishment,” said one psychiatrist. Another spoke of being pressured by rabbis and Haredi community figures and the “dual loyalty” that can develop among physicians who see this as an opportunity to increase their pool of patients.
Over the past decade there have been reports of a number of uncomfortable incidents related to psychiatry in which Litzman was involved. In 2009, Channel 2 News reported that Litzman had asked senior psychiatrists to soften professional assessments of Haredim serving prison sentences for sex crimes — assessments that are critical to determining their supervision during furloughs and after their release. That year, Litzman put up 200,000 ($55,000) of his own money to bail out a Haredi woman who was charged (and eventually convicted) with starving her children, and even offered his own home for her house arrest. Litzman also drew harsh criticism for visiting Rabbi Eliezer Berland after Berland served five months of an 18-month prison sentence for sex crimes.
Tamil Nadu toddler dies under mysterious circumstances, sexual assault suspected
By R Sivakumar Express News Service
VELLORE: A one-and-a-half-year-old child died under mysterious circumstances in Vaniyambadi near here. Injury marks on the body have raised suspicion of sexual assault pointing fingers on the paramour of the child's mother.
Sources said the child was taken to the Government Hospital in Vaniyambadi on Friday night by her mother, a 24-year-old resident of Perumalpet, with injuries.
On examination, the doctors pronounced the kid brought dead. Injury marks were seen on body parts including genitals, hands, shoulder and cheeks.
The child's mother, who had three children including the deceased, had separated from her husband, a mason, three years ago following her alleged illegal intimacy with another mason while staying in Bengaluru, the sources said.
Recently, the woman and her paramour moved to Vaniyambadi and were staying with two of her children while the other one was with her first husband.
The sources noted that she had left for a local shop on Friday evening leaving the child with her paramour. On return, she was shocked to see the child crying, writhing in pain, and rushed her to the GH.
However, the Vaniyambadi Town police have registered a case of suspicious death.
"We have registered a case under section 174 CrPC. An investigation is going on to ascertain the cause of death," Inspector T Ramachandran said. He refused to reveal the nature of the injuries and cause.
The child's mother and her paramour, who is from Chennai, were allegedly tight-lipped on how the child suffered the injuries. They were held by the police for interrogation.
Since the woman refused to lodge a complaint, the Police searched for the relatives of her first husband and received a complaint from his father Baskar, the sources said.
Meanwhile, a senior Police officer said that the truth behind the child's death could be brought to light only after receiving reports of post-mortem and forensic tests.
