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Scots sex predator who abused women and children
during 35 year reign of terror unmasked
Daily Record
A "depraved" sex beast who targeted women and children over a 35-year reign of terror can be unmasked today.
The pervert hid his face as he was led away from Ayr Sheriff Court in handcuffs last week, after being given sentences totalling seven-and-a-half years for his crimes.
But we can now reveal his face, thanks to one of his victims - who spoke out about the case, and said she is worried he will strike again.
And the woman, and the other victims, have now been hailed by police for their courage and bravery in helping bring Paterson to justice.
The woman, who can't be named for legal reasons, said: "I'm glad he got a custodial sentence.
"But as David is a serial offender, my view is the sentence is too light. He started abusing people in the 1980s, right up to the late 2010s, both genders and all ages. He’s a danger to the public."
Paterson abused his victims at different addresses in Ayrshire, and, after abusing one girl, told her to keep it a secret.
The selfish sicko protested his innocence, forcing his victims to give evidence against him in two different Ayr Sheriff Court trials.
But he was convicted in both cases - and was slammed for protesting his innocence, before being placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life.
7.5 years is not nearly long enough!
Ayr, SCT
Bristol paedophile jailed for sexually abusing nine children
By Brad Young
Gazette
A “dangerous paedophile” from Bristol has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for multiple sex offences against children between 2017 and 2020.
Thomas Rawlings, aged 35, from Lockleaze in Bristol, pleaded guilty to 33 charges after grooming and exploiting nine children.
Among them, he incited a girl aged 13-14 to engage sexual activity, took and possessed indecent images of children, paid for sexual services from a child aged 16 – 17 and engaged in sexual communication with a child.
Rawlings lied to his victims about his age, making out he was up to 20 years younger than he really was and leading them to believe that they were in genuine relationships with him.
Sentencing, Judge Patrick said that Rawlings was a dangerous, obsessed and persistent paedophile who targets young people for sexual gratification and a feeling of power.
“You scared your child victims and caused them emotional torment. You ripped families apart. You have worsened the lives of the vulnerable. You have ruined trust. You have caused some to feel suicidal,” said the judge.
Rawlings, a Registered Sex Offender, was first convicted in 2012 on 15 counts of making indecent images of children between 2009 and 2011.
In November 2020 Rawlings was arrested on suspicion of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of girls in connection with his relationship with four girls aged 14 – 16.
Following Rawlings’ arrest, a 17-year-old victim made contact with the police concerned for the welfare or her ‘boyfriend’ who she believed to be 20 years old at that time.
Her contact with him started when she was just 13 years old and Rawlings led her to believe that he was 14 years old at that time.
At first the contact was online, but this later progressed to physical meetings, with Rawlings travelling to various parts of the country and booking hotels for them to meet in, where Rawlings groomed and exploited her into a sexual relationship with him.
Unknown to the victim, Rawlings was also in a ‘relationship’ with another child who was 14 when he first made contact with her and who believed him to be 18 years old.
Creep! 12 years is not nearly long enough!
France’s most notorious serial virgin killer, ‘Ogre of the Ardennes’,
dies in jail at 79
10 May, 2021 23:25
Michel Fourniret has died in a Paris prison hospital after experiencing respiratory problems, the French authorities confirmed. He confessed to killing 11 young women between 1987 and 2003, many in partnership with his wife.
Fourniret passed away on Monday at the Pitie-Salpetriere secure inter-regional hospital unit (UHSI) in Paris, prosecutor Remy Heitz told reporters. He was admitted to the hospital on April 28 with “respiratory” difficulties. He was also dealing with heart problems and Alzheimer’s disease, according to the newspaper Le Parisien.
He was “hunting” for virgins to rape and kill
Over a period of 15 years, Fourniret had strangled, stabbed or shot at least 11 women across northern France and Belgium, aided by his lover and then-wife Monique Olivier. By his own admission, he was “hunting” for virgins to rape and kill.
Their first victim was 17-year-old Isabelle Laville, who was drugged, raped and strangled in December 1987. Her body was thrown down a well, and wasn’t recovered until 2006. Their last known victim was nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin, who disappeared in January 2003; Olivier confirmed in August 2020 that the schoolgirl had been kidnapped, raped and killed, but her body was never found.
Remains of two of the victims were found in the gardens of Chateau du Sautou, an estate Fourniret and Olivier bought in Donchery. The money came from a cache of gold they helped retrieve in 1988, which had been buried in a cemetery by a gang of bank robbers. One of them shared a prison cell with Fourniret in 1987, and put him in touch with his wife, 30-year-old Farida Hammiche.
After Hammiche revealed the location of the loot and paid Fourniret and Olivier 500,000 francs for helping her dig it up, they strangled her and hid the body. They eventually confessed to the killing in 2018.
Fourniret was convicted of seven murders and given a life sentence without parole. He was given a second life sentence in 2018. Olivier was sentenced to life, with the possibility of parole after 28 years.
In addition to Laville, Mouzin and Hammiche, the known victims of Fourniret and Olivier were identified as Fabienne Leroy, Jeanne-Marie Desramault, Elisabeth Brichet, Natacha Danais, Celine Saison, Mananya Thumphong, Marie-Angele Domece, and Joanna Parrish.
Though several other French serial killers since WWII have claimed higher body counts, both the 'Monster of Montmartre' Thierry Paulin and 'Pillow Killer' Yvan Keller targeted elderly women, while Pierre Chanal went after young men. What made the French public especially sickened by the Fourniret case was the fact that Olivier knowingly aided him.
Ugly Ray: Paedophile, former DJ and friend of Jimmy Savile
dies in prison
Ray Teret, who was known as Ugly Ray, preyed on girls aged 13 to 15 in Manchester
in the 1960s and 1970s.
Thursday 6 May 2021 10:28, UK
Former Radio Caroline DJ Ray Teret (right) arriving at Minshull Street Court, Manchester, in 2014
A radio DJ friend of Jimmy Savile has died in prison, seven years after being jailed for raping and assaulting teenage girls.
Ray Teret, an ex-Radio Caroline presenter from Altrincham, was mentored by paedophile broadcaster Savile in the early days of his career and was said to have followed him around "like a shadow". He also acted as his driver, according to reports.
A Prison Service spokesman said he died on Tuesday, aged 79.
"HMP Manchester prisoner Ray Teret died in prison on 5 May," a statement said. "The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has been informed."
Teret, who was known as Ugly Ray, preyed on girls aged 13 to 15 in the 1960s and 1970s, using his status as a well-known face on the Manchester club scene.
He was jailed for 25 years in 2014 after a jury at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court convicted him of seven rapes and 11 indecent assaults in relation to 11 complainants.
The cause of his death has not been officially confirmed, although he previously fought off COVID-19 and had been suffering from cancer, according to the Manchester Evening News. His death has been passed to Manchester Coroner's Office.
During his trial, Teret, who also worked at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester and Staffordshire's Signal Radio, attempted to distance himself from Savile, who died in 2011.
He claimed they were not close, and said he had never lived with Savile or acted as his chauffeur.
At his sentencing, the judge told Teret: "It is clear that you exploited your celebrity status to sexually abuse young girls when they were between 13 and 15 years of age.
"Those who were raped had little or no understanding what was happening to them and felt they could do little to prevent the abuse taking place."
Internal Emails Reveal WHO Knew of Sex Abuse Claims in Congo
By Associated Press
May 11, 2021 06:43 PM
FILE - Reby hangs laundry outside her home in Beni, eastern Congo, May 1, 2021. Reby says Dr. Boubacar Diallo of the World Health Organization offered her money for sex.
BENI, CONGO - When Shekinah was working as a nurse's aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, she was offered a job from a World Health Organization doctor at double her salary — in exchange for sex.
Predators frequently take advantage of their victim's poverty, often proud of themselves for helping the family out financially.
"Given the financial difficulties of my family … I accepted," said Shekinah, 25, who asked that only her first name be used for fear of repercussions. She said the Canadian doctor, Boubacar Diallo, who often bragged about his connections to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made the same proposition to several of her friends.
When a staffer and three Ebola experts working in Congo informed WHO management about sex abuse concerns regarding Diallo, they were told not to take the matter further, The Associated Press has found.
WHO has been facing widespread public allegations of systemic abuse of women by unnamed staffers, to which Tedros declared outrage and emergencies director Dr. Michael Ryan said, "We have no more information than you have." However, an AP investigation has now found that despite its public denial of knowledge, senior WHO management wasn't only informed of alleged sexual misconduct in 2019 but was asked how to handle it.
The AP has also for the first time tracked down the names of two doctors accused of sexual misconduct, Diallo and Dr. Jean-Paul Ngandu, both of whom were reported to WHO.
FILE - Anifa holds her phone, displaying a photo of former World Health Organization doctor Boubacar Diallo, of Canada, during an interview in the eastern Congo town of Goma, March 5, 2021.
Ngandu was accused by a young woman of impregnating her. In a notarized contract obtained by the AP, two WHO staffers, including a manager, signed as witnesses to an agreement for Ngandu to pay the young woman, cover her health costs and buy her land. The deal was made "to protect the integrity and reputation" of WHO, Ngandu said.
When reached by the AP, both Diallo and Ngandu denied wrongdoing. The investigation was based on interviews with dozens of WHO staffers, Ebola officials in Congo, private emails, legal documents and recordings of internal meetings obtained by the AP.
Eight top officials privately acknowledged WHO failed to effectively tackle sex abuse during the Ebola outbreak, according to emails, recordings of internal meetings, legal documents and interviews with dozens of aid workers and WHO staffers. WHO declined to comment on any specific sex abuse allegations or how they were managed and said it had taken steps to address the problem.
"We are aware that more work is needed to achieve our vision of emergency operations that serve the vulnerable while protecting them from all forms of abuse," WHO spokeswoman Marcia Poole said in an email.
WHO emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan acknowledged in internal meetings that sexual abuse problems during the agency's outbreak responses were unlikely to be exceptional.
"You can't just pin this and say you have one field operation that went badly wrong," he said. "This is in some sense the tip of an iceberg."
As WHO struggled to control spiraling Ebola cases in Congo in early 2019, emergency operations manager Dr. Michel Yao received an email with the subject line: "Private. Chat."
"We cannot afford to have people tarnishing the sweat and effort of individuals sacrificing themselves thru (sic) inappropriate sexual harassment and bullying," the staffer wrote, saying he was concerned about Diallo.
Yao responded that the matter would be handled, but the staffer said his concerns were dismissed. An internal WHO investigation failed to corroborate the charges, but those who complained about Diallo were not interviewed.
FILE - World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives by helicopter at Ruhenda airport in Butembo, eastern Congo, June 15, 2019.
Diallo was described as a charismatic manager with connections to WHO's senior leaders, including director-general Tedros. On WHO's website, Tedros, Yao and Diallo are pictured smiling and bumping elbows during one of Tedros' 14 trips to Congo during the outbreak.
Diallo rejected claims of sexual misconduct.
"I have never offered a woman a job in exchange for sex and I have never sexually harassed a woman in my life," he told the AP.
In April 2019, Yao received another email detailing more alleged sexual misconduct, this time about the other doctor the AP tracked down, Ngandu.
"I hereby inform you that we have a colleague who has impregnated a girl from Beni," outbreak manager Mory Keita wrote to Yao. Keita told Yao a young woman and her aunt had come to Beni's Hotel Okapi looking for WHO managers, with two armed police officers. The woman's aunt said the young woman had been having an affair with Ngandu and was now pregnant.
They asked WHO to cover the cost of the woman's medical costs and for money to buy land, "given that Dr. Jean-Paul will abandon the girl and she will be obliged to raise her child alone."
Keita said he felt that Yao should be informed "so that you would give us your directions for how to better manage this problem."
One week after the email was sent, Ngandu signed a notarized contract confirming he would pay the young woman $100 a month until her baby was born, cover her pregnancy costs and buy her a plot of land. Keita and Achile Mboko, a WHO human resources staffer, signed as witnesses.
Ngandu said he wasn't the father of the baby and the deal was a "private matter." He said he agreed to it after his WHO colleagues, including Keita, "advised me to settle out of court to avoid sullying the reputation of the organization and myself." The young woman declined to talk to the AP.
It is unclear if Yao reported the abuse allegations to his superiors, as required by WHO protocol. He has since been promoted to be director of WHO Geneva's Strategic Health Operations Department.
On October 15, Tedros appointed an independent panel to investigate sex abuse during the Ebola outbreak in Congo; no findings are expected until the end of August. At a town hall meeting in November, Ryan acknowledged sex abuse issues had been "neglected" for years.
Back in Congo, Shekinah said she "couldn't count how many times" she had slept with WHO's Diallo after accepting a job for which she was not qualified.
"I wanted to quit. But because of my financial problems, I endured it," she said. Even after they separated, Shekinah said he continued to message her, asking her to send him nude pictures.
Diallo should be punished "for his sexual abuse of all those girls in Beni as a lesson to these international organizations that this should not happen again," she said. "I would like justice to be done."
Doctor apologizes for letting a registered sex offender into a retreat
for sex assault survivors
Ashley Burke, Kristen Everson
CBC News ·
Posted: May 12, 2021 6:39 PM ET
(Laura Osman, CBC News)
Somewhere in Ontario - The doctor running Project Trauma Support now says she regrets her decision to allow a registered sex offender to peer mentor a group of sexual assault survivors with post traumatic stress disorder under her care.
Seven female first responders and Canadian Forces veterans shared their story publicly with CBC News yesterday. They said their trust was violated by Dr. Manuela Joannou because she failed to tell them their peer mentor recently had been convicted in two separate cases of sexual assault before attending the six-day trauma retreat in July 2018.
CBC News obtained an image of a statement posted by Joannou to Facebook on Wednesday apologizing to participants in her program.
"I am deeply saddened by the compounded hurt and pain that having a registered sex offender as a mentor on our program in 2018 has caused for so many people," Joannou wrote in the Facebook post.
"If I had a chance to do it all over again, this would not have happened. Did we make some errors in our early efforts? Undoubtedly, but it has shaped our awareness and our methods going forward."
The post comes a day after Joannou, in an exchange with CBC News, defended her actions and did not apologize for using retired Canadian Forces Major Jonathan Hamilton as a peer mentor at the retreat.
Retreat participants said they were upset that Joannou's public apology came after several major donors to the program — including the Mood Disorder Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Legion — severed ties with her charity in the wake of CBC's report and said they would not be funding it in future.
Joannou said she started Project Trauma in 2015 as a suicide prevention program. CBC News spoke to a Canadian Forces member who said she became suicidal after taking part in the program.
There is more on this story on CBCNews.
Update: 16 May 2021 - Dr. Manuela Joannou announced on Saturday that she has stepped down as medical director of Project Trauma Support.
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Paedophile teenager tried to 'cover his tracks' but
failed to hide his sick obsession
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He downloaded images of toddlers being raped but walked free from court
liverpoolecho
A teenage paedophile tried to "cover his tracks" after downloading child rape photos at his parents' home.
He also deleted the disturbing pictures of toddlers and infants being sexually abused after he had viewed them. But he failed to hide his identity completely and when police raided his home they found 427 indecent images.
Liverpool Crown Court heard police received intelligence that an IP address traced to Mitchell's home was being used to download indecent images. Derek Jones, prosecuting, said as a result officers raided Mitchell's family's address in Darmonds Green Avenue, Anfield on June 24 last year.
Mr Jones said: "He was in with his parents and the defendant indicated to the police that he knew why they were there."
Officers seized an iPhone and a desktop computer from his bedroom, with the majority of the illegal files being recovered from his mobile.
Mr Jones said: "The defendant was using what he now confirms in his interview was Tor browser to cover his tracks - a VPN. He was clearly accessing indecent images on websites, looking at the images and deleting them."
Tor browser software provides access to the 'Dark Web' and can also be used to hide online or other computer activity. Mr Jones said no record of online searches he had made were present on the devices.
However, he said it could be seen that the then teenager had visited websites with names referring to "Lolita" and "jail bait". He had 36 Category A - the most serious category showing child rape - 140 Category B and 251 Category C indecent images of children.
Mr Jones said the photos showed children "some as young as between two and four, five to six, six to seven". The prosecutor said: "He was interviewed by the police and full admissions were made by him to downloading the images. He accepted that he used Tor browser to try and cover his tracks when he was looking at these websites."
Mr Jones said sentencing guidelines suggested a starting point of 12 months' custody, with a sentencing range of 26 weeks to three years in custody, for the Category A files.
Mitchell, now 20, who has no previous convictions, admitted four counts of possessing indecent images of children. Jeremy Hawthorn, defending, said his client entered his guilty plea at the earliest opportunity before magistrates.
He said Mitchell had "cooperated at all stages", from assisting police when he was arrested to attending a voluntary interview and court when summoned, then taking part in a probation interview by phone, which he said was "potentially the most difficult because you're talking to someone you don't know about something very embarrassing".
Mr Hawthorn said Mitchell had "limited work history" but hoped to become a car mechanic after two years' studying at college in Bootle. The lawyer added: "He's also a reasonably experienced but self-taught guitar player."
Mr Hawthorn said a pre-sentence report "expressed reservations" about some of Mitchell's attitudes. He said: "The court will hope whatever attitude problems Mr Mitchell has are ones that are capable of being challenged and rehabilitated."
Mr Hawthorn said the Probation Service recommended Mitchell take part in a Horizon sex offenders treatment programme and added that Mitchell had already "taken steps to use the internet a little bit less compulsively and to make himself more useful around the house, which his mother is doing up".
Judge Anil Murray said the young age of the children pictured was an aggravating feature of the case but in mitigation Mitchell was of previous good character, made admissions, tried to change his lifestyle and hadn't offended since.
He said: "The pre-sentence report says you're remorseful and you show victim empathy. It's thought you're a medium risk of committing further sexual offences but you're unlikely to cause serious sexual harm."
The judge said as he was considered to be "a prospect for rehabilitation" and had no history of failing to comply with court orders, he could suspend his eight-month prison sentence for two years.
He ordered Mitchell to carry out the Horizon programme and a 60-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
Mitchell must also sign on the Sex Offenders Register and comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.
Judge Murray reserved any breaches of the orders to himself and said if he saw Mitchell again, he would likely send him to jail.
