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.
SNAP Lauds the Ending of Silence Over Cesar Chavez Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls
NEW YORK, NY, March 19, 2026 – SNAP is outraged to learn of the violent abuse perpetrated by Cesar Chavez against women and girls for years, as reported in investigative coverage by the New York Times and other media outlets. And it strengthens our resolve to support all those victimized, no matter how long ago the crimes occurred.
Decades of silence to protect men in power is a toxin that is simultaneously destructive and common. We stand with all survivors against this pernicious history of secret-keeping.
In addition, the fact that Chavez was receiving posthumous medals of freedom and memorials named after him has made it even harder for victims to come forward. Every time a park, street, or school bore his name, the victims felt revictimized and unable to name him as their abuser. SNAP believes that no pedophile deserves to be honored, whether priest or politician.
“The power of one man–even a so-called hero–is no match to the wall of survivors standing tall against him,” said Angela Walker, SNAP Executive Director. “Every voice must be heard so we can dismantle the structures in place to protect the guilty.”
SNAP believes that when the silence is broken, true healing can begin.
French jihadist sentenced to life in jail over IS group genocide of Iraq's Yazidis
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A court in France has sentenced jihadist Sabri Essid for his part in "the genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State group" against Iraq's Yazidi minority, in the first French trial of its kind. Essid is presumed to have been killed in 2018, but without proof of his death he was tried and convicted in absentia.
The Paris Assizes Court found Sabri Essidguilty in absentia of genocide, crimes against humanity and complicity in the crimes, committed between 2014 and 2016 when the jihadists occupied swathes of northern Syria and Iraq.
"Sabri Essid took part in the genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State group," presiding judge Marc Sommerer told the court.
"Essid became part of the criminal network repeatedly buying and reselling a very large number of Yazidi victims," he said, adding the court judged that the group had "specifically targeted" the Yazidi minority for its religious beliefs.
The Islamic State group regarded the Yazidis, who follow a pre-Islamic faith, as heretics.
Essid, a Frenchman born in 1984 and who joined the IS group in Syria in 2014, is presumed to have been killed in 2018. But without proof of his death, he was tried and convicted in absentia.
And sentenced to life!
He is accused of buying several Yazidi women at markets and then repeatedly raping them, as well as depriving them of water and food.
The IS group seized large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, declaring a so-called caliphate there.
In August of that year, they murdered thousands of Yazidi men in Iraq's Sinjar province and took into Syria thousands of women and girls to sell them in markets as sex slaves to be abused by jihadists from around the world.
A decade after genocide, Iraq's Yazidis make bittersweet return to Sinjar
United Nations investigators have qualified these actions as genocide.
'Genocidal policy'
On Thursday, a Yazidi woman who was sold by the IS group as a sex slave described in stark detail to the Paris court the horrors she endured under jihadist captivity in Syria.
She said she was raped almost daily by her first two owners – a married Saudi man and then Essid. She was resold to six other men before escaping with her daughter and walking through the night to reach a post manned by Kurdish forces.
Sommerer said on Thursday he had overseen several trials for crimes against humanity but had "never heard before" the atrocities endured by the woman, whose name AFP is withholding to protect her privacy.
Known in Syria as Abu Dojanah al-Faransi, Essid was thought to be close to Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain.
The Clain brothers, now believed to be dead, claimed responsibility on behalf of the IS group for France's worst ever jihadist attacks in Paris in 2015.
Lawyers had earlier stressed the significance of the Essid trial.
"Given that in the past Islamic State fighters believed to be dead have resurfaced, it is essential that this trial take place," said Patrick Baudouin, a lawyer for France's Human Rights League.
"It is essential that it shed light on the particularly grave abuses committed against civilian populations and in particular the genocidal policy implemented against the Yazidi population," said Clemence Bectarte, a lawyer representing three Yazidi women survivors and their eight children.
Trials throughout Europe
After Essid went to Syria, his wife, their three children and her son from a previous relationship joined him.
In an IS group propaganda video released in 2015, Essid is seen pushing his 12-year-old stepson to shoot a Palestinian hostage in the head.
His wife has been jailed since returning to France.
Similar trials have taken place elsewhere in Europe.
In 2021, a German court issued the first ruling worldwide to recognise crimes against the Yazidi community as genocide.
It sentenced an Iraqi man to life in jail on charges that he chained a five-year-old Yazidi girl "house slave" outdoors in heat of up to 50C as punishment for wetting her mattress, leading her to die of thirst.
Last month, a Swedish court convicted a 52-year-old woman of genocide for keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves in Syria in 2015.
US-backed forces eventually defeated the IS group's proto-state in 2019, though isolated cells still operate in the Syrian desert.
Hussein Qaidi, who heads the Kidnapped Yazidi Rescue Office, told AFP last year that the IS group had abducted 6,416 Yazidis, more than half of whom had since been rescued.
Which means nearly half, or about 3000 Yazidi women, are still in slavery if they're alive. God only knows where.
Josh Duggar, Joseph’s older brother, who is currently serving over 12 years in prison on child sexual abuse charges, has commented on the arrest via his lawyer, who exclusively told British tabloid The Daily Mail that Josh understands the “painful reality” of being falsely accused of a crime.
Joseph Duggar, 31, was arrested for lewd and lascivious behaviour involving unlawful sexual activity with a minor, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release on Wednesday.
Joseph Duggar’s mugshot has been released. Washington County Sheriff's Office
“On March 18, 2026, Bay County investigators were contacted by a detective with the Tontitown Police Department regarding a report of past sexual abuse,” the statement said.
“The 14-year-old victim participated in a forensic interview, where she disclosed several incidents involving Duggar that occurred during a family vacation in Panama City Beach when she was 9-years-old.”
Josh’s legal representation said he was also “deeply saddened” to hear of his brother’s arrest.
“Josh understands the stigma of being accused,” his lawyer said. “He understands how the targeting of a person for publicity can twist the truth into sensationalized fiction.”
Josh, the eldest of all 19 Duggar children, was accused of molesting four of his sisters and a babysitter starting in 2006. The allegations against him arose publicly in 2015 after it came to light that he had confessed to the alleged assaults and apologized in private.
Josh Duggar is seen in his mugshot on April 29, 2021. Washington County Detention Center
He later resigned as a lobbyist for the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. Months later, he also publicly apologized for cheating on his wife and admitted to having a pornography addiction, for which he then sought treatment.
Following his 2021 arrest, Josh was found guilty of receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material and was sentenced to over 12 years in federal prison in May 2022.
Other family members speak out
Jill Duggar Dillard, one of Joseph Duggar’s elder sisters, addressed the accusations in a family blog post on Thursday, saying they were “shocked” to hear of her brother’s arrest.
“We first learned of anything related to his charges yesterday via a text from a friend who messaged us about the recent media reports of Joseph’s arrest and his alleged confession to molesting a juvenile female in 2020. We are shocked and heartbroken,” the post continued.
Duggar Dillard went on to condemn her brother’s alleged actions, assuring that her family supports “the rule of law and hope that justice will be achieved,” adding that her family would support Duggar’s wife and four children as they “process and grieve everything.”
The alleged incident involving Joseph took place in 2020 while the family was staying at a Florida residence, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said.
“The victim reported Duggar repeatedly asked her to sit on his lap. As the vacation continued, he also asked her to sit next to him on a couch and covered them with a blanket,” police said.
“During this time, Duggar manipulated the victim’s underwear and grazed her genitals. Duggar would also continue to rub his hands on her thighs.”
The victim, who is now 14, told police the incidents stopped after Duggar eventually apologized for his actions.
“Investigators discovered the victim’s father confronted Duggar about these incidents on March 17th, 2026. Duggar admitted his actions to the victim’s father and to Tontitown Detectives,” police added.
On Friday, Joseph’s cousin, Amy Duggar, also commented on his arrest.
“In light of the recent allegations involving my cousin, Joseph Duggar, I am sickened, heartbroken and deeply angry,” she said in a statement obtained by People.
“My first thoughts are with the victim, a child who deserved to be safe, protected and surrounded by people she could trust,” she continued.
“The courage it took for her to come forward, especially after years of carrying something so heavy, cannot be overstated. That bravery deserves to be honored above all else,” she continued.
The rest of the Duggar family has not publicly commented on Joseph’s arrest as of this writing.
Norway's Mette-Marit says Epstein 'manipulated and deceived' her
Magnus Haakon, the crown prince of Norway, and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway attend the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize presentation ceremony at Oslo City Hall. Mette-Marit gave her first interview about her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. File Photo by Paul Treadway/UPI | License Photo
March 20 (UPI) --Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit said she was "manipulated and deceived" by late sex offenderJeffrey Epsteinin her first interview about the relationship that lasted years.
Mette-Marit, who is married to Crown Prince Haakon, had a long-term friendship with Epstein, as shown in their emails released in the Epstein files in February by the U.S. Department of Justice.
She said in the interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK that she "did not know he was a sex offender or an abuser." But one email in 2011 said she Googled him after he had been sentenced to 18 months in prison and had pleaded guilty to soliciting from girls as young as 14. She said she now wishes she had never met him. Continue reading at https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/03/20/norway-mette-marit-jeffrey-epstein-manipulated/9401774029693/#:~:text=resignations%20over%20ties-,Mette%2DMarit%20decided,-to%20do%20the
The Qur’an forbids Muslim women to marry “idolaters”: “Do not marry idolatresses until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave woman is better than an idolatress, even though she pleases you. And do not give your daughters in marriage to idolaters until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave is better than an idolater, even though he pleases you. These people invite you to the fire, and Allah invites you to the garden, and to forgiveness by his grace, and explains his signs to mankind so that perhaps they will remember.” (Qur’an 2:221)
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Karnataka: Muslim woman arrested for suffocating 40-day-old grandson over anger at granddaughter’s marriage to a Hindu man
A shocking case has come to light from a place called Chelur in Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur district. In this case, a woman named Mehboobi has been arrested for murdering her 40-day-old grandson. The police claim that her motive for killing her grandson was her anger at her granddaughter marrying a Hindu boy against her wishes.
The incident took place on 24th December, 2025, at Mehboobi’s residence in Chelur. When the newborn baby boy was staying with his mother at her grandmother’s house after birth.
Soon after the baby’s death, Mehboobi told relatives that her grandson had developed breathing problems and had died. Trusting her explanation, the family performed the last rites without suspecting anything suspicious.
But soon after that, the mother of the baby started suspecting that something was fishy. According to police sources, “The mother of the deceased child started suspecting something after noticing Mehboobi’s behaviour. She then approached the Chelur police and filed a complaint seeking a proper investigation.
After the complaint was filed, the police initiated an investigation into the matter and obtained permission to exhume the baby’s body for a post-mortem examination. The body was examined in the presence of officials and sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for further investigation.
The FSL report revealed that the infant had died due to suffocation and not because of any illness. The police officials stated that Mehboobi’s statements were contradictory during the investigation, which led them to suspect her of the crime.
During the investigation of the case, the officials found that Mehboobi was unhappy because her granddaughter had married a Hindu man in a love marriage. Mehboobi was also unhappy about the birth of the child from that interfaith marriage….
Bank of America settles lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Epstein victims
By Larry Neumeister and Martha Bellisle The Associated Press
Posted March 17, 2026 3:55 pm
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Bank of America has tentatively settled a lawsuit claiming it ignored suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein while he was sexually abusing hundreds of girls and women.
The proposed settlement was revealed in filings in Manhattan federal court on Monday, the same day that billionaire financier Leon Black was originally scheduled to be deposed in the case. Terms were not disclosed. The bank declined to comment through a spokesperson.
Though not a defendant, Black was recently described as a “critical witness” in the case by Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer for Epstein victims.
During a hearing last week, a lawyer for Black persuaded Judge Jed S. Rakoff to postpone Black’s deposition for 10 days on the grounds that the parties were close to settling. The lawyer, Michael Carlinsky, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
In a statement, McCawley paid tribute to the “brave and fearless voices” of Epstein victims, saying their “road to justice” has been long and trying, but the Bank of America settlement “is one more step on the road to much deserved justice.”
The October lawsuit accused the bank of ignoring US$170 million Black paid from a Bank of America account to Epstein purportedly for “tax and estate planning advice.”
It said the bank ignored “numerous red flags” of improper financial dealings, and “went far beyond what a non-complicit bank would have done and instead assisted Epstein in setting up the necessary financial structure to operate his sex-trafficking venture.”
The lawsuit, brought on behalf of a woman identified in court papers only as Jane Doe and “all others similarly situated,” said the woman was living in Russia when she met Epstein in 2011 and was “coerced into a cult-like life.”
It said she was paid by Epstein through a Bank of America account as she was controlled “financially, emotionally, and psychologically” by Epstein from 2011 through 2019 as he sexually abused her on at least 100 occasions, including raping her and forcing her to engage sexually with other women for his sexual gratification.
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The lawsuit alleged that Epstein paid her rent and income from a phony job through a Bank of America account, and held her immigration status “over her head, until her ultimate escape when Jeffrey Epstein died.”
Epstein died in a federal jail in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide. He was known for his connections with wealthy and powerful men, and the lawsuit said he used it to his advantage in his attacks on women.
The recent Justice Department release of millions of pages of documents from law enforcement probes of Epstein show he had regular contact with CEOs, journalists, scientists and prominent politicians long after his 2008 conviction in state court in Florida on sex crimes charges.
A review of the documents by The Associated Press and other news organizations showed Black’s name appeared 8,200 times, though that figure likely includes some duplicate records.
In March 2021, Black stepped down as CEO of Apollo Global Management, saying he wanted to focus on his family, health, and “many other interests.”
A committee of the company’s board had issued a report two months earlier concluding that Epstein had advised Black personally on estate planning, tax issues, charitable giving and running his “family office,” but provided no services to Apollo or invested in no Apollo funds.
The report also said the review — which Black requested — found “no evidence” that he was involved with Epstein’s alleged criminal activities “in any way” or “at any time.”
In a statement Tuesday, Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who sits on the Senate Finance Committee, said the bank’s decision to settle was a “step towards justice and a vindication of my staff’s investigation into how major Wall Street banks enabled Epstein’s crimes.”
He said the bank “willfully looked the other way” as Black paid Epstein the $170 million through “huge wire transfers,” often in $10 million or $20 million installments.
United Kingdom: Kevin Spacey reaches a settlement with three men accusing him of sexual assault, avoiding a new trial
By Le Figaro with AFP
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The 66-year-old Hollywood star was acquitted in 2023 by a London court of sexual assault charges brought against him by four men, following a criminal trial lasting several weeks.
American actor Kevin Spacey will avoid a new trial in the UK after reaching an agreement with three men who accused him of sexual assault and were pursuing him in a civil case. The 66-year-old Hollywood star was acquitted in 2023 by a London court of sexual assault charges brought against him by four men, following a weeks-long criminal trial.
Two of them were pursuing civil action against the actor, along with a third, new plaintiff, British actor Ruari Cannon, who waived his right to anonymity in this new proceeding. Kevin Spacey, who won Oscars for American Beauty and The Usual Suspects, has always maintained his innocence. A trial had been scheduled for October 2026, but the plaintiffs reached an agreement with the actor, according to a stay of proceedings order issued by a High Court judge in London, as reported by the PA news agency.
The "payment terms" were not specified.
“By mutual consent, it is ordered that all further proceedings against the defendant in these matters be suspended,” according to the ruling, which does not detail the “settlement terms,” including financial ones, agreed upon between the three men and Kevin Spacey. These three men accused the actor of sexually assaulting them between 2004 and 2015, when he was the artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theatre.
Contacted by AFP, the lawyers for the plaintiffs and Kevin Spacey did not respond. The accusations of sexual assault against the Hollywood star emerged in 2017 at the beginning of the #MeToo movement, when Kevin Spacey was at the height of his fame, starring in the hit Netflix series House of Cards. Since then, he has virtually disappeared from screens.
