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.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

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Thursday 2 April 2015

Neil Bantleman Found Guilty of CSA, Sentenced to 10 Years

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An Ontario teacher found guilty Thursday of sexually abusing three children at an Indonesian school said he will appeal the decision.

A three-judge panel sentenced Neil Bantleman, of Burlington, Ont., to 10 years in prison.

"Today is completely a miscarriage of justice," Bantleman told The Associated Press. "I'll keep fighting."

 Neil Bantleman found guilty of CSA in Indonesia
The court also ordered Bantleman, 45, to pay a fine of nearly $10,000 or serve six additional months in jail.

"The defendant has deliberately committed violence and obscene acts," the judges said in their verdict.

It was a long day for Bantleman's wife, Tracy, who was exhausted at its conclusion.

She told The Canadian Press by email that she is both outraged and heartbroken by the decision.

"My husband is innocent," she said from Jakarta.
Neil and wife Tracy

"He always has been and always will be."

Bantleman's brother, Guy, said the case has been "shrouded in secrecy."

"The judge basically threw out every piece of evidence, every witness that the defence put up through the case."

Guy Bantleman added the verdict and sentence "falls into line with everything we've had to go through with this entire case" and said he believed this was "merely a hearing to get to a guilty verdict."

"It's mind-boggling," he said. "There hasn't been a piece of evidence that has actually proven anything."

In December, five janitors from the Jakarta International School school arrested in the same case were sentenced to up to eight years in jail. Police said a sixth suspect in that group committed suicide while in custody by drinking bathroom cleanser.

The trial of another defendant, Ferdinant Tjiong, an Indonesian teaching assistant, is continuing at the same court.

Children of foreign diplomats, expatriates and Indonesia's elite attend the Jakarta International School. It has 2,400 students aged three to 18 from about 60 countries.

The school's principal and a number of other teachers have said they believe Bantleman is innocent.

Prosecutors told reporters after a hearing last month that they sought heavy sentences because as teachers, Bantleman and Tijong had traumatized the victims.

Now Tracy Bantleman faces a decade of life with her husband behind bars.

"We have done nothing but give the best of ourselves to the world," she said.

Please pray for Neil and Tracy. As mentioned in previous articles fleecing foreigners for child sex abuse (real or not) has become a cottage industry in Indonesia where poor people can become relatively quite rich by suing perpetrators. 

Pray that they get an honest and fair judge for the appeal, not one who has made up his mind before hearing an evidence, or one who doesn't allow most of the defence's evidence.

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