4 men accused of gang-rape of young Indian doctor in Hyderabad killed by police in escape attempt
Demonstrators hold placards and shouts slogans during a protest against the alleged rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman on the outskirts of Hyderabad, in Mumbai, India, December 3, 2019. © REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
All four of the men accused of a grisly rape and murder of a young Indian veterinarian have been shot dead by police, killed around the same area the young vet’s badly burned remains were discovered.
The men had reportedly been taken to an area near the initial crime scene by police in order to reconstruct the events that led up to 26-year-old Priyanka Reddy’s horrific death before attempting an escape. All four were killed in the effort, India Today reports.
The men were arrested in late November after Reddy’s charred corpse was found by a local resident beneath an overpass on the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad. According to police, the group punctured a tire on Reddy’s unattended motorbike and then offered to give her a ride when she returned, ultimately abducting the young woman. It is believed she died of suffocation before the men attempted to incinerate her remains.
The gruesome killing sparked widespread outrage and protests across India, with tens of thousands gathering on the streets of Hyderabad to demand justice for Reddy. Police were forced to call in reinforcements to prevent an enraged mob from lynching the suspects on the spot, ultimately dispersing the crowd when demonstrators began hurling projectiles at officers. The accused were identified as Mohammad Areef – the prime suspect – Jollu Shiva, Jollu Naveen, and Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu. Many Indians demanded a harsh punishment for the suspects in the wake of the murder, including the death penalty, with the mother of one of the men even stating: “If my son is wrong, burn him the same way [Reddy] was burned.”
Trust me, mom, he's burning now! This nightmare was the first of about 10 such horror stories to come out of India in the past 10 days.
Woman paid to sexually abuse young girl for paedo's pleasure jailed for six years in UK
Christine Callaghan, who was paid more than £2000 to follow a paedophile's instructions, has been sentenced to six years in prison for her "horrendous crimes"
By Sophie Bateman, The Daily Star
A woman who earned thousands of pounds sexually abusing a young girl on camera has been jailed for six years.
Christine Callaghan, 33, was paid £2,285 by paedophile Dean Petley in exchange for subjecting a girl under 13 to horrific abuse which she livestreamed on Skype.
The Sussex local pleaded guilty to distributing category A (the most serious category of child sex abuse images) live-streamed videos, distributing a category B indecent live-streamed video, and two counts of causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity.
She was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday. In addition to her jail sentence, Callaghan was given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will appear on the sex offenders' register for life for her "horrendous crimes".
Her evil behaviour was discovered while the National Crime Agency was investigating Petley, an automotive engineer from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
He'd been arrested last year after being identified as a customer of Jodie Little, who filmed herself sexually abusing children in her home in Cyprus and sold the videos online under the usernames "Devil Bitch 666" and "DomTabooSlut".
Petley had paid her £750 between January 2017 and February 2018 so he could watch her abuse two victims. Little sent him 10 electronic files of abuse, including one in which she sexually abused a "very young" girl and talked about her being raped in graphic detail.
Little was jailed for 12 years and four months in August after being convicted of eight sexual abuse offences.
Jodie Little, 30, was also paid by Petley to film herself abusing children (Image: SWNS)
Petley was arrested again in May after police found an encrypted hard drive at his home with evidence linking him to other offending, this time with Callaghan.
Two years' worth of screenshots of their conversations showed Callaghan abusing a young girl on Skype while Petley watched. Callaghan would discuss what Petley wanted her to do to the child and he would give her instructions.
The hard drive also contained a video of Callaghan abusing the same girl. She performed "penetrative sexual activity" in front of the victim on at least 10 different occasions between 2016 and 2018.
Petley admitted 11 charges and was jailed in November for eight years.
NCA operations manager Matt Hall gave a statement after the trial. "These were horrendous crimes that Callaghan carried out for money," he said.
"Her and Petley's prosecutions were possible because of our determination to ensure Jodie Little faced justice. Little might have been abroad but distance is not a barrier for the NCA in pursuing UK child sex offenders wherever they are.
"These crimes are an example of what the NCA is seeing more and more, with increasingly worsening cyber-enabled child sexual offending. The NCA knows that the scale and severity of offending against children are worsening.
"We and UK police arrest around 500 child sex offenders a month and safeguard about 700 children a month. There is no greater priority for us than protecting children."
Wish it was so for all police forces everywhere.
Sussex, UK
Global hunt for NSW man wanted over child sex abuse
Simon Gordon Davies, 63, is wanted on an outstanding NSW Police warrant for 18 child sexual and indecent assault offences across Sydney between 1981 and 1987.
Simon Davies. CREDIT:YOUTUBE/PERSBRUSSELD66
"NSW Police is working closely with the Australian Federal Police and Interpol in an effort to locate Mr Davies and commence proceedings that will bring him back to NSW," the force said in a statement on Monday.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Mr Davies is a privacy law and human rights expert who has advised governments in Australia, the US and Britain.It's alleged many of the assaults occurred at a refuge for troubled boys in Kings Cross.
Simon Davies in May 1982. CREDIT:HERALD ARCHIVES
Mr Davies is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 170cm tall, of solid build and bald.
AAP
Bedfordshire child abuse images:
NSPCC urges Facebook to guarantee child safety
By Paul Hutchinson
The children’s charity, NSPCC, is calling for Facebook to issue a ‘guarantee of child safety; after stats obtained by the charity revealed the extent of child abuse images shared on platforms owned by the tech giant.
Bedfordshire was in the top five for the most amount of child abuse images shared across Facebook owned platforms in the East of England.
The call comes as Facebook details encryption plans for Messenger and Instagram which the NSPCC says will make it a one stop grooming shop.
The NSPCC found Facebook apps were used 482 times in child abuse images & child sex offences in the East of England last year
They now believe thousands of online child sex crimes recorded in England and Wales could go undetected if Facebook introduces end-to-end encryption in its apps.
Thousands already go undetected; encryption will make it exponentially worse, meaning way more children will be sexually assaulted.
Nationally, police recorded over 4,000 instances last year, where Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp were used in child abuse image and online child sexual offences. An average of 11 times a day.
In Bedfordshire, 83 were recorded.
Police Force Total Online Facebook/ Instagram WhatsApp
Offences Messenger
Bedfordshire 193 23 50 10
Cambridgeshire 173 29 69 8
Essex Not provided — — —
Hertfordshire 94 8 28 4
Norfolk 204 61 52 5
Northamptonshire Not provided — — —
Suffolk 208 41 89 5
East Total 877 162 288 32
The NSPCC warns crimes will go undetected if Facebook continues with plans to encrypt messaging without first putting clear safeguards in place.
Encryption on the platforms would mean it would no longer be able to see and report illegal content to law enforcement, with police left working in the dark to detect child abuse crimes.
As I suggested last week, every sexual crime related to any specific platform should be followed by a fine of $5000 for each, to be doubled every year. I think the morally destitute brains running the internet will not take long to find a way to stop child sex exploitation on their platforms.
Australia Snubs Israeli Project on Child Sex Abuse Over Malka Leifer Extradition
Because of Israeli foot dragging over extraditing accused pedophile to Australia, the country's UN delegation in Geneva shunned the Israeli delegation's initiative on child sexual exploitation
Noa Landau, Haaretz
Accused pedophile Malka Leifer hides her face at the Jerusalem District Court, May 28, 2018. Olivier Fitoussi
Australia has refused to cooperate with an Israeli initiative at the United Nations against the sexual exploitation of children due to Israel’s foot-dragging over the extradition of Malka Leifer, who is accused of the rape and sexual harassment of her students while she headed an all-girls, ultra-Orthodox school in Australia.
The Israeli delegation to the United Nations in Geneva organized an event last month to promote an Israeli video project to raise awareness of the sexual abuse of children in honor of the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Israelis were joined by the Uruguayan and European Union delegations, both of which led the resolution on the rights of the child in the UN Human Rights Council. Senior UN figures, academics and activists participated in a panel led by a representative of the office of the Commissioner of Human Rights.
Israel in UN/Geneva🇮🇱✔
@IsraelinGeneva
❌Every second, 7 children are being sexually abused across the world! 270 million each year.
📢Together with 🇪🇺🇺🇾, we have decided to emphasize the importance of preventive measures in fighting this gross violation of children's rights.
As of today, 08.12.19, the number is 206 million.
Consequently, the number of different children sexually abused in one year is, according to my calculations about 40 million. And the number of different children sexually abused before they are 18, is about 224 million.
While these numbers seem better, they are not good news. For the number of actual cases of child sex abuse (and I'm not talking about slurs or leering, but actual physical or mental/emotional abuse) is at least equal to the UN's calculations. So, if we project those figures out to 18 years, we find the actual number of child sexual abuse events are very close to 4 billion every 18 years. Which means we have already surpassed that number in this 21st century.
This should be the lead story in every newscast in every country for the rest of the century, but it does not fit the narrative of #PCMadness. Mainstream Media would rather run absurd, super-hyperbolic stories on climate change while a whole generation of children are destroyed and turned into a whole generation of sick, mentally ill adults. What insanity!
Israel in UN/Geneva🇮🇱✔
@IsraelinGeneva
Combatting sexual abuse of children is a key priority for Israel. We have shared several best practices, such as this video, which is included in an awareness-raising program to educate children to seek help and to report abuses.
📽️WATCH Tom's Secret videon https://youtu.be/unTRaUjrGZA
Notably absent was the Australian delegation, which often collaborates on projects with Israel. Haaretz has learned that the Australians refused to attend because Australia’s demand that Israel extradite Leifer is still pending.
Israel deserves all the embarrassment it can get for this absurdity that has been going on for 5 years and involved interference from the Israeli government. Search this blog for Malka or Leifer for many sickening stories of this farce.
Unfortunately, this probably means that more children will suffer for the lack of being able to see 'Tom's Secret', which means more children are continuing to suffer because of Malka Leifer and Israel's pathetic 'justice' system.
The Australian delegation’s decision not to participate comes at a time of heightened strain on Australian-Israeli relations. Haaretz reported Friday night that two Australian parliamentarians presented a proposal calling on Israel to extradite Leifer. The proposal has no set date for a parliamentary discussion and holds no weight as far as expedite the extradition, but shows the mounting frustration in Australia over the case.
Leifer, who holds Israeli citizenship, was the principal of an all-girls ultra-Orthodox school in Melbourne. She is accused of targeting three sisters who were her students, and faces 74 charges of indecent acts and rape. After the accusations against her emerged in 2008, she fled to Israel, and in 2014, Australia filed a request for extradition. Since then, the process has been under discussion in Israeli courts.
Her legal counsel has argued that she is mentally unfit to stand trial, but psychiatrists ruled last year that she is not, and she has remained in detention in Israel as she attempts to appeal the decision. In October, the Jerusalem District Court ordered that Leifer be released to house arrest, to stay with her sister following months in detention. The decision was put on hold for 48 hours during which the prosecution appealed with the High Court, which overruled the Jerusalem’s court decision.
After the Jerusalem District Court ordered Leifer’s release, there was an outpouring of anger by Australian authorities and its Jewish community, saying they have lost patience with the extradition proceedings.
Justice denied after teen girl faced sexual abuse
in Sheffield children’s home
By Mirror News DeskIntervention of children’s commissioner has been demanded regarding the case of a teen girl, who is an alleged victim of a series of misconduct at the hands of social workers, police and medical authorities.
A 16-year-old girl, whose identity has been kept anonymous, was over four years ago the youngest minor placed in England’s secure hospital. She was allegedly subjected to sexual abuse while in the shelter of children’s social care in Sheffield. The victim is currently placed in the seclusion unit of a psychiatric hospital.
Victim’s mother said she remains under a constant fear that someday she might hear that her daughter has been found dead. The teen-victim was taken into care as her mother was unable to deal with daughter’s behaviour. Since the mother was herself a victim of child sexual abuse, she could not afford her daughter to experience the same fate.
Campaigners have reportedly reached out Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England, as they have struggled to help the victim and her family since a couple of years.
In a statement, outreach worker Kathryn Kelwick, who fought for the victims of the Rotherham child abuse scandal, said the teenager was “horrendously exploited” during her stay at a children’s home in Sheffield.
The evidence collected by Kelwick and victim’s family indicates that while living at the children’s home, she could easily move in and out as per her will, despite dropping hints of being sexually abused after her return.
Louise Haigh, the teenager’s MP, was updated on the victim’s case on a regular basis. She called the case as “deeply disturbing” and assured raising the issue on several occasions with senior officials at Sheffield social services. Alan Billings, the police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire, has accounted teen girl’s sexual abuse as “a shocking and sad story”.
Sexually abused young children facing
dearth of help in Scotland
SHAN ROSSThe Scotsman
A children’s welfare charity says the Scottish Government is not doing enough for young children who have suffered sexual abuse.
No government is, but Scotland is really pathetic.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Scotland said each year thousands of youngsters referred to mental health services are waiting an unacceptable length of time for treatment.
Figures released by ISD Scotland this week revealed between July and October more than 1,300 children had to wait longer than 18 weeks – the Scottish Government set standard. More than 20 per cent of the children referred were never seen because they were rejected for not meeting the threshold.
An NSPCC Scotland study found that provision is best for older children and decreases in quality with declining age of the child, with extremely poor provision for primary aged children.
The research found there is an almost complete dearth of services for children aged five and under or those with disabilities, who are at significantly higher risk of experiencing sexual abuse.
Joanna Barrett, NSPCC Scotland policy and public affairs manager, said: “Each year, hundreds of children call the NSPCC-run Childline service because of sexual abuse. A significant number also talk about mental health issues, with symptoms often being triggered by the trauma of the abuse.
“NSPCC Scotland research has shown that child and adolescent mental health services appear to be inaccessible to those who have experienced sexual abuse, because of strict referral criteria.
Barrett added: “The Scottish Government has committed to a Barnahus (“children’s house”) model – a one stop shop providing an integrated health, therapeutic and justice response to victims of abuse – and is currently developing standards.
“But in the almost five years support for children affected by sexual abuse hasn’t improved at all.”
Children have no voice, especially in governments. Thank God for NSPCC and other NGO's that raise their voice for them. If only the government was actually listening.
Victorian man accused of sexually abusing a girl multiple times in a Sydney hotel room
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A 22-y/o Victorian man arrested at a hotel this weekend is accused of arranging five separate meetings with an underage girl via social media
Sarah McPhee
news.com.au
A man has been arrested in a Sydney hotel room accused of repeatedly travelling interstate to sexually abuse a girl.
Detectives nabbed the 22-year-old Victorian man about 10pm yesterday at a hotel in Chatswood on the city’s lower north shore.
He was taken to the local police station and charged with 11 counts of intentionally sexually touching a child, five counts of having sexual intercourse with a child and two counts of intentionally doing a sexual act with a child.
“Police will allege that on five separate occasions the man arranged via social media to meet the girl at a hotel in Chatswood and engage in sexual activities with her,” NSW Police said in a statement today.
In NSW, those found guilty of sexual touching offences involving children face up to 10 years behind bars.
Having “sexual intercourse” with a child carries a maximum penalty of 10 years’ jail if the victim is aged 14 to 16, which jumps to 16 years if the victim is aged 10 to 14.
The maximum penalty for sexual intercourse with a victim aged under 10 is life in prison.
Child abuse detectives began investigating on the weekend after reports a man was allegedly travelling from Victoria “to engage in a sexual relationship” with a young girl in Sydney.
The man was refused bail overnight to appear at Hornsby Local Court today.
'He will likely die in prison': JW pensioner, 90, jailed for eight years over child sexual abuse in UK
By James Robinson Daily Echo
Southampton Crown Court, stock exterior.
Gordon Dunn “groomed” and abused his victim over a six year period between 2012 and 2018.
He denied abusing the boy, but was found guilty following a trial at Southampton Crown Court.
He was jailed for a total of eight years.
The jury found Dunn guilty of one multiple count, of at least five occasions, of sexual assault on a child and two counts of sexual activity with a child.
He was found not guilty of a second count of sexual assault and not guilty of one count of sexual activity with a child.
Mitigating for Dunn, barrister Bernice Mulvanny said her client, a lifelong Jehovah’s Witness, was likely to die in prison.
She said: “The reality of the situation is that no-matter how long he is given in prison it is likely he will not serve the full period.
“It is likely he will die in prison.
“He asks through me if at all possible that you make it as short as you possibly can in the circumstances. One that gives him a glimmer of hope of seeing the outside world”
Ms Mulvanny said Dunn has been disfellowshipped by his Jehovah’s Witness group.
Dunn, of Merton Road, Southampton, was given an aggregated eight year sentence by Judge Peter Henry, who said Dunn’s age could not be used as a way to lower the sentence.
Judge Henry said: “Of course I am aware you are 90 years old but age itself is not a mitigating factor.
“You are elderly, but it is not mitigating to say that you might die in prison. There are serious matters... and they must be met with a commensurate sentence.”
His age didn't stop him from committing child sexual abuse, it shouldn't stop him from serving the full sentence fitting his crime, should he live so long. He's removed 'hope' from his victims for a very long time. He has no right to have any himself. Good call Judge Henry.
The Daily Echo requested a custody picture of Dunn, but police said they did not have one.
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