Paedophile caught with child exploitation material
won't teach children again, court hears
By court reporter Meagan Dillon
(ABC News)
A South Australian relief teacher who was busted with 46 videos and images of child exploitation material will never teach children again, a court has heard.
Dylan McCrossin, 39, has pleaded guilty to three offences relating to possessing child exploitation material and is awaiting sentencing in the South Australian District Court.
Prosecutor Amy Fisher told the court that most of the material was in the worst categories for child abuse.
She said McCrossin was arrested last June and police seized his laptop and desktop computer, before they uncovered 46 videos and images of child abuse material.
Ms Fisher called for McCrossin to be jailed for the offences, which were "not victimless".
But Craig Caldicott, for McCrossin, asked Judge Ian Press to suspend any jail term or order it be served on home detention.
He told the court that his client had "stuffed up his life" as his registration to teach has been cancelled by South Australia's Teacher Registration Board.
"He will be forbidden from being a teacher — he's socially isolated himself from the rest of his family and friends," he said.
"He's remorseful.
"He's let himself down by what he's done, he's let down his family, he's let down his colleagues and he's let down the community."
He said McCrossin was "sexualised at a young age" and escaped that by playing games online.
"His online gaming was classified as an addiction," he said. "He's got a difficulty interacting with some adults."
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Mr Caldicott said a psychologist had classified McCrossin as a paedophile and he would be placed on child sex offender register.
Judge Press will sentence McCrossin in April.
'Isolated' divorced husband downloaded sick sexual abuse images of children at Teeside
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An "isolated" divorcee downloaded indecent images of children as young as five - some in the most serious category.
Graham Miles, 62, had no previous convictions but found himself in court after downloading images showing serious sex attacks on children.
Teesside Crown Court heard how the husband of 30 years had seen his marriage end before he was caught.
Prosecutor Gurjot Kaur said police were alerted in May 2019 that indecent images of children had been downloaded on the internet at a Middlesbrough home. In August officers attended the home where Miles' laptop was seized and he was arrested.
It took 3 months to respond?
He made admissions to police but "he stated that he was not sexually interested in children", Ms Kaur said. The images showed the abuse of youngsters police believe were aged between five and 13.
A total of 11 pictures were found, four in the most serious category A, two in category B and five in category C.
Miles pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs of a child.
Paul Cleasby, mitigating, said: "He made admissions straight away to the police. He accepted full responsibility and did not seek to blame anybody else.
"The defendant was interviewed on the 6th of August 2019 and having admitted his culpability has waited 18 months to be sentenced for his offending. In that intervening period there have been no offences."
Spain sees four-fold jump in child sex abuse cases: Study
The rise of internet has left minors more vulnerable to exploitation
Published: February 23, 2021 22:04
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Madrid: The number of reported cases of child sexual abuse in Spain has quadrupled over the past decade, according to a study published Tuesday, with campaigners warning the rise of the internet has left minors more vulnerable to exploitation.
A total 1,093 cases of sexual abuse involving children and underage teenagers were reported to the ANAR Foundation, a Spanish child protection charity, compared with 273 in 2008, it said in a new report.
The figures are based on an analysis of telephone and internet messages received during this period by a helpline and online support service run by the ANAR Foundation, which stands for Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk.
Only 10 percent of victims go on to file a complaint with police, the report said.
Around four in five victims were girls, the majority in their teens. In the cases where boys were abused, they were mostly under the age of 12, the study found.
Most of the abuse involved inappropriate touching, but one in 10 of the victims reported suffering penetration accompanied by violence.
"Can we as a society allow these figures, knowing that behind each one there are vulnerable victims suffering immeasurably?" the head of the charity's legal department, Sonsoles Bartolome, told a news conference.
While a greater willingness on the part of young victims to speak up is partly behind the rise, greater use of the internet by minors is also to blame, she added.
"New technologies have opened the door to new kinds of offences that did not exist before," Bartolome said, citing the online grooming of victims or the publishing of nude photos online without consent as examples.
The foundation's programme director, Benjamin Ballesteros, said easy access to online porn was blamed for "every alarming" rise in sexual assaults of minors carried out by groups, which he said now account for 10 percent of all child sexual abuse, up from just 2.1 percent in 2008.
"We feel this is clearly related to the uncontrolled use, without parental control, of the internet and above all porn" where group sexual assaults are often depicted and women are often "degraded, humiliated and mistreated," he added.
Victim now has 'strength to get on with life' as Billericay
child sex abuser jailed
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An Essex man has been jailed for a series of historic sexual assaults against two children.
Sydney Jupp, 64, stood trial this week for a number of counts of gross indecency and indecent assault of a child in the 1970s in Billericay, Essex.
The two victims bravely came forward to police in 2017, instigating an investigation from police.
Following extensive enquiries, Jupp, of Betony Crescent, was summonsed to court in October 2019 before a trial began at Basildon Crown Court earlier this week.
On Thursday (February 18), Jupp was convicted by a jury of eight counts of gross indecency with a child and four counts of indecent assault of a child.
He was jailed the same day for nine years and will be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life upon his release.
One of the victims said: “The whole process of speaking to police and going to court was hard but ultimately I am glad I did it.
“It was very emotional giving evidence in court and I was very worried about it, but I am so glad I found the courage to do it and it is all over now. I was worried that I wouldn’t be believed, but I am glad the jury believed me.
“I wish I had the courage to speak up sooner but I now have the strength to get on with my life without the terrible things that happened to me holding me back. I finally feel I can get on with living again.
“I hope my experience will give other people who have been abused the courage to come forward and give them hope that they will achieve justice."
They added: “If this has happened to you, please come forward and speak to the police. Don’t let the people who have harmed you get away with it.
“I would also like to thank the team from SERICC Rape and Sexual Abuse Specialist Service and volunteers from the witness service at Basildon Crown Court. The support they provided was amazing and I couldn’t have got through this without them.”
Billericay, Essex
Siberian cops allegedly ignored seven calls & failed to prevent murder of young woman, now locals fear officers may only be fined
25 Feb, 2021 09:29
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A Russian activist has expressed concern that police officers who reportedly ignored calls about domestic violence for hours could get away with a fine after an incident in the Siberian city of Kemerovo left a young woman dead.
In January 2020, 23-year-old student Vera Pekhteleva was killed by her boyfriend Vladislav Kanyus, after she decided to break up with him.
Over the course of a few hours, Pekhteleva’s neighbors called the police at least seven times, but the cops failed to show up. After some time, neighbors broke through her door themselves, but it was too late. Pekhteleva was dead – beaten all over and strangled with a cord.
That’s according to Alena Popova, the founder of TyNeOdna (You’re Not Alone), a network for helping women suffering from domestic violence.
Writing on her Facebook, Popova revealed that she decided to make the case details public amid fears that the girl’s ex-boyfriend will receive a lenient sentence, and the police will get away with a fine. Their trial is due to start later this week.
“If the police arrived on time, Vera could have been saved. For about 2 hours, neighbors called the police,” Popova wrote. “They heard Vera trying to open the door, but her killer pulled her away and beat, beat, beat... At least 7 calls were made to the police. No result.”
In the calls, published by Popova, neighbors warned the cops that someone could be murdered.
According to the local Investigative Committee, the police “neglected their job duties” and have since refused to cooperate with authorities. Now, two senior officers will go to court and could face a fine of 120,000 rubles or a short stint behind bars.
Women’s activist Popova also explained that Kanyus is not being prosecuted for “murder committed in a cruel way” but simply just murder. Therefore, instead of facing life behind bars, Kanyus could be released within six to 15 years.
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