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2 women who say they were sexually abused as students

at Cold Spring Harbor HS file lawsuit

News 12 Staff

Jun 14, 2021, 5:11pm

Two women who say they were sexually abused at Cold Spring Harbor High School in the late 1970s and early 1980s have filed a lawsuit.

Lynda Cutbill and Susan Shanahan both say they have struggled for decades as survivors of sexual abuse. The women say they were repeatedly abused by two different teachers.

"I was a 14-year-old girl who had been sexually abused on a routine basis and yet essentially I was being blamed," says Shanahan.

Shanahan says she was raped by her science teacher Thomas Kohm. Cutbill says she was abused by her art teacher William Kail.

The women have filed lawsuits under the state Child Victim's Act. The suit states, "In what would be criminal conduct today, the highest ranking district officials deliberately withheld the information reported to them ... prioritizing the school's reputation over its integrity."

Attorney Andrew Shubin says, "Administrators were aware that Mr. Kail and Mr. Kohm presented a danger to our clients and other students."

Shanahan says she encourages people to come forward because she wishes she had done it sooner.

"It's unacceptable what happened and how it got covered up and I think the story needs to be told," says Cutbill.

Both accused teachers are now deceased.

News 12 reached out to the current administration at Cold Spring Harbor School District and was told in a statement by the superintendent that "the district does not comment on pending litigation."

Survivors of sex abuse have until mid-August to file a claim under the Child Victim's Act.

Diamondhead, Miss man found guilty of multiple sex charges

involving children

By WLOX Staff

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - A Diamondhead man will spend what could be the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty of multiple sex charges.

Harry Lynn Trest, 77, was found guilty of four counts of sexual battery and four counts of touching a child for lustful purposes after a five-day trial in Hancock County.

The investigation began on Jan. 22, 2019, when the Waveland Police Department was contacted by someone who said their minor family members were victims of sexual abuse.

The initial disclosure was made to the children’s mother once the victims returned to South Carolina after a visit with the family in Waveland during the Christmas holidays.

The Waveland Police Department scheduled a forensic interview of the children, which led to additional disclosures that Trest had molested the children over a number of years.

After hearing testimony from the victims and their forensic interview, the jury heard testimony that the mother had taken the children for medical treatment and no injuries were observed by doctors in South Carolina.

However, a pediatrician with the University of Mississippi Medical Center testified that the lack of physical injury “does not mean a child was not abused, and that injuries are rare in these cases, mostly due to delayed reporting.” Jurors also heard from the children’s counselor, who testified that the victims were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and that they had disclosed several different types of behaviors, fears and physiological symptoms that were “consistent with sexual abuse.”

Ultimately, Trest was found guilty after a two-hour deliberation from the jury.

“The conviction, in this case, resulted from months of outstanding investigative work on the part of the Waveland Police Department and the courage of the victims to come forward,” said District Attorney Crosby Parker. “This sentence e provides an appropriate penalty for this defendant based on the horrific crimes in this case and provides accountability and justice. Hopefully, this conviction and sentence will also assist the victims in their healing.”

Trest was sentenced to 45 years in prison without the possibility of parole or early release by Judge Christopher Schmidt.

“I cannot begin to imagine the depravity that lies within a man’s heart in order to get some type of sexual gratification by touching a young defenseless child,” Schmidt said at sentencing. “There are people who appear before me every day and every week who stand before the court guilty of a felony, and there are many of those people for whom I have sympathy for the choices they have made. You do not fall within that category.”

Two Lexington, SC men arrested on child sexual abuse-related charges

By WIS News 10 Staff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) -
Two Lexington County men were arrested in unrelated cases on child sexual abuse related charges, officials say.

According to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, Jeremy Joseph Denny, 29, of Lexington, S.C., and Cameron Lee Myers, 21, of Lexington, S.C. were arrested on ten total charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. 

Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigators with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department made the arrests in these unrelated cases. Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office, along with a member of the state’s ICAC Task Force, assisted with these investigations.

Investigators say they received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children which led them to Myers. Investigators say Myers distributed child sexual abuse material.

According to officials, Denny solicited and traveled to meet a person they believed to be a minor for sex.

Officials say Denny was arrested on June 9 and is charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor, a felony offense punishable by up to ten years imprisonment; and one count of attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Myers was arrested on June 10 and is charged with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, second degree, a felony offense punishable by up to ten years imprisonment on each count.

These cases will be prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office.

542% Increase in Convicted Sex Offenders Arrested at Border

BY CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON 

June 28, 2021

DEL RIO, Texas—Border Patrol agents have arrested 353 illegal aliens with sex-related criminal convictions so far this fiscal year. A large number of the detainees had prior convictions for crimes involving a minor.

In the same period in fiscal 2020, agents apprehended 55 criminal sex offenders, and 58 total in all of fiscal 2019.

The number of criminals illegally crossing the southwest border has spiked in tandem with the border crossing surge this year. Convicted criminals are the most likely population of illegal aliens trying to avoid capture by Border Patrol.

Border Patrol has detected more than 250,000 illegal aliens who have evaded capture so far this year, according to the newly-appointed Acting Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz on June 24. It’s impossible to estimate how many have evaded Border Patrol without detection.

“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t read a paper or a report from my agents that talks about criminal aliens, sexual offenders that they’ve apprehended out there,” Ortiz said during an event in Del Rio, Texas.

“Those folks aren’t getting released in these communities. Guess what happens to them? They go to jail. When they get out of jail, they go back to their country of origin.”

According to reports by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), many of the criminals being caught have already been deported, sometimes on multiple occasions.

On June 24, agents in Rio Grande City, Texas, arrested convicted sex offender, Benito Gomez-Lopez, from Mexico. Gomez-Lopez was arrested in May 2020 by the Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department in North Dakota for possession of certain prohibited materials and promoting a sexual performance by a minor, according to CBP.

He pleaded guilty to both counts and was sentenced to three years confinement, but was repatriated to Mexico in July 2020.

On June 14, a Peruvian child rapist was arrested by Border Patrol after he entered the United States illegally near Roma, Texas, according to CBP. Pedro Asuncion ORE-Quispe, 43, had been deported in 2020 after serving over five years for felony rape of a child in Idaho.

On June 20, Mexican national Isidro Efrain Gallardo-Rangel was apprehended as part of a group of 24 illegal aliens near Laredo. Gallardo-Rangel is a registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history and a conviction for indecency with a child in 2018 in Dallas, Texas, according to CBP.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz at a community meeting in Del Rio, Texas, on June 24, 2021.

(Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)

Del Rio Sector

Once a relatively quiet region for illegal border crossings, the Del Rio Sector in Texas is now the second busiest, after the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas.

“We’ve seen a tremendous increase. So far this year, this fiscal year, today, we’ve caught 144,000 people in the Del Rio sector,” said sector chief Austin Skero on June 24.

“We’ve gone through this before—we’ve seen these increases, these surges, for the last 30 or 40 years. It’s never been this bad. I’ll tell you that straight up, I’ve never seen it this bad.”

Skero said the sector has seen a 1,400 percent increase in the number of sex offenders arrested by Border Patrol agents.

A photo from a game camera that caught illegal aliens walking through private ranch land

in Jim Hogg County, Texas, on March 25, 2021. (Courtesy of Susan Kibbe)

A Del Rio resident said that prior to January he had seen two illegal aliens pass through his backyard.

Now, he said, it’s hundreds a day.

“I have four daughters—does it concern me when you say there’s a 1,400 percent increase in sex offenders? Yes, it concerns me,” the resident said during a border update on June 24.

“I’m concerned about the single men who are running through my backyard, sneaking. And I’m about a 50 percent  success rate on whether or not I get an agent to come out to my place when I call. And when they do, it’s awesome, they bring helicopters, they bring support.

“Otherwise, I’m sitting there unarmed and there’s a guy soaking wet in my backyard screaming at me in Spanish. I don’t know what to do with this guy.”

The resident asked Border Patrol if they could provide some type of training to citizens to prepare them for such encounters.

Skero suggested for residents to not engage with illegal aliens who are on their property and to call Border Patrol.

“We’re going to come just as soon as we can. Sometimes it will be immediate, sometimes it might take us an hour.”

But, he said, if an illegal immigrant is endangering a resident’s family, or is being assaultive, call 911.

Del Rio Border Patrol Sector Chief Austin Skero at a press conference in Del Rio, Texas,

on June 24, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)

State Response

At the behest of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) started surging extra law enforcement resources to the border beginning in March.

In the three months from March 4 through June 3, DPS has arrested 1,489 criminals.

In addition, State Troopers have been involved in 340 vehicle pursuits along the border and have dealt with 630 vehicle bailouts. A bailout occurs when a vehicle being pulled by law enforcement stops and the illegal immigrant occupants scatter and flee to avoid capture.

Abbott issued a state of disaster declaration on June 10, highlighting 34 border counties that are struggling with cross-border crime and illegal immigration.

“We’re going to start making arrests, sending a message to anyone thinking about coming here: You’re not getting a free pass. You’re getting a straight pass to a jail cell,” Abbott said.

Last week a prison unit in Dilley, Texas, was being emptied in preparation for illegal alien criminals.

Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also issued a call for help to other governors on June 10.

“With your help, we can apprehend more of these perpetrators of state and federal crimes, before they can cause problems in your state,” Abbott and Ducey, both Republicans, wrote in a letter.

So far, several Republican governors have pledged support by way of sending law enforcement personnel or National Guard troops.

Philadelphia Man Admits Years-Long Sexual Abuse Of 8-y/o Girl

 Nicole Acosta 

 06/30/2021 8:12 p.m.

      

A Philadelphia man pleaded guilty to seven counts of manufacturing child pornography following an indictment that alleges he sexually abused an 8-year-old girl for more than two years and kept a photo and video record of the assaults, federal authorities announced.

When Philadelphia police served an arrest warrant for Herbert Smith, 33, for his sexual assault of a different nine-year-old victim, they discovered him lying in bed with that victim, according to Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams.

Police seized Smith’s digital devices, and the subsequent forensic analysis by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed hundreds of images of Smith’s "horrific" sexual assaults against an eight-year-old child, including rape and other sexual abuse of the child after she was given medication to make her sleep, Williams said.

Smith recorded his abuse of the girl, saved the images and videos on his devices, and in some cases, uploaded the images to his online storage account, authorities said.

Smith was taken into custody by Philadelphia police in August 2019.

He has been detained in federal custody since he was indicted federally in September 2019. 

As a result of his conviction on seven counts of manufacturing child pornography, he faces up to 210 years in prison, which includes a mandatory minimum of 15 years, five years up to a lifetime of supervised release, a fine of up to $1,750,000, and special assessments of up to $35,700. 

Smith must also register as a convicted child sex offender under state law.

“Smith is a predator of young children and has been for years,” Williams said.

“With this conviction, and Smith now facing up to 210 years in prison, his victimization of our most vulnerable citizens has finally come to an end. Thank you to all of our agency partners who remain determined to identify, prosecute and convict child predators like this defendant.”

“Herbert Smith admits inflicting repeated horrific sexual assaults on a little girl, and recording the abuse so he could savor it whenever he wanted,” said Michael J. Driscoll, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division. 

“His actions are unconscionable and the harm he’s done, immeasurable. It’s cases like this that drive the FBI and our partners, as we work to protect our community’s children from depraved predators like Smith.”   

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Philadelphia Police Department and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michelle Rotella.

Casper man convicted of child abuse and violating a protection order

will serve one year in jail

In a plea deal that dropped three charges including one count of sexual abuse of a minor, Jesse Jackson will serve two consecutive six-month sentences at the Natrona County Detention Center on two counts of violating a stalking order.

After his release, Jackson has been ordered to serve three months of supervised probation for the child abuse conviction. If he violates probation, Johnson warned Wednesday, he will have to serve his suspended six- to eight-year prison sentence at the Wyoming State Penitentiary.

The charges stem from a years-long relationship between Jackson and a girl 15 years his junior. Court documents state Jackson faced charges in Laramie County, but investigators could not prove any sexual contact between the two.

An affidavit in the case states Jackson violated a protection order related to those charges last year, when he reportedly communicated with the victim using Pinterest and secret devices he provided her. Court filings state he was 29 at the time, and she was 14 years old.

The victim’s father, speaking during Jackson’s sentencing on Wednesday, said he believed the relationship, which he described as grooming, began when his daughter was 11 years old. Both he and his wife gave statements describing the trauma, stress and pain that Jackson’s actions had caused their family.

According to the affidavit, investigators found messages between Jackson and the victim, arranging to meet, talking about sexual activities and discussing the secret nature of their relationship. Messages from Jackson also reportedly show him sending photos, telling the victim to lie to people in her life and giving her cell phones, tablets and a debit card.

“He knows his behavior is inappropriate and unlawful,” the victim’s father said Wednesday, “or he would not have hid his actions.”

Records were also recovered from the victim’s grandmother’s phone that indicated she had used it to Facetime with Jackson while she was in the shower.

The victim’s mother voiced concern that Jackson would find her daughter after getting out of jail in a year, and her father criticized the plea deal for being too lenient. The victim also gave a short statement on Wednesday, telling Johnson she believed Jackson would leave her alone as long as she did the same.

Jackson will also have to undergo sex offender treatment as part of his probationary process.

“I want to give my sincere apologies to the family,” Jackson said before sentencing Wednesday. “I know it means nothing to them, but I do mean it and I’m sorry for everything I’ve put them through.”

Jackson appeared in court Wednesday free on bond, but was required to report to the jail by 7 p.m. the same night.

Alabama man charged with rape, incest and sex abuse of child under 12

Updated 2:41 PM; Today 2:41 PM

By William Thornton | wthornton@al.com

A Pisgah man is out on bond after being indicted on multiple child sex charges.

Paul Lee Ray, 42, was released from Jackson County Jail Monday on $210,000 bond. He was arrested Saturday after a grand jury indictment.

According to jail records, Ray was charged with first degree rape, first degree sodomy, first degree sexual abuse, sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old, enticing a child for immoral purposes, and incest.

Green Island couple accused of child endangerment while running daycare

by: Jack Summers, Jennifer Seelig

Jun 30, 2021 / 04:42 PM EDT

John Ferrara and Anna Pratt, accused of child endangerment

GREEN ISLAND, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Albany County Sheriff’s Office arrested John Ferrara, 49, of the Village of Green Island for alleged predatory sexual assault against a child and his girlfriend, Anna Pratt, 50, for endangering the welfare of a child.

Police say on Tuesday, Sheriff’s Investigators arrested the two after an ongoing investigation into sexual acts Ferrara allegedly committed over a period of time against a minor. Pratt, who is said to have run a private daycare in Green Island, reportedly failed to report sexual abuse her boyfriend was allegedly committing on a minor while in her care. During the investigation, police say Ferrara also physically assaulted the victim’s brother as the brother tried helping his little sister. Police say Ferrara punched the boy after the boy spoke up.

“We have an individual who is basically a predator and he’s preying on one young girl within this business. But it’s even more disturbing to know that the business owner knew this, was aware of this and distracted the young girl’s brother so he could prey on this young child,” says Sheriff Craig Apple.

Ferrara was charged with the following:

Two counts of Predatory Sexual Assault Against a Child (a class A-II Felony),

One count of Assault in the Third Degree (a class A misdemeanor), and

Two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child (a class A misdemeanor).

Pratt was charged with:

One count of Endangering the Welfare of a Child (a class A misdemeanor).

Ferrara was arraigned by the Town of Green Island Court and was remanded with no bail. Pratt was arraigned and released on her own recognizance. Sheriff Apple says since the incident, the daycare has been shutdown. He says the couple did not have any prior arrest records.

Lori Walker works with the Albany County Crime Victim and Sexual Violence Center, she sees similar cases like these come into the office. “It’s always sad and heart wrenching to hear it happen especially when you trust your child with someone to take care of them,” says Walker.

In daycare settings, she recommends parents ask certain questions. “Do you have any training in recognizing child sex abuse, child physical abuse — what are your policies and protocols about adults alone with children? There are a bunch of things like that parents don’t always think about and can ask those questions too,” says Walker.

Perhaps the biggest question: Are there any men or teen boys in the house? If there are, run from that place.

NEWS10 rang the daycare doorbell, but no one answered the door.

Albany County Crime Victim and Sexual Violence Center: Sexual assault crisis hotline (phone): The Center operates a 24-hour sexual assault hotline for crisis counseling and advocacy at Albany County hospitals and police stations for victims of sexual assault. The number is 518-447-7716.

Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Democrat Super Fraud; MI6 Director and Paedo Ring; Allison Mack In for 3; Cosby Out After 3

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Hillary Clinton Campaign Official and Founder of Org to End

Sexual Violence Against Children Is Arrested on Child Rape Charges

– Sentenced to 13 Yrs in Prison

By Jim Hoft

Published June 23, 2021 at 8:30am

Joel Davis was a Hillary Clinton Campaign official and founder of the organization “Youth to end Sexual Violence.” 

Joel was arrested in 2018 after engaging in sex with a child. Davis also had over 3,700 images and more than 330 videos of child pornography, including numerous images of prepubescent minors who had not attained 12 years of age.

Joel was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his work.

He was sentenced to 13 years this week.

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Ex-deputy director of MI6 is named by MP as 'key' figure

who 'manipulated' Westminster VIP paedophile ring

By STEPHANIE LINNING FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 05:10 EDT, 5 November 2015

A former deputy director of MI6 is 'key' to allegations surrounding a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster, an MP has claimed.

Labour MP John Mann said the late George Kennedy Young, known as GK Young, was involved in 'dubious' political activity, including establishing a 'private army'.

He added Mr Young, who later became involved in right wing politics, was a 'manipulator' who controlled groups of people within which there were paedophile rings in the 1970s or 1980s.

Mr Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, claimed he had been handed a copy of the dossier of evidence that was given by Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan in 1984. 

The so-called 'Dickens dossier' named several prominent paedophiles. An independent review into the Home Office's handling of child abuse allegations failed to locate a copy of the documents.  

It reported last year that there was no evidence to support claims of an official cover-up, but warned it was impossible to draw firm conclusions because of shortcomings in the paper records.

Mr Mann called for the Wanless review to be reopened to find out what happened to the files, which he claims should have prompted investigation.

In a Westminster Hall debate, Mr Mann said Mr Young, who died in 1990, had been named in the first line of the document. 

He said: 'This is an original, I have spoken and met and got a copy from the person who personally handed it to Geoffrey Dickens who then personally gave it to Leon Brittan.

'And what it says is, first line - GK Young heads up a Powellite faction known as Tory Action. GK Young, George Kennedy Young, was deputy director of MI6 in the past, long dead.

Mr Mann claimed he had been handed a copy of the dossier of evidence that was given to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan, pictured, in 1984

'The allegations are that he manipulated a group of people and that within that there were paedophile rings. And it goes into detail - who it's alleged were involved and where.

'I won't give all the locations because some would be I think sensitive and would potentially identify people - but London is one, Greater Manchester is another, North Yorkshire is a third one.'

Mr Mann said GK Young may be key in finding out what happened to the dossier.

He said: 'I think it's worth saying another thing about George Kennedy Young, because George Kennedy Young was involved in many dubious activities.

'He formed something called Unison, which was some kind of private army he tried to get going.

'I've seen a range of background documents that would be of interest to anyone campaigning on the Shrewsbury pickets and on infiltration of the miner's strike with names that would correlate with that.

'There is a lot of allegations about him attempting to undermine both the Heath government and the Wilson government. He was clearly a manipulator. He's rather key to what was going on.

'I don't know why he's so prominent, I don't know why the Society for Individual Freedom he set up is named either in this, but he is a significant figure.

'And it may give some reason as to why things then disappeared.'

Mr Mann has passed the file to the Metropolitan Police to assist officers with their investigations into historical sex abuse allegations. 

Smallville actress Allison Mack sentenced to 3 years in jail

for her role in NXIVM sex cult

30 Jun, 2021 17:47

FILE PHOTO: Allison Mack departs the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in New York on April 8, 2019.

© REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

American TV actress Allison Mack has been handed a three-year prison sentence for her involvement in the NXIVM sex cult after she pleaded guilty to charges relating to her role in recruiting women to the secret group.

In 2019, a year after her arrest, the 38-year-old ‘Smallville’ actress pleaded guilty to sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.

Mack’s sentence, which also includes a $20,000 fine and 1,000 hours of community service, was announced by the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday.

The actress was at one point deputy leader of the New York state-based NXIVM, which, under the guise of being a self-help program enlisted women as sex slaves for the group’s founder, Keith Raniere.

The women were subjected to bizarre forms of abuse, including being forced to brand themselves near their genitals with Raniere’s initials.

Prosecutors had sought between 14 to 17 years for Mack, but her legal team argued for a reduced sentence given her cooperation with the case, including handing over audio evidence against Raniere.

The cult leader received a 120-year jail term in October after being convicted on a number of counts, including sex trafficking and racketeering.

Mack has been forced to live at home with her parents since her 2018 arrest. Ahead of sentencing she apologized to those she had recruited to the abusive group, saying, “From the bottom of my heart, I am so sorry.”

Bill Cosby freed from prison, his sexual assault conviction overturned

(on a technicality)

Maryclaire Dale

The Associated Press

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 5:31PM EDT 

 

PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania's highest court threw out Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America's Dad,” ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor's agreement not to charge Cosby.

Cosby, 83, flashed the V-for-victory sign to a helicopter overhead as he trudged into his suburban Philadelphia home after serving nearly three years of a three- to 10-year sentence for drugging and violating Temple University sports administrator Andrea Constand in 2004.

The former “Cosby Show” star - the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era - had no comment as he arrived, and just smiled and nodded later at a news conference outside, where his lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said: “We are thrilled to have Mr. Cosby home.”

“He served three years of an unjust sentence and he did it with dignity and principle,” she added.

Cosby was arrested in 2015, when a district attorney armed with newly unsealed evidence - the comic's damaging deposition in a lawsuit brought by Constand - filed charges against him just days before the 12-year statute of limitations was about to run out.

But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Wednesday that District Attorney Kevin Steele, who made the decision to arrest Cosby, was obligated to stand by his predecessor's promise not to charge Cosby, though there was no evidence that agreement was ever put in writing.

Justice David Wecht, writing for a split court, said Cosby had relied on the previous district attorney's decision not to charge him when the comedian gave his potentially incriminating testimony in Constand's civil case.

The court called Cosby's subsequent arrest “an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was forgone for more than a decade.” It said justice and “fair play and decency” require that the district attorney's office stand by the decision of the previous DA.

The justices said that overturning the conviction and barring any further prosecution “is the only remedy that comports with society's reasonable expectations of its elected prosecutors and our criminal justice system.”

Cosby was promptly set free from the state prison in suburban Montgomery County and driven home.

“What we saw today was justice, justice for all Americans,” said another Cosby attorney, Andrew Wyatt. ”Mr. Cosby's conviction being overturned is for the world and all Americans who are being treated unfairly by the judicial system and some bad officers.“

What about all the girls and women he allegedly drugged and raped for whom the statute of limitations prevented from getting justice? 

Bonjean said Cosby was “extremely happy to be home” and “looks forward to reuniting with his wife and children.” Several supporters outside yelled, “Hey, hey, hey!” - the catchphrase of Cosby's animated Fat Albert character - which brought a smile from him.

In a statement, Steele said Cosby went free “on a procedural issue that is irrelevant to the facts of the crime.” He commended Constand for coming forward and added: “My hope is that this decision will not dampen the reporting of sexual assaults by victims.”

Constand and her lawyer did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

“FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted - a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” the actor's “Cosby Show” co-star Phylicia Rashad tweeted.

“I am furious to hear this news,” actor Amber Tamblyn, a founder of Time's Up, an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault, said on Twitter. “I personally know women who this man drugged and raped while unconscious. Shame on the court and this decision.”

Four Supreme Court justices formed the majority that ruled in Cosby's favor, while three others dissented in whole or in part.

Peter Goldberger, a suburban Philadelphia lawyer with an expertise in criminal appeals, said prosecutors could ask the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for reargument or reconsideration, but it would be a very long shot.

“I can't imagine that with such a lengthy opinion, with a thoughtful concurring opinion and a thoughtful dissenting opinion, that you could honestly say they made a simple mistake that would change their minds if they point it out to them,” Goldberger said.

Even though Cosby was charged only with the assault on Constand, the judge at his trial allowed five other accusers to testify that they, too, were similarly victimized by Cosby in the 1980s. Prosecutors called them as witnesses to establish what they said was a pattern of behavior on Cosby's part.

Cosby's lawyers had argued on appeal that the use of the five additional accusers was improper. But the Pennsylvania high court did not weigh in on the question, saying it was moot, given the finding that Cosby should not have been prosecuted in the first place.

In New York, the judge at last year's trial of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose case helped sparked the #MeToo movement in 2017, let four other accusers testify. Weinstein was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

In sentencing Cosby, the trial judge had ruled him a sexually violent predator who could not be safely allowed out in public and needed to report to authorities for the rest of his life.

In May, Cosby was denied parole after refusing to participate in sex offender programs behind bars. He said he would resist the treatment programs and refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing even if it meant serving the full 10 years.

The groundbreaking Black actor grew up in public housing in Philadelphia and made a fortune estimated at $400 million during his 50 years in the entertainment industry that included the TV shows “I Spy,” “The Cosby Show” and “Fat Albert,” along with comedy albums and a multitude of television commercials.

The suburban Philadelphia prosecutor who originally looked into Constand's allegations, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor, considered the case flawed because Constand waited a year to come forward and stayed in contact with Cosby afterward. Castor declined to prosecute and instead encouraged Constand to sue for damages.

Questioned under oath as part of that lawsuit, Cosby said he used to offer quaaludes to women he wanted to have sex with. He eventually settled with Constand for $3.4 million.

Portions of the deposition later became public at the request of The Associated Press and spelled Cosby's downfall, opening the floodgates on accusations from other women and destroying the comic's good-guy reputation and career. More than 60 women came forward to say Cosby violated them.

The AP does not typically identify sexual assault victims without their permission, which Constand has granted.

Cosby, in the deposition, acknowledged giving quaaludes to a 19-year-old woman before having sex with her at a Las Vegas hotel in 1976. Cosby called the encounter consensual.

On Wednesday, the woman, Therese Serignese, now 64, said the court ruling “takes my breath away.”

“I just think it's a miscarriage of justice. This is about procedure. It's not about the truth of the women,” she said. Serignese said she took solace in the fact Cosby served nearly three years behind bars: “That's as good as it gets in America” for sex crime victims.

That's not really true. American rapists and child rapists get the harshest prison sentences of any country in the world, unless you are rich and/or famous, or the vanguard of the #MeToo movement.

Canada's Indian Residential Schools - Paedophile Candy Stores

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In the past month, 3 burial sites on Indian Residential School lands have been revealed in western Canada. A total of 1070 graves have been found and only 78 have actually been documented. IRSs had no apparent policy for burying deceased children, according to one historian. 

Much research has yet to be done as we don't know what period of time the burials covered. For instance, 215 deaths in Kamloops, if it turns out covers a period of 100 years, including the Spanish Flu Pandemic, could not be considered excessive - just over 2 per year. But the fact that the graves are unmarked, not even identified as a graveyard, and the deaths are not documented anywhere, apparently, is unforgivable regardless of who is responsible.

Why so many sexual predators at Indian Residential Schools

escaped punishment

An estimated 5,000 people committed a sex crime at a residential school during

the system's 100 year existence, but fewer than 50 have been convicted

Author of the article: Tristin Hopper

The National Post

Publishing date: Jun 10, 2021

Tony Charlie, a Kuper Island residential school survivor, becomes emotional as he recounts his abuse, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in Duncan, B.C. in 2012. His abuser, Glenn Doughty, spent only three years in jail for a a string of Kuper Island sex assaults lasting nearly 20 years.

PHOTO BY LYLE STAFFORD

One of the most horrific aspects of Indian Residential Schools — and the one that took the longest to be publicly revealed — is that virtually from their inception they were institutions awash with child predators.

Schools didn’t bother performing even the most rudimentary background checks on potential new employees and they paid such piddling wages they would take almost any willing recruit. Students were kept constantly hungry and were relentlessly cowed into meek obedience through corporal punishment, both of which would be ruthlessly exploited by abusers.

And as church-run institutions for much of their existence, abusers within Indian Residential Schools were protected by the same culture of secrecy that is now known to have protected sexual predators at church-run facilities around the world.

“The matters of sexual acts involving students were almost never brought to the police and even less often prosecuted,” reads a 2017 study of Indian Residential School abuses. “Typically, teachers or staff were invited to seek employment elsewhere — rarely did their record of malfeasance follow them.”

70% Sexually abused at some schools

Virtually from the outset, a shockingly large proportion of the 150,000 Indigenous children sent to residential schools were subjected to rape and molestation from principals, teachers, dormitory supervisors and even maintenance workers and janitors. At some schools, upwards of 70 per cent of students faced some form of sexual abuse. - Like a candy store for perverts!

Nevertheless, as Canada once again grapples with the legacy of Indian Residential Schools, it’s remarkable how few of the system’s abusers have faced even the most tokenistic punishments for scarring a generation of Indigenous youth.

Unfortunately, Tristan, as you allude to below, it was not one generation of youth scarred. Residential schools ran for about 100 years across Canada making for several generations of youth, what? 5? And then much of that abuse made its way back into First Nations communities where inter-generational abuse still scars them today. I am convinced that many of the child suicides happening today in Indigenous communities are a consequence, at least in part, of child sexual abuse that has its roots in Indian Residential Schools.

When former Indian Residential School dorm supervisor Arthur Plint was sentenced in 1995 for more than two decades of sexual abuses against children, Justice Douglas Hogarth described him as a “sexual terrorist” who had exploited a system that was “nothing more than institutionalized pedophilia.”

Arthur Plint threatens a photographer with his cane after arriving at the Port Alberni Courthouse.

PHOTO BY NICK DIDLICK/VANCOUVER SUN

Between 1947 and 1968, Plint exercised total dominion over students at Alberni Indian Residential School: Bribing children for oral sex with candy, brutally beating anyone who tried to escape his predations and enlisting teams of young boys who would bring him new victims. “At twelve years old I began drinking alcohol to forget,” one of his victims later told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

By the time Plint was brought up on charges in the mid-1990s, most of his victims had taken their own lives or died of alcohol abuse, according to coverage of the trial by Windspeaker.

It was this case, more than any other, that would push Canada towards a public reckoning with the traumatic legacy of Indian Residential Schools. As for Plint himself, he got 11 years in jail but still died a free man after he was released after eight years of incarceration at age 85. A parole board approved Plint’s release on the grounds that his advancing age had given him a “lack of motivation” to participate in prison programs.

Oh, gosh, that poor guy. A lack of motivation must be worse than hundreds of sexually abused children. The Canadian Justice System - good grief!

In this 1995 photo from Port Alberni, B.C., artist Arthur Thompson, right, gives the thumbs-up while getting a hug from his wife Charlene after testifying about the child abuse he received from Arthur Plint at Alberni Indian Residential School. PHOTO BY NICK DIDLICK/VANCOUVER SUN

In 2016, private investigators contracted by the federal government identified 5,315 people — both students and staff — who are believed to have committed sexual abuse at a Canadian Indian Residential School. They weren’t up on criminal charges; they had been tracked down to see if they would be willing to testify at hearings determining compensation for residential school survivors.

Despite this, fewer than 50 people have ever been convicted for a sex crime committed at an Indian Residential School, according to analysis by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Among those handful, almost all are sex offenders who spent mere months in prison for actions that damaged the civic life of whole Indigenous communities.

Another former employee of Alberni Indian Residential School, Douglas Haddock, got 23 months for abusing children over a six-year period starting in the late 1940s. Richard Donald Olan, a teacher at Alberni Indian Residential School, was convicted of five counts of “gross indecency” against children – including a practice of “signing out” children from the school to abuse them at his home over weekends. By serving his sentences concurrently, however, Olan was out of prison within two years.

William Peniston Starr was convicted of abusing 10 boys over 20 years at Saskatchewan’s Gordon Indian Residential School – but he would later admit to abusing hundreds of others. “We’re talking getting buggered and oral sex. The whole f—ing deal,” one of the boys targeted by Starr, Ben Pratt, said in 2000.

Gordon Indian Residential School during the time of Starr’s employment there.

PHOTO BY UNIVERSITY OF REGINA

Sentenced to 4.5 years in jail in 1993, Starr was out by 1996. When more than 100 of his victims then filed a civil suit, Starr said he was “surprised and disappointed.”

The now-free Starr told Windspeaker in 1997:  “I pleaded guilty, I was incarcerated and I’m still in treatment — what more can I say?”

Gerald Mathieu Moran abused children throughout the early 1960s at two residential schools, including Kamloops Indian Residential School. Twelve of those instances netted him convictions in 2004, each carrying a three-year sentence. However, because they were served concurrently Moran was up for parole within a year.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Catholic priest Harold McIntee would sneak into the dormitories at St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School outside Williams Lake, B.C., slip into bed with pre-pubescent boys and fondle them under their pyjamas. Or, he would lure boys for oral sex with the promise of candy. Later in life, he would repeatedly orally rape a 13-year-old Indigenous boy who had come to his parish office for help after facing a prior incident of sexual abuse. McIntee got two years in jail and when he died, his obituary made no mention of his decades of sexual abuse.

In just these individual cases, the abusers left a trail of cultural destruction still felt in First Nations communities. “You tore communities apart with your acts,” one victim of Plint would tell him in court. Multiple Plint victims would speak of their confusion and shame turning them into domestic abusers and — in two instances — of victimizing children themselves.

One of the boys “checked out” by Olan for a weekend of rape would later sob so hard during his Truth and Reconciliation testimony that he would vomit.

Indian Residential school survivor Sheri Lynne Neapetung tells her story of abuse during testimonies at

the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools, in Montreal, Thursday April 25, 2013.

PHOTO BY PHIL CARPENTER/THE GAZETTE

For girls, the abuses of residential school would result in a wildly disproportionate number of Indigenous women entering the sex trade. At a Truth and Reconciliation hearing, Elaine Durocher said that she didn’t get any formal education at Saskatchewan’s Fort Pelly Indian Residential School, but learned many of the dark lessons that would directly lead to years in the sex trade. “Once I knew that I could touch a man’s penis for candy, that set the pace for when I was a teenager, and I could pull tricks as a prostitute,” she said.

To this day, research out of UBC has found that women who had a parent who attended a residential school are 2.35 times more likely to be sexually assaulted.

As for why so few abusers have faced punishment for their actions, the sexual predators who ran through the Indian Residential School system benefited from the fact that so many of their victims ended up dead, homeless, incarcerated or addicted to drugs. For those willing to step forward with charges and relive the traumas of the abuse, the almost universal result was years of court action resulting in a sentence amounting to only a few weeks of jail time per victim.

“The Canadian legal system failed to provide justice to Survivors who were abused,” read the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. “When, in the late 1980s, that system eventually did begin to respond to the abuse, it did so inadequately and in a way that often re-victimized the Survivors.”

The Commission heard about hundreds of instances of sexual abuse — many spoken publicly for the first time — but did so at the expense of systematically tracking down the individuals responsible. In order to maximize the number of people willing to testify, the Commission’s mandate specifically barred it from identifying abusers unless they had “already been established through legal proceedings.”

“In keeping with this instruction, this report does not identify or name alleged perpetrators of sexual or physical abuse,” wrote the commission’s final report.

Good grief! However, we can comfort ourselves with the knowledge that justice will be meted out, if not in this lifetime, then in Eternity.

Approaching Sodom > Gibraltar Approves Abortion; Hong Kong Housing Policy Opens to Gays; EU Parliament Goes Full-on LGTBQI

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62% vote in favor of easing Gibraltar’s draconian abortion laws

25 Jun, 2021 13:29

A general view shows the Spanish city of La Linea de la Concepcion and the tarmac of the Gibraltar International Airport while tourists stand on the top of the Rock next to the European Union flag, in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, September 14, 2016. ©  REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Gibraltar has voted 62% in favor of changes that will allow women to terminate a pregnancy before 12 weeks if the fetus has fatal physical defects, or if the mother experiences severe mental or physical health implications.

The verdict was announced in the early hours of Friday morning after residents of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar cast their votes on Thursday to approve changes to the law that would relax current abortion rules.

The change to the current laws in Gibraltar will grant women access to abortions legally during the first trimester (up to 12 weeks). The approved changes mean that abortion will be allowed in situations where either the mother’s or fetus’ physical health are at risk, or if continuing the pregnancy would inflict severe mental distress on the woman – in cases of incest or rape.

These are fairly reasonable restrictions for a godless society. However, sin is progressive, and it won't be long before abortion becomes just another form of birth control as in most western countries. Another step on the road to Sodom.

Following the release of the verdict, crowds burst into cheers and celebrations. The political group Gibraltar for Yes celebrated the result and chanted “No more shame,” as the vote marked a step forward in de-stigmatizing abortions for women.

The referendum had a turnout of 52.2%, with 62% voting to change the law and 36% against.

Prior to the changing of the law, abortion in Gibraltar was punishable by life imprisonment. However, no woman has been sentenced to prison for having an abortion in recent times.

Gibraltar’s referendum has coincided with the EU Parliament’s passing of a resolution on Thursday that demands all 27 EU member countries grant women access to safe abortions. 

(Gibraltar is no longer part of the EU as it exited with Brexit. See European Parliament.... below).

Landmark court ruling overturns ‘oppressively unfair’ anti-LGBT

Hong Kong housing policy

25 Jun, 2021 10:17

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong takes part in the annual pride parade in Hong Kong, China

November 25, 2017. © REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Hong Kong’s High Court ruled on Friday that housing policies “constitute unlawful discrimination” by not acknowledging same-sex partners as a tenant’s family member, marking a landmark victory for LGBT rights in the region.

In its judgement, the High Court stated that current housing policies violate the region’s Basic Law constitution and Bill of Rights by denying joint occupancy and ownership rights to same-sex couples.

The ruling claimed that the subsidized housing policy is “oppressively unfair” and “constituted unlawful discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,” ordering the authority to rectify the system.

The case had been brought by same-sex couple Henry Li and his now-deceased partner Edgar Ng against the regional government, marking their second victory for LGBT rights in Hong Kong. The duo had purchased a government-subsidized flat in 2018 but were prevented from filing for joint ownership under the housing policy, as the system only recognized nine categories of relationships, including heterosexual couples, such as a husband and wife.

Celebrating the ruling, Li called it a “bittersweet” moment, urging authorities to “timely, proactive actions to protect fundamental rights,” so other couples do not have to suffer the legal or emotional challenges of discriminatory policies.

Previously, Li and Ng secured a win in a 2020 court ruling that declared same-sex couples have equal rights to inheritance as their heterosexual counterparts. While Hong Kong does not recognize same-sex couples, the court system allows LGBT individuals to challenge existing policies that they believe discriminate against them.

In response to the Friday ruling, the Hong Kong housing authority said it will “take appropriate action after studying the judgement in detail and seeking legal advice.” 

European Parliament Votes in Favor of Abortion-On-Demand

as a Human Right

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. 

| June 24, 2021

BRUSSELS, June 25 (C-Fam) The European Parliament adopted a resolution that labels abortion a “human right” and attacks the conscience rights of doctors who refuse to perform abortions.

The resolution “on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU”, adopted earlier today, calls on EU member states to decriminalize all abortions and to allow abortion-on-demand in order to bring their laws “into line with international human rights standards.” A similar resolution was narrowly defeated in 2013.

Did I mention, sin is progressive? Abortion-on-demand is a completely different animal than Gibraltar's narrow restrictions. Abortion-on-demand makes abortion just another form of birth control. It is a sign of a godless society where life is not recognized as originating in God, and therefore is a rebuke to God. This, of course, will lead to His eventual judgment, like the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Abortion advocates were militant in their speeches during a heated debate and resorted to violent and fearful rhetoric.

“We feminists know that we have to fight for the right to rule of over our body and our sexuality,” said MEP Malin Björk, of the Left group. She called anyone who opposed the resolution “misogynistic.”

I wonder if Eve had the same thoughts before eating of the forbidden fruit?

“There is no gender equality without the right to universal and safe abortion. There is no rule of law without respecting full sexual and reproductive health and rights. There are no human rights without the right to abortion. And without these rights, the union does not exist,” said Polish Member of the European Parliament Sylwia Iwona Spurek.

There are no rights without the right to life!

The resolution, prepared by Croatian socialist Predrag Fred Matić, doesn’t just promote abortion. It attacks the conscience rights of doctors who refuse to perform abortions and calls on EU members to remove “all limitations” on abortion during the COVID-19 emergency.

The vice-president of the Parliament, Finnish MEP Heidi Hautala, explained the reason for this in the debate.  “If [sexual and reproductive health and rights] are not guaranteed for all, they can take them away from any of us.”

Some abortion supporters openly voiced their opposition to the Catholic Church.

“It is high time to end the church’s influence on healthcare. Women across Europe must have separation of church and state on these issues,” said Irish politician Frances Fitzgerald of the European People’s Party, also known as Christian Democrats.

The Conference of European Bishops and the Polish Bishops’ Conference both issued statements against the resolution that were republished in articles on the official Vatican News agency.

The resolution also endorses “comprehensive sexuality education”

and promotes the most extreme elements of the LGBT agenda.

It calls for bans on any kind of therapy to help individuals with same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria to cope with or overcome their condition, and it calls on the World Health Organization to change its definition of infertility to ensure it applies to same-sex couples and men and women who identify as transgender.

“In certain circumstances transgender men and non-binary persons may also undergo pregnancy,” the resolution states, adding that they should be provided government funded maternal health care.

Most of the opponents of the resolution insisted that abortion, and health policy more broadly, should not be subject to EU interference, since the EU treaty leaves these issues up to individual member states to decide.

Several pro-life MEPs also made passionate calls for protections for mothers and children in the womb from abortion.

“This resolution does not protect women. It degrades women’s dignity. It swindles and subjugates women to a false liberty that does not allow women to respect their own body and the miracle of life that women carry within,” said member of the parliament, or MEP, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, on behalf of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group of parliamentarians.

Italian MEP Silvia Baldassare of the Lega party, a doctor turned politician, called the resolution “absurd” and a “new low” for the parliament. She complained that the resolution speaks of government funding for abortion but does not address maternal health, family policy, or other measures to help women avoid abortion.

“What does the EU do to protect women from abortion?” she asked.

Despite the spirited opposition to the resolution, it passed comfortably with 378 votes in favor and 255 against. While the resolution is not binding, its recommendations can be incorporated into the policies of the powerful European Commission.

During the debate EU Commissioner Helena Dalli acknowledged that health policy was an exclusive competence of EU member states, but she insisted that EU member states “must respect the fundamental rights that bind them under international law.”

Dalli said “all commission services will closely examine them (the recommendations in the resolution) to see where we can include them in our policies.”

This is a disaster for the EU. The LGBTQ lobby has hijacked the EU Parliament and all but removed any thought of God from its laws. The EU will suffer greatly because of this.