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.
Meijer must remove all existing videos in which he speaks directly to the children or criticizes their parents. The court also prohibited him from making public statements on the matter in any form other than video. If he fails to comply, he faces a fine of 10,000 euros per day, up to a maximum of 100,000 euros.
The ruling comes after parents accused Meijer of using YouTube to promote harmful ideas, including incest and extreme traditional gender roles. “He regularly addresses the children, giving them unsolicited advice on life and telling them how they should view their parents,” said Ties van der Meer, director of Stichting Donorkind.
Meijer has made videos with titles such as Blessed are the Trad Wives and Trad Man Power, advocating for a strict traditional division of gender roles. He has suggested that modern parents are weak for struggling to raise two children, pointing to historical families with up to 15 children as examples of resilience.
One of the parents involved in the lawsuit described his content as “bizarre.” Meijer reportedly advised children to eat pig brains and shared unconventional opinions about hygiene and relationships.
According to mother Natalie Dijkdrenth, Meijer encouraged children to choose partners who look like them and share their beliefs. He also criticized modern parenting styles and glorified large families. “Some children are very impressionable because of their age. As parents, we can do our best, but as a donor, he still has a certain appeal to them,” Dijkdrenth said.
The court had previously urged Meijer and the parents to negotiate guidelines for his YouTube content, but no agreement was reached, leading to the judge’s decision.
This is not the first time Meijer has faced legal action. In 2023, a court banned him from donating sperm to new parents after determining he had fathered at least 550 children. He is only allowed to donate to parents who already have a child from his sperm and want another. However, in September, Meijer claimed he was still donating to families who requested it, openly defying the court order.
Meijer was also the subject of the Netflix documentary The Man with 1000 Kids, which suggested he may have fathered as many as 3,000 children. He disputes that figure, maintaining the number is 550.
Former surgeon admits to victimising granddaughter during France's biggest child abuse trial
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French former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec on Friday admitted to sexually abusing the 12-year-old daughter of his eldest son in the latest shocking revelation to emerge from France's biggest child abuse trial, which is currently under way in the western city of Vannes. Le Scouarnec is facing charges of allegedly raping or sexually abusing 299 children.
A French former surgeon confessed on Friday to sexually abusing his granddaughter, while a policewoman broke down in tears as she recounted the discovery of child abuse images on Joel Le Scouarnec's computers.
Retired surgeon Le Scouarnec, 74, has been on trial in the western city of Vannes since Monday in one of the country's largest child sex-abuse cases.
Most of Le Scouarnec's victims were children whom he is believed to have abused while they were waking up from anaesthetic or during post-op checkups, at a dozen hospitals between 1989 and 2014.
Speaking in court on Friday, he confessed to also sexually abusing the 12-year-old daughter of his eldest son, who was present in court.
"I acknowledge acts of sexual abuse against my granddaughter," Le Scouarnec said.
AFP is not releasing the names of Le Scouarnec's children and grandchildren to protect their privacy.
The former surgeon is already in jail, having been found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces.
Le Scouarnec meticulously documented his crimes, noting his victims' names, ages and addresses and the nature of the abuse.
In his notes, the doctor describes himself as a "major pervert" and a "paedophile".
Joining Friday's hearing by video link, a police investigator broke down in tears as she told the court about the discovery of some 300,000 child pornography images found on the doctor's computers in 2017.
Her testimony was interrupted due to technical problems.
The surgeon's eldest son, 44, recalled a happy childhood, saying his father was busy with his medical practice but adding they had a "strong bond".
But echoing his younger brothers, who spoke in court earlier this week, he said they had grown up in a family where many things had not been discussed.
"We were kept in the dark about a lot of things," he said.
He said that he had learned only "a few months" before his father's arrest in 2017 that a search conducted at the surgeon's home in 2004 concerned child pornography that he had downloaded.
His mother Marie-France, who divorced Le Scouarnec only in 2023, had never told him about it, he said.
He said he has had no contact with his mother since 2017, when he learned of his father's crimes.
In May 2017, he visited his father in prison.
"He told me it was serious and that it had to happen one day," he said.
He then learned from his cousins that his father had abused them when they were children. He sank into depression and started drinking in an effort to numb the pain, he said, adding however he has now overcome his addiction, unlike one of his brothers.
His 42-year-old brother told the court this week that he had been raped and sexually abused by his grandfather, Le Scouarnec's father, from the age of five to 10 years old.
The prime minister had previously suggested that the organizers of the Pride event “should not bother” to prepare for it
Pride parades will no longer be allowed to take place on the streets of Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared in an interview with local radio on Friday. He argued that such events are detrimental to children.
Speaking to Radio Kossuth, Orban stated that the only reason the LGBTQ events took place in the capital was because they were being led by former American ambassador David Pressman, “which clearly expressed that the world’s great powers support this.”
“But now there has been a change in the world,” Orban noted. He added that since Pressman left the country in January ahead of the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, Pride parades are “no longer under international protection.”
“So, this kind of thing is no more. It’s over now,”Orban said, adding that such events “shouldn’t have been necessary before either.”
Makes one wonder what the consequences would have been had Orban stood up to Pressman.
The prime minister further stressed that events such as the Pride parade go against the “opportunity for our children’s healthy, balanced development as desired by their parents,”pointing out that despite immense pressure from the Western world, most people in Hungary have not given in to the gender “craziness” and still believe that there are only two genders.
During a state address last Saturday, Orban also suggested that the Pride organizers in Hungary “should not bother preparing” for the event, initially scheduled for June, arguing that it would be “a waste of time and money.”
On Thursday, Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, also stated during a press briefing that Hungary “does not have to tolerate Pride marching through downtown Budapest” and that the event will no longer be held “in the public form in which we have known it in recent decades.” He previously suggested that Pride should be held in a “closed venue.”
Behind closet doors?
Organizers of the LGBTQ festival have responded to Orban’s threat to shut down the event by issuing a statement that they still plan to hold it, arguing that it would become a “litmus test for Hungarian democracy,” Reuters reported.
In 2021, Hungary updated its child protection laws to prohibit the promotion of LGBTQ topics in media, advertising, and educational materials accessible to minors. The measure sparked a backlash in Brussels, which launched legal action against Budapest, referred the case to the European Court of Justice, and also froze billions in EU funds intended for Hungary over what it claimed were violations of fundamental human rights.
Bangladesh is the country in Asia with the highest ratio of child marriages to its population. Some 38 million women are married before the age of 18, according to UNICEF – amounting to one in two women. This is despite the fact that child marriage has been illegal since a British empire-era law from 1929, with the legal age set at 18 for women and 21 for men.
Despite the efforts of national and international organisations, the scourge persists. In recent years, the number of child marriages has remained alarmingly stable.
FRANCE 24's Lisa Gamonet and Nabeel Ahmed report.
Transgender clinic in India shuts down after USAID funding freeze – media
The health center’s closure comes after US President Donald Trump’s 90-day freeze on all US foreign aid
India’s first transgender clinic has been shut down, according to local media reports. Called Mitr, the Indian word for ‘friend’, the clinic provided general health consultations, HIV testing and treatment, mental health support, and helped transgender individuals access legal and social services.
Mitr Clinic had been supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which provided healthcare services to the transgender community.
The clinic’s closure comes after US President Donald Trump’s 90-day freeze on all US foreign aid, which includes over $40 billion in funding for international projects through USAID, according to reports. This action led to thousands of programs globally being suspended and numerous USAID officials placed on leave.
A trans health expert affiliated with the clinic quoted by The Hindu said that operations were suspended shortly after the funding cut was announced at the end of January. Mitr was established in Hyderabad in January 2021, and has two additional clinics in the western Indian cities of Mumbai and Pune.
Funding for the transgender clinic was recently questioned by US Republican Senator John Kennedy. “USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. I didn’t know that. I bet the American people didn’t know that,” he stated earlier in February.
Republican Representative Nancy Mace, meanwhile, pointed at a $750,000 grant by USAID to an organization linked to Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor’s brother-in-law’s company Shahi Exports for “alleviating loneliness among migrant workers in India.”
Yikes! Sounds a little like prostitution!
On Monday, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar raised concerns about possible foreign interference in India’s elections, following US President Donald Trump’s statement that USAID had allocated $21 million to increasing voter turnout in India.
He had said that New Delhi is investigating the matter and that the “facts will eventually come out.” On the same day, India’s Finance Ministry’s 2023-24 annual report disclosed that USAID was funding seven projects in India, totaling $750 million. These projects, implemented in collaboration with the Indian government, received a total of $97 million from USAID in the last fiscal year. They cover various sectors such as agriculture, water and sanitation, renewable energy, disaster management, and health, officials said.
A worldwide police operation resulted in the arrest of 25 people in multiple countries on charges related to producing and distributing images of minors entirely generated by artificial intelligence or AI, authorities confirmed Friday. Image courtesy of EUROPOL
Feb. 28 (UPI) --A worldwide police operation resulted in the arrest of 25 people on charges related to producing and distributing images of minors entirely generated by artificial intelligence, authorities confirmed Friday.
The operation spanned 19 countries including the United States, with arrests taking place earlier in the week, EUROPOL, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation said in a statement.
"(This) has been one of the first cases involving AI-generated child sexual abuse material, making it exceptionally challenging for investigators, especially due to the lack of national legislation addressing these crimes," EUROPOL said in its statement.
The agency, which was founded in 1999, calls this kind of crime "one of the most threatening manifestations of cybercrime in the European Union."
In addition to the arrests this week, authorities searched 33 houses and seized 173 electronic devices.
The operation remains ongoing and police expect more arrests in the coming weeks, the agency said in the statement.
"These artificially generated images are so easily created that they can be produced by individuals with criminal intent, even without substantial technical knowledge," EUROPOL Executive Director Catherine De Bolle said in the agency's statement.
"This contributes to the growing prevalence of child sexual abuse material, and as the volume increases, it becomes progressively more challenging for investigators to identify offenders or victims. Law enforcement will need to develop new investigative methods and tools to address these emerging challenges."
Authorities from Denmark led the operation, which also involved officials in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
"The main suspect, a Danish national who was arrested in November 2024, ran an online platform where he distributed the AI-generated material he produced. Following a symbolic online payment, users from around the world were able to obtain a password to access the platform and watch children being abused," EUROPOL said in the statement.
Last August, a U.S. Army soldier in Alaska was arrested for using AI to produce explicit images of children.
