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.
Norway probes senior state officials’ Epstein links
Eleven current and former foreign and development ministers face parliamentary questioning over government grants and contacts linked to the late US sex offender
Norway’s parliament has begun a public inquiry into ties the country’s political and diplomatic elite had with US pedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Eleven current and former foreign and development ministers, including Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, who served as foreign minister from 2005 to 2012, will face questioning.
The Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice earlier this year revealed his often toxic connections to politicians, royals, and other prominent figures, for whom he is thought to have provided underage girls for sex. The disclosures have prompted parliamentary and police investigations in Norway.
The Norwegian parliamentary Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs is examining the Foreign Ministry’s handling of international aid funds, internal oversight mechanisms, and whether personal relationships involving Epstein may have influenced government decisions. Committee member Jonas Andersen Sayed has said the government must explain what it is doing to restore trust in the foreign service.
Questions are also swirling over Norway’s funding of the International Peace Institute (IPI), which received around 130 million kroner ($13.5 million) from the Foreign Ministry between 1997 and 2018. The international think tank was led by Norwegian diplomat Terje Roed-Larsen from 2005 to 2020.
Norway, home to the Nobel Peace Prize and a longstanding player in international diplomacy, has faced heightened scrutiny over Epstein’s connections to its political and diplomatic circles.
Roed-Larsen, a central figure in the 1990s Middle East peace talks and a key architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords, is among several prominent Norwegians under investigation by Norway’s economic crime authority, Oekokrim, following the disclosure of the Epstein files.
Former Prime Minister Thorbjoern Jagland and former diplomat Mona Juul are also under investigation. Juul and Jagland are suspected of aggravated corruption, while Roed-Larsen is suspected of complicity in aggravated corruption. All three have denied wrongdoing.
Former Foreign Minister Boerge Brende, meanwhile, testified before the committee after stepping down as president and CEO of the World Economic Forum in February amid scrutiny of his contacts with Epstein.
Separately, the parliament has appointed an independent commission of academics and legal experts to examine matters raised by the Epstein files. The commission is due to submit its findings by January 31, 2028.
Several women have accused Gerald Marie, the former head of Elite Model Management's European operations, of rape and human trafficking in a criminal complaint filed in France. At least one of the plaintiffs alleges she was sexually abused while still a minor.
Marie, whose agency represented some of the world's biggest supermodels, including Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, and Cindy Crawford, has faced similar accusations from more than a dozen women over the past several years. French prosecutors previously investigated the claims but closed the case in 2023 because the alleged offenses, dating largely to the 1980s and early 1990s, fell outside the statute of limitations. Marie has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
Six women, most of them Americans, filed the latest complaint on Wednesday, according to their lawyer, Mathias Darmon. Two are accusing Marie publicly for the first time, including one who alleges she was underage when she was assaulted.
The complaint alleges that Marie, while running one of the world's leading modeling agencies in Paris, “used the authority, influence and power conferred on him by his position to obtain forced sexual relations with numerous young women, some of whom were underage,” according to excerpts published by Le Monde and AFP.
Responding to the new filing, Marie's lawyer, Celine Bekerman, said that there was “no reason whatsoever to call on the courts to again revisit a case that is both time-barred and closed, nearly 40 years after the alleged events.”
Last month, former supermodel Carre Otis filed a separate complaint in Paris accusing Marie of repeatedly raping her when she was 17 and trafficking her to wealthy men in Europe. Otis first made the allegations in her 2011 memoir Beauty, Disrupted.
Earlier this year, 14 women, including former BBC journalist Lisa Brinkworth, also urged French authorities to investigate Marie over alleged links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2020, dozens of former models from the US, Canada, and Sweden told The Guardian that they had been sexually assaulted after Marie invited them to private meetings at his apartments in the 1980s. Several said they did not come forward earlier because they feared it would end their modeling careers, while others accused him of exploiting their youth and poor command of French.
Misogynist influencer sibs Andrew and Tristan Tate went to Florida court Monday to fight their extradition to the UK on new rape and sex-trafficking charges, as their lawyer called the case a “stitch-up job.”
The controversial influencer brothers made a brief appearance at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. US Courthouse in downtown Miami after their arrest Saturday.
The pair must remain behind bars as the judge weighs their request.
Andrew and his brother Tristan (pictured) were arrested on rape and sex-trafficking charges.
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Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, later claimed at a press conference that his clients were being held in solitary confinement at FDC Miami and that their treatment amounted to illegal “torture.
“It’s garbage, it’s a stitch-up job,” McBride added of the case.
Andrew, 39, and Tristan, 38, were hit with multiple fresh accusations over the weekend by Bedfordshire Police in southeastern England involving four new alleged victims — charges that now bring the number of raps against them there up to 59, Time reported.
The allegations include rape, assault, trafficking and offenses related to “indecent images of a child and extreme pornography,” and span 2010 to 2017, a rep for the force said.
Andrew is accused of repeatedly placing a webcam performer in chokeholds until she passed out and raping her in a horrifying attack in her Bedford, England, home in 2015, according to a complaint unsealed on Monday and obtained by the New York Times.
Another woman alleged that the manosphere influencer visited her home in Manchester and choked her to the point she was afraid he was “going to kill her.” The pair had had consensual sex in July 2014 before the alarming encounter occurred, the document detailed.
The Tate brothers’ lawyers, Joseph McBride (center) and Thomas Maniotis (right), speak to reporters outside court in Miami on Monday.
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Andrew is currently facing seven counts of rape, three counts of sex trafficking, three counts of assault, and 19 more charges connected to the “indecent images of a child and extreme pornography,” the outlet reported.
His brother, Tristan — who is facing one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of sex trafficking — was also accused of regularly choking, beating and raping a woman with whom he was in a romantic relationship in 2012 and 2013, the filing said.
The woman told authorities that he choked her to the point she was unconscious, gave her a black eye and whipped her with a belt on multiple occasions, the complaint detailed.
In this courtroom sketch, Andrew and Tristan Tate appear with their attorneys before Judge Lauren Louis in Miami federal court, Monday, July 20, 2026, in Miami.
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The Tates, who have dual British and US citizenship, are already facing charges of rape, bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain relating to three other alleged UK victims between 2012 and 2015.
The siblings had been living in Romania since 2016 and were arrested there in 2022 on separate allegations of participating in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation.
But as their Romanian case became bogged down in legal proceedings, local authoriites lifted their travel ban on the pair, paving the way for them to visit Miami.
Both brothers had been in the US to fly to Washington, DC, to speak to their Congress members about their ongoing legal woes when they were arrested, McBride said Monday, without giving further details.
British authorities, growing frustrated with the lack of progress in the Romanian case, requested US authorities to extradite the pair to the UK when they landed in Florida on Saturday.
Their lawyer said in a statement Saturday that he believes the new charges were “greenlighted by a low-level functionary” at the US Department of Justice without input from leadership.
The Justice Department said the arrests were approved by leadership of its Criminal Division.
Describing the new victims in the UK as “ghosts” and “phantoms,” McBride claimed Monday that Saturday’s arrests were “politically motivated,” blaming outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
“[Starmer] is mad that the Tates had a lot to do with his fall,” McBride said, claiming the case was the “last vestige” of a “failed” prime minister.
Polygamist sect leader Sam Bateman is defending himself in court as a “kind and loving father.”
Bateman—who was already serving a 50-year federal sentence for operating a child sex abuse ring—is now on trial in Arizona’s Coconino County for three counts of child abuse, according to court records reviewed by Oxygen.com.
The charges stem from allegations that Bateman—the subject of Netflix’s documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet—endangered three minors by placing them in an enclosed cargo trailer on the highway, without any seatbelts or ventilation, according to the Arizona Daily Sun.
Bateman has chosen to represent himself, with advisory help from public defender Daniel Hartman-Strawn, in the ongoing trial, which began June 23.
“I'm a kind and loving father, that's just what I am,” he said in court, captured on video by Hidden True Crime. “I'm very kind and gentle, and I don't ever willingly harm anybody. I don't even spank my children.”
What is Sam Bateman on Trial For?
Prosecutor Eric Ruchensky noted in pre-trial filings obtained by the Arizona Daily Sun that the trial is focused on very specific endangerment allegations.
“The allegations in this case,” he wrote, “relate to the narrow fact pattern of victims traveling in an unsafe trailer that posed a danger.”
He added that he hoped to avoid bringing in Bateman’s religion as a member of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) before establishing his own polygamous sect. Both sides also agreed to keep the documentary out of the trial, the news outlet reported.
Oxygen.com reached out the prosecutor’s office for additional comment, but did not receive an immediate reply.
Sam Bateman Already Serving Federal Sentence forRunning Child Sex Abuse Ring
Bateman is already serving a 50-year sentence after he pled guilty in 2024 to federal charges of conspiracy to commit transportation of a minor for criminal sexual activity and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona.
Federal prosecutors accused the polygamist sect leader of operating a “years-long child sexual abuse conspiracy” that allowed him to abuse at least 10 children.
“In 2020 and 2021, Bateman’s followers gave their minor daughters and wards to him as child ‘brides’ to sexually abuse,” prosecutors wrote. “The victims were as young as nine years old. Through coercion and manipulation, Bateman regularly forced his victims to participate with him in individual and group sexual activities with adults and other children.”
He also gave one minor, according to authorities, to another adult male follower to sexually abuse.
Prosecutors also alleged in an earlier statement that Bateman often traveled “across state lines” to collect his “wives.”
Christine Marie Weighs in on Sam Bateman’s Latest Trial
Bateman was brought down, in part, by the efforts of Christine Marie and Tolga Katas. The couple managed to infiltrate Bateman’s polygamist sect after moving to the FLDS community of Colorado City, Ariz., recording Bateman and his victims under the guise that they were creating a documentary to spread his message.
Marie and Katas then provided their recordings, which serve as the basis of the Netflix documentary, to the FBI.
In one November 2021 conversation, Marie captured Bateman talking about an Atonement in which he gave three of his wives—including one minor—“to his three male followers,” according to a probable cause affidavit.
Christine Marie and Tolga Katas inTrust Me: The False Prophet.
Photo: Netflix
Marie said she planned to attend Bateman’s current trial in a TikTok video filmed on her drive down to Flagstaff and asked for people to send their “prayers and positive energy” to the victims who will be testifying.
Disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards' blog shows staggering lack of awareness, campaigners say
Child sexual abuse campaigners have criticised disgraced ex-BBC News presenter Huw Edwards for his "inappropriate and disrespectful" choice to launch a blog, with one calling it a "staggering lack of awareness".
On Wednesday, he launched a Substack blog offering "commentary and analysis" on issues such as current affairs and mental health.
But Edwards has been criticised by some for "lacking remorse".
Responding to the criticism, Edwards said "those exercised by the piece might have missed the intent expressed" on the blog.
Edwards, who was also placed on the sex offenders' register for seven years, told the BBC he had expressed "sincere regret and remorse" in court in 2024, and in a public statement issued in March.
Emma Jane Taylor, a campaigner and founder of grassroots charity Project 90-10, said: "To think he can simply return to a public platform and be received as though nothing has happened shows a staggering lack of awareness."
The 53-year-old, who is a survivor of child sexual abuse, works full time in the fitness and wellbeing sector and runs the organisation on a voluntary basis because she believes there is a need for "better awareness, better safeguarding, and better training".
Reacting to Edwards' blog, she said: "I am deeply frustrated by this. Because of my personal trauma, I decided to speak out in my 40s. So many people are so afraid to have this conversation, so we don't.
"If it was the bloke next door, everyone would be up in arms about it. And I don't doubt people will be, but some will say he deserves a second chance.
"He is on the sex offenders' register – that should not entitle him to a blog. We don't want to hear from you, Huw," she said.
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Emma Jane Taylor is a survivor of child sex abuse and campaigner who thinks Edwards' blog is "disgusting"
Bridgend-born Edwards, whose career started in Wales before he became one of the public broadcaster's highest-paid newsreaders, presented BBC's News at Ten for decades.
In that time he delivered some of the biggest stories in British recent history including Queen Elizabeth II's death.
Taylor added she was particularly "angry and deeply upset for his victims" following the publication of the blog.
"They had to dig so deep to bring this man to justice. They are trying to rebuild their life.
"It will put survivors back in their box. We need to get to a point where victims can be heard, believed and seen without having the pressure of celebrated perpetrators... where survivors have a voice and paedophiles don't."
In his first Substack blog post - on which the comment function is not enabled - Edwards said he was "attempting to rebuild some kind of worthwhile life".
Taylor said that should be done "privately", and should start with "showing some remorse".
"He had his chance. If you really feel that strongly about your journey, go and invest that in helping other sex offenders stop offending. Maybe go into prisons," she said.
"Putting yourself on a pedestal is not going to help this conversation. Public trust is not something you're entitled to, you earn it. Actions have consequences."
Metropolitan Police
Edwards was handed a six-month suspended sentence after admitting to accessing 41 images of children
Fflur Emlyn, deputy chief executive at RASASC North Wales, which supports survivors of sexual violence and abuse, said the charity's "primary concern is always the impact on those affected".
She emphasised that "offences involving indecent images of children are not victimless".
"These images document the abuse of real children, and many survivors live with the long-term effects of that exploitation.
"In all of this, it is important that we do not lose sight of the impact on victims — both directly and indirectly. The reality is that sexual abuse can have devastating and long-lasting consequences.
"We recognise that recent developments in this case, including a return to public platforms, can have an impact on survivors. If anyone has been affected, support is available."
In response to the criticisms, Edwards pointed to a statement issued in March that "conveys 'deep regret and remorse' and includes 'sincere and profound apologies'".
The statement, issued in response to the Channel 5 drama, said he "took full responsibility for my reprehensible actions".
