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July 8, 2020
Jeff Cole
Fox 29
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DOYLESTOWN, Penn. – An ex-priest accused of sexually abusing boys in the area pleads guilty in connection with those crimes.

“Do you have any comment at all? Why plead guilty?” asked FOX 29’s Jeff Cole.

“No comment,” was Francis Trauger’s reply.

Suspended as a priest in 2003 and kicked out two years later, Trauger, now living in Brooklyn, New York, came to admit guilt.

“I was 12-years-old, so, today I represent that 12-year-old,” Mike McDonnell stated.

McDonnell, a leader of a Philadelphia group of survivors of priest abuse known as SNAP, says Trauger

July 7, 2020
Middle East Monitor

Egypt’s public prosecutor has charged a university student with indecent assault of at least three women, including one who was a minor at the time, in a case prompted by a social media campaign that opened up a rare public debate on sex crimes.

Ahmed Bassem Zaki, in his early 20s, was the target of a campaign on Instagram last week from an account that included postings by women accusing him of sex crimes. He is not known to have addressed the accusations publicly and Reuters was not able to

July 9, 2020
WBTV
 

CABARRUS COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) – A candidate for the Board of Education in Cabarrus County has been charged with a sex crime by the Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office.

According to the report, 22-year-old Hunter Scott Moore, of Rockwell, was charged with soliciting a crime against nature. The report states that on June 22, 2020, the Cabarrus County Sheriff`s Office Vice/Narcotics division “conducted an undercover operation of an individual soliciting for crimes against nature. The offender solicited a law enforcement officer by offering to pay $250 dollars and perform (sexual

May 17, 2020
Adam Easton
BBC

Archbishop Wojciech Polak called on the Church hierarchy to “launch proceedings” following the release of a documentary on the subject on Saturday.

The film tells the story of two brothers who seek to confront a priest who allegedly abused them as children.

The Vatican is expected to assign an investigator to the case.

The film – “Hide and Seek” – has been viewed more than 1.9 million times on YouTube. It is the second documentary on the subject by brothers Marek and Tomasz Sekielski.

It follows two victims as they attempt to bring

March 9, 2020
Ellie Fry
sextortionIndependent

An online petition accusing Pornhub of profiting from videos of rape and abuse has reached over over 388,000 signatures.

The petition, founded by US anti-trafficking organisation Exodus Cry, accuses the porn site of facilitating human trafficking through insufficient safeguarding checks on videos, many of which are uploaded by users.

It reads: “Pornhub is generating millions in advertising and membership revenue with 42 billion visits and 6 million videos uploaded per year.

“Yet it has no system in place to verify reliably the age or consent of those featured in the pornographic content it hosts and profits

June 29, 2020
Patch 

LOS ANGELES, CA — A judge Monday approved a $5.5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed against Los Angeles County on behalf of a teenage girl who was sexually abused by a former sheriff’s detective in 2017.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Detective Neil David Kimball, 47, of Agoura, pleaded guilty last July to child molestation charges. Ge was sentenced last August by a Ventura County Superior Court judge to three years in prison for crimes committed in that county between October and December 2017, when the girl