Category Archive for : ‘ASIA’

March 5, 2021
Lydia Lam, Jalelah Abu Baker
Channel News Asia

SINGAPORE: The maximum penalties for three types of sexual offences will each be increased by a year, after a review of how some sexual and violence-related crimes are sentenced by Singapore courts, Minister of Law K Shanmugam said on Friday (Mar 5).

On top of this, mitigation pleas in certain types of offences based on the offender’s educational qualifications or academic potential “should not carry much weight”, he said in a ministerial statement in Parliament.

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November 11, 2020
Basit Mahmood
News Week

Police in Australia have rescued 46 children and arrested 14 men, following an investigation into an international child abuse network that has also led to arrests in the U.S.
The victims, aged between 16 months and 15 years old, were subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation and were saved after a year-long investigation following a tip-off from U.S. investigators who were looking into an Australian internet user. Police say 16 of the children were rescued from a childcare center.
The 14 men arrested face a total of 828

Wayne Nelson Corliss, a 58 year old small-time actor, who painted faces at children’s parties and performed as the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen, was arrested in New Jersey on child-sex charges May 7 after an international manhunt.  According to Interpol, he is suspected of sexually abusing at least three boys from Southeast Asia thought to have been 6 to 10 years old.  Corliss told authorities that he had sex with three boys in Thailand six years ago, an experience he described as euphoria.  He is charged with