Category Archive for : ‘INTERNATIONAL’

Rock legend Peter Townshend, 58, was cleared on May 7th of possessing pornographic images of children but still was placed on a national register of sex offenders.  He was

implicated in a widening Internet child porn crackdown, but has won the support of music-industry colleagues thanks to his forthrightness and history as a child advocate and because his life before now has been free of the taint of scandal. Scotland Yard announced that he was arrested on suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children and of incitement to

Ian Huntley, a 29 year old school caretaker, has been charged with the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, two 10 year olds who vanished August 4, 2002,  while walking near their homes in Soham.  Huntley’s girlfriend, Maxine Carr, 26, has also been arrested and was questioned by police.  Police confirmed that two bodies found in a rural corner of England were those of the girls.  The sickening double murder has unleashed a tidal wave of anguish – and rage – across a stunned nation.  Their disappearance triggered the

Newsday

Ozzy Osbourne has told London’s Daily Mirror that he was sexually molested repeatedly as a childand suffered emotional effects from the abuse long into adulthood. The rocker, who grew up in aworking-class neighborhood of Birmingham, England, said that two older youths began abusing himafter school when he was 11, and it continued on a regular basis. He told the newspaper that he wasafraid to report the incidents to his parents and only this year began to come to terms with theemotional effects of the abuse. Everything when you are a

Arnold Hartley, a 73 year old convicted pedophile, was discovered beaten to death in the early hours of Saturday in his home in the town of Redcar in County Middlesbrough.  He suffered serious injuries to his head and face.  Police have arrested two people in connection with the murder.  Hartley was released from jail in April 2002, having served a 12 month sentence for making indecent images of a girl under the age of 14.  A 28 year old man and a 20 year old woman were being questioned.  Police

New York Post

Hector Noel Mojarro Frausto, 23, was accused of kidnapping an 11 year old neighbor whodisappeared in June 1999 and recently turned up in 2003 in Mexico. Frausto, who was wanted on firstdegree kidnapping and felony statutory rape charges, was arrested in North Carolina. Authoritieshad been looking for him when Dana Pevia contacted officials in Mexico to report herself missing.She returned to Raeford, N.C. on with her two young children. Her family had not seen her since shewalked to the school bus just after 6 a.m. on June 4,

Police scoured a suburban Toronto neighborhood yesterday for any trace of Cecilia Zhang, 9, who was reported missing from her home Monday morning.  She was discovered missing when her mother went to wake her.  Police have refused to comment on any evidence so far, but consider it an abduction.  Reports focus on a broken window at the home that could have been the access point for an intruder.  

(Toronto, Canada)