Category Archive for : ‘INTERNATIONAL’

January 14, 2021
Christine Breenan
USA Today

Just hours before the 2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were set to begin in Las Vegas, the attorney for a former skater said the sport’s national governing body agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle the skater’s lawsuit accusing the organization of being negligent in its duty to protect young athletes from sexual abuse.

Adam Schmidt, 36, a former skating student of suspended Olympic coach Richard Callaghan, alleged that he suffered “numerous sexual assaults” by the well-known coach when he trained with him as a teenager in

November 26, 2020
Independent

The operator of an online chat room in South Korea was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for blackmailing women including minors into filming sexually explicit video and selling them to others.
The Seoul Central District Court convicted Cho Ju-bin, 24, of violating the laws on protecting minors and organizing a criminal ring, court spokesman Kim Yong Chan said.
The court ruled Cho “used various methods to lure and blackmail a large number of victims into making sexually abusive contents and distributed them to many people for an extended

June 29, 2020
DW

 The cybercrime unit of the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia is investigating some 30,000 leads in a massive online child abuse probe, officials said on Monday.

The state justice ministry said the extent of abuse taking place and being shared online was “deeply disturbing.”

“I hadn’t reckoned with the extent of child abuse on the internet,” said state Justice Minister Peter Beisenbach.

Officers are investigating what could lead to around 30,000 unidentified leads. “We want to drag perpetrators and supporters of child abuse out of the anonymity of the internet,” said the ministry.

Those

November 15, 2019
Sarah Perez, Zach Whittaker
Tech Crunch

Image search engine Giphy bills itself as providing a “fun and safe way” to search and create animated GIFs. But despite its ban on illicit content, the site is littered with self-harm and child sex abuse imagery, TechCrunch has learned.
A new report from Israeli online child protection startup L1ght — previously AntiToxin Technologies — has uncovered a host of toxic content hiding within the popular GIF-sharing community, including illegal child abuse content, depictions of rape and other toxic imagery associated with topics like white

October 31, 2019
Europol

Between the 16 and 25 October, the 20th edition of the Europol Combating Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (COSEC) course gathered 64 investigators from 55 agencies and 35 countries*.
The diverse team of 14 trainers from different countries and organisations** focused on the new and emerging technologies. The training course was organised and funded by Europol and hosted at the LAFP North Rhine-Westphalia police training college in Germany.
The training course also led to real results including cooperation on an international live distant child abuse investigation, the tentative identification of

September 11, 2019
Vincent Wood
sex offenders and orheWorst Independent

An “insidious” paedophile, who encouraged his partner’s children to watch the couple have sex before sexually abusing them, has been jailed.

The 61-year-old from King’s Cross in central London was described by prosecutors as the driving force behind the abuse.

He was arrested after the man’s partner of five years and mother of the two child victims, called Islington council to report the crime.

After he pleaded guilty to abusing the children throughout the full course of their relationship he finally sentenced to six and a half years behind bars at Blackfriars Crown Court.

The mother, who previously