Category Archive for : ‘INTERNATIONAL’

January 11, 2021
Paul Cherry
Montreal Gazette

A Lachine man awaiting his sentence in a case where he was convicted of child luring was returned behind bars last week following his arrest on charges alleging he accessed child porn last week and last year while he was out on bail.
Martin Barbeau, 43, is currently detained while he faces the charges filed against him at the Montreal courthouse last week. He was charged with possessing and accessing child pornography on Jan. 6.
He is also charged with having communicated with a child for a sexual

December 11, 2020
BBC

Joseph Telford, from Darlington, abused three children during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Durham Police said his “harrowing” actions included one victim being abused at least 60 times during a four-year period and another for six years starting from the age of eight.

Telford was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault and six rapes.

His crimes came to light in 2017 when one of his victims reported what had happened to police, a force spokeswoman said.

‘Haunting and devastating’

In a victim impact statement read out in

July 17, 2020
Hyung Eun Kim
BBC 

“Thank you for putting a brake on the life of a devil that could not be stopped.”

That is how one suspected ringleader of a clandestine online sextortion ring in South Korea described his relief at being caught.

Cho Ju-bin, known as “The Doc,” operated chatrooms where he blackmailed dozens of young women, including at least 16 minors, into making sexually explicit videos of themselves.

They often featured rape and violence.

He then sold these videos online through Telegram, an encrypted messaging service. Fees ranged from $200 to $1,200.

But this

December 6, 2019
Arshad R. Zargar
CBS NEWS

Delhi — Police in India have shot dead four men accused in a horrific rape-murder case that sparked country-wide protests. The four men were accused of the November 27 gang rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian in the southern city of Hyderabad. The woman’s body was burned after the sexual assault in an apparent effort by the perpetrators to destroy the evidence.
Telangana State Police arrested the four men the next day, and they had been in custody ever since. Police said that before dawn

December 5, 2019
North Devon Gazette

Samuel Phillips forced the young mother to have sex in her own home and told her he would carry on until she moaned. She told him to stop but he carried on and she covered her face with a pillow so she did not have to look at him.
She was already terrified of him because he had attacked her and given her two black eyes on a previous occasion.
Phillips, now of Imperial Road, Exmouth, and formerly West Down, Ilfracombe, was jailed after the brave victim confronted

November 3, 2019
Julie Turkewitz
The New York Times
 
 
Fakhrriyyah Hashim, an activist from Nigeria’s conservative north, began using the hashtag #arewametoo to publicise incidents of sexual assault, on Sep 16, 2019. Women in West Africa who accuse men of sexual abuse have recently seen some change, but also an intense backlash including threats and even a police investigation. (KC Nwakalor/The New York Times)

It was, she said, a secret that burned so badly she could no longer keep it inside. So at age 34, Busola Dakolo, a well-known Nigerian photographer, went on television