Category Archive for : ‘MOST WANTED SEX OFFENDERS BY OTHER AGENCIES’

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

October 22, 2019
Carlina Black, Margarita Frederico, Muriel Bamblett
Phys

It’s a year since the national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. While national apologies can acknowledge survivors, sorry is just the beginning. Access to healing is needed.
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There are an estimated 60,000 survivors of institutional child sexual abuse in Australia. Based on the private sessions held as

October 22, 2019
The Telegraph

Victims of child sex abuse are often told by the authority figures they confide in that their allegations could “ruin the perpetrators life”, an analysis of over 3,200 cases found.
More than 4,000 survivors of child sexual abuse have shared their experiences of abuse with the Truth Project in England and Wales. Of these, 3,265 personal accounts have been analysed by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
According to a report published on Tuesday, IICSA found most victims were sexually abused by age 11 (79

October 22, 2019
News Sky

Almost half of child sexual abuse victims were under the age of eight when the abuse began, according to research.
More than 4,000 survivors have shared their experiences with the Truth Project in England and Wales and, of the 3,265 accounts analysed for research, some 46% said they had only been eight when abused for the first time.
The inquiry has heard that many victims were warned by those in authority that their accusations could “ruin” the lives of their abusers.
Others were dismissed as “attention seekers”.
Some 86% said they

October 8, 2019
Phoebe Southworth
Telegraph
  

A man raped a woman he met through Match.com after she refused to sleep with him because he was fatter than his profile picture suggested, a court heard.

Christopher Schubert, 44, described himself on the dating website as a “big cuddly bear” who was “looking for his mate”.

He exchanged flirty messages with the woman and told her he made a living by selling designer clothes and shoes on auctioneer website eBay, Oxford Crown Court heard today.

They arranged to meet at her Oxford home where he allegedly raped and sexually

October 17, 2019
Mark Daly, Craig Williams
BBC

Rangers have consistently said they sacked Gordon Neely in 1991 after a complaint from worried parents and then reported him to the police.
But the new evidence shows that is not what the club said publicly at the time – and Neely’s alleged victim insists a police report was never made.
Rangers denied a cover-up.
Gordon Neely coached children at Hutcheson Vale, Hibernian and Rangers in the 1980 and 90s. A BBC Scotland investigation in 2017 revealed the extent of his abuse at those three clubs, including allegations