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Post by artemis on Jan 7, 2012 7:46:24 GMT -5
""Girl, 8, dies 'of dehydration' after vanishing into Australian desert with convicted paedophile
Schoolgirl weighed less than 20kg when she was found because of dehydration Paedophile Augustine Miller, 38, has been charged with a firearms offence
An eight-year-old girl died of dehydration in the Australian desert after being taken on a hunting trip by a convicted paedophile.
Augustine Miller, 38, took the child on a shooting trip with him but they became stranded.
Although police discovered them two days later, the young girl was so dehydrated that she weighed less than 20kgs when she was found.
Officers who discovered the paedophile and young girl in the desert in Warburton, Western Australia, rushed her to hospital.
However, she fell unconscious as she was driven more than 200 miles to Tjirrkarli and later died.
Following the death, Miller is due to appear in court charged with being in possession of an unlicensed firearm.
However, a police investigation into exactly what happened is still on-going.
The convicted paedophile was jailed in January 2006 for 15 months after being found guilty of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
Police said the man's child sex conviction was 'not relevant' to the investigation.
He was due to appear before Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court over but the hearing was cancelled because he was too ill.
The paedophile - also known as Darcy Miller - has not yet spoken to officers after he was rescued from the desert because he is dehydrated.
He is currently in a stable condition in hospital.
Inspector Bill Munnee said despite police attempts to revive the girl she could not be saved.
'The girl was severely dehydrated, she had lost consciousness and we the police administered CPR for some 60 minutes or more,' he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
'And the heroic efforts of the police are commended here.
'They would not stop and they continued to administer CPR on the eight-year-old girl until the nurse from Warburton community arrived. She also continued and sadly they were unsuccessful and the girl was pronounced dead.'
The pair were found on January 2 in the remote area where temperatures hit 40C. They had disappeared on New Year's Eve.
Police had used helicopters and officers on the ground to search for them. The identity of the girl has not been released and it is unclear if Miller is a relative.
Forensic officers will examine the vehicle and the scene where the girl and the paedophile were found."
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Post by artemis on Jan 7, 2012 7:48:04 GMT -5
"Perverts: Alabama Teacher Confesses To Molesting More Than 20 Young Girls Over Period Of 25 Years
An Alabama schoolteacher was jailed on charges of sexually abusing a fourth-grade female student, and police said Thursday the man told them he molested more than 20 other girls over his 25-year career.
Alabaster police said Daniel Montague Acker Jr., 49, was charged with three counts of sexual abuse, and additional charges were possible.
“This is not a one-time event,” said Deputy Chief Curtis Rigney. “This happened over a period of 25 years.”
Acker taught fourth grade at three schools and drove buses in the Shelby County school system from 1985 until he retired in 2009. He was investigated on similar allegations in 1992, but grand jurors did not return an indictment, said Rigney.
A girl who is now 12 or 13 came forward within the last week claiming Acker molested her around 2009, when he was a teacher at Thompson Intermediate School, Rigney said. He wouldn’t say what drove the girl to go to police.
At least one instance of alleged abuse occurred in a classroom in front of other students, Rigney said, but it wasn’t clear whether the children saw anything or realized what had happened.
An attorney for Acker did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Acker was being held in the Shelby County jail with bond set at $225,000. A jail mug shot showed him wearing a vest meant to prevent prisoner suicides.
Acker remained on the school payroll as a substitute bus driver until this week, Rigney said. Acker’s father, Dan M. Acker, is a longtime commissioner in Shelby County, just south of Birmingham, but Rigney said there was no indication his father’s position helped the teacher avoid charges earlier.
Shelby County schools spokeswoman Cindy Warner said Acker was placed on leave while child abuse allegations were investigated in October 1992, and the county school board voted against firing him in February 1993 after grand jurors did not indict him. She said Acker was reinstated as a fourth-grade teacher at Creek View Elementary, where he worked before moving to Thompson Intermediate.
In a statement, Superintendent Randy Fuller said the district was cooperating with police and would no longer use Acker as a substitute bus driver or in any other capacity.
“We can only say that the allegations are shocking,” Fuller said. “We, as a school district, understand that child abuse is horrible with devastating consequences to victims and their families.”
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Post by junebug on Jan 8, 2012 20:05:19 GMT -5
Does anyone else find the way Johnny Depps 12 year old daughter looks in this photo disturbing? Who lets there young daughter dress like that?...talk about a pedophiles dream...! Attachments:
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Post by artemis on Jan 9, 2012 4:27:23 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Jan 10, 2012 15:33:07 GMT -5
"Furor in Greece over pedophilia as a disability
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek disability groups expressed anger Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.
The National Confederation of Disabled People called the action "incomprehensible," and said pedophiles are now awarded a higher government disability pay than some people who have received organ transplants.
The Labor Ministry said categories added to the expanded list — that also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists — were included for purposes of medical assessment and used as a gauge for allocating financial assistance.
But NCDP leader Yiannis Vardakastanis, who is blind, warned the new list could create new difficulties for disabled Greeks who are already facing benefit cuts due to the country's financial crisis.
"What's happened is incomprehensible. I think there is some big mistake. The ministry should have a different policy on disability," Vardakastanis told the Associated Press. "The list contains major changes to disability quotients, which could effectively remove many people from access to benefits."
The new list gives pyromaniacs and pedophiles disability pay up to 35 percent, compared to 80 percent for heart transplant recipients.
"It's really not serious to grant Peeping Toms a 20-30 percent disability rate, and 10 percent to diabetics, who have insulin shots four or five times a day," said Vardakastanis.
Greece has been fighting to avoid bankruptcy since 2009. Public spending on health and welfare programs has been sharply cut under austerity measures imposed as a condition for receiving emergency loans from the International Monetary Fund and other countries using the euro currency.
Independently run welfare programs that survived on state grants have been the hardest hit, leaving some disabled groups, including the deaf, facing sudden drops in their standard of care.
The government is also battling widespread abuse in the welfare system, forcing tens of thousands of disabled people to be reassessed."
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Post by artemis on Jan 11, 2012 5:34:53 GMT -5
F/WILLOW SMITH's last night's tweet pic. Everybody's doing the pole (dancing), right? Including kids...
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Post by artemis on Jan 11, 2012 5:38:51 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Jan 11, 2012 5:48:02 GMT -5
"Aged 11, Noel Gallagher's girl Anais rivals Kate Moss as she sets out on the catwalk to fame
In his Oasis days, Noel Gallagher was rarely seen with a smile on his face.
And with her 12th birthday just weeks away, the rocker’s daughter, Anais, has mastered the aloof pout too.
Her mother, Meg Mathews, who divorced Gallagher in 2001, excitedly posted a picture of her on Twitter yesterday taken by acclaimed photographer Mario Testino.
In fact, so pleased was Miss Mathews, 44, with the result that she posted the picture a second time, tweeting: ‘Couldn’t resist Anais by Mario TESTINO!!! Again x.’
Celebrity hairdresser Sam McKnight replied that Anais, who is signed to leading model agency Select, could be the next Kate Moss.
Last night, a spokesman for Gallagher, 44, who quit Oasis in 2009 after falling out with his younger brother and lead singer Liam, declined to comment on Anais’s burgeoning modelling career."
Picture perfect pout: Anais Gallagher in a photo posted to Twitter by her mother Meg Matthews and shot by legendary photographer Mario Testino
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Post by artemis on Jan 11, 2012 10:14:05 GMT -5
"American Doctor Gets 10 Years For “Buying Sex” From Cambodian Boys
A Cambodian court on Wednesday sentenced an American doctor to 10 years in prison for paying for sex with two boys, aged 12 and 15. The boys’ parents filed a complaint to police who monitored Phillip Bruce Shepard, 69, and arrested him in July.
Shepard worked at a private Phnom Penh clinic before he was arrested, The Australian Associated Press quoted an official from a local anti-pedophile group Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) as saying. APLE started watching the Michigan native in 2007 after he was seen going into a hotel room with two boys.
The court ordered Shepard expelled once he serves his prison time. Cambodia has long been a magnet for foreign pedophiles because of poverty and poor law enforcement. In recent years police and courts have increasingly targeted sex offenders."
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Post by artemis on Jan 13, 2012 7:49:17 GMT -5
"German priest admits 280 counts of sexual abuse
A German Catholic priest has admitted 280 counts of sexual abuse involving three boys in the past decade, saying he did not think he was doing harm.
Named only as Andreas L, the priest told a court in Braunschweig that he had first abused the nine-year-old son of a widowed woman parishioner.
After being banned by his diocese from making further contact with the boy, he abused two brothers, aged nine and 13.
Thousands of Germans have left the Church over revelations of abuse.
About 180,000 renounced their Catholicism in 2010, up 40% from the previous year, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports.
Pope Benedict XVI, a German by birth, briefly met victims of sexual abuse by priests when he visited his native land in September, expressing "deep compassion and regret" at their suffering. Disneyland Paris
The priest on trial in Braunschweig faces a minimum prison sentence of between six and six and a half years.
He was arrested during the summer, after the mother of his earlier victim reported him to the authorities.
She acted after her son, now aged 17, revealed to her the abuse he had undergone for two years.
Sexual assaults were made on the three boys in various settings: at the priest's house, on skiing holidays, in a parental home, on a trip to Disneyland Paris and at a church shortly before Mass.
The priest, who covered his face with a ring binder as he went into court on Thursday, said that while working in Braunschweig in 2004, he had begun a close relationship with the widow.
When Fr Andreas was moved to Salzgitter, her son often spent weekends with him, and the two would go off on short trips.
He would give the boy presents such as a camera and a mobile phone.
Abuse would often occur three times a weekend.
The priest said it had not been his intention to get close to the boy sexually, and that it had never occurred to him that he was doing harm. Pornographic images
When the mother began to suspect her son's relations with the priest were inappropriately close, she approached the diocese of Hildesheim, the priest's employer, which forbade further contact with the boy.
The abuse of the two brothers then began under similar circumstances, the court heard.
After contact with these victims was also forbidden, the priest approached his first victim again, writing him a letter.
It was then that the truth about the abuse emerged.
"It was never my impression that the children did not consent," the priest was quoted as saying at the trial.
When asked in court if he was a paedophile, he replied, according to local newspaper Braunschweiger Zeitung: "It would be wrong to say No but to say Yes would also fall short of the truth."
When a prosecutor asked him in court if he thought a "father would do this to his children", he was silent.
About 2,800 pornographic images were found on the priest's computer, including several of his victims.
Correspondents say members of the public who were in the courtroom watched the trial with faces rigid from shock.
They included parishioners from St Joseph's Church in Salzgitter, where Fr Andreas had once been a respected priest, according to Germany's Spiegel magazine."
"It was never my impression that the children did not consent”, says the moron....
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Post by artemis on Jan 18, 2012 5:13:32 GMT -5
"Polish church faces demands to confront sex abuse
WARSAW, POLAND -- When Bartek Obloj, a 13-year-old altar boy, hanged himself in his home village of Hludno just before Christmas 2007, he left a letter to his mother complaining of being molested by his parish rector. Police were called and his shocked parents blamed the priest for their son’s death.
A month later, Poland’s Catholic Tygodnik Powszechny weekly reported that Fr. Stanislaw Kaszowski had been moved to a parish 20 miles away after personally saying the boy’s funeral Mass. He’d denied the accusations, the paper added, and defiantly failed to appear at a court hearing.
Hludno’s mayor, Stanislaw Gladysz, testified that locals had long complained of the priest’s “sadistic behavior” and “sexual exploits,” adding that for a decade he’d asked the local ordinary, Archbishop Jozef Michalik of Przemysl, to move the priest. However, Michalik, president of the Polish bishops’ conference, had given Kaszowski his full confidence, the mayor said, and refused to discuss the claims.
When Poland’s Catholic Wiez monthly published a special issue on clerical sex abuse this summer, it was the first time a Catholic publication had dared tackle the subject. “The harm caused by sexual molestation of children is unquestionable — but the evil is much greater when pedophilia occurs in the community of faith, and when, in a falsely conceived defense of the church, the authorities hide the facts, conceal the perpetrators and ignore the suffering victims,” the Warsaw-based journal said in its editorial.
“In Poland, church superiors react in different ways. Sometimes sentences are passed on the quiet against pedophile priests in secular courts, and sometimes everything is consistently denied. Should a church that demands so much from others not be demanding more from itself?”
The journal said it had sought to ascertain how far the Polish church was complying with May 2011 instructions from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which called for “clear and coordinated procedures” for protecting children, dealing with accused priests and cooperating with civil authorities.
Leading Catholics, including the country’s children’s rights spokesman, have been urging the Polish church to adopt procedures for handling abuse claims since 2002, when Archbishop Juliusz Paetz of Poznan resigned after being accused of molesting seminarians. But media inquiries have been stonewalled and whistleblowers warned off. While millions of words have been devoted to denouncing abortion and defending family values, no Polish church leader has ever spoken up at his own initiative on behalf of victims of abuse.
Paetz himself has continued to appear at high-profile church events, while priests and lay Catholics who helped expose his abuses have faced censure. In 2006, he was shown on TV chatting at length with Benedict XVI during the pope’s Polish pilgrimage. In 2009, a handwritten telegram from Benedict, praising the disgraced archbishop’s “fruitful service” to the church, was published at Paetz’s request in Poland’s Catholic Przewodnik Katolicki weekly.
The situation may change.
Parliamentary elections in October returned a small lobby of militant members of parliament, who’ve pledged to raise questions about the murkier aspects of church life. But Jakub Spiewak, whose Kidprotect Foundation runs a hotline for abuse victims and seven separate child protection programs, is doubtful.
“People are getting restless here — any criticism of a priest, even by loyal Catholics, is treated as an attack on the church and faith, and the worst church penalty a pedophile priest can expect is to be moved to another parish,” Spiewak told NCR. “If the church doesn’t deal with this problem and stop sheltering its priests from canonical and criminal responsibility, it will sooner or later face the same crisis as the church in other countries. But its leaders have avoided many of the issues faced elsewhere, and seem to think they can do the same with this one.”
Ordinary perpetrators of abuse are treated severely in Poland. Under criminal code amendments in September 2009, the country became Europe’s first to permit the chemical castration of convicted pedophiles; and on Dec. 21, a Catholic parish worker from Tarnow was given a 10-year jail sentence and ordered to undergo treatment for molesting adolescent boys.
When it comes to Catholic priests, however, accusations of inaction and indifference have multiplied.
In March 2008, Poland’s Dominican provincial, Fr. Krzysztof Poplawski, publicly rebuked Archbishop Zygmunt Kaminski of Szczecin-Kamien, after Kaminski issued a pastoral letter denouncing an order member for exposing abuse by the priest in charge of local Catholic schools. The Dominican, Fr. Marcin Mogielski, submitted a formal testimony to prosecutors. He was then accused of undermining the church’s authority and forced to leave his monastery.
A month later, Bishop Piotr Libera of Plock, a former bishops’ conference secretary-general, said he had passed the cases of several Catholic priests to the Vatican after they were accused of “reprehensible behavior” with children. However, local clergy told Poland’s Rzeczpospolita daily that other priests implicated in the scandal had not been called to account.
Tadeusz Bartos, a leading Thomist theologian who quit the priesthood in 2007 after criticizing church leaders, says the latest Vatican guidelines have made little difference in Poland. As long as investigations are left to individual bishops, he predicts, most abuse claims will go on being “covered up for the good of the church.” No discussions have taken place at family and school level, and no formal church help has been offered to victims. Although a group of priests’ victims was formed recently with backing from U.S. advocates, its approaches to local dioceses have been left unanswered.
Relatively few abuse claims were made against Polish priests from the 1950s to 1980s, Bartos points out, because the church’s schools and orphanages were confiscated by the communist regime and only returned after 1989. But cases of abuse occurred, even when Pope John Paul II was archbishop of Krakow.
“The strongest mechanism blocking exposure is the wish to settle things discreetly so images don’t suffer,” Bartos, who now teaches at Pultusk Academy of Humanities, said in a 2010 interview. “Victims generally haven’t come forward or considered lawsuits, because the church in Poland has such a strong position and they’re afraid they’ll be ostracized and vilified if they confront it. This is why the church isn’t reacting — it isn’t threatened with loss of face or with having to pay damages.”
In its editorial, Wiez said the Polish church faced a choice between “procedures that one can long hide behind, or a clear, transparent, firm and swift witness.” It remained to be seen, the journal added, whether the church would be “wise before being damaged.”
Fr. Hans Zollner, the Jesuit pro-rector of Rome’s Papal Gregorian University, told the Catholic monthly the situation was comparable to that of Germany before a wave of abuse scandals in 2010. He believes the same crisis will erupt in the Polish church if it fails to “confront the reality” of abuse.
“If the church doesn’t know how to react to such situations because it hasn’t bothered to ascertain the facts,” the Jesuit warned, “its image will suffer much more than if it had said, ‘Yes, we had such cases — they were very painful, but we tackled them.’ ”
Spiewak of KidProtect agrees.
He said the Polish church has shown “extraordinary laxity” in handling abuse cases and hopes for a more up-to-date church with accountable leaders. But he fears “fortress mentalities” will kick in as complaints and accusations spread, fueling a growing anticlerical backlash.
“It’s natural for any great institution, especially a hierarchical one, to want to settle problems silently within its own ranks rather than go public and change its norms of behavior. But I’d prefer the church to draw conclusions from the mistakes of others, rather than waiting to make its own, since people will be hurt when it does,” Spiewak said.
“While the church is a separate institution under the pope, its priests are citizens of this country, and should be subject to the same penalties if they commit offenses. People won’t tolerate a situation in which [priests are] above the law, answering only to their bishops and claiming different rights and duties than other citizens. But it sometimes seems the church is thinking like a child — that if it closes its eyes, the danger will go away.”
The tragic case of Bartek Obloj, the altar boy from Hludno, was covered at length by Poland’s official press agency, PAP, and became the subject of a Polish TV documentary. Four years on, however, Obloj’s grieving parents still await answers.
The parish priest, Kaszowski, appeared in court in July 2008, charged with “psychically and physically torturing” the boy. But his trial was delayed pending a psychologist’s report on the 13-year-old prior to his suicide. Although this was filed last February, it wasn’t made public, and while the trial has now started again, it’s being held in camera, without access for the public. The priest, for his part, is refusing to submit a testimony and still working at the nearby parish."
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Post by artemis on Jan 21, 2012 17:24:17 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Jan 22, 2012 5:56:58 GMT -5
"Rabbi questioned in rape of minors
Police in France have arrested a prominent rabbi, who founded the Liberal Jewish Movement in the country, on suspicion of raping an undisclosed number of underage girls.
The 70 year old rabbi, Daniel Farhi was questioned by investigators at a police station in Paris for allegedly raping underage girls, one younger than 15.
Michel Serfaty, the head of the Consistoire, the state-sanctioned Jewish religious umbrella group of France, was quoted as saying that if suspicions against the rabbi were confirmed it would be a "disaster."
Established in 1977, the Liberal Jewish Movement of France is a liberal cultural and religious association affiliated to the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
The movement promotes Jewish religious and cultural life through several community centers and synagogues."
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Post by lucy on Jan 22, 2012 21:01:15 GMT -5
Strange things going on, remember the Penn State scandal, the coach that was fired, Joepa, died earlier today. He was 85....which means 8 +5 +13...an Illuminati number.
He dies 11 weeks after the story of the scandal broke...
There's something very strange going on. The "story" goes that he was diagnosed with "treatable" lung cancer just days after the scandal broke. So what's going on?
I smell something rotten in State College....
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Post by artemis on Jan 27, 2012 4:54:56 GMT -5
"German priest jailed over sex abuse
A German court has convicted a Catholic priest of 250 counts of sexual abuse involving three boys over the period of several years and sentenced him to six years in prison.
The state court in Braunschweig on Thursday found the priest guilty of abusing the boys, aged 9 to 15, between 2004 and 2011.
The 46-year-old man, whose name was not revealed, told the court he abused the children during youth camps.
“He exploited the trust of their parents," said Judge Manfred Teiwes as he passed the sentence.
The Catholic priest admitted the charges after he agreed to a plea deal at the start of the trial, fixing an upper limit on the sentence.
Abuse allegations have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in Germany in recent years, making thousands of disenchanted Germans leave the Church over revelations of abuse.
About 180,000 renounced their Catholicism in 2010, up 40% from 2009, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported earlier this month."
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