The Illinois office of Attorney General has released a report on Catholic Clergy engaging in child sex abuse. Its investigation found nearly 2,000 children have been abused by clergy in the state. “Decades of Catholic leadership decisions and policies have allowed known child sex abusers to hide, often in plain sight. And because the statute…

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 51-year-old man was sentenced May 17 to 80 years to life in prison for sexual assaults on a girl he was related to from when she was 5 to 17 years old in Santa Ana, Anaheim, and Lake Elsinore. Pablo Amaya Posada was convicted April 19 of two counts of aggravated sexual…

LOS ANGELES—A scheduled arraignment Tuesday was put over to May 17 for a former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer who is facing charges of committing lewd acts on four young boys. Paul Razo, 46, was arrested May 10, five days after he was charged by prosecutors with eight counts of lewd acts on a…

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 42-year-old man was sentenced May 5 to 105 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting two young relatives, including one when she was about 4 years old, in Anaheim. Cesar Alexander Machuca was convicted March 28, 2022, of a dozen felony counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger…

RIVERSIDE, Calif.—A woman who was molested for years by her stepfather has been awarded $2.28 billion by a California jury in a lawsuit that also implicated her mother and the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which both parents were active, her attorneys announced. The panel in Riverside County Superior Court awarded…

“Political correctness” has prevented authorities from tackling British Pakistani grooming gangs abusing vulnerable white English girls, the home secretary has said. Suella Braverman said that the “systematic and institutional failure to safeguard the welfare of children when it comes to sexual abuse” is one of the biggest scandals in British history. “What’s clear is that…

The number of accounts that are being suspended by Twitter on a daily basis for sharing child sexual abuse and exploitation material has nearly doubled since Elon Musk took over, according to a cyber security and data analyst. Andrea Stroppa, the founder of the cybersecurity group Ghost Data, has been working as an independent researcher on Twitter’s…

The number of accounts that are being suspended by Twitter on a daily basis for sharing child sexual abuse and exploitation material has nearly doubled since Elon Musk took over, according to a cyber security and data analyst. Andrea Stroppa, the founder of the cybersecurity group Ghost Data, has been working as an independent researcher on Twitter’s…

Fashion brand Balenciaga is in hot water after pulling down a set of controversial ads that featured children with teddy bears in bondage, another ad that featured a Supreme Court case about child pornography, and finally another ad that featured a book by an artist who has placed children in sinister scenarios. – BUY Jan…

Ministers of religion in Western Australia are now legally required to report child sexual abuse, including information from confessions, under new laws now in force. Failure to make a mandatory report is now an offence with a maximum penalty of $6000. A minister of religion will not be excused from criminal responsibility even if their…