6-27-14 Kindergartner Accused Of Sexual Misconduct For Pulling Pants Down At School
Kindergartner Accused Of Sexual Misconduct For Pulling Pants Down At School
Kindergartner Accused Of Sexual Misconduct For Pulling Pants Down At School
6-25-14 Seattle archdiocese settles sexual abuse claims
Seattle archdiocese settles sexual abuse claims
The Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle has settled 30 sexual abuse claims by men who attended two religious schools as long ago as six decades.
6-23-14 FBI recovers 168 children in child sex trafficking sting
FBI recovers 168 children in child sex trafficking sting
Authorities rescued 168 children and arrested 281 alleged pimps in cities across the US in a week-long child sex-trafficking sting, the FBI has said. (Webmaster's comment: This is great but it needs to happen every day of the week to have any real impact on the size of this problem - see the two stories below.)
6-19-14 Dark net 'used by tens of thousands of pedophiles'
Dark net 'used by tens of thousands of pedophiles'
Tens of thousands of pedophiles are using the so-called dark net to trade images of sexual abuse, an investigation by BBC News indicates.
6-18-14 Anti-pedophile police fight child porn 'epidemic'
Anti-pedophile police fight child porn 'epidemic'
The Internet trade in images that show child sex abuse is now "an epidemic", according to the head of the global initiative to combat the problem. In 2002 the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reviewed and confirmed 45,055 examples of obscene images of children found online. In 2013 the figure had grown to 23,881,197. As of May 2014, the center had reviewed 112 million files containing images of child sexual abuse.
6-18-14 Japan bans child pornography possession
Japan bans child pornography possession
Japan has banned the possession of child sex-abuse images, one of the last developed countries to do so. Japan was previously the only country in the 34-strong Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) without such a prohibition.