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MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Convicted Australian Cardinal George Pell faced a fresh legal challenge Thursday after a civil suit was filed against him for further alleged abuse in the 1970s. Pell — the most senior Vatican official to be found guilty of child sex crimes — is currently in detention awaiting sentencing for assaulting two choirboys in Melbourne in the 1990s. He maintains his innocence and an appeal is scheduled for June. Pell had […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A father was on Wednesday jailed for 16 years for planning a “monstrous” acid attack on his three-year-old son, which left the child “scarred for life”. Five other men were also convicted over the attack which prosecutors say was an attempt by the father to show that his mother was unfit to take care of the little boy. Passing sentence, Judge Robert Juckes said “even battle-hardened crown court judges were […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Celebrity talk show host Oprah Winfrey waded into the Michael Jackson debate Monday, hosting an hour-long interview of the men who say the late superstar sexually abused them as minors. The special aired on HBO after the conclusion of the network’s presentation of a bombshell four-hour documentary entitled “Leaving Neverland,” which has thrown the late Jackson’s legacy into question nearly a decade after his death. Calling sexual abuse […]
by Michel Comte Agence France Presse OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada on Friday launched the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to the United States — the latest move in a case that has roiled relations between the North American neighbors and China. Beijing was quick to react, saying Ottawa’s action amounted to a “severe political incident.” The 47-year-old businesswoman was changing planes in Vancouver in December when she was detained at Washington’s request […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Cardinal George Pell was ordered held in custody Wednesday following his historic conviction for child sex crimes, capping an extraordinary fall from grace for one of the most powerful men in the Catholic Church. Prosecutors told a pre-sentencing hearing that Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted for child sex abuse, faces a maximum 50 years in prison for five charges of sexual assault against two choirboys at Melbourne’s […]
(Eagle News) — The police have nabbed the suspect in the abduction and alleged rape of a Grade 3 student found in Cainta, Rizal on Monday, Feb. 25. Authorities said Pepito Tagal was arrested in Cubao, Quezon City on Tuesday night following a tip about his whereabouts. Tagal, the police said, was seen abducting the girl in Sitio Batasin, Taytay on Monday morning. She was found several hours later, around 5 p.m., under the Mapandan Bridge […]
By Agence France-Presse MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Angry protesters called Cardinal George Pell a “maggot” and a “monster” Wednesday as he arrived in court, possibly for the last time as a free man, in a last-ditch push for bail while he appeals his historic conviction for child sex crimes. Once one of Pope Francis’ closest advisors, Pell is facing up to 25 years in prison for five charges of sexual and indecent assault on […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A California man who spent 39 years behind bars after wrongfully being convicted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend and her four-year-old son has reached a $21 million settlement in the case, authorities said. Craig Coley, 71, was convicted of the 1978 murder of Rhonda Wicht, 24, and her son Donald and was sentenced in 1980 to life in prison without parole. He was released nearly four decades later […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV slammed President Rodrigo Duterte anew, saying he did not only fail to fulfill his promises to stop corruption and crime in the country, but also actually made the country’s problems worse. “Klaruhin ko lang, ang mga pangunahing pangako nya na lulutasin nya ang crime, corruption at illegal drugs in 3 to 6 months, ay lalong lumala,” Trillanes said. According to Trillanes, “nagkalat na ang mga killers ngayon sa lansangan.” He […]
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — An elephant has been found dead with its tusks and tail sliced off in a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia, where wild elephant numbers have dwindled to just a few hundred due to poaching and deforestation. The Southeast Asian nation has emerged in recent years as a key transit hub for the multi-billion dollar illicit wildlife trade, with demand for products made from tusks, pangolin scales and rhino horns high in […]
At least 35 more workers have died in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor, police said Sunday, taking the death toll from the latest mass alcohol poisoning beyond 130. The deaths in Assam state came less than two weeks after tainted liquor killed about 100 people in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In addition to the latest toll, at least 200 more people were still hospitalised across Assam. “The death toll has […]
A US judge set a $1 million bail for R&B superstar R. Kelly on Saturday after prosecutors laid out in graphic detail what they said was his long history of sexual abuse of four victims, three of them minors. Kelly, who is known for hits like “I Believe I Can Fly,” surrendered to police late Friday. He is charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against the four females, one of them as […]
