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(Eagle News) – The Department of Foreign Affairs is now “closely coordinating with the Kuwaiti authorities for the speedy arrest” of a Kuwaiti police officer who is the suspect in the rape of a Filipina household service worker. The DFA , in a tweet, said that the Philippine embassy in Kuwait reported that authorities there had already issued an arrest warrant for the suspect, Mr. Fayed Naser Hamad Alajmy, a 22-year-old Kuwaiti Police Officer. The […]
By KRISTA LARSON Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — At first no one knew why the 5-year-old girl could no longer move her legs or control her urine. For months she lay on the ground, unable to walk or play. Some in the community blamed witchcraft but the real reason was more horrific: The child had been brutally raped and left paralyzed as a result of her injuries. The case has brought the issue […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — A schoolgirl was burned to death in Bangladesh on the orders of her head teacher after she reported him for sexually harassing her, police said Friday. The death of 19-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi last week sparked protests across the South Asian nation, with the prime minister promising to prosecute all those involved. Rafi was lured to the rooftop of the Islamic seminary she attended where her attackers asked her to […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday accused four Nordic countries renowned as bastions of gender equality of having “shockingly high levels of rape” and of failing the victims. An Amnesty report looked at rape cases in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and said flawed legislation, harmful myths and gender stereotypes had resulted in “endemic impunity” for perpetrators. “It is a paradox that Nordic countries, which have strong records of upholding […]
(Eagle News) — A Taguig court has convicted a Maute member for crimes against humanity for raping his 16-year-old hostage and making her a sex slave for five months during the Marawi siege, and for rebellion. Branch 70 of the Taguig Regional Trial Court sentenced Junaid Macauyag Awal to reclusion perpetua and fined him P500,000 after ruling he violated Sections 6 and 7 of the Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide and […]
(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 […]
MONROVIA, Liberia (AFP) — An acclaimed US charity operating in Liberia has admitted to major failings after girls at a school set up to save them from a life of sexual exploitation were systematically raped. “We are profoundly, deeply sorry,” the charity More Than Me said on its website on Saturday after US investigative media said girls at a pioneering school in a slum had been repeatedly abused by the charity’s co-founder, Macintosh Johnson. […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A US man who says he was raped by a priest as a child announced Thursday he was suing the Vatican seeking the identification of accused clergy members worldwide. Over recent months, the Catholic Church has been gripped by a global sexual abuse scandal — particularly in Australia, Chile and the US — with allegations that cases were covered up by top church officials. “I’m seeking the truth […]
by Catherine Marciano Agence France Presse VATICAN CITY (AFP) — The Catholic Church’s Pope Francis has declined to comment on a claim that he ignored sexual abuse allegations against a senior clergyman amid speculation conservative elements in the Catholic hierarchy are using the issue to mount a “putsch” to remove the liberal pontiff. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican envoy to the United States, on Saturday said he had told Francis of the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP)- An Australian man has been sentenced to life in a Philippine prison as part of a notorious child sexual abuse case in which prosecutors say he chained the victims like dogs. Peter Scully still faces another trial and dozens of more charges, including allegations he made child pornography and murdered a young girl. The Philippines has become a key hub for a billion-dollar, global child cybersex industry, police have warned, with operators helped […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP)- An Iraqi failed asylum seeker wanted over the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Germany has been arrested in Iraq, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Friday. Ali Bashar, 20, who is believed to have strangled Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, after sexually assaulting her, was “arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq at the request of German federal police”, said Seehofer. cfm-hmn/fz/nla © Agence France-Presse
by Jennie Matthew Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was arraigned in a New York court Friday, charged with rape and a criminal sex act on two women, nearly eight months after his career imploded in a blaze of accusations that triggered the #MeToo movement. The former mogul — once the toast of Hollywood and whose films won scores of Oscars — grinned as he was escorted […]
