19 h. ago Faster support for child exploitation victims in UK as pilot scheme widened

Decision-making will begin in all eight new areas this autumn, the Government said.

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42 h. ago My client attended therapy because he was mandated to. Making progress to stop his use of child exploitation material was vital | Ahona Guha

We started by agreeing that we both wanted the same thing – for him to not reoffendThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workSometimes people attend therapy because they are mandated to attend, not because they want to. Bill* was one of these clients. He sat before me, avoiding eye contact, arms crossed.“I didn’t hurt anyone, not like those other blokes did,” he said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Air ambulance pilot 'borrows farmer's shotgun to shoot XL Bully and save victim'

Captain Jon Earp has been hailed a hero with a judge saying he saved the life of a man after he borrowed a gun and shot dead an out of control XL bully that was attacking people in Gwynedd, Wales

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6 d. ago Grooming gangs investigation 'finds child sexual exploitation in 85 areas'

The private investigation was set up by MP Rupert Lowe

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7 d. ago Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say

The Tor network’s privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse materialMillions of child predators are forming sprawling online communities on the dark web using the Tor network, where criminal behavior escalates through the sharing of child sexual abuse material, grooming strategies and normalization of exploitation, experts say. Despite repeated warnings of a growing number of predators taking advantage of it, Tor’s developers have taken no action to curb the spread of this content, critics say.The Tor (“the onion router”) network is an anonymity-focused internet system that routes traffic through a global web of volunteer-run servers to obscure users’ identities and locations. By encrypting data in multiple layers – like that of an onion – Tor makes digital activity difficult to trace. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Police investigate alleged child sex trafficking gang in Wales

An ongoing investigation is underway into child sexual exploitation and trafficking

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3 w. ago Anyone showing support for Palestine Action ‘will feel full force of the law’, justice minister says – UK politics live

Government defends decision to proscribe protest group after mass arrests at a demonstration in Westminster over the weekendIn other news, a hostile environment era deportation policy is being expanded by Labour as the government continues to try to limit the threat from Reform by talking and acting toughly on migration.Foreign criminals from 15 more countries, including India, Bulgaria and Australia, face deportation before they have a chance to appeal against the decision to remove them, in a widening of the government’s “deport first, appeal later” scheme.Richard Dannatt wrote privately to two separate Home Office ministers asking them to address the “threat” posed by the group after its activists targeted a factory in 2022.The activists caused extensive damage to the factory which is run by Teledyne, a US multinational that sells technology for military, aerospace and other applications. Lord Dannatt has been a paid adviser to the company since 2022. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Five men arrested on suspicion of child sexual exploitation offences

Detectives investigating serious offences allegedly committed against three victims between 2022 and 2024 have made a number of arrests.

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3 w. ago Meta forced to apologize after teacher’s account is banned for ‘child sexual exploitation’

An online petition aimed at making social media platforms improve their moderation practices has received over 34,000 signatures.

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