9 h. ago Florida nurse caught having sexual contact with teenage stepson by her husband is jailed

Alexis Von Yates took a plea deal that significantly reduced her prison time

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12 h. ago Labour councillor who once cited Barack Obama as a role model and championed gay rights becomes party's first direct defector to Reform in England with blast at Keir Starmer

Councillor Mason Humberstone said Labour was 'lost' and had forgotten about 'ordinary, hardworking people' as he crossed the floor on Stevenage Borough Council.

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14 h. ago Labour councillor, 28, is charged with blackmail after 'unsolicited messages sent to MPs and parliamentary workers'

Oliver Steadman, 28, has been charged with one count of blackmail and five counts of improper use of a public electronic communications network.

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23 h. ago Tearful Gucci heiress awarded $115m after jury finds former stepfather liable for years of abuse

A Gucci heiress has been awarded $115 million in damages in a 'landmark' ruling after winning a lawsuit against her 'sexual predator pedophile' former stepfather, who she said abused her for years.

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27 h. ago California judge rejects Menendez brothers’ request for new trial

Claims that brothers were sexually abused didn’t supersede ‘premeditation and deliberation’ of killings, says judgeA California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, saying the allegations that the brothers were sexually abused did not supersede their “premeditation and deliberation” when they killed their parents more than 35 years ago.The ruling Monday by Los Angeles superior court judge William C Ryan comes just weeks after the brothers were denied parole and shuts down another possible path to freedom for the two who have served nearly 30 years in prison. Ryan denied a May 2023 petition seeking a review of their convictions based on new evidence supporting their claims of sexual abuse by their father. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago ‘Real risk’ of Scotland falling behind in tackling grooming gangs, Tories claim

A Tory amendment which would have required research into child sexual abuse and exploitation to be carried out was voted down by MSPs,

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47 h. ago Christine McGuinness reveals secret health battle that makes everyday life 'challenging'

At first, the former Real Housewives of Cheshire star thought she was just clumsy or overtired. She had, after all, been surviving on only three hours' sleep a night.

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48 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on Coldwater: It's brave to tackle male cowardice, but this story just isn't believable

Television has few taboos any more. Dramas about mental illness, sexual dysfunction, even child abuse, are commonplace now when they would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.

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56 h. ago Cuban prisoners forced to work making cigars and charcoal for export to Europe, report claims

Madrid-based NGO estimates at least 60,000 inmates subject to forced labour with little or no pay in Cuban jailsPrisoners in Cuba are forced to work producing the country’s world-famous cigars and marabu charcoal sold to European consumers, according to a new report.The Madrid-based NGO Prisoners Defenders estimates that at least 60,000 people are being forced to work with little or no pay, under threats, in exhausting conditions and without adequate equipment, with reports of violence including the sexual abuse of female detainees. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Sick monster repeatedly abused child and told her 'never tell anyone'

Steven Hargreaves locked the child's phone and told her 'you know what you have to do to get it back'

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4 d. ago Girl, 12, is now 'shadow of herself' after horror Asda car park kidnap and rape

She was then given drugs including crystal meth and amphetamine, and repeatedly raped and subjected to sexual acts by the men who 'used, abused, and discarded like trash,' a court heard

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4 d. ago Muslim priest who sexually abused four young girls in mosque is jailed for 10 years

Qari Sher Mohammad, who was the iman at the Muslim Community Centre in Chatham, Kent, targeted children for almost a decade.

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4 d. ago Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that cultureI was there. I kept the receipts. I remember how normalized the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and even tweens by adult men was, how it showed up in movies, in the tales of rock stars and “baby groupies”, in counterculture and mainstream culture, how normalized rape, exploitation, grooming, objectification, commodification was.The last Woody Allen movie I ever saw was Manhattan, in which he cast himself as more or less himself, a dweeb in his mid-40s, dating a high school student played by Mariel Hemingway. She was my age, 17, and I was only too familiar with creeps, and the movie creeped me out, even though it was only long afterward that I read that she said he was at the time pressuring her to get sexually involved with him in real life.Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunat...

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5 d. ago Maths teacher who groomed and sexually abused student spared jail

He has been barred from working with children for 10 years

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5 d. ago UK government issues update on DVSA steps to reduce driving test backlog

Officials are urging learners not to book a test until they are confident they will pass

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5 d. ago MPs receive reports on Charity Commission’s failings in sexual abuse probes

The Charity Commission was told to review its handling of cases, risk assessment guidance and communication.

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6 d. ago Woman caught with horrific material on her phone tries to blame her own dad

Jade Jones, 33, had sex abuse cartoons and was also in possession of a category B image of a child and a story about a couple sexually abusing a baby

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6 d. ago As the Epstein case shows, Trump’s Maga faithful care about only one kind of sex

E Jean Carroll won her case, but in Trumpland the only sex offences that matter are committed by paedophiles with links to DemocratsOn Monday, Donald Trump appeared in two, unrelated stories involving the sexual abuse of women. The first was a ruling by the US federal court of appeals, upholding an earlier judgment in which the president was found liable for $83.3m in damages for defaming the writer E Jean Carroll – a woman whom, it was ruled in civil court in 2023, had been sexually abused by Trump. On the same day, Trump’s alleged contribution to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book” was shared by Democrats on social media in the form of a lewd drawing the president denied having made. The E Jean Carroll news caused no public inconvenience for Trump; the Epstein story went up like a mushroom cloud in what has become the most politically dangerous episode of his presidency.What, exactly, is the difference then between the sexual abuse of E Jean Carroll, for which ...

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7 d. ago Paedophile branded the Beast of the Belltower abused boys at notorious children's home

A CONVICTED paedophile who was branded the Beast of the Belltower sexually abused two young boys five decades ago while working at a notorious children's home.

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7 d. ago Man, 92, sexually abused boys at children’s home five decades ago, court finds

John Porteous was deemed unfit to stand trial but has now been found to have committed the offences at Quarrier’s Village, Renfrewshire.

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