2 h. ago PornHub operators to pay $5M fine after failing to stop child sex abuse videos being published on websites

‘Pornhub’s operators inflicted grave harm on children and nonconsenting adults by promoting and distributing truly horrific material online,’ FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said

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33 h. ago OnlyFans is 'world's biggest pimping empire' and 'playground for abuse' warning

Labour MP Joani Reid said OnlyFans creators like Bonnie Blue do not represent the majority of women on the site, which she called 'a playground for child sexual abuse'

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39 h. ago My aunt is a convicted child abuser... here is how she disguised her crimes

Jodi Hildebrandt's niece has revealed how her twisted aunt managed to get away with her abuse in the years before she was jailed.

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40 h. ago Martin Lewis chokes up as he slams scammers who used his image to steal couple’s £120,000 life savings

Martin Lewis fumed as he hit out at “criminal” scammers who used his image to con a couple out of their entire life savings of £120,000.

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3 d. ago I ran for my life through Guatemala jungle to escape extremist Jewish cult where I was starved and witnessed horrific child abuse... now I'm fighting for my siblings to come home

Yisrael escaped Lev Tahor after five years of being subjected to horrors - including witnessing child abuse, being made to marry at 16, and experiencing starvation.

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6 d. ago Dad charged with murdering missing baby 'previously abused daughter so badly she developed cerebral palsy'

Jake Haros was previously convicted for willful child cruelty after he abused his baby daughter so badly she developed cerebral palsy, according to a prosecutor.

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6 d. ago North Carolina election official charged with child abuse after allegedly putting MDMA in granddaughters’ ice cream

James Yokeley has denied the allegations that he put drugs into his granddaughters’ ice cream

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6 d. ago Teenager was 'part of network' sharing child sexual abuse pictures and videos

Zack Spencer's barrister said for meaningful rehabilitation to take place his client would have to accept the "awful attractions" he had been involved with may still be "simmering under the surface"

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6 d. ago 'My family has cast me out since I exposed Dad as my sexual abuser'

Coleen Nolan speaks to a reader who was sexually abused as a child, and Coleen opens up about how her own family coped when her big sister, Anne, revealed she had been abused by their father

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7 d. ago Dear Coleen: 'My family has pushed me away since I've shared our dark secret'

Coleen Nolan speaks to a reader who was sexually abused as a child, and Coleen opens up about how her own family coped when her big sister, Anne, revealed she had been abused by their father.

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7 d. ago He sexually abused an underage schoolgirl while on bail for grooming another child

Cian Williams was on bail after sending sexual messages to a child when he sexually abused another girl

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7 d. ago A wasp riding a broomstick, march of the penguins and coyotes on the prowl

Picked from more than 60,000 entries, these stunning images are among the 'highly commended' in the Natural History Museum's wildlife photographer of the year.

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9 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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1 week ago Muslim mum and her child were racially abused 'by St George's flag painters'

Essex Police said a 33-year-old man from Basildon has been arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence and conspiracy to commit criminal damage

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1 week ago Man arrested after Muslim woman and her child were 'racially abused' by people painting flags on buildings

Footage widely circulated on social media shows two topless men painting red crosses on the white walls of flats above a row of shops and restaurants on a high street in Basildon, Essex.

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1 week ago Judge in charge of Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry pockets £2.5million

Lady Smith has been the chair since 2016.

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1 week ago Lanarkshire man caught with more than 1500 child sex abuse photos and videos

Thomas Closs, 36, admitted downloading the vile material and sending dozens of images to other paedophiles online.

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1 week ago Sex predator to be chemically castrated under new law after trying to rape girl

Thomas Allen McCartney, a sex offender with a long rap sheet of child abuse, accepted the punishment as a part of a plea deal.

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1 week ago Sex predator who tried to rape girl, 7, set to be castrated under new law

Warning: Distressing content. Thomas Allen McCartney, a sex offender with a long rap sheet of child abuse, accepted the punishment as a part of a plea deal

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2 w. ago Manchester United are importing a sinister US tactic: Public money for stadiums

Similar grand promises made when building US sports arenas are now being used to justify a huge outlay in the UK, with little return to show for themIn March, Manchester United officially unveiled images and plans for a new 100,000-seater stadium to replace their current aging home, Old Trafford. While the grandiosity of the circus-tent-like structure attracted widespread attention, something else did, too: as part of this project, United are planning to secure land not by paying for it themselves – but by having the UK government do it for them.In order to clear the site that the club wants to use, a rail freight hub will need to be moved to out near St Helens, a town in between Manchester and Liverpool. The cost of moving the hub is estimated to be between £200m and 300m ($270-405m), but that may be an optimistic appraisal; in the past, the project budget was estimated at closer to a £1bn ($1.35bn). Continue reading...

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