29 h. ago Texas megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges

Authorities say the founder of a Texas megachurch has pleaded guilty to lewd and indecent acts with a child after he was accused of sexually abusing a young girl in the 1980s in Oklahoma while he was a traveling minister

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32 h. ago Aspiring female lawmaker whose career was derailed by sex tape scandal is charged with domestic abuse

Susanna Gibson Payne, 42, was arrested for assault and battery of a family member on September 22. But she claims that it was her estranged husband who was the assailant.

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3 d. ago Republican legislator admits sending hundreds of child sex abuse videos between work emails

RJ May is accused of using the screen name ‘joebidennnn69’ to exchange 220 different files of children

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3 d. ago For Paraguay’s transgender women, survival often means leaving home

Transgender women in Paraguay often flee their homes at a young age to escape abuse, stigma and the absence of legal protections, turning to sex work and migration to survive

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4 d. ago Andrew Tate will not face criminal charges over sex abuse allegations made by four women suing him

Andrew Tate will face no criminal charges over allegations made by four women who are suing him in a High Court civil case.

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4 d. ago Lanarkshire man jailed after being caught with 1500 child sex abuse pictures & videos

Thomas Closs was also put on the sex offenders' register for an indefinite period at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday.

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4 d. ago ‘My past was chaos’: Iain Lee on abuse, cocaine, comedy, his on

The broadcaster and comedian has been delighting and outraging audiences for almost 30 years. Off-air, his life has lurched from crisis to crisis. Has he finally found peace?It’s nearly three decades since Iain Lee roamed the streets for Channel 4’s 11 O’Clock Show, armed with clipboard and microphone, a string of filthy questions tucked up his oversized suit sleeve. He’s 52 now, and presumably he’s matured since he memorably interviewed the singer Cleo Laine about her husband’s masturbatory habits. But maybe not, because this summer Lee hit the streets again, where among other things, he mimed giving a blowjob to a 76-year-old who said he’d never been attracted to a man. A lot of the content on the original show was homophobic, Lee says, but he came out as bisexual in 2019, and maybe he now goes where his younger self didn’t dare.Next month Lee returns with Impostor Syndrome – his first solo live gig in 10 years. The show is billed as a commemoration of three decades in showbusines...

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7 d. ago GOP lawmaker with 'joebidennnn69' screen name to plead guilty to sharing child sex abuse videos

A former Republican South Carolina House member has agreed to plead guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material

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7 d. ago Noel Clarke 'arrested' as Metropolitan Police officers seize laptop during five

It comes days after the BAFTA-winning actor was forced to pay The Guardian £3 million in his sex abuse libel case

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9 d. ago Pope names successor for embattled New Orleans archbishop after sex abuse settlement

Pope names James Checchio to succeed Gregory Aymond two weeks after archdiocese agreed to settle with survivorsPope Leo XIV on Wednesday named an eventual successor to New Orleans’ embattled Catholic archbishop, Gregory Aymond, two weeks after his archdiocese agreed to settle with survivors of clergy sexual abuse for $230m.Leo, history’s first US pope, named bishop James Checchio of Metuchen, New Jersey, as the coadjutor bishop of New Orleans. The role positions Checchio to assist Aymond initially and then succeed him when he retires. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Pope identifies successor for embattled New Orleans archbishop after sex abuse settlement

Pope Leo XIV has named a successor to the embattled archbishop of New Orleans two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse

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1 week ago Paisley beast caught with over 300 child sex abuse images on two phones

Cops made the discovery when they raided Ross Coleman's home in December 2023.

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2 w. ago Prosecutors downgrade sex abuse charges against Australian radio host Alan Jones

Prosecutors have downgraded some of the most serious sex abuse charges against veteran broadcaster and former Wallabies coach Alan Jones, who now faces 27 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching involving nine men over two decades.

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2 w. ago Suspect, 71, claiming to be Charlie Kirk shooter so assassin could escape charged with having images of child sex abuse

‘I shot him, now shoot me,’ George Zinn told officers moments after Kirk’s assassination

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner's sickening online chats with paedophile

Skype chats between Christian Brueckner - the suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - and another paedophile reveal his 'sadistic glee' over child sex abuse and his plans to 'capture something small'

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2 w. ago Sex work and abuse: the women trapped in Malawi’s growing refugee camp

With the US no longer accepting refugees, Dzaleka’s residents have no prospect of relocation. Three women tell us what life is like in a camp designed for 10,000 people but which now holds more than 58,000• Photographs by Amos Gumulira for the GuardianTears stream down Francine’s* face as she pulls her glove off. Her right hand is covered by a pale, mottled burn scar. Her fingers are stiff and unnaturally bent. Francine turned to sex work to survive soon after she arrived alone at Malawi’s Dzaleka refugee camp in 2015, having travelled there from Burundi.On Christmas Eve in 2022, a client refused to pay. When she blocked the doorway, he grabbed a boiling-hot saucepan of beans and threw it at her, scalding her hand and chest. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Revealed: How criminal gangs are offering sick 'sex holiday packages' to tourists wanting 'young' partners

Paedophiles skulking on the dark net are being offered children to abuse during sordid underage 'sex holiday packages' organised by criminal networks.

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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Men aged 65 to 84 arrested in historic Rochdale child sex abuse investigation

Suspects have been quizzed by detectives

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3 w. ago Major crackdown on networks profiting from online child sex abuse

New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled new plans for the UK to disrupt criminal networks that exploit children

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