35 h. ago 'Predatory' sex beast jailed after raping teenage girl in Inverness

Cameron Huggins was caged at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday.

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4 d. ago Man who raped and sexually assaulted victims for eight years as a teenager is jailed

The attacks by Riley Kirk took place over three years, beginning when he was just 14 years old.

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9 d. ago Three men 'who raped teenager in Rotherham' told her 'this is what white girls are for', court hears

Prosecutor Andrew Bailey told Sheffield Crown Court today the girl, now in her late 30s, was raped by Hussain, Kessur Ajaib and Mohammed Makhmood between 1999 and 2002.

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1 week ago ‘One kid at a time’: How children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity

From Margaret McDonald’s Glasgow Boys to Nathanael Lessore’s King of Nothing, boys take centre stage in this year’s Carnegie-winning titles. Let’s hope that the male protagonists persuade more boys to pick up a bookThis year’s Carnegie medals for children’s writing, awarded on Thursday, brought to light an unexpected trend. At a time of widespread public anxiety about the decline in boys’ reading habits and the rise of the toxic influencers of the online “manosphere”, male friendship and masculinity were front and centre on the shortlist.The winner, Margaret McDonald’s superb debut, Glasgow Boys, tells the story of the relationship between two looked-after children on the threshold of adulthood who process trauma in different ways. Banjo’s aggression and Finlay’s avoidance could be seen as two models of dysfunctional masculinity. Luke Palmer’s Play, also on the shortlist, tells a story of male friendship which touches on rape culture and county lines drug gangs, while teenage gang m...

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1 week ago ‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones

When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild westReactions to Lauren Greenfield’s documentary series Social Studies tend to fall into two categories. Young people think it is validating; adults think it’s a horror show. After all, the screen of a teenager’s smartphone is a shiny black hole to which access is rarely granted. “Our kids are right there,” as Greenfield puts it, “and yet we don’t really know what’s going on in their lives.”Her five-part series, which tracks the online and offline lives of a group of teenagers and young adults – the first generation of social media natives – is being tipped for an Emmy. Under the noses of their parents, she captures teenagers climbing out of bedroom windows to spend the night with boyfriends, posting sexually explicit images, tracking ...

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1 week ago Telford grooming beast must stay in prison for raping schoolgirl, Justice Sec orders

Shahmeel Khan's victim - a teenager at the time she was raped - welcomes the decision to keep him locked up, 14 years after he was jailed in a huge Telford grooming gang investigation

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1 week ago ‘If men couldn’t have sex with me, they didn’t know what to do with me’: Alanis Morissette on addiction, midlife liberation and the predatory 90s

She made her name with rage-fuelled anthems – and sold 75m records in the process. Now, with a highly anticipated Glastonbury slot, the California-dwelling earth mother is ready to let rip again Alanis Morissette asks which version of her I wish to hear from: “The hormonal bitch who has a lot to say? The people-pleasing, kind, amenable part? They’re all here.” It’s 9am in sunny Los Angeles and the ­Canadian-born singer-songwriter is ­wearing a slouchy top, her wavy hair loose. She’s long been aware of these different “parts”, that her life is full of contradiction. “I have 14 different opinions about one thing.” It’s why, aged 19, she wrote Hand In My Pocket (lyrics include: I’m high, but I’m grounded / I’m sane, but I’m ­overwhelmed), one of several anthems on Jagged ­Little Pill, the album released 30 years ago this month. Back then, in the unenlightened 90s, people found this sort of talk unnerving. “They were like, ‘Whoa, that’s scary. What are you talking about?’”“They cal...

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2 w. ago ‘He just told me lies to have sex with a teenage girl’: Natalie Fleet MP on grooming, statutory rape and fighting back

At 15, she began seeing an older man and conceived her beloved daughter. It was years before she properly understood it as abuse. Now she is working tirelessly in parliament for other survivorsNatalie Fleet is nervous about this interview. Her assistant has warned me and Fleet tells me several times, before and during. “I just feel sick,” she says. “I don’t know if it’s because it’s about me or because of the subject. It just doesn’t seem to get any easier.”The subject is rape – specifically Fleet’s experience of being groomed by an older man when she was 15, becoming pregnant and having the baby. That daughter, “the love of her life”, is now 24. Since entering parliament last summer as the Labour MP for Bolsover, Fleet has spoken a good deal about rape, her life story and the lack of support for mothers whose children were conceived this way – and each time it upsets her. “My husband said: ‘I don’t want you to be the “rapey MP”,’ and I don’t want that either,” says Fleet. “But it’s...

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2 w. ago Revealed: How Rochdale social services workers failed two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped by Asian men

The case, which concluded on Friday with all seven gang members being convicted of rape, has laid bare the shocking failure of police and social workers to protect their vulnerable young victims.

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3 w. ago Moment Asian Rochdale sex groomers turn on each other: Paedophiles who raped teenage girls nearly come to blows in police station as they blame each other

Naheem Akram, 48, and Nisar Hussain, 41, came close to trading blows as they blamed each other for being part of the Asian gang that raped teenage girls.

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3 w. ago 'Abused, degraded, discarded': The predators who groomed and raped two vulnerable teenage girls

Seven men have been found guilty of a string of historic sexual offences against 'Girl A' and 'Girl B' following a five-month trial

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3 w. ago AIMEE WALSH: 'Ballymena riots aren't noble acts to protect women

Riots broke out in Ballymena, a Northern Irish town, after two teenagers were charged with the attempted rape of another teenager. Don’t be fooled, this is not about protecting women, writes critic Aimee Walsh

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3 w. ago Riot police clash with masked yobs in second night of chaos as fires break out and hundreds take to the streets in Northern Ireland after 'Romanian' teens accused of attempted rape

A crowd of 300 yobs hurled petrol bombs at cops, smashed windows and torched cars the day after a peaceful vigil of 2,500 people on Monday descended into mayhem.

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3 w. ago Riot police are clashing with masked yobs as fire crews battle to get blazes under control while 100s take to the streets in Northern Ireland after 'Romanian' teens accused of attempted rape

Trouble first erupted yesterday evening as a demonstration by around 2,500 people in the Harryville area of Ballymena spiralled out of control.

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3 w. ago Missiles launched at police as 100s take to the streets of Northern Ireland for a second night after 'Romanian' teenagers appeared in court over alleged attempted rape

Trouble first erupted yesterday evening as a demonstration by around 2,500 people in the Harryville area of Ballymena spiralled out of control.

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3 w. ago Riot police sent into Belfast: Petrol bombs thrown after sex crime vigil turned violent

Chaos unfolded in Ballymena, Co Antrim, in Northern Ireland, as 2,500 people gathered to show support for a female who was sexually assaulted. Two teenage boys, both 14, have been arrested and charged with attempted rape

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