2 h. ago Teen kidnapped from her bedroom and sexually assaulted for nine months

Elizabeth Smart was just 14 years old when she was abducted from her bedroom in the early hours of June 5, 2002, by a man who claimed to be a spiritual prophet

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8 h. ago Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart review – her frankness about her ordeal is truly inspiring

Taken from her bedroom at the age of 14 and sexually abused for nine months, Smart, now a child safety activist, rails powerfully against shame in this true-crime documentaryNew year, new true-crime documentary from Netflix. Age cannot wither the genre made famous by the streamer all the way back in 2015 with Making a Murderer, which explored the wrongful conviction of Steven Avery for sexual assault and attempted murder who spent 18 years in prison for that and who was later tried and convicted of another murder. That documentary was a decade in the making. Things move more quickly now, and the preferred content is more palatable to a mass audience – tales of victims’ survival and the very rightful conviction of perpetrators meet the voyeuristic appetite and proxy lust for vengeance without requiring too much painful thinking abut the inadequacies of a country’s legal system, say, or the corruption of its law enforcement.Still, the new approach has brought some astonishing untold s...

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1 week ago Sleazy club bosses boasted ‘if they give you a b***job, they get the job’ the chilling reality of life as a holiday rep

ON Aiya Napa's bustling party strip, a brazen club owner boasts that he has yanked down more than 100 girls' tops to ogle their breasts "as a joke". Little does he know he is not talking to another young British holiday rep, but an undercover reporter whose bombshell exposé has revealed a toxic underbelly of...

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2 w. ago Headmaster, 54, who was jailed for attacking his deputy with a spanner after discovering he was sleeping with his secret mistress speaks out about his downfall for the first time

Dr Anthony John Felton, 54, was jailed for two years and four months for the brutal assault on colleague Richard Pyke after discovering they were both having an affair with the same woman teacher.

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2 w. ago OAP has femur fractured after being attacked in Tesco trying to stop shoplifter as cops share CCTV image of man

AN OAP had his femur fractured after being attacked in a Tesco trying to stop a shoplifter. Cops have now shared a CCTV image of a man in connection with the assault in Pitsea, Essex last month. The shocking incident happened shortly after 6.30am on December 4 when a man in his 70s attempted to...

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3 w. ago New footage may show missing Texas teen on day of disappearance as cops refuse to rule out kidnapping

Camila Mendoza Olmos was last seen leaving her house just before 7 a.m. on December 24

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3 w. ago Texas dad helped rescue his kidnapped teenage daughter by tracking her mobile phone, police say

A 23-year-old man was arrested after the girl, 15, was found in a pick-up truck in a wooded area two miles away

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4 w. ago Two charged after man rushed to hospital in 'alleged stabbing' in Glasgow city centre

Two men have been arrested and charged after an individual was allegedly assaulted on one of Glasgow's busiest streets last month.

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