3 d. ago Violent couple jailed for 'savage' campaign of child abuse and torture

Paul Dodds, 47, and Amanda Thomson, 42, will both spend two and a half years in jail after abusing two children

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6 d. ago Inside El Salvador’s hellish supermax prison: Migrant detainees deported by Trump tell of harrowing abuse and torture

The Trump administration deported dozens of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador earlier this year as part of the US’s migration crackdown

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8 d. ago Review into safeguarding failures ‘shows Sara Sharif’s murder was preventable’

Despite a ‘great deal of information’ available to various authorities during her lifetime, Sara ‘was not protected from abuse and torture’.

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9 d. ago Abuse by UK’s ‘most prolific sex offender’ was ignored at Medomsley detention centre, report finds

Neville Husband committed hundreds of offences while working at facility in County Durham from 1969 to 1985A man who worked as a prison officer and caterer in a youth detention centre was able to rape and torture boys for three decades while the abuse was “ignored and dismissed”, according to a report labelling him as possibly Britain’s worst ever sex offender.Neville Husband carried out at least 368 sexual offences against young men and boys between 1969 and 1985 while working at Medomsley detention centre in County Durham, but is believed have committed hundreds more crimes, taking the total past the 450 committed by Jimmy Savile. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds

Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prisonMore than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a report published on Wednesday.The report, compiled jointly by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal – a group investigating violations in Central America – says conditions at El Salvador’s sprawling “terrorist continent center” (Cecot) breached the UN’s standard minimal rules for the treatment of prisoners. It cites “inhumane prison conditions, including prolonged incommunicado detention, inadequate food” and other shortcomings. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Israeli hostage who revealed sexual abuse by his captors details full horror he endured: 20

Former hostage Rom Braslavski who was sexually assaulted by Palestinian terrorists has revealed more details of the horrific torture he suffered during two years of hell in Gaza.

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2 w. ago Sex attack horror of male Israeli hostage: First male victim details how he was abused while tied up naked by torturers who 'did things even the Nazis wouldn't do' as he prayed to God to make it stop

Rom Braslavski, 21, was violently abducted by Palestinian Islamic Jihad on October 7, 2023 while he was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival.

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4 w. ago Kidnapped teen's haunting act to survive nine months of torture and sex abuse

Abby Hernandez was 14 years old when she was kidnapped while walking home from her school in North Conway, New Hampshire, and held captive for nine months

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