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Suspect Caught Suspect Caught A man police say kidnapped and rapped a Sioux Falls first grader is behind bars tonight. KSFY was the first to tell you about the kidnapping in December. Now we bring you new details on the man police say committed the crime. Parents are relieved a suspect is locked up. A suspect accused of kidnapping a 7 year old girl as she made her way to Terry Redlin Elementary on December 19th. But there's more to this story that still makes them nervous. Another individual is wanted for questioning in the case. Someone who is also ...

CHILD sex slaves can be bought in Britain for as little as 500, a Sunday Mirror investigation can reveal. One evil trafficker offered to sell our reporters two girls from Cuba - one aged just 11 - to be forced into prostitution. Aktham Zuhair Salem Madanat boasted: "The girls are barely out of puberty - 11,12, 13, 14 - but they have the bodies of older women. "Already by the time they are 10 or 11...the way Cuban girls move their bodies ...everything is for the pleasure of men. I can get them to London for about 500. They can ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has quietly issued new rules for Roman Catholic churches around the world to deal with pedophile priests, saying they should stand trial in secret ecclesiastical courts. Pope John Paul and the Vatican issued two documents on the problem in 2001, but they were not presented at press conferences or made public as is usually the case for such documents. Instead, they were published in Latin without any fanfare in the latest yearly volume of "Acta Apostolicae Sedis," (Acts of the Apostolic See), the journal of record of the Holy See. In recent years, ...

THE Vatican wants priests accused of paedophile behaviour to be tried behind closed doors in an ecclesiastical court. It has issued new rules ordering Catholic church officials to inform it swiftly of any such accusations so that Rome can decide how they should be handled. The guidelines insist all cases should be subject to secrecy. The rules, promoted by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, were approved by Pope John Paul II. While the Vatican's press office often publicises documents, these rules, written in Latin and prepared several months ago, were quietly published in the Holy See's ...

Editor's note: Jon Warnshuis is beginning a 40-year prison sentence for molesting five boys. A victim and his father agreed to speak on the condition that they not be fully identified. Evidence seized by police and interviews with associates and seminary officials also provided information about how Warnshuis manipulated his victims and counted on the silence of churches and institutions. This story contains explicit descriptions and references. The snakes must have watched quietly that August day, coiled in their cages, aloof to the emotional scene that played out in the pastor's house. Rosy boas, serpents from Sierra Leone, big kingsnakes. ...

LONDON, Jan 7, 02 (CWNews.com) - Father John Tolkien-- eldest son of The Lord of the Rings author, J.R.R. Tolkien-- had been questioned by police over allegations of sexually abusing boys. West Midlands Police have sent a file on their inquiry to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) who will now assess whether to press formal charges against the retired 84-year-old priest. The alleged offenses were said to have been carried out against a number of boys over the period of Father Tolkien's career in several parishes in Birmingham Archdiocese. Detectives began their inquiry after they were contacted by Chris ...

Schizophrenia linked to childhood sexual abuse 16.01.2002 By SIMON COLLINS Schizophrenia has been linked to childhood sexual abuse by a groundbreaking study led by Auckland researchers. The psychologists' research, published in an American medical journal, has found that 50 per cent of female psychiatric inpatients surveyed in 15 international studies said they were sexually abused as girls. It says women in psychiatric hospitals are at least twice as likely as other women to have been abused. Male psychiatric inpatients reported childhood sexual abuse rates of between 22 and 39 per cent, "at least double" the rates among men in ...

BELGIUM was warned yesterday that it risked a "second revolution" if it did not bring Marc Dutroux to justice swiftly on charges of child murder.The warning followed an extraordinary interview given by Dutroux, a serial rapist accused of kidnapping and murdering four young girls. He accused prosecutors of covering up the full extent of the paedophile scandal that rocked Belgium six years ago.In prison awaiting trial, Dutroux told an undercover television reporter that he was not acting alone but was procuring children for a criminal network.He said: "I had regular contacts with the people who formed this ring. But the ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Child-rape epidemic in South Africa Fueled by widespread belief that sex with virgin cures AIDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Anthony C. LoBaido © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A bizarre belief among many African black men that sex with a virgin -- even a child or baby -- can cure HIV/AIDS is fueling what is already one of the highest child sexual exploitation rates in the world. According to the latest report by South Africa's Police Service, children are the victims of 41 percent of all rapes and attempted rapes reported in the country. Over 15 percent of all reported rapes are against ...

Teachers Commit Many S.Africa Child Rapes - Study By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - A third of all child rapes in South Africa are committed by school teachers, researchers said in a new report on sexual violence against young girls. "The world needs to wake up to the fact that schools are a major site of sexual harassment and rape for children," said Dr. Rachel Jewkes of the Medical Research Council in Pretoria. Jewkes and her colleagues found that 33 percent of South African women raped before the age of 15 were attacked by teachers, another 21 percent by ...

A couple of years ago, a local pastor asked Wayne Shade to make a videotape for his church. The tape that Shade sent to the pastor contained not only video of the church, but also footage of Shade having sex with a 12-year-old girl. That discovery led to Shade's sentencing yesterday to 20 years in prison and his being labeled a sexual predator by Judge David E. Cain of the Franklin County Common Pleas Court. Last month, Shade, 46, of Lilley Avenue, pleaded guilty to pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, rape, sexual battery and five counts of gross- ...

Boston Archdiocese Changes Course BOSTON- Reversing a long-standing policy, Cardinal Bernard Law of the Archdiocese of Boston said he will require clergy to report even past allegations of sexual abuse by priests. Law did not say when or how he would report the allegations but he reiterated that he wasn't aware of any priest currently holding a position in the archdiocese who has been "guilty of the sexual abuse of a minor." "As I reflect on this whole issue, from the perspective of the child, I believe that everything that can possibly be done to protect a child from ...

<p>Terry King, 40, a single father, was killed in his home on Muscogee Road in Cantonment shortly after midnight on Nov. 26.</p> <p>The children described settling on an aluminum baseball bat rather than a hammer as the murder weapon, sneaking up on their father as he slept in a chair with his feet propped on a sofa, then setting the house on fire to destroy evidence. The younger boy told investigators he could see his father's brains after the fatal blows were struck.</p>

Pedophile charged again Cops raid home, find 200,000 explicit images By ROB LAMBERTI, Sun Media TORONTO -- A former National Defence physicist who shocked Ottawa with his arrest in 1996 for possession of thousands of pornographic photos of children faces new charges for a similar offence. Dr. Blair Thomas Newton Evans, 51, a father of two who worked as a consultant with a private Toronto firm, was remanded in custody yesterday for a Friday court appearance. He was charged after Toronto police seized about 200,000 pornographic pictures of children. "This particular crime is globalized organized crime. This is trafficking in ...

Belgium Pedophile Back on Front Pages By Associated Press January 22, 2002, 6:54 AM EST BRUSSELS, Belgium -- More than five years after Marc Dutroux' arrest on charges of abduction, rape and killing of young girls, the nation's most notorious prisoner and his infamous pedophile scandal was back on the front pages Tuesday. The Belgian newsweekly Humo published correspondence that Dutroux had with a journalist over the past year, in which he denied killing four of the girls he is accused of kidnapping. Monday night, the VTM television network aired a prison interview with Dutroux in which he suggested Belgian ...

<p>His name appears in the thousands of pages of documents about former priest John J. Geoghan, with the strong hint that he, too, abused children. He left his own trail of victims in parishes in Methuen and Haverhill over 15 years, until the Archdiocese of Boston removed him from active ministry in 1990.</p>

Police suspect 'torso boy' to be witch victim His body part was found floating on Thames By Alfred Lee STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU LONDON - Police believe that a five-year-old boy whose dismembered torso was found floating in the River Thames under London's famous Tower Bridge was the victim of an African witch doctor. The black boy's head, hands and feet were cut off and are still missing. Similar torsos of two young black boys have recently been found in Belgium and Germany, raising police fears that witch doctors have moved into Europe and are carrying our serial ritual killings ...

<p>KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Now that Taliban rule is over in Mullah Omar's former southern stronghold, it is not only televisions, kites and razors which have begun to emerge.</p> <p>Visible again, too, are men with their ashna, or beloveds: young boys they have groomed for sex.</p>

Intruder cuffed by resident may be molester, police say 01/16/2002 By JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News A father who handcuffed a man who broke into a home in Far East Dallas may have helped police catch a serial molester, police said Tuesday. Police charged Fernendez A. Perez, 20, after police he was caught Saturday, allegedly in the bedroom of a sleeping 15-year-old girl. Two charges – indecency with a child by contact, and burglary – stem from an October incident in which a man broke into a family's home and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl. In that incident, ...

Nation: Parishioners in Boston divided over Cardinal's apology Copyright © 2002 AP Online BOSTON (January 27, 2002 8:09 p.m. EST) - Lori Sciurca said she regularly attends Sunday Mass but her faith has been tested by reports that church leaders repeatedly reassigned a priest accused of sexually molesting children. "I think the apologies have gotten awfully old. There's a lot of singing and dancing and sidestepping," the 41-year-old social worker said before morning Mass at the Arch Street Chapel. "But, I also think there are many good priests in the archdiocese." Similar conflicting sentiments were expressed by many Catholics on ...