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The former president of a Fort St. John Pride society is facing several sex crimes charges, including two related to child pornography offenses. Sean Edward Leonard Gravells is charged with sexual interference, sexual exploitation, possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography, B.C. Prosecution Service’s Dan McLaughlin confirmed to Black Press Media on Tuesday (Jan. 9). The charges of sexual interference and sexual exploitation are alleged to have happened on Dec. 29, 2023, while the child pornography offenses are alleged to have happened on Dec. 31. All alleged incidents happened at or near Fort St. John.

A conservative legal group representing several Loudoun County parents has filed suit against the school system, alleging the “egregious moral corruption” of students and “violations of parental rights.” The suit charges that the school system has adopted woke, left-wing policies that have put children in danger and sidelined parents in violation of the state constitution. “The extreme social gender experiments being forced onto small children are nothing short of government-directed child abuse and child sexual exploitation,” said Stephen Miller, co-founder of America First Legal.

A man who sexually exploited two children and possessed child pornography was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison.Aaron Olson, age 36, of Nora Springs, Iowa, received the sentence after a December 6, 2019 guilty plea to two counts of possession of child pornography, including depictions involving prepubescent children.  In a plea agreement, Olson agreed to be sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment.  Evidence at the sentencing hearing established that Olson produced child pornography images of two children.Olson was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams.  Olson was sentenced to 480 months’ imprisonment.  Olson...

The Justice Department and Homeland Security, along with government counterparts from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, announced today the publication of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.  Developed in consultation with several leading technology companies, the 11 voluntary principles outline measures that companies in the technology industry Washington, DC ~ Thursday, March 5, 2020 Remarks as Prepared for DeliveryGood afternoon.  I am pleased to be joined here today by Acting Secretary Wolf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, distinguished colleagues from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and representatives...

The Justice Department and Homeland Security, along with government counterparts from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, announced today the publication of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.  Developed in consultation with several leading technology companies, the 11 voluntary principles outline measures that companies in the technology industry can choose to implement to protect the children who use their platforms from sexual abuse online and to make their platforms more difficult for child sex offenders to exploit.“Today marks a historic event,” said U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr. “For the first time, the...

FULTON, N.Y. -- A Fulton nurse convicted of taking a photo of an unconscious patient's penis with her iPhone last year surrendered her license, according to the New York State Education Department. Kristen Johnson was forced to give up her license as part of a plea deal where she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disseminating of unlawful surveillance photos. Her conviction came after a nine-month investigation by the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office into complaints from her Upstate University Hospital co-workers that she sent pictures of two patients via text message. She was originally charged with two counts of second-degree unlawful...

For Kevin Garn, it's been 25 years of hiding, of paying big money for "secrecy," of presenting himself as a devoted public servant, twice rising to the status of House Majority Leader in the Utah Legislature. In the same 25 years, Cheryl Maher has been plagued by substance abuse and mental illness, even as she served in leadership roles in the LDS Church -- as did Garn, a former bishop. This week, it all came out: In 1985, Garn, then 30 and married, and Maher, a 15-year-old who worked for him, took off their clothes and climbed into a hot...

Want a sexual slave? That is the question hundreds of thousands answer each year, as they purchase a child or young person from traffickers in a multibillion-dollar international business known as the global sex trade. When in many countries a young woman can be kidnapped for $500 and yield $250,000 annually from sexual servitude, it doesn't take much economic ingenuity to understand why corrupt capitalists crave some buy-in to this repulsive form of commerce. These victims of sexual slavery come from some of the most well-known sexually trafficked areas in the world, including Cambodia, Thailand, Latin America, Eastern Europe (countries...

AUSTIN, Texas — A bill approved by the state House to ban bawdy cheerleading routines apparently isn't going anywhere in the Senate this year. The legislation prohibits "overtly sexually suggestive" cheerleading routines at school events and gives the state education chief the authority to ask school districts to review performances. It does not define sexually suggestive. The House approved the legislation May 3 and sent it to the Senate Education Committee, where it is expected to die. "We have some very important work to do in the next two weeks, and that's not one of them," Republican state Sen. Florence...

Normalization of Pedophilia Growing, Experts SayBy Steve Jordahl, correspondent Americans are accepting a more liberal — and previously unthinkable — notion of sexuality. The next taboo to fall might be the sexual exploitation of children.In what is described as a dangerous trend, Carson Holloway of the University of Nebraska believes the normalization of pedophilia is emerging as a topic of discussion among the academic elite."There is some evidence of some effort to normalize pedophilia — or sexual relations between adults and children — in certain literary circles and maybe certain realms of science and social commentary," Holloway said. According to...