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SC notice on petition that makes radical suggestions to check sex crime

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to respond to a public interest litigation that made several radical suggestions including provisions not to grant bail to sexual offenders till commencement of trial, chemical castration of convicted sex offenders and a ban on online pornography. Senior advocate Mahalakshmi Pavani who argued the petition along with advocate Filza Moonis …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Polygamous sect leader who turned children into ‘sex slaves’ gets 50 years in prison

LA Times

Polygamous sect leader Samuel Bateman, shown in an undated law enforcement photo, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for coercing girls as young as 9 to submit to sex acts. Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and regularly coerced underage girls into his criminal sexual activity, the U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona said. Seven of …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Polygamous Leader With 20 'Wives' Faces Sentencing For Criminal Sex Acts With Children

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING PHOENIX — A polygamous religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives ” including 10 underage girls faces decades in prison at his sentencing on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults. Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and …

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2 weeks ago

Polygamous sect leader gets 50 years in prison in scheme to orchestrate sex involving children

Associated Press

PHOENIX — A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody. Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, …

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Equatorial Guinea Probes Government Official's Sex Videos, Sparking Outrage

Associated Press

Authorities in Equatorial Guinea have announced plans to install surveillance cameras in government offices in a response to a scandal involving a government official who allegedly recorded hundreds of sex videos. The official, Baltasar Ebang Engonga, has been suspended and is being investigated. The investigation found up to 400 sex videos of Engonga and multiple women, some of them wives …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Impeachment of Online Predator Sentenced to Life in Prison

Associated Press

Un hombre de 26 años ha sido sentenciado a cadena perpetua por la muerte de una niña de 12 años en Virginia Occidental. El perpetrador, originario de Newry, Irlanda del Norte, utilizó las redes sociales para infligir un daño tan terrible y catastrófico a la víctima. La fiscalía señala que es la primera vez que alguien es hallado culpable de …

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Wealth and Exploitation: The Dark Side of Billionaires

Firstpost

Rich, powerful, and influential individuals have built parallel lives that are marred with exploitation, manipulation and sex slavery. The cases of rappers Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Harvey Weinstein and more recently former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries highlight how people with immense wealth have built parallel lives that are marred with exploitation, manipulation and sex slavery.

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3 months, 1 week ago

Harvey Weinstein Indicted On Additional Sex Crimes Charges Ahead Of New York Retrial

Huff Post

Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on July 19, 2024 in New York City. Pool via Getty Images NEW YORK — Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges ahead of his retrial in New York, Manhattan prosecutors said at a hearing Thursday. Prosecutors had been seeking to retry Weinstein after New York’s highest …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Deepfake pornography ring linked to South Korean university uncovered after years-long sting

ABC

As Ruma* was taking part in online university classes, her mobile phone started vibrating constantly. "Any of us could become a victim of such digital sexual crimes," South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol warned in late August. 500 schools and universities caught up in deepfake scandal The arrests sparked national headlines, with some media labelling the saga the "SNU Nth …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

South Korean authorities have launched a crackdown on deepfake porn

NPR

South Korean authorities have launched a crackdown on deepfake porn why are so many fake images of porn, targeting South Korean women? It is also, like many countries, grappling with digital sex crimes, most recently, the spread of deepfake porn. ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: The overwhelming majority of the victims of deepfake porn in South Korea are women. KUHN: In his …

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6 months ago

Louisiana Legalizes Surgical Castration For Child Molesters

Huff Post

— Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. The legislation gives Louisiana judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes — including rape, incest …

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6 months ago

Louisiana becomes first state to allow surgical castration as punishment for child molesters

Associated Press

— Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. The legislation gives Louisiana judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes — including rape, incest …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Louisiana lawmakers approve surgical castration for child sex offenders

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Some sex offenders in …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Louisiana lawmakers approve surgical castration option for those guilty of sex crimes against kids

Associated Press

— Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved Monday, and if Republican Gov. The GOP-controlled Legislature passed the bill giving judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes — including rape, incest and molestation — against a …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Reversal in Harvey Weinstein case isn’t the demise of sex crimes prosecution

CNN

Editor’s note: Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor of law at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law and the author of “Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers.” The views expressed in this commentary are her own. CNN — When a Manhattan jury found movie mogul Harvey Weinstein guilty of sex crimes in 2020, the verdict seemed to herald a …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

What led a New York court to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction? | Explained

The Hindu

In a 4-to-3 decision on April 25, New York’s highest court overturned former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction — a landmark case in the #MeToo movement. Scathing dissent The three judges — Madeline Singas, Anthony Cannataro and Michael J. Garcia penned scathing dissents accusing the majority of facilitating “a disturbing trend of overturning juries’ guilty verdicts in cases …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Costa Mesa nanny convicted as serial molester

LA Times

Matthew Zakrzewski was convicted in Orange County Superior Court of sex crimes against 17 boys he had been hired to babysit from 2014 to 2019. In some cases, prosecutor Oliver told jurors, the victims “really loved the defendant” and endured sexual abuse “not even knowing it was wrong.” In one case, a 7-year-old boy he had molested broke into tears …

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1 year, 11 months ago

This student reporter infiltrated a 'cyber hell' where women and girls were sexually exploited, and helped catch the ringleaders

ABC

Won Eun-ji was working on her laptop in a cafe when she clicked on a video so horrifying that she slammed the screen shut again. "It seems that people thought it was just one of the digital sex crimes that have always happened in South Korean society," Yeon-seo said. "Some even said they would give free illegal sexual exploitation videos …

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2 years ago

Gaetz friend gets 11 years for sex crime, other counts

Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal probe into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and other offenses. Presnell said that in his 22 years as a federal judge, he had never experienced a case like Greenberg’s and “a defendant who …

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2 years ago

Matt Gaetz friend gets 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and other crimes

LA Times

The judge who sentenced Joel Greenberg, shown in 2019, on Thursday said he had never dealt with “a defendant who has committed so many different types of crimes in such a short period of time.” A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal investigation of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has been sentenced to 11 years in prison …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court rejects plea advocating link between watching porn and sex crimes; says child sex abuse is a crime by itself

The Hindu

The Supreme Court on Monday did not entertain a plea advocating a link between watching internet porn and sex crimes, including child abuse. Lalit and S. Ravindra Bhat said child sex abuse is a crime by itself. “Seeking a judicial declaration from the Supreme Court that porn on the Internet has led to child sex crimes would be equal to …

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2 years, 5 months ago

‘Wave of sex crimes’ in Scotland with numbers reaching highest level in 50 years

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The number of sex crimes …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Armie Hammer’s alleged sex crimes — and his family scandals — are focus of new series

LA Times

A new true-crime special coming to ID and Discovery+ will take a deeper look at not just Armie Hammer‘s alleged sex crimes, but also his family tree of scandals. As first reported by Variety on Wednesday, the tentatively titled “House of Hammer” will investigate multiple controversies across five generations of Hammer’s family, using a “trove of archive and interviews from …

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2 years, 7 months ago

More victims of sex crimes choosing restorative mediation

NL Times

Victims of sex crimes have the option to choose restorative mediation with the suspect. Because not every victim wants the perpetrator to go to prison, police are trying to be more attuned to other ways they can help, said Lidewijde van Lier, vice specialist at the National Police. This is where restorative mediation comes in: a guided conversation between victim …

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SC notice on petition that makes radical suggestions to check sex crime

Polygamous sect leader who turned children into ‘sex slaves’ gets 50 years in prison

Polygamous Leader With 20 'Wives' Faces Sentencing For Criminal Sex Acts With Children

Polygamous sect leader gets 50 years in prison in scheme to orchestrate sex involving children

Equatorial Guinea Probes Government Official's Sex Videos, Sparking Outrage

Impeachment of Online Predator Sentenced to Life in Prison

Wealth and Exploitation: The Dark Side of Billionaires

Harvey Weinstein Indicted On Additional Sex Crimes Charges Ahead Of New York Retrial

Deepfake pornography ring linked to South Korean university uncovered after years-long sting

South Korean authorities have launched a crackdown on deepfake porn

Louisiana Legalizes Surgical Castration For Child Molesters

Louisiana becomes first state to allow surgical castration as punishment for child molesters

Louisiana lawmakers approve surgical castration for child sex offenders

Louisiana lawmakers approve surgical castration option for those guilty of sex crimes against kids

Opinion: Reversal in Harvey Weinstein case isn’t the demise of sex crimes prosecution

What led a New York court to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction? | Explained

Costa Mesa nanny convicted as serial molester

This student reporter infiltrated a 'cyber hell' where women and girls were sexually exploited, and helped catch the ringleaders

Gaetz friend gets 11 years for sex crime, other counts

Matt Gaetz friend gets 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and other crimes

Supreme Court rejects plea advocating link between watching porn and sex crimes; says child sex abuse is a crime by itself

‘Wave of sex crimes’ in Scotland with numbers reaching highest level in 50 years

Armie Hammer’s alleged sex crimes — and his family scandals — are focus of new series

More victims of sex crimes choosing restorative mediation