A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis this week has told the BBC paedophilia is an illness and not a crime. Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of Durban, told BBC Radio 5 on Saturday that paedophilia was a "disorder" that needed to be treated. ...
10:34 PM, Mar 16, 2013
A 71-year-old convicted paedophile in Britain has been taken off the "Sex Offenders Register", leading to an outrage among the public and sparking fears that thousands of criminals could soon be free to roam the streets. George St Angeli had his name removed from the national database after a court ruling, The Sun reported. ...
06:59 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Moscow: Paedophiles in Russia may soon face chemical castration under a new law approved by the upper house of the Russian Parliament - the Federation Council. Currently, paedophiles only get away with mandatory medical treatment, but under new draft law, they will face chemical castration, life imprisonment and psychiatric drug treatment, Ria Novosti reported. Chemical castration is being introduced in Russia for the first time to deter paedophilia. The new...
07:41 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Los Angeles: Former child star Corey Feldman, who featured in 'The Goonies', 'Stand By Me' and 'The Lost Boys', claims to have been sexually abused by paedophiles when he was a teenager and says he will reveal their names in a book. "When I was 14 and 15, things were happening to me. These older men were leching around like vultures. It was basically me laying there pretending I was...
12:55 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi; Notorious Dutch national Will Heum was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday - the case is the first to be tried under the amended IT act. Paedophile was Heum has been sentenced on three counts to a total of 25 years in prison. He has been charged under three sections including kidnapping children, unnatural offences and uploading pornographic content on the web. Heum is a Dutch...
07:49 PM, May 26, 2011
Duncan Grant and Allan Waters were convicted in for sexual abuse of minor boys at the Anchorage Shelter Home in Colaba in Mumbai. ...
03:09 PM, Mar 21, 2011
Mumbai: British paedophiles Duncan Grant and Allan Waters surrendered, on Monday, in the Mumbai sodomy case. Grant and Waters were convicted for sexual abuse of minor boys in Mumbai. They will be taken for medical examination and after that, the duo will be taken to the sessions court. The Supreme Court had on Friday restored the conviction of paedophiles Waters and Grant on charges of sexual abuse of minor boys...
02:57 PM, Mar 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has convicted Indian William D'Souza and two Britons to six years imprisonment for sodomising and sexually abusing street children. Britons Duncan Grant and Allen John Walter were accused of abusing street children at a shelter in Mumbai. The police had issued an international arrest warrant in April 2002. A 2001 police report had charged Duncan and Walters with sodomy and sexually abusing boys. Charged with...
10:27 AM, Mar 18, 2011
London: A global paedophile ring has been busted in Europe and 184 people have been arrested. Till now 230 children have been rescued from the UK, US and Australia among other countries. European Law Enforcement Organisation, Europol, has also identified 670 suspected offenders. "Six-hundred-and-seventy suspects have been identified, 184 arrests have already been made and 230 children, the victims of these terrible crimes, have been identified and rescued from further...
09:15 AM, Mar 17, 2011
London: Scientists have developed a new phone application to identify potential paedophiles. The software, called Child Defence, enables kids to scan webchat on their mobile phones to verify the age of people they are messaging. Designed by Isis Forensics based in Lancaster University, the software uses the latest advances in technology to identify language quirks peculiar to different age groups, a Daily Mail report said. It can also link in...
05:38 PM, Jan 25, 2011
London: A woman in Britain sexually assaulted a five-month-old baby and allowed her paedophile boyfriend to take photographs from his mobile phone, a media report said Thursday. Tracy Dawber, 44, allegedly let Colin Blanchard take the indecent images as she sat the youngster on her lap at her home in Southport, Merseyside, Daily Mail reported on its website. Dawber admits it was her holding the baby in the photographs but...
12:56 PM, Oct 07, 2010
A paedophile has confessed to raping, murdering and then burying six teenagers in Luziania, Brazil. ...
10:48 AM, Apr 12, 2010
A look at what the myths are about child abuse and what the facts are. ...
10:38 PM, Nov 18, 2009
Where does India's legal system stands on the issue of child abuse? ...
10:26 PM, Nov 18, 2009
Children in Mahapalipuram have fell victims to tourist paedophiles. ...
09:43 PM, Nov 18, 2009
Global hunt on for nearly 9,000 suspects who accessed the video. ...
09:32 AM, Jun 01, 2009
St. John's, Antigua: West Indies has granted Dwayne Bravo's request for a rest by leaving him out of the team that will try to prevent India from winning their one-day international cricket series on Saturday. Bravo has yet to recover his form following the knee injury which cut short his World Cup in February. He tallied 54 runs and four wickets in the five-match series with Pakistan, then has scored...
09:23 PM, Feb 02, 2008
Social networking sites are a place for sexual predators. ...
02:46 AM, Aug 22, 2007
The Maharashtra govt proposes to move the Bombay HC against the manager of an orphanage accused of sodomy. ...
09:12 PM, Jan 15, 2007
