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Actor Corey Feldman admits to being 'passed around' by men in Hollywood
 Date: May 27, 2016

​Man walks free hours after admitting rape of young boy
Date: 13th Jan 2016

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/05/27/09/47/feldman-admits-to-being-passed-around-by-men-in-hollywood

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​​http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/man-walks-free-hours-after-admitting-rape-young-bo/2898632/

THE UNDOING OF CARDINAL PELL:
Cardinal George Pell admits knowledge of abuse and says he should have done more
​By: 9NEWS
​Date: 03/03/2016

Cardinal George Pell has admitted he did nothing after a boy complained to him about a pedophile Christian Brother abusing children at a Victorian school but denied he could have stopped more abuse occurring. The child abuse royal commission has heard a student at St Patricks College in Ballarat told Cardinal Pell that Brother Edward Dowlan was "misbehaving" with boys in 1974. Cardinal Pell said the boy "mentioned it casually in conversation" and did not ask him to do anything.

Asked by Commissioner Peter McClellan what he did with the information, Cardinal Pell replied: "I didn't do anything about it". Eventually, he said, he inquired about the matter with the school chaplain but did not go immediately to the school to find out what was going on. "With the experience of 40 years later, certainly I would agree that I should have done more," Cardinal Pell said. He also again denied asking a nephew and victim of pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale what it would take to keep him quiet. David Ridsdale has told the child abuse royal commission when he told Cardinal Pell in 1993 he had been abused by his uncle, the then Melbourne bishop asked him: "I want to know what it will take to keep you quiet." Cardinal Pell told the commission on Wednesday the church in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of crimes and cover ups and he was left in the dark about serious sex abuse allegations against priests and brothers in Ballarat and Melbourne. He also said he regretted his choice of words when he told the commission on Tuesday he had no interest in Father Ridsdale's offending in the mid-1970s. Cardinal Pell said he completely messed up the sequence of events while giving evidence and had believed he was responding to questions about when he was a Melbourne official in 1993. "I regret the choice of words. I was very confused. I responded poorly," he said on Thursday. "I have never enjoyed reading the accounts of these sufferings and I tried to do that only when it was professionally and absolutely appropriate because the behaviour is abhorrent and painful to read about." Cardinal Pell - who was then a Ballarat priest - had said he didn't know Ridsdale's offending was common knowledge in the Inglewood parish in 1975 and did not know about the allegations. "It's a sad story and it wasn't of much interest to me," he said on Tuesday to gasps of surprise from some of those watching the commission hearing. "The suffering, of course, was real and I very much regret that, but I had no reason to turn my mind to the extent of the evils that Ridsdale had perpetrated." Mr Ridsdale's lawyer Stephen Odgers SC asked: "Was it the case that you didn't have much interest in what David Ridsdale told you about the crimes of Gerald Ridsdale?" Cardinal Pell replied: "That's completely untrue and David has never claimed that." Asked if his primary interest was to protect the church, Cardinal Pell said "not in the slightest". Cardinal Pell said there was a radical misunderstanding between himself and Mr Ridsdale over their 1993 telephone conversation. "I'm not even sure what keeping quiet means," he said. "I do dispute that. "But for a man who was expressing a preference for a church hearing rather than going to the police, I wouldn't have had any dispute with him on that score, although I have never impeded or discouraged anyone from going to the police."


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​ARTICLE IN: LIVERPOOL LEADER
​WEDNESDAY 27TH JANUARY 2016

​ARTICLE: WORLD AFRICA

South Africa's rape shock

Johannesburg: Gaining a reputation as the world's "rape capital"

A new survey carried out in the South African city of Johannesburg has uncovered an alarming picture of sexual violence. One in three of the 4,000 women questioned by CIET Africa, non-governmental organisation, said they had been raped in the past year. CIET researchers trying to find ways of arresting the alarming growth in sexual violence in South Africa said they were shocked by the finding. Gang rape 'fun' In a related survey conducted among 1,500 schoolchildren in the Soweto township, a quarter of all the boys interviewed said that 'jackrolling' - a South African term for recreational gang rape - was fun. More than half the interviewees insisted that when a girl says no to sex she really means yes. Many of those interviewed also expressed little knowledge about the need to use condoms and to practise safe sex. 'Intolerable' The boys' opinions differed markedly from those expressed by schoolgirls, many of whom suggested that they were living in an intolerable sexual environment. Levels of sexual violence differ across the country. But BBC Correspondent Greg Barrow, in Johannesburg, says the city - South Africa's largest and its industrial hub - is rapidly emerging as the rape capital of the world. He says the CIET survey will only serve to reinforce that unwelcome title. CIET says it will be recommending a new approach to the problem in schools, and among the police and community leaders. It also hopes to focus on the majority of men who do not rape and establish ways of raising their profile as community role models. As recently as last week, South Africa's first black test cricketer, Makhaya Ntini, appeared in court on rape charges - to the dismay of those who saw him as a potential role model for young sportspeople. Car hijackings up The survey was released at the same time as the government's latest crime statistics, which reveal that the rates of murder and rape in South Africa had declined slightly during 1998. The murder rate nevertheless remains at 52 per 100,000 - eight times as high as in the United States. Car hijackings last year were up by nearly 9% on the previous year's figure, and the statistics also show an increase in the rate of burglary and mugging.
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​ARTICLE ABC NEWS: Paedophile suspected Anglican Church friend 'in cahoots' with other offenders
By Emilie Gramenz
Fri 29 Jan 2016, 2:32pm
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Photo: Garth Hawkins said he heard things "on the grapevine" about paedophiles in the Anglican Church.  

A former Anglican rector and convicted paedophile has said he suspected a church friend was "in cahoots" with other offenders sexually abusing boys around Australia. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been examining the Anglican Church and its youth group, the Church of England Boys Society (CEBS), at a public hearing in Hobart. Former rector Garth Hawkins, who changed his name to Robin Goodfellow, was convicted in 2003 for sexually abusing seven boys as he moved between Tasmanian parishes in the 1970s and '80s. The commission is investigating the possibility of a multi-state paedophile ring operating in CEBS over about 40 years. In his evidence, Hawkins was asked if he believed his friend and fellow offender Louis Daniels, the former Archdeacon of Burnie, could have been involved in a paedophile ring. Hawkins responded: "No." Counsel assisting Naomi Sharp then asked: "Did you ever suspect that Mr Daniels was in cahoots with anyone in relation to his sexual abuse of boys around Australia?" Hawkins paused before answering: "I think he probably was, yes." He said he had heard things "on the grapevine". "The clergy was a pretty close-knit mob in Tasmania, being a small Diocese. You just hear things," Hawkins said. Asked if he had heard that Daniels had sexually interfered with boys while in Adelaide or Brisbane, he responded: "No." The commission is also investigating notorious Adelaide paedophile Robert Brandenburg, and former Queensland priest John Elliot. Former CEBS leader raised concerns with top clergy Sue Clayton, a former leader of the Church of England Boys Society, also gave evidence to the hearing. Ms Clayton said she became aware of complaints from two boys that Daniels had touched them inappropriately at a meeting in June 1987. She said she told the meeting she felt Daniels needed to step down from his role in CEBS immediately and cease any contact with young people. Ms Clayton said she attended another meeting with then-Bishop of Tasmania, Phillip Newell, later that month. "What did Bishop Newell say to you about his characterisation of the conduct that had occurred?" Ms Sharp asked. "He said it was of a serious nature and that it would need to be investigated further," Ms Clayton replied. She said she brought up contacting the police and Bishop Newell said: "As it had not progressed beyond fondling, there would be no need to bring the police into it at this point."  
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​ARTICLE ABC NEWS
​Foster carer's concerns for abused toddler 'brushed off' by Families
​ SA empl, royal commission told
By Candice Marcus
Posted Fri 29 Jan 2016
A Families SA social worker allegedly "brushed off" concerns about sexualised behaviour in a toddler who was abused by paedophile carer Shannon McCoole, a royal commission has heard.
Key points:
Foster mother says she was concerned by sexualised behaviour in a toddler Commission told Families SA worker seemed 'uninterested' in her concerns Nanny SA carer logged disturbing conversation between abused sisters The Child Protection Systems Royal Commission was prompted by McCoole's offending against young children in state care.
His youngest victim was an 18-month-old girl who was placed in state care after being physically abused and neglected.
The couple who fostered the toddler for seven months after she was placed in residential care with McCoole has told the commission they were very concerned about sexualised behaviour she exhibited.
They said the behaviours included the toddler touching her groin area during nappy changes and saying "Shannon pat pat".
The foster mother told the commission the toddler would also have night terrors and would wake up screaming and "quite often Shannon's name came up then too".
Her foster parents said they did not know who Shannon was, but were very concerned and raised the issues in detail with the toddler's social worker, a Families SA employee.
But the foster mother told the commission he did not seem interested.
"He kind of really brushed me off," she said.
"On my end it was just completely like he didn't care."
She told the commission she tried to follow up the issue with the social worker on a number of occasions, but he did not give her any more information.
She also said he rarely visited the house and often did not return her calls.
"He was very secretive. He wasn't very helpful, we went quite a few weeks and weeks without contact, he liked to keep us in the dark about a lot of things," she said.
"He was just very difficult to deal with."
The social worker began giving evidence late on Friday and will continue his evidence on Monday.
Carer told she was "confrontational" for reporting suspected abuse
Families SA carers have told the commission they felt their care concerns often were not taken seriously by their seniors.
One Nanny SA carer said she witnessed a female colleague kiss a young boy on the mouth and she thought it was abuse.
She said she created an incident report and alerted her supervisor, but said the supervisor told her she was being "confrontational" by raising the care concern.​

​Photo: Former SA Government carer Shannon Grant McCoole is serving 35 years' jail for abusing children in his care. (Supplied)

ARTICLE: Catholic sexual abuse cases in Australia. ​Wikipedia
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Main article: Catholic sexual abuse scandal The Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Australia is part of the much wider Catholic sexual abuse scandals which are a series of convictions, trials and ongoing investigations into allegations of sex crimes committed by Catholic priests and members of religious orders.[1] As of August 2011, according to Broken Rites, a support and advocacy group for church-related sex abuse victims, there have been over 100 cases in Australia where Catholic priests have been charged for sex offences against minors, as well as others involving non-custodial sentences and inconclusive proceedings.[2] There are also highly numerous cases involving members of religious orders (both priests and brothers) and lay teachers. Other sources of concern in addition to the abuse itself were the failures of the Roman Catholic Church to prevent future abuse by clergy who had come to the attention of religious authorities (of dioceses, religious orders or schools), transferring clergy and religious to further opportunities for abuse, the handling of allegations of abuse and the continuing honouring within the church of known sex offenders.[3] In 2012 a police report detailed 40 suicide deaths directly related to abuse by Catholic clergy in Victoria.[4] In October 2012, the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Ken Lay, in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry on the issue, recommended that some of the church's actions to hinder investigations (including dissuading victims from reporting to police, failing to engage with police and alerting suspects of allegations against them) be criminalised.[5] A bishop in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese supported some form of public inquiry into the issue.[6] In November 2012 Archbishop Hart, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, stated that he welcomed and promised co-operation with a Royal Commission, announced by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to broadly investigate child sexual abuse in institutions across Australia. George Pell, Cardinal-Archbishop of Sydney, stated that he hoped the Royal Commission will stop a "smear campaign" against the Catholic Church.[7] During a press conference held on 13 November 2012, Cardinal Pell voiced his support for the Royal Commission and welcomed the opportunity to help victims, to clear the air and to separate fact from fiction.[8] Through the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, the Catholic Church established a national co-ordinating body, called the Truth, Justice and Healing Council, to oversee the church's engagement with the Royal Commission and the pastoral and other ramifications that arose from the sexual abuse scandal.[9] The council was chaired by the Honourable Barry O'Keefe AM QC until his 2014 death.[10] He was succeeded by the Honourable Neville Owen, a former judge, barrister and solicitor.[11] In January 2013 the terms of reference were announced for an Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse which would investigate institutional sexual abuse of minors related, but not exclusive, to matters concerning clergy of the Catholic Church.[12]

​ARTICLE: Islamic teacher who sexually
abused girl, 11, as he taught her the Koran
spared jail because his wife doesn't
​speak English
PUBLISHED 18 March 2014
​DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

AN Islamic teacher who repeatedly molested a terrified girl of 11 as he taught her the Koran has escaped a jail sentence because his wife’s English is so bad. Suleman Maknojioa, 40, repeatedly rubbed the  youngster’s leg and reached under the folds of her prayer headscarf to touch her chest. He was given a suspended sentence because the court heard the father of six’s family were so dependent on him and he is ill with kidney problems. Maknojioa was supposed to be giving the girl and her two brothers private tuition. He was said to have favoured the girl and claimed the touching was done to reassure her. But his confused victim became terrified whenever lessons were due. He was finally reported to police after the children’s mother overheard her two sons, aged 13 and seven, talking about the incidents. Maknojioa was a respected hafiz – a scholar of the Koran. On the day he was arrested he was due to teach 30 children at a mosque near his home in Blackburn. He was later convicted of five counts of sexual activity but on Monday he escaped with a 40-week prison sentence suspended for two years. A family friend condemned the sentence. ‘This is a total disgrace,’ said the friend, who asked not to be named. ‘What type of message does this send out to paedophiles? He should be behind bars for this type of abuse. We are all horrified.’ Preston Crown Court was told Maknojioa had been engaged by the children’s parents in 2012 to teach them about the Islamic faith up to three times a week at their home in Lancashire. In September that year the girl and her two brothers started tuition of the Koran in Arabic in their living room.

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​ARTICLE: Suicide at Age 27: Death due to child abuse
PUBLISHED: 11/01/2011
BY: Jennifer L. Tanner Ph.D.

​Bill Zeller died of child abuse. At age 27. Statistically, Bill Zeller's death will count as ‘1' in the 18 to 29 year-old column for deaths due to suicide. The CDC reports such fatal injury data (link is external) by cause of death. But no government agency is responsible for correcting the CDCs counts of suicide when the cause of death occurred long before the suicide. And maybe there should be. Because Bill Zeller's cause of death was not suicide, it was child abuse.  Bill Zeller's cause of death occurred before he was in his 20s. His death was caused long before he was in kindergarten, likely before he had lost his first tooth. Before he could go to the store alone and maybe before he could swim, ice skate, or ride a bike. We lost Bill Zeller not even 10 days ago, but his death was caused before Operation Desert Storm, before the Cold War ended, before OJ made a break for it, before Princess Diana died, and long before the days a suicide note could circulate to millions via the Internet. ----- Bill Zeller's suicide note (link is external) tells us that he died in childhood: "My first memories as a child are of being raped, repeatedly. This has affected every aspect of my life. This darkness, which is the only way I can describe it, has followed me like a fog, but at times intensified and overwhelmed me, usually triggered by a distinct situation. In kindergarten I couldn't use the bathroom and would stand petrified whenever I needed to, which started a trend of awkward and unexplained social behavior. The damage that was done to my body still prevents me from using the bathroom normally, but now it's less of a physical impediment than a daily reminder of what was done to me." ----- What if we thought of child abuse as a disease, like cancer? When someone dies of cancer, the course may run 10 or 20 years. Cancer spreads from a cell into an organ into the blood into another organ. Bill Zeller's cause of death might look something like this: Stage I: childhood child abuse: raped repeatedly
child abuse resulted in serious physical disabilities
child abuse resulted in social issues related to physical disabilities caused by child abuse Stage II: middle childhood Child abuse induced depression. "This darkness followed me as I grew up. I remember spending hours playing with legos, having my world consist of me and a box of cold, plastic blocks. Just waiting for everything to end... At times growing up I would feel inconsolable rage..." Stage III: adolescence Child abuse induced alienation. "I've seen a number of doctors since I was a teenager...I was never given one piece of actionable advice, ever. More than a few spent a large part of the session reading their notes to remember who I was. And I have no interest in talking about being raped as a child, both because I know it wouldn't help and because I have no confidence it would remain secret...All it takes is a single doctor who violates my trust, just like the "friends" who I told I was gay did, and everything would be made public and I'd be forced to live in a world where people would know how fucked up I am." Stage 4: emerging adulthood Child abuse induced suicide. ---- What's the difference? Reframing suicide as a disease justifies a public health framework, one that emphasizes etiology (the causation or the origination), age of onset, and progression of disease. Perhaps most importantly, adopting a disease model emphasizes primary prevention. Primary prevention of suicide due to child abuse must occur in childhood. Primary prevention of suicide due to child abuse recognizes the role of the abuser in causing the suicide. Because really, when you get down to the facts of child abuse induced suicide, the cause of death is the abuser. The abuser is the cause of death.

ARTICLE: THE JOURNAL.ie
Column: The risk of suicide among survivors of child sexual abuse needs to be measured
​PUBLISHED: ​Sep 9th 2013

                   Photo: Abuse Survivor Mark Vincent Healy

​PERHAPS THERE CAN be no darker subjects than suicide and clerical child sexual abuse. When they are combined, where there is strong evidence in countless surveys and reports to suggest there is a direct link between them, one is perhaps doubly horrified by such issues. It’s a topic which can refer all too often to a horrific beginning to one’s life as it does a most tragic end. I felt moved to do something about the combined suffering of suicide and clerical child sexual abuse and attended the launch of the World Suicide Prevention Week on Thursday 5 September 2013 at the Department of Health, Hawkins House. As a campaign survivor of child sexual abuse by members of the Spiritans or Holy Ghost Fathers, I am mindful of the failures of this congregation to address my needs and those of others survivors and their distraught families with whom I am in contact. I have been told by the Acting CEO, Ms Teresa Devlin of the National Board for Safeguarding Children that she has received update reports from second tranche participants which once processed will be published later this month. There is a connection between these events and their subjects and it’s a very tragic and important one. Helping survivors of child sexual abuse At the launch I asked both Minister Kathleen Lynch TD, Minister for Disability, Equality, Mental Health & Older People who launched the event and Professor Ella Arensman of the National Registry of Deliberate Self-Harm Ireland who gave an excellent presentation on the NSRF Annual Report 2012, “Would they support a call for research into ‘completed suicide’ amongst survivors of clerical child sexual abuse considering no research has been done on the noted link between the two?” Both Minister Lynch and Professor Arensman agreed and stated that indeed there needs to be research in the area of suicide and clerical child sexual abuse in order to provide better services to the identified more vulnerable survivors of such abuse. Indeed the Minster’s presentation emphasised the connection between an evidence-based approach and adopting creative and appropriate solutions to suicide prevention. The fact there has been no such research highlighted the need which the Minister replied was therefore ‘very important’. Professor Arensman also was aware of this need and gave her full support for such a research programme. A new conversation with hope for recidivists of attempted suicide, consolation to grieving families and communities, and ‘risk assessment’ of any current practices and procedures which contribute to suicide needs to begin in this area. No survey into the rate of suicide amongst this group exists My main concern is with and for that most vulnerable group, survivors of clerical child sexual abuse. They are at risk if they remain silent and they are at risk if they break silence and enter redress processes seeking justice. The risk is life threatening as evidenced by my research. The SAVI Report, March 2002, page 202 stated: “Recent work shows that child sexual abuse is among a set of adverse experiences linked in a strong graded manner to adult psychopathology and suicide (Dube et al., 2001).” Dube et. al. 2001, indicated that there is anything from a 2- to 5-fold increase in the risk of attempted suicide from such abuse which is accepted by the Irish psychiatric fraternity from that American survey. Despite this, there is not one survey into the rate of suicide amongst this identified vulnerable group of survivors of clerical child sexual abuse or child sexual abuse in general. Who is afraid of the consequences of such research? Dr David Lisak author of a 1994 study “The Psychological Impact of Sexual Abuse: Content Analysis of Interviews with Male Survivors” wrote to me recently saying, “From an epidemiological perspective, when you have demonstrated significantly higher rates of depression and suicidal ideation in a subsample of the population, you can logically infer that actual suicide rates will follow.” What surprises me is that the question of an identified subsample of the population noted in numerous studies and surveys as having higher risk of suicide such as noted in the SAVI Report from 2002 that there has not been a study to confirm this anywhere, yet everyone believes it to be true. Might it be because if such a study were to prove it were linked then there would be enormous social, judicial and medical implications and consequences? It might not be in the interests of the political and religious establishments to consider such a liability perhaps. My own research The figures on suicide rates for survivors of child sexual abuse are hard to find, and those that are make for lamentable reading. In September 2010 it was reported in Belgium that 13 victims died by suicide attributable to clerical child sexual abuse. In September 2012 it was reported in Victoria, Australia that 40 survivors of clerical child sexual abuse allegedly died by suicide triggering a Parliamentary inquiry which found 620 more cases of child sexual abuse committed by the Catholic clergy. The final parliamentary report will be issued on 30 September 2013. In Ireland cases of suicide directly related to clerical child sexual abuse are more difficult to find because of the lack of research and study to date. In 2004 Paul Dwyer died by suicide when the DPP decided there was insufficient evidence to convict his alleged abused Fr Bill Carney who was extradited by a London court back to Ireland in May 2013 to face 34 charges of child sexual abuse. In April 2005, Anthony Delaney died by suicide. “Mr Delaney was among the former inmates of residential institutions whose case have been dealt with by the Government-appointed Residential Institutions Redress Board” according to Ben Quinn of the Irish Independent. In October 2010, in a report conducted by Mary Higgins for the St Stephen’s Green Trust, entitled, “Developing a profile of survivors of abuse in Irish religious institutions”, it was cited that “One person reported that of 39 co-residents in his class, 17 had committed suicide since discharge.” I have heard anecdotal stories from other survivors and former inmates of from Irish residential institutions who claim they know of reports of 33 survivors of residential abuse who committed suicide. In December 2011, the Cloyne Report was published in full. Earlier in July 2011, Paul Cullen of the Irish Times reported “two people attempted suicide.” At the same time, Michael Brennan of the Irish Independent reported details of the 18 priests against whom allegations were made but none were convicted. A priest by the name Fr Moray is mentioned as having sexually abused a brother and sister. The brother is recorded as having died by suicide. In June 2012, Paul Daly (whose case was conjoined with mine in a successful prosecution of Fr Henry Moloney by the DPP in March 2009) was believed to have died prematurely as a result of his child sexual abuse. In September 2012, it was cited in the second tranche reports by the National Board for Safeguarding Children prepared by the Missionaries  of the  Sacred  Heart (MSC), that “The suffering of victims has on occasions caused them to engage in self-harming. There is a record of one young man who died by suicide where it is noted in the files that the abuse that he suffered was seen as a contributing factor if not the main cause of his death.” Society must not shirk its responsibility This information in Ireland indicates more than just the statistical data of 55 confirmed or alleged suicides in Ireland as a result of clerical child sexual abuse, but it also tells the extent of the tragic stories and ruptured lives caused by the aberrant members of the Catholic clergy who perpetrated and facilitated such abuse. Indeed in seeking redress there is no ‘risk assessment’ conducted regarding any litigation procedures outlining the dangers posed to survivors in seeking justice and redress. Society, however, must not shirk its responsibility to such a vulnerable group especially where it is clear to what danger they are actually being subjected having been so intimately violated from such an early age. Are we not judged by how we treat the most vulnerable amongst us? There is reason to believe you know someone who was sexually abused as a child, only you may not know it. Opening up such debate depends on ‘safe space’ and ‘trust’. People wholly undeserving of any further neglect I have written to the Minister for Children, Ms Frances Fitzgerald in the hope that she would consider the need for the services to survivors of clerical child sexual abuse which I am calling for. I am only looking for two services, ‘Rescue Services’ and ‘Safe Space Provisioning’ to counter the suicide ideation identified in a group of Irish people wholly undeserving of any further neglect from childhood by our State.

​ARTICLE: Name tattooed across her chest, court hears.
PUBLISHED: August 5, 2014
BY: ​Lachlan Williams

A Victorian woman accused of interfering with a 10-year-old boy had his name tattooed across her chest because she was "obsessed" with him, a court has heard. The 46-year-old mother of eight has pleaded not guilty to five counts of committing an indecent act with a child under 16, and one count of using telecommunications to groom a child, The Standard reports. Prosecutors at the trial of Diane Marie Brimble said she had photos of the boy in her wallet and on her bedside table, that she wanted to be buried with a ring he gave her, and that she had a tattoo on her chest that read "love for [Boy's name]". Crown prosecutor Patrick Bourke said Ms Brimble was infatuated with the boy and saw herself as being in a relationship with him. They said she tried to lure the boy into her bedroom, ply him with vodka and asked him to have sex with her. Mr Bourke said that when the boy had replied that he was not old enough for sex, Ms Brimble had said that he was with her. They also alleged that Ms Brimble had taken off her top and walked into a room where the boy was on another occasion, urging him to "come on", saying it "will be fun". Acting for Ms Brimble, barrister Jennifer Clark said that while she had developed an affection for the boy and admitted to hugging and messaging him, she denied doing anything sexual. Ms Clark said the jury should consider the evidence and assess whether the boy was being truthful and reliable. The trial is expected to continue in closed court.

​ARTICLE: Supporters of anti-woman group Return of Kings to meet in Sydney
BY: Sydney Morning Herald ​February 1, 2016

A "neomasculinist" online group whose supporters believe rape should be legalised on private property and that women are biologically determined to follow the orders of men will meet for the first time in real life in Sydney on Saturday. The meeting, at 8pm in Hyde Park in Sydney and at 43 other locations around the world, is organised by US-based "neomasculinist" and legal rape advocate, Daryush "Roosh" Valizadeh. He has said women, transgender men and homosexual men were not invited. 
The meetings are being publicised on Valizadeh's news website, Return of Kings, which was established in 2012 and has more than 12,500 Facebook likes and publishes about 15 articles a month.It is the first time the Mr Valizadeh has attempted to organise meetings between his supporters face-to-face.  "Our views are becoming known enough that we can 'come out' of the shadows and not have to hide behind a computer screen for fear of retaliation," Mr Valizadeh said in a post on the website.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/supporters-of-antiwoman-group-return-of-kings-to-meet-in-sydney-20160201-gmikrh.html#ixzz3yzdVfHk5
 

​ARTICLE: Sentence for child sex abuser and former Bega Cheese boss Maurice Van Ryn almost doubled on appeal
​By: 9NEWS
February 10, 2016

​Former Bega Cheese boss Maurice Van Ryn has had his sentence for child sex abuse offences almost doubled on appeal. In September last year he was sentenced to 13 years in jail, with a non-parole period of seven years. Today he was re-sentenced to a minimum period of 13 years and six months behind bars in the state Supreme Court’s Court of Criminal Appeal. A transcript from the ruling described the original sentence as “manifestly inadequate”. “The sentence is so unreasonable and plainly unjust that it amounts to an affront to the administration of criminal justice,” the transcript read. “The Court should exercise its discretion to intervene and impose an appropriate sentence.” Van Ryn was convicted of multiple child sex offences including the abuse of a 10-year-old girl, the daughter of family friends, and a 13-year-old boy.

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