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Pastor’s child porn charges
whoiscarol | March 8, 2010 at 09:29 pm
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Eric Spandorf, an online pastor, is in a Tampa, Florida, jail and faces 66 child pornography charges.
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Ill. soldier discharged after child porn charge
whoiscarol | at 09:10 pm
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Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The National Guard says a western Illinois soldier charged with possession of child pornography in Afghanistan has been discharged from the Army and will not face a court-martial.
Illinois National Guard Maj. Brad Leighton says William Miller of Galesburg agreed this week to a Chapter 10 discharge, which means he admitted to unspecified misconduct and has been dishonorably discharged.
It is not clear if Miller will be prosecuted when he comes home. Army officials say they have not been in contact with civilian authorities.
Miller was charged Jan. 5 with possession of child pornography.
Miller’s family has said he had innocent photos they sent him of a young relative. Army officials contend the charges are not related to those photos.
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43 arrested in child porn swoop in Spain
whoiscarol | March 3, 2010 at 11:00 am
The arrests have been made across the country
43 people have been arrested in several provinces across the country on the latest National Police swoop against child pornography. 95 searches have been carried out and a further 61 people are indicted in the case. More than 1.2 million archives have been impounded, taken from 21 computers, 142 hard discs, 264 DVDs and 9 memory cards.
The initial complaint was presented to the police in Cataluña, who were alerted to the existence of a P2P network being used after a user downloaded a video of two adults abusing two youngsters.
The operation took place in Madrid, Comunidad Valenciana, Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Cantabria, Navarra, País Vasco, Murcia, Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, La Rioja, Baleares, Extremadura and Canarias.
Read more: http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_25276.shtml#ixzz0h8YfcXZC
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Spain arrests 26 in kiddie-porn bust
whoiscarol | February 9, 2010 at 09:01 pm
Valencia, Spain, Feb 9 (EFE).- Spanish police have arrested 26 people and implicated 10 more in a new operation against the possession and distribution of child pornography on the Internet.
Rolled out in 18 provinces over four months, the operation managed to intercept thousands of kiddie-porn files and seize 10 computers, 78 hard drives, a memory pen and 673 CDs and DVDs with pedophilic content, police said.
Last May a citizen in the eastern town of Torrent told police about the existence of some files with child-pornography content on the Internet, and from that moment agents concentrated on locating people who could be sharing those files.
The agents found several users who were making available to other people an index with different names that made a “clear reference” to kiddie-porn content, and so were able to locate all the users across several Spanish provinces.
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Minister of Commerce: No more sex tourism
whoiscarol | at 07:20 pm
BOGOTÁ, D.C.: Minister of Commerce, Luis Guillermo Plata is discussing ways to halt the trafficking of children for sex tourism.
http://www.colombianews.tv/news/2410-minister-commerce-no-more-sex-tourism
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Separated Haitian children risk being sold, trafficked or kept in slave-like conditions – UN human rights experts
whoiscarol | February 8, 2010 at 11:05 am
GENEVA ( February 2010) – “There is an increased risk of unaccompanied children in Haiti, including orphans and restaveks*, being abducted, enslaved, sold or trafficked, due to increased insecurity in the country,” a group of UN human rights experts warned Tuesday**.The experts, who are mandated by the Human Rights Council to monitor slavery, sale of children, trafficking and violence against children, stressed that “protection of children must be at the heart of the relief operation in Haiti.”
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Committee on the Rights of the Child and Independent Expert on Haiti have also emphasized the critical need to protect children in the chaotic aftermath of the earthquake, and in light of the particular dangers posed by thousands of gang-members and other criminals who escaped from prisons damaged by the quake.
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Unicef says 15 kids snatched from hospitals in Haiti
whoiscarol | January 23, 2010 at 06:22 pm
Geneva, (EFE).- At least 15 children have disappeared from Haiti’s hospitals since the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Friday.
“We have documented around 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals and not with their own family at the time,” Unicef adviser Jean-Luc Legrand said in Geneva.
He said Unicef fears the youngsters may have been abducted by traffickers operating from the neighboring Dominican Republic.
Hotels and airlines to fight child sex tourism
whoiscarol | January 10, 2010 at 03:13 pm
Pratul Sharma
New Delhi, January 2010
Hotels and airlines will no longer allow the use of the Internet on their premises by anyone searching for child pornography or sites that peddle child sex tourism.
If any of their employees is found helping tourists abuse children, these industries will ensure the workers are sacked and arrested. Besides, all employees will be trained to keep an eye on paedophiles.
These are some of the guidelines framed for the tourism industry to curb child sex tourism. The guidelines have been drawn up by Pacific Asia Travel Association’s (PATA) India chapter and the ministry of tourism. Sources said state tourism departments will start implementing them in the next two months.
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New rules to stop tourists from using children for sex
whoiscarol | January 7, 2010 at 04:34 pm
Vineeta Pandey / DNA Thursday, January 7, 2010 2:09 IST
New Delhi: The government will crack down on the tourism industry if they don’t stop visitors from bringing children into their hotel rooms for sex or watching child pornography on the Internet.
The Centre has sent hotel owners and tour operators a set of guidelines and a code of conduct to prevent the sexual exploitation of children by guests. This means the tourism ministry not only wants all hotels and cyber cafes to keep an eye on what people watch on the Internet but also deny them access to child pornography content on websites and television.
The code forbids tourists from seeking out children for sex via chat rooms, discussions groups etc. Staff in hotels and cyber cafes at all tourist spots have been asked to alert local police if they find child pornography material on guests.
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Suspect in rape was out on bail
whoiscarol | at 04:23 pm
Kingston man charged with 2d assault on a child
Joseph Gardner of Kingston (right) pleaded not guilty yesterday in Plymouth District Court to charges of raping a 3-year-old girl. (Ted Fitzgerald/ Associated Press/ Pool)
By John R. Ellement and Jonathan Saltzman
Globe Staff
Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said Gardner faced “heinous allegations’’ in the first arrest and that prosecutors were disappointed that Plymouth District Court Judge Thomas F. Brownell set bail at $10,000 instead of the $200,000 they originally sought.
After Gardner’s indictment, the first rape case was transferred to Superior Court, where prosecutors again requested high bail – $150,000. But Judge Joseph M. Walker III kept bail at $10,000, and Gardner remained free.
Depending on the circumstances, Cruz said, judges typically impose a range of bail amounts in sexual assault cases. In some instances, he said, judges have released rape suspects on their own recognizance.