Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

A former teacher from Solihull has admitted downloading hundreds of indecent images of children.

Christopher Davis, 43, from Monkspath in Solihull, pleaded guilty to 11 offences at Warwick Crown Court.

His brother Timothy, 38, who was also a teacher, was sentenced on Wednesday for the same offence.

Christopher Davis resigned from St Patrick’s Junior and Infant school following his arrest in August. He will be sentenced next month.

West Midlands Police have said charges in both cases do not relate to physical contact with children in the care of either brother.

Timothy Davis, also from Monkspath, who used to teach at Monkspath Junior and Infants School, was given a three-year community service order and told to complete a sex offenders treatment programme.

Source: BBC News Birmingham

Officially 21 Priests from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia have been placed on ‘administrative leave’ until a thorough investigation has been conducted into child sexual abuse claims raised by a Grand Jury report that found a widespread cover up over the actions of up to 37 priests employed by the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Justin Rigali, the archbishop of Philadelphia, should have suspended the priests suspected of paedophilia much sooner, campaigners say.

The sweeping action of the church, the largest mass suspension in America of Priests, comes after the report was released on February 10, 2011.

Disclosed in the report were allegations that for decades the church had covered up abuse of children as young, mainly boys as young as 9. (more…)