Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

As two scandals spotlight the spouses of alleged sex offenders, the wife of an abuser shares her story with Salon

When a detective showed Jasmine a video of her husband confessing to sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, she says, “It was like a knife through my heart.” The 43-year-old creator of HealingWives.com, an online support group for women with similar experiences, explains, “I felt like a victim myself — I mean, in an instant, my world changed.” (more…)

Internet memes die hard. And for law enforcement in the southwest, Pedobear is the meme that just won’t go away. Authorities in New Mexico say the meme has been adopted by sexual predators targeting children – a claim being laughed off by blogs and Internet meme trackers who say Pedobear is a harmless joke.

Pedobear is a character made to mock pedophilia that first appeared on the Internet forum 4chan and subsequently spread throughout the Internet, according to Urlesque’s Meme Tracker. Pedobear’s image, a brown beady-eyed teddy bear is often photoshopped into otherwise harmless images online to add an element of implied inappropriateness for humor. Authorities aren’t laughing. (more…)

A toxic, ubiquitous plague on our society, child sexual abuse, thrives in an environment of darkness and silence. The Penn State scandal has brought this crime out of the shadows, shocking our national conscience and proving that the malignancy only grows when individuals and institutions fail to confront allegations of abuse.

Every day, my colleagues and I see the pain that silence and other incredulously bad choices beget. Our work places us on the front lines of care for child victims of abuse. (more…)

As more details come to light in the Penn State case, Jerry Sandusky’s denials are revealing.

As Penn State continues to deal with the fallout from the Jerry Sandusky case, another university is also dealing with its own child sexual-abuse scandal. On Sunday, Syracuse University fired assistant baskeball coach Bernie Fine, who faces an investigation for child-molestation claims.

Though the emerging details of the Syracuse case get more bizarre by the day, the Sandusky saga jumped the shark with the incredible interview that he phoned in to Bob Costas on NBC’s Rock Center. (more…)

The world of college sports had been thrown off balance by recent allegations of sexual abuse against Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at Penn State University. Sandusky is accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with young boys he met through the “Second Mile” charity he founded in 1977, and using the athletic facilities at Penn State as a haven for his abusive actions.

Since the release of the grand jury report on November 4 of this year, a growing list of victims have come forward to speak of their abuse by Sandusky. The most recent accusations have come from one of his own grandchildren. (more…)

WHAS11 has an update on a suspected pedophile who has been charged in Grayson County and now he’s facing charges in Bullitt County and police say there could be more victims.

Police want you to take a look at the suspect’s picture because they believe he harmed others.

His name is Henry Sparks. (more…)

Vatican -Benedict XVI made an unusual decision to favor moral renovation of the Church in Ireland,after pedophilia scandals.

The Pope chose one of the assistants of Monsigneur Charles Sciucluna, promoter of justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, as the new Apostolic Nuntio assigned to Ireland. (more…)

There are a few hold overs of the 20th Century, which should have never seen the light of day in the 21st Century.

The N word is one, violence against women, or any other sector of society for that matter, is another.

A third is pedophilia, where adults – men and women – pray upon young girls and boys for their own twisted sexual gratification.

Unless you have shunned media – radio, television and newspaper – you now know about the allegations against former Penn State football defensive co-ordinator Jerry Sandusky who has been charged with eight counts of child sexual abuse. (more…)

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — A preliminary hearing on 40 charges of child sex abuse against former Penn State University assistant American football coach Jerry Sandusky was delayed to December 13 on Tuesday.

Sandusky, accused of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period, had been due for a December 6 hearing but the court date was pushed back and moved to accommodate “logistical needs,” according to a website posting.

The hearing was moved to Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, so a judge from outside Harrisburg could hear the case to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest with the school or Sandusky’s charity, The Second Mile. (more…)

The sexual-abuse scandal at Penn State has raised awareness of pedophilia. How do these predators operate?

What is a pedophile?

It’s an adult with a sexual preference for prepubescent children (typically 13 or under) of either sex, though some prefer one gender. The term can be used to describe anyone who fantasizes about, is sexually aroused by, or experiences urges toward children, whether or not they act on them. (more…)