Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

Dauphin County’s Chief Prosecutor of child abuse cases is speaking out about what he thinks Pennsylvania needs to change.

His testimony came before the newly created Task Force on Child Protection. The Governor created the task force following lawmaker’s reactions to soft laws they say were exposed following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Sean McCormack is specifically talking about our state’s reporting laws, and how the penalty needs to match the crime. (more…)

DUBLIN: The Irish Catholic primate, Sean Brady, is under intense pressure to stand down over a child abuse row after further calls for his resignation were made by Ireland’s Foreign Minister and the editor of the influential newspaper The Irish Catholic.

Cardinal Brady is resisting demands that he step down after revelations on television this week that he failed to inform parents and police about a list of children who were being sexually abused by one of Ireland’s most notorious paedophile priests. (more…)

THE Vatican’s chief investigator has insisted that Ireland’s most senior cleric has no case to answer over renewed allegations of mishandling of allegations against the paedophile Brendan Smyth.

Monsignor Charles J Scicluna (pictured) defended Cardinal Sean Brady’s role in secret interviews with a 14-year-old victim in 1975 in which he was told it was likely the late priest was abusing five other named children. (more…)

QUEBEC – Decrying the sexual exploitation of children as “the most odious of crimes,” Quebec Public Security Minister Robert Dutil announced Tuesday that the Surete du Quebec will add another 25 investigators to track down and arrest cyber-pedophiles.

The SQ, Quebec’s provincial police force, already has 79 officers and civilian staff assigned to combat cyber-pedophilia, which Dutil said has grown “exponentially” in recent years. (more…)

A caretaker who systematically abused numerous young boys over a 30-year period has been branded a “depraved, predatory” paedophile and jailed for 13-and-a-half years.

Austin Kelly, 69, of Staffordshire Close in Everton, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to 53 counts of indecent assault, buggery and attempted buggery against nine boys under the age of 16 between 1969 and 1997. (more…)

Parents generally teach their children about “stranger danger” from an early age, telling them not to talk to, walk with or take gifts or candy from strangers. But statistics show danger often lurks closer to home.

According to numbers provided by the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, the vast majority of children who are sexually abused are abused by someone they know – most often a family member, an adult the family trusts or, in some instances, another child. (more…)

A judge on Thursday refused to throw out child sex-abuse charges against Jerry Sandusky but will allow defense lawyers for the retired Penn State assistant football coach to ask again to have the case dismissed as more evidence is turned over by prosecutors.

Judge John Cleland ruled on a catch-all pretrial defense motion that also sought to have some of the evidence against Sandusky suppressed, compel additional disclosure of prosecution materials, and win the court’s permission to introduce an alibi defense. (more…)

Prosecutors attack bid by ex-Penn State assistant coach to have his case dismissed.

Judge John M. Cleland pushed back Jerry Sandusky’s trial date three weeks to June 5, as prosecutors filed papers Thursday contesting the former Penn State assistant coach’s bid to have his case dismissed. (more…)

Paedophiles are hiding images of child sex abuse on websites that look like ordinary web shops, reveals a report.

The tactic is being used more and more often, said the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in its annual report.

Outwardly the sites look legitimate, but abusers can reach the images via a route that takes them to a specific section of the site, said the IWF.

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A former Sydney police officer who sexually abused young girls will spend up to 10 years in jail. Gregory Urch was charged in 2010 after an investigation by the New South Wales Professional Standards Command.

He pleaded guilty to six counts of sex abuse involving two girls in the 1990s. His youngest victim was eight. (more…)