FREETOWN, 26 February 2009 (IRIN) - Marion Kargbo was 18 when she was forced to marry a soldier of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in January 1999, in the middle of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Ten years later, RUF leaders have been found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including forced marriage [...]
The late Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado left behind sexual misconduct charges and a daughter, reminiscent of other religious leaders involved in scandal.
Followers Betrayed by Scandal
Rumors about the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, who founded the conservative Catholic sect Regnum Christi in 1941, have been around for years. Still, the news came as a shock to the [...]
A 51-year-old former administrator at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford pleaded guilty Monday to two felony counts of transmitting and possessing child pornography, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Federal prosecutors say Thomas Edward Green Jr., 51, of San Jose, knowingly sent at least 67 e-mails containing visual depictions of minors and prepubescent minors [...]
My good friend Jeff Sparks, co-founder of Heartland Truly Moving Pictures in Indianapolis, has long known the power of film to change hearts . . . and move mountains.
Turns out his 25-year-old daughter, Rachel, gets it too. That’s why she’s made a documentary exposing the problem of sexual slavery in Thailand as part of The [...]
Police and federal agents rescued 10 child prostitutes and arrested 35 people in Western Washington as part of a nationwide sweep aimed at curbing the sexual exploitation of children, according to the FBI.
Nationwide, “Operation Cross Country III” last week took 48 child prostitutes into protective custody and police and agents in 29 cities — including [...]
A Cass County grand jury handed down three more charges Monday in an incest case.
Danial Rinehart, 47, who authorities say had an incestuous relationship with his teenage daughter that lasted five years and produced four babies, already faced charges of murder, incest, statutory rape, child endangerment and abandonment of a corpse.
He now faces an additional [...]
HAMILTON — Police here arrested five women early this morning, Feb. 24, at a local nightclub, and issued a summons on a former candidate for Butler County commission.
The Hamilton Police Department’s vice unit conducted an undercover operation late last night at V’s Nightclub, 1483 Millville Ave., after receiving tips the business was planning to offer [...]
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Pastors in Jamaica are finding themselves fighting a new enemy to the traditional Christian doctrine of sexuality. And its coming from a church plant (literally) of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), a US based gay christian denomination. GCM Watch first reported on the MCC’s church plant here.
A story in the Jamaica Gleaner contends the pastors have placed themselves [...]
There are two sexual behaviors that tend to get really severe reactions. And the irony is that most adults are guilty of them — even if only to a certain degree — and on a regular basis.
Exhibitionism and voyeurism refer to a wide range of behaviors — from completely consensual and harmless to illegal. The [...]
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