Category: child sexual abuse

Trafficking Survivor Eliza Bleu: How My Abuser Preyed on My Vulnerabilities

“Grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities. He knew I wanted to be famous. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas, I sat down with Eliza Bleu, a child sex trafficking survivor. Now…


32 Arrested For Child Exploitation in Kansas Undercover Operation

An undercover operation in Kansas recently resulted in the arrest of multiple individuals for committing crimes against children, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The undercover child exploitation operation, Operation Blue Ghost, was carried out by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City and HSI Kansas City Child Exploitation Taskforce (KCCET) partners in…


Johns Hopkins Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Center Hires Professor Sympathetic to Pedophiles

A former university professor who calls for less social stigma on pedophilia is set to return to academia, landing a new job at a research center dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse. The Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sex Abuse at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, announced Thursday that Allyn Walker will join as…


NSW MP Gareth Ward Charged Over Rape, Sexual Assault Claim

New South Wales (NSW) Liberal MP Gareth Ward has been charged by police with the alleged historic sexual abuse of a man and a teenage boy. Ward, the sitting member for Kiama, is alleged to have committed three charges of assault with acts of indecency and one account each of alleged sexual intercourse without consent…


Care Home Children Let Down by Police and the State, Janner Abuse Inquiry Finds

Children who reported being sexually abused by the late Labour grandee Lord Janner were “let down by institutional failings,” a damning inquiry into police, prosecution, and social services responses to their allegations has concluded. Leicestershire Police officers investigating decades of abuse claims against Lord Janner regularly “did not look beyond the often troubled backgrounds” of…


UK Inquiry: Children in Care Homes Faced Decades of Abuse

LONDON—A British public inquiry into child sexual abuse said Tuesday that hundreds of children in the care of a London authority faced “hard to comprehend” levels of abuse and neglect over several decades. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said that between the 1960s and the 1990s, local authority staff in the south London…


Tech Giants Putting Profit Ahead of Child Safety, Warns Outgoing Police Chief

Social networks can make it much harder for paedophiles to share indecent images but they choose not to invest in such technology, an outgoing senior British police officer will say on his last day. Chief Constable Simon Bailey—the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s lead on child protection and head of Norfolk Constabulary—is expected to point the…


Mastercard Says Banks Must Show ‘Documented Consent’ For Adult Content Following Pornhub Controversy

MasterCard on April 14 announced it is changing its rules and standards for banks that process payments for sellers of adult content. The company announced the new rules in a blog post on Wednesday and said that banks will now have to ensure that sellers require “clear, unambiguous and documented consent” in adult content. “This month, we are extending our…


Disturbing Uptick in Reports of Online Child Enticement in 2020, Says Tipline

A record number of reports of suspected online child enticement were made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in 2020. Online child enticement is communication with a child via the Internet with the intent to commit a sexual offense or abduction, according to the non-profit. The NCMEC Cyber Tipline received a…