Tag: child rape

IN-DEPTH: Surging Child Sex Abuse Cases in China

Child sexual assault numbers are increasing dramatically in China, according to recent Chinese Communist Party (CCP) statistics and data from Girls Protection Fund, a Chinese non-profit. There are some obvious factors for the rising numbers, including China’s one-child policy and the country’s registration system, which forces many rural parents to leave their families to work…


DeSantis Supports Bills Authorizing Death Penalty for Child Rapists

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has backed legislation that would allow capital punishment for pedophiles convicted of sexual battery against a child under the age of 12—a law that would directly challenge the Supreme Court’s landmark Kennedy v. Louisiana ruling. “We are authorizing the death penalty for child rapists, which is cutting against recent Supreme Court…


Orange County Man Faces 140 Years in Prison for 1990s’ Rapes

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 57-year-old man was convicted Feb. 23 of raping a 9-year-old girl and a woman who was jogging in south Orange County in the 1990s, and sexually assaulting the 12-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. Kevin Michael Konther, who is scheduled to be sentenced March 21, faces 140 years to life in prison….


MP Says UK Asylum Seeker Suspected of Raping Boy Skipped Bail and Vanished

A Conservative MP has raised in Parliament the case of an asylum seeker who has gone missing from a hotel in his constituency after being released on police bail following his arrest and questioning over the rape of a boy in a hotel in London. Greg Smith, the MP for Buckingham, raised the case in…


France Decides That Sex With Child Under 15 Is Automatically Rape

PARIS—The French parliament on Thursday adopted legislation that characterizes sex with a child under the age of 15 as rape and punishable by up to 20 years in jail, bringing its penal code closer in line with many other Western nations. Sex between an adult and a child younger than 15 was already illegal but…