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More than 58,000 children were sexually abused in the U.S. in 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Many states are trying to curb those numbers — 20 now require sexual abuse prevention education by law. In 2009, Vermont became one of the first.... Read more...

UNITED NATIONS, New York – Fifteen per cent of the world’s population lives with a disability, and nearly 200 million are between the ages of 10 and 24. Yet they are often invisible in government statistics. Girls and boys with disabilities are largely excluded from education and health...

German bishops are preparing to respond to a shattering study on widespread sex abuse by Catholic … Read more via DW.COM – https://ift.tt/2Nz84JN Get more World News

Canberra – An Australian archbishop, the most senior Catholic official in the world to be convicted of concealing child sexual abuse will be sentenced in July after a magistrate reserved his decision at a hearing on Tuesday. Philip Wilson, 67, the Archbishop of Adelaide, South Australia, was …...

Two suspects, Mr. Emmanuel Agbo, 25 and Mr. John Amaechi, 35, have been arrested for allegedly desecrating the house of God by gang raping a 12-year old girl inside a Catholic Church premises in Lagos. The incident happened in the evening at the Saint Martin’s Catholic... Read more via...

A young girl identified as Chioma has been found in dead in Ogwugwu, Oba, Anambra State and her mutilated body dumped on the side of a road. According to reports reaching LailasNews, the deceased who stays with her mom was ambushed earlier this week and … Read more via Nigeria News |...

Lagos—A driver, Emmanuel Okorie, who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s 15-year-old sister, has denied the allegation levelled against him by Lagos State Government. The defendant, who is standing trial on a count charge before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere yesterday, told the court...

A driver, Emmanuel Okorie, who allegedely defiled his neighbour’s 15-year-old sister, has denied the allegation leveled against him by the Lagos State Government. The defendant, who is standing trial before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, on Wednesday, told Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye: “I...

The intervention of the police in Anambra State has saved Modestus Eze, the Principal of Seat of Wisdom Secondary School, Okija, in the Ihiala Local Government Area, from being lynched by some youths of the area. PUNCH Metro gathered that the youths had stormed the … Read more via Punch...

A father of two has been arrested by the Nigerian Police for raping a 13 year old hawker. The auto spare parts dealer, Martins Ukemezie, was arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old hawker in his shop at Iyanu bus stop, Meiran, Lagos State. The victim, … Read more via Nigeria News |...

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 40-year-old driver in a pure water factory, Abiodun Idowu for allegedly strangling to death a female accountant in the same factory, Abimbola Hamzat while attempting to rape her. The Police Public Relations Officer in … Read more via Nigeria...

A Sokoto Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 24-year-old trader, Muhammad Rilwanu, in prison over alleged rape of a nine-year-old girl. The accused, who resides in Gidanhaki area of Sokoto, is facing one count charge of rape. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The …...

A 57-year old man, Idowu Fashola has been remanded at the Ikoyi Prison, Lagos for allegedly defiling his wife’s sister’s 13-year old daughter. He was ordered to be remanded pending when he would perfect the bail conditions granted him by … Read more via PM NEWS Nigeria –...

Amnesty International has accused Nigerian security forces of raping thousands of women and girls at the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in the country. The Nigerian Military had announced that it had received credible intelligence report of a plan by the Amnesty International (AI)...

25-year-old man rapes corps member for snubbing love advances 25-year-old Ogochukwu Namanene has been arrested by the Niger State Police Command, for raping a 22-year-old graduate and corps member serving............. Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2KBA7T1 Get...

An Australian court has ruled that the Vatican’s finance chief, Cardinal George Pell, stand trial on historical sex offences, making him the highest-ranking Catholic priest ever to be sent to trial on such charges. Melbourne magistrate Belinda Wallington said at a hearing on Tuesday that she …...

Two men identified as Inyang Patrick and Ibah Edet have been accused of rapeand subsequently arrested by police in Calabar, Cross River, after they allegedly drugged a girl identified as Miss Umoh Joy and also went ahead to have carnal knowledge of her Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s...

French magistrates dismissed a case brought against a group of French soldiers accused of sexually abusing children while on deployment in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2013 and 2014, a judicial source said. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2DAvA0G Get more World News