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Good for New Jersey! Karma sucks!1st Graders in NJ to Learn About Gender Identity
Good for New Jersey! Karma sucks!1st Graders in NJ to Learn About Gender Identity
Glad to see the young boy well, scared, but well.POLICE RESCUE 9-YEAR-OLD FROM SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER IN ATLANTA
Body camera footage captured the moment police in Georgia rescued a child from an alleged kidnapper, who authorities say stole a vehicle from an Atlanta parking lot with the child inside.
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Police Rescue 9-Year-Old from Suspected Kidnapper in Atlanta
Body camera footage captured the moment police in Georgia rescued a child from an alleged kidnapper, who authorities say stole a vehicle from an Atlanta parking lot with the child inside.www.bitchute.com
The neat thing about it is Britain has LEOs that just carry billy clubs. That would be away to remove this thing from the Gene Pool.![]()
England: Trans child sex offender pleads guilty to exposing penis and using trash can as public sex toy
42-year-old Thompson, a veteran, was caught rubbing against a public garbage bin shortly before using a sex toy in a Teesside alleyway on August 13 of last year.thepostmillennial.com
I think they mentioned that several years later when the child was older... Don't know what justification the CPS would have, but it's been suggested that they make stuff up to accomplish the task.
FUQUE THE AP AND THE WRITER
So much for THAT College Education & Loan Paybacks.![]()
Judge: Arkansas teacher arrested, charged with rape of child
Kaitlyn Raines, who worked as a social studies teacher at Warren Middle School, was arrested and charged with rape and computer exploitation of a child.www.thv11.com
If they are put in the wood chipper feet first I see it as a small pice to pay to "eliminate" the problem. If they teach in prision or ever get out society suffers.So much for THAT College Education & Loan Paybacks.
None of those perpetrators look WASP ? (Hmmm)Rochdale victim: ‘I was groomed at 14, then the courts came for my children’
Her evidence helped put abusers behind bars, yet ‘Amber’ was vilified by the authorities and says her torment will never end
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The BBC drama Three Girls was based on the Rochdale child sexual abuse scandal. Photograph: Ewen Spencer/BBC/PA
Julie Bindel@bindelj
Sun 17 Apr 2022
Between 2008 and 2010, a child abuse ring that came to be known as part of the “grooming gang” phenomenon operated in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Girls aged between 13 and 15 were trafficked, prostituted, raped and assaulted by the gang.
One victim was forced to have sex with at least 20 men in one night; another was forced to drink vodka, and was vomiting over the side of the bed while being raped by “countless men”.
The perpetrators would pass the girls to their friends, often to settle a debt. The victims, many of whom were from difficult backgrounds and therefore particularly vulnerable, were plied with drugs, alcohol and fast food, and then taken to “chill houses” across the north of England to be abused. One 13-year-old victim became pregnant and had an abortion. Some of the men involved were arrested, tried and found guilty. But not all.
One of the victims – given the fictitious name Amber in Three Girls, the BBC One drama about the abuse – was 14 when she was targeted by gang members. After a troubled upbringing, Amber had been placed on the child protection register as being at risk of sexual and emotional abuse and neglect. Craving love and attention, Amber was lured into a nightmare, subjected to repeated and often violent sexual abuse.
That nightmare should have ended with the arrest and trial of the perpetrators, but instead the police, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and even social services treated her not as a victim but as a perpetrator.
Last Tuesday Amber, with two other victims of the Rochdale grooming gang, finally received an apology delivered personally by Stephen Watson, the chief constable of Greater Manchester police (GMP). Their treatment encompasses a range of catastrophic errors in one of the country’s most harrowing child sexual abuse scandals.
When we met in a hotel in Rochdale last month, Amber was accompanied by Maggie Oliver, a former police detective who walked out of the job in protest at the way Amber had been treated.
In 2009, when Amber was 16, uniformed officers arrived at her mother’s house, arrested her and took her to the police station.
“ can’t remember exactly what they said, but it was something along the lines of being a ‘madam’,” she recalled. “I didn’t know what that meant.” She was held in custody for hours before being released on bail. Her mother was not allowed to be with her during the interview, and there was no mention of an appropriate adult.
Amber had, under pressure from the abusers, taken some of her friends to the takeaway where the ringleaders operated from. She told me: “It wasn’t like a forced thing. It was like a casual, ‘Oh, bring your friends.’” She was a vulnerable child, being sexually abused, controlled and in fear.
No further action was taken against Amber, but it would be another two years before the CPS agreed that she should be treated as a victim and witness rather than a suspect. During that period, Amber – by now pregnant and living in a one-room flat – continued to be targeted by the grooming gangs. Although police interviewed a total of 56 men on suspicion of abuse, only a handful were tried. There were therefore many still walking free that had evaded detection.
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Stephen Watson, chief constable of Greater Manchester police, made a personal apology to three of the Rochdale victims. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Amber was also threatened at gunpoint by a man whom she subsequently identified to the police. Nothing happened. She told me: “Police weren’t arsed with us, really. They weren’t bothered … when you’re from a shit home. They don’t give a fuck when you’re not from a wealthy background.”
It was only when she met Oliver in early 2012 that things started to change. Oliver had been headhunted to join the grooming gangs case as detective and victim liaison officer in 2010 because of her experience working with vulnerable victims.
Amber was understandably reluctant to trust the police. But once the CPS advised the GMP that she was no longer seen as a suspect, she was persuaded by Oliver to begin a series of video interviews and ID parades.
I asked Amber what gave her the strength to give evidence to the police, after what she had gone through. She told me: “So it didn’t happen to anybody else. I didn’t want other people to feel how I felt.” Her courage and Oliver’s support resulted in a database of abusers whom she identified by names, car registrations, telephone numbers and addresses. It formed a large part of the police investigation that became known as Operation Span.
The ID parades were particularly gruelling for Amber, who did 12 in one day alone, correctly identifying 10 of her abusers. Afterwards, she told me: “I went home, put it to the back of my mind to be honest. I’ve got a box in the back of my head, and I just put it all in there and it’s locked away.”
But before what turned out to be the final interview, Oliver says she started to notice a change in tone from senior officers, and felt they were now deliberately trying to push this victim away. Then, shortly after the ID parade, Oliver was told that they were no longer going to “use” Amber’s evidence. She walked out, refusing to go along with this decision, and was forbidden from speaking to Amber.
The period during the buildup to the trial of the men accused of being part of the grooming gang, was dark for Amber. She says she was never informed by police either that she was no longer being treated as a victim, or that none of those she alleged to be her abusers was to be prosecuted for her abuse.
The trial of nine of the grooming gang was pending, and in the meantime, despite never having been informed, arrested or cautioned, Amber was added to the indictment by the CPS as a co-conspirator.
Without Amber’s initial evidence there might never have been a trial at all. She gave the police a list, at an early stage of Operation Span, with nicknames, telephone numbers and other details relating to offenders. She later went on to positively identify a number of offenders, which enabled charges to be brought against them all.
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Handout pictures released by Greater Manchester police in 2012 show eight of nine men convicted in connection with the child sexual exploitation ring. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
But in court, she was portrayed by the prosecution and defence as an assistant pimp. Because she was not involved in the trial, and therefore did not give evidence, she had no opportunity to defend herself. She was vilified and nicknamed in the press as the “Honey Monster”. Although a court order prevented her being named, everyone in her local community knew who she was.
After the court case, social services started to pursue Amber, with the aim of having her children removed. Just before the due date of her second baby, she was called to the family court, where an application was made to remove both children on the grounds that Amber was an abuser and a danger to children.
Finally, after a gruelling 18 months and several hearings, the judge threw the case out. Five years later she won an apology and compensation from social services.
In 2019, Amber, along with two other victims, with the help of the Centre for Women’s Justice, issued a civil claim for damages against GMP and the director of public prosecutions (DPP). While GMP has finally settled the claim, which includes the personal apology from the chief constable, the DPP has so far resisted. In response to Amber’s claim that it was wrong to name her on the indictment, it says it was “both legally and tactically the correct course to take”.
To date, the CPS has not accepted any failure on its part and instead continues to herald this case as the first successful prosecution of a grooming gang. While this is true, Amber believes that she was used as a scapegoat.
“What the police and CPS did to me was worse than the abuse … The apology will be a kind of a weight lifted from me.” But the nightmare will never really be over. Amber still sees those whom she says raped, beat and tortured her, out and about in Rochdale. “One delivered a takeaway to my house a few weeks back,” she tells me.
Finally, she has been exonerated. She has forced the police and social services to apologise to her for their behaviour.
“I agreed to help the police to stop it happening to others,” Amber wrote to Oliver in the midst of her campaign for justice. “I trusted police … that I would be helped this time. I gave hours of interviews, reliving all the abuse. I felt sick, got upset … nothing never no one from police came to me to explain why I was no longer going to court. Not one charged never, why?
“My name has been dragged through the mud. I push thoughts about the abuse out of my head. And I’ve done nothing wrong – I was a victim of these men at the age of 14. I should’ve been helped, not punished.”
The NSPCC offers support to children on 0800 1111, and adults concerned about a child on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331.
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Rochdale victim: ‘I was groomed at 14, then the courts came for my children’
Her evidence helped put abusers behind bars, yet ‘Amber’ was vilified by the authorities and says her torment will never endwww.theguardian.com
"Lead Therapy for Professor Dip Shit, ASAP"AMERICAN NEWS Apr 18, 2022
Professor says minors can be 'enthusiastically involved' in 'initiating sexual activities with adults'
"We can't be effective in working with them if we assume that all such relationships start with a predatory or criminally inclined adult," Professor Finkelhor said.
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Libby EmmonsBrooklyn, NY
April 18, 2022 7:54 AM
Professor David Finkelhor of the University of New Hampshire participated in a March 23 talk discussing the "elements of voluntary participation" by juveniles involved in sex crimes, saying that when trying to prevent sex crimes against children, it's key to realize that in some cases, it is the children themselves that are "initiating sexual activities with adults." Finkelhor is the Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at UNH.
"If young people are initiating sexual activities with adults, or enthusiastically involved," he said, "we can't be effective in working with them if we assume that all such relationships start with a predatory or criminally inclined adult. As we've seen in the discussion, young people bridle at being forced into this box of being seen as being the victim of a predator."
These remarks were made during a Haruv USA lecture about the "Implications for Prevention and Response" for sex crimes wherein there are "elements of voluntary participation" by the minors involved in those crimes.
It is Finkelhof's view that "there are reasons for learning about what the dynamics are and how to talk about them so that we can better help the young people who are in these situations."
He goes on to fully say that "even the most voluntary of these relationships are considered sex crimes." Finkelhor notes as well that sexual relationships wherein a minor "voluntarily" engages in sex with adults is a controversial topic of conversation precisely because "discussions of voluntary relationships to some people, opens the door for ex-offenders to feel like this is something that they can do."
It is as part of his research into how to identify, prevent, and treat the problems of child sexual abuse, child victimization,child maltreatment, and family violence that he was invited to speak with Haruv, and to give his perspective on those crimes.
Finkelhor described several kinds of underage sex crimes, many of which can be identified primarily by the ages of those involved, and discussed the reasons why these laws are in place.
"In some states, in some jurisdictions, there are restrictions for 16 and 17-year-olds, so their prohibitions are that it's illegal for a 16 or 17-year-old to have a relationship, say with an adult who is more than five years older than they are. And one of the problems in this area is nobody knows exactly where the law should create these distinctions. There's not good enough research on issues related to maturity with regard to sexual behavior, that allows a clear demarcation here," Finkelhor said. He noted that there can be elements of voluntary participation in statutory sex crimes, wherein juveniles engage in sex with adults who are at least five years older than they are. Statutory rape, he said, is "much narrower than statutory sex crimes in general."
Finkelhor differentiated between statutory sex crimes, which can be assessed simply by the ages of those involved, and statutory rape, where coercion is involved.
"If I were going to describe a statutory victim, I would say that it was a relationship between a juvenile and adult, it was illegal under the age of consent statutes. And that does not involve the degree of coercion or manipulation sufficient to qualify it under criminal statutes as a forcible crime. So it would be something that is classified as a statutory sex crime, but that also does not have the elements that would allow it to be prosecuted as a more forcible kind of sexual crime. Now, one of the big problems in this area is that I don't think people have talked enough and thought through why it is that we have these laws and these restrictions," he said.
For Finkelhor, the reasons behind these laws need to be made more explicit so that both minors and adults can know exactly why they are in place, and must be obeyed. His view about understanding the complicity of the minor in the case stems from the idea that, in many cases, minors are easily led by predatory adults because those children feel that the predatory adults care about them. Finkelhor's goal is to steer both children and adults away from engaging in these kinds of relationships, and notes that the current messaging may not be enough to dissuade either young people or adults from doing so.
To minors, Finkelhor believes that those underage persons need to be treated as responsible persons with agency, suggesting that "for young people, it seems to me, they need to have more of a perspective on what the problems are with relationships with older partners, why they don't work out, why we're not just saying, you know, 'you're too young to do this, you can't think responsibly about these kinds of relationships, if we're we're taking it out of your hand.' I think they need to understand from their point of view, why these relationships don't work out, why the age difference turns out to be a problem, why they need to have somebody who is more going through the experiences of life that they're going through.
"They also may need to know, not that they're being restricted from having a relationship that they want to have, but also that there are dangers that they are creating for this person who they say that they want to have as a lover or friend. 'How would you feel if this person went to jail as a result of the relationship that you're carrying on with this person?'
"And in some sense that keeps from infantilizing them and treats them as though they're the responsible person. 'You have power in this situation, in fact, potentially very damaging dangerous power. So you need to be careful with it.'
"They also need information about how to decide on who's an appropriate romantic partner that there are people who may be very nice to them very considerate of them, but who really are primarily interested in having sex with them and don't really have a long term commitment to them.
"What are the signs of a healthy relationship? Someone you can you actually can trust? Is this really something that is a healthy relationship? And what are some signals that you're being exploited, if somebody is asking you to do things that you're a little bit uncomfortable with, or rushing things, or asking you to hide what you're doing, these are signals that you are being exploited.
"They also need to have specific skills, and how to extricate themselves. Because sometimes, young people get involved in these relationships, and don't know how to break them off. Especially when the older partner is doing a lot of things to ingratiate themselves and make them feel indebted. And so they need to really think through how they could say 'no,' how they could break it off, what the strategies might be, that would be effective in this.
"We also need to educate the friend group, and the rest of the bystander environment. Because frequently, young people talk about these relationships with their friends, and the friends don't feel authorized or empowered enough, or there'll be a violation of their friendship, to make judgments about what their friend is doing. And to give them some reasons why they might want to discourage their friend from engaging in this kind of activity and really being a bit tough on their friends," he said of the ways that minors could be dissuaded from participating in relationships with predatory adults.
For Finkelhor, much of this prevention should be rolled into "comprehensive sex education," which to his view, mostly teaches children and teens avoidance strategies as to how to know adults are trying to take advantage of them, but do not account for a child or teen's feelings that they want to engage in this behavior with an adult.
"I think a big problem is that we do it trying to do a lot of prevention without actually doing it as part of comprehensive sex education, which is what we need," Finkelhor said.
"But it's very difficult to get accepted in a lot of places. At least I know that's true in the United States. But that's probably the best way. Teen curiosity about sex is an important part of what prompts some of these inappropriate relationships and when they're getting good information. That can be another way of discouraging there are investigation and treatment issues here. I think it needs to be recognized that when these relationships do come to light, the teams feel the young people feel ashamed and humiliated, they may be outed about their homosexuality. They're oftentimes angry at the parents and police for both interfering in their relationship with their autonomy. And you know, not understanding them and infantilizing them," he said.
"They oftentimes the ally with the offender, they refuse to cooperate, to do a better job on these investigations. It may be important for advocates and police not to automatically treat the youth as though they're a victim. They can treat them they can talk with them about the reason why we have these laws and why such people who violate these laws need to be prosecuted, but they don't need to necessarily treat the victim as the treat the youth as a victim if they that's not the way they see themselves.
"They need to anticipate resistance and anger and empathize with those reactions, and not just automatically discount the feelings that they have about the person or the relationship or the insult that they've experienced as a result of the discovery. Emphasizing the societal justification for the criminal justice action, I think is very important. Victims need time to process. They need a sense of the options that they have about how they want to respond to this and it may be useful for them to connect with other statutory victims so they can support each other and get a sense of what it is that they're in for," Finkelhor said.
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Professor says minors can be 'enthusiastically involved' in 'initiating sexual activities with adults'
"We can't be effective in working with them if we assume that all such relationships start with a predatory or criminally inclined adult," Professor Finkelhor said.thepostmillennial.com
These people need the rope, every damned one of them who've indicated they support child abuse and pedophilia need to be neutralized"Lead Therapy for Professor Dip Shit, ASAP"![]()
He always appeared to me to be a perv of some sort. 30 yrs in LEO/Corrections he always had my gut reaction going.