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Philippines police say ‘alarming details’ uncovered in new allegations against celebrity preacher

Police in the Philippines said on Wednesday more people had come forward alleging sexual abuse by celebrity pastor Apollo Quiboloy, pointing to what they called an alarming pattern of crimes by the wealthy, self-proclaimed “Appointed Son of God”.

Quiboloy, who is facing a raft of charges in the Philippines and the United States including sex trafficking, money laundering and child abuse, was arrested on Sunday after a weeks-long search of his church’s sprawling 30-hectare (74-acre) compound by more than 2,000 security personnel.

Quiboloy for years cultivated an image as a charismatic spiritual leader with divine powers, earning him millions of followers, a lavish lifestyle and powerful friends in the country’s political elite.

“These courageous victims have spoken up, revealing their harrowing experiences. The abuse they endured shows an alarming pattern of manipulation and exploitation,” Philippine police chief General Francisco Marbil said in a statement.

Those included girls as young as 12 and were part of a group of what police called “inner-circle pastorals” who have been crucial in uncovering the full extent of Quiboloy’s alleged crimes, Marbil added.

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New York Cop Sentenced to Ten Weekends in Jail for Raping 13-Year-Old Girl

An upstate New York cop has been sentenced to serve just ten weekends in jail after pleading guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl.

Shawn Jordan, a 40-year-old former Rochester police officer, had the shockingly light sentence handed to him on Wednesday after making a plea deal concerning the 2022 rape of a South Bristol teen, WHEC reported. 

He will also be on probation for ten years and registered as a sex offender.

The mother of the victim “begged” Ontario County Judge Kristina Karle to send her now-15-year-old daughter’s rapist to prison, but Karle refused. 

Ontario County Assistant District Attorney Kelly Wolford acknowledged that Jordan’s sentence is weak but justified the decision by pointing out that the girl will not have to relive the trauma by testifying in a courtroom. 

“I’m not entirely satisfied with the sentence … but, ultimately, as a prosecutor, I have to weigh things like the impact of actually having to testify on the victim of this crime,” Wolford said. “And she’s a child, and she was going to have to face her accuser in the courtroom. And when I was given the opportunity to consider whether or not we’d take a guilty plea — absolutely, all day, in a circumstance like this.”

“I’m thankful that it’s over for the victim and her family, who were here today in court. It’s been a long process to get to this point but, ultimately, just thankful they can move on and start to heal,” the prosecutor added, according to the local outlet. 

Jordan has reportedly been bragging about receiving such a lenient punishment for his heinous crime. 

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Founder of Surrey Pride, 40, who was patron of controversial LGBT+ education charity that encouraged toddlers to question their gender faces 37 child sex abuse charges including rape and voyeurism

The patron of an LGBT+ charity that encouraged toddlers to question their gender has been charged child sex abuse offences including rape.

Stephen Ireland is accused of raping a child, multiple sexual assaults, voyeurism, making indecent photographs of youngsters as well as plotting to kidnap a child.

The 40-year-old, who was listed as a director of Pride in Surrey until June, appeared in court on Thursday accused of committing the offences over a two-year period from August 2022 to last month.

He was joined in court by David Sutton, 26,  a fellow former Pride in Surrey volunteer who is accused of voyeurism, possession of extreme pornography, conspiracy to sexually assault a child and plotting to kidnap a youngster.

The pair, both from Addlestone in Surrey, were arrested on Wednesday and have since remanded into custody to appear in court again on September 12.

Ireland claims on his social media to be a patron of Educate and Celebrate, a LGBT+ charity which caused controversy after encouraging toddlers to question their gender.

The non-profit, which was set up by Dr Elly Cannon, said it had hoped to ’embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric’ of organisations including primary schools.

However, it mysteriously shut down at the start of 2024 after a series of controversies including pushing to replace ‘Sir’ and ‘Miss’ with gender-neutral terms and one of its other patrons – trans comic Jordan Gray – stripping off and exposing their penis during a TV skit.

When it closed in January, the charity’s chair of trustees Julie Bremner told MailOnline they would ‘continue our much-needed work through new projects’. There is no suggestion its closure was related to the charges faced by Ireland.

Ireland had been listed as a founder and director of Pride and Surrey, a charity which organises annual Pride marches and LGBT+ events in the county. Sutton is believed to have been a volunteer for the non-profit.

The organisation said it had suspended the pair after being made aware of a police probe into them in June, adding it was not aware what they were being investigated for until they were charged.

A spokesperson for Pride in Surrey told Surrey Live: ‘[We] have been made aware of an investigation that has been conducted by involving two former volunteers, both of whom have now been charged.

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Trans-Identified Male Using Women’s Gym Locker Room Prompts Protest By Patrons, Investigation by Missouri’s Attorney General

A man who began using the women’s locker room at a Missouri gym after changing his legal gender marker has prompted outcry after a patron lodged a formal complaint against him with local police. Eris Discordia Montano, who frequently posts photos of himself with weapons to his social media, was first reported to law enforcement on July 29 after being spotted in the female facilities of the Ellisville Life Time Fitness.

Following the first complaint, several more women came forward to express their concerns about Montano, prompting Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to issue a statement announcing an investigation into the fitness center on August 2. According to a letter from the Attorney General’s office sent to the CEO of Life Time Fitness, Bahram Akradi, women who had complained about Montano’s presence in the women’s locker room were chastised and told to refer to him with the “correct” feminine pronouns.

“It has come to my attention that Life Time Fitness has proudly adopted a policy that permits biological men to use locker rooms designated specifically for women and young girls,” reads the Attorney General’s letter. “Even more concerning is the fact that instead of taking the safety concerns from your gym members seriously, you rudely correct them and insist they call this biological male by the ‘correct pronouns.’ While it might be considered fashionable in certain corporate boardrooms to pretend that biology is irrelevant, the American heartland still lives in reality.”

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Salt Lake Tribune journalist fired after offering to buy sexually explicit books for high schoolers

Left-wing Salt Lake Tribune reporter Bryan Schott has been fired after he offered to buy sexually explicit books for high schoolers in Utah, per sources at the Utah legislature. He posted his intentions on social media and backlash promptly ensued. 

On Thursday, Schott took all his associations with the Salt Lake Tribune off his social media profiles and posted: “When news outlets that are supposedly protectors of the first amendment try to curry favor with the far right and wannabe fascists, you should take a hard look at whether that organization is serving the public.”

Earlier last week, Schott posted a list of books that had been taken out of Utah’s public school system that included novels such as “Blankets” by Craig Thompson as well as “Milk and Honey” by Rupi Kaur. In response to Utah taking the list of books out of schools, Schott posted, “These books are now banned in every school library. If you are a high school student who wants to read one of these books (and your parents say it’s ok) I will purchase it for you.”

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Bronx prosecutor abruptly resigns after getting caught allegedly trying to meet young boy by predator hunters

A Bronx prosecutor abruptly resigned after he was caught on video allegedly attempting to meet a young boy he communicated with online, according to a clip produced by internet vigilantes who expose wannabe child predators.

William C.C. Kemp-Neal, 30, quit his post in the Bronx District Attorney’s office four days after the group Dads Against Predators posted footage of him filmed in the parking lot of the Target on East Sandford Boulevard in Mount Vernon.

In the clip taken July 8 at around 8:30 p.m., the video vigilantes approach a man identified as Kemp-Neal, asking if he’s Marcus. Almost immediately, Kemp-Neal — who graduated from Fordham Law in 2021 — runs.

Kemp-Neal made $84,990 as an ADA, and handled mostly assault, harassment, and child endangerment cases.

The men give chase, while yelling out, “Excuse me everybody, this man right here came to meet a 13-year-old boy.”

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Mayor resigns amid allegations of child rape, turns herself in to police days later but maintains innocence

A now-former Louisiana mayor facing allegations that she sexually assaulted a minor while in office says she is innocent.

Misty Dawn Clanton Roberts, 42, stands accused of one count each of rape in the third degree and contributing to the delinquency of juveniles, according to law enforcement in the Pelican State.

The defendant was arrested by Louisiana State Police and booked into the Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office on Thursday.

On July 27, Roberts informally resigned as mayor of DeRidder, a small town roughly 50 miles north of Lake Charles. She was in the middle of her second term as the municipality’s executive, winning reelection with 60% of the vote in 2022.

Under Louisiana state election law, the secretary of state must receive a signed and notarized letter to formally process a resignation — which reportedly had not occurred as of late last week, city officials told Lake Charles-based newspaper American Press.

The mayor quitting midterm was a bit of a whirlwind.

On July 25, Roberts sent a relatively innocuous letter to the city council announcing she would be “out of the city” for two weeks and left DeRidder Fire Chief Ken Harlow in charge as acting mayor.

But after the resignation letter, rumors swirled across the bayous.

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A former candidate for Maine governor is disbarred over possessing images of child sexual abuse

 Eliot Cutler, a wealthy attorney who came close to being elected governor has been disbarred following the completion of his sentence for possessing thousands of images of child sexual abuse, officials said.

A judge on Monday signed off on the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar recommendation that the 77-year-old Cutler should no longer practice law. Cutler did not oppose the board’s decision, which was made months ago. He was previously disbarred in New York.

The criminal case marked a dramatic fall for Cutler, who launched a Washington-based environmental law firm after serving as an aide to Sen. Edmund Muskie and as the top energy and environmental adviser to President Jimmy Carter.

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Snapchat Predator to Mass Shooter: How Ignored Red Flags Led to Felon’s Deadly Rampage at Birthday Party

A convicted felon with a history of sexual offenses against minors unleashed a deadly rampage at a 21st birthday celebration, leaving four dead and three wounded before taking his own life.

Chase Garvey’s killing spree sparked outrage not only for its horrific nature, but because the felon had a troubling criminal record and was recently let off by a woke judge.

“7 people were shot and it appears this was only possible because a left wing Judge named Kathleen Lape gave a child rapist probation and no jail time,” Robby Starbuck outlined on X.

“He’s a convicted child rapist who once lured a 13 year old from Snapchat to rape her.”

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Forbidden Fruit and the Classroom: The Huge American Sex-Abuse Scandal That Educators Scandalously Suppress

Every day millions of parents put their children under the care of public school teachers, administrators, and support staff. Their trust, however, is frequently broken by predators in authority in what appears to be the largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our nation’s history.

Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual misconduct by school employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.

For a variety of reasons, ranging from embarrassment to eagerness to avoid liability, elected or appointed officials, along with unions or lobbying groups representing school employees, have fought to keep the truth hidden from the public.

“In any given year they have failed to report thousands of these situations, and instead they’ve papered them over, acted like it’s not an issue,” former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told RealClearInvestigations. Stunned by a 2018 Chicago Tribune investigation that found 523 incident reports of sexual misconduct by employees of the city’s schools during the past decade, DeVos during the Trump administration launched the process of including specific questions about such cases in the Department’s Civil Rights Data Collection, a process it undertakes every two years. Previously, the Office for Civil Rights asked only general questions about sexual misconduct incidents, without a breakdown of alleged perpetrators.

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