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[Link] The Surprisingly Scientific Roots of Monkey Bars
Read: 4/3/2023 www.smithsonianmag.com
A kindergartner frolics on a jungle gym during a festival in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 2017.
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[Link] US girl missing since 2019 found alive in hidden room
Read: 16/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
Two years after she went missing, a 6-year-old girl in the United States has been found alive and in good health.
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[Link] TikTok Finally Bans Deadnaming, Conversion Therapy Content
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
TikTok updated its terms of service Tuesday morning to ban deadnaming, misgendering, misogyny, and content that promotes conversion therapy programs.
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[Link] Most Australian teens have viewed harmful content online but parents in the dark
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Six in ten teenagers have seen harmful content online, but most parents are unaware what graphic content their children are exposed to on their screens, including drug taking, suicide and violent sexual material.
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[Link] Prisoners Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Inside a Baby That Ended Up Dead
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—A dead infant found in a trash can inside a notorious Mexican prison has fueled allegations that the child’s body may have been used to smuggle drugs into the facility.
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[Link] Tonga’s drug crisis: Why a tiny Pacific island is struggling with a meth epidemic
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
After more than four decades spent living in New Zealand, Ned Cook knew it was time to return to his home country of Tonga. His country was in the grip of a methamphetamine epidemic that was ripping families apart and overrunning the country’s hospitals and jails.
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[Link] Thailand Is Sweeping Sexual Abuse in Its Schools Under the Rug
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
Nalinrat Thuthubthim was in high school when the attack happened. She’d often stay on campus after school had ended, working on drafts of speeches with her male teacher for upcoming contests.
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[Link] 'Implausible' that father tripped and fell on daughter while sweeping floor
Read: 23/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide man has been found guilty of recklessly causing harm to his newborn baby by violently shaking her. WARNING: This story contains graphic content that readers may find distressing.
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[Link] This is what we know about William Tyrrell case
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
For seven years, the case of the missing boy dressed in a Spider-Man costume has confounded the state's top detectives. Three-year-old William Tyrrell appeared to have vanished without a trace from his foster grandmother's house at Kendall on the NSW Mid-North Coast.
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[Link] The weight of a nation's relief hangs heavily on Cleo and her family
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The one anxiously peering from the gate as your child freewheels away on their bike, just as they should. You remind yourself of the entire days you spent as a child away from your home, so far from your parents' view.
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[Link] Remote WA town steamrolled by media attention as Cleo Smith rescued
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
For a sleepy beach town of 5,000 people, it was three weeks in the eye of a storm. The visceral shock of a vulnerable little girl just disappearing in the night resonated around the world.
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[Link] Ex-Labor staffer accused of child sex offences claims to have 'no interest in children'
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Benjamin John Waters pleaded guilty to accessing and transmitting child abuse material using a carriage service in January 2021, as well as two counts of possessing child exploitation material in March 2021, including images and videos of children under the age of 14.
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[Link] A High School Suspended a 15-Year-Old After She Reported Sexual Assault
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The student, who is not named in the report by WBTV, told the outlet that she was routinely harassed by a male student at Hawthorne Academy of Health Sciences in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] QAnon Surfer Accused of Killing His Own Kids May Mount Mental Health Defense
Read: 1/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Lawyers for the man accused of killing his own children with a spear gun because he was radicalized by QAnon conspiracy theories are seeking to delay his trial by six months to properly assess his mental health.
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[Link] QAnon Influencer Who Calls Democrats Pedophiles Is an Actual Child Abuser
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon promoter David Trent has spent the last four years telling his tens of thousands of followers that the Democrats are pedophiles working as part of a global child sex trafficking ring run by the world’s elite.
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[Link] 'I'd never heard Abigail call me mum': The rare genetic disorder that almost exclusively affects girls
Read: 27/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Imagine feeling as though you are bursting at the seams with the desire to say something important, but are unable to speak. That has been daily life for Abigail Lishomwa. The six-year-old cannot call out to her parents, ask her teachers questions or greet other children at the playground.
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[Link] For These Buddhist Monks, Sex Ed Starts With Safe Masturbation
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Sunshine pours in through the monastery classroom window as monks in crimson robes lock their gaze in rapt attention at the chalkboard. Their instructor smiles warmly and asks them what they know about the use of a condom.
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[Link] Tennant Creek Aboriginal leaders say $80m aid package prompted by toddler's rape is being misdirected
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
John Fitz Jakamarra and the other members of Tennant Creek's Apurtu traditional owner group feel the Central Australian town is descending into chaos.
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[Link] Facebook whistleblower tells politicians to 'team up' with US to regulate social media, or be ignored
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Frances Haugen quit Facebook earlier this year and told a congressional hearing in October that Facebook's products were harming children and fuelling polarisation in the United States.
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[Link] Indigenous Nation Stopped BC Social Workers From Apprehending Child, 6, on Their Land
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
Leaders and community members of Gitxsan Nation gathered in northeastern B.C. on Saturday evening to block social workers from apprehending a 6-year-old girl and “end the tragic legacy of our children being stolen.”
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[Link] A Black 10-Year-Old Drew an ‘Offensive Sketch.’ She Was Handcuffed by Cops.
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Ultimately, the child was held for over four hours by either school staff or police. By the time she was released, she “was very hungry and exhausted,” according to the letter.
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[Link] Paris Hilton Just Spoke Out About Her Time in the “Troubled Teen Industry”
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. This week, Paris Hilton showed up in a somewhat unusual spot for the queen of early-aughts reality TV: Congress.
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[Link] Queensland MP's son charged over child exploitation material
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The son of a Queensland politician has been denied bail after being charged with possessing child exploitation material while on probation. Daniel Knuth, 24, is the son of Shane Knuth, the Katter's Australian Party state member for Hill.
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[Link] Adelaide paedophile to plead guilty to 142 more offences
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The lawyer for an HIV-positive paedophile who talked about infecting children with the virus has told an Adelaide court his client will admit to committing almost 180 child exploitation crimes.
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[Link] Kids and their computers: Several hours a day of screen time is OK, study suggests
Read: 17/10/2021 theconversation.com
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to be harmful.
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[Link] ‘Cult’ Leader’s Widow Accused of Grooming Girls for Him to Abuse
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The leader of what police have described as a “cult” has been accused of grooming young girls to be sexually abused by her husband. Jan Hamilton and her late husband Ken Dyers co-founded Australian personal development group Kenja Communications in 1982.
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[Link] Lego to remove gender bias from its toys after findings of child survey
Read: 12/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Lego has announced it will work to remove gender stereotypes from its toys after a global survey the company commissioned found attitudes to play and future careers remain unequal and restrictive.
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[Link] Police Say They’re ‘Too Busy’ to Assist Abused Children On National Children’s Day
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
However, when they arrived at the police station on October 1, the officers present refused to record their complaint.
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[Link] Having Sex With a 12-Year-Old Isn’t a Crime in This Country. That’s About To Change.
Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com
In a move long demanded by activists, children’s rights groups and many lawmakers, the Philippines is on the verge of changing its much-criticized rules around sexual consent by moving the age from 12 to 16.
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[Link] Man jailed for terrifying, humiliating knifepoint attack on partner
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Darryl Nugget has been jailed for four years over the March 2020 attack, in which he repeatedly threatened to kill the woman while holding a knife to her throat in front of several children.
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[Link] SA teacher cries as she apologises for grooming high school student for sex
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Renee Underwood, 34, fronted the District Court today charged with making a child amenable to sexual activity after earlier pleading guilty to the crime. The victim was an aspiring male medical student who was groomed between July and August last year.
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[Link] Girls as Young as 5 Were Paraded Naked to Appease the 'Rain Gods’
Read: 9/9/2021 www.vice.com
One video showed the girls, some of whom looked no older than five, being paraded naked while carrying a wooden shaft bearing a frog, and begging from door to door as a group of older women trailed behind in procession.
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[Link] Apple allows children to access casual-sex and BDSM apps, finds report
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apple knowingly lets underage users access apps intended for adults, according to an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), despite having asked for and recorded their dates of birth.
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[Link] Half of This Boy Band’s Singers Are 7 Years Old. Is It Child Labor?
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
The boy group, Panda Boys, consisted of 13 members, six of whom were 7 years old and the rest aged between 8 and 11, according to their online profiles posted by the band earlier this year.
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[Link] Man faces court over alleged kidnapping of children from Blackburn North
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Jiangang Ji is facing charges including kidnapping, aggravated burglary, armed robbery, false imprisonment, assault and theft of a motor vehicle.
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[Link] The UK finally got Big Tech to boost teens’ privacy
Read: 17/8/2021 www.protocol.com
Social media platforms are suddenly all increasing privacy standards for teen users. Why now, after all these years? It looks like new U.K. privacy rules got the ball rolling.
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[Link] Einstein was ‘wrong’, not your science teacher
Read: 15/8/2021 theconversation.com
“Your teacher was wrong!” It’s a phrase many a high school or university student has heard. As practising and former science teachers, we have been challenged with this accusation before.
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[Link] Sydney assault: five teenagers charged with murder after boy, 16, dies in hospital
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five teenagers, including two as young as 13, have been charged with murder after the death of a 16-year-old boy found with severe injuries in Sydney. The boy was found unresponsive with head and chest injuries in a home in Doonside on Wednesday afternoon.
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[Link] Apple Introduces Parental Control Feature That Scans Messages for Nudity
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Apple plans to introduce a new feature that would scan messages sent to and by child users of iPhones to determine if the images contain nudity, the company announced on Thursday. The move is a major development in the ongoing debate around privacy and the inspection of communications.
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[Link] Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites
Read: 27/7/2021 www.wired.com
German child-protection regulators are on the verge of blocking one of the world’s largest pornographic websites.
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[Link] New Zealand must tackle ‘epidemic’ of sexual violence, says children’s commissioner
Read: 28/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
New Zealand’s children’s commissioner has called for urgent action to tackle an “epidemic” in sexual violence in the country, after a survey of more than 700 girls at a school in Christchurch found more than 20 alleged they had been raped, and half said they had been sexually harassed.