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[Link] 14-Year-Old Known as ‘El Chapito’ Arrested for Allegedly Killing 8 People at a Birthday Party

Read: 19/3/2023 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY—A 14-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly being one of the gunmen in an attack on a birthday party in Mexico that killed eight people in January. The massacre took place in Chimalhuacan, a suburb just outside of Mexico City, on January 22.

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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid for new trial denied, judge rules

Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid for a new trial has been denied, the judge in her Manhattan federal court sex-trafficking case said. Former British socialite Maxwell repeatedly requested a new trial after a juror on her case failed to disclose childhood sexual abuse during jury selection.

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[Link] Police Arrest Father Who Shot and Killed His 7-Day-Old Baby Girl

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

Police caught 24-year-old Shahazib Khan on Thursday in the Bhakkar district of Punjab province, 57 miles from his home in Mianwali district where he fatally shot his baby girl Jannat, whose name means “heaven” in Urdu.

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[Link] Juror at centre of Ghislaine Maxwell trial controversy to go before judge

Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

The juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial who apparently did not disclose childhood sexual abuse during jury selection is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday morning for public questioning.

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[Link] QAnon Surfer Who Killed His Kids Believed He Was Neo From ‘The Matrix’

Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com

At 3.12 a.m., Matthew Coleman was lying in bed next to his children, 2-year-old Kaleo and 10-month-old Roxy, in a hotel room in the Mexican resort town of Rosarito, when he decided to text his wife Abby. “Hi babe, miss you too. Things have been rough but starting to get some clarity as well.

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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] Cleo Smith's alleged abductor due back in court amid fresh charge of assaulting police officer

Read: 23/1/2022 www.abc.net.au

The man accused of abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith is due back in court today in the WA town of Carnarvon and will, for the first time, also face a charge of assaulting a police officer.

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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] WhatsApp criticised for plan to allow messages to disappear after 24 hours

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

WhatsApp users are to be given the option to have their messages disappear after 24 hours, a change that drew immediate criticism from children’s charities. In a blog post announcing the change, WhatsApp, which has 2 billion users, said its mission was to “connect the world privately”.

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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell warned Epstein’s house manager not to ‘look at his eyes’, court hears

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

The former house manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach home said Thursday that Ghislaine Maxwell warned that he should “never look” his boss in the eyes.

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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] Ghislaine Maxwell to challenge claims she groomed girls for Epstein to abuse

Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Ghislaine Maxwell plans at her criminal trial to challenge prosecution claims that she “groomed” underage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, and to offer testimony that her accusers might have faulty memories.

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[Link] The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the U.S.

Read: 7/11/2021 theintercept.com

Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.

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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] 7 News apologises for wrongly identifying Aboriginal man as suspect in Cleo Smith case

Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au

Seven News has apologised for identifying an Aboriginal man as the 36-year-old suspect that was arrested by WA police over the Cleo Smith abduction. The network published a number of photographs of the man on Wednesday along with his name.

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[Link] All sides in Ethiopian war committed crimes against civilians, UN report finds

Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au

The report covers most of the year-long conflict, fought by Tigrayan forces against the Ethiopian military and its key allies: forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region and soldiers from the neighbouring nation of Eritrea.

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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] 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] 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] 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] Woman charged under new Queensland laws for allegedly failing to report child sex abuse

Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The Redbank Plains woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, fronted Ipswich Magistrates Court this week over the charge – three months after the laws took effect.

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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] Rio De Janeiro Police Discover $3.2 Million Nazi Memorabilia Collection During Arrest Of Alleged Pedophile

Read: 10/10/2021 www.forbes.com

Police serving an arrest warrant for a wealthy man accused of child abuse in Rio de Janeiro say they stumbled upon his extensive collection of Nazi memorabilia estimated to be worth $3.2 million.

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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] One of the World’s Most Wanted Pedophiles Has Been Arrested

Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com

One of the world’s most wanted pedophiles, who abused dozens of children between the ages of two and 16, has been captured and jailed for close to 50 years after Australian authorities tracked him down to a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Malaysia.

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[Link] Mother Who Made 200 Videos Brutally Beating Her 2-Year-Old Is Finally Arrested

Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com

In the horrifying footage, Thulasi can be seen brutally attacking the toddler until he bleeds and cries in pain.

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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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