Posts tagged with "sexual abuse"

Help at hand for abused Filipino workers Cyprus

Help at hand for abused Filipino workers

January 12th, 2019 A GROUP of women from the Philippines living in Cyprus has offered to translate Owaat’s self-help website on filing for emergency civil protections into Filipino to assist any of their compatriots facing abuse to seek help. Owaat is the world’s first international self-help website for abused women to learn their human rights and...
Pope urges predator priests to turn themselves in Europe

Pope urges predator priests to turn themselves in

December 21st, 2018 Pope Francis on Friday urged predator priests who have sexually abused minors to turn themselves in, in one of his strongest comments ever on the crisis sweeping the Roman Catholic Church. "To those who abuse minors I would say this: convert and hand yourself over to human justice, and prepare for divine justice," Francis said in his...
Trump: It is a 'scary time' for young men Americas

Trump: It is a 'scary time' for young men

October 3rd, 2018 President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that allegations of sexual misconduct against his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, showed that "it's a very scary time for young men in America" who now may be presumed guilty even when innocent. Five days after an extraordinary Senate hearing watched by millions of people in which...
Pope vows no more sexual abuse cover ups Europe

Pope vows no more sexual abuse cover ups

August 20th, 2018 Pope Francis, facing simultaneous clergy sexual abuse crises in several countries, on Monday wrote an unprecedented letter to all the world's Catholics asking each of them to help uproot "this culture of death". In the letter, addressed to "the people of God," he also promised that no effort will be spared to prevent abuse and its...
Australia to offer apology for institutional child sex abuse Oceania

Australia to offer apology for institutional child sex abuse

June 13th, 2018 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday he will deliver a national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse and their families on October 22. The upcoming apology was sparked by a five-year inquiry into child sexual abuse which delved into more than 8,000 cases of sexual misconduct largely committed...
Holy Synod set to defrock priest who harassed foster child Cyprus

Holy Synod set to defrock priest who harassed foster child

April 4th, 2018   The priest who sexually harassed Elena Frantzi when she was his foster daughter is expected to be defrocked in two weeks by the Holy Synod, it emerged on Wednesday. According to reports, the Holy Synod will convene on April 19 and the decision will move towards defrocking Father Stylianos who served 18 months in prison for...
Seven years for man who sexually abused stepdaughter   Crime

Seven years for man who sexually abused stepdaughter  

February 14th, 2018   A 36-year-old man was jailed for seven years on Wednesday for sexually abusing his stepdaughter. Nicosia criminal court found him guilty on a total of 22 charges, 11 for sexual abuse and 11 for indecent assault over incidents which took place in 2016. The girl was aged between 12 and 13 at the time. The three judges took...
Suspected abuser referred for trial Cyprus

Suspected abuser referred for trial

February 9th, 2018 A 56-year-old man suspected of sexually abusing two eight-year-old boys was on Friday referred for trial to the Paphos Criminal court. The suspect is to remain under custody until the commencement of the trial on March 5. Two reports were filed against the suspect last year in relation to sexually abusing minors, one in October and...
Man found guilty of repeatedly abusing partner’s daughter Crime

Man found guilty of repeatedly abusing partner’s daughter

February 3rd, 2018 The Nicosia Criminal Court on Friday found a 35-year-old man guilty of the repeated sexual abuse, for around a year-and-a-half, of the now 11-year-old daughter of his partner. The court found the defendant guilty of 39 charges concerning the rape, sexual abuse and indecent assault of the girl between August 2013 and January 2015. The...
Ministry warning after institute teacher’s second arrest for sexual abuse Cyprus

Ministry warning after institute teacher’s second arrest for sexual abuse

February 1st, 2018 The education ministry warned it will be relentless concerning cases of child sexual abuse after a 63-year-old teacher was arrested for alleged indecent behaviour against a nine-year-old girl at a Limassol private institute. The man – who was convicted in the past for a similar offence – was arrested on Tuesday and remanded for...
Underage sexual abuse reports on the rise Cyprus

Underage sexual abuse reports on the rise

January 18th, 2018 Police last year received 139 complaints relating to sexual crimes against minors and more are expected this year, according to the head of the force’s special unit tasked with investigating such offences. Until January 2017, investigation of domestic abuse cases was conducted by officers in respective districts. Since then, a...
Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of Church's sexual abuse crisis, dies Americas

Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of Church's sexual abuse crisis, dies

December 20th, 2017 Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston who became a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church's worldwide sexual abuse scandals, died on Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86. Law, whose resignation from his Boston post in 2002 shocked the Church and brought abuse into the open, had been living in Rome and was in declining...
Macron unveils plan to curb violence against women Europe

Macron unveils plan to curb violence against women

November 25th, 2017 French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday unveiled measures aimed at educating the public and schoolchildren about sexism and violence against women and improving police support for victims. During his campaign Macron, who won the presidential election in May, promised to rethink sexual politics and gender equality, which he...
Labour activist says she was raped, advised not to report it Britain

Labour activist says she was raped, advised not to report it

November 1st, 2017 An activist in Britain's opposition Labour Party has said she was raped at a party event when she was 19, and that a party official discouraged her from reporting the attack to avoid damaging her career. The disclosure by Bex Bailey, 25, is the most serious to emerge from a wave of allegations of sexual misconduct by powerful men...
MPs condemn face-to-face identification of abuse suspects Cyprus

MPs condemn face-to-face identification of abuse suspects

October 23rd, 2017 An underage victim of sexual abuse was made to physically go through a police line-up of suspects and point out the perpetrator without any measures to conceal the victim’s identity, MPs said on Monday. The complaint had been made to the House human rights committee, which immediately tabled the matter for discussion. From a...
Seven years for sexual abuse of girl aged 10 Crime

Seven years for sexual abuse of girl aged 10

August 4th, 2017 A 37-year-old man was sentenced by the Nicosia criminal court to six years in prison on Friday after being found guilty for sexually abusing his wife’s 10-year-old niece. The suspect, who was found guilty in 22 counts relating to sexual offences committed between May 2015 and May 2016, was sentenced to six years for sexual abuse and...
Pervert, 72, gets seven years for abusing granddaughter aged 9 Crime

Pervert, 72, gets seven years for abusing granddaughter aged 9

July 28th, 2017 Nicosia criminal court sentenced a 72-year-old man to seven years in jail on Friday for sexually abusing his nine-year-old granddaughter. He was found guilty by the bench majority of 40 counts relating to indecent assault and sexual abuse of a minor between June 2014 and August 2015. The girl was nine when the abuse began and there...
Man, 36, guilty of sexually abusing girl aged 10 Crime

Man, 36, guilty of sexually abusing girl aged 10

July 21st, 2017 A 36-year-old man has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl – the daughter of his wife’s first cousin -- in the space of one year. The man was found guilty in 22 counts relating to sexual offences committed between May 2015 and May 2016. His defence will plead for leniency on July 28. The sentencing date will...
Cabinet approves implementation of child protection strategy Crime

Cabinet approves implementation of child protection strategy

March 2nd, 2017 The cabinet on Wednesday gave the nod to a bill for implementing the national strategy for the protection of children from sexual exploitation and abuse. The bill provides for the establishment of a council and a committee tasked with carrying out the strategy. In July 2014 the House passed the passed the Prevention and Combating...
Eight-day remand for mother and partner in child sex abuse case (Updated) Crime

Eight-day remand for mother and partner in child sex abuse case (Updated)

February 7th, 2017 A Limassol court on Tuesday ordered the eight-day remand of a 32-year-old woman and her 34-year-old partner in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of the former’s nine-year-old daughter. The pair, who live in Paphos, were arrested on Monday following a report by a social welfare official that the mother had been turning a blind...
One in four children target of sexual abuse Cyprus

One in four children target of sexual abuse

January 24th, 2017 One in four children in Cyprus have suffered some form of sexual abuse, or are expected to fall victim to such abuse by age 18, according to the latest available data. Every year, around 80 cases of sexual exploitation and abuse are filed with police, as well as 20 to 30 criminal cases of exploitation via the internet, in addition to...
Study points to insufficient penalties for sex offenders, justice minister says Crime

Study points to insufficient penalties for sex offenders, justice minister says

January 22nd, 2017 A recent study in Cyprus has shown that in several cases, the sentences for sex offenders "are not sufficiently acting as a deterrent", Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said even though the law generally provides a strict framework for the offences. The minister also referred to police statistics, showing that in 2015 there was an...
Underage sexual abuse case dropped Cyprus

Underage sexual abuse case dropped

January 19th, 2017 After it emerged that the charges were based on lies, prosecutors on Wednesday dropped a case against a 54-year-old man, accused by his niece of sexually molesting her last year. Reports said the decision to suspend the prosecution was taken after the girl was found to have lied in her statement to police and she also refused to...
Custody renewed for sexual abuse News in Brief

Custody renewed for sexual abuse

November 25th, 2016 The Paphos court decided on Friday that a 36-year-old man who faces charges of sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl will remain in custody until the next hearing on December 2. The man from Paphos pleaded guilty on Thursday on charges of sexually harassing the girl. The 36-year-old was arrested on October 26, following a complaint...
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