Stop my daughter having babies
Marnie O'Neill
The Sunday Telegraph
August 30, 2009

SHE'S had six, possibly seven children, all to different fathers. Four were sent to live with their grandmother and at least one, police believe, has been murdered.

Women and children at risk in refugee hostels, warns Rape Crisis Centre chief
Galway Advertiser, August 27, 2009.
By Martina Nee

The Galway Rape Crisis Centre, which runs the Asylum seeker and Refugee Clinic, has warned that there could be another Ryan Report in 20 years time unless urgent changes are made to protect the safety and well-being of people living in direct provision accommodation.

Asylum seekers account for 20 per cent of all the clients seen by the GRCC. From 2005 to 2007 at the clinic: 532 individual counselling sessions were provided, 25 group sessions were held, 62 per cent of the assailants were armed forces in the clients’ country of origin, 79 per cent of clients were survivors of rape, five per cent of clients were survivors of sexual slavery, seven per cent of clients were survivors of child sexual abuse, and nine per cent of clients were survivors of ritual abuse, trafficking, and abuses of an undisclosed nature.

BBC News
July 7

A former police officer who claimed he was a "black magic" high priest while sexually abusing three children has been jailed for seven years.

Daily Mail
Liz Davies, Senior Social Work Lecturer
11th May 2009

I am a social worker and I teach social workers. But if my own child wanted to become one, I would be very afraid. I realised that sad truth last week when Lord Laming, the Government's child protection 'guru', rebuked social workers for spending too much time filling in forms.

They do. But he largely invented that mountain of paperwork.

Prison time could be avoided with plea
By DAVID J. MITCHELL
Advocate Florida parishes bureauPublished: Feb 17, 2009  

AMITE — The estranged wife of a former church pastor convicted in a child sexual-abuse scandal at a now-defunct Ponchatoula church pleaded guilty late this morning to obstruction of justice under an agreement with prosecutors.

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CBS
John Blackstone
Feb 17 2009 

"She bit, she scratched, she almost killed our dog," said Sharon Behrens, who had cared for many foster children. But the little girl named Mia, who had been brutally abused by her parents, was unlike any other, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. 

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Woman revisits the 'Hell' of ritual abuse
By Ben Winslow
Deseret News
Wednesday, Dec. 10

She isn't Rachel Hopkins anymore.

Anne A Johnson Davis is shedding the moniker she used in a 1995 Deseret News story about her childhood as a victim of ritualistic Satanic abuse and speaking out in a memoir of her life. Davis, now a Lehi mother of three, is stepping into the spotlight again with the publication of her book "Hell Minus One."

"I have had enough healing and closure of my own, I feel I'm in a place where I really feel the call to share what I have to help others find courage," Davis said in an interview Wednesday.

Davis' story is so bizarre, it's hard to believe it actually happened — save for the fact that she has signed confessions from her mother and stepfather, a financial settlement and investigators from the Utah Attorney General's Office who vouched for her. From age 3 until she ran away at 17, she said she was sexually abused, tortured, bathed in blood and forced to hurt her siblings in Satanic rituals.

Francisco Granados told a Mexican judge that he and two accomplices had taken drugs before killing the women and dumping their bodies in the irrigation channel of a cotton field. The bodies were found in 2001.

One of the killers had been in charge of making offerings to Satan, his testimony said.

Granados was detained three years ago in the United States, where he still has one year of a jail sentence remaining for other crimes.

Granados said he and his accomplices had also taken part in other killings and that more bodies had been secretly buried in one of their houses.

He asked for the victims' families to forgive him.

A Mexican judge has sentenced one of his suspected accomplices, Edgar Alvarez, to 26 years in jail.

Brazen attacks on women are rivalling the ongoing drug gang warfare in Ciudad Juarez in which more than 1,000 have died this year.

More than 400 women have died in violent crimes in the area, including mutilations and sex attacks, since 1993.

Police in child sex ring inquiry  
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 
BBC News
 
A major police inquiry is under way after a BBC investigation revealed a paedophile ring thought to be targeting schoolgirls in West Yorkshire.

One former victim said up to 50 girls, some as young as seven, were taken in vans to houses where they were forced to have sex, often with several men.

Daughter of Jersey care home boss claims her 'monster' father subjected her to rape ordeal
This London
7 March 2008
 
The boss of the Jersey care "home of horror" was a paedophile who raped his own foster daughter, according to sensational new claims.

 Care worker linked to Jersey abuse home
Tom Foot
Islington Tribune
7 March 2008

DETECTIVES investigating sinister discoveries in a Jersey children’s home have not ruled out links with a former Islington paedophile ring.

Mother Allows Son's Abuse, Gets 14 Years
Hunt's Common-Law Husband Sexually Abused Child

Irene Hunt, the common-law wife of a self-styled religious leader, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for transporting her 7-year-old son to have sex with an adult. 
 

Prison-like on its hilltop above Jersey's east coast, Haut de la Garenne must have seemed a frightening prospect to the children sent to live there.

 And it seems that for many troubled youngsters, their fears were all too well founded.

 Today it has been modernised and refurbished, but thousands of young residents must have quaked as they approached its austere Victorian walls.

 The full extent of the unbearable acts children - many with special needs - reportedly had to endure until its closure as a home in the mid-Eighties is still not known.