Archive of news articles (2015)

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• Spain set to raise age of consent from 13 to 15

The Spanish government is considering raising the age of sexual consent from 13 to 15 in a reform of the country’s penal code, in a bid to limit child sexual abuse. (Jessica Jones - The Local, Spain)

• Leelah Alcorn: Transgender teenager's parents should be prosecuted, says gay rights activist

A gay rights activist has said that the parents of Leelah Alcorn should be prosecuted, after the transgender teenager took her own life. (Antonia Molloy - The Independent)

• Why hasn't Japan banned child-porn comics?

Japan's comics and cartoons - known as manga and anime - are a huge cultural industry and famous around the world. But some are shocking, featuring children in sexually explicit scenarios. Why has Japan decided against banning this material? (Perhaps because it’s not real.) (James Fletcher - BBC News, Tokyo)

• Why the idea of paedophiles stealing pictures of my kids doesn't bother me

Paedophiles pose almost no threat to our children, even if they get their hands on our family photos, says Harry Wallop. (Harry Wallop - The Telegraph, UK)

• Child pornography trial begins against German ex-lawmaker Sebastian Edathy

The trial of former German politician Sebastian Edathy has begun. Over the past year, child pornography allegations have destroyed the career of the once-rising star in Germany's SPD Party. (Deutsche Welle)

• U.S. House passes International Megan's Law sponsored by N.J. Rep. Chris Smith

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to extend Megan's Law beyond American borders.( Jonathan D. Salant - NJ Advance Media, US)

• Alleged child porn king admits he had illegal images but denies they were for sale

Brian Way of Azov Films is pleading not guilty to 17 counts of making, advertising, publishing, selling and distributing child pornography. He is not disputing that the vast majority of the images found in his home are child pornography, but that the images that were for sale by his company were not child pornography. (Christie Blatchford - National Post, CA)

• 5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse)

Pedophilia is almost a total mystery to modern science. We don't know what causes it, or how to prevent it, or how to cure it (short of a form of castration), because the moment a test subject admits they're a pedophile, they're ruined for life. Why would anyone ever come forward? Thus, society's insistence on taking the harshest possible position winds up exacerbating the problem. (Robert Evans et al. - Cracked , US)

• Pro-pedophile association loses EU court bid

The European Court of Human Rights rejected a complaint by pedophile advocacy association Martijn against the ban Dutch courts imposed on the group last year. The organization will remain prohibited, and the court will not hear the case, reported ANP. (Hanna Daych - NL Times, NL)

• The Fosters' Features Same-Sex Kiss Between 13-Year-Olds

The ABC Family series broadcast a kiss between two 13-year-old characters named Jude and Connor, which may qualify as the youngest same-sex kiss to ever air on U.S. television. (James Michael Nichols - The Huffington Post)

• Owners of South African gay 'cure' camp found guilty of killing teen

Raymond Buys, 15, was beaten, forced to pick up his own faeces with his mouth, and chained to a bed. (The Gay Star News.)

• Va. woman found guilty of harassing convicted sex offender

A Warren County Circuit Court jury convicted 61-year-old Delores Ann Harris on a charge of misusing information from Virginia's sex offender registry on Friday. (Associated Press. Richmond Times- Dispatch, US)

• Gary Glitter trial: Singer guilty of historical sex abuse

Gary Glitter has been found guilty of historical sex abuse against three young girls between 1975 and 1980. (BBC News, UK)

• Parents under investigation for allowing their kids to go outside

Parents under investigation for allowing their kids to walk home from the park and the Draconian measures taken by child protection. (Mark Frauenfelder - BOING BOING, US)

• Lawrence Brose

On Dec. 17, 2014, the artist and film maker plead guilty and accepted a plea deal and 2 years’ probation to a lessor obscenity charge ending his five year ordeal stemming from child pornography charges.

• Cameron: a bad case of child exploitation

Why politicians love to pose as the grand protectors of children. (Ken McLaughlin - spiked, UK)

• Children's charity rejects Edathy money

The Child Protection Federation of Lower Saxony has rejected the €5,000 which ex-MP Sebastian Edathy was ordered to pay them for illegally downloading child pornography, saying they didn't want to endorse his escape from punishment. (The Local, de)

• German politician Edathy confesses in child pornography trial

In order to avoid a trial and possible imprisonment, Sebastian Edathy confessed in court to using his official work laptop to download pornographic videos and images of children from the Internet. Following Edathy's admission, the Verden District Court in the German state of Lower Saxony on Monday handed the former Social Democrats (SPD) deputy a fine of 5,000 euros ($5,600), bringing the trial to an end. (Deutsche Welle)

• Pedophilia: Predisposition Or Perversion?

On Tuesday night, The Current hosted what their editor in chief referred to no fewer than three times as a “groundbreaking” discussion about the psychology of pedophilia. Thrilled just to be invited, Bwog’s own Editor in Chief Taylor Grasdalen attended to learn more. (BWOG)

• The Hampstead cult that wasn’t: the Satanic panic revisited

In the current climate, it’s all too easy for fantasists to be taken seriously. (Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK)

• This man is a pedophile, and proud of it

Meet the activist (Tom O'Carroll) whose life’s work is arguing that pedophilia is OK. (Corinne Purtill - Global Post, US)

• Stop the sex-offender registry panic: “A lot of those dots on the map would never hurt your kids”

Lenore Skenazy of the "free-range kids" movement is bent on defending those unfairly labeled as threats to children. (Tracy Clark-Flory - Salon, US)

• Victims’ fury as BBC refuses to axe show by paedophile supporter which calls for age of consent to be lowered

“The documentary is presented by Ian Dunn, one of the founders of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), which campaigned to legalise sex with children.” (Marc Horne and Martin Beckford - The Daily Mail, UK)

• It’s right that Lord Janner won’t be prosecuted

Demands to try Janner show how unhinged the child-sex panic has become. (Luke Gittos - spiked, UK)

• How ‘recovered memories’ fuelled the paedo panic

The UK justice system needs to face facts: 'recovered memories' simply aren't credible. (Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK)

• NSPCC accused of risking its reputation and 'whipping up moral panic' with study into porn addiction among children

Campaigners say the charity's 'flimsy research', which found that a tenth of 12 to 13-year-olds fear addiction to pornography, could have 'very dangerous' results. (Adam Withnall, The Independent, UK)

• Joliet teens charged with child pornography after group sex video posted to Twitter

Four Joliet teenagers 14, 15 and 16 - and one female, 15 were charged with child pornography after a group sex video was posted to Twitter and could be detained until they are 21-years-old. (WLS-TV, Chicago, US)

• Former House speaker Dennis Hastert indicted by federal grand jury

J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to cover up “past misconduct.” (Paul Kane, Mike DeBonis and Mark Berman - The Washington Post, US)

• Operation Hydrant: an Inquisition for the 21st century

Police trawling for child-abuse cases is an affront to justice. (Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)

• Compo culture and the child abuse panic

Historic sex abuse claims have fuelled the UK’s compensation industy.(Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK)

• The NSPCC: still fostering fear and suspicion

The child-protection industry is constructing the crime it claims to combat. (Tim Black - spiked, UK)

• Source: Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert allegedly paid to hide sexual misconduct

Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert allegedly paid hush money to cover up sexual misconduct with a male student dating to his time as a coach and teacher in Yorkville, according to a source familiar with the investigation. ( Natasha Korecki - Chicago Sun Times, US)

Follow Up

• Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert Will Plead Guilty in Hush-Money Case (Nick Bogert and Tracy Connor - NBC News, US)

• Child beaten to death, video stirs online storm

A video clip of a 13-year-old boy brutally tortured to death in Sylhet has gone viral on the internet, creating a firestorm on the social media. (The Daily Observer , BD)

Rajon 11 yrs. boy beaten to death at sylhet, Bangladesh (YouTube video)

• My Dad is a Registrant

The innocent victims project was created in 2011 as a way to educate lawmakers and the public about the collateral damage done to the families of registered sex offenders all over the US by the public nature of the sex offender registry. (YouTube video)

• Spain raises age of consent from 13 to 16

Changes agreed in principle in 2009 and expected to come into force this month also raise marriageable age from 14 to 16.
(Stephen Burgen, Star Tribune , US)

• Minnesota sex offender program is ruled unconstitutional

State leaders now must craft an overhaul of the “punitive,” unconstitutional system. (Chris Serres, Star Tribune , US)

• Parents Charged with 'Neglect' After 11-Year-Old Plays in Yard for 90 Minutes

Two Florida parents were hit with felony neglect charges after their 11-year-old son was reportedly playing alone in the backyard for an hour and a half. (Fox News insider)

• Video emerges of boy with ADHD, 8, handcuffed at school; officer facing lawsuit

A Kentucky sheriff's deputy is facing charges in a federal lawsuit for handcuffing two young children with disabilities after the students were sent to the principal's office for misbehaving. (Eun Kyung Kim, NBC News, US)

• Latest on Fogle case: Prosecutor outlines probe of Fogel

The latest on federal documents accusing longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle of engaging in sex acts with minors and receiving child pornography (The Associated Press , US)

• This 19-Year-Old Will Spend the Next 25 Years as a Registered Sex Offender

Zach Anderson’s freedom has been severely restricted because at just 19 years old, Zach is a convicted sex offender. Zach was arrested last winter after having sex with a girl he met on the dating app “Hot or Not,” who claimed she was 17. But she admitted to police that was a lie. She was really 14. (ABC News, US)

Follow Up:

Zach Anderson, 19-Year-Old Registered Sex Offender, Has Sentence Vacated (CHRIS JAMES and Lauren Effron, ABC News, US)

• The Jared Fogle case: Why we understand so little about child sex abuse

Reading the news that former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle will plead guilty to possessing hundreds of pornographic images of children and having sex with underage girls, it is hard not to be horrified. (Sarah Kaplan - The Washington Post, US)

• How a dubious statistic convinced U.S. courts to approve of indefinite detention

In the 2002 case McKune v. Lile, the Supreme Court upheld a Kansas law that imposed harsher sentences on sex offenders who declined to participate in a prison rehab program.(Radley Balko - The Washington Post, US)

• The crusade against Ted Heath: dancing on people’s graves

The inquisition into historical allegations of abuse is out of control.(Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)