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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Canada's biggest child porn case ends with conviction on 15 charges

Brian Way whose Queensway video business (Azov Films), where a 2011 police raid garnered 187,000 images and 8,000 videos, had international impact was convicted on 15/17 charges. (Robert Cribb - Toronto Star, Ca)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)