Top British publicist charged with 11 sex assaults, Disgraced Jimmy Savile was 'sex mad' during 1970s Irish trip, Cult leader on the run over baby's ritual bonfire killing in Chile as four appear in court including the child's mother

Top British publicist charged with 11 sex assaults
LONDON Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:10pm EDT

(Reuters) - Celebrity publicist Max Clifford on Friday became the first high profile figure to be charged in a wide-ranging investigation into a sex scandal that has grabbed front page headlines in Britain in recent months.

Clifford, 70, was charged with 11 counts of indecent assault, prosecutors said, including on two underage girls, after being arrested in December as part of an investigation into sex crime allegations against the late Jimmy Savile....

Clifford, whose clients have included "The X Factor" reality TV creator Simon Cowell, is best known in Britain for selling "kiss and tell" stories about the rich and famous to scandal-hungry tabloid newspapers.

"Having completed our review, we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Clifford to be charged with 11 offences of indecent assault relating to seven complainants," the Crown Prosecution Service's Alison Saunders said in a statement....
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSBRE93P14920130426 


Disgraced Jimmy Savile was 'sex mad' during 1970s Irish trip
Fellow celebrities arrested in sweep are a who's-who of 70s pop
By  IrishCentral Staff Writers,  Friday, April 26, 2013

Jimmy Savile, once the biggest star in the BBC's pop pantheon, was obsessed with sex and that fact came to light during his many visits to Ireland in the early Seventies.

According to the Daily Mail the disgraced media personality who was revealed to be a pedophile after his death was heard making suggestive comments to young Irish girls he met, sometimes in front of their own parents. Later he bounced young girls on his knee without challenge.

The star, most famous for his turns on Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It, was a regular visitor to Ireland throughout his decades long career and for the first time an eyewitness has come forward to document his behavior.

RTE's former head of entertainment David Blake Knox, who was paid to spend a day with Savile while he attended a charity event in Ireland in the 1970s has come forward with a shocking portrait of the British DJ and charity fundraiser.

'My abiding memory of Jimmy Savile is that he talked about sex the whole time. I was actually quite shocked because I wasn't used to hearing adults talking about sex as crudely as he did. The way he talked about young women was shocking. I remember him making suggestive comments to young girls sometimes in front of their parents, and even priests,' Blake Knox told the Evening Herald....
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Disgraced-Jimmy-Savile-was-sex-mad-during-1970s-Irish-trip-204832131.html
 

Cult leader on the run over baby's ritual bonfire killing in Chile as four appear in court including the child's mother

    Mother, 25, told police she is 'devastated' but sect members said it 'had to be' because it was 'her karma'
    Three-day-old infant placed on board with her mouth taped and thrown into the flames
    Ringleader last seen heading for Peru to buy hallucinogenic drug
By Daily Mail Reporter 27 April 2013

A cult leader was being hunted today over the horrific ritual killing of his three-week-old baby as four of his followers appeared in court - including the child's mother.

Natalie Guerra, 25, hid her face in a coat as she attended a hearing into the killing of her daughter who was burned alive on a bonfire.

She put a hand over her mouth as she sat alongside sect members Carla Franchy, Maria del Pilar Alvarez and David Pastene during the tribunal in Quilpe, 70 miles west of Santiago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315754/Cult-leader-run-babys-ritual-bonfire-killing-Chile-appear-court-including-childs-mother.html 

More than 12 million are slaves, Sect members charged with abusing children

More than 12 million are modern slaves, U.S. says 6/14/10 A sobering new report from the State Department finds that more than 12 million people worldwide are victims of "trafficking in persons" - trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution. But just 4,166 people were convicted of trafficking last year, the report says. Even so, awareness of the reach of modern slavery has made such crimes easier to report and police, the study says. Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, who heads the State Department's anti-slavery efforts, noted that 116 countries have adopted anti-trafficking laws since the United Nations enacted a law against modern slavery 10 years ago. Last year marked a high-water mark, both in identifying trafficking victims and in mounting successful prosecutions....But there's still much work ahead, the report says. The State Department estimates that only 0.4 percent of all modern slavery victims were identified last year. Human trafficking is a multibillion-dollar business - and will probably grow so long as global governments fail to crack down on it more forcefully. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100614/wl_ynews/ynews_wl2569
Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/index.htm

describes abuse
Sect members charged with abusing children to 'protect them' Leader of the 'Ithaca' who allegedly ordered the children be hit to 'save their souls' committed suicide in his prison cell days after being arrested. By Ofra Edelman 6/13/10 Three members of the "Ithaca" cult were charged with the severe abuse of their children, according to an indictment submitted to the Peta Tikvah District court on Sunday. According to the indictment, sect leader, Shay Abramov instructed members to physically abuse their children, in what he called a "treatment" against accidents and illnesses, so to save their lives and prevent their souls from going to hell....The state prosecutor's office wrote in the indictment that the allegations "uncover a horrifying tale of abuse during a period of six months, for the purpose of preventing them from becoming felons and to 'take the evil out of them," adding that the reported abuse was "severe and systematic."
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/sect-members-charged-with-abusing-children-to-protect-them-1.295860