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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Hundreds of Kenyan teachers sacked over sex abuse

Hundreds of Kenyan teachers sacked over sex abuse 7 October 2010
Most cases of abuse reported have occurred in rural schools - More than 1,000 teachers have been sacked in Kenya for sexually abusing girls over the past two years, the authorities say.
Senior government official Ahmed Hussein told the BBC that most of the victims were aged between 12 and 15....
Last year, 600 male teachers were dismissed and so far this year 550 teachers have lost their jobs for either kissing, touching or impregnating girls out a total teaching staff of 240,000 countrywide.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11492499

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Pentagon to investigate hundreds of suspected child pornography fans

also : Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 2010

Pentagon to investigate hundreds of suspected child pornography fans in its ranks By John Cook Sep 15, 2010
In a reversal, the Pentagon says it will reopen hundreds of cases of alleged purchases of child pornography by Department of Defense employees that Pentagon officials previously declined to investigate, The Upshot has learned.
Earlier this month, The Upshot reported exclusively that in 2007, investigators for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service obtained a list of 264 military service members, civilian employees and contractors for the Department of Defense who had used credit cards or PayPal to purchase access to a child pornography website. But the DCIS, citing scarce resources, pursued only 52 of the names before closing the project -- known as Project Flicker -- in 2008. Since no further public information on the cases was made available, it appears that the other people on the list of suspected child-pornography patrons were able to continue their careers without any interruption that stemmed from the investigation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100915/ts_yblog_upshot/pentagon-to-investigate-hundreds-of-suspected-child-pornography-fans-in-its-ranks


Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 2010 (111th Congress (2009 - 2010) H.R.5575) - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Attorney General should implement changes to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to identify endangered juveniles; (2) funds awarded under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program should be used to provide education, training, deterrence, and prevention programs relating to sex trafficking of minors; (3) states should treat minor victims of sex trafficking as crime victims rather than as criminal defendants or juvenile delinquents and adopt and amend laws to protect and provide compensation to such victims; and (4) demand for commercial sex with sex trafficking victims must be deterred through consistent law enforcement.
Authorizes the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs to award one-year block grants to up to six state or local governments in different regions of the United States that have significant sex trafficking to combat such trafficking. Requires grant funds to be used to provide shelter and services to minor victims of sex trafficking and for training for service providers.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR05575:@@@L&summ2=m&