Child abuse

A Spanish police officer. Photo: @policia/Twitter.

Spain

CRIME

Spanish police operation targeting child abuse leads to 18 arrests

The Nomad Today 6/1/22

The investigation was initiated in January 2020 thanks to tips from the US embassy in Madrid

FILED - The Philippines said on Tuesday it was ready to work with Russia in testing and producing a coronavirus vaccine being developed by Russian scientists. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he would be the first one the vaccine could be experimented on. Photo: Rodrigo Reyes Marin/dpa.

World

CHILD PROTECTION

Philippines raises age of sexual consent from 12 to 16 years old

The Nomad Today/dpa 3/7/22

Under the new legislation, adults who have sexual relations with anyone under 16 years old are automatically guilty of statutory rape.

04/09/2020. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez received the Chief Public Prosecutor Dolores Delgado, who presented him with a copy of the annual report of the Public Prosecutor's Office. Photo: La Moncloa.

Spain

SEXUAL ABUSE

Spanish judiciary to investigate child abuse in Catholic Church

The Nomad Today 2/1/22

Chief Public Prosecutor Dolores Delgado has already instructed the regional public prosecutors' offices to collect all suspected cases and reports and send them to Madrid within the next 10 days

HANDOUT - 29 December 2021, US, New York: An undated picture released by the US attorney's office shows British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell (R) kissing US financier Jeffrey Epstein on the cheek. Maxwell, 59, was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Photo: -/US Attorney Office via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa - ATTENTION: editorial use only and only if the credit mentioned above is referenced in full.

World

SEXUAL ABUSE

Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of enticing Epstein victims

The Nomad Today/dpa 12/30/21

The 60-year-old faces up to 65 years in prison

Spain

POLICE

Man arrested in Seville for producing child pornography

The Nomad Today 11/6/21

The police identified three underage girls, including his own daughter, as victims

World

SAINT NO MORE?

Child abuse cover-up scandal taints John Paul II's legacy

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/22/20

"John Paul, in many ways an admirable man, was willfully blind to the abuse of children and young people," the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) magazine wrote last week.