- 22 life sentences for British pedophile who pleaded guilty to 71
child abuse offenses in Asia
EXCLUSIVE: N.Y. pol says Brooklyn
bishop offered $5G bribe for her to drop child-abuse reform; diocese calls her
allegation ‘patently false’
BY Kenneth Lovett Michael
O’keeffe Stephen Rex Brown NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, June 6,
2016
The head of the Catholic Church in Brooklyn offered a $5,000 bribe
to an Albany politician in exchange for dropping her support for the reform of a
state law preventing victims of child sexual abuse from seeking justice, the pol
claimed Monday.
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, who has for a decade
advocated for an overhaul of the state’s statute of limitations on claims of
child sexual abuse, said she turned down the unholy hush money from Bishop
Nicholas DiMarzio in 2010.
“I’m not a billionaire, but I don’t need
$5,000 to buy me off,” Markey told the Daily News.
The offer came across
as a payoff, not a campaign donation, she added.
Pol proposes
constitutionally questionable child-sex abuse law
The Brooklyn Diocese
called the allegation “patently false.”....
After declining the offer,
DiMarzio targeted her with robocalls as she ran for reelection against
Republican challenger Anthony Nunziato, saying she did not have Catholic values,
Markey said.
“I do have Catholic values — but my Catholic values don’t
include raping children,” said Markey, who easily won reelection in
2010....
The offer isn’t the first time DiMarzio allegedly played
hardball with politicians over Markey’s bill, which would make it easier for
victims to sue and also grant a one-year window for those whose statute of
limitations had expired to bring a civil lawsuit.
In 2009, DiMarzio
reportedly threatened lawmakers who supported Markey’s Child Victims Act,
telling them he would close parishes in their districts — and say they were to
blame.
The diocese denied that threat was ever made.
The state’s
Catholic Conference spent $2.1 million between 2007 and 2015 lobbying against
efforts to reform the law, as well as other measures. Others, like yeshivas and
private schools, have also opposed Markey’s bill.
The church supports
other bills that would extend the statute of limitations, but that does not
include the one-year lookback, Erstad said.....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-pol-claims-bishop-bribed-give-child-abuse-law-article-1.2663673
22 life sentences for British pedophile who pleaded guilty to
71 child abuse offenses in AsiaJune 6, 2016, by CNN Wire Service
A London court handed 22 life sentences to a man Monday after he pleaded
guilty to 71 child abuse offenses while in Southeast Asia.
Richard
Huckle, 30, was arrested at Gatwick Airport near London in 2014 as he returned
home from Malaysia, where he committed most of his crimes, Britain’s National
Crime Agency said.
He confessed to abusing almost 200 children on a blog
he published on the dark web, an area of the Internet not easily accessible to
the general user.
According to Court News UK, Huckle posed as a Christian
English teacher to groom and abuse children, including one as young as six
months, in a poor Malaysian community over nine years.
He also committed
child abuse in Cambodia, the National Crime Agency said. British law allows
nationals to be prosecuted in their home country for offenses committed
abroad.
The court heard the amateur photographer took pictures and videos
of himself raping children that he groomed from schools and orphanages, and
shared the images with other pedophiles on the dark web, according to Court News
UK.
In his blog, Huckle awarded himself “Pedopoints” on a type of
scorecard, claiming to have abused 191 children, according to Court
News.
Huckle then tried to monetize his behavior, accepting bitcoin, the
online currency, to continue the abuse and publish it online, Court News
said.
He forced victims to pose with signs to advertise his business and
wrote a 60-page guide entitled “Pedophiles & Poverty: Child Lover Guide”
that the judge called a “truly evil document,” Court News said.
Huckle
was caught when Australian police tipped off authorities in an investigation
into a pedophile website that officials said had 9,000 members before it was
shut down.
The NCA said officials had recovered more than 20,000 indecent
images of children from Huckle’s computers and cameras, including more than
1,000 of which showed him raping and abusing children in his care....
http://fox6now.com/2016/06/06/22-life-sentences-for-british-pedophile-who-pleaded-guilty-to-71-child-abuse-offenses-in-asia/
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