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Sexual abuse

Benoni man who raped his children, used them for pornography gets 2 life terms

By Veronica Mokhoali

The High Court in Pretoria sentenced the 41-year-old father on Friday for sexual assault, possession and production of child pornography, among other offences.

  • Picture: SAPS

    Human trafficking case against EC church leader, co-accused postponed

    It is alleged that between 2005 and 2020, Lonwabo Tede was sexually abusing vulnerable congregants as an apostle at the Zion church in Quzini Village outside King William’s Town.

    122 days ago
  • FILE: Suspended Western Cape Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz. Picture: Lizell Persens/Eyewitness News

    WC govt under fire for how it handles sexual abuse allegations

    Back in January 2019, a senior official from the province's Treasury department was arrested by Cape Town police, after he allegedly raped a 7-year-old boy.

    187 days ago
  • FILE: World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 3 July 2020 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    Preventing sexual abuse in humanitarian settings 'high priority': WHO chief

    Speaking before the WHO executive board, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed that he and the UN health agency he leads are "committed to zero tolerance for sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, and for inaction against it."

    192 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Benedict XVI. Picture: AFP

    Probe finds ex-pope Benedict failed to act in German sex abuse cases

    The ex-pontiff, who was the archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982, has "strictly" denied any responsibility.

    200 days ago
  • FILE: France's defender Benjamin Mendy arrives in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines on 12 November 2018, as part of the team's preparation for the upcoming Nations League football match against the Netherlands and a friendly football match against Uruguay. Picture: AFP

    Footballer Benjamin Mendy charged with further count of rape

    The 27-year-old defender was already facing six allegations of rape and one of sexual assault but was charged last week with a seventh rape.

    229 days ago
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    Abused women say they are at the mercy of men - and the law

    Women participants at a recent march against gender-based violence spoke of how they not only experience violence from men, but also indifference from the law.

    241 days ago
  • FILE: In this file photo taken on 5 May 2014, Ghislaine Maxwell attends the 2014 ETM (EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC) Children's Benefit Gala at Capitale in New York City. Picture: Rob Kim /GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP

    Accuser says Maxwell participated in sex abuse by Epstein

    The woman, identified by the pseudonym 'Jane,' explained how the 59-year-old heiress on trial in Manhattan worked with Epstein to befriend her before pressuring her into sex acts, which she recounted in grim detail.

    250 days ago
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    EC church leader, female accomplice due court on human trafficking charges

    The 52-year-old apostle and his 37-year-old female accomplice were arrested on Saturday.

    266 days ago
  • Handcuffs. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter.

    EC church leader and female accomplice arrested for human trafficking

    Hawks spokesperson, Colonel Katlego Mogale, said the pair are set to appear in the Zwelisha Magistrates' Court on Monday.

    267 days ago
  • FILE: The court action has been intuited against the principal of the school and the governing body, who have continued to employ the accused caretaker even after they were made aware of the allegations of sexual abuse. Picture: freeimages.com

    Section27 takes DBE to court after 2 NW pupils were sexually abused

    The advocacy group said they were concerned by the systemic failure to protect pupils after a minor was raped in 2015 and another sexually assaulted in 2017, allegedly by a caretaker at a primary school.

    298 days ago
  • FILE: The police's family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit has taken over the investigations. Picture: Winnie Theletsane/Eyewitness News

    Mentally ill girl gang-raped allegedly by three boys aged 11 to 14 in Limpopo

    It’s alleged that last week, the 12-year-old - who has a mental illness, was sexually abused at Steenbokpan outside Lephalale.

    299 days ago
  • FILE: Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York, attends the ceremonial funeral procession of Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London, on 17 April 2021. Picture: Chris Jackson/AFP

    UK police end review of Andrew allegations

    The London force said it had also looked into a report by Channel 4 News that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked, groomed and abused women and girls in the UK.

    301 days ago
  • FILE: R&B singer R. Kelly appears at a hearing before Judge Lawrence Flood at Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Illinois, on 25 June 2019. Picture: Nuccio DINUZZO/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP

    R. Kelly conviction offers measure of justice for long-silenced black women

    The multi-platinum R&B singer's conviction as the boss of a decades-long sex crimes scheme offers a measure of justice to long-dismissed victims and activists.

    313 days ago
  • In this photo taken on 30 November 2004 Gerald Marie, former president of Elite Model Group, gives a press conference in Shanghai. Picture: AFP.

    'Haunted': Ex-models speak out against French fashion boss

    "It's haunted me for 20 years," Lisa Brinkworth, a former BBC journalist, told AFP of her encounter with Gerald Marie, the former Europe chief of the Elite modelling agency, and its fallout.

    337 days ago
  • FILE: R&B singer R Kelly leaves the Cook County jail after posting $100,000 bond on 25 February 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Picture: AFP

    Jury selection begins in R. Kelly sex abuse trial

    The 54-year-old appeared stoic in a navy blue suit as the questioning of jurors began in the Brooklyn court, where he faces charges of racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery and forced labor, spanning from 1994 to 2018.

    355 days ago
  • FILE: In this file photo taken on 3 November 2019, Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York leaves after speaking at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Bangkok, on the sidelines of the 35th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.  Picture: AFP

    UK police to review Prince Andrew allegations

    Cressida Dick, the head of London's Metropolitan Police, said the force would review the claims, after previously opting not to open an investigation.

    361 days ago
  • FILE: Apple CEO Tim Cook. Picture: AFP

    Apple update will check iPhones for images of child sexual abuse

    New technology will allow software powering Apple mobile devices to match abusive photos on a user's phone against a database of known CSAM images provided by child safety organizations, then flag the images as they are uploaded to Apple's online iCloud storage, according to the company.

    367 days ago
  • FILE: Protesters hold a banner reading "Bishop, Hiding Pedophilia is a Crime" and a map reading "Map of Church Pedophilia in Poland" with 255 documented cases of sexual abuse of minors by the country's Catholic priests, during a protest against alleged child sex abuse in the Catholic church in Warsaw on 7 October 2018, demanding the church to 
stop protecting paedophile priests. Picture: Janek SKARZYNSKI/AFP

    Polish Catholic Church reports hundreds of abuse claims

    From July 2018 through the end of last year, the church received reports of 368 cases of sexual abuse, of which some occurred decades ago while others were recent.

    406 days ago
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