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French Authorities Charge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in Probe Into Organised Crime on App
Telegram boss Pavel Durov has been placed under formal investigation by a French judge. The charges for which he was initially arrested four days ago include suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, images of child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and fraud among others.
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France Detains 80 Men In Most Far-Reaching Child Sex Crime Swoop
Around 80 men, including a local councillor and two schoolteachers, were detained this week in France's most far-reaching swoop on suspected child sex abusers, police sources said.
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French Catholic Church To Settle Sexual Abuse Claims With Asset Sales
Catholic bishops in France agreed Monday to sell part of the Church's extensive real estate holdings to compensate thousands of victims of child sex abuse at the hands of clergy.
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French Bishops Kneel In Penance For Decades Of Child Sex Abuse By Church
Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
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French Prime Minister Meets Pope As Abuse Scandal Rages
French Prime Minister Jean Castex met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday as the French Catholic Church battles a storm over clerical child sex abuse and the sanctity of confession.
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Pope Expresses "Shame" After Damning Church Sex Abuse Report
Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his "shame" at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, laid bare in a devastating report this week.
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FIFA Ban Haiti Soccer Chief For Life After Sex Abuse Investigation
Haiti's football federation president Yves Jean-Bart was banned for life by FIFA and fined over a million dollars on Friday.
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Thousands Of Child Sex Abuse Victims In French Catholic Church: Probe
At least 3,000 children have fallen victim to sex abuse in the French Catholic Church since 1950, the president of a commission set up to investigate the claims said Wednesday.
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A 28-Year-Old Had Sex With An 11-Year-Old; Under French Law, It's Not Necessarily Rape
Under French law, an act can qualify as rape only if there is violence or a threat of violence during a sexual act. Though the age of consent is 15, sex with a minor does not automatically qualify as rape in France, like it does in other countries.
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4 New Allegations Of Sex Abuse Against UN Peacekeepers In Central Africa
UN peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused of sexually abusing four children who were living in a camp for displaced civilians in the Central African Republic, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.
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No Mercy to Soldiers if African Child Abuse Charges Proven: French President Francois Hollande
French President Francois Hollande vowed today to make an example of any French troops found guilty of child sex abuse in Central African Republic as a judicial source said as many as 14 could be implicated.
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French 'boat school' founder jailed for 12 years for sex abuse
The founder of a French alternative school that took students on boat trips on the high seas was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for the rape and sexual abuse of five children.
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French Authorities Charge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in Probe Into Organised Crime on App
Telegram boss Pavel Durov has been placed under formal investigation by a French judge. The charges for which he was initially arrested four days ago include suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, images of child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and fraud among others.
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France Detains 80 Men In Most Far-Reaching Child Sex Crime Swoop
Around 80 men, including a local councillor and two schoolteachers, were detained this week in France's most far-reaching swoop on suspected child sex abusers, police sources said.
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French Catholic Church To Settle Sexual Abuse Claims With Asset Sales
Catholic bishops in France agreed Monday to sell part of the Church's extensive real estate holdings to compensate thousands of victims of child sex abuse at the hands of clergy.
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French Bishops Kneel In Penance For Decades Of Child Sex Abuse By Church
Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
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French Prime Minister Meets Pope As Abuse Scandal Rages
French Prime Minister Jean Castex met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday as the French Catholic Church battles a storm over clerical child sex abuse and the sanctity of confession.
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Pope Expresses "Shame" After Damning Church Sex Abuse Report
Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his "shame" at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, laid bare in a devastating report this week.
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FIFA Ban Haiti Soccer Chief For Life After Sex Abuse Investigation
Haiti's football federation president Yves Jean-Bart was banned for life by FIFA and fined over a million dollars on Friday.
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Thousands Of Child Sex Abuse Victims In French Catholic Church: Probe
At least 3,000 children have fallen victim to sex abuse in the French Catholic Church since 1950, the president of a commission set up to investigate the claims said Wednesday.
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A 28-Year-Old Had Sex With An 11-Year-Old; Under French Law, It's Not Necessarily Rape
Under French law, an act can qualify as rape only if there is violence or a threat of violence during a sexual act. Though the age of consent is 15, sex with a minor does not automatically qualify as rape in France, like it does in other countries.
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4 New Allegations Of Sex Abuse Against UN Peacekeepers In Central Africa
UN peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused of sexually abusing four children who were living in a camp for displaced civilians in the Central African Republic, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.
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No Mercy to Soldiers if African Child Abuse Charges Proven: French President Francois Hollande
French President Francois Hollande vowed today to make an example of any French troops found guilty of child sex abuse in Central African Republic as a judicial source said as many as 14 could be implicated.
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French 'boat school' founder jailed for 12 years for sex abuse
The founder of a French alternative school that took students on boat trips on the high seas was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for the rape and sexual abuse of five children.
