Sexual Exploitation

Creating deepfake' sexual images to be criminal offence under new legislation

Creating sexually explicit deepfakes without consent will be a criminal offense with severe penalties. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

My abuser served 11 months in jail - and used Covid in bid to lower his sentence'

Alice Cross was groomed online by her abuser, and he trafficked her for sex acts for his own financial gain.

Webb pleaded guilty to two counts of arranging to facilitate the sexual exploitation of a child and making an indecent image of a child. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

3 months ago

Online sex blackmailer who left victims suicidal jailed for 24 years

Anthony Burns, an online sex blackmailer, has been sentenced to 24 years in jail for subjecting dozens of victims to mental torture.

Burns used online blackmail techniques to trick victims into sending him personal and social media details and addresses, and then demanded sexual videos from them. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

3 months ago

Rochdale grooming timeline: How dozens of girls were left at the mercy' of gangs

Failures by senior police and council allowed paedophile grooming gangs to abuse girls in Rochdale for years.

Police failed to properly investigate the gang, despite numerous warnings and alert from healthcare worker. [ more ]

www.theguardian.com

Digital life

Pimps' use Instagram to glorify sexual violence and abuse, investigation finds

Instagram being used to promote sexual violence and exploitation

Meta taking steps to combat accounts promoting abuse and exploitation [ more ]

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SF LGBT

Man who 'preyed' on gay men and robbed them jailed for over a decade

Zahri targeted gay men for robbery

Police encourage other potential victims to come forward [ more ]

www.aljazeera.com

Social justice

The UK's grooming gangs and the lessons never learned

Britain's criminal justice system must prioritize protection of vulnerable girls from predatory men.

Failure to prevent predatory men from accessing vulnerable victims has devastating consequences. [ more ]

Los Angeles Times

3 months ago

Artificial intelligence

Explicit Taylor Swift deepfakes circulated the internet. Her Swifties are seeing red

Fans rallied to support Taylor Swift after AI-generated sexually explicit images of her circulated on social media.

The incident highlights the issue of deepfake technology being used to create explicit content without consent, primarily affecting women and children. [ more ]

www.mercurynews.com

East Bay (California)

UC Berkeley chef charged with filming explicit videochat with prepubecent girls

A chef who works at UC Berkeley has been charged with possessing child pornography files and using a minor for sex acts.

The charges stem from video chats with young girls in Vietnam and the Philippines. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

France news

Romanian guru suspected of running international sex sect handed preliminary charges with 14 others

A Romanian yoga guru and 14 others have been charged with counts related to an international ring involved in sexual exploitation of followers seeking enlightenment.

Gregorian Bivolaru, the guru, is facing the most extensive list of charges, including human trafficking and rape. [ more ]

www.dw.com

Germany news

Germany's Scholz: prostitution not acceptable DW 11/15/2023

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls for a clamp-down on prostitution and further legal restrictions.

Prostitution is currently legal in Germany, but there are calls for a ban on the purchase of sex by customers. [ more ]

www.dw.com