Child Molestation

• ‘They knew’: Victims of sexual abuse by Ontario youth leader sue Anglican Church

  Garth Bent worked as a camp counsellor at Ontario Pioneer Camp and pleaded guilty in 2009 to three counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault.

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  Apr 19, 2024
  
• Former senior health official in B.C., Alberta sentenced to 5.5 years for child sex assault

  Convicted child molester Dr. Albert de Villiers was sentenced to five and a half years for his sex crimes against a child who once called him “uncle.”

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  Jun 13, 2023
  
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• Former top doctor of B.C.’s Interior Health region, Alberta’s North zone found guilty of child sex assault

  Dr. Albert De Villiers was found guilty Tuesday of the sexual molestation of a child under the age of 12 in Grande Prairie, Alta. It's a charge he denied.

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  Feb 7, 2023
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• Convict says he did everyone a ‘favour’ by killing 2 child molesters

  Jonathan Watson has confessed to killing two convicted child molesters in a brutal prison beating in California.

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  Feb 21, 2020
• Calgary sex offender Kenneth Hornby wants to change guilty plea

  A Calgary man convicted of sexually assaulting a five-year-old boy is looking to withdraw his guilty plea.

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  Sep 18, 2019
• N.S. man who served time in Nepal for sexually abusing a minor faces charge in Quebec

  Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled to return to court in Montreal Sept. 18.

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  Aug 6, 2019
• Sex marketplace Backpage.com seized by U.S. authorities

  U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the FBI, according to a posting on its website on Friday.

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  Apr 6, 2018
• Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman says gymnastics coach knew about Larry Nassar sexual abuse

  Former U.S. Olympic gymnastics coach John Geddert knew about sexual abuse by team doctor Larry Nassar as far back as 2011 but did nothing about it, gold medal-winning gymnast Aly Raisman has claimed. 

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  Feb 8, 2018
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• Oklahoma woman outraged after uncle who sexually abused her moves in next door — legally

  The woman discovered that what her assaulter did is perfectly legal not just in Oklahoma, but in 44 other U.S. states.

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  Aug 20, 2017
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• Seattle Mayor Ed Murray accused of sexually abusing teenage foster son in the ’80s

  Murray, 62, has been accused of four different men of abusing them as teenagers.

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  Jul 16, 2017