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Post by mids on Apr 27, 2024 17:19:03 GMT
Bottom third from the right? What on earth is going on there?!?! May well not be Earth.
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Post by mids on Apr 27, 2024 17:19:48 GMT
Or consanguineous.
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 27, 2024 17:27:55 GMT
Bottom third from the right? What on earth is going on there?!?! May well not be Earth. He looks like he's just finishing....
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 29, 2024 20:32:19 GMT
Bloody hell. Words fail me. "In the city of Makeni, a three-hour drive east of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, a young mother sits outside her home with her three-year-old daughter. Anita, which is not her real name, describes the day in June 2023 when she found her toddler with blood dripping from her nappy. "I worked for this woman, and she gave me an errand that Saturday morning to go to the market," she says, explaining that she then left her child with her employer and her 22-year-old son. "He took my child, he said, to buy sweets and biscuits for her. It was a lie." When she got back, she realised her daughter was missing. After searching for her for some time, they were reunited but the 22-year-old mother could see that the toddler was bleeding. She took her to the hospital and after two rounds of stitches, it was confirmed she had been raped." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68898467
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 29, 2024 20:37:15 GMT
I don't often need the distressing content warning, but that was very upsetting.
It's not like this is a unique occurance, but it seems especially awful in countries where the institutions and social climate seem unlikely to be able to do much about it. And yet, maybe that's exactly what's happening. Kudos to Sierra Leone for at least being unafraid to call it out.
The poor kid. And her Mum. I wish above all else that I knew how to help.
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2024 11:52:57 GMT
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Post by mids on Apr 30, 2024 12:54:59 GMT
A 13 year old boy has died.
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 30, 2024 13:45:15 GMT
Khan's Khatana Khlutching Khiller Kharves Khiddy.
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2024 14:20:30 GMT
Paralysed?!
Jesus Christ…
And imagine outside of the cities transport, communication links as well as the infrastructure makes it harder to track perpetrators down. That poor toddler and more generally the poor women and girls in Sierra Leone.
It does beg the question why the 2018 increase? Was Is it better reporting or something else going on?
“It followed protests in December 2018 when hundreds of people wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Hands off our girls" marched through Freetown. News of another child rape had shocked the nation - a five-year-old girl who was left paralysed from the waist down. It was reported at the time that cases of sexual violence had almost doubled within a year, a third involving children. Sierra Leoneans had had enough. The four-month long state of emergency from February 2019 allowed the president to divert state resources into tackling sexual violence. An updated Sexual Offences Act brought in stricter penalties for sexual assault. Rape sentences were increased to a minimum of 15 years, or life if it involved a child. A Sexual Offences Model Court to fast-track trials was created in Freetown the following year. There appears to have been some progress - reported cases of sexual and gender-based violence have gone down by almost 17%, from just over 12,000 in 2018 to just over 10,000 in 2023, according to police statistics. Creating increased awareness and new structures is one thing, but making sure that people, like Anita's daughter, get justice is another. The Rainbo Initiative is a national charity that works with survivors of sexual violence. It says that in 2022 just 5% of the 2,705 cases it handled made it to the High Court. One of the issues is the resources available to those who are supposed to enforce the law. At the police station in Makeni where Anita reported her daughter's rape, Assnt Supt Abu Bakarr Kanu who leads the Family Support Unit (FSU) says they get around four cases of child sexual assault each week.”
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2024 14:21:06 GMT
A 13 year old boy has died. In general? The USA? France? UK? Or is this a response to my story? Edit: oh the link has now updated with details. A 14 year old lost his life. Bloody hell. Poor boy. I wonder if the killer is another care in the community case or something else.
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2024 14:23:43 GMT
“Another resident in Hainault said she saw a body on the ground as she hid by her window while a man wielding a sword shouted "do you believe in God?" outside her house.”
I predict they will go down the “mentally ill” route.
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Post by voice on Apr 30, 2024 14:24:42 GMT
Perp was white then
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 30, 2024 14:26:22 GMT
Khonvert, I expect.
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Post by mids on Apr 30, 2024 14:28:54 GMT
A 13 year old boy has died. In general? The USA? France? UK? Or is this a response to my story? Edit: oh the link has now updated with details. A 14 year old lost his life. Bloody hell. Poor boy. I wonder if the killer is another care in the community case or something else. Khare in the khommunity khase.
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2024 15:18:22 GMT
I am not 100% sure from the images but if they go down that route it’s safe to say he will be.
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Post by mids on Apr 30, 2024 15:34:47 GMT
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Post by Repat Van on May 1, 2024 8:00:35 GMT
This reads particularly tongue in cheek:
“ Thoughts and prayers for the schoolboy have been given by the Home Secretary, the Mayor of London and Buckingham Palace.”
That camera video is something else too. What a weirdo.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 1, 2024 13:33:38 GMT
I am always impressed (and slightly disappointed) that the press no longer speculate about the identity of perps in cases such as the Hainault Hacker. I guess it's Ofcom that sets the rules.
This story is starting to sound less random now. Dunno, but there are a few things that make me wonder why matey chose to crash into that house.
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Post by Repat Van on May 1, 2024 14:08:37 GMT
I am always impressed (and slightly disappointed) that the press no longer speculate about the identity of perps in cases such as the Hainault Hacker. I guess it's Ofcom that sets the rules. This story is starting to sound less random now. Dunno, but there are a few things that make me wonder why matey chose to crash into that house. He seems to have been running around slashing at people randomly though. And asking if people “believe in god” sounds weird af.
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Post by unclejunior on May 1, 2024 14:21:40 GMT
I just drove by Bancroft & there are lots of journos & photographers waiting outside for the kids to leave….word is that one of the PCs might lose her hand or the use thereof …🙁
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