irish sexoffender's List: Child Porn Investigations

Microsoft announced today that it has partnered with Swedish company NetClean to make its patented PhotoDNA technology available free to law enforcement agencies investigating child sexual abuse cases. The technology will help agencies cull through the overwhelmingly large amount of sexually abusive content that is being shared across the Web.




“Since 2002, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has reviewed more than 65 million images and videos of child sexual exploitation reported by law enforcement,” writes Bill Harmon, Associate General Counsel to the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit. Those images include pictures and videos of infants and toddlers who are unable to seek help or tell anyone about their abuse, and not only are these children often repeat victims of direct abuse, they are victimized again every time an image of their abuse is shared. Says Harmon:




The images [of child sexual abuse] continue to grow increasingly violent and the victims younger. … These crimes turn a single horrific moment of sexual abuse of a child into an unending series of violations of that child. We simply cannot allow people to continue trading these horrifying images online when we have the technology to help do something about it. Microsoft is proud to make PhotoDNA available to law enforcement, to help in their battle to quickly identify and rescue these children.

A 17-year-old youth has appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court charged with internet sex offences involving children.

The teenager cannot be named for legal reasons.

He is accused of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity along with possessing and making and distributing indecent images of children.

A detective said the investigation involved 50 alleged injured parties.

He claimed it included boys at various schools in the area where the accused lived.

The detective told the court that he could connect the defendant with the charges.

The police are currently trying to access information from an iPad belonging to the teenager, who spoke only to confirm he understood the bail conditions imposed on him.

Chef Lizzie and cleaning supervisor Denise — married to David for 35 years — have now moved into a new home away from her dad.
They were forced to move out after vigilantes ransacked the home in Wrexham, North Wales, where the family had lived for over 30 years.

The thief had left David's laptop in a derelict house before alerting police and word of the vile porn stash had gone around the local estate.

Lizzie — who was working away in Oxford when the burglar struck last April — said: "Dad didn't seem too concerned. He just told us the insurance would cover it. But then the house was targeted again — and this time it was completely trashed.

"There was broken glass and bricks on the lounge carpet. The curtains were ripped down and drawers emptied. Dad looked as white as a sheet."

Piha residents have launched a campaign to remove a convicted child sex offender from their midst.




The man, who cannot be named because of a suppression order, was paroled to live at Piha, 40km west of Auckland, population  600.




 Residents say small communities are unsuitable for paroled child sex offenders because it is impossible for them to avoid children.




The man moved to Piha in May last year after being released from a five and a half year sentence for unlawful sexual connection with a child under 12.




 He is living with a family member and claims he is no risk to children.




But the newly-formed Piha Parents Group will this week lobby the Minister of Justice, Judith Collins, and the Parole Board to have him moved.




 "It is just not right ... we shouldn't be paroling a child sex offender near a pre-school or beside young people,'' a spokeswoman said.

A COMPUTER games designer who previously worked at the birthplace of the worldwide web has been banned from using the internet after downloading child pornography.

Graeme Jefferis, a former employee at CERN in Switzerland, was caught with a stash of nearly 15,000 indecent images of children after a swoop by police on his Corstorphine home.

The 32-year-old was also found to have downloaded nearly 1000 child porn movies.

Officers raided his home following a tip-off and Jefferis appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday to admit his guilt.

Judge Lord Woolman banned Jefferis from using the internet – but made an exception for his work as a software engineer.

Jonathon Dee, prosecuting, said that officers had previously been tipped off the Bird was living rough in the Skegness area.

The 40-year-old was placed on the sex offenders' register for five years in August last year after he was convicted of exposing himself in front of a young child.

Mr Dee said that when officers approached Bird he gave a false name but his true identity was discovered from a distinctive tattoo.

Bird, of no fixed address, admitted failing to comply with a sex offender order on December 16.

The court was told that it was the fourth time in just four months that Bird had broken the order and he was arrested just four days after being released from jail for a previous offence of failing to comply.

TWO members of an international paedophile ring that was based in Portsmouth are trying to overturn their convictions while a third hopes to get his sentence reduced, The News can reveal.

Mark Day, Daniel Bell and Jonathan Garner-Harris were convicted of being part of a vile gang that abused children and shared photos and videos of the abuse around the world.

Day, formerly of Gosport, now of Whitefriars Meadow, Sandwich, Kent, was jailed for three years after being found guilty of arranging a child sex offence.

If his bid to appeal his conviction fails he still hopes to reduce his sentence.

Internet chat logs recovered by the police showed Day had talked online to the group’s leader, Robert Hathaway, and planned to meet up to abuse a child.

A web designer has admitted downloading thousands of indecent images of children from the internet.

Kieron Thomas, of Parsonage Road, Hilperton, scoured the web for pictures and films of abuse, using the images of young boys for his own sexual gratification. But after hearing a prison term would not be long enough for the 23-year-old to get treatment, a judge imposed a community order.

Iowa lawmakers are working on new rules for nursing homes, residential care facilities and assisted living centers. The proposed changes have to do with sex offenders.

The bill making its way through the state house would require the homes and facilities to check the sex offender registry. If an offender is discovered, every single staff member, resident and resident's family would have to be notified. Also, a plan of safety would have to be put in place to protect staff, residents and their families.

If an offender asks to move into or has a court order to move into a nursing home, assisted living center or residential care, the director or owner must give their approval. The bill also gives homes and facilities the opportunity to deny sex offenders. In that case, the Department of Human Services will be notified, so they can find a spot for the offender.

The bill passed the house unanimously. A senate sub-committee has also recommended approval.

BRUNSWICK, Ohio - Registered sex offenders in Brunswick are now banned from a number of city-owned facilities.
Parent and Brunswick Recreation Center member Glenda Zaffle said that she agrees with city’s new ordinance that bans sex offenders from entering the facility or using the city parks.

A MAN denied sexually abusing his sister during gardai interview and requested a break because he thought her allegations were "sick", a trial has heard.<br /><br />"That is disgusting. I can't even believe she has said things like that," the accused told gardai before denying a number of specific allegations contained in his sister's statement. The 33-year-old accused has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of rape, sexual assault and attempted rape of his sister who is eight years younger than him.<br /><br />The alleged abuse took place between February 1995 and August 2000. The trial continues before Mr Justice Paul Carney and a jury of seven men and five women.

THE REPUBLIC’S overcrowded prison system is an “absolute disaster”, and new measures such as giving prisoners a third of their sentences off for good behaviour need to be examined to ease prison violence and tension, according to a new report.




Social campaigner Fr Peter McVerry said the idea of increasing remission from 25 per cent at present to 30 per cent was “not all that radical” in an international context, and yet would significantly reduce overcrowding.




“In Britain, for example, they have 50 per cent remission and they would not exactly be well known for having a liberal prison penal policy.”




He was speaking at the publication in Dublin yesterday of a report into penal policy by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, The Irish Prison System: Vision, Values, Reality. 

As a child, Lorraine Mulvey was raped repeatedly by her father.<br /><br />After he was jailed yesterday for six years, she outlines in her victim impact statement her attempts to rebuild her life after years of abuse, guilt and self-loathing: <br /><br />My name is Lorraine Mulvey. I am 41 years old.

A convicted sex offender who told a seven-year-old girl at her Co Kerry home he would kill her with a knife if she told anyone he had abused her has been jailed for seven years.<br /><br />Judge Patrick McCartan said the “appalling abuse” had catastrophic circumstances on the girl. He commended her courage in reporting it to her mother.<br /><br />The man, who is related to the victim, went on the run for four years after failing to appear for his sentence hearing in 2007.<br /><br />Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that the girl attended psychotherapy for two years after the abuse was disclosed. She had an eating disorder for a number of years because, according to her therapist, eating was the way she controlled her life.<br /><br />The 33-year-old man pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault between December 12th, 2003, and March 8th, 2004. He was registered as a sex offender.

Professor Don Grubin, who is running a pilot on lie detector tests for sex offenders on behalf of the Ministry of Justice, thinks the drastic move could work on a voluntary basis.<br />The academic, a professor of forensic psychiatry at Newcastle University's Institute of Neuroscience, is already running a Government-backed programme that offers so-called "chemical castration" for sex offenders where medication reduces an individual's testosterone levels.<br />But following a visit to the Czech Republic, where they offer physical castration for volunteers, Prof Grubin believes there is scope to go even further in Britain.<br />Asked by More4 News whether there is a place for physical castration in Britain, he said: "If you asked me that two years ago I would have said no.

he paedophiles volunteered for a course of drugs designed to reduce their testosterone levels to that of a prepubescent boy in order to curb their libido.<br />The treatment is being piloted by psychiatrists at HMP Whatton, Nottingham, a specialist category C prison which holds male sex offenders.<br />The drug, leuprorelin, which is marketed as Prostap, inhibits the production of testosterone, which is linked to the high sex drives in paedophiles.<br />The programme is run by the Prison Service and the Department of Health and has been co-ordinated by criminal psychiatrist Professor Don Grubin.<br />He said: "I have referred around 100 people for treatment. It is still ongoing but I do not have anything to do with the treatment. They come to me in the first instance to see whether the treatment is appropriate for them.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has moved to set aside a number of as yet unheard prosecutions for buggery offences following a recent Supreme Court decision that such charges cannot be brought in relation to offences committed prior to 1993.

The DPP has brought judicial review proceedings seeking orders in two separate cases concerning two men awaiting trial for a number of sex offences, including buggery.

The DPP wants orders quashing the return to trial concerning buggery offences and declarations the remainder of the return to trial is valid, with the effect the trials could proceed on the non-buggery offences. The judicial review comes after a Supreme Court decision that, when repealing the offence of buggery “between persons” in 1993, the Oireachtas failed to enact the necessary saving measures to allow prosecutions for such common law offences committed prior to 1993.

Lorraine Mulvey waived her anonymity in the hope that it would encourage other victims of abuse to report what was happening to them.<br />She said as a result of the abuse she had "worn a mask" for years, and had not been her true self.<br />She said after her father's sentencing today she could finally take that mask off.<br />Ms Mulvey, now 41, said she wanted her father named for what he had done.<br />She said because of what her father had done to her, she had only had dreams of what her life should have been.<br />She said she wanted other sexual abuse victims to know that help was out there.<br />Ray Mulvey pleaded guilty to seven charges of the sexual assault of his daughter between August 1975 and August 1988 at various locations in Co Kildare and Co Cork.<br />He also admitted raping her on an unknown date between August 1987 and August 1988 in the family home in Cork.

While live streaming was a ''very concerning'' trend, more than half of all child abuse images and video were shared on peer-to-peer networks. These networks were expensive and technically difficult to disrupt, Assistant Commissioner Gaughan said.<br /><br />Since June last year, Telstra, Optus and CyberOne have participated in a trial, co-ordinated by the AFP, to block web users who tried to view any of the 450-plus websites on Interpol's ''worst of'' list for child abuse material.<br /><br />Freedom of Information documents show Telstra made more than 84,000 redirections from July 1 to October 15 last year.<br /><br />Assistant Commissioner Gaughan said the redirections represented the number of failed attempts, not the number of people who had accessed illegal material.

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