Nursery apprentice, 16, charged with sex assaults on children as young as two 'was dumbstruck when accused of raping a three-year-old girl'
Jayden McCarthy, now 18, mistakenly told about rape allegation by colleague
McCarthy worked at the Jack and Jill nursery in Torquay, Devon, in 2019
He denies all charges and told police he never touched a child inappropriately
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9595585/Nursery-apprentice-16-charged-sex-assaults-children-young-two.html
Colchester Grammar at centre of fresh sex assault claims: Two current pupils are accused of rape while another says she was attacked between lessons - as Ofsted holds unannounced inspection
New investigation claims two pupils accused of rape are still at the school
Comes amid claims domestic abuse and homophobia were treated as a joke
Now Ofsted has confirmed it is carrying out an unannounced inspection
A top grammar school investigated over a 'toxic male culture' currently has two pupils on its roll who are accused of raping other students.
Claims against Colchester Royal Grammar School (CRGS) came to light last month, after former pupil Scarlett Mansfield shared a blog post.
But a new investigation has revealed more allegations and cases that paint a disturbing picture of life there.
They include one young girl who tried to take her own life after she said she was raped by a CRGS student. The school currently has 950 pupils.
A different girl said she too was raped and was told by other boys not to make 'a big deal out of it'.
One male student has also said he was sexually assaulted on the school premises, between lessons.
The school has said it has 'changed considerably' since Scarlett was a student and 'continue to make acts of prejudice, discrimination or abuse socially unacceptable'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9595789/Colchester-Royal-Grammar-School-centre-fresh-sex-assault-claims.html
As Gas Prices Soar, One Missouri Senator Stands to Make Millions from the Gasoline Tax Hike He Demanded
Senator Dave Schatz threatened to block all Republican legislation in the recently ended Missouri legislative session unless his pet gasoline tax increased passed. Schatz is a Republican.
Schatz owns Schatz Underground of Villa Ridge, Missouri, a government contractor that installs cables and pipes under roads, highways, and public rights-of-way.
Schatz’s ultimatum was one of the most shameless and self-serving power-moves in recent Missouri history.
And Schatz got his way.
After hours of debate and negotiation, on the last full day of the session last week, the Missouri House agreed to pass the largest gasoline tax in the state’s history, raising the gas tax to 29.5 cents from 17.5 cents, more than a 40 percent increase. The increase will be phased between now and 2025.
Gas Tax Hike Hits as Gas Prices Soar
The timing of the tax increase could not have been more insulting to Missouri residents. On the heels of the COVID shutdown and with the Biden Administration’s goal of $7.50 gasoline by July 4, the tax will compound the financial hardship Missourians will face.
Based on 2020 gas tax receipts, the tax hike will provide $278 million for road construction, as Missouri law requires the money go exclusively to transportation infrastructure.
Dave Schatz’s company stands to take home a big cut of that nearly $300 million dollars. The company is featured as a government contractor on govserv.org‘s website of companies that work primarily on government projects. Every mile of new or replaced road and highway in Missouri will have pipes and cables running under it. It’s how services get delivered to homes and businesses.
And laying those pipes and cables is exactly what Schatz Underground does, according to their govserv.com :
We specialize in project management, engineering, and construction of aerial, buried, and underground conduit systems for the following utilities:
Telecommunication
Electric
Fiber Systems
Sewer
Water
Gas
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/gas-prices-soar-one-missouri-senator-stands-make-millions-gasoline-tax-hike-demanded/
Transgender woman who sexually abused girls as young as four over a 17-year period is jailed for 22 years
Transgender woman Jessica Brennan committed string of sex crimes on girls
She tried to rape one of the girls and another was subjected to systematic abuse
York Crown Court heard the victims' lives had been 'ruined' by the abuse
Brennan was found guilty and appeared for sentence via video link on Monday
A transgender woman who committed a string of sexual assaults on girls as young as four over a 17-year period has been jailed for 22 years.
Jessica Brennan, known as Allan Brennan at the time of the offences, groomed then sexually abused the four children between 1998 and 2016.
The 54-year-old tried to rape one of the children and another girl was subjected to systematic abuse over the course of a decade, which involved 'multiple' incidents.
York Crown Court heard the victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were haunted by the abuse and their lives had been 'ruined' by the paedophile.
Brennan, from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, was charged with 16 separate offences including sexual assault of a child, indecent assault, sexual activity with a child and one count of attempted rape of a girl under 13.
The Ministry of Justice would not reveal which prison Brennan will be sent to following her sentencing, though she was in male-only HMP Hull prior to her court appearance.
Under UK law, transgender people are initially sent to prisons based on their legal status - but can request a transfer to another prison.
Prosecutors told the court one of the victims came forward to police with allegations against Brennan as early as 2000 but no charges were brought.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9596003/Transgender-woman-sexually-abused-girls-young-four-jailed-22-years.html
Sweetwater County sex trafficking sting: ex-legislator arrest just tip of the iceberg
Like many other Wyoming communities, Sweetwater County has a problem when it comes to sex trafficking.
It’s been a long-standing issue, according to Detective Sgt. Michelle Hall with the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO), which is why she initiated a training session and subsequent sting operation last month that led to the arrest of four men, including a former state legislator.
The four-day session was by led by human trafficking detective Joe Scaramucci of Waco, Texas, who is leading the charge nationwide to stamp out trafficking.
After attending one of Scaramucci’s Wyoming training sessions in December, Hall reached out to the event’s organizer to see about setting up a session in Sweetwater County.
“There is a huge issue with sex trafficking here,” she said. “And there always has been. I attended Scaramucci’s training, and it inspired me to do more.”
Scaramucci’s training session in Rock Springs was organized by Terri Markham, the co-founder of Uprising, a Sheridan non-profit group focused on human trafficking education and outreach.
Both Scaramucci and Markham stress the importance of having law enforcement agencies work with victim advocates and anti-trafficking groups to address the problems by offering its victims the resources they need to escape their traffickers.
Typically, law enforcement agencies work alone on sex trafficking cases, but the Sweetwater County session involved law enforcement and victims’ advocates groups that went on to work together on the sex trafficking sting that capped the training.
Markham described the event as one of the most successful she’s ever been involved with.
“It was less about the sting operation as it was about the training,” she said.
Hall agreed, saying it was groundbreaking because it showed law enforcement how sex trafficking differs from what most define as prostitution.
Most consider prostitution a situation in which a person is willingly selling sex for profit, Hall said, but such cases are actually rare. Most often, victims are forced into selling sex by some form of coercion from their trafficker to benefit that person financially.
“I believe that historically law enforcement has arrested prostituted people (and buyers) in an attempt to help them,” Hall said. “But this training provided different insight in that prostitution and human trafficking are one in the same. I saw several officers that really realized this during the training.”
https://county17.com/2021/05/19/sweetwater-county-sex-trafficking-sting-ex-legislator-arrest-just-tip-of-the-iceberg/
Panama City, FL – Jackson County sex predator sting yields 45 arrests
MARIANNA, Florida (WMBB– A puncture operation led by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office resulted in 45 arrests and 114 felony charges.
“The first phase was an undercover operation focused on law enforcement officers posing as children online,” the deputies wrote in a press release. “The ‘infiltrated children’ clearly indicated their age and waited to be approached by a suspect. Once the suspect requested to meet in person, a location was agreed upon. When the suspects arrived, they were taken into custody by members of the US Marshal Task Force.
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The second phase focused on compliance issues related to registered sex offenders and predators living in Jackson County, the deputies wrote. During the third phase, “MPs dealt with outstanding arrest warrants relating to sex crimes, crimes against children and the failure to register charges related to sex offenders.”
Here are some of the more serious cases.
Matthew Jones, 37, of Panama City has been charged with traveling to meet a minor for sexual purposes
Keegan Andrew Schaal, 22, of Tallahassee, Fla., Has been charged with traveling to meet a minor for sexual purposes.
Jason Earl Kirkland, 43, of Cottonwood Alabama, has been charged with traveling to meet a minor for sexual purposes.
Christopher Blanchard, 36, of Marianna, is a registered sex offender and has been arrested on outstanding warrants for attempted murder, burglary, robbery, grand theft and grand auto theft.
https://eminetra.com/panama-city-fl-jackson-county-sex-predator-sting-yields-45-arrests/552391/
Tacoma woman sentenced to 6 years in prison for molesting child left in her care and making a video for her boyfriend
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/tacoma-woman-sentenced-6-years-prison-molesting-child-left-her-care-and-making-video
IMPD arrests man wanted for multiple child sex crimes
IMPD said thanks to members of the community, Greene was found and arrested less than seven hours after the information was publicly shared.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is looking for a man wanted for multiple sex crimes.
The IMPD said 18-year-old Kyree Greene has an active warrant for rape, child molesting and sexual battery.
https://cbs4indy.com/news/impd-looking-for-man-wanted-for-multiple-sex-crimes/
Denton child sex abuse suspect arrested in Oklahoma
The Denton Police Department picked up an Oklahoma inmate Tuesday on a warrant related to child sex abuse, according to a police report.
Jose Lucas Calero-Tierrablanca, 44, of Oklahoma was booked Wednesday into the Denton County Jail. He is charged with sexual performance by a child under 14 years.
According to a police report, the incident in Denton happened between December 2019 and December 2020. The child is 11 years old.
Jose Lucas Calero-Tierrablanca
Jose Lucas Calero-Tierrablanca
The abuse was reported in January 2021. Police in Oklahoma City arrested Calero-Tierrablanca on May 4 on the warrant from Denton police.
A person commits the offense if they knowingly employ, authorize or induce a child under 18 to engage in sexual conduct or performance. It’s a first-degree felony if the child is younger than 14.
Other reports
700 block of Fort Worth Drive — A McDonald's employee told police a customer hit them in the face Tuesday afternoon, according to a police report.
Police were dispatched to a possible assault around 5 p.m. Tuesday. The caller said a woman became upset when she received the wrong order, and a verbal altercation ensued. According to the report, the staffer tried to take a picture of the customer, who then knocked the phone out of their hand and hit them in the face with an open hand.
A report was taken, and an investigation is ongoing.
4900 block of South Interstate 35E — A car dealership reported someone used fraudulent information to purchase a Dodge on Tuesday, according to a police report.
The price of the gray 2020 Dodge Challenger wasn’t listed in the report, but the report is categorized as a theft of property between $30,000 and $150,000.
The buyer showed staff at the undisclosed dealership a pay stub and a Social Security card they later discovered were forged and fraudulent, according to the report. An investigation is ongoing.
600 block of Lakey Street — Electronics and hand tools were missing from a construction site Tuesday morning, and a door was pried open, according to a police report.
A caller Tuesday said someone broke into a building that was under construction over the weekend. The report says they were still identifying what items were taken, but electronics and hand tools were among them.
A report was taken, and an investigation is ongoing.
Roundup
From 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, the Denton Police Department handled 375 service and officer-initiated calls and made six arrests.
From Tuesday to Wednesday, 39 people were booked into the Denton County Jail.
https://dentonrc.com/news/crime/blotter/blotter-denton-child-sex-abuse-suspect-arrested-in-oklahoma/article_02906d3e-59a2-5337-89f9-536dd9e0a432.html
https://human.globalincidentmap.com/
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NY State Police Swarm Home Belonging To Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren
NEW YORK — New York State Police on Wednesday swarmed a home that is registered to Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren. Few details were available.
In October 2020, Warren, a Democrat, was indicted on two felony charges of breaking campaign finance rules.
https://breaking911.com/happening-now-ny-state-police-swarm-home-belonging-to-rochester-mayor-lovely-warren/
24 GOP House Reps Send Letter Slamming Biden Regime For Firing Space Force Officer Who Criticized Marxism
"We cannot allow temporary political appointees… purge those men and women in uniform who do not agree" with critical race theory.
“Based on the interviews themselves, these statements by a Space Force spokesperson seem entirely divorced from reality,” the letter exclaims. “According to his interviews, he raised concerns expressed in his book and on the podcast through his chain of command and through the Air Force Office of Inspector General. based on outreach we have conducted,” the letter adds, “Lohmeier has a stellar service record with no history of insubordination or malfeasance.”
Breaking 🚨 I led a letter with 23 of my @HouseGOP colleagues regarding the mistreatment of Lt. Col. Lohmeier & the rising threat of Marxist based, critical race theory in the military. Our military should focus on national security threats, not woke political ideology. #CRT pic.twitter.com/3wBtbCU6B0
— Rep. Doug Lamborn (@RepDLamborn) May 19, 2021
The letter then offers a series of examples of other active duty military officers and senior enlisted leaders “employing much more politicized speech” than that used by Lohmeier. Its first example is Air Force Chief of Staff, General David L. Goldfein, who recently remarked, “Every American should be outraged that the conduct exhibited by police in Minneapolis can still happen in 2020,” referring to the death of George Floyd. The letter also references several statements made by active duty members of the military which criticized Tucker Carlson after he made remarks critical of the Biden regime’s plan to create something called “maternity flight suits,” ostensibly so pregnant women can fly fighter jets and bombers.
“There were no actions taken against any of these senior leaders who publicly, in uniform, and from official Department of Defense accounts lambasted a private U.S. Citizen for having an opinion regarding defense policy which differed from the official DOD policy,” the letter adds. “In fact, the official Department of Defense website still proudly trumpets the headline “Press Secretary Smites Host That Dissed Diversity in U.S. Military.”
“Ultimately, there seems to be no material difference between the very public statements made by many senior leaders while in uniform and on official social media accounts, and those made by Lietenant Colonel Lohmeier in an unofficial capacity. The sole difference seems to be the ideological content of his remarks.”
“We cannot allow temporary political appointees at the Department of Defense who are ideologically motivated to purge those men and women in uniform who do not agree with the cultural or political fads of the moment,” the letter concludes. “We look forward to the expeditious reinstatement of Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier.”
https://nationalfile.com/breaking-24-gop-house-reps-send-letter-slamming-biden-regime-for-firing-space-force-officer-who-criticized-marxism/
NBA-Linked Fund Invests In Companies Flagged As ‘Tools’ Of Chinese Communist Party.
A venture capital firm backed by Kobe Bryant – the late National Basketball Association star – has invested in several Chinese Communist Party-linked companies, including those flagged by the U.S. State Department as “tools” of the Chinese government.
The firm – Bryant Stibel – began operating in 2013, counting $100 million in funding from the National Basketball Association (NBA) all-star. Among the companies funded by the investment arm are companies with Chinese Communist Party ties: Alibaba, VIPKid, and Full Truck Alliance.
Since 2016, the firm has invested in the online learning platform VIPkid alongside Tencent, which has been described as a “tool of the Chinese government” by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Noting the company has “no meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party ‘no’ if officials decide to ask for their assistance,” the department also counts Tencent as providing the “foundation of technology-facilitated surveillance and social control” in order for the Chinese government “to shape the world consistent with its authoritarian model.”
VIPKid, which has partnered with state-run media outlets such as China Daily, has even been criticized for attempting to influence school curricula by firing teachers who show maps with an independent Taiwan and Hong Kong and accurately describe the brutal Tiananmen Square massacre.
In contrast, during a 2016 interview at a Wall Street Journal forum, Bryant praised the company and its CEO, noting “it’s really about inspiring kids in to understand that there’s a much much bigger world out there.” VIPKid, however, has also expanded its reach into American classrooms, “donating” its services to several public school districts.
The Bryant Stibel fund has also invested in the China-based technology and e-commerce giant Alibaba alongside China Investment Corporation, a Chinese Communist Party sovereign wealth fund led by current and former high-level apparatchiks. In addition to Chinese Communist Party links at Alibaba’s leadership level, the company is also key to the country’s quest to overtake the U.S. in technology.
Similarly, the NBA-linked fund has also invested in the Chinese company Full Truck Alliance, the “leading online commercial freight platform in China in the full-truck-load segment.” Among the company’s funders is China Reform Fund Management, a private equity firm operating under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.
The fund’s holding company, as outlined by state-run media outlet China Daily, is “a wholly state-owned company approved by the State Council and an investment institution authorized by the State.” One of its primary objectives is “to support the Central Government’s technological innovation and industrial upgrading.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/nba-firm-invests-in-ccp-companies/
Misprints In Over 14,000 Mail-In Ballots Causes Multi-Day Delay In PA Election Results.
Thousands of mail-in primary ballots in a Pennsylvania election contained errors rendering them unable for scanning, forcing officials to launch a multi-day hand count of the votes.
“Elections officials said Michigan Elections Resources printed multi-sheet ballots in the wrong order, so the scanners are rejecting those ballots,” local media in Lancaster Country reported.
Discovered on Tuesday in the early morning, the error affected 14,000 mail-in ballots and will take three to four days to rectify.
“Those are being put in bins by themselves, the rejected bins. They will be put in a secure location and then hopefully starting Friday, as long as we can get the amount of people we’re going to need in order to do this, we’ll start to hand count those on Friday,” said Christa Miller, of the Lancaster County Board of Elections.
“Officials said election results from the polling places and the mail ballots that are able to be scanned will be posted after the polls close Tuesday night, but full results won’t be available until the hand count is completed,” local news added.
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/misprinted-mail-in-ballots-cause-multi-day-delay-in-pa-election/
EU wants firm pledges from tech giants in fake news fight
Facebook (FB.O), Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google and other tech giants will have to pledge to do more to curb the monetisation of false information through advertisement placements, according to a European Commission document seen by Reuters.
The EU executive also wants smaller social media or search services, private messaging services, ad exchanges, ad-tech providers, communication agencies and e-payment services, e-commerce platforms and crowdfunding/donation systems to commit to do the same, the document said.
The proposal is one of several which aims to address shortcomings in the voluntary code of practice on disinformation introduced in 2018 and to which Google, Facebook, Twitter (TWTR.N), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Mozilla and TikTok have signed up.
"One area, in particular, where the Code has failed to achieve sufficient progress is in the demonetisation of disinformation, where online advertisements still continue to incentivise the dissemination of disinformation," the document said.
The Commission wants platforms to tighten eligibility requirements and content review processes for content monetisation and ad revenue share programmes on their services to bar participation by actors that systematically post content debunked as disinformation.
Ad-tech companies in turn should identify the criteria used to place ads and adopt measures to verify where the ads are placed.
The document also wants the companies to clearly and effectively label political and issue based ads, distinguishing them as paid-for content.
The updated code of conduct also sets out key performance indicators for the first time to allow authorities to verify that the companies are living up to their pledges.
Companies will be given until the end of September to come up with a draft of their commitments. The Commission will present the updated code on May 26
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-wants-firm-pledges-tech-giants-fake-news-fight-2021-05-19/
Toronto turns out in huge numbers for Worldwide Freedom Rally
On Saturday, May 15, tens of thousands of Ontarians attended the Worldwide Freedom Rally on the lawns of Queen's Park, Ontario's legislature, in downtown Toronto.
As we do each week, Rebel News journalists, videographers and editors provided on the ground coverage of the rally. We know that the state-funded media won’t, so it’s usually all hands on deck — not just in Toronto, but across Canada.
As the weather gets warmer, and people become increasingly aware of government inconsistencies and nonsensical closures, it is more socially and politically acceptable to speak out against the harm of lockdowns. As a result we are seeing protest numbers growing each week.
At this rally I caught up with People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, the “Clothing Isn’t Essential” Thong Man, a first time protester, a concerned mother, and several others including two individuals who had fled communist regimes that sounded alarm bells on what they’re seeing unfold in Canada.
Protesters are hopeful that as numbers grow, with more doctors speaking out, and elected officials get the courage to speak on their constituents behalf, that Premier Doug Ford's government will finally start to listen and change their pandemic response to a more balanced approach.
https://www.rebelnews.com/toronto_turns_out_in_huge_numbers_for_worldwide_freedom_rally
Vancouver rallygoers denounce “extremist” labels at Worldwide Freedom Rally
This past Saturday, around 1,000 Canadians gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery to protest against the totalitarian COVID-19 restrictions, unelected political health officers, and bureaucrats who have implemented rules which have eroded most of the fundamental rights and freedoms of Canadians.
The protest was part of the second Worldwide Freedom Rally, which was hosted in 45 cities across the world, including in Toronto, Ontario, where People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier called out politicians like NDP leader Jagmeet Singh for labelling freedom-minded protesters in Canada as racists.
Recently, Singh publicly suggested that there is a link between people who “don’t wear a mask” and “far-right extremists” who don’t care about other people. Calgary’s mayor, Naheed Nenshi, also accused people who march at freedom rallies “as marching in thinly veiled white nationalist supremacist anti-government protests.”
I decided to ask what mainstream media journalists won’t: I asked the very people these politicians are slapping labels on, including the rallies organizers, Danielle Kinchella-Pistelli, and Alicia Johnson, if they are, in fact, part of a far-right extremist, white nationalist/supremacist movement, and if not, what the actual purpose of their protest was for.
https://www.rebelnews.com/vancouver_rallygoers_denounce_extremist_labels_at_worldwide_freedom_rally
Facial recognition, fake identities and digital surveillance tools: Inside the post office's covert internet operations program
The post office’s law enforcement arm has faced intense congressional scrutiny in recent weeks over its Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), which tracks social media posts of Americans and shares that information with other law enforcement agencies. Yet the program is much broader in scope than previously known and includes analysts who assume fake identities online, use sophisticated intelligence tools and employ facial recognition software, according to interviews and documents reviewed by Yahoo News.
Among the tools used by the analysts is Clearview AI, a facial recognition software that scrapes images off public websites, a practice that has raised the ire of privacy advocates. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service uses Clearview’s facial recognition database of over 3 billion images from arrest photos collected from across social media “to help identify unknown targets in an investigation or locate additional social media accounts for known individuals,” according to materials reviewed by Yahoo News.
Other tools employed by the Inspection Service include Zignal Labs’ software, which it uses to run keyword searches on social media event pages to identify potential threats from upcoming scheduled protests, according to Inspection Service documents. It also uses Nfusion, another software program, to create and maintain anonymous, untraceable email and social media accounts.
The Inspection Service’s expansive surveillance program has raised concerns among lawmakers and privacy and civil liberties experts, and the use of sophisticated software tools raises even more questions.
“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service appears to be putting significant resources into covert monitoring of social media and the creation and use of undercover accounts. If these efforts are directed toward surveilling lawful protesters, the public and Congress need to know why this is happening, under what authority and subject to what kinds of oversight and protections,” said Rachel Levinson-Waldman, deputy director of the Liberty & National Security Program of the Brennan Center for Justice.
In response to queries from Yahoo News, the Inspection Service defended the iCOP program. “This review of publicly available open source information, including news reports and social media, is one piece of a comprehensive security and threat analysis, and the information obtained is the same information anyone can access as a private citizen,” wrote a spokesperson for the inspection service. “News report and social media listening activity helps protect the 644,000 men and women who work for the Postal Service by ensuring they are able to avoid potentially volatile situations while working to process and deliver the nation’s mail every day.”
The spokesperson referred to the software used by iCOP as “standard law enforcement techniques and tools, which are strictly controlled relative to the investigation of criminal suspects and criminal activities.”
https://news.yahoo.com/facial-recognition-fake-identities-and-digital-surveillance-tools-inside-the-post-offices-covert-internet-operations-program-214234762.html
https://www.scribd.com/document/508377423/ICOP-History-Redacted#from_embed