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All told seven people had been accused of 74 charges of child sexual exploitation including rape, false imprisonment and the procuring of children to become prostitutes.
We cannot pretend trafficking does not exist. Today experts from across the EU will meet for discussions in Dublin to support victims and bring the organised gangs to justice, writes Denise Charlton.
A new report on human trafficking by the European Commission has found that although the numbers of those trafficked in Europe rose by 18 per cent between 2008 and 2010, convictions dropped by 13 per cent.
A campaign dedicated to eliminating the degrading treatment of women in advertising wrote to the Taoiseach in 1982 to highlight the ‘continual humiliation’ of women in the media.
THE NUMBER OF TEENAGERS who are extorted online after post revealing images of themselves on the internet is increasing, say US authorities.
Teens who flash body parts on internet chatrooms are being contacted by people threatening to share the images among their friends if they don’t send more videos and images.
AP outlines a number of recent cases being investigated by federal prosecutors in America.
In February, Anthony Stancl was sentenced to 15 years in prison for extorting male classmates. Stancl, who was 18 at the time, had tricked the teens by posing as a girl on Facebook.
After they had send explicit photos, Stancl threatened to post the photos online unless they engaged in sexual activity with him.
TV and online campaigns encouraging teens to “think before you post” have been launched to try to increase awareness of the risks of exploitation:
The government made the move following an increase of Covid-19 cases in these counties in recent weeks.
Local TDs have said there’s a high degree of dissatisfaction over the move. Kildare North TD Catherine Murphy questioned the reasoning behind the county lockdown, stating that the spike in cases is primarily focused on either food processing plants and Direct Provision centres in the counties.
She said there is a lot of anger among the general public due to the problems in those sectors “not being dealt with”.
In a series of tweets explaining the rationale behind the decision, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said it would not be enough to just isolate the factories as the people working in them live right across the community.
“The goal is to suppress transmission in the community, which needs everyone to limit their interactions for two weeks,” he said.
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