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Child Sex Abuse: Alleged culprit pleads for leniency in Adamawa

Yakubu Uba Oct 18, 2019 0

A 30-year-old water vendor caught defiling a nine-year-old girl in Adamawa has pleaded for leniency on the grounds that he had not “concluded” his act before he was apprehended. The suspect, Mohammed Babangida, who was paraded by the…

Crime

Child sex abuse: Ex Anglican dean jailed in Australia, Graeme Lawrence

News Agency of Nigeria Oct 17, 2019 0

An Australian judge on Thursday sentenced Graeme Lawrence, 77, to eight years in jail, for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy in 1991 local media reported. Lawrence, a former Anglican dean of Newcastle in eastern Australia was sentenced…

Religion

Vatican Cardinal Denies Attempts To Cover Up Child Sex Abuse In Church

News Agency of Nigeria Mar 3, 2016 0

A high-ranking Vatican official on Wednesday denied trying to bribe an Australian man who was sexually abused as a child by a Roman Catholic priest to ensure his silence in a bid to protect the church. Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's…