Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!

3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

Please note: All my writings and comments appear in bold italics in this colour

Thursday 28 March 2024

Nickelodeon - A small army of pedophiles and perverts

 

Nickelodeon hired or worked with 5 accused

child molesters and pedophiles: report

Nickelodeon reportedly hired accused and convicted child molesters and pedophiles who worked on the set of kids shows that were produced by the Paramount-owned cable network.

Legal records obtained by DailyMail.com found that the network employed or worked with five child predators, as well as two others who were accused of pedophilia.

The staggering figure was previously unknown but came to light after a recent HBO documentary, titled “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids’ TV,” included testimonials from child actors who allege they were subjected to abuse on the sets of Nickelodeon shows such as “All That,” “The Amanda Show,” “Drake & Josh” and “Victorious.”

In the documentary, former child star Drake Bell, now 37, alleged that when he was 15, he was sexually assaulted by Brian Peck, who worked as Nickelodeon’s dialogue coach.

Peck was arrested in 2003.

The next year, he was sentenced to 16 months in jail and ordered to register as a sex offender after pleading no contest to two child sexual abuse charges.

Peck went on to work for Disney.

In 2021, Bell, who co-starred alongside Josh Peck (no relation to Brian Peck) on “Drake & Josh,” pleaded guilty to attempted child endangerment and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles.

Cody Longo, the star of “Hollywood Heights,” a show that aired on TeenNick in 2012, was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Colorado in 2019.Montgomery County Jail

Prosecutors alleged that he sent “inappropriate social media messages” to a 15-year-old and “created a risk of harm to the victim” when she attended his concert in 2017.

The HBO documentary also revealed that Jason Handy, a Nickelodeon production assistant who described himself in his personal journal as a “pedophile, full blown,” sent a photo of himself masturbating to Brandi Carlile, who at the time was the 11-year-old actress who guest-starred on “The Amanda Show.”

In 2004, Handy pleaded no contest to felony counts of lewd acts on a 9-year-old child, distributing sexually explicit material and a misdemeanor of child sexual exploitation.

Ezell Channel worked at Nickelodeon. He was convicted of molesting two young children.

He was sentenced to six years in federal prison.

After his release, he was once again charged with indecent liberties with a child and sex offender registry violations.

Handy remains incarcerated in federal prison. His release date has been set for 2038.

Marty Weiss, a 58-year-old talent manager who steered clients to Nickelodeon, was convicted of lewd acts with a 12-year-old male client.


A former client told police in 2012 that he was molested by Weiss between 30 and 40 times over a period of three years when the boy was around 11 years old.

Weiss served less than six months in jail.

Cody Longo, the star of “Hollywood Heights,” a show that aired on TeenNick in 2012, was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Colorado in 2019.

Longo pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in 2021.

Last year, Longo, who struggled with alcoholism, was found dead at his Austin, Texas, home. He was 34.




Ezell Channel, 54, was hired as a production assistant at Nickelodeon in 2005 despite his 2003 conviction for lewd acts with a child under 14.

In 2005, a mother reported Channel to the police after prosecutors alleged that he lured a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old into a studio, showed them pornography and inappropriately touched them.

Channel was convicted and then released again in 2010.

He is currently homeless in Los Angeles, according to DailyMail.com.

The HBO documentary devoted two episodes to Dan Schneider, a producer of several hit kids shows on Nickelodeon.

Martin Weiss, a talent manager who represented actors who starred on Nickelodeon shows, was arrested for alleged child molestation.Splash News

While Schneider was not accused of any sexual misconduct, he was alleged to have fostered a culture of bullying, sexism and racism.

He has denied the claims.

The documentary included a video showing Schneider in a hot tub alongside child star Amanda Bynes.

Schneider, 58, broke his silence on Monday.

A rep for the former king of kid TV shows said: “Everything that happened on the shows Dan ran was carefully scrutinized by dozens of involved adults, and approved by the network.”

“If there was an actual problem with the scenes that some people, now years later are ‘sexualizing,’ they would be taken down, but they are not, they are aired constantly all over the world today still, enjoyed by both kids and parents.”

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Islamic Insanity > Devout Muslim Men hate women, Taliban threatens flogging, stoning of women for adultery

 

Afghanistan: Taliban’s Supreme Leader says

‘We will flog women in public, we will

stone them to death in public’

‘Umar said, “I am afraid that after a long time has passed, people may say, “We do not find the Verses of the Rajam (stoning to death) in the Holy Book,” and consequently they may go astray by leaving an obligation that Allah has revealed. Lo! I confirm that the penalty of Rajam be inflicted on him who commits illegal sexual intercourse, if he is already married and the crime is proved by witnesses or pregnancy or confession.” Sufyan added, “I have memorized this narration in this way.” ‘Umar added, “Surely Allah’s Apostle carried out the penalty of Rajam, and so did we after him.” (Bukhari, vol. 8, bk. 82, no. 816)

“Allah’s Apostle” is, of course, Muhammad, who according to canonical ahadith did indeed carry out stonings. Here is the hadith in which he challenges the rabbis about stoning, and in which there is amidst the barbarism and brutality a final act of love and compassion:

The Jews came to Allah’s Apostle and told him that a man and a woman from amongst them had committed illegal sexual intercourse. Allah’s Apostle said to them, “What do you find in the Torah (old Testament) about the legal punishment of Ar-Rajm (stoning)?” They replied, (But) we announce their crime and lash them.” Abdullah bin Salam said, “You are telling a lie; Torah contains the order of Rajm.” They brought and opened the Torah and one of them solaced his hand on the Verse of Rajm and read the verses preceding and following it. Abdullah bin Salam said to him, “Lift your hand.” When he lifted his hand, the Verse of Rajm was written there. They said, “Muhammad has told the truth; the Torah has the Verse of Rajm. The Prophet then gave the order that both of them should be stoned to death. (‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar said, “I saw the man leaning over the woman to shelter her from the stones.” (Bukhari, vol. 4, bk. 56, no. 829)

Even the monkeys practiced stoning, according to another hadith:

During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them. (Bukhari, vol. 5, bk. 58, no. 188)

Muhammad’s example is, of course, normative for Islamic behavior: “Indeed in the messenger of Allah you have an excellent example for him who looks to Allah and the last day, and remembers Allah a great deal.” (Qur’an 33:21)



Tuesday 26 March 2024

Where there is Honey > Deputy Sheriff - years of child sex abuse; Scout leader jailed for 3rd and last time

 

There is a saying in Russia - Where there is honey, there will be flies! It refers to pedophiles ability to smell out child victims and place themselves to have access to them, often in a position of responsibility. Unfortunately, it is not restricted to Russia but is everywhere there are children.


Victim's testimony helps convict sheriff's deputy after yearslong child sexual abuse


It took the girl a day of prayer to tell her mother she'd been molested. Even after she did, her abuser remained a fixture in their life for years to come.


Hannah Phillips
Palm Beach Post

Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of child sexual abuse that readers may find disturbing.



WEST PALM BEACH — Jurors convicted a Broward County sheriff's deputy of child sexual battery Thursday, moved by the testimony of the young woman he molested decades earlier.

Oshea, who asked to be identified by her first name only, cried while recounting the times that Verol Cowans violated her on the drives to Roosevelt Elementary in West Palm Beach, where she attended the third grade. She said the abuse escalated at home, where her mother's then-boyfriend showed Oshea pornography and sexually assaulted her when the two were alone.

Cowans, a 66-year-old corrections officer who now faces life in prison, remained expressionless throughout her testimony. He later took the stand to deny the charges against him, maintaining that his only crime was being an inattentive father — paying more attention to Oshea's step-siblings, his own children, than to her.

Prosecutors countered the deputy's story with a recorded phone call in which Cowans appeared to admit to the crime and offer an explanation for why he did it.

"Given the right circumstances — in law enforcement, we say 'opportunity' — if you have an intent, all you need is opportunity," Cowans told Oshea, unaware of the detective listening in. "If you have intent, you have the ability. All you need is opportunity."

Cowans had all of the above, said assistant state attorneys Karen Black and Alexa Ruggiero. Even after Oshea, then 12, told her mother of the abuse that began five years earlier, Cowans remained a fixture in their home. Her mother told jurors that the financial support Cowans provided took precedence over her daughter's safety.

The mother deserves to be jailed too.

Defense attorney claims victim confused her childhood memories of abuse

Oshea, now in her early 30s, didn't talk about the abuse again for more than a decade. She told jurors that she wanted to report Cowans before she got married and had her first child, but both milestones passed without a word to police.

It wasn’t until she moved to a different city, far from Cowans, that Oshea said she “was finally able to stand up to the monster who stole my innocence away.”

Her report to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in 2019 triggered the response she’d expected when she told her mother years earlier. Deputies arrested Cowans while he worked at a satellite jail in Pompano Beach, pointing to incriminating statements he'd made when Oshea confronted him about the abuse in a call secretly monitored by PBSO.

In the call, played aloud for jurors during the trial, Cowans said he was "a different person then."

"This is one area of my life that I regret so much," the deputy said. "Man's heart is full of wickedness."

Defense attorney Bobby Gentile told jurors that Cowans was talking about his strained father-daughter relationship with the girl — not sexual abuse. He argued that Oshea had confused her decades-old memories of abuse and misidentified Cowans as the perpetrator.

Gentile pointed to a statement Oshea made during her initial interview with detectives. She said that years before Cowans entered her life, she'd suffered the same abuse at the hands of a babysitter.

"What impact would that have on a child at 4, or 5 or 6 years old?" Gentile's co-counselor, Michael Dutko, asked jurors. "What impact would that have, that might later result in flawed, faulty memories?"

Oshea called the argument "an insult, like a slap in the face." She said she trusted her memory but could only hope that jurors would, too. It took them an afternoon of deliberation to tell her, and the judge, that they did.

Deputy remains suspended without pay in the wake of his conviction

The Broward County Sheriff's Office suspended Cowans without pay following his arrest in 2019. In an emailed statement to The Palm Beach Post that same year, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said that any employee found guilty of a criminal offense, "especially as it relates to the nature of these allegations," would be permanently removed from service.

When asked about Cowans' employment status in the wake of his conviction, BSO spokesperson Veda Coleman-Wright said he remains suspended without pay.

Cowans, who lived in Port St. Lucie, was hired as a detention deputy in 2005 and left for personal reasons in June 2011. He was rehired in 2013. Records show that Cowans was a loss-prevention officer for a hotel in Palm Beach prior to his initial stint with the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Circuit Judge Howard Coates is scheduled to sentence him at 1:30 p.m. on May 23. Cowans faces life in prison on three counts of sexual battery on a child younger than 12.

When asked Friday what advice she would give other survivors of sexual abuse, Oshea's message was simple: Stop being silent.

"Speak the truth, scream it to the sky. It’s time to yell, it’s time to scream, it’s time to end the silence," Oshea said. "The secrets that the monsters tell us to keep are not our secrets. It’s not our shame. We have nothing to be ashamed of."

If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, the Palm Beach County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center can help. Reach their helpline at 561-833-7273, or toll-free at 866-891-7273.




Former scout leader jailed for third time for

child sex abuse

Richard Madden,BBC News
John Pycock, 83, has been placed on the sex offenders register for life

A former scout leader has been jailed for 14 years after he was found guilty of sex offences against a boy

more than three decades ago.

John Pycock, 83, of Winn Street, Lincoln, had denied abusing the boy in the late 1980s and early 1990s 

while he was a scout leader in Billinghay and then Fiskerton.

A jury at Lincoln Crown Court convicted him of indecency with a child, two counts of indecent assault 

and two other serious sexual offences.

It is the third prison term being served by Pycock who has been placed on the sex offenders register

for life.

He was previously jailed for six years in November 2020 after admitting three charges involving sex offences

against a young girl.

He was also given a 51 month sentence in June 2014 when he admitted five sex offences against young boys.

At Friday's sentencing, Lincoln Crown Court heard Pycock was in poor health and faced the prospect of 

never leaving prison.