An Oregon man who was found guilty of encouraging child sexual abuse has received a slap on the wrist from the judge who sentenced the pedophile to just 90 days in prison and allowed him to serve his time behind bars “at his own convenience.” On Wednesday, 27-year-old Scott Johnson of St. Helens, about 30 miles north of Portland, plead guilty to three counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in... 

A 37-year-old Nigerian migrant was arrested in the Italian city of Parma after allegedly sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl in the bathroom of his shop. The Nigerian has been placed under house arrest following his initial arrest by Italian Carabinieri in response to allegations levelled by the child’s mother, a close friend of the man accused, Il Giornale reports. According to investigators,... 

A former police detective in South Africa who published a book exposing members of an alleged elite pedophile ring killed himself just days later, with his family believing that the man’s death was actually murder. Mark Minnie’s book, The Lost Boys of Bird Island, claims to prove that members of South Africa’s last Apartheid government took children to Bird Island, just off the coast of Port... 

Hollywood is in the grip of a child sexual abuse scandal similar to that of Jimmy Savile in Britain, Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has claimed. The 35-year-old former child actor said pedophiles had been protected by powerful figures in the movie business and that abuse was probably still taking place. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Wood said he had been protected from abuse as he was... 

Prominent criminal barrister Alex Lewenberg allegedly told a victim of a sex offender he should not have co-operated with police. Members of Australia’s Orthodox Jewish community who assist police investigating alleged child sexual abuse have been pressured to stay silent, secret tape recordings and emails obtained by Fairfax Media reveal. The details of the pressure being exerted on victims...