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STOP A BULLY CANADA- STATISTICS... SEPTEMBER 2013







CANADIAN BULLYING STATISTICS
A study on bullying by the University of British Columbia, based on 490 students (half female, half male) in Grades 8-10 in a B.C. city in the winter of 1999, showed:
  • » 64 per cent of kids had been bullied at school.
  • » 12 per cent were bullied regularly (once or more a week).
  • » 13 per cent bullied other students regularly (once or more a week).
  • » 72 per cent observed bullying at school at least once in a while.
  • » 40 per cent tried to intervene.
  • » 64 per cent considered bullying a normal part of school life.
  • » 20-50 per cent said bullying can be a good thing (makes people tougher, is a good way to solve problems, etc.).
  • » 25-33 per cent said bullying is sometimes OK and/or that it is OK to pick on losers.
  • » 61-80 per cent said bullies are often popular and enjoy high status among their peers.

Source: Centre For Youth Social Development, UBC Faculty of Education

- 1 in 5 Canadian Teens have witnessed online Bullying
- 25% of kids between 12-15 have witnessed cyberbullying
- 25% of girls and 17% of boys have witnessed online harassment
- 51% of all teens have had negative experience with social networking
- 16% said someone posted an embarassing photo of them
- 12% said someone hacked their account
Source: Ipsos Reid 2011 Survey of 416 Canadian Teenagers

Canada Bullying Statistics and Facts:
  • Punching, shoving, teasing, spreading bad rumours, keeping certain people out of a group, getting certain people to "gang-up" on others are all forms of bullying
  • One in seven Canadian children aged 11 to 16 are victims of bullying
  • 25% of children in grades 4 to 6 have been bullied
  • Bullying occurs once every 7 minutes on the playground and once every 25 minutes in the classroom
  • In majority of cases, bullying stops within 10 seconds when peers intervene, or do not support the bullying behaviour
  • Adults who were bullied as children are more likely to suffer from depression in adulthood.
  • * Between 10% and 15% of high school students are victims.
  • * 11% of secondary students bully other youngsters at least once a year.
  • * 31% of students say they would participate in the bullying of a young dislikes.

Source: Craig &. Pepler, 1997

Cyberbullying Statistics
* 90% of parents are familiar with cyberbullying; 73% are either very or somewhat concerned about it.
* 2 in 5 parents report their child has been involved in a cyberbullying incident; 1 in 4 educators have been cyber-harassment victims.
*  73% of educators are familiar with the issue and 76% believe cyberbullying is a very or somewhat serious problem at their school.
* Educators consider cyberbullying (76%) as big an issue as smoking (75%) and drugs (75%).
The study adds that "the most commonly experienced form of cyberbullying
is when someone takes a private email, IM, or text message and forwards it to someone
else or posts the communication publicly"

*38% of girls online report being bullied, compared with 26% of online boys.
* Nearly 4 in 10 social network users (39%) have been cyberbullied, compared with 22% of online teens who do not use social networks (all from
Pew, 2007).
Source: Microsoft's Truthyworthy Computing division


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FOR KIDS- TWEENS-TEENS-YOUNGBLOODS- But perhaps most of all..... each and every Canadain Adult- we must take more responsibility and be more vigilant:


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AUSTRALIA...

13 child suicides in three years prompt call for action as bullying ...




May 24, 2013 - Reyelle McKeever, manager of the Child Death Register at the ... Australia topping a list of 24 countries when it came to bullying on social networks. ... Bullied at work Posted at 10:30 AM May 25, 2013 .... 58% off Koh Samui getaway for 2 with daily breakfast, spa session, dinner, cooking class & more!

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BREAKING THE CHAINS OF ABUSE-  NO MORE EXCUSES



Bullying info and statistics CANADA

Don't Stand Alone

Compiled by Ark of Hope for Children these child abuse statistics have been gathered to show the need for programs like our Don't Stand Alone - Stop Bulling program.  If you are a target of bullying right now, or have been and still feel the pain, join us on Removing Chains live chat survivor support. Don't Stand Alone!

We recognize that, in recent years, a series of bullying-related suicides in the US and across the globe have drawn attention to the connection between bullying and suicide. Too many adults still see bullying as "just part of being a kid." It is a serious problem that leads to many negative effects for victims, including suicide. Research is showing that there is also a link between being a bully and committing suicide.

Some schools or regions seem to have more serious problems with bullying, and suicide related to bullying. This may be due to an excessive problem with bullying at the school. Unsympathetic apathy among teachers, staff and parents at those schools definitely has had a negative effect.

Types of Bullying:
•Bullying can take many forms but it usually includes the following types of behavior;
•Physical: hitting, kicking, pinching, punching, scratching, spitting or any other form of physical attack
•Damage to or taking someone else's belongings
•Verbal: name calling, insulting, making racist, sexist, or homophobic jokes, remarks or teasing, using sexually suggestive or abusive language, offensive remarks
•Indirect: spreading nasty stories about someone, exclusion from social groups, being made the subject of malicious rumors, sending abusive mail, email and text messages (cyber bullying)



Cyber Bullying:

Any type of bullying that is carried out by electronic medium. There are 7 types including;
•Text message bullying
•Picture/video clip via mobile phone cameras
•Phone call bullying
•E-mail bullying
•Chat-room bullying
•Bullying through instant messaging (IM)
•Bullying via websites



Bullying Statistics are alarming;
•282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month
•56% of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school
•71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school
•Students in lower grades report being in twice as many fights as those in higher grades. However..
•There is a lower rate of serious violent crimes in the elementary level than in the middle or high schools
•90% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying
•30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying (reported by ABC News)
•1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying
•American schools harbor approx 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims. (Dan Olweus,
•National School Safety Center)
•160,000 kids stay home from school every day due to fear of bullying (National Education Association & ABC News)
•15% of all school absenteeism is directly related to fears of being bullied at school
•1 of every 10 students who drops out of school does so because of repeated bullying



Bullying & Homosexuality:
•In a 2007 study, 86% of LGBT students said that they had experienced harassment at school during the previous year. (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network -- GLSEN)
•Research indicates that LGB youth may be more likely to think about and attempt suicide than heterosexual teens. (GLSEN)
•In a 2005 survey, students said their peers were most often bullied because of their appearance, but the next top reason was because of actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender expression. ("From Teasing to Torment: School Climate of America" -- GLSEN and Harris Interactive)
•According to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network 2007 National School Climate Survey of more than 6,000 students;
•Nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT youth reported being verbally harassed at school in the past year because of their sexual orientation
•Nearly half (44.1 percent) reported being physically harassed
•About a quarter (22.1 percent) reported being physically assaulted
•Nearly two-thirds (60.8 percent) who experienced harassment or assault never reported the incident to the school
•Of those who did report the incident, nearly one-third (31.1 percent) said the school staff did nothing in response

  

Lethal violence in schools related to bullying;
•Bullying statistics say revenge is the strongest motivation for school shootings
•86% of students said, other kids picking on them, making fun of or bullying them makes teens to turn to lethal violence in the schools
•87% of students said shootings are motivated by a desire to get back at those who have hurt them
•61% of students said students shoot others because they have been victims of physical abuse at home
•54% of students said witnessing physical abuse at home can lead to violence in school
•Harassment and bullying have been linked to 75% of school-shooting incidents
•Among students, homicide perpetrators were more than twice as likely as homicide victims to have been bullied by peers
•1 out of 20 students has seen a student with a gun at school



Bullying and suicide;
•Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people- about 4,400 per year
•For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 attempts- about 440,000!
•14+% high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 % have attempted it
•Bully victims are 2-9 times more likely to consider suicide (Yale University study)
•At least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying (British study)
•10- 14 year old girls may be at higher risk for suicide (British study above)



Bully-related suicide can be connected to any type of bullying, including;
•Physical bullying
•Emotional bullying
•Cyber bullying
•Sexting or circulating suggestive or nude photos or texts about a person



Bullycide: Bully Related Suicide
•Suicide rates among 10 to 14-year-olds have grown more than 50 percent over the last three decades. (The American Association of Suicidology, AAS)
•Consider the following bullying statistics that Ark of Hope for Children has been able to gather;
•Suicide remains among the leading causes of death of children under 14. And in most cases, the young people die from hanging. (AAS)
•The suicide rate among young male adults in Massachusetts rose 28 percent in 2007. (Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health, in a report released April 8, 2009)
•A new review of studies from 13 countries found signs of an apparent connection between bullying, being bullied, and suicide. (Yale School of Medicine)
•Since 2002, at least 15 schoolchildren ages 11 to 14 have committed suicide in Massachusetts. Three of them were Carl's age. ("Constantly Bulled, He Ends His Life at Age 11," by Milton J. Valencia. The Boston Globe, April 20, 2009)
•In 2005 (the last year nationwide stats were available), 270 children in the 10-14 age group killed themselves. (AAS)



Ark of Hope for Children's bullying statistical sources:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Suicide Prevention, Yale University, Office of Public Affairs, WebMD

 









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WINNIPEG

MacKay promises cyberbullying law

Justice Minister Peter MacKay says the Tories will introduce new legislation in the fall to fight cyberbullying.

MacKay was at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection in Winnipeg to make a donation to mark the birth of Prince George.

MacKay says the whole nation has been touched by the death of a 15-year-old Saskatchewan boy who was apparently driven to suicide because of bullying.

The teen’s mother, Kim Loik, says she wants to see Ottawa bring in national anti-bullying legislation.

MacKay says she won’t have long to wait . (CP)


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O T TAWA

Teens plead guilty in Facebook escort case

Two of three teenage Ottawa girls accused of befriending other teens through Facebook and other social media before forcing them to work as “escorts" have pleaded guilty in a surprise about-face at trial.

Justice Diane Lahaie has ordered a pre-sentence report and a psychiatric review of a 16-year­old girl who pleaded guilty to six charges, including human traffick­ing , making and distributing child pornography and exploitation. She is to be sentenced on Dec. 20.

A 17-year-old girl pleaded guilty to exploitation, assault, uttering threats and breaching bail condi­tions.



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 So many of us are grannies and grampas.... and we still have 2 walk the talk 4 justice 4 children- which should be the norm in the year 2013.   Canada... we can do better... thank u Jesus... we are having an inquiry,.... and hunting and nailing PAEDOPHILES should not be so hard anymore- r kds matter







INQUIRY IN2 NOVA SCOTIA HOME 4 COLOURED CHILDREN BLACK ON BLACK CHILD ABUSE (mind rape/physical torture/sexual assault:) 









Inquiry into alleged abuse at orphanage to start in spring: McNeil
CTV Atlantic
 Last Updated Thursday, October 31, 2013 6:50PM ADT 


 NOVA SCOTIA HOME 4 COLOURED CHILDREN 1921

Nova Scotia’s new government is moving forward on an election promise to launch a public inquiry into allegations of abuse at the former Nova Scotia Home for Coloured Children.

Former residents of the home allege they suffered sexual, physical and psychological abuse by staff at the facility over a 50-year period up until the 1980s.

Premier Stephen McNeil says he expects terms of reference for the probe will be in place before the end of the year, and the inquiry itself possibly beginning in the spring.

“It’s encouraging news. We’re looking forward to being part of that,” says former orphanage resident Tony Smith. “To do this in such a short time, knowing how long we’ve been fighting, really is, to us, showing us respect.”

McNeil made the comment after his first cabinet meeting Thursday morning.

First, he plans to hear from Robert Wright, the social worker appointed by the Dexter government earlier this year, to help form an independent panel to address the allegations.

“The department, along with Robert Wright, have been out trying to set terms of reference,” says McNeil. “I think they will be releasing the findings of that committee, I think are going to be released sometime next week.”

McNeil says he hopes to have the terms of reference for the inquiry set by the start of 2014.

A proposed class-action lawsuit is also before the courts, between former residents and the province. A decision on whether the class-action will go forward is expected to come down soon.

More than 130 former residents are part of the proposed suit – one the previous government has fought to prevent from going forward.

McNeil says, as of Thursday, he hasn’t instructed the Department of Justice to drop their objections to the lawsuit, but he has asked to be briefed on the matter.

“I’m certainly wanting to hear from the department. This is a file that obviously I’m going to be taking a great deal of personal interest in,” says McNeil. “I’ve been very clear on the direction I want to go, but I think in fairness to the department, I need to hear from them first.”

McNeil also says the former orphanage residents will notice a different tone from his government.

Mike Dull, the lawyer representing the residents, says that leaves them optimistic.

“Many experts say that the approach taken by the past government, by Darrell Dexter, was not constructive and in fact harmful to victims of abuse at the Nova Scotia Home for Coloured Children,” says Dull. “We’re optimistic that Stephen McNeil and his team understands that and has listened to the experts and is going to take a different approach.”

With files from CTV Atlantic's Jacqueline Foster







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Bully gets Facebook probation

October 30, 2013 - 7:46pm BY MARY ELLEN MACINTYRE CAPE BRETON BUREAU



A Sydney teenager was ordered to give her social media passwords to her probation officer after receiving a 15-month sentence on Wednesday for online bullying. (FILE)
SYDNEY — A teenager whose attack of a school mate was videotaped and placed on Facebook has been sentenced to 15 months’ probation.

The 15-year-old girl, who earlier this month pleaded guilty to assault, was also ordered Wednesday to give all her social media passwords to her probation officer.

The order wasn’t quite what Crown attorney Steve Drake had asked for when he urged the court to consider banning the girl from all social media.

Afterwards, Drake said the youth court judge gave his request considerable thought “and came down in the middle. It’s not exactly what we had asked for, but it was in the right direction.”

Defence lawyer Cheryl Morrison had opposed the proposed ban, saying: “What the Crown is asking for … amounts to a public shaming. It’s a modern day shunning on her first sentence.”

She also objected to the way Drake described the assault during the sentencing hearing.

He had described the assault against the victim, who has high-functioning autism, as particularly vicious and noted that one police officer had described the girl as the bully of all bullies.

The prosecutor noted the assault lasted just 10 to 12 seconds, but the video showed the offender, who was then 14, punching, the victim in the face and kicking her when she fell down.

Morrison said the reference to bully of all bullies was not only unfair but it was also untrue.

She also said the publicity surrounding the case was a “tempest in a teapot.”

Morrison told the judge she’s seen worse assaults involving much more damage to the victim and the difference in this case was the fact “there’s a videotape.”

For his part, Drake said he merely presented accurate facts and they were not sugar coated.

The offender, whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was also given a number of conditions, including obeying curfew at the youth facility in which she now lives and staying away from individuals known to have a criminal record.

Asked if he expects to see more cases where sentencing could include social media bans or monitoring of social media activity by probation officers, Drake suggested he wouldn’t be surprised.

“The sentencing,” he said, “is instructive for cases across the province.”

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BY MARY ELLEN MACINTYRE CAPE BRETON BUREAU







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Cyberbullying and policing the internet



A lack of physical interaction makes it hard to judge the effects of online harassment

By Carter West
 Published: 12:18 am, 28 October 2013
 Vol CXXXIV, No. 08 under Comment

In the Speech from the Throne earlier this month, Governor General David Johnston included a promise that the Conservative government will take a new, tougher stance against cyberbullying. The forthcoming legislation is a small part of the government’s new initiative to “restore victims to their rightful place at the heart of our justice system.” This promise comes in reaction to a recent slew of deaths among young Canadians, who took their own lives after enduring various kinds of online attacks and harassment. It also raises some questions about the preparedness of current governments to address the new problems posed by the Internet.

There is a vague pronouncement making the rounds that the rights of criminals in Canada are out of hand. In response to the heartbreaking stories of teens driven to suicide after online harassment, some are arguing that the tried and true method of “innocent until proven guilty” places undue stress on victims waiting for resolution. The voicing of this public sentiment was particularly loud in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17-year-old girl from Nova Scotia who was driven to suicide after photos of her sexual assualt were distributed over the web. Having to manage not only the scarring aftermath of a physical crime, but also the persistent bullying by her peers ultimately resulted in the young girl’s death.

After scattered details of the events leading to the teenage girl’s death were revealed, it became clear that her harassers had not been brought to justice immediately. The perceived lethargy of Canada’s judicial system led the online activist group Anonymous to promote vigilante justice where state-controlled justice had failed. Anonymous located those involved in her alleged rape and harassment and threatened to post their whereabouts online.

The anger over the mishandling of Parsons’ case led to the swift passing of stricter cyberbullying protections in the Nova Scotia legislature: victims can now identify and sue their online attackers, or their parents if the offender is a minor. This measure was lauded by Parsons’ father as a “step in the right direction.”

A common analogy compares the Internet to the Wild West; the web is a new frontier in which lawlessness is a result of rapid expansion. Governments simply cannot keep up with the dynamism of the internet. For every new social media application available, there is a new opportunity to abuse others. Unknown territory, though, has, can, and will be reined in by the laws which have been effective in the governing of normal human society. The recent forced closure of Silk Road, a kind of illicit Craigslist where hit men could be contracted and drugs purchased, demonstrates the extension of established legal precedents to the digital domain.

The non-physical aspect of the Internet is where legislation becomes more complicated. While harassment, bullying, and other crimes used to take place in a physical space where harm is easier to identify, they have now shifted online. The dynamism of the Internet makes tracking these events and their effects very difficult for law enforcment. Harassing messages can be delivered anonymously, bullying becomes more of a social activity, getting worse every time someone new clicks the “like” button on an embarassing photo or mean status.

Laws that allow for the identification and suing of injuring parties will not prevent stories like that of Rehtaeh Parsons. Possible federal laws mandating prison terms for the worst offenders will not be preventative or even particularly restorative. When we bully online, we do not see the face of the victim, and so have no means to contemplate their injury or the possible consequences. Hurt and punishment have a physical dimension which typing nastiness into a glowing box does not incorporate and so we need more radical ways of considering internet governance. The tattoo down the arm of Rehtaeh Parsons roughly translated to “strength and a brave air.” What better service to her memory than adopting that spirit as we come into the age that will determine how online society is shaped. Putting the victim at the heart of the justice system will take time, but matters of the heart often do.



Carter West is a fourth-year student at the University of Toronto.








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Teacher taped bullying student
Oct 28, 2013
, Last Updated:  10:44 PM ET


CALGARY -- After a public elementary school teacher was recorded reducing a student to tears in class, the Calgary board of education (CBE) says it's "taken action."

"Keep crying, 'Prince'," and "I am not a magician -- stop making me one. Or I will make you vanish" can clearly be heard in the audio clip, which was obtained by Global News.

The female teacher at Grant MacEwan School, in the northeast community of Falconridge, ripped into a student who had trouble completing or had failed to complete an assignment.

Her surreptitiously taped tirade continued even after the child's voice can be heard cracking, crying.

"The safety of our students, including their emotional well-being, is our paramount concern at the CBE," said a written statement put out by Calgary's public school district.

"While we cannot comment on this situation specifically as it involves a personnel matter, we can say that we are aware of the concerns. We have taken action to ensure the safety of our students."



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BULLYCIDE- SAVY TURCOTTE- 13 YEAR OLD CANADIAN GIRL....

Family: Bullying may be linked to teen’s death

The family of a Regina teenager who died last week suggests the 13-year-old girl took her own life and that bullying may have played a role in her death.

Officials have not said what claimed the life of Savy Turcotte, whose funeral was set for Monday.

But an obituary published last Thursday asked that instead of flowers, the family would appreci­ate people contributing to efforts to raise awareness of bullying.

Turcotte’s mother, Kelly, re­leased a statement on Saturday that says her daughter’s diary revealed the teen had been visit­ing social media sites and that there were many disturbing and hurtful comments.

The grieving mom also says parents should constantly check to see who their children are communicating with online, and to sno op into their diaries and journals to determine their emo­tional state.

She says a child could be smil­ing on the outside and surrounded by friends, but on the inside they are depressed, nervous, scared, anxious and feeling completely alone. (CP)







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thts wut i feel lik when im being bullied in real life :(






LINKS ON BULLYING AND CHILD ABUSE- (Mind Rape/Physical Torture/Sexual Assault)
FOR KIDS- TWEENS-TEENS-YOUNGBLOODS- But perhaps most of all….. each and every Canadain Adult- we must take more responsibility and be more vigilant:

To learn more about bullying and if u r being abused- check out:















RespectED: Violence & Abuse Prevention








If you are a victim of bullying, call The Kids Help Phone at 1-800-668-6868.




Aaron posted on facebook


The Girl you just called fat? She has been starving herself & has lost over 30lbs.

The Boy you just called stupid? He has a learning disability & studies over 4hrs a night.

 The Girl you just called ugly? She spends hours putting makeup on hoping people will like her.

 The Boy you just tripped? He’s abused enough at home. There’s a lot more to people than you think.


Put this as your status if you’re against bullying!



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STEPPING UP AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN.... thanks 2 the real media.... 4 making this horror visual 2 the world.... these are little girls and boys and young women.... who are being raped and kidnapped by family, friends, neighbours....in2 a vicious life... and treated worse than an animal.... it's just important that we never let this leave the front pages... thank u reuters... sky... and all the great media stepping up- no more excuses... no more abuses





Two Little Girls (shown as part of the exhibition not Natasha



See this is what our Pope is speaking of..... we need 2 focus... on this human travesty...




INTERVIEW - Think about the prostitute: She could be your sister, says trafficking victim
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:54 AM

 
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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sophie Hayes has a question for men who pay for sex. “The girl who smiles at you in the brothel or on the street, do you know what lies behind that smile?”

The 24-year-old British woman knows the prostitute’s side of the story. She was trafficked into sex and brutalised mentally and physically by a man she had trusted and thought was her best friend.

Hayes said she had spent an idyllic weekend in Italy with the man - her best friend of five years. When she was packing her bags to fly home to her office job in Leeds, he seized her passport and threatened to track down her family and kill her younger brothers unless she sold her body for sex to pay off his drug debts.

Terrified, Hayes stood under a streetlight from 8 at night until 5 each morning, wearing high-heeled boots, short skirts or whatever skimpy costume her best friend-turned-pimp handed her that evening. He hit her if she protested. He taunted her for having sex with strangers. He hit her if her takings were too scant. He beat her, shoved a gun in her mouth and called her stupid if the police picked her up or if a client turned violent.

Worse than the physical violence was the mental torture, Hayes said in an interview. It might be hard to understand why an educated young woman from a prosperous country would not escape, but his subtle destruction of her independent will overwhelmed her.

“It was the change that came over him that was so shocking and terrifying, and the psychological mind games that were the worst. It was the way that he spoke, the way that he made me feel that he is everywhere, he knows everyone, in the police, the immigration, they are watching me.  A life really did mean nothing to him, and if I do something wrong, what are the consequences?” Hayes said.

For six months, seven days a week, Hayes said she was forced to solicit sex in Italy and France, too terrified to disobey the Albanian man whom she had met at a discotheque in the north of England and thought so charming and worldly. He spoke five languages was studying law, they had corresponded for years and she had confided in him.

Instead he was grooming her, finding details of her troubled relations with her father and her longing for security that he would use to mentally manipulate and control her - a technique of psychological intimidation to strip victims of independent volition that human trafficking experts say is common to force someone into the sex trade.

The International Labor Organization estimates that 20.9 million women, men and children - or three in every 1,000 persons worldwide - are trapped in forced labour and sexual exploitation in what some call modern day slavery. Law enforcement officials said that organised crime gangs increasingly are turning to prostitution as an easier way to make money than drugs or gun running.

The case of Sophie Hayes - not her real name because she wants to protect her privacy in the life she has rebuilt in London since 2007- shows how easily anyone can fall victim to sex trafficking, she said. It is a crime that has an exotic otherness, she said. In fact it touches every nationality, ethnicity, gender, age and class, and happens everywhere.

“This is a global crime,” Hayes said.

“It could be your sister, it could be your girlfriend, your aunty. Everybody has a relative who could have been affected.” She told this to a corporate business meeting in Mexico City recently, and she said they were shocked.

Middle class and educated from a prosperous country, Hayes would never have imagined slipping into the Albanian underworld of drug dealing, guns and sex trade in Italy.

Equally shocking, Hayes said, was the men who were willing to pay her 20 to 30 euros ($27 to $40) for sex. Doctors, lawyers, police officers, businessmen would line up five or six deep on weekend nights at the street corner where she worked, waiting to pay for a 10- to 15-minute sexual encounter in their cars, she said. “I would hop out of one and into the next.”

At times Hayes was visibly sick with pneumonia, faint from hunger, bruised from the beatings her pimp meted out, sunken eyed from lack of sleep. Yet she said these respectable pillars of society would solicit her.

“It’s ironic how they could pay for sex as easily as going to Starbucks and paying for a cappuccino,” Hayes said.

MESSAGE OF HOPE

After six months, Hayes collapsed from exhaustion on an Italian street. When she awoke in the hospital, she said she found the courage to call her mother, who drove from England to rescue her. Meanwhile her pimp tracked her down and while stroking her hair gently for hospital staff to see, he jabbed his keys deep into her leg and threatened to drive a hole into her if she dared to expose him.

Five years later, Hayes has rebuilt her life and formed the Sophie Hayes Foundation to reach out to other victims of sex trafficking, offering them a lifeline and a message of hope from someone who has been there. It was a difficult road of recovery she faced, and very few professionals or law enforcement officials knew how to help her in what was a transnational crime that they were unsure how to prosecute. Hayes was very alone.

“Girls are so overwhelmed. Sometimes all you want is a friend, to know you are not on your own, that there is hope, there is a future,” she said.

The foundation has just received a 10,000 euro grant ($13,543) and hired its first counselor to work with trafficked victims. Hayes wants to expand the foundation and hire a team of counselors to work with victims, and is using a speaking tour for her book “Trafficked: My Story”, recounting her ordeal, to raise awareness.

She also is educating young men about the crime, working with law enforcement officials, and lobbying governments to criminalise the act of soliciting sex for money.

“If you don’t have demand, there won’t be supply. If men really knew that every time they pay for sex they fuel this chain of exploitation, would they make different choices?”


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CANADIANS STEPPING UP- 4 OUR FIRST PEOPLES, 10,000 YEARS- SISTERS- MISSING-MURDERED

-ONE BILLION RISING- no more excuses... no more abuses..





Cross-country vigil honours 600 missing native women

October 4, 2013 - 8:14pm  By AARON BESWICK Truro Bureau


Across Canada Friday, similar events were held by the Sisters in Spirit organization. At each vigil, a call was read for a federal public inquiry into the more than 600 cases of missing aboriginal women and girls as documented by the Native Women’s Association of Canada


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ONE BILLION RISING-SHANIA TWAIN- breaking the chains of abuse...

IDLE NO MORE CANADA- Shania Twain was adopted by her stepfather Ojibway Jerry Twain and grew up on the reserve as non-status indian.... Shania always said Jerry Twain (and she adored Grandpa Twain) treated respectfully and loved Shania's mother Sharon so much..

..... but Shania said the enormous abuse among the Reservations should shame all of Canada.... and men need counselling and respect as much as women...


.... our Shania Twain knew what it was like 2 grow up disadvantaged in a 'Injun Reserve attitude' and the horrific treatment of the Americas First Peoples of 10,000 years.... and 2 be discarded like throwaway trash.... and boy did she let the world know...

... did u know that only whites were allowed 2 enter legions.... well... that's no surprise... but Sikhs, always First Peoples of Canada fought 4 their lands, Blacks, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, as well as Europeans of course.... fought in all Canada's wars.... and who can 4 get War of 1812..... Canada would NOT be Canada without our Aboriginal- Indigenous-  CANADA'S FIRST PEOPLES...







Shania Twain - Black Eyes, Blue Tears - Live!







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Penn State to pay Sandusky child abuse victims $59.7m in settlements

School president says deals, which have been in the works since mid-August, are a step forward for victims and the university

Associated Press in Harrisburg

theguardian.com, Monday 28 October 2013 18.14 GMT  




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U.S. appeals court rules no new trial for Jerry Sandusky

 By Mark Scolforo   The Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky should not get a new trial after being convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Wednesday.




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CANADA'S GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA...  this is amazing....article kinda is all comunities, towns, and cities telling us we must step up 4 our kids....



Teen issues focus of public forum

by Deborah Pfeiffer - Penticton - Story: 99560
 Sep 30, 2013 / 7:41 pm







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OH WOW...  N.S. cyberbullying investigation unit up and running

THE CANADIAN PRESS
 Published Monday, September 30, 2013 3:43PM ADT 
 Last Updated Monday, September 30, 2013 3:45PM ADT 


HALIFAX -- The Nova Scotia government says an investigative unit created to look into cases of cyberbullying in the province is in operation.

The province says the unit's five investigators have started work and will begin taking calls and investigating complaints immediately.

The government says cases will be resolved using informal and legal means, or if necessary, cases could be referred to police.




Related Stories

New 'holistic' legislation coming in the fall to stop cyberbullying: MacKay


Cyberbullying law inspired by Rehtaeh Parsons takes effect in N.S.


Nova Scotia introduces cyberbullying legislation




Investigators can also apply for a cyberbullying prevention order, which would order a person to stop cyber communication or the technology they are using could be confiscated.

The unit was created following the passage of the Cyber-Safety Act earlier this year, which allows people to sue or seek a protection order from the courts if they or their children are being cyberbullied



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 BULLYING- BULLYCIDES




ANOTHER CANADIAN CHILD MURDERED BY BULLYCIDE- TODD LOIK - 15 YEARS OLD...



Todd Loik Suicide: Came After Bullying, Says Mother
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times | September 26, 2013
Last Updated: September 26, 2013 11:41 am

Todd Loik, a Canadian teenager who committed suicide because of bullying, his mother says. (Facebook)


Todd Loik’s suicide came after bullying–both in person and online–says his mother.

The Saskatchewan teenager’s body was found inside the family’s North Battleford home on September 9, reported Sun News.

Loik was 15.

“My son was taken from me yesterday,” Loik’s mother, Kim Loik, wrote on Facebook Sept. 10. Todd Loik had been bullied since fifth grade, and Kim believes she knows who her son’s tormentors are.

“This tragedy had no warning and it has really angered me at how some people can pick on a person so much that that person feels like taking there life is the only way out,” wrote his older brother, Ryan. “I was the one who got in the bullies face and who tried to stop it but the fight was a endless one.”

Kim Loik is calling for an anti-bullying law to be put into place federally, and she wants the people she suspects of bullying her son to be charged, reports the Battlefords Daily News.

The North Battleford City Council has been discussing an anti-bullying bylaw, but Loik wants a federal law, because provincial laws won’t work as well.

A Facebook page has been set up in Loik’s honor, with family members leaving remembrances of him.


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Schoolgirl Hannah Smith 'trolled to death' by bullies on Ask.fm ...






Aug 5, 2013 - Hannah Smith, from Lutterworth, Leicestershire, was found dead on Friday after ... Thursday, Sep 26 2013 6PM 89°F 9PM 91°F 5-Day Forecast ...... 'I married at eight-months-pregnant': Teen Mom 2 star Kailyn Lowry shows off ... Global Initiative conference He spoke in New York · Catherine Zeta Jones and



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Boy, 9, found hanged 'was bullied for being white' | Mail Online






Feb 24, 2013 - White children bully other children to death, black children do, ... Theoneoranro, Manchester, 24/2/2013 18:10 To those who red -arrowed this .... foxy as she attends reception at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York All in a ...

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Bullied to Death in America's Schools



Oct. 15, 2010

By JIM DUBREUIL and EAMON MCNIFF via




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Bullying and Suicide

There is a strong link between bullying and suicide, as suggested by recent bullying-related suicides in the US and other countries. Parents, teachers, and students learn the dangers of bullying and help students who may be at risk of committing suicide.






In recent years, a series of bullying-related suicides in the US and across the globe have drawn attention to the connection between bullying and suicide. Though too many adults still see bullying as "just part of being a kid," it is a serious problem that leads to many negative effects for victims, including suicide. Many people may not realize that there is also a link between being a bully and committing suicide. 

The statistics on bullying and suicide are alarming: 
•Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it.
•Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University
•A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying
•10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to the study above
•According to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying


Bully-related suicide can be connected to any type of bullying, including physical bullying, emotional bullying, cyberbullying, and sexting, or circulating suggestive or nude photos or messages about a person.


Some schools or regions have more serious problems with bullying and suicide related to bullying. This may be due to an excessive problem with bullying at the school. It could also be related to the tendency of students who are exposed to suicide to consider suicide themselves.


Some of the warning signs of suicide can include:

•Showing signs of depression, like ongoing sadness, withdrawal from others, losing interest in favorite activities, or trouble sleeping or eating
•Talking about or showing an interest in death or dying
•Engaging in dangerous or harmful activities, including reckless behavior, substance abuse, or self injury
•Giving away favorite possessions and saying goodbye to people
•Saying or expressing that they can't handle things anymore
•Making comments that things would be better without them

If a person is displaying these symptoms, talk to them about your concerns and get them help right away, such as from a counselor, doctor, or at the emergency room.


In some cases, it may not be obvious that a teen is thinking about suicide, such as when the suicide seems to be triggered by a particularly bad episode of bullying. In several cases where bullying victims killed themselves, bullies had told the teen that he or she should kill him or herself or that the world would be better without them. Others who hear these types of statements should be quick to stop them and explain to the victim that the bully is wrong.


Other ways to help people who may be considering suicide include:

•Take all talk or threats of suicide seriously. Don't tell the person they are wrong or that they have a lot to live for. Instead, get them immediate medical help.
•Keep weapons and medications away from anyone who is at risk for suicide. Get these items out of the house or at least securely locked up.
•Parents should encourage their teens to talk about bullying that takes place. It may be embarrassing for kids to admit they are the victims of bullying, and most kids don't want to admit they have been involved in bullying. Tell victims that it's not their fault that they are being bullied and show them love and support. Get them professional help if the bullying is serious.
•It is a good idea for parents to insist on being included in their children's friends on social networking sites so they can see if someone has posted mean messages about them online. Text messages may be more difficult to know about, so parents should try to keep open communications with their children about bullying.
•Parents who see a serious bullying problem should talk to school authorities about it, and perhaps arrange a meeting with the bully's parents. More states are implementing laws against bullying, and recent lawsuits against schools and criminal charges against bullies show that there are legal avenues to take to deal with bullies. If school authorities don't help with an ongoing bullying problem, local police or attorneys may be able to.


People who are thinking about suicide should talk to someone right away or go to an emergency room. They can also call a free suicide hotline, such as 1-800-273-TALK (8255).


Friends and relatives of suicide victims also need to find someone to talk to as they grieve, especially if they are suffering from depression or suicidal thoughts themselves.


Sources:
WebMD, Depression Guide, "Recognizing the Warning Signs of Suicide" [online]
Nemours, KidsHealth, "Helping Kids Deal with Bullies" [online]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Suicide Prevention, "Youth Suicide" [online]
Yale University, Office of Public Affairs, "Bullying-Suicide Link Explored in New Study by Researchers at Yale" [online]
Matt Dickinson, The Independent, "Research finds bullying link to child suicides" [online]
Michael Inbar, MSNBC Today, "Sexting bullying cited in teen's suicide" [online]
Susan Donaldson James, ABC News, Health, "Teen Commits Suicide Due to Bullying: Parents Sue School for Son's Death" [online]
Erik Eckholm and Katie Zezima, The New York Times, "6 Teenagers Are Charged After Classmate's Suicide" [online]
Related Article:  OLWEUS Bullying Prevention Program >>






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Saskatchewan’s Todd Loik latest teen casualty of culture of cyberbullying

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..By Matthew Coutts | Daily Brew – 22 hours ago.
Another Canadian teen has committed suicide after being reportedly bullied online, causing more pain and prompting another round of demands for change.

Todd Loik, a 15-year-old boy who had been bullied by classmates in North Battleford, Sask., took his own life earlier this month.

His mother told the Canadian Press this week that the attacks began at school and moved online. She said he would not let her read his Facebook page, the comments being so vile.

Kim Loik said they were moving out of the city and back to Edmonton to get away from the bullying, but never had the chance.

A Facebook memorial has been set up for Loik which includes, among various calls for action and conciliatory messages, this poem:


Those beautiful brown eyes
Still visit me in my dreams so many nights
This ache in my heart, will never go away
It will serve as my reminder
of my love for you each day
Such a special soul
Filled with beauty so bright
My honor was to love you
in so many special ways
To kiss your beautiful face and watch the sun rise
To love and laugh and cry and feel
The life was so delicate and real
How did I kiss you goodbye how did I let u go
This heart will break forever
Mama misses you so.

[ Related: Sask. mom says teen son killed himself because of bullying ]

Loik's suicide is a sad reminder that we have been down this road before.

Amanda Todd, Rehtaeh Parsons, Jamie Hubley — all Canadian teens who have taken their own lives after being taunted and cyberbullied.

The response is the same: Calls for action, demands that something be done.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Conservative minister Peter MacKay both spoke out against bullying in the wake of Loit's death.


Thomas Mulcair         @ThomasMulcair  

Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Todd Loik. Let’s work together to fight bullying and put an end to these tragedies. #stopbullying

Peter MacKay  @MinPeterMacKay  

My thoughts are with the Loik family in Saskatchewan--tragic news. More proof that cyberbullying must be addressed. #BullyingHurts




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Lisa    21 hours ago Report Abuse
We, as parents, INSISTED on being on our son's friends list (or we simply unplugged the internet at home). We never creeped but certainly saw the activities and we would talk about them together (what he was posting and what others were posting to him). My son has always been a victim of bullies for medical reasons beyond his control so we know all to well about this in our home. But, reality is.... bullies are NOT going to change. They have been around forever, is some shape or form and will continue. But, what WE CAN CHANGE is how we, as parents, support our children and ensure a safe environment for them so when they do face this type of thing, they are better prepared to handle them. I feel for this mother who lost her child, but the FIRST clue is that 'he wouldnt let me see the posts' should have been a major intervention at that time....... My son is now 19 years old and as turned into a nice, and strong, young adult studying in college now.






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BBC-UK

A 14-year-old Leicestershire girl killed herself after being bullied on a social networking site, her father has claimed.

6 August 2013 Last updated at 10:03 ET


A 14-year-old Leicestershire girl killed herself after being bullied on a social networking site, her father has claimed.

Hannah Smith, from Lutterworth, was found hanged on Friday.

Her father Dave Smith, wrote on Facebook that he found bullying posts on his daughter's ask.fm page from people telling her to die.

Latvia-based ask.fm allows users to post anonymously. An inquest into Hannah's death has opened in Leicester.

Writing on Facebook last Friday, Mr Smith wrote: "Just to let all my friends know my youngest daughter took her own life last night."

'Broken heart'

He adds: "Rest in peace my baby and you will never be forgotten xxxxxxx."

The question-and-answer site was set up by two Latvian brothers, Ilja and Mark Terebin, as a rival to Formspring in 2010 but has now eclipsed its predecessor.

Members can ask others questions and then get replies, which include text, photos and videos - via its website or apps.

Ask.fm had 13.2 million daily visitors worldwide in June with each one spending nearly six minutes on average on the site, according to internet research firm Comscore. It said that made the social network's web domain the 79th most popular in the world.

Ask.fm says users must be at least 13-years-old to join and requires them to provide a valid name and email address when they register, although reports suggest younger children sneak through using fake credentials.

One of its most controversial features is the ability for members to pose questions to others anonymously. Ask.fm's terms and conditions say members should never use the feature to ask things that are mean or hurtful, and it allows users to opt out of receiving anonymous questions via their privacy settings. However, safety campaigners have said many youths do not know how to do this.

The network also allows users to report abuse and says it may hand over identifying information to law enforcement if necessary.

But in June, Le Monde newspaper reported the service only had 50 external moderators which it contrasted with the 30 million questions and answers posted to Ask.fm every day.

Even so parents might wish to note that Ask.fm warns members they use the service "at your own risk" and that it says it bears no liability for content they might find to be objectionable or obscene.

He added: "My heart is broken in 2 and is gonna take a long time to repair i just hope that none of you have to go through the pain im goin through rite now [sic]."

Mr Smith has called for tighter controls to be applied to social networking sites such as ask.fm.

He wrote: "I have just seen the abuse my daughter got from people on ask fm and the fact that these people can be annoymous is wrong [sic]."

On a Facebook page set up in memory of his daughter, he asked people to sign an e-petition to introduce safeguarding measures on sites used by children.

The page now has nearly 30,000 "likes".

'Loss to understand'

The petition states: "Please sign if you would like the Government to step in and insist that Ask.fm and similar sites help us protect our young people. They are able to join from the age of 13 and can post anonymously."

In a statement, Hannah's headteacher at Lutterworth High School, Nora Parker, said: "The governors, staff and students of Lutterworth High School were deeply shocked and saddened to learn the news that on 2 August Hannah Smith, a year 9 student, took her own life.

"Hannah, who just completed her final year at the school and was looking to transfer to Lutterworth College in August, was a bright, bubbly, popular and thoughtful girl who was liked and respected by all those she came into contact with.

"She had everything to live for and her family, who are utterly devastated, are at a loss to understand why this has happened."

Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, said: "This is a tragic case where Hannah felt like she had no other option but to end her life.

"The cruel nature of cyberbullying allows perpetrators to remain anonymous and hide behind their screens.

"This is something that must be tackled before it gets out of hand. We must ensure young people have the confidence to speak out against this abuse, so they don't feel isolated and without anywhere to turn."

The Department for Education said in a statement that no-one "should have to suffer the fear and victimisation of bullying".

"The law is clear that what is illegal off-line is also illegal on-line.

"Perpetrators of grossly offensive, obscene or menacing behaviour face stiff punishment.

"Through the UK Council of Child Internet Safety we are working with social networking sites and internet providers to make the internet a safer place for a young people."

It also added that under the new curriculum children would be taught from the age of five "how to stay safe online, and how to communicate safely and respectfully".

At the opening of the inquest into Hannah's death, Leicestershire Coroner's Court was told a post-mortem examination had so far proved inconclusive.

Leicestershire Police confirmed a computer and mobile phone had been secured on behalf of the coroner.

A spokesperson said there was no ongoing criminal investigation, adding: "We await the coroner's verdict before making a decision on whether to pursue that."

The inquest was adjourned until a later date.









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Rehtaeh’s parents hope to open youth drop-in centre


CLARE MELLOR STAFF REPORTER

cmellor@herald.ca

Rehtaeh Parsons’ parents want to open a drop-in centre for youth in the Cole Harbour area who are dealing with traumatic experi­ences.

“Myself and Leah (Parsons) are hoping to open a centre some day soon where we can help youth who’ve experienced the kind of trauma that Rehtaeh experienced, and to deal with cyberbullying issues and to advocate on their behalf," said Glen Canning.

Canning made the comments Thursday during a break at a conference in Halifax hosted by the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre to educate people about sexual assault and the issues surrounding it .

The Halifax centre has been helping survivors of sexual assault for 30 years. On Thursday, it launched a new campaign called Start by Believing.

Based on a program created in the United States, the campaign encourages people to believe s exual assau lt victims when they disclose their experiences and to believe the “prevalence and seri­ousness" of sexualized violence, Irene Smith, the centre’s execut­ive director said.

Rehtaeh died in April after she was taken off life support follow­ing a suicide attempt. Her family alleges the 17-year-old was sexu­ally assaulted at a party in November 2011 and then relent­lessly bu llied after a digital photo of the alleged assault was distrib­uted.

Canning said he decided to attend the conference as an ad­vocate for his daughter. He also wanted to get information that wou ld enable him to help the large number of people who have had similar exp eriences to Re­htaeh’s that have contacted him and her mother for help.

“I think it is imp or tant for us to be informed about how to deal with these people and to have the right contacts," he said.

Cole Harbour currently doesn’t have a place for youth experien­cing problems like bullying and sexual assault, he said.

Rehteah liked to go to Laing House in Halifax because of its art therapy program, Canning said.

“But it is in Halifax and she lived all the way out in Cole Harbour."

Laing House describes itself on its website as a community-based, peer-driven program for youth living with mental illness.

“We are hoping to make something like Laing House in Cole Harbour," Canning said.

“They can come in and talk to somebody if they need to, or they can come in and have a place to relax, kick off steam, maybe a pool table, something like that, almost like a (drop-in) youth centre."

He said he and Parsons are talking to various p eople and groups about the project.

“We are speaking to people in government right now and we are lo oking for s ome assistance with that and we are also doing a lot of work with private people to see what we can work out," Canning said.

“We’ve had a lot of great in­terest in it." The Avalon Sexual Assault Centre’s campaign includes posters on Metro Transit buses during Octob er and a video on Avalon’s website. More materials will be released in coming months.

Smith said she is really encour­aged by public enthusiasm for the campaign .

“I think that rape chant (at Saint Mary’s University) has really mobilized the community," she said. “People are absolutely out­raged that in this day and age we have people in an institution of higher learning making state­ments that it is OK to sexually assault girls and women."

More information is available at avaloncentre.ca.

We can help youth who’ve experienced the kind of trauma that Rehtaeh experienced.

Glen Canning Rehtaeh’s father











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Central Nova MP to bring in new anti-cyber-bulling law

By Rick Fleming. Last updated: 2013-09-27 05:54:38

Central Nova MP and Justice Minister Peter MacKay confirms that the government will introduce new legislation to fight cyber-bullying in the near future.

It will call for greater public education and Criminal Code changes.

MacKay adds that everyone has been hurt by the death of a 15-year-old Saskatchewan boy who was allegedly driven to suicide by bullying, as well as the Rehtaeh Parsons case in Nova Scotia.

The Saskatchewan teen's mom, Kim Loik; is one of many who are demanding new laws to combat cyber-bullying.
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Review of Halifax hospital in Rehtaeh Parsons case gets more time
The Canadian PressBy The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – 2 hours 54 minutes ago



HALIFAX - An independent expert appointed by the Nova Scotia government to review mental health programs and policies at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax in the aftermath of the Rehtaeh Parsons case needs more time to complete her report.

The province says the report by child and adolescent psychiatrist Jana Davidson is expected to be finished late next month, about a month later than it was initially due to be completed.

Davidson, an expert from British Columbia, was appointed after an earlier report into the case raised concerns about the hospital.

She has also been asked to examine procedures within the Capital District Health Authority and make recommendations to address gaps in treatment and counselling services for young people who are suicidal.

Another report commissioned by the province into the Halifax school board's handling of the case called for an independent review of the IWK.

The report said Parsons was admitted to the hospital in March 2012, about five months after the 17-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted and became suicidal.

Her family alleges she was sexually assaulted by four boys and a digital photograph of the incident was passed around her school.

She died in April after she was taken off life-support following an attempted suicide.

Glenn Canning, Rehtaeh's father, has said he would like Davidson's study to directly address his daughter's care in the hospital, which lasted about five weeks, because he doesn't believe she received the help she needed.

Davidson, who is the psychiatrist-in-chief of children's programs at the Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, has said she will not read the specifics of what happened in the case or interview people who treated her.

At the time of her apppointment this summer, Davidson said her focus will be more generally on treatment and counselling services for young people and their families when there is a risk of suicide.

Kevin McNamara, deputy minister of Health and Wellness, has said there are legal restrictions preventing reviewers from looking at specific patient cases — even if a single case provokes the review.

The review was estimated to cost about $15,000.



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 Monsters thrive whilst angels die

 PAEDOPHILES..... LOOSE AMONG OUR CHILDREN..... AGAIN!!!






Province, Lalo sued over alleged sexual abuse


THE CHRONICLE HERALD

Two more people have filed law­suits seeking damages from the province for alleged abuse at the hands of convicted sex offender Cesar Lalo.

The court actions, filed Wed­nesday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court, also name Lalo as a de­fendant .

The former provincial youth probation officer and child wel­fare worker served nine years in prison after being convicted of 34 sex-related charges connected to boys who had been in his care in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the suits, filed by lawyer Devin Maxwell, the complainants allege they were physically, sexu­ally, mentally and emotionally abused by Lalo in his office on several occasions.

One complaint said the assau lts happened when he was between 12 and 14 years of age, the other said they happ ened when he was between 13 and 15.

Lalo, 73, was assigned to one of the complainants as a probation officer and supervised the other when his regular probation officer was unavailable, the documents say.

Now 41 and 42, the complain­ants allege the Crown failed to take reasonable care to protect them from being abused by Lalo, didn’t adequately supervise him and didn’t take prompt and imme­diate action in response to in­formation it received about inap­propriate and illegal conduct by Lalo.

They are claiming damages for pain and suffering, humiliation, mental distress, past and future loss of income, diminution of earning capacity and cost of care.

None of the claims have been proven in court and no defence has been filed.

In August, the Parole Board of Canada ordered Lalo to stay in a halfway hous e for another six months.

He was released to an Ottawa halfway house in September 2009 but was returned to jail for six months in September 2011 when he broke a court order by possess­ing pornography.

He was granted parole again in February 2012 and is under a long-term supervision order until March 1, 2020.

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RAPE AND MANHOOD- MUSLIM STYLE

Published at2013-09-18 07:04:21




THE children were too young to know how dangerous it is to be a girl in Pakistan. If the five-year-old girl and her three-year-old cousin had been just a little bit older, they may have known that being alone and playing outside are lethal risks in this country of men.

They did not know; and so, as dusk crept in and cast itself over their neighbourhood in Lahore, they remained engrossed in their games. By the time their families would notice they were missing, it would be too late.

What happened to the five-year-old between the time she was abducted from outside her home and the next day, when she was found abandoned outside a hospital, is the stuff of the most grotesque nightmare.

Unconscious and bleeding, the child found lying on a thin strip of green lawn just outside the hospital building had been raped. The doctors who examined her asserted that on the basis of their physical examination, she had probably been assaulted by several men for over an hour.

She was rushed to surgery because of haemorrhaging, and when she emerged her condition was listed as critical. The next day, television channels reported that she was deeply traumatised, crying and screaming even when members of her family approached her.

The utter cruelty of the case elicited denunciations and expressions of outrage. In a country where public debate on rape cases often hinges on the indictment of the victim long before it turns to the perpetrators, the fact that the victim was a child managed to force attention on the brutality of the crime itself.

The child had been too young to blame, too little to be accused of having provoked her attackers. The usual excuses — a lack of feminine modesty, culpable presence in the public space, a flawed character — could not be employed here, and so, finally, the ghastly fact of the crime was before the country.

So confronted, many grew angry; a group of female representatives from the Khyber legislature demanded that the perpetrators be hanged. Such cries for blood and vengeance were fervently repeated.

The aftermath of the case exposes once again the complete inability of law enforcement and judicial bodies to deal with rape investigations. Even with closed-circuit camera images, there was no solid identification of suspects.

A few suspects picked up by the police on Friday had already been released by Saturday. While DNA samples were collected from the child and sent to investigation labs, no report was available yet. There was no confirmation about the exact number of rapists.

Amidst the legal and investigative morass surrounding the case are the questions of how such a dastardly act can occur and how the complicity of society can breed the sort of demons who can commit it (and probably get away with it).

Just a few days before the child was assaulted, the British medical journal Lancet published a new study on rape in the Asia-Pacific region. Completed in partnership with the United Nations, the study was unique in that it surveyed not rape victims but rather men who had committed the crime.

While the study did not specifically look at Pakistani men, its results provide some insight into Pakistan’s situation regarding rape.

Not only were the results alarming (nearly one in four men, in the six countries studied, reported having forced a woman to have sexual relations), so were its findings regarding the causes.

The reasons the men listed for committing rape ranged widely from sexual entitlement to entertainment to punishment and even boredom. Almost half of the men reported that they did not feel guilty. More than half had committed the crime for the first time as teenagers.

The results provide some very specific diagnosis on the Pakistani condition. Like men in Indonesia and Bangladesh, men in Pakistan are raised with a sense of sexual entitlement, which the study identified as the primary motivator for sexual violence.

Seen under the lens of such entitlement, females are considered objects for use, unable to give consent and not having the right to say ‘no’.

In the case of grown women, this core belief is cleverly hidden in allegations of the women’s own character, her presence in public spaces, and other such reasons.

In the case of children, the ugliness of such an assault cannot be disguised. As the study identifies, such behaviour towards women elicits no guilt from the men, and it starts early. All of this is only possible when society largely supports it; society is confused about whether rape is a crime and is unable to definitely get behind rape victims and condemn perpetrators.

The mistake made by the child at the centre of the recent Lahore tragedy was to play outside in a society which does not consider even girl children entitled to be in public space.

In the Pakistan where such things happen, legislatures past and present have failed to force the stringent application of the Women’s Protection Act, 2006, and the Zina Ordinance continues to exist. In the Pakistan where such things happen, the Council of Islamic Ideology has cast doubt over the value of DNA as primary evidence across the board in rape cases.

When this cumulative picture of the country where the crime was committed is considered, the only thing different about the recent case is that she was victimised so early, subjected to a crime that is the fate of too many women.

She cannot speak today because she is too young, but if she was older and could speak and point to her victimisers, few in this country of men would believe her. n

The writer is an attorney teaching constitutional law and political philosophy. rafia.zakaria@gmail.com




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MUSLIM COUNTRIES


Hanging in shame: Pedophilia, masculinity and the media

Tahir Mehdi



Updated at2013-09-18 17:22:54








The media is reeking of blood. They want to show it live – each moment of it. A frenzied audience has committed to stay tuned. They won’t go away from in front of the screens as reality unfolds scene by scene.

More perplexing than the chicken or the egg ruse, is whether it is the media that orchestrates fury within the public, or if it is the public that incites the media into vehemence.

The widespread public outrage over the recent rape and murder of a young girl in Delhi dissipated when the four men were sentenced to death. It was a gratifying day. Until, news of the five-year-old girl raped by one or more maniacs in Lahore broke, the very same day.

Whoever occupies whatever stance, the media and the public are unanimous that criminals shall be done to death in most horrid of ways – shot in the forehead point blank, beheaded with a jerk of sword, hanged in public and dragged out on the roads – and all of this is demanded as if from that day onwards no one would dare even think of committing such a heinous act.

However, there is sorry news for this audience. The crime that they abhor does not end this way. This is one of the most strongly held yet highly erroneous perceptions that ‘an exemplary punishment’ has a great deterring impact on prospective criminals. Countries with low crime rate do not punish their convicted criminals in horrible ways, and the countries that do that are not crime free, not even in comparative sense. It is simple. And it is universal.

China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen are the top five executioners in the world, according to Death Sentences and Executions 2012 by Amnesty International. China alone accounts for more executions than the rest of the world combined. In recent years, there have been many high profile cases punishing the financial corruption of government officials and businessmen with death. Saudi Arabia implements death sentences in ‘the most gratifying’ of ways: beheading. In 2012, it executed at least 79 persons or three every fortnight. But the sheer fact that each of these countries continues to convict and award this ‘exemplary punishment’ belies the claim that it acts as a deterrent. Had it had any preventive effect, these countries should have registered a steady decline in such cases.

And if you think that I am being obscure, here is what has been happening in our homeland. Public hangings, introduced by Gen Ziaul Haq, were in vogue all through the 1980s. The practice was ostensibly started under the popular theme – the severer the punishment, the lesser the crime. (That the General used his military courts and ‘the exemplary punishments’ they awarded quickly and abundantly to actually deter political opposition, is another story.) Here are some of the news clippings that I sifted from the library of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. These pictures and news are about public hangings in Mianwali, Gujranwala, Sahiwal, Lahore and Faisalabad between 1985 and 1988. The punishment was abandoned after the restoration of democracy in 1988 as it had resulted in no social good.-

Crimes are acts of individuals but the personalities of individuals are shaped by societies and the acts of criminals are, in more than one ways, connected to everyone else’s behaviors. While I do not plead for punishing the entire society for the crime of an individual, I do not want to absolve the society of all responsibility either. If you don’t believe in evil spirits entering a man and turning him into a criminal, you must be curious about what ails these perverts? But since this approach may rest some blame on us, we prefer to stress on an individual’s responsibility and call for making an example out of such a satanic man.

Sex based crimes are shrouded with an added layer of hypocrisy as we all want to pretend that nothing even remotely linked to sexual problems or misdemeanor exists in my person or within my family. I once lead a research endeavor for my organisation that was focused on developing an understanding of gender-based domestic violence in rural Punjab – or to be precise, understanding the practice of wife beating. One of my most important learning was about how the concepts of masculinity intermingles with the realities of sexual prowess that results in gender violence. The full report of the study is available here.

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Federal justice minister meets with crime victims’ advocates in Iqaluit

Peter MacKay listens to Nunavut priorities for a victims bill of rights
PETER VARGA 
Federal justice minister Peter McKay, with Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq and senator Dennis Patterson in Iqaluit, on Sept. 17 opens a meeting with justice advocates in Iqaluit as part of a nation-wide tour to discuss priorities for the creation of a victims’ bill of rights. (PHOTO BY PETER VARGA)

Canada’s justice minister, Peter MacKay, visited Iqaluit Sept. 17 with a specific goal: to get a Nunavummiut perspective for the government’s planned victims bill of rights.

To that end, MacKay met with a group of victims’ advocates in a closed session Sept. 17, as part of a nationwide fact-finding mission for the bill, whose purpose is to protect the rights of crime victims as their cases work through the justice system.

The meeting is one of 15 MacKay has scheduled across the country since July, with the aim of creating a system “that is more and more inclusive and respectful of victims to give them a more effective voice in the Canadian justice system,” he said before the closed session was to start.

The government will introduce the bill in Parliament this fall.

Usually through no choice of their own, victims of crime are swept up in legal processes they do not understand, MacKay said.

At the start of the whole process, many victims already feel overwhelmed and traumatized by the crime they endured, “and so the need for inclusion, for information is very important,” he said.

Nunavut and the North overall has “specific challenges” that the government will have to consider, he said.

These include vast distances between communities, which complicate organization and timing of trials. Trial delays, caused by staffing shortages as well as great distances, are also a big issue, he admitted.

“Evidence is sometimes not properly preserved,  [so] there’s continuity issues that pertain to evidence in a courtroom,” MacKay said.

Yet MacKay said he could draw some similarities between the North and small towns where victims can easily come face to face with their offenders — which signals a greater need for collaboration with the court system.

“Victims want to know in some cases how the offender is doing, when they’re going to be released, what programs has the offender availed themselves of, what are the chances that they’re going to run into this person again,” he said. “There’s a very good chance you’re going to run into that person, upon [their] release.”

MacKay said the current government has put $120 million into victim services programs across the country since 2006 through the Department of Justice, some of them tailored for programs in the provinces.

On the other hand he cautioned that “we’re living in a time of fiscal restraint as well, when there are budget restrictions everywhere.”

“It’s a very fragile global, let alone national economy,” he said. “So we’re working for efficiencies as well.”
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MacKay talks tough about crime

Darrell Darrell ColePublished on September 18, 2013
 


AMHERST – Nova Scotia’s cabinet minister says his government is committed to keeping Canadians safe in their homes and on their streets.



“Canadians expect the justice system to keep them and their families safe. Our government is also committed to helping you protect all Canadians by tackling crime and restoring confidence in the justice system,” federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay told a meeting police chiefs and police boards in Amherst over the weekend.

MacKay said the government has strengthened many areas of criminal law during its mandate to create new offences and give police the tools to better investigate crimes and protect Canadians more effectively.

“No more soft on crime,” he said. “Our criminal justice system was going in the wrong direction, focusing more on the rights of criminals than the rights of victims. We committed to change.”

The minister said longer jail sentences for serious crimes are keeping criminals off the streets. He said government’s approach is “tough, yet balanced.”

Among changes it has proposed are involving victim participation in conditional release hearings, increasing offender accountability and authorizing police to arrest an offender who appears to be violating release conditions without the need for a warrant.

Cyberbullying, he said, continues to be a priority.

“This crime is not like the bullying we knew as children. It goes far beyond what is endured in the schoolyard. With the press of a button, a person can be victimized before the whole world,” MacKay said. The cyberbully can hide behind technology, but the damage to the victim can remain in cyberspace forever. While just a moment of bullying can be traumatic, forever is irreparable.”

Government is also getting tough on repeat impaired drivers and MacKay said he understands the frustration of police in arresting the same offenders over and over again – “sometimes after have killed or injured someone.”

MacKay said the government also stands for victims rights and is working to create the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights, something Cumberland Colchester Musquodoboit Valley MP Scott Armstrong briefed officers about during the conference.

“We’ve heard that victims want the system reformed to include them in a more substantial way,” MacKay said. “They want to understand what is going on around them throughout the process, and what their rights in the process are.”

The minister told those in attendance that the federal government is committed to getting tougher with child sexual offenders by making them serve consecutive sentences as opposed to concurrent, while also increasing the minimum and maximum sentences for these offences
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PAEDOPHILE ALERT/PAEDOPHILE ALERT/PAEDOPHILE ALERT


Dartmouth man to stand trial on molestation charges
October 30, 2013 - 5:42pm BY STEVE BRUCE COURT REPORTER

A Dartmouth senior has been committed to stand trial on charges of molesting two boys.

A preliminary inquiry for Alan Harvey Shrum, 66, of Esson Road wrapped up Wednesday in Dartmouth provincial court.

Shrum was ordered to stand trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on two charges of sexual assault and single counts of sexual exploitation, sexual interference and making child pornography.

The Crown alleges that the offences were committed between 1993 and 2007 in Dartmouth and other places in Nova Scotia.

The identities of the complainants are protected by a publication ban.

Shrum will appear in Supreme Court with lawyer Patrick MacEwen on Nov. 21 to begin the process of setting dates for his trial, which will be by a judge alone.

Shrum remains free on an undertaking, with conditions to stay away from parks, playgrounds and other places frequented by children and to have no contact with anyone under the age of 16 unless a parent is present. He also is banned from using the Internet except for work.

(sbruce@herald.ca)







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RCMP turn to social media to find suspect in child sex abuse
Calgary Herald  - ?18 minutes ago?    
         
         
         
The RCMP is asking for the Canadian public's help in identifying a man seen on an Internet video sexually abusing a little girl.


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Canada-wide 'oral tradition' that glorifies rape targeted by UBC president
The Globe and Mail      - 15 minutes ago?      
         
         
         
An investigation at the University of British Columbia has found that a frosh chant celebrating rape was part of an “oral tradition” that goes back years and is practised at other universities and high schools in Canada.

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HUNTING F**kING PAEDOPHILES.... LOOK AT THIS WOMAN.... 13 year old kid.... God.....it gets soooooo tiring....

Global News


24-year-old Kelsea Hepburn is now on the national sex offender registry for life after an illicit relationship with a 13-year-old girl. Initially, she was to remain on the registry for just 20 years.


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ABUSED CHILDREN'S HEALING MONUMENT-  TORONTO- CANADA








































Canada Child Abuse Healing Monument- the quilts- Martin Kruze - We Remember - 2 honour those who survived horrific child abuse and paedophiles- and those who did not.... Martin Kruze ("Iwas a Paedophiles dream") little boy who loved playing hockey at Maple Leaf Gardens- commited suicide 3 days after horrid 2 year sentence of paedophiles who abused 80 little boys who just loved hockey..... We remember Martin... here's to the One Billion Rising- around the world- breaking the chains- no more abuses and - no more damm excuses.... Canada's stepping on up hard...







Martin Harold Kruze who told the story of his horrendous abuse at Maple Leaf Gardens- COMMITED SUICIDE- at tender 23 yrs of age-  AT THE LITTLE BIT OF JAIL TIME THE PAEDOPHILE MONSTERS GOT.... Dr. Michael Irving built the ONLY.....Children's Abused Surviivors Healing Monument- which is in Toronto, Ontario- Canada








Martin Kruze- I was a Paedophile's Dream-  young hockey player- 3 days after PAEDOPHILE'S 2 YEAR VERDICT-  young hockey play Martin Kruze was so distraught = he commited suicide




Martin Kruze on Reaching Out Child Abuse Monument- TORONTO, CANADA


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