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A child sex abuse victim has said “no amount of money can fix what’s gone wrong” after 30 years of police failures meant no-one was ever charged.Michaela Allen, 38, said she was abused by a babysitter at her home when she was seven.But police never charged the man allegedly responsible and lost vital evidence, only to find it years later and wrongly post it to Michaela, ending any prospect of a conviction.Michaela has been awarded £32,000 by police, but it is understood two other alleged victims of the same perpetrator whose evidence in the same case was also lost, received…
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Alia – whose name we have changed for her safety – travelled hundreds of miles from her village to Kabul to escape marriage.The journey by taxi last year with her female cousin – covered from head to toe, only their eyes visible, as the rules decree – was an exceptional thing to do, and risky in Afghanistan, where at any moment they might be caught by the Taliban inspectors enforcing rules banning women travelling long distances without a male relative escorting them.But Alia, who is 19, and her cousin weren’t stopped at any Taliban checkpoints, and made it to the…
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Ranvia is still haunted by the memory of being wolf-whistled at by an ice-cream man when she was 11 years old.She’d hit puberty a few years earlier, and it was at that point she says the size of her breasts began to impact how she was perceived – and how she saw herself.At school, boys would give her nicknames about her boobs, and touch and squeeze them without consent.”I was still a child,” Ranvia says, “but suddenly I had these two body parts that brought attention I was not emotionally ready for.” RanviaRanvia, pictured here pre-surgery, says boys at school…
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has described a case in which three teenage boys were spared custodial sentences over the rape of two girls as “appalling”.He added that it was “right” that the sentences given by a judge at Southampton Crown Court were being reviewed by the attorney general.Two girls, then aged 15 and 14, were raped in separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in November 2024 and January 2025, by two 14-year-olds. Another boy, then 13, was also convicted for his involvement in the second attack.Sir Keir said the girls have “shown extraordinary bravery and strength in heinous circumstances”.Instead, the…
On a weekday afternoon in Japan, John Deng stands near the playground, listening to other children play and laugh. His own son and daughter are nowhere in sight. He longs for the ordinary moments he once shared with his children: taking them to the park, watching them wake up, and being part of their lives.Deng, not his real name, is originally from Hong Kong and has lived in Japan for the past 22 years. It’s where he built his life, met his former partner, and became a father to two children, an eight-year-old son and a 10-year-old daughter.But, he says,…
Turkish riot police forced their way into the headquarters of the country’s main opposition party on Sunday, days after a court dismissed its leadership.Clouds of tear gas billowed outside the Republican People’s Party (CHP) building in Ankara, where party members had blocked the entrances with a makeshift barricade.Footage from the scene showed those inside shouting and throwing objects towards the entrance, and police being sprayed with hoses.The party had vowed to defy an appeal court decision on Thursday which declared Özgür Özel’s leadership of the party null and void, in a move further cementing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s grip on…
At least 20 people have been killed and 70 others injured in an explosion targeting a train transporting military personnel in Pakistan.The blast occurred while the train was travelling through Chaman Phatak station in Quetta, the capital of the western Balochistan region, on Sunday morning.Railway officials told BBC Urdu that three coaches and the engine were derailed while two were overturned. The shuttle service had primarily been transporting service personnel and their families who had been returning home for Eid.The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) separatist group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was a suicide bombing. Pakistani officials have…