Threats force judge out of teen pimping trial

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The presiding judge in the Malmö district court trial of ten men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, has been forced to withdraw due to threats against her and her family.

Monica Nebelius, who was appointed to lead the proceedings when the trial of the ten men was due to start last week, was replaced by Björn Hansson when the trial eventually opened on Monday.

It was reported that Nebelius had been taken ill and would not be able to proceed with the assignment. But the judge has now confirmed that in fact it was threats directed against her which caused her to accede to police advice and withdraw.

“It was directed against both myself and my family. I can’t live at home at the moment,” Nebelius told the TT news agency.

Nebelius was unwilling to go into further detail over the threats, except to say that she is in receipt of continual updates from the police and hopes that she will be able to return to work at the district court as a soon as possible.

“I presume that I will be back at work as soon as possible. It is a just a question of getting going, there is no more to it than that,” she said.

Nebelius is not alone among those involved in the case who have been on the receiving end of threats. The prosecutor Ulrika Rogland has been assigned bodyguards.

The high-profile trial opened to tumultuous scenes, and the head of the district court, Eva Wendel Rosberg, had to impose tight security around the court and the surrounding area on Stortorget in central Malmö.

The replacement judge, Björn Hansson, has been assigned a police escort to and from the court.

Eva Wendel Rosberg confirmed the information regarding Monica Nebelius on Tuesday morning.

“I can now confirm that there was a threatening situation after the first day of deliberations for Monica Nebelius. I did not want to publicise this initially due primarily to security reasons, but also for the sake of the parties concerned,” she told the local Sydsvenskan daily.

The trial concerns allegations that the 14-year-old girl was sexually abused and raped by several different men after she ran away from a foster home in a nearby municipality last March before ending up in the Rosengård district of Malmö.

Although she is 14-years-old she is reported to have the mental age of a girl several years younger.

Five of the men have been charged with trafficking or assisting in human trafficking, and eight for rape. All of the suspects are men aged 16- to 67-years-old. Several of the men have admitted to having sex with the girl, but claim that they thought that she was much older.

The case is also significant because it represents the first time that prosecutors in Sweden have attempted to classify pimping crimes as human trafficking.

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Arabs Harass Female ‘Peace’ Activists; Left Silences Victims

Vlad has covered this issue before where naive leftist activists went to protest Israel on behalf of Palestinians, who were often raped by the various Palestinians they are there to represent, and then to add insult to injury, are told by their own team leaders to ‘take one for the team’. Now it appears that the situation is getting worse, and some are forced into being ‘wives’ for their Palestinian hosts against their will. Frankly, I do not think we should allow journalists to use the term ‘wife’ when really we are talking about sex slaves. Once again, this link courtesy of The Religion of Peace.

from Israel National News:

Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.

Roni Aloni Sedovnik, a feminist activist, penned an article in News1 – an independent website run by respected investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak – under the heading “The Left’s Betrayal of Female Peace Activists Who were Sexually Assaulted.”

“A nauseous atrocity has been going on for a long time behind the scenes at the leftists’ demonstration at Bil’in, Naalin and Sheikh Jarrah [Shimon HaTzaddik],” she writes. “A dark secret that threatens to smash the basic ideological values upon which the demand to end the occupation of the Territories rests.”

It turns out, she explains, that when female peace activists from Israel and abroad come out to Judea and Samaria and demonstrate against the Israeli “occupation,” they are assaulted sexually by the Arab men whom they have come to help. These are not isolated incidents, Aloni-Sedovnik stresses. Rather, this is an “ongoing and widespread” phenomenon that includes verbal and physical abuse. She accuses the ‘peace’ camp of purposely covering up the trend so as not to offend “the Palestinians and their heritage, which sees women as sexual objects.” Continue Reading →

Some headlines can’t even be typed here.

If this story was a historical thing, I could post the headline. But as it is happening now, and as nothing is being done about it, and as this is maybe the most awful thing I have read in quite some time, I will ask you to click over to the original story as frankly, I wouldn’t believe it myself unless I did. Sorry to be so vague, I just don’t have the heart to type it out.

80 child sex cases…in just three months

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Published on Mon Sep 06 09:22:11 BST 2010

A staggering 80 cases of suspected child sexual exploitation have been reported to Preston detectives in just three months.

A specialist team, which was set up to deal with grooming and child sexual exploitation, has seen a significant rise in the number of referrals since it was formed 18 months ago.

Last week, Mohammed Moosa, 24, of Holmrook Road, Deepdale, Preston, was given a three-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to abduction and sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl.

Moosa was snared after the Deter Team, made up of a team of experts including police, social workers and charities, was put on the case of two young girls who had been reported missing from home.

The team traced Moosa and a second man, Faisal Ghani, who admitted abduction, to a hotel in Blackpool where the girls were found to have had drank large amounts of alcohol and had taken drugs.

The case preceded a further 79 referrals which were taken to the Deter Team between the start of April and the end of June.

Speaking to the Evening Post, a victim’s mother said she had no idea her daughter was being targeted until it was too late.

But DI Jonathan Holmes, head of the public protection unit at Preston police, said having a specialist team means families are now better equipped to see the warning signs.

He said: “We have recently observed an increase in the reporting of this type of crime, which we have attributed to better scanning methods and increasing work with parents.

“We now have a dedicated team to deal with this kind of sexual exploitation.

“Part of that team’s role is to work with partner agencies and to increase awareness in the community of this type of crime and we have seen an increase in reporting of this type of crime as a result.”

Many of the cases which the team has investigated have followed a pattern which sees the offender form a ‘relationship’ with the young victim by showering them with gifts to give them a sense of independence.

This leads to many of them not realising they are being exploited, believing instead they are in a meaningful relationship.

He said: “This type of crime is likely to be under-reported.

“The nature of the crime is such the victims do not appreciate they are being victimised.

“This is because they are being subject to grooming which will take the form of gifts, alcohol, mobile phones or cash.

“The offender often grooms the victim over a lengthy period of time in order to create a situation where the victim is not necessarily aware of what’s happening to them.

“The effect is they themselves may not report any offences because they feel they are in a close relationship with the offender.”

While the number of cases being referred to the team has increased, DI Holmes claimed it was too early to say whether it is a major issue.

He said: “The Deter Team is still establishing itself but in three or four years’ time we will be able to see where reporting is.

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“It is a bit early to say how big a problem it is, but we are certainly getting increasing reports and are keen to take positive action against offenders whenever we get that information.”

While many victims initially may not realise they are being abused, DI Holmes said the offenders should not be regarded in a different light to any other child sex offender.

He said: “These people are sex offenders. In my view, for an adult to have sex with an adolescent is paedophilic behaviour. It is done through a grooming process.

“Typically, they might be in their early teens. Mohammed Moosa is 24 and he was having sex with a 13-year-old.”

Charity Crop (Coalition for the Removal of Pimping) is one of the groups which works with the Deter Team to support the parents of child sex victims and it has dealt with more than 500 cases in the past five years.

Cat Tatman, a parent support worker, said the Deter Team means Preston is in a better position than many parts of the country, but there is a long way to go.

She said: “We are still at the point where we are seeing the tip of the iceberg.

“If you have one focused effort, as in Lancashire, the perpetrators are often one or two steps ahead and often push their operations out of the county boundaries.

“In Derby, they (police) were getting very good at picking kids up in the city centre, so they were moving out to Derbyshire.

“It is certainly not a new problem, but it is something we are just becoming aware of the level and extent of it.”

The Deter Team also includes a detective sergeant, three detective constables, one local intelligence officer, three social workers, members of the Children’s Society and a Group Intervention Panel.

Social workers can refer parents, whose children are suspected of being groomed in the Preston area, to SEEN (Sexual Exploitation Ends Now) which provides advice on what signs to look for and support for the victims.

To contact the Deter Team during office hours call 01772 209122 or out of hours there is a bounce back service which can be accessed by texting 66247 and starting the message with the word Deter.

Alternatively, call Preston police on 01772 203203.