Police have recorded a record number of rape offences in England and Wales, according to official figures. Although there was a fall in overall crime levels driven by coronavirus restrictions, the Office for National Statistics said recorded sexual offences had increased by 8%. “Rape accounted for 37% of all sexual offences recorded by the police. …
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Women in Britain face an avalanche of abusive behavior with two in three young women experiencing some form of harassment in the last year. The Office for National Statistics study also found widespread abuse of women as children, with almost one in four saying they were victims. About 7% of females had been subjected to …
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An independent audit of more than 80 years of files involving nine Quebec Catholic dioceses found at least 87 abusers among church personnel, according to a summary of findings released Wednesday. Retired Superior Court justice André Denis reviewed archived files of 6,809 people employed between 1940 and 2021 and uncovered 87 employees who were the …
