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Gary Glitter Loses Child Abuse Appeal
Judge says he's a danger to society...
by Daniel Melia on 6/15/2006
gigwise.com
Gary Glitter has lost his appeal against a three year jail sentence for child sex abuse in Vietnam.
As previously reported on Gigwise Glitter was convicted back in March of molesting two girls aged 11 and 12.
At the hearing this morning in Ho Chi Minh City Glitter once again told reporters he was innocent as he entered the courtroom.
However, according the BBC Judge Truong Vinh Thuy rejected his claims, saying: "We did not see enough evidence to reduce the penalty for the defendant.”
He added: "The decision was made based on evidence, documents and testimony of the victims. The behaviour of the defendant is dangerous for society, especially towards children. He needs to be punished."
Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, shook his head as the verdict was read and shouted, "It's not a fair trial," as he was ushered out of the court.
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| gimmekeef |
Cane the bastard! |
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| glencar |
3 years in a Vietnamese jail? NICE! |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Gary Glitter is small change. This sort of thing is a much wider problem than you'd undertsand from reading the Main Stream Press. Sex Traffic and child sex slavery is an epidemic across the globe. For some reason the problem hasn't caught the imagination of the public, the media or the politcainas.
MTV to soccer fans: Don't fuel sex traffic trade
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - MTV is targeting soccer fans at the opening of the World Cup with a stark warning -- the woman you pay for sex could be the victim of human trafficking.
With fears that up to 40,000 women may be lured to Germany from eastern Europe to fuel the sex industry, the music channel is urging its young audience in starkly dramatic video spots to think twice before sleeping with a prostitute.
"Take responsibility for your actions. If you pay for sex, ask the women you are with if she is there of her own free will," was the message from MTV.
"Thousand of women will be trafficked to Germany for the World Cup and forced by criminals to have sex against their will," it warned. "Maybe with football fans. Maybe you."
With one million foreign visitors expected in Germany for the tournament, the booming sex industry may need extra prostitutes who could come from countries in eastern Europe with major trafficking problems.
Prostitution is legal in Germany where sex workers can get health insurance, join a union and pay into a pension plan. Surveys show that up to 400,000 women work as prostitutes.
But thousands of other women are forced into prostitution, a practice the German authorities are eager to crack down on.
Women's rights advocates in the United States have called on Germany to limit visas, bar commercial sex operators from expanding their business during the tournament and increase "hot lines" for trafficking victims.
European Union lawmakers have also warned that criminal gangs are likely to boost trafficking to meet increased demand during the tournament.
MTV sought to get its message of warning across in a 50-second video which Simon Guild, President and Chief Executive, MTV Networks Europe, called "a powerful piece of advertising."
"The video shows a naked woman streaking across a football pitch and then cuts to shots of her being coerced in the tunnel underneath the stands," Guild told Reuters.
"It is a metaphor about forcing someone to do what they don't want to do. When she appears on the pitch, fans are cheering and thinking it is funny. The video ends with the words 'Are you cheering now?'"
He said MTV, which is working in partnership with the Swedish International Development Co-Operation Agency Sida, is to run an intensive broadcasting campaign.
"Fans are coming from all over the world and the message needs to be got across. I think a lot of young people will be tuning in."
"The estimate is that 40,000 women will be trafficked into the country for the tournament. Our message to fans is -- Think hard about paying for sex. You may think it is a piece of fun but you could be fuelling the sex traffic industry."
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U.S. WARNS ON SOCCER SEX TRAFFIC
June 6, 2006 -- AP-WASHINGTON - The U.S. warned Germany yesterday to do more to stop a tide of sex workers arriving for this month's soccer World Cup.
It also accused 12 nations of failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers.
"The U.S. government opposes prostitution," which is legal in Germany, a State Department report on global human trafficking said.
Anti-trafficking advocates estimate that thousands of women, many from Eastern Europe, will be forced into sex work during the four-week tournament beginning Friday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denounced "the sordid trade in human beings."
The U.S. called Germany a "source, transit and destination country" for sex workers and other victims of exploitation.
As many as 800,000 people are bought and sold across national borders annually or lured to other countries with false promises, the State Department said in its report.
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| glencar |
This World Cup is nothing but trouble! |
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| JerryT |
The root of this problem lies at the feet of Pete Townsend. He is the NAMBLA poster boy.
[Edited by JerryT] |
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