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Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
Forensic psychiatrist reveals the truth about pedophilia debate
A psychiatrist has revealed whether pedophiles are born or made as a result of nature. Dr Sohom Das who is a forensic psychiatrist, from London has shared content about crime, mental health conditions, and psychology, among other topics. He discussed whether the pedophilia crimes are due to nature or nurture on his YouTube channel. According to the American Psychological Society's dictionary: 'Pedophilia, in which sexual acts or fantasies involving prepubertal children are the persistently preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement. 'The children are usually many years younger than the pedophile [...] Sexual activity may consist of looking and touching but may include intercourse, even with very young children. Pedophilia is rarely seen in women.' Speaking in the video, the expert said: 'Are you born a paedophile? Well, essentially, no, but the answer is quite complicated, because it's both nature and nurture.' Dr Das went on to explain that while people 'might have inherent, actual preferences [...] at the same time, external events or scenarios can massively increase the risk'. According to the psychiatrist, those who have suffered sexual assault themselves are most at risk. Research released in 2024 showed the scale of the online sexual exploitation and abuse of children, suggesting that more than 300 million are victims every year. In what marked the first global estimate of the scale of the crisis, researchers at the University of Edinburgh found one in eight, or 12.6 per cent, of the world's children have been victims of non-consensual talking, sharing and exposure to sexual images and video in the past year, amounting to about 302 million young people. In addition, 12.5 per cent of children globally (300 million) are estimated to have been subject in the past year to online solicitation, such as unwanted sexual talk which can include non-consensual sexting, unwanted sexual questions and unwanted sexual act requests by adults or other youths. Offences can also take the form of 'sextortion', where predators demand money from victims to keep images private, to abuse of AI deepfake technology. While problems exist in all parts of the world, the research suggests the United States is a particularly high-risk area. Edinburgh university's Childlight initiative – which aims to understand the prevalence of child abuse – includes a new global index, Into The Light, which found one in nine men in the U.S. (almost 14 million) admitted online offending against children at some point. Surveys found seven per cent of British men, or 1.8 million, admitted the same, as did 7.5 per cent of men in Australia. The research also found many men admitted they would seek to commit physical sexual offences against children if they thought it would be kept secret. Childlight chief executive Paul Stanfield said: 'This is on a staggering scale that in the UK alone equates to forming a line of male offenders that could stretch all the way from Glasgow to London - or filling Wembley Stadium 20 times over. 'Child abuse material is so prevalent that files are on average reported to watchdog and policing organizations once every second. 'This is a global health pandemic that has remained hidden for far too long. It occurs in every country, it's growing exponentially, and it requires a global response. 'We need to act urgently and treat it as a public health issue that can be prevented. Children can't wait.'
South China Morning Post
a day ago
- South China Morning Post
Japan police uncover ‘online paedophile group' of teachers
Two primary school teachers in Japan have been charged with taking photos of little girls in their underwear and then sharing the images with at least 10 more colleagues, in a case which has roused public outcry. On Tuesday, police arrested Yuji Moriyama, 42, a teacher at Kosaka Elementary School in Nagoya, and Fumiya Kosemura, 37, a teacher at Hongodai Elementary School in Yokohama. Around 70 indecent photographs and video clips were found on Moriyama's computer, along with up-skirt images and 'deepfake' composite images that combined children's heads with other sexualised pictures, the Asahi newspaper reported, quoting the Aichi prefectural police. Some appeared to have been taken in school. Both men admitted the charges, police said. The investigation has now turned to identifying the other members of the 'online paedophile group' who also received the images. Early investigations suggest the group was managed by Moriyama and was made up of primary and junior high school teachers with a similar fondness for pornographic images of very young girls. Primary school pupils head for classes in Osaka, western Japan. Photo: Kyodo/AP In Japan, the ages of primary and junior high school children range from six to 15.
CTV News
21-06-2025
- CTV News
A Frenchman charged with commissioning online pedophile crimes in Colombia
View of the deserted Seine river banks along the Palais de Justice courthouse during nationwide confinement measures to counter the Covid-19, in Paris, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Content warning: This story includes mention of child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is advised. PARIS — A 55-year-old Frenchman suspected of commissioning online pedophile crimes in Colombia has been arrested and charged in France, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Saturday. The suspect was charged this week with complicity in human trafficking involving minors under the age of 15 who had been raped, rape and sexual assault of minors including incestuous acts, as well as acquisition, possession and consultation of pornographic images of minors. He was remanded in custody. The prosecutor's office said it worked with Colombian authorities and that the operation led to the simultaneous arrests of the suspect, local perpetrators and middlemen, the so-called money runners. Several victims were also identified and sheltered. Investigations revealed that the suspect had transferred more than 30,000 euros (US$35,000) to several people in Colombia in exchange for images of young children being sexually abused, the prosecutor's office said. Weapons were also found at the individual's home. Online pedophile crime, also known as livestreaming, involves commissioning sexual assaults and rapes of minors in other countries from one's own country, generally in return for payment from the relatives of the victims, who are directly involved. The perpetrators then watch these videos live. The Associated Press --------------------------- Resources for sexual assault survivors in Canada If you or someone you know is struggling with sexual assault or trauma, the following resources are available to support people in crisis: If you are in immediate danger or fear for your safety, you should call 911. A full list of sexual assault centres in Canada that offer information, advocacy and counselling can be found on the website for the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres. Helplines, legal services and locations that offer sexual assault kits in Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia can be found here. National Residential School Crisis Line: +1 866 925 4419 24-hour crisis line: 416 597 8808 Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline: +1 833 900 1010 Trans Lifeline: +1 877 330 6366 Sexual misconduct support for current or former members of the Armed Forces: +1 844 750 1648 Read about your rights as a victim here.
Gizmodo
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Gizmodo
Conspiracy Theorists Think the Elon-Trump Feud Is Just a Ruse to Expose the Real Pedophiles
Elon Musk dropped a bombshell in his new feud with Donald Trump on Thursday, claiming the president is 'in the Epstein files,' a reference to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The billionaire claimed it was why the files hadn't yet been released, despite ongoing and increasingly desperate promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi. But conspiracy theorists are too smart to believe Trump was actually in cahoots with Epstein. In fact, they believe the entire war of words between the president and the Tesla CEO is all a ruse to finally expose the real pedophiles. Or something. Conspiracy theorist Dinesh D'Souza, the director of the discredited 'documentary' 2000 Mules, posted to X on Thursday that perhaps the fight between these two men was actually the start of something much bigger. 'Is this some sort of perverse scheme to force the release of the Epstein files?' D'Souza wrote. 'How great it would be to have a horde of bad guys publicly exposed. Then Trump and Elon break out the champagne. Elon says, 'Told you I could get Democrats to scream for that list.' Laughter!' Obviously, D'Souza's logic here doesn't make any sense. The Trump administration doesn't need Democrats to get upset for any files to be released. The attorney general said they would be released, and instead, she invited a bunch of far-right weirdos to the White House back in February to hold up binders with no new information in them. D'Souza was granted a pardon by Trump in 2018 after he was convicted for illegal campaign contributions, but he's one of the relatively mainstream pundits who all think Musk and Trump are playing 10D chess. There's also an army of absolute dipshits who believe in the QAnon conspiracy theory currently insisting on social media that it's all a ruse. And they're pointing to tweets from Democrats as proof that it's the other side who should be worried. The Democratic Party's X account seized on the dispute Thursday, writing, 'What is Trump hiding? Release the Epstein files.' And that caused people like Liz Crokin, a journalist-turned-QAnon lunatic, to insist, 'They already took the bait hook line & sinker!' In another tweet, Crokin called it the 'fake Trump-Elon feud' referring to it as kayfabe, the wrestling term for portraying staged events as real. Crokin joined the likes of fellow conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in arguing that there's no evidence Trump was doing anything nefarious with Epstein: 'I've also been investigating President @realDonaldTrump ties to Jeffrey Epstein for the past decade and came to the same conclusion @AlexJones has. There's zero evidence implicating Trump in any crimes!' Jones initially seemed open to the idea that Trump was doing something sketchy with Epstein on Thursday but later framed his tweets as just asking questions. By Friday, Jones was on his show InfoWars putting his finger to the wind trying to defend both men, while insisting the Democrats were the real criminals. 'Almost everybody was asking are you on Trump's side or Musk's side and I said I'm on neither side. I'm on team humanity, which means I'm on the side of truth,' Jones said on his show Friday. 'If the Democrats had any real proof of Trump involved with underage girls with Epstein you'd heard about it nine years ago.' The people who believe in conspiracy theories like QAnon are firmly planted in the MAGA camp and need to accomplish some incredible feats of mental gymnastics to hold the beliefs that they do. Jeffrey Epstein was well known as a friend of Trump's when the two lived in Palm Beach. And Epstein told a journalist over the course of 100 hours of discussion that he had photos of Trump with 'young girls' who were 'topless.' The way Trump supporters rationalize all of this is they insist Trump distanced himself from Epstein because the late pedophile tried to hit on the daughter of a club member at Mar-a-Lago. But other reports suggest their friendship actually ended over a real estate deal that went south. Whatever happened, there's no question that Trump and Epstein were very close, something the president has previously acknowledged in a 2002 interview that he was 'fun' and a 'terrific guy.' Conservative media has long tried to distance Trump from Epstein, with a Fox News segment in 2020 even editing the president out of a photo with the notorious sex criminal. And Fox News was clearly off balance on Thursday night, unsure who to root for. Musk also has his connections to Epstein, even if they're not quite so direct as an open friendship. Business Insider reported back in 2020 that Epstein set up Musk's brother Kimball with a girlfriend. And, of course, there's that infamous picture of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell with Musk at a party in 2014. The billionaire has tried to say she just photobombed him but it's not clear what was actually happening there, since other reports have come out that they talked. For his part, Trump said in 2020 that he 'wished her well' when Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking. But people who have previously celebrated both Musk and Trump seem to be forced into choosing a side. One of the things that's getting lost in the fight between Trump and Musk is that Musk seems to be admitting he somehow had access to tightly held files at the U.S. Department of Justice. And that's certainly believable, given Musk's access to the private data of American citizens over recent months. Among all the conspiracy theories online, there were also jokes. So many jokes. As social media's most legendary account @dril put it, 'the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein. But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will.' And then there were the memes. Just endless memes. It remains to be seen what impact this fight may have on the real world, from Musk's contracts with the federal government to all those DOGE staffers who've wedged themselves into the nooks and crannies of the federal government. As Wired reported this week, guys like 19-year-old Edward 'Big Balls' Coristine went from Special Government Employees to full-time government staff raking in some of the highest possible salaries. There are plenty of people who are insisting Trump and Musk could quickly reconcile and all of this could be old news by next week. And that's entirely possible. But it's really hard to just go back to being best friends after you play the pedo card, something that Musk likes to do frequently. Remember when Musk got upset at the cave diver in Thailand after that soccer team got stuck in a cave? The diver said Musk's idea for a rescue submarine wouldn't work, which incensed the billionaire. Incredibly, Musk won a defamation suit filed by the diver after the Tesla CEO said he didn't literally mean to call him a pedophile. It doesn't seem like either man is going to file any lawsuits over their current spat, but they're both extremely litigious. And if Trump makes good on his threats to pull NASA contracts from SpaceX, you can bet Musk will try to retaliate in any way he can. These guys love their retribution, which is good for them when they're working together on the same team. But aiming that hatred at each other could get messy very quickly.
Daily Mail
28-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Third 'pedophile' grilled by cops over missing Alisa, 15... as depraved messages emerge
A third pedophile was grooming a teen girl days before she disappeared from her school without a trace, police allege. Alisa Petrov, 15, has been missing since April 21 when she ran away to meet a different alleged pedophile after being dropped off at school. The teenager exchanged graphic sexual messages and nude photos with the men for months using a secret iPad she hid in her dresser. Matthew Nicholas Menard, 35, from Miami and William Taylor Glines, 37, from Texas City, Texas, both face serious child sexual abuse charges. A third man, Samuel Mitchell, 41, who lived in Herriman, Utah, only streets away from Alisa's home in South Jordan, on the edge of Salt Lake City, is now under investigation. Police allegedly found perverted messages between the pair on Alisa's iPad, exchanged through Discord and Snapchat, and filed for a search warrant. Alisa asked Mitchell to 'kidnap' her while she was on a family ski trip, and revealed she was running away from home two days before she went missing. 'IM RUNNING AWAY, please don't contact me,' she wrote at 12.34am on April 19, the search warrant alleged. Messages between Alisa and Mitchell included her telling him she wanted to be a vlogger when she turned 18, but also allegedly contained graphic descriptions of sexual acts he wanted to do to her when they met in person. She was only saved from this fate when Mitchell told her they couldn't meet, the affidavit explained. 'Sorry I'm really sick,' Mitchell allegedly wrote. Alisa replied: 'So we meeting?' Mitchell responded: 'If you want to hear me sneezing and coughing and getting you sick, plus I wouldn't be much fun.' South Jordan Police requesting the search warrant alleged Alisa called Mitchell 'daddy' and they discussed 'couples twister' and 'sex monopoly' games. Alisa also requested multiple times for Mitchell to 'kidnap her' and eight days before she ran away sent him locations where she would be, the affidavit alleged. One of these was the Alta Ski Resort, where Alisa was on a trip with her parents the weekend before she disappeared - returning only hours earlier. Some of the photos her parents Olga and Nikolai released in the hope of finding her were taken on the same ski trip. Alisa returned from a family trip to Alta Ski Resort in Utah only hours before she disappeared. Some of the photos her parents released were taken on the same ski trip Police did not find any sexual images shared between the pair, and Mitchell has not been charged with a crime. However, police wrote in the warrant application that 'there is probable cause that there is evidence of enticement of a minor and exploitation of a minor on this phone'. After Mitchell said he was sick, Alisa instead allegedly arranged to meet Menard in Las Vegas while he was there on a business trip, and from there fly to Los Angeles, then his home in Miami. On April 21, Alisa was dropped off at her school, Canyon Grove Academy, in American Fork, about 32 miles south of Salt Lake City. But instead of going to class, she bought supplies at a nearby gas station and convinced a man there to drive her to the local train station. Alisa got off the train in Provo, about 14 miles south of American Fork, and asked multiple people there to help her get a bus ticket to Las Vegas. Police don't believe she met Menard, but the teenager hasn't been seen since, and no one knows where she went, who she is with, or how much danger she is in. Menard last week was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, enticement of a minor, and three counts of criminal solicitation. Police seized his phone at his home in Miami on April 30, but he was never arrested, even after a search of his device allegedly uncovered disturbing messages. South Jordan Police, which is leading the case, told that Menard was not on the run, but refused to say why he wasn't in custody, despite a no-bail warrant being filed by the Utah Attorney General. Menard's lawyers, Collins Rupp in Bountiful, north of Salt Lake City, did not return calls. Menard, an IT sales executive, grew up in Noblesville outside Indianapolis the youngest of four brothers, then moved to Chicago and finally Miami. But beneath his clean-cut, designer stubbled face was allegedly a depraved desire to sexually abuse young girls. Police detailed in affidavits the disturbing messages between Alisa and Menard dating back to January 17. '[Menard] over the course of several months, corresponded with [the teen] for the purpose of soliciting sex, sodomy, and child sex abuse material from the minor,' the affidavit continued. '[He] discussed in graphic detail his intent to sexually abuse the child. [He] encouraged and engaged with [the teen] all from the state of Florida, where all his substantial ties to the community and resources are.' Glines was arrested in Texas City on May 8 and remains in custody charged with aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, attempted aggravated exploitation of a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor, enticement of a minor, and criminal solicitation. He was also charged by police in Texas with possessing more than 50 child sexual abuse images or videos. He is yet to enter a plea. The probable cause affidavit detailed disturbing conversations between Glines and Alisa, including how he allegedly convinced he to send nude photos and videos. '[Alisa] expresses feeling extremely uncomfortable and anxious sending pictures and photos of herself, to the point it made her want to self-harm,' it alleged. She was so uncomfortable that on one occasion when Glines allegedly threatened to punish her if she refused, she asked for the punishment instead. He told her to beat herself with a piece of wood or a hairbrush as hard as she could, explaining 'I'm a sadist'. 'I'm just saying if the average person knew I was talking to you they'd want to cut my f**king d**k [off],' he said during another conversation. Police have not said if any of the three men knew each other. '[Police] say they cannot guarantee [that Alisa is still alive], but there was no indication that she's not,' Alisa's mother, Olga Petrov, told 'They say they still have some leads... but we have no idea what kind of leads, they're not saying anything.' Olga said she and her husband, Nikolai, were vigilant in protecting their daughter and educated her about the dangers of talking to strangers online. 'We regularly check her phone and there was nothing suspicious. Everything seemed to be normal, just classmates, neighbors,' she said. 'We never thought she could be talking to strangers in this way.' The worried mother hoped Alisa was just staying away because 'I would assume she's really embarrassed.' She said Alisa didn't have much money and that she didn't have a coat, even though it was below 40 degrees on some of nights after she went missing. 'So somebody else is either helping her and we don't know who or where... I'm not suspecting the worst,' Olga said. 'That means she's with somebody else and we don't know if it's a good person or a bad person.' Alisa was very trusting of people and liked to strike up conversations with others in the park while hiking or on family holidays. 'She was always trying to meet people to talk to people, like I mean she was just trusting, and we cautioned her about it all the time to at least to be careful,' her mother said. 'That's just how she is... and they took advantage of her.' Petrov's desperate family is offering a $20,000 reward for anyone with information on her whereabouts. They set up a website with a desperate appeal to the teen, insisting she wouldn't be in trouble if she returned. 'Alisa, if you can see this, please know that we love you, we will always love you. We miss you. All of your friends and our friends are very worried too,' her parents wrote. Police have classified the teen as an endangered runaway. She is described as standing about 5-foot-3 and weighing about 122 pounds. Surveillance footage from the gas station showed her wearing a white shirt with darker lettering on the front.
