Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with sex_crime www.salem-news.com 2013 On Monday at approximately 10:30 p.m., Portland Police North Precinct officers responded to the report of a sexual assault that occurred in North Portland's Overlook Neighborhood. Officers met with the 54-year-old female victim at her home and she told police that she was walking her dogs near the grounds of the Kaiser Permanente offices at North Interstate Avenue and Overlook Street, when a suspect approached her, talked with her briefly, then pulled her into the bushes where she was sexually assaulted. http://salem-news.com/articles/august062014/portland-sexsuspect-kh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august062014/portland-sexsuspect-kh.php Wed, 06 Aug 2014 19:47:00 PDT Portland Police have arrested a 52-year-old man after he allegedly exposed himself to a 5-year-old girl on a TriMet bus. Portland Police spokesman Sergeant Pete Simpson says police began their investigation on July 7, after officers assigned to the transit division responded to a call of a man exposing himself to a young female in the area of Southwest 6th Avenue and Columbia Street. http://salem-news.com/articles/july152014/bus-exposure-kh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july152014/bus-exposure-kh.php Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:45:00 PDT The FBI is asking for the public's help in locating a former Oregon high school cheerleader who is accused of sex trafficking. The FBI is looking for Julia Haner, who was a cheerleader at Lake Oswego High School helped recruit a 17-year-old to work as a prostitute in February. http://salem-news.com/articles/june252014/cheerleader-sex-kh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june252014/cheerleader-sex-kh.php Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:07:00 PDT The Marion County Sheriff's department is asking for the public's help in locating a man suspected of breaking into a southeast Salem home and sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Sheriff's spokesman Sergeant Chris Baldridge says the incident happened at a residence located on State Street SE. http://salem-news.com/articles/june242014/sex-assault-kh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june242014/sex-assault-kh.php Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:15:00 PDT The FBI, local law enforcement partners and victim service agencies from throughout the region joined forces to launch multi-day undercover operations targeting child sex trafficking operations in the Portland metro and Eugene areas. These operations, which ran June 18th - June 22nd, resulted in the recovery of one minor child and the identification of 20 adult prostitutes. Many of the adults had been trafficked since they were 13 or 14 years old. http://salem-news.com/articles/june232014/fbi-oregon-kh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june232014/fbi-oregon-kh.php Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:02:00 PDT A 51-year-old Oregon City man is behind bars Monday after he allegedly intentionally exposed his genitals to a female store clerk, not once, but twice. Police say the man entered the Plaid Pantry store at the corner of Leland road and Warner Milne road walked up to the counter on two separate occasions and showed the female employee his genitals. http://salem-news.com/articles/june232014/oregon-arrest-kh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june232014/oregon-arrest-kh.php Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:35:00 PDT On Monday, March 17, 2014, the Marion County Sheriff's Office received a complaint that two of its Search and Rescue volunteers had engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old volunteer. Upon receipt of the complaint, the Sheriff's Office asked the Keizer Police Department to conduct an investigation of the allegations. http://salem-news.com/articles/march222014/rescuer-sex-arrest.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march222014/rescuer-sex-arrest.php Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:27:00 PDT Muntaha Heeh, 21, arrested last month at an Israeli army checkpoint outside Hebron, told a prisoners’ advocacy group that she was severely beaten and tortured during her month long detention, according to a report published Saturday. Ahrar Center for Prisoners’ Studies said that Heeh told the center in an affidavit that she was tortured and severely beaten all the time she was in detention and may have suffered an internal kidney bleeding as a result. http://salem-news.com/articles/november232013/muntaha-heeh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november232013/muntaha-heeh.php Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:37:00 PST Sara Jessimy Kruzan has a story that will give you chills. Born January 8, 1978, she would go onto become a victim of human trafficking, and a convicted murderer. Back in 1995, when she was 17, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of her alleged pimp, George Gilbert Howard, and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. http://salem-news.com/articles/october302013/sara-kruzan-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october302013/sara-kruzan-le.php Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:37:00 PDT Pakistani Christian Advocate Sardar Mushtaq Gill says he was threatened by three anonymous armed men Sunday after meeting with the victims of a heart breaking incident. Christian women were attacked and paraded naked by a mob of Muslims... http://salem-news.com/articles/june242013/gill-threatened.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june242013/gill-threatened.php Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:06:00 PDT Another case of a Hindu girl abducted, raped and forced to convert to Islam surfaced when her parents approached a court seeking safety and justice after receiving threats. According to World Vision in Progress (WVIP), a Hindu girl named Hamadi Mai, a minor living in TEHSIL YAZMAN, a subdivision of the Bahawalpur District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, was violently raped and forced to convert to Islam. http://salem-news.com/articles/february272013/hindu-justice-wg-fg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february272013/hindu-justice-wg-fg.php Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:26:00 PST World Vision in Progress WVIP is nonprofit organization, workings based on this commandment. WVIP is fighting against the social injustice, constitutional and religious discrimination, and force conversion with Christians and other religious minorities in Pakistan, said WVIP chief. http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/wvip-injustice-sm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/wvip-injustice-sm.php Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:57:00 PST Police in Pakistan are investigating the rape of a Christian girl Fouzia Bibi. The victim's family is facing violence and mounting pressure along with LEAD (Legal Evangelical Association Development), to avoid proceedings in this case and both are facing some problems including financial crisis. http://salem-news.com/articles/february182013/pakistan-rape-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february182013/pakistan-rape-mq.php Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:03:00 PST The question is very simple. While rape in any form is abhorred and should be severely punished by all nations what needs to be answered is what makes the recent gangrape by 6 men of a 23 year old on a bus in Delhi any different from the gangrape of a 16 year old Dalit women by 8 men who having taken photos of the crime had circulated it amongst the village leading to her father committing suicide out of shame? http://salem-news.com/articles/january042013/india-raped-sw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042013/india-raped-sw.php Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:51:00 PST The fallacy that a woman must be killed to maintain family honor is as old and stale as the crusty philosophies that lead to such cruel and bent thinking. Massive problems facing women and girls in Pakistan and India. http://salem-news.com/articles/january012013/honor-killing-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january012013/honor-killing-le.php Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:39:00 PST India hates women. It is with this bald fact that I wish to begin—and end—my response to the horrific crime that occurred this week in Delhi, the rape, by multiple perpetrators, of a young woman on public transport in our capital city. http://salem-news.com/articles/december302012/women-india-prc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december302012/women-india-prc.php Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:27:00 PST Friends and family were forced to say goodbye to the 23-year-old girl who was gang-raped in Delhi and brutally assaulted by six male suspects nearly a fortnight ago. She passed away at a Singapore hospital early Saturday. This is bad news in a country known for ignoring the rape and sex assault of its own citizens. The girl, a physiotherapy student, was beaten with an iron rod, raped by six men for over an hour by some accounts, and then both she and her friend were thrown from the moving bus. http://salem-news.com/articles/december282012/gangrape-death-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december282012/gangrape-death-tk.php Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:43:00 PST On 4th December 2012 six year old Vijanti Meghwar was brutally raped in Ghulam Nabi Shah village, district Taluka Pithoro Umerkot, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Vijanti belongs to the Meghwar community of the country’s minority Hindu population. She was found unconscious and lying in the street. http://salem-news.com/articles/december252012/rape-victim-folo-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december252012/rape-victim-folo-mq.php Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:36:00 PST Recently, writing in the Los Angeles Times, John Gehring enthused over the Vatican's "five decades of sweeping reforms" and announced that the Catholic faith and the Church "stand at a crossroads." However those more aware, might respond that, rather than a crossroads, the Vatican stands at a traffic circle. http://salem-news.com/articles/december022012/priest-child-abuse-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december022012/priest-child-abuse-ba.php Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:13:00 PST Facebook is a household name for millions of people around the world who use it to make friends, share pictures, and discuss common interests. But increasingly, those people include pedophiles who are using Facebook to share images of child pornography and sell kids for sex. http://salem-news.com/articles/december012012/facebook-child-porn.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december012012/facebook-child-porn.php Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:57:00 PST A Christian girl named Timar Shahzadi who is 14, was kidnapped and very likely is a rape victim who may be forcibly converted to Islam. According to Pastor Farooq Sadique, Timar Shahzadi the Christian girl was kidnapped in the twin cities of Islamabad/Rawalpindi on 22nd October, 2012. http://salem-news.com/articles/october292012/christian-kidnapping-sm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october292012/christian-kidnapping-sm.php Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:16:00 PDT In the name of keeping the security tight in the former war zones, the government of Sri Lanka “is systematically Sinhalising the traditional fishing livelihood of the war-ravaged Tamils in the northern Jaffna and north-eastern Mullaitivu districts”. Former MP and leader of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam said the motive was to “eliminate the very existence of the traditional Tamil nation as a whole”. http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/lanka-sinlazation.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/lanka-sinlazation.php Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:49:00 PDT Sri Lanka’s failure to account for serious violations of human rights has created a climate of impunity where arbitrary detentions, torture and other ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, and custodial killings continue unchecked. More than three years after the armed conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended, these violations continue to be reported. http://salem-news.com/articles/september042012/lanka-ai.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september042012/lanka-ai.php Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:38:00 PDT Rape and sex abuse continue to rank among the worst problems facing the Tamil population in the north of Sri Lanka, where people live in the aftermath of a bloody three-decade long civil war. This ethnic conflict ended when the Sri Lankan Army launched a series war crimes that left 160,000 Tamils dead and missing. http://salem-news.com/articles/september022012/lanka-rape-elders.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september022012/lanka-rape-elders.php Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:18:00 PDT The Sri Lankan Army has been using rape as a weapon of war in the Tamil regions over 30 years. Currently, most of North East Tamil regions are under Sri Lankan Army’s control. Forced disappearance of Tamils for torture and rape is the norm in these regions. Most of these Tamils are killed eventually. http://salem-news.com/articles/september022012/lanka-rape-weapon.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september022012/lanka-rape-weapon.php Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:10:00 PDT According to local media reports, a 12-year old Pakistani girl who went into a field to relieve herself was gang raped by several men and murdered just less than two weeks ago. At this point, police have not made any arrests. There are few things more disturbing in this world that the wanton abuse of a child; particularly under these worst of circumstances. http://salem-news.com/articles/august272012/pakistan-murder-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august272012/pakistan-murder-wg.php Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:35:00 PDT Officials of the Vatican, the Crown of England and other accused parties will face summary banishment and trial commencing in exactly one month if they do not abide by ten measures issued to them on May 4. This Urgent Action Alert calls upon just men and women everywhere to prepare themselves to launch church occupations, public protests, citizens' arrests and other direct actions beginning on September 15. http://salem-news.com/articles/august152012/itccs-release.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august152012/itccs-release.php Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:56:00 PDT I joined the military because I wanted to serve my country. I served as a Lance Corporal in the Marines for over three years. In that time I was raped twice and sexually assaulted another two times. http://salem-news.com/articles/july112012/military-rape-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july112012/military-rape-.php Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:15:00 PDT The court order against rape victim Jamie Leigh Jones is another example of our societal regression. It is a stunning example of what has become of something once adequately titled: 'the American justice system'. Today it is a mindless program that still allows women who serve their country to be treated like objects and raped and killed without consequence. http://salem-news.com/articles/july032012/kbr-jamie-jones_-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july032012/kbr-jamie-jones_-le.php Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:33:00 PDT Some of my readers are upset that I ran this image of Jesus, below, as part of a recent article about the conviction of catholic bishop William Lynn, who spent decades helping priests in Philadelphia torture and rape children. I agree with my critics. This is hardly an accurate portrayal of Jesus. http://salem-news.com/articles/june302012/jesus-position-ka.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june302012/jesus-position-ka.php Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:12:00 PDT