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Assaulted, robbed: Refugees abused on Bosnia-Croatia border | Refugees News

Assaulted, robbed: Refugees abused on Bosnia-Croatia border | Refugees News

*All last names have been withheld to protect the identities of migrants during their asylum processes. Some first names have been changed on request. Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina – They come from all over: Afghanistan, Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria and Sudan. But a shared goal unites them – reaching European Union soil. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list For now, the refugees and migrants wait in Bihac, an unassuming town in Bosnia and Herzegovina near the Croatian border. As the EU works to overhaul its asylum system this year, their hopes of gaining refuge in Europe are being diminished. Bosnia is not an EU member, but Croatia is. Under the cover of the rugged woods of the Balkans, people are violently returned to Bosnia by Croatian authorities, a practice described as an illegal pushback by rights groups. According to international law, anyone arriving at a border has the right to request asylum and remain in the country while their claim is considered. Migrants here say they are denied that opportunity, instead being forcibly …

Nursery worker who raped and abused toddlers jailed | News UK Video News

Nursery worker who raped and abused toddlers jailed | News UK Video News

A nursery worker who carried out multiple counts of rape and sexual assault against toddlers as young as two has been given a 30-year sentence. Nathan Bennett, 30, was found guilty last month of two counts of raping a child under 13, four counts of the sexual assault of a child under 13 and two charges of sexual assault of a child under 13 by penetration. Prosecutor Virginia Cornwall described the case as “every parent’s nightmare”. Bennett was told he’d spend at least 24 years in custody, with six years on licence. The sexual offences against the five boys aged between two and three years old took place at the Partou King Street Nursery in Bristol. A parent of a child that was under Bennett’s care told Sky News the revelations were “horrifying”. Image: Nathan Bennett. Pic: Avon and Somerset Constabulary They said: “You think that this can only happen in TV shows and films and to other people. “And I never thought that I would be in a situation where my children had been …

Valerie Bertinelli opens up about being sexually abused as a young girl: ‘I’m a survivor’

Valerie Bertinelli opens up about being sexually abused as a young girl: ‘I’m a survivor’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Valerie Bertinelli, 65, has revealed that she was sexually assaulted at 11 years old ahead of the release of her upcoming memoir, Getting Naked. Speaking to People ahead of the memoir’s March 10 release, the former Food Network host explained that she never intended to go public with her sexual assault. “I had no plans to reveal this,” she said. “This was going to be a book about teaching people how to love themselves. I did not know that I would go this far.” She told the publication that she considered sharing the news as another part of the healing journey. “I guess because I’m healing from it, it’s not so scary anymore,” Bertinelli added. “I can say it out loud. I was sexually assaulted. It doesn’t feel like it owns me anymore. “I’m a survivor,” she added. Valerie Bertinelli reveals …

Nursery worker who abused babies will be deported but may be set free back home | UK | News

Nursery worker who abused babies will be deported but may be set free back home | UK | News

Roksana Lecka’s mugshot (Image: PA) A woman jailed for abusing 21 babies is due for deportation on Thursday but the victims’ parents fear she could go on to “harm many more children”, MPs have heard. Roksana Lecka is due to be deported to Poland later this week, it is understood. Once she arrives, her treatment is a matter for Polish authorities. Lecka, now aged 23, was jailed for eight years last September after admitting seven counts of cruelty to a person under the age of 16, and was convicted after a trial of another 14 counts. Munira Wilson told the Commons “clear communication and transparency is key” in child abuse cases. “Yet the parents of the 21 babies abused by Roksana Lecka at Twickenham Green Nursery were given less than a week’s notice that she would be deported to Poland this Thursday,” the Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham said. “They have been given no information about whether Lecka will continue to serve the rest of her eight-year sentence or whether she will walk free after …

‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims

‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims

default It was 1981 and Nigel Farage was turning 17. He was already a figure of some controversy, as would become a lifelong habit, among the younger pupils and staff at Dulwich college in south-east London. “I remember it was either in a particular English lesson or a particular form period that his name came up,” said Chloë Deakin, then a young English teacher, of a discussion with a class of 11- and 12-year-olds. “There was something about bullying, and he was being referred to, quite specifically, as a bully. And I thought: ‘Who is this boy?’” Related: Nazi salutes and racism: the allegations about Nigel Farage’s school days – podcast Deakin conferred with colleagues in the staff room who corroborated accounts of harassment of fellow pupils and of Farage’s apparent fascination with the far right, including claims that he had been “goose-stepping” on combined cadet force marches. “But initially I had heard it from boys,” she said. “I was shocked to hear that this Dulwich boy was apparently getting away with this kind of …