X A 61-year old man with host of charges relating to sexual violence against adolescents and pre-pubescent girls remained employed at a B.C. post-secondary school for years, despite being deemed a high-risk to reoffend. John Walter Sam has convictions that date back as far as 1982, including a 2002 charge where he pleaded guilty to...Read More
Mohammadullah Majbor, 42, of New Haven, was arrested and charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor, risk of injury to a minor, enticing a minor, and criminal attempt at second-degree sexual assault. He was held in lieu of a $300,000 bond. Michael Ryans, 35, of Bloomfield, was arrested and charged with commercial sexual abuse...Read More
Mohammadullah Majbor, 42, of New Haven, was arrested and charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor, risk of injury to a minor, enticing a minor, and criminal attempt at second-degree sexual assault. He was held in lieu of a $300,000 bond. Michael Ryans, 35, of Bloomfield, was arrested and charged with commercial sexual abuse...Read More
Open this photo in gallery: The dangers of social media are being acknowledged by courts and society at large. And now the companies running the platforms will have to pay.Hollie Adams/Reuters You get to a point in parenthood – and this point is creeping ever earlier – when more and more of your worries and...Read More
FILE – A car passes Facebook’s new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. Tony Avelar / AP Significant changes are coming to the Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram after the company agreed to the multi-billion dollar settlement of a nationwide lawsuit that claimed it...Read More
ROME, N.Y. — A mother has been charged in connection with an assault seen in a social media video. The Rome Police Department said on Aug. 27 that it charged Damaris Brane, 34, with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the incident. On Aug. 27, the police department announced...Read More
By Billy Begas House Committee on Dangerous Drugs chairperson and Las Piñas Rep. Mark Anthony Santos warned that increasingly sophisticated algorithms powering social media platforms are making it harder for children and adolescents to avoid illicit and harmful content online. “The evolution of social media platforms’ powerful algorithms makes it more and more difficult for...Read More
Every week, more grave-faced politicians declare that we must protect kids by banning them from social media, even though most unhinged people online are old enough to vote. Wayne Wilson/OsakaWayne Studios Save the children. Restore democracy. And ban everyone age 18 and older from social media. Yes, 18 and older. Effective immediately. We adults are...Read More
On Wednesday (Aug 26) afternoon, as he was getting ready to head to high school football practice, Billy Stern learned that the social media giant Meta had reached a multibillion-dollar settlement over claims that its platforms had harmed young users. “I was just rooting against them,” Stern, 16, said in a phone interview. The company...Read More
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that a Lackawanna County man will serve up to a decade in state prison for possessing 201 files of child sexual abuse material. A Lackawanna County Judge sentenced Lucas E. Kelsey to 5 to 10 years in prison, plus six years of probation, regarding felony charges filed last...Read More
