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Police officer who fostered a 14-year-old girl after she was rescued from child sex abuse went on to abuse her himself, a court heard. Social workers placed the teenager in the care of the serving Metropolitan Police officer and his wife and moved her 300 miles to live with the couple. Police arrested the officer when the teenager was found hiding in a stairwell near his flat after she was removed from his care. Indecent pictures of them were found on her mobile phone. Prosecutors say the girl now 16, is so emotionally damaged she regularly self harms, has post traumatic stress disorder and has repeatedly attempted to kill herself. The girl had been left at the mercy of various "inappropriate men" by her manipulative and drug addicted mother before being rescued. Details of the scandal emerged as former gym instructor Andrew Timblin, 60, was jailed for 21 years after he was found guilty of raping the victim and another teenage girl, aged 17 in unrelated attacks. Two other men...

Edwin McLaren (left) and his wife Lorraine McLaren, who were convicted for large-scale property fraud following what is believed to be the longest criminal trial in UK legal history. Edwin McLaren, 52, was sentenced to 11 years on Tuesday after being found guilty of persuading vulnerable victims to sign over their homes as part of a £1.6 million property fraud scheme. He was found guilty in May of 29 charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow which began in September 2015 and heard evidence over 320 days. McLaren's wife Lorraine, 51, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years after being found guilty of two charges, involving a fraudulent mortgage application on their own home. Prosecutors said McLaren preyed on vulnerable people and arranged for the title deeds of their homes to be transferred to his associates without the victims' knowledge. McLaren, a financial adviser, placed adverts in the national press for companies offering property solutions. Targeting people in...

Vallum killed Mercedes Williamson, a 17-year-old transgender girl, and was prosecuted under a federal hate crimes law. A federal prosecution under a 2009 hate crime law resulted in a lengthy prison sentence last month for a Mississippi gang member who killed a 17-year-old transgender woman—and set an important precedent that could benefit other transgender victims. A judge sentenced Joshua Vallum to 49 years in federal prison under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. The prison term is in addition to the life sentence he received in Mississippi for killing 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson in 2015. Vallum admitted that he killed Williamson because she was transgender. The Shepard-Byrd Act gives the FBI authority to investigate violent hate crimes, including violence directed at the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community, and enables the prosecution of such crimes at the federal level. The act has been successfully applied to other hate c...

T wenty six year-old Alice Awuor Omito from Rongo, Migori County, Kenya, has shocked many after confessing that preparing the dead for burial is the one thing that makes her happy. The employee of Rosewood Funeral Home in Rongo said that she dropped out of nursing school after fears that she would not secure employment after school. The mortician began working as a morgue attendant at Star Mortuary in Kisumu two years ago, aged 24 before transferring to Rosewood in Rongo and says that she can't imagine being away from the dead. "I enjoy spending a better part of my working days with the dead. I can't imagine staying away from them even for a single working day. I have to go and look at the bodies stored in freezers daily," she said. "I discontinued my studies in nursing and pursued mortuary science because of available job opportunities in the latter field. I don't regret changing professions, not one bit," Awuor added. She narrated her journey to being ...