A MAN from Ramsgate who fled justice after committing a string of vile sex crimes against young girls has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Ian Duncan McLeod-McLean, 48, fled the country after he was charged by police but on October 29 he sentenced to 12 years in prison at Maidstone Crown Court. McLeod-McLean, previously of Monkton Street, was due to stand trial in May 2008, but went to Sierra Leone, where he slept rough for two years as an illegal immigrant. Police finally caught him after he contracted a serious bout of malaria and was hospitalised. When it was discovered he was an illegal immigrant and wanted by UK police, authorities sprang into action and he was deported back to the UK where he was arrested upon arrival at London Heathrow. McLeod-McLean had admitted 20 counts of sexual abuse at an earlier hearing on September 30.

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A pervert going through a sex change says he downloaded 14,000 child abuse images to find out what it is like to grow up as a girl. Graham Newley has legally changed his name to Gillian Rebecca and lived as a woman since 2000. His lawyer said the 52-year-old “had got to the point of pre-operative assessment for full transgender surgery to change her from a male to a female”. Newley was arrested after more than 14,000 images were found on a laptop at his home in Darnley Road, Strood, last October.

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Witnesses say the driver never even slowed down.

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — Police are looking for the hit and run driver who struck a 3-year-old girl while she was trick or treating in Los Angeles. The unidentified child was hospitalized in stable but critical condition. She was struck at the corner of 77th Street and Stanford Avenue in the Florence-Graham area of Los Angeles about 6:45 p.m. Sunday. The toddler was following a 5-year-old girl across the street when she was hit by a red Toyota. Her mother was also struck in the hand, but was not seriously hurt. Witnesses said the driver never even slowed down.

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LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — A 5-year-old boy is in grave condition after he was shot while sitting in the backyard of a South Los Angeles home with family members. The shooting was reported around 2 p.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of E. 84th Street, according to LAPD homicide detectives. The boy and two family members were sitting in the yard when two suspects walked along the alley behind the home and opened fire. The boy was said to have been struck in the back of the head. He was fighting for his life at a local hospital. His identity was not released.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Buffalo man who police say faked his own death after getting his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter pregnant has pleaded guilty to first-degree rape. The Buffalo News reports that 34-year-old Edtition Thompson is expected to receive a sentence of 17 to 20 years in prison after pleading to the reduced charge last week. If he’d been convicted at trial of predatory child molestation he would have faced a mandatory life sentence.

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ELLENSBURG — A 51-year-old Cle Elum pastor has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping and molesting a boy multiple times over six years. Kittitas County prosecutors said Friday that James Watkins’ sentence was at the top of the range for his conviction on three counts of child rape and one count of child molestation. Deputy Prosecutor Paul Sander says Watkins was arrested and charged in July after the victim came forward out of concern that Watkins was grooming another victim.

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A 21-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of raping and molesting a young girl while he was babysitting her, court documents allege.  Casey Eskildsen pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court Oct. 25 to rape of a child in the first degree and child molestation in the first degree. Detective Laura Price with the Island County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case after an 11-year-old girl told her parents that Eskildsen had raped and molested her on a regular basis over a year’s time when she was 8 or 9 years old, Price wrote in her report. She said Eskildsen babysat her and her brothers.

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TARPON SPRINGS — A North Pinellas man was arrested on multiple child abuse charges Friday night. Tarpon Springs police said he went into a haunted house organized by high school students and fondled, kissed or harassed several of them. It happened about 10 p.m., police said, during an event organized by the Tarpon Springs High School drama club. Police would not disclose the location, but said it was not a private home. They could not say if any of the five victims, ages 12 to 18, were members of the drama club.

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Clerical sex abuse victims from across the world on Sunday took their calls for justice from Pope Benedict XVI to the doors of the Vatican itself. Close to a hundred protesters _ victims of abuse and their families _ gathered in Rome before leading a candle-lit vigil to the edge of St Peter’s Square on which they will leave personal messages for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The US group behind the event, Survivor’s Voice, said the victims had not been given permission to enter the square as a group, but would attempt to go in small numbers to leave letters and stones to mark their visit. “This isn’t an attack on faith or religion, it’s about behaviour and ethics,” said Marco Lodo Rizzini, a spokesman for child victims of abuse from Italy’s Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf.

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In an incident sure to lend fire to the ongoing debate about whether or not video games encourage real-world violence, a grisly murder in Canada has been linked back to the popular online game World of Warcraft, where the two teenage perpetrators reportedly planned and then bragged about their crime.

The two British Columbia teens, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, pleaded guilty Wednesday to raping and murdering 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor, whose charred body was found on a hiking trail in March. The two teens, both gamers, reportedly planned the attacks with texts and online chats and later bragged about their horrific crime in World of Warcraft, even sharing links to newspaper articles detailing the murder.

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Hillsboro Police arrested a Forest Grove man Thursday on charges he sexually abused children when he worked at an area bowling alley. Michael David Hasson, who worked at the Park Lanes Entertainment Center in Hillsboro, is charged with unlawfully touching female victims who were 4 or 5 years old at the time. One victim was assaulted at the bowling alley and another victim related to Hasson was assaulted in Aloha, according to Hillsboro detectives. Both crimes occurred four or five years ago, also according to police.

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