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Now playing Next Australia Cardinal Pell is free, cleared of child sex abuse in Melbourne The most senior Catholic to be found guilty of child sex abuse has had his conviction thrown out by Australia's top court. 07/04/2020
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Now playing Next Europe News Paedophile Marc Dutroux and the murders that united a divided Belgium In 2004, Dutroux was sentenced to life imprisonment for the abduction and rape of six girls in 1995 and 1996, as well as the murder of two of them. Judges will on Monday determine if he can have conditional early release. 27/10/2019
Now playing Next Nigeria Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school Police say children as young as five were among those released from the building in Kaduna 28/09/2019
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Now playing Next USA Turpin parents sentenced to life in prison for torturing children Police were alerted to the abuse when their 17-year-old daughter escaped the Perris, California home and called 911 to say her siblings were being held captive. 20/04/2019
Now playing Next France Barbarin resigns after receiving suspended prison sentence A French court convicted him on Thursday of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse of boy scouts in his diocese in the 1980s and early 1990s, by a priest who is due to go on trial later this year. 07/03/2019
Now playing Next USA Euroviews. Michael Jackson's fans don't want to think he hurt kids. But hardly anyone does | View We all think we'd do the right thing if someone was being sexually abused. But when the accused is a person we admire, many of us don't. 30/01/2019
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Now playing Next Poland The long road to justice for Polish childrens' abuse at the hands of nuns For decades vulnerable children were subjected to physical, mental and sexual abuse at the Special Care Centre in Zabrze run by the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo 12/12/2018
Now playing Next France French lower house approves parental smacking ban The law does not set punishments for offenders, and has to be approved by the Senate before going in the statute books. 01/12/2018
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