Autore: Emmanuel Enwenwen

Family of victim feels relief on the prosecution of culprit in online predator case

Emmanuel Enwenwen

After enduring years of trauma at the hands of online predators, the family of a young victim in Texas finally feels a sense of relief following the arrest and prosecution of the main culprit involved in the case. The ordeal unfolded since 2021 when the predators coerced a 14-year-old Oklahoma girl into committing degrading and violent acts via live-streaming, threatening to expose a nude photo of her to her peers if she refused.

The girl’s mother, speaking anonymously to protect her family’s safety, recounted the horrifying events to The Washington Post. She described how the predators, operating under the guise of friendship and affection, manipulated her daughter into inflicting self-harm and performing grotesque acts, including carving their screen names into her thigh and beheading a pet hamster, all while being watched in an online chatroom.

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Maryland lawmakers stall euthanasia bill

Emmanuel Enwenwen

The End-of-Life Options Act bill came to a standstill on Friday 1st March, as it failed to pass the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. The bill which sought to make Maryland the 12th jurisdiction to legalize medical aid in dying fails again after several years of trial.

According to the Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), this failure potentially delays the bill until 2027 when the next legislative term begins. The campaign, driven largely by patients and a national advocacy group called Compassion & Choices Action Network, has faced similar hurdles in other states, where efforts to legalize medical aid-in-dying have sometimes taken decades to succeed. Oregon was the first to enact the measure in 1997 as reported by The Washington Post.

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Pope Francis: it is important to share examples of women’s holiness

Emmanuel Enwenwen

Pope Francis extols the role of women in an address to participants of the international conference “Women in the Church: Builders of Humanity” on Thursday 7th March at the Clementine Hall in the Vatican.

The papal audience which was the first part of the activities for the two-day conference was attended by many women from different works of life who arrived Rome from different parts of the world for the international Conference. The conference which was hosted by Pontifical University of Santa Croce was sponsored by several pontifical universities as reported by Catholic News Service.

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