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• Online sex trafficker from Lapu-lapu gets 23 years
  A 24-year-old woman from Lapu-Lapu City was sentenced to at least 23 years and two months in prison after pleading guilty to multiple offenses involving trafficking, child abuse, cybercrime, and child sexual exploitation materials.
• Pope challenged on sex abuse during World Youth Day
  PANAMA CITY (AP) - Young people challenged Pope Francis on the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal and the plight of Christians in the Middle East as the youth took center stage Saturday in the final events of World Youth Day in Panama.
• Pope challenged on sex abuse during World Youth Day
  PANAMA CITY (AP) - Young people challenged Pope Francis on the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal and the plight of Christians in the Middle East as the youth took center stage Saturday in the final events of World Youth Day in Panama.
• Priest gets 5-year jail term for sexual abuse
  A French priest on Friday was sentenced to five years, two without parole, for sexually assaulting four young female parishioners, one of whom was just nine when the offenses started, and embezzling 100,000 euros to pay one of his victims.
• Church to discuss plight of victims, perpetrators of human trafficking.
  Archdiocese of Cebu official has proposed to create a Church-based group that will investigate the plight of the victims and alleged perpetrators of human trafficking in the country, when they learned about the sexual abuse and torture of the kids allegedly by an Australian pedophile and his Filipina girlfriend who was arrested in Malapascua Island, Daanbantayan in north Cebu. Archdiocese of Cebu spokesperson urged the faithful to pray for the victims and their respective families.
• Man arrested for rape of 3-year-old neighbor
  Police arrested a 48 -year-old jobless man Wednesday, Fe. 26, 2020 for molesting a three-year-old girl in Barangay Pardo, Cebu City.
• Church sexual abuses not prevalent in Phl - CBCP exec
  While there may be sexual abuses committed by members of the clergy, an official of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said yesterday incidents in the Philippines are not as prevalent as in other countries.
• 2 women receive 4-year jail term
  A 33-year-old woman and a 23-year-old woman were each sentenced to over four years in prison after pleading guilty to accessing child sexual exploitation materials under plea bargaining agreements.