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Mass Indigenous graves found at another Catholic school in Canada

Hundreds of unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic residential school for Indigenous children in western Canada, local media reported late on Wednesday, weeks after the discovery of the remains of hundreds of Indigenous schoolchildren sent shock waves through the country.
(MSN, US, June 24, 2021 )

• Palm Coast man kills self outside courthouse before he was to be sentenced for child porn

A Palm Coast man drove to the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center in Bunnell on Tuesday morning to be sentenced to 3½ years in prison on 10 counts of possession of child pornography.
(Frank Fernandez, The Daytona Beach News-Journal, US, June 9, 2021 )

• Pakistan: Standing committee approves chemical castration of sexual abusers

National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice has approved chemical castration, which falls in the Criminal Law bill. As per the Criminal Law Bill 2020, if the accused commits the crime again after serving a life sentence, he will be sentenced to chemical castration.
(Staff writer, The Current, PK, June 5, 2021 )

• NY: A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer?

At the forested edge of the Canadian border this spring, state police arrested a person from the hamlet of Brasher Falls, New York, population about 1,000. He was charged with rape.
(Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, US, June 3, 2021)

• Canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school

A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people.
(BBC, UK, May 28, 2021)