paedophilia
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She told the BBC that surrogacy should be seen as a crime as serious as paedophilia, and prosecuted as such.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
A Scottish Conservative spokesman also told the Daily Express that “Most Scots will find any attempt to soften the language around paedophilia in official guidance to be deeply disturbing and wrong.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
The court said the comments stemmed from a blog and subsequent posts about a debate regarding statements by party members in the 1980s about paedophilia.
From Reuters ● Feb. 2, 2022
The Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna, a Vatican expert on paedophilia among the priesthood, will visit Poland next month, the Polish episcopate said on Thursday.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2019
She wrote: "If she had issued it earlier, I may have kept my job on X Factor and avoided the constant accusations of paedophilia which I have been subjected to in real-life and online."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2018
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