Moral Outrage

“The founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been charged in Sweden with rape and molestation, a spokeswoman for the Swedish prosecutor’s office told CNN Saturday. Spokeswoman Karin Rosander said the charges were filed Friday night, but she didn’t have further details. Assange denied the charges in a posting Saturday on the WikiLeaks Twitter page, saying, &

Los Angeles prosecutors argued Friday against allowing director Roman Polanski, under house arrest at his Swiss chalet, to be sentenced in absentia after making “a mockery of our criminal justice system” for more than three decades. The famed director, who pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, has been the subject of an international extradition battle since he was arres

A BBC programme is to feature a call for the age of consent to be lowered. Law professor John Spencer will argue that the current age of consent, fixed at 16, criminalises ‘half the population’. His controversial views will be debated on the BBC Radio 4 programme Iconoclasts tomorrow evening.–By Kirsty Walker and Sarah HarrisBBC has picked up on the heated arguments regarding the age of consent an

Sir Michael Parkinson was gutted when the BBC decreed his family tree was too boring to feature on Who Do You Think You Are? But the chat show host’s ­ancestry is anything but dull, the Sunday Express can reveal. His great grandfather William caused a sensation in 1873 when at the age of 43 he married a girl of just 15, with whom he fathered two children. – By David JarvisFrom the article, the current Mich

A teenage girl at a top public school says she is ‘in love’ with a music teacher who had a lesbian affair with her. The child has vowed to continue their relationship when she is 16, despite Helen Goddard, 26, facing a possible jail sentence. Goddard, a trumpeter known as ‘the jazz lady’ by her pupils at the £13,000-a-year City of London School for Girls, yesterday admitted in court that she started a rela