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Swiss teens charged over ‘ice tea sex tape’

Eleven Swiss teenagers face charges of downloading and distributing a video which features a minor pleasuring herself with a bottle of Migros Ice Tea.

Published: 5 April 2013 11:06 CEST
Swiss teens charged over 'ice tea sex tape'
Photo: Phil Campbell

The girl involved – who claims that her ex-boyfriend posted the video on Facebook against her will – also faces charges for the production of child porn.

Swiss daily 20 Minutes reports that the video, which was entitled ‘ice tea sex tape’, was originally posted on Facebook.

It quickly clocked up around 15,000 views before it was removed in December last year.

The 11 teenagers from the cantons of Zurich and Aargau are charged with downloading and distributing the video via the mobile phone application WhatsApp.    

“Some people sent the video to others, while others just saved it onto their smartphones,” said Beat Fritsche, spokesman for the Public Ministry of Minors in Zurich, according to the news site.

The teenagers, some of them under 15, are expected to be ordered to perform community service.

Although police say the video was posted on the social networking site against her will, Fritsche confirmed that the girl was “accused of producing child pornography”.

In December last year, 20 Minutes reported that the girl had been subject to continuous “cyber-bullying” as a result of the video which was still being circulated on WhatsApp.

Soon after the video was posted, it was reported that pornographic pictures featuring ice tea had spread across the internet.

However, at the time it was unclear whether they featured the same girl as the original video. 

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CATHOLIC CHURCH

At least 3,000 paedophiles active in French church since 1950: report

Thousands of paedophiles have operated inside the French Catholic Church since 1950, the head of an independent commission investigating the scandal told AFP, days ahead of the release of its report.

Published: 3 October 2021 09:16 CEST
French archbishop Cardinal Philippe Barbarin leads his last mass,on June 28, 2020. Barbarin was released on appeal on January 30 for his silence on the sexual abuse of a priest, and resigned quickly afterwards.
French archbishop Cardinal Philippe Barbarin leads his last mass,on June 28, 2020. Barbarin was released on appeal on January 30 for his silence on the sexual abuse of a priest, and resigned quickly afterwards. Photo: Jeff Pachoud/AFP

The commission’s research had uncovered between 2,900 and 3,200 paedophile priests or other members of the church, said Jean-Marc Sauve, adding that it was “a minimum estimate”.

The commission’s report is due to be released on Tuesday after two and a half years of research based on church, court and police archives, as well as interviews with witnesses.

The report, which Sauve said runs to 2,500 pages, will attempt to quantify both the number of offenders and the number of victims.

It will also look into “the mechanisms, notably institutional and cultural ones” within the Church which allowed paedophiles to remain, and will offer 45 proposals.

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The independent commission was set up in 2018 by the French Catholic Church in response to a number of scandals that shook the Church in France and worldwide.

Its formation also came after Pope Francis passed a landmark measure obliging those who know about sex abuse in the Catholic Church to report it to their superiors.

Made up of 22 legal professionals, doctors, historians, sociologists and theologians, its brief was to investigate allegations of child sex abuse by clerics dating back to the 1950s.

When it began its work it called for witness statements and set up a telephone hotline, then reported receiving thousands of messages in the months that followed.

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