- A “escort service” has opened in Kamloops, B.C. “Bella Dolls,” a sex doll brothel, has been been operating in Vancouver since early November.
- The Metropolitan Police has launched a recruitment drive aimed at women, in an attempt to reach gender parity in the rank and file. As of now, 27 per cent of the Met’s forces are female.
- In the UK, parents of a six-year-old girl who was subjected to repeated sexual assault on a school playground by male classmates have won a five-figure settlement from the local authority.
- A man who raped a woman while she was dying of an overdose was sentenced to three years in prison.