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A set of audio recordings attributed to Sasha (also spelled Sascha) Riley has circulated widely claiming he was abused as a child within a network tied to Jeffrey Epstein and that high-profile figures...
No mainstream news outlet has been shown in the provided reporting to have independently verified or obtained the CPS, FBI, or military records that Sascha Riley’s posts and testimony claim to referen...
UK law allows arrests over social-media posts under several overlapping statutes: legacy “communications offences” (section 1 Malicious Communications Act 1988 and section 127 Communications Act 2003)...
The UK does not have one single “hate speech law”; instead online hate speech is prosecuted through a patchwork of offences (Public Order Act provisions, Scotland’s separate law, and offences captured...
The headline “rape conviction rate in the UK for 2024” depends on which denominator is used: prosecutions completed or police-recorded offences. , while outcomes measured against all rape offences rec...
No verifiable public law‑enforcement records or court filings explicitly tied to the victims Lisa Noelle Voldeng is publicizing are produced or cited in the reporting supplied; mainstream outlets flag...
The arrests for social-media posts in the UK in 2024 were driven overwhelmingly by a trio of communications and public‑order offences — section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, section 1 of the Mal...
Reported prosecution rates for child sexual offences and CSAM vary widely by country and measure; some reports say India’s POCSO prosecution rate is “above 90%” for reported offences . Academic and en...
Police can rely on physical items, witness testimony, forensic and electronic data, and expert reports as evidence; statutory frameworks such as PACE set powers for stop/search, seizure and retention ...
The American Community Survey (ACS) measures public assistance through specific household questions about cash public assistance and SNAP/food stamp receipt, collected from a large, continuous nationa...
The available reporting shows widespread public claims that documents relevant to Sasha/Sascha Riley’s viral audio exist and “can be obtained” via FOIA or public records requests, but there is no veri...
No public FOIA releases or court records published since July 2025 have been shown in the available reporting to corroborate key elements of Sascha (Sasha) Riley’s viral testimony; multiple outlets th...
No major U.S. newspapers are shown in the provided reporting to have published investigative pieces that obtained CPS, FBI, or military records related to Sascha (Sasha) Riley since January 2025; the ...
Since 2015 the landscape for policing and prosecuting online communications has shifted from piecemeal statutory tweaks to a coordinated charging and prosecutorial framework: Parliament lowered eviden...
Conviction and charging rates vary markedly across CPS areas and police forces: CPS operational data shows conviction rates by CPS area ranging roughly from mid-70s percent to high-80s percent (for ex...
Multiple analyses point to as the two states with the largest recent gains in immigrant population, but different data series and time windows produce different leaders and magnitudes. A November 2021...
The CPS and ACS produce different headline counts and recent trends for the U.S. foreign‑born population because they differ in sample size, frequency and reference dates, survey mode and weighting, a...
UK sentencing for online hate speech and aggravated offences is governed by a mix of statutory offences, uplift rules and detailed Sentencing Council guidance: specific racially or religiously aggrava...
White voters remained the highest-turnout racial group in 2024, but that headline masks meaningful variation: older and college-educated white adults turned out at substantially higher rates than youn...
Available reporting indicates that prosecutions for harmful online communications were a fraction of the social-media policing headlines in 2024, and that a relatively small number of those prosecutio...