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Girls Selling Sex For Food, Liberia

  • 08-05-2006 1:48pm
    #1
    Skitbra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭


    http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13522596,00.html

    I haven't read anything that has made me more angry than these reports of UN peacekeepers having sex with girls as young as 8 in return for letting them watch a movie among other things.
    Is there anything that can be done?


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  • #2
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    It's not just (some) UN peacekeepers, it's also (some) NGO aid workers, according to the UN report.

    It's absolutely unspeakable but unsurprising: wherever there is suffering there is someone there to exploit it :mad:

    I wonder how much screening and vetting is done on these people? Years ago the NGO's said that they would improve screening as it became obvious that paedophiles were signing up as if it was some sort of holiday camp!! :mad:

    Anyone know what screening is happening these days?


  • #3
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,358 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    The world is unfortunately full of perverts and people who will gain from others hardship.


  • #4
    Schuhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭Schuhart


    I heard a spokeswoman from the organisation making this report on Boring Ireland (either this morning or yesterday) and, to be honest, she was less than impressive. I'm not saying horrendous things haven't happened in Liberia, and certainly there seems to be evidence independent of this report of peacekeepers and aid workers exploiting their positions of power.

    While there's an inevitable reluctance to criticise any organisation called 'Save the Children', even if I don't really know who they are, I simply have to say that they came close to falling apart under pretty routine questioning from RTE. There seems to be no detailed evidence for any of the allegations they are making. They held some public meetings, and people made these general allegations. But there seems to be no specific evidence for any of this. No-one actually produced an eight year old who had sex with an aid worker in exchange for a viewing of a movie.

    The RTE interviewer asked if any particular peacekeepers were associated with the allegations (chiefly to see if there were any allegations about the Irish contingent - although they only leave their base when on duty). The answer was along the lines of 'errr, em, ahh, well people were sort of saying it was peacekeeping troops but they didn't say much else'.

    At the end of it I was left wondering how far you could get through the media with this kind of stuff before someone would stop you and say 'hold on, you don't really know jack **** about what's happening out there, do you?'


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