May.27.2008 Why help when you can molest?
Hey you know what’s a great idea? Becoming a “peacekeeper” to molest kids. What? Someone already thought of that? Dammit.
Save the Children UK says in a report released Tuesday that it has uncovered evidence of widespread sexual abuse of children at the hands of peacekeepers and international aid workers in war zones and disaster areas.
The report said more than half the children interviewed knew of cases of coerced sex and improper sexual touching and that in many instances children knew of 10 or more such incidents carried out by aid workers or peacekeepers.
In some cases, children as young as 6 years old were abused, the report said.
The report details many types of abuse allegedly committed by peacekeepers and aid workers, including trading food for sex, coerced sex, improper touching and kissing, forced prostitution and using children for pornographic purposes.
Save the Children spokesman Dominic Nutt said U.N. peacekeepers are involved in many abuse cases because they are present throughout the world in such large numbers. But he praised the United Nations for improving its reporting and investigative procedures regarding sex abuse.
I don’t know that you can call it “reporting” and “investigating” if the primary way that things were accounted for is when peacekeepers exchanged high fives after an especially proficient diddling. But yeah, even with some measure of accountability in place, I can’t say that, after this, I’d be particularly enthused if I were an impoverished native and some peacekeeper came over with a medicine kit and a gleam in his eye. I don’t know what’s a needle and what isn’t any more, man.
Conversely, what man hasn’t traded food for sex or improper touching? I like to go down to the homeless shelter on payday with a steak tied to my belt buckle. The flesh may be weak and possibly corroded and, sure, I don’t even give them the steak half the time, but we both knew this was a dangerous deal in the first place, didn’t we?
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