February 16, 2005

Explicit Photos Fan UN Sex Scandal

The French staffer they implicate says that the Congo mission harbors a pedophile network.

UNITED NATIONS — A scandal about the sexual abuse of Congolese women and children by U.N. officials and peacekeepers intensified Friday with the broadcast of explicit pictures of a French U.N. worker and Congolese girls and his claim that there was a network of pedophiles at the U.N. mission in Congo.

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~Is this a demonstration of a free market sex-economy principle: if you put men with some money (vehicles & radios) in foreign places where there's no money and little food, this is what's happens?
The limited number of people found responsible... a pundit at The Telegraph wrote there's been "systemic UN child sex in at least 50 per cent of their missions"....and the speed in which the "we-will-never-allow-this-to-happen-again" stories have appeared....got me thinking about that Belgian pedophile ring of not so long ago and the few people arrested there too.
It's noteworthy that European papers report on the possible existence of "sex-rings", even though the prosecutions don't yet (dare?) go there. Here in the States our journalists rarely wonder about home-grown (off the internet) criminal sex networks or pedophile rings. Like our assassins America's sex-criminals are all lone gunmen?

Posted by Cieciel at February 16, 2005 06:03 AM