For the poor and hungry children of Haiti the arrival of the UN peacekeepers meant cookies and other snacks. But they had to pay a high price for this. The peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.
“I did not even have breasts,” said a girl, known as Victim Number One. She told UN investigators that over the next three years, from ages 12 to 15, she had sex with nearly 50 peacekeepers, including a “Commandant” who gave her 75 cents.A boy, known as Victim No. 9, was 15 when his ordeal began. Over the course of three years, he said he had sex with more than 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers, averaging about four a day.
From 2004 to 2007, nine Haitian children were exploited by a child sex ring involving at least 134 Sri Lankan peacekeepers, according to a UN report obtained by The Associated Press. Although 114 of the peacekeepers were sent home, none was ever jailed for the abuse. During the past 12 years an estimated 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and UN personnel were reported around the world.
