LEICESTER (UNITED KINGDOM)
Crux
February 19, 2018
By Charles Collins
Catholic international aid charities have pledged zero-tolerance for sexual exploitation by their employees, as a sex abuse scandal affecting one of Britain’s largest charities is now latching onto U.N. aid agencies.
Andrew MacLeod, the former Chief of Operations of the UN Emergency Coordination Center for the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, estimated in The Sun – a British tabloid – that tens of thousand of people have been raped by UN employees, and the international body employs at least 3,000 pedophiles.
“There are tens of thousands of aid workers around the world with pedophile tendencies, but if you wear a UNICEF T-shirt nobody will ask what you’re up to,” MacLeod told the newspaper.
“You have the impunity to do whatever you want,” he said. “It is endemic across the aid industry across the world.”
(The United Nations has disputed Macleod’s methodology, and stated it has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual abuse by staff.)
The scandal began last week when an investigative series by The Times, an English newspaper, revealed Oxfam staff used prostitutes in “Caligula”-like sex parties while providing aid in Haiti in 2011. The newspaper alleges some of those prostitutes may have been underaged.
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