Paedophiles in tsunami affected areas kidnapping children for slavery

Paedophiles in tsunami affected areas kidnapping children for slavery
and porn.

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assist the Swedish International Police Board, Save the Children,
Unicef, NCMEC, Interpol, the Thailand police and Tsunami victims in
this effort to protect and to find the children kidnapped in the
aftermath of this disaster.

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Paedophiles in tsunami affected areas kidnapping children for slavery
and porn.
AM - Tuesday, 4 January , 2005 08:06:23
Reporter: Kirsten Aiken
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1276415.htm

ELEANOR HALL: The disappearance and possible abduction of a Swedish
boy from a Thai hospital has also raised the spectre of children,
displaced or orphaned by the disaster, being preyed upon by paedophiles.

Child protection agencies say child abuse in the aftermath of
displacement is not uncommon.

As Kirsten Aiken reports.

KIRSTEN AIKEN: The frontpage of a Swedish tabloid shows Kristian
Walker as every child be – content and beaming the widest of smiles.

The photo was taken before last week's disaster. Kristian Walker's
family was holidaying in Thailand when the tsunami hit the coastline.
He and his siblings survived, his mother and her boyfriend are
missing. And now, so is the 12-year-old.

The boy's father Dan Walker raised the alarm after travelling to
Thailand to comfort his children. Staff from a hospital near Khao Lak,
who were shown Kristian's photo, say they treated him, before watching
him leave with a man described as European in appearance.

Ulf Goranzon is from the Swedish International Police Board.

ULF GORANZON: The information was so interesting that we decided to
send police officers to support the police… the local police in
Thailand, to help them with an eventual investigation.

KIRSTEN AIKEN: The unspoken fear is that child victims of last week's
tsunami are easy prey for paedophiles already operating in the region.

The fear is not without precedent. Already in Sri Lanka, there are
reports of children being sexually abused and in one instance a
teenager gang raped.

Child protection agencies have confirmed it is not uncommon to see an
increase of abuse and violence against women and children in the
aftermath of displacement and shock.

Rosie Jordan is from the charity Save the Children.

ROSIE JORDAN: Over the last few days we at Save the Children have been
in talks with UNICEF discussing how we can get guidelines in place for
this and how we can then educate local people who are actually working
with this, within camps, to combat this. And then as quickly as
possible, looking at the long term side, we want to really just get
kids into care, into their own community.

KIRSTEN AIKEN: With aid agencies still struggling to provide food and
water to affected communities, the protection of the 100,000 children
who are estimated to have been orphaned or misplaced by the tsunami is
impossible to guarantee, especially when Save the Children's Rosie
Jordan says the incredible trauma which accompanies displacement has
seen some survivors claim children they mistakenly believed were their
own.

ROSIE JORDAN: There have been a number of reports of all sorts of
things happening where local families have gone in and they've lost
children and they've falsely identified other children. I mean these
people are traumatized and these sorts of things do happen in an
emergency, and it's something that I know every charity will try and
combat.

ELEANOR HALL: Rosie Jordan from Save the Children, speaking to Kirsten
Aiken.