Topic: Child Sexual Abuse
Australian child sex tourists target Fiji
December 6, 2000 ·
Recent reports show Australian child sex tourists are targetting Fiji in the wake of this year’s civil unrest. Australians have been identified as the main culprits in Fiji’s burgeoning child sex tourism industry. The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre has called for tougher laws against child sexual abuse.
Read More...Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Detention Centres
December 5, 2000 · , ECPAT-USA
Claims of child sexual abuse and child rape in the South Australia Woomera Detention Centre, detaining illegal immigrants, continue to surface. Allegations include that a 12 year-old boy was sold for sex by his father to other refugee detainees in return for cigarettes. The father is also accused of raping his son in February or March 2000. A former nurse at the privately run centre alleges the abuse was not investigated and was covered up. The child was not examined in hospital and the case was not referred to any external agency.
Read More...Tourism Code Breaks New Ground
December 2, 2000 ·
In October this year the tourism industry and European ECPAT groups met to- discuss establishing a code of conduct on the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in tourism. This expert meeting was the culmination of a year’s project to set up an international code with the tourism industry. The expert meeting included participants from […]
Read More...Fighting The Child Sex Trade
May 8, 2000 ·
OLONGAPO, PHILIPPINES – Pia Agustin Corvera became a prostitute at the age of 9. An aunt who raised her in a Manila slum rented her to foreign men with Pia receiving 120 pesos–$3–for each encounter. After three years, according to a social worker’s report, she was sold to a visiting German pedophile. Today, the morose 16-year-old with a ravaged psyche and an uneasy smile has found refuge here in a therapeutic community for child victims of sexual abuse run by a 57-year-old Irish priest, the Rev. Shay Cullen.
Read More...Stopping sex-slave trade in the global economy
April 2, 2000 ·
Official U.S. estimates are that 2 million people, including 500,000 children, are being forced into prostitution.
A silent but horrific practice degrading women and children is, proliferating around the world. Known as sexual trafficking, it involves a systematic effort to kidnap females, many of whom are preteens, into forced prostitution.
Read More...PREDA NEWSLETTER March 2000
March 2, 2000 ·
Dear friends and supporters of Children’s and Women’s Rights Peadophile Gets Bishop and Clergy Support – Victims Ignored We at the PREDA Foundation, now 26 years old, caring for sexually abused women and children and are combating a Paedophile Support Ring based in Olongapo city, Philippines for several years. We have helped convict several of […]
Read More...Unicef Child Sex Trafficking Must End
January 23, 2000 ·
NATIONS must fight the greed and brutal disregard for human rights which underpin the worldwide trafficking in children and women, most often for sexual exploitation, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Executive Director Carol Bellamy.
Read More...8 doomed convicts spared
January 21, 2000 ·
EIGHT convicts were spared the lethal injection when the Supreme Court commuted their sentences to reclusion perpetua, a jail term, of 40 years or less.
Of the eight, a father who raped his daughter four times and a guardian who raped his ward “a hundred times” escaped execution because of the prosecution’s failure to cite the father-daughter and guardian-ward relationship on the charge sheet.
Read More...PREDA NEWSLETTER December 1999
December 2, 1999 ·
Dear Friends of the Children, PREDA Foundation is a charitable organization protecting and helping children recover from sexual and physical abuse. The Foundation’s education team goes to schools and communities organizing and empowering youth to start their preventive campaigns against AIDS, child abuse and drug abuse. Other activities includes legal action, lobbying, international advocacy, helping […]
Read More...Photos Help in Paedophile's Conviction
May 29, 1999 ·
PERTH – A 45-year-old boiler-maker became the first Australian to be jailed for sexually abusing children overseas after being convicted on the basis of photographs brought back from a holiday in Cambodia.
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