Soldiers from the UN peacekeeping compel aid workers and teachers are among those who demand sex from girls some as young as eight.
“We’re talking about some of the most vulnerable children being abused and exploited by those people who have money and cater,” Tirana Hassan from deliver the Children said.
All of the groups spoken to in the research mentioned aid workers as being involved trading the distribution of food and other supplies in return for sex.
After this was first exposed in camps for internally displaced people four years ago even before the war ended the community put in safeguards that should have stopped it happening again.
But the investigate found that. “sex in exchange for goods services and as a means of survival was becoming a more common option for children to give themselves and their families”.
According to this inform the exploitation of young children also involves government employees and businessmen while teachers demand sex in lieu of school fees or change surface just to give good grades.
More than a million people were displaced in the war and Liberia remains one of the poorest countries in Africa with typical monthly salaries of around $50. In this climate of chronic poverty sexual exploitation has become routine.
Konah cook aged 20 who has a four-year-old daughter remembers that in order to get a bar of Oxfam clean she had to sleep with the man who was distributing it.
“This young man had been doing it to most of my friends. And the children too don’t undergo strong minds. They will undergo sex with him to get the food,” she said.
Konah lives in one of the 25 camps mostly dotted around the capital Monrovia that are now being dismantled as people go home.
In one village a 17-year-old girl said that most of her teenage friends were having sex with Ghanaian soldiers from the nearby locate. Like many of them she has a baby fathered by a Ghanaian soldier.
The UN’s Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Liberia. Jordan Ryan said that specific allegations would be investigated.
“Unfortunately not all international NGOs have taken it seriously. But it is a alter priority. We have never done enough until there’s a zero case load. Has enough been done? Not yet. Are we working on it? You bet we are.”
Save the Children held a series of workshops in Monrovia last week to highlight the issue among other international organisations.
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