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Monday, Feb. 14, 2005 12:12 p.m. EST
ABC News: U.N. Peacekeepers in Rape Scandal
United Nations workers dispatched to the Congo as peacekeepers have instead been raping and pillaging their way through the country, with one senior U.N. official photographing his victims as he assaulted them, according to ABC News.
In what could turn out to be the United Nations version of the Abu Ghraib scandal, senior U.N. logistics officer Didier Bourguet took dozens of pictures as he attacked Congolese girls, saving them to his computer hard drive and later sharing the images with U.N. colleagues.
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In one photo "a tear can be seen rolling down the cheek of a victim," ABC "20/20" reporter Brian Ross said in a story broadcast Thursday.
Bourguet wasn't the only sexual predator among the U.N. forces sent ostensibly to help the Congolese.
According to ABC News, the range of sexual abuse includes:
Reported rapes of young Congolese girls by blue-helmeted U.N. troops as well as aid workers.
A colonel from South Africa accused of molesting his teenage male translators.
Hundreds of under-age girls having babies fathered by U.N. soldiers who have been able to simply leave their children and their crimes behind.
An Internet pedophile ring run by Bourguet.
Some of the female victims were as young as 11 years old, according to an official with Human Rights Watch.
Claude Deboosere-Lepidi, Bourguet's lawyer, said his client admits he assaulted minors and that his sex crime spree included other U.N. officials.
But he said the world body shared part of the blame because it tolerated the attacks on young women.
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