Europe refugee crisis hits sickening low with children forced to engage in ‘survival sex’

[uawchild]

Source: News.com Austraila

EUROPE’S refugee and migrant crisis has hit a sickening new low with children forced to prostitute themselves just to survive. The office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said it had received “credible testimonies” of sexual violence and abuse against women and children on the move in Europe.

Among hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants pouring into southeastern Europe, children were being forced into sex with people smugglers to pay their way onward, the agency reported.

UNHCR cautioned that it doesn’t have a full grasp of how widespread the problem is, but says women and children travelling alone who are short of cash and sleeping in places like parks and train stations are particularly vulnerable.
Some authorities, it said, have increased the risk for children by placing them in detention along with adults while they wait for official processing of asylum applications.

“From testimony and reports we have received there have been instances of children engaging in survival sex to pay smugglers to continue their journey, either because they have run out money, or because they have been robbed,” UNHCR said in a statement.

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It's time to stop the bullshit about Syria.

It's time that the US insists on serious peace talks and broker a comprise to stop this utter madness. There simply is NO MILITARY SOLUTION to the carnage of the Syrian war. Make peace. Save the children, damn it.

[jtuck004]

1. It was our involvement that helped blow this up into what it is now...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/08/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html

We wanted this, and we got it.

[Plucketeer]

2. How is it that goes?

You break it - you own it? Shit - we own the whole middle east! This while W and crew walk free.

[Javaman]

18. said by the now infamous UN display of cartoons to make a case for invading iraq. thank you colin.

but the funny thing is, while we broke it and poured trillions into it to fix it, not only was it not repaired, we made it much worse.

the only thing, that would make any of this even marginally better would be the prosecution of all the war criminals involved.

but alas, that will never ever happen.

[DetlefK]

3. Define "what it is now".

Assad is bombing his own cities to root out the rebels hiding amongst the civilians. In a recent poll among syrian refugees 70% named Assad as the primary cause of violence. But maybe Assad is the victim here because the Great Satan America has forced him into a situation where he has to bomb his own people.

And on top of that clusterfuck, there's the ISIS-clusterfuck which indeed results from the failed occupation of Iraq.




I watched a political talk-show on Sunday. A russian journalist insisted that Assad was rightfully elected and is therefore the legitimate leader of Syria. When he was asked whether Assad ist still the legitimate leader of Syria after bombing the syrian people, he switched topics so he wouldn't have to answer that.

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. You continue to misrepresent that poll.

Yes, 70% said the regime was responsible for the violence.

But 74% said the armed rebels were responsible for the violence.

It was a multiple choice poll.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. Why do so many men want to fuck children?

Seriously. Why? Yes, I know women do too, but the VAST MAJORITY of pedophiles are men, so I ask again, Why do so many men want to fuck children? What is the attraction?

[mountain grammy]

6. A ripple in the evolutionary process?

Your response reminded me of this article from the guardian a couple of years ago.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jan/03/paedophilia-bringing-dark-desires-light

seems the more we know, the less we know about this dark side of human behavior.

[Le Taz Hot]

11. Kind of a creepy article.

It was almost like it was saying, "Pedophilia, it's not necessarily a bad thing." IDK, it read like that anyway. I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs (triggers) before I had to stop reading.

[Blackjackdavey]

17. It isn't necessarily the sex

I work in the field and am passionate around spreading the same word that I believe this article sort of skirts around without clarifying. It isn't necessarily the perpetrator/victim contact that does lasting damage. Often times, children don't even know they've been victimized. It is often, and this applies to non violent / non aggressive situations only, the response by well meaning caregivers that do the most damage. It is not uncommon for daughters to be ostracized by dads because they are "no longer pure" or "did something to ask for it." It is also very common for family members to not believe disclosures or for moms to choose offending boyfriends over kids who "must be lying." In my experience, these scenarios do significant damage. If handled well, these situations can be resolved in ways that don't necessarily have long term negative consequences.

[closeupready]

7. And just when I thought your posts couldn't descend any lower.

[Le Taz Hot]

9. What the hell?

It's a simple, straightforward question. What's your problem? And if you hate my posts so much there's an Ignore feature. Feel free to use it.

[Xithras]

19. Most people who have sex with children aren't pedophiles.

I had a psych teacher explain it this way once:

There are basically two major groups of people who fuck children.

Group A is the true pedophile. These are people who are wired to actually be attracted to children. Their brains look at prepubescent children the same way a 16 year old looks at another 16 year old. There is a physical attraction that has to be actively fought. Pedophilia is a mental disorder, and is incurable.

Group B is the rest of humanity, which has proven over and over again that it will fuck anything. With a few searches on the Internet, you can find photos of people fucking animals, tree stumps, auto tailpipes, dolls, rocks, bicycles, soda bottles, vegetables, model airplanes, ATM machines, Pop Tart boxes, pool floats, Hot Pockets, hornets nests, park benches, picnic tables, street signs and lamp posts (I'm not making any of those up by the way...I did the search and ALL of those things came up). Human beings will fuck just about anything to get their rocks off. Sometimes, that "anything" includes small children. The people who do this aren't necessarily any more attracted to children than the guy in Sweden was to his Range Rover, but when the opportunity arises to fuck something new and novel, there's a large percentage of people who will do it simply for the sexual gratification it brings. To qualify for this group, one merely needs to lack empathy for the child...and there are a lot of cold-hearted borderline sociopaths in the world.

Sadly, Group B victimizes far more children than Group A does.

[bemildred]

20. +1. nt

[Le Taz Hot]

21. OK, so about Group B.

Does nothing in their head say, "Stop! Fucking children is wrong, don't do it." I mean, I'm married, and in married life you find others in which there is a mutual attraction. It's going to happen. But there is a choice. You can choose to act on it or you can choose not to. Even at my most libidinous (pre-menopause) and single, there were definite limits. Do they not have the ability to say to themselves, "Stop!"

That aside, your post was enlightening, even if the reality of it was stomach-churning.

[Xithras]

22. Well, I did address that...

Does nothing in their head say, "Stop! Fucking children is wrong, don't do it."

I point you to...

and there are a lot of cold-hearted borderline sociopaths in the world.

The guy who molested me when I was a kid wasn't a child hunting predator. He was just a wife beating coked up asshole who genuinely didn't care whether he hurt other people. I simply had the misfortune of being available and incapable of escaping when he decided to get his rocks off one day. Empathy and kindness are not universal human traits.

[Sunlei]

5. Let the UN, the Red Cross and Red Cresent, and all the other humanatarian groups

close to the refugees to assist with them.

Poor Countries like Hungry don't have the volunteers or the money to help refugees, they need to let others help. Not just dump them alone at train stations or piled up at the border fences.

[oberliner]

10. The UN is notorious for allowing and/or engaging in the same sort of behavior

It's really despicable that this is such a common horror for vulnerable populations.

[Sunlei]

12. The refugees need organizers and oversight. Millions more will come from the violent countries.

This will not be over anytime soon.

For example, Places like 'Assads Syria' do NOT want their 12 million people back. They will not help pay for the refugee crisis either or volunteer. Russia will not take any either.

[oberliner]

13. My point was directed more to the abuse of women and children

I am not sure that the UN has the best record where that is concerned.

[Sunlei]

14. Imagine how the world would be without the UN. even if they have a few criminals.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. It's not a question of 'letting' them; the world needs to donate the money for it

The UN and other refugee organisation have not had enough donations to keep refugee camps in the countries neighbouring Syria running properly; that's why desperate people are fleeing them and ending up in such an awful situation in Europe.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/05/lack-of-funds-world-food-programme-drops-aid-to-one-third-of-syrian-refugees

[LeftyMom]

24. The problem in Hungary isn't poverty, it's racism.

Jobbik is an explicitly fascist and racist political party along the lines of Golden Dawn in Greece which holds a great deal of sway in Hungarian politics. Hungary's migrant expenses are largely self-inflicted, the migrants just wanted to pass through on the way to Germany, Sweden and other countries where they actually wanted to live, and their in-country needs were being met primarily by volunteer doctors, clothing donations from the population, etc.

The migrants DO NOT WANT "help" from the Hungarian government, because the Hungarian government wishes to register them (ruining their chances of migration to Germany) and then imprison or expel them. Violently, in many cases. Most of the migrants have routed themselves around Hungary on longer and more physically dangerous routes just to avoid this possibility.

[closeupready]

8. So awful! Words just fail me.

[polly7]

23. So horrible. nt.