United Nations peacekeepers have abandoned at least 20 babies fathered with poverty-stricken Timorese women.
A UN investigation has also uncovered a culture of cover-up, in which babies born to peacekeepers and sex crimes committed by UN staff in the past seven years have been kept secret because of a "fear of shame and embarrassment' in the deeply religious country.
UN peacekeepers in East Timor have previously been accused of offences including child sex abuse, bestiality, and coercing women and children into prostitution. No one has ever been charged…
It also makes clear that the births of these children, and other instances of sexual misconduct by UN personnel, are likely to have been significantly under-reported.
In one of the worst instances detailed in Ms Ospina's report, a peacekeeper from an unnamed country is alleged to have abused two boys and two girls in the enclave of Oecussi.
In early 2001, two soldiers were sent home with injured penises after allegedly attempting sexual intercourse with goats.
Yesterday in a post about the UN's past dealings in the Israel/Hezbollah conflict we were instructed by UN apologists that individual incidents should not be treated as a reflection on the entire UN organization. And certainly there are more than enough accusations of less unorthodox sexual misconduct on the part of UN personnel... on five different continents, actually. At what point can we begin to hold the UN, as an organization, responsible for these incidents? And how should American taxpayers feel about their money, 2/3's of the UN's operating budget, going to these frivolties around the globe?
If there are more pregnant women in East Timor as yet undiscovered by authorities, I wonder how many molested goats are to be discovered?