Unreported World ~ Liberia Stolen Childhood 2009 10 16 Channel 4

Unreported World ~ Liberia Stolen Childhood 2009 10 16 Channel 4











File Name .............: Unreported World S18E04 - Liberia Stolen Childhood (16 October 2009)







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Unreported World reveals how Liberia is facing a child rape crisis.







Jenny Kleeman reports from Liberia where six years after a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children are still at risk of being attacked. She meeta victims at safe houses and children's hospitals to hear their harrowing stories. With little being done to bring rapists to justice, just how serious is the Liberian government about tackling child rape?







Six years after the end of a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children still face the daily fear of being attacked, and the West African country's hospitals are overwhelmed with child victims, a quarter of them under four years old.







In the Liberian capital, Monrovia, reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Matt Haan meet Mercy, a six-year-old girl who was abducted and raped by a stranger two weeks previously. Mercy is taking a course of drugs to try to stop her from contracting HIV. She lives in a safe house run by a Liberian charity, which is filled with other child rape victims. Edit...







The team visits a children's hospital run by the charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Elias Abi-Aad tells Kleeman that his unit saw 771 child rape victims in 2008 and in the first six months of 2009 had already seen 422 victims, but he estimates this is only a small fraction of the total number of cases in Liberia. Victims suffer serious medical problems as a result of their ordeal and the hospital saw three recent cases where children died as a direct consequence of rape.



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The UN acknowledges there have been problems of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers in Liberia, including a few that allegedly involve underage girls. They say they take allegations very seriously and have promised to investigate Oretha and Sarah's claims.



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Liberia's civil war has left the country with a culture of impunity, and a culture where men want to have sex with very young girls. Until that changes, Liberia can't escape its tragic past.







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