Senior Oxfam aid workers ‘paid for sex with underage prostitutes’ in earthquake-ravaged Haiti
Three men resigned and four were sacked for gross misconduct after an inquiry into sexual exploitation and downloading porn, according to The Times
SENIOR Oxfam aid workers paid for sex with underage prostitutes in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, it has been alleged.
Three men resigned and four were sacked for gross misconduct after an inquiry into sexual exploitation, bullying and downloading porn, according to .
In one incident, a “full-on Caligula orgy” with girls wearing Oxfam T-shirts was filmed in the Caribbean island’s capital Port-au-Prince in 2010, sources claimed.
An internal 2011 report said: “It cannot be ruled out that any of the prostitutes were under-aged.”
But police were not called and no one has been arrested.
A major relief effort was launched following the quake that killed 220,000 people, injured 300,000 and left 1.5million homeless.
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Oxfam’s country director Roland Van Hauwermeiren, 68, admitted using prostitutes at the charity’s rented villa — known as the Eagle’s Nest — and was allowed to resign, The Times reported.
Other incidents allegedly took place at a building known as the “pink apartments” being used by other Oxfam managers.
Three sources raised concerns that some of the girls involved were aged 14 to 16.
Haiti’s age of consent is 18 and prostitution is illegal there. Paying for sex is banned under Oxfam’s code of conduct and is against UN guidelines for aid workers.
The charity said it did not call police because the state of the country made it “extremely unlikely that any action would be taken”.
Mr Van Hauwermeiren was permitted to resign because he co-operated with the investigation and the use of underage girls was unproven, it added.