Relief Agency Workers Accused of Sex Abuse
The United Nations and a major children’s charity said an investigation had uncovered allegations of widespread sexual abuse of children by relief agency workers sent to West Africa to help young people buffeted by years of war.
The investigative findings were in an interim report by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and Britain-based Save the Children. The organizations investigated refugee camps in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone late last year amid allegations that some aid workers were abusing children.
The probe has turned up accusations against 67 workers in at least 40 organizations, an official with Save the Children said.
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