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US Soldiers and Contractors Sexually Abused at Least 54 Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Nation


The Nation, April 7, 2015
Posted: May 11th, 2015
http://www.thenation.com/blog/203617/us-soldiers-and-contrac...

Last week, FAIR noticed that not one major media organization in the United States has covered the charge, reported in Colombia, that US military soldiers and contractors had sexually abused at least fifty-four children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007 and, in all cases, the rapists were never punishedeither in Colombia or statesidedue to American military personnel being immune from prosecution under diplomatic immunity agreements. One of the rapes ... was allegedly committed by Army sergeant Michael J. Coen and an employee of a private security contractor, Csar Ruiz. The victim was a 12-year-old girl. They abducted her, they drugged her, they took her to the air base near the town of Melgar and raped her, they took videos of her. Colombian prosecutors issued arrest warrants [that] were not executed because of the immunity of Coen and Ruiz. Under a series of treaties ... members of the US military stationed in Colombia are immune from prosecution. That immunity has since been extended to private security firms. Another serious sexual assault that, like the rape described above, was covered by the Colombian press, both in print and on TV, but ignored in the United States: in 2004, 53 underage girls were sexually abused by mercenaries, who filmed and sold the tapes as pornographic material. The private security firm involved [was identified as] DynCorp, a Virginia-based contractor.

Note: Dyncorp is only slightly less infamous than Blackwater, having been involved in numerous international outrages, including a child sex slavery ring in Bosnia in 1999. Explore powerful evidence from a suppressed Discovery Channel documentary showing that child sexual abuse scandals reach to the highest levels of government. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about sexual abuse scandals from reliable major media sources.


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