In the article titled “Canadian suspected on sex abuse of young boys tries to kill himself as Cambodia police came for arrest” (http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/24/c
Anadian-suspected-in-sex-abuse-of-young-boys-tries-to-kill-himself-as-cambodia-police-came-for-arrest/), a shocking story is reported of a Canadian man who attempted to commit suicide after Cambodian police moved to arrest him on allegations of child-sex (Humphreys, 2014). The alleged offender, whose name has not been released to the media, is a resident of Montreal, Canada.
Suspicions escalated after child protection workers, employed by Cambodian group Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), received a tip on February 20, 2014 from a non-governmental organization in the Siem Keap area of Cambodia. Led by APLE, the resulting investigation consisted of interviews with six boys, aged 10 to 14 years of age, two of whom initially admitted to having experienced and been victims of sexual abuse.
While searching for the location of the identified suspect, APLE workers witnesses the individual leading four young boys into a forest. However, by the time police arrived on scene, the suspect had disappeared into the trees. The four boys were subsequently taken to the police station for questioning, upon which three boys admitted to experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of the suspect. With testimony from the three boys, an arrest of the Montreal man was ordered.
On February 23, three days after the initial tip was received by APLE, police carried out an arrest, attending the suspect’s temporary residence, a low rate hotel room. Upon his realization of what was happening, the suspect locked himself in his room and attempted to commit suicide, using a pocketknife to cut wrists and...
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...ication for punishment. It holds within it the concept of hedonism as an automatic attempt to “maximize pleasure and minimize pain” (Williams & McShane, 2014) as well as the belief that “the value of any pleasure or pain would be determined by its intensity, duration, and certainty” (Williams & McShane, 2014). The biggest difference between Canada and Cambodia in how the sexual abuse of children is dealt with lies in the levels of deterrence towards it. The implementation of strong laws along with consistent enforcement of those laws creates a high level of deterrence, which I believe is the most effective way in controlling crime.
As outlined in the article Cambodia has already began this process. As long as the Cambodian government is able to persevere and continue in their classicalist approach to law, rates of child sexual abuse throughout the nation will fall.
On June 19th of 1990, Robert Baltovich’s girlfriend Elizabeth Bain went missing. Elizabeth told her family that she was going to check the tennis schedules at her school, the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. She never returned, but her car was eventually recovered. It was found with blood on the backseat, with forensic tests showing that it was Elizabeth’s. With no clear evidence, the “solving” of the case was completely based on eyewitness testimonies, which eventually had Robert arrested for the murder of his girlfriend.
Christine Jessop was a nine year old girl who after bring dropped off by the school bus at her home in Queensville, decided to ride her bike to the park nearby to meet with her friends. After stopping to buy some gum at the local store, she was last seen walking her bike up her driveway by her friend Kim Warren. She did not keep her appointment with her friend at the park, and would never be seen alive again (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). This small town instantly became involved in the search for the missing girl, but with very little evidence to go on time passed, and hope began to diminish for the safe return home of Jessop. On New Year’s Eve 1984, eighty-nine days after Jessop went missing, her body was found badly decomposed in a bush by Fred Patterson fifty-five kilometers from Queensville. An autopsy would later revival that she was raped and mutilated (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). The police still did not have a suspect in the case nor did they have any leads, but now that her body was found the police and the small town were the topic of media, increasing pressure on the police to figure out what had happened to this little girl.
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...“the Vancouver department had a bias against sex workers.” The majority opinion of the department was evident, the women were no more than misplaced prostitutes. Therefore, they did not require priority status. Rather than, acknowledging the possibility of a serial killer, the VPD and RCMP ignored tips that could have incriminated Robert Pickton. The tips collected consisted of, public complaints regarding a serial killer preying on addicts and prostitutes, individual police suspicion, and a 1999, eye witness statement of a butchered women on the Picton farm. Lastly the report addressed critical devices which could have been used to apprehend Pickton earlier. The two specifically mentioned were, Kim Rossomo, a geographic profiler who was ignored when he warned of a serial killer, and the investigators who were not provided with key information relevant to the case.
If communities work towards this goal, they can brand trafficking as bad and they can work to end it together. Some governments still don’t have any laws that ban this evil and it is not good for people who suffer from it as it runs rampant in those countries. The places that need the government's help with this the most, have governments that are failing to protect them. The UN Chronicle says that the only way to end sexual trafficking and give these victims the closure they deserve is the “prosecution of traffickers and protection of victims”(UN Chronicles).
Awareness of child sexual trafficking can be viewed as a balanced scale, with one side representing the country’s population that is fully informed of the issue, while the other side is either unaware or unattached to the issue. The public needs to have more involvement with this affair based on multiple concerns; first, the act of child sex trafficking itself is a serious crime that violates human rights (Fong & Cardoso, 2010). Second, various negative health repercussion including transmittable sexual diseases, physical damages, mental disturbance, post traumatic stress disorders, and other illnesses plague many victims (Fong & Cardoso, 2010). Third, sexual trafficking is responsible for generating poverty as a result of obstructing economic, and social development (Reid, 2012). Child sex trafficking proves to be a global dilemma affecting numerous countries
Child abuse is an issue in every state, every country, worldwide. There is no place that is immune to child abuse. This being stated they need better policies in place regarding the education on child abuse. Many people have many different opinions on how to lessen the amount of child abuse that goes on in this country, however many of them focus on stricter punishment for the abuser’s (Hmurovich, 2009). However, they know that stricter punishment will not lessen the amount of child abuse; it would truly have little to no impact on...
The purpose of this study is bring light to child abuse and serious of a issue it is.
Child abuse is everyone’s business. Child abuse is mistreatment of children. Child abuse can be in various forms such as sexual, physical, neglect, emotional, mental, and verbal. Child abuse often occurs because adults blame all of their stress on the children, or from substance abusement, being a single parent/stepparent. There are ways to prevent child abuse.
Obviously the use of children for sexual gratification is bad, but how bad is it? First of all, it is not just the initial incident that is the crime. The psychological issues facing children who have been sexually abused are numerous. Children who are abused sexually have the event (or multiple events) follow them into their adult l...
Sexual abuse is a very common and prevalent problems in the United States. Approxmately 80,0000 cases of child abuse are reported every year. ("Child sexual abuse," 2011) However, these numbers may not be accurate. Several cases of sexual abuse go unreported. “It is estimated that one in four women are sexually abused during their childhood” ("Definitions, scope, and,"). The actual number of sexually abused males is vastly underreported, but it estimated that possibly “one in six males are sexually abused as children”("Definitions, scope, and," ) . The effects of child abuse are long lasting and can cause problems in the child's adult life. It is very important to understand how to recognize sexual abuse, what steps can be taken to help stop the abuse, and what help is available for the child. (Crosson-Tower, 2013)
Hadi A. Child abuse among working children in rural Bangladesh: prevalence and determinants.Public Health. 2000;116:380–6.
The problem of child exploitation is far too common in Thailand. Female children are being targeted because of their lack of rights and overall economic status. In order to eliminate the unfair exploitation of girls in Thailand the Thai government must take responsibility for their lack of enforcement and provide a way for its people to obtain a livable future.
As any other problem, child abuse has some causes which need to be solved. The causes include poverty in the family of the abusers, lack of sufficient education, marital problems, violence between family members, unemployment, inadequate housing, social separation, and lack of support from their family. Some public attitudes also inspire child abuse. This include, support of the use of violence and force, accepting physical punishing of children, racial discrimination, the public gives the singular ‘ownership’ right and the right to treat their children the way they want (Lemoncelli). These attitudes play an important part in encouraging child abuse and they need to be changed so as to stop the vice of child abuse.
In poverty stricken Southeast Asia, every day children become trapped into the prostitution industry. Strangers or even close family members and friends deceive children into sex trade. Once trapped, chances of escape are low. With the sex industry growing and thriving, countries in Southeast Asia continue to tolerate the retail of children for sex acts.