Didier Bourguet, a U.N. official from France, is pictured here in an image found on his hard drive, which was obtained by ABC News. Also on the hard drive were thousands of photos of him having sex with hundreds of young Congolese girls. (ABC News)
I was messing around at Lisa Samson's blog and read something that shocked the bejesus out of me. I had to stop reviewing a book to add this discovery to my blog.
You can click on the title to read ABC News Investigative report on United Nations Sex Crimes in the African Congo for more detail. But the gist of the story "includes reported rapes of young Congolese girls by U.N. troops; an Internet pedophile ring run from Congo by Didier Bourguet, a senior U.N. official from France; a colonel from South Africa accused of molesting his teenage male translators; and estimates of hundreds of underage girls having babies fathered by U.N. soldiers who have been able to simply leave their children and their crimes behind."
Right now I am so saddened by the news I can't comment. But I can tell you that although I am in america where everything seems to be safe, I fear for myself and my five year old daughter most. What kind of world have we created for our children?
Yesterday, I wanted to write a fun story about a whacky woman trying to find herself when everything is changing around her, but today I feel that God wants me to write more than fluff. With news like this, I'm starting to believe it. I find myself wanted to dig deeper, but don't know how far to go. I find myself wanting to write deeper, but afraid I'll go too far.
But those men went too far for the wrong reasons. Someone has to go too far for the right.
Writing to see what the end gon' be,
Dee
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