Bizarre Sexual Abuse Scandal Alleged At D.C. Spy School

A complaint in D.C. Superior Court offers a glimpse at the shadowy underworking of the Daniel Morgan Academy in downtown Washington.

Tim Ryan
By Tim Ryan
Former US Congressman and Fox News regular Allen West speaks at from Florida speaks at the Daniel Morgan Academy in downtown Washington. (Photo: Vimeo)

A graduate school for would-be spies faces a civil complaint from three young men who say they endured rectal exams and other sexual abuse from a school official with a largely fabricated spy resume. The complaint in D.C. Superior Court offers a glimpse at the shadowy underworking of the Daniel Morgan Academy in downtown Washington. Funded

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UN Peacekeepers Accused Of Raping African Children Will Not Be Charged

A panel of French judges has decided not to bring charges against soldiers accused of having sexually abused children while on a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic.

Jesse Tremblay
By Jesse Tremblay
Haiti UN Investigation

(ANALYSIS) --- A panel of French judges has decided not to bring charges against soldiers accused of having sexually abused children while on a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic. The accusations have a troubling backstory that is detailed in a December 2015 independent report on the situation. The 170-page report heavily

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Corruption At The UN: Whistleblower Investigated, Child Sexual Abuse Ignored

U.N. whistleblower Anders Kompass resigned because top officials had ‘complete impunity’ to ignore alleged sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Anders Kompass, former U.N. High Commission for human rights turned whistleblower, speaks in Guatemala.

UNITED NATIONS --- A whistleblower who alerted authorities to the alleged rape of children by U.N. peacekeepers resigned after top U.N. officials investigated him instead of investigating the accusations he called attention to. When U.N. officials failed to act on a confidential report which accuses French troops of sexually abusing refugee

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The U.S. Military’s Child Sex Abuse Problem

The abuse is committed most often by male enlisted troops, according to new data, followed by family members.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
(Photo: Cecilio M. Ricardo Jr/Public Domain)

WASHINGTON  — Cpl. Aaron C. Masa became fast friends with a fellow Marine during field training in North Carolina. But behind his buddy's back, Masa was sexually abusing his friend's 3-year-old stepdaughter. He also took sexually explicit photos of the girl and the Marine's infant daughter. A military judge convicted Masa last year of sexual

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Evidence Of Alleged Sexual Abuse Against Underage Boys By US Soldiers At Abu Ghraib Remains Classified

Ten years after Seymour Hersh first made claims of horrifying video and audio evidence of rape of underage boys in Iraq, we still know very little about what really happened.

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By MintPress News Desk
In this Sept. 2, 2006, file photo, an Iraqi army soldier closes the door of a cell, in Abu Ghraib prison after the Iraqi government took over control from U.S. forces, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

WASHINGTON --- Over a decade ago, the renowned journalist Seymour Hersh made one of the most startling claims of his career: that the U.S. government possesses video and audio evidence proving that U.S. soldiers raped teenage boys in Iraq. Hersh, a journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam

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UN Peacekeepers Regularly Trade Sex For Medicine And Food

About a third of alleged sexual abuse involves minors under 18. Assistance to victims is “severely deficient.” The average investigation by OIOS, which says it prioritizes cases involving minors or rape, takes more than a year.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS -- Members of a U.N. peacekeeping mission engaged in "transactional sex" with more than 225 Haitian women who said they needed to do so to obtain things like food and medication, a sign that sexual exploitation remains significantly underreported in such missions, according to a new report obtained by The Associated Press. The draft

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