Canadian police to help protect children in earthquake ravaged Haiti from sex predators.

It has been reported that three Canadian police officers are being sent to Haiti to help protect children from sexual exploitation and Internet paedophilia.

The project introduced by the Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children will last for one month.

The operation named as Operation Sentry, will mainly gather information regarding the children at risk and the photographs of the area.

The Canadian officers will operate in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, which took the full force of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed approximately 220,000, injured 300,000 and left over one million homeless.

The officers will help develop the Haitian capital’s police force to tackle child sexual abuse and online sexual exploitation.

Intelligence agencies confirm that children especially girls, are particularly vulnerable to sexual predators and gangs after natural disaster especially in developing countries.

Such disgraceful scenes were witnessed in natural disasters that hit the Caribbean country such as the 2004 Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 where kids were sold to brothels, used as sex slaves and used for child pornography.

A statement by the organisers of the operation wrote “This information will enhance efforts to identify child victims from Haiti should images depicting their sexual abuse surface on the Internet,”

The children are easy targets for gangs and individuals who sell the children to brothels or use the children as sex slaves. Most of the children are orphans and are in vulnerable positions as the security of the nation is seriously under question due to the devastating earthquake that ravaged through the country.
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