Who can stop this tragedy?

[woofsback]

facts are facts

So there's this huge market for sex slaves and what not, and this thread goes on and on and on.
OK, already!
Where can I get me one, and what do they cost?

Don't know? Then there isn't the huge problem you think there is. You just wish.

are you for real or live in a sheltered life....
facts are facts...
every week there are people convicted of being pedofiles
in EVERY country...

either you don't have a clue of what's happening in this world
or you're trying to throw a smoke screen

personally i hope you're clueless

 

[PeterInBrat]

It's everywhere. It's just a matter of how out in the open it is.

I once saw a pedophile tourist or ex-pat trolling for 10-12 year old girls in Los Charimicos. Pretty astonding how obvious he was about it too. I didn't speak any Spanish at the time or I would have found the local police to do something about it.

One reason Thailand is a popular sex tourism place is they have had virtually no laws on childhood prostitution. I've seen specials on it where the reporter went under cover and he was able to find brothels with 20 or 30 kids some as young as six. Just saw a program a few weeks ago on Frontline about boys being sold into the sex trade in Afghanistan:

FRONTLINE: the dancing boys of afghanistan | PBS

And back in the US:
Dan Rather: Pornland, Oregon: Child Prostitution in Portland

They are saying child prostitution can pay more than drugs with less jail time if caught for trafficking..

 

[Lambada]

Continuing with the subject, remember Jorge Torres Puello (for those who don't, go back in this thread). You'll recall he is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on extradition to the US and turned up late at the Supreme Court because he went via San Cristobal court to lodge a plaint. Three days ago he lost the San Cristobal case.

Segunda C?mara Penal rechaza solicitud de h?beas corpus a uno pedido en extradici?n

 

[NALs]

True enough, however I do not like dishonesty or sensationalism. It can be very damaging to both those who are subjected to it and to those who consume it.
There is so much nonsense written about Haiti, especially since the quake. It is simply not fair. If people told lies and talked nonsense about your country would you not protest?
Although I am English I have Haitian family and friends. I live and work here and over the years I have become a little bit attached to the place.

Wherever I see untruths or sensationalism I will respond.

Wow, I used to think that some (that's the key word) Haitians and pro-Haitian non-Haitians would never understand what it feels like to see your country being defamed worldwide through lies, exaggerations and sensationalism.

Now I know that the opposite is true, it all depends on where the interests lie.

In any case, I hope Sonia Pierre et al becomes aware of the following, albeit I have a feeling this is not much of interest to those type of people given the country in which it took place.

Now, had it been in the DR and we all know how the DR would had been crucified:

Haitianos sufren odio racial
Regresen a su pa?s, les dijeron; su embajada les sugiere “no salir solos a la calle”

 

[Gabriela]

Child predators descend on quake-stricken Haiti seeking sex slaves

Interview with Sgt. Lana Prosper of RCMP who has just spent a month in Haiti with a team from the Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

I'm glad this article put the problem into global perspective. After any natural disaster or political turmoil (for example, Ukraine), children are victimized. The long term consequences are also terrible. Some of these children grow up without any education and no options except to exploit others, or join criminal gangs. Haiti is just the most recent, and glaring example of the problem. Add the pre-earthquake poverty and you have a recipe for disaster.

 

[PeterInBrat]

Laura Silsby: The Movie

On a lighter note:

Sooner or later they are going to make a movie of this fiasco. But who should they cast for the main players? Here are some ideas:

Betsy Brant(Breaking Bad) as Silsby:

Don Cheadle as the Haitian Judge:

Jaden Smith(Will Smith's son) as one of the Haitian Kids:

Julia Benz as one of the group:

And Joaquin Phoenix(creepy) as the creepy lawyer guy

Sally Field could prob play Silsby even if she is 65 and Silsby is 45:

Any other ideas?

 

[Lambada]

PeterInBrat, you achieved some remarkable facial siimilarities there .

Back to Jorge Torres Puello: his extradition hearing has now been put back for the second time by Supreme Court. This time because they first have to deal with his two plaints, namely first that his arrest was illegal & secondly a bail application. The Court has ruled the first plaint as inadmissable & fixed the hearing for the second for June 23rd. After which they can then fix the extradition hearing.

Justicia dominicana pospone extradici?n de asesor de misioneros

 

[Lambada]

This time because they first have to deal with his two plaints, namely first that his arrest was illegal & secondly a bail application. The Court has ruled the first plaint as inadmissable & fixed the hearing for the second for June 23rd.

Bail application was rejected on June 23rd. Puello has now asked that extradition hearing be put back so that he can obtain proof from Canada that he had already been tried & sentenced in 2004 for the charges which US has against him. Supreme Court duly postponed case until July 28th.

Tribunal dominicano vuelve a aplazar extradici?n a EEUU de asesor

He also requested a new prosecutor, citing the discriminatory fashion in which Gisela Cueto had referred to his yarmulke during the June 2nd hearing.

 

[Gabriela]

Canada-US-DR triangle

Lambada,
Is there any information re whether he actually served time in Canada? or if he was out on parole when he skipped out?

 

[Lambada]

Lambada,
Is there any information re whether he actually served time in Canada? or if he was out on parole when he skipped out?

Well he told CNN as reported in the NY Times he did (last Feb)!
'He said he spent 18 months in a Canadian jail pending an unsuccessful extradition request by United States authorities.'
Trafficking Charges for Adviser to Jailed Americans in Haiti

Jorge Puello Officially Accused of Human Trafficking in El Salvador
But I presume from the wording that this would have been a remand in custody, not a sentence.

For the other references to this, you could go back to earlier posts in this thread.

 

[pedrochemical]

Well it looks as though he will go to a nice American gaol rather than a nasty Central American gaol. Lucky boy!

Dominicans send Haiti missionaries' adviser to US
(AP) * September 14, 2010

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic ? A former adviser for American missionaries accused of taking children out of Haiti has been extradited to the United States in an illegal immigrant smuggling case, officials said Tuesday.

Jorge Puello was flown Monday from the Dominican Republic to Vermont in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, said Bill Gerke, chief deputy marshal in Burlington, Vermont.

Puello attracted attention in February when he acted as a lawyer and spokesman for 10 Baptists, mostly from Idaho, who were detained in Haiti on child kidnapping charges after the earthquake.

He became the target of an international manhunt after he was identified as a man wanted in the U.S. and El Salvador, where authorities allege he led a prostitution ring. The 32-year-old was arrested in March in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, at the request of the United States.

Puello faces U.S. charges in Vermont for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants through Canada. He remains in custody in the Burlington area while awaiting a court hearing scheduled for Friday, Gerke said.

Puello, who was born in New York and holds dual U.S.-Dominican citizenship, has said he is innocent of all accusations.
The charges are not related to his involvement with the 10 U.S. Baptists who were detained in Haiti on child-kidnapping charges in February. He initially provided them with food, medicine and legal assistance but was later accused of absconding with $30,000 in legal fees meant for another lawyer.
All the missionaries have been released from a Haitian jail and returned to the U.S

 

[RonS]

"Well it looks as though he will go to a nice American gaol rather than a nasty Central American gaol. Lucky boy!"


YES! And it is very unlikely that he will be able to pay his way out of the jail cell he so richly deserves.