Four-year-old girl among refugees raped in Greece as thousands of asylum seekers trap

[Kontinuum]

“I told myself, ‘Look at yourself- you came to Europe, what was your aim?’ I am not doing this because I like it but I don’t have the money, I don’t have a choice.”

Those are the words of one of many refugee children forced into selling sex to survive in Greece, where a four-year-old girl is among those raped in camps that were supposed to afford them protection.

A study by Harvard University is warning of a “growing epidemic” of sexual exploitation and abuse in the country, which houses 62,000 asylum seekers stranded by the EU-Turkey deal and border closures through Europe.

“We had a case of a four-year-old girl who was raped,” a psychologist at a camp in Athens told researchers. “The mother did whatever was possible to report it.”

But aid workers and officials say there is often nowhere to turn, with victims trapped in camps with their abusers too frightened to go to police or authorities, who frequently lack interpreters and specialists.

The absence of arrests can lead asylum seekers to take violent retribution. In one Greek camp, a man who had already married a child raped another underage girl, and was badly beaten by other migrants.

Aid workers told the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights of criminal gangs “thriving” in squalid camps, where many refugees have been living for more than a year, and terrorising victims into silence.

“Having endured the risks of sexual violence or having experienced sexual violence during their journey, migrant children suffer from the fear of sexual abuse in a place that should have guaranteed them safety and protection,” the report said.

It found that “weak or non-existent” structures leave children at heightened danger, with reports of sexual assault rising while gangs blackmail minors and threaten to send humiliating photos to their families.

“A man from one of the ‘mafia’ groups asked a couple’s seven-year-old daughter into their tent to play games on his phone and then zipped up the tent,” a doctor told researchers.

“She came back with marks on her arms and neck. Later, the girl described how she was sexually abused.”

Rape and sexual assault is feared to be significantly underreported because of the fear of retribution and stigma, while administrative backlogs can cause long delays before victims can be moved away from their abusers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7695971.html

[Super Friendly Kitty Cat]

Totally at a loss why people are choosing to collapse their own culture, their own safety, and their own future for this madness.

[kail]

Hope the perps are caught.

[Baelic]

Totally at a loss why people are choosing to collapse their own culture, their own safety, and their own future for this madness.

Considering that this is occurring in a Refugee camp and not Greece proper... look at this from their perspective. Would you rather stay behind and die from god knows what military/terrorist action, or hope that you can move to somewhere safer even if it was a long shot? Seeing as this particular article is speaking about the refugee camp. The only culture, safety, and future that is in the midst of collapse is from those who are waiting in the camp for the hope of a better one.

I hope that one day, this kind of shit will no longer be a thing, and we can all live in peace and harmony. Though I suspect I'll be long gone before that day comes.

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“I told myself, ‘Look at yourself- you came to Europe, what was your aim?’ I am not doing this because I like it but I don’t have the money, I don’t have a choice.”

The choice if fight for your country. The majority of refugees are military age men.

Those are the words of one of many refugee children forced into selling sex to survive in Greece, where a four-year-old girl is among those raped in camps that were supposed to afford them protection.

And here I was told they would contribute to the economy when they came here. Are you telling me those are NOT doctors and engineers in those camps? Seriously though, what do you think will happen when they """""assimilate""""" into the greater public? The majority of them will not suddenly turn productive.

A study by Harvard University is warning of a “growing epidemic” of sexual exploitation and abuse in the country, which houses 62,000 asylum seekers stranded by the EU-Turkey deal and border closures through Europe.

It is almost as if they have a vastly incompatible culture and come from a place on the planet that has highly divergent beliefs from ours? "Is that woman showing some ankle? Must be a whore!" Have you seen any of the interviews of the immigrant men and how they view western women, and women in general?

“We had a case of a four-year-old girl who was raped,” a psychologist at a camp in Athens told researchers. “The mother did whatever was possible to report it.”

So are there packs of nazi white men going around refugee camps on raping sprees? Even if they arent, shit like this just happens. Bad things happen to good people and innocents.

The absence of arrests can lead asylum seekers to take violent retribution. In one Greek camp, a man who had already married a child raped another underage girl, and was badly beaten by other migrants.

Looks like trash recycling itself

But aid workers and officials say there is often nowhere to turn, with victims trapped in camps with their abusers too frightened to go to police or authorities, who frequently lack interpreters and specialists.

While I do feel for the few unlucky sods who have had this happen to them, they knew this was a disctinct possiblity when they set out. If not, then the HUMAN TRAFFICKERS who they paid for their passage, seriously missinformed them.

Aid workers told the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights of criminal gangs “thriving” in squalid camps, where many refugees have been living for more than a year, and terrorising victims into silence.

These are basically shitty prisons. Maybe the country in question should get the red tape moving, and stop increasing their work amounts by the boatload. Quality over quantity.

“Having endured the risks of sexual violence or having experienced sexual violence during their journey, migrant children suffer from the fear of sexual abuse in a place that should have guaranteed them safety and protection,” the report said.

Guarantee safete FROM WAR. If they come to Europe, the only thing they can be guaranteed is not getting shot in the face by some radical, and even on that front, give it some time. They are not guaranteed anything else, really.

It found that “weak or non-existent” structures leave children at heightened danger, with reports of sexual assault rising while gangs blackmail minors and threaten to send humiliating photos to their families.

Archaic concepts of honor are deeply ingrained in these people. They do not teach their children the ways of the modern world, nor how to cope with them or prevent them from happening. Seriously, humiliating photos? What are they going to do, photoshop someone naked or without a burka?

“A man from one of the ‘mafia’ groups asked a couple’s seven-year-old daughter into their tent to play games on his phone and then zipped up the tent,” a doctor told researchers.
“She came back with marks on her arms and neck. Later, the girl described how she was sexually abused.”

See above, shit happens. And where, pray tell, was the father in all this? For such a honor-centric culture, they sure are shitty parents. Did they disown their daughter afterwards? You know, for allowing herself to be despoiled.

Rape and sexual assault is feared to be significantly underreported because of the fear of retribution and stigma, while administrative backlogs can cause long delays before victims can be moved away from their abusers.

While my dissicated heart feels a twang of pity for these unlucky bastards, this is how it is in the majority of the world.

[Super Friendly Kitty Cat]

The choice if fight for your country. The majority of refugees are military age men.

Of course.

These are cowardly men who abandon their wives, sisters, children and others to flee to Europe to live on welfare. You would think they would want to protect their families and loved ones, but nope, they jump on the first train or boat and flee like cowards.

[Concequence]

Totally at a loss why people are choosing to collapse their own culture, their own safety, and their own future for this madness.

Their choices include, Death... or Prejudice, Hate, Distrust and Rape. They are fleeing places where there is a high amount of terrorism. People are killed for any reason they deem God wants. And in the end, they get to decide what God wants, its not like God comes down from the Sky to tell them, "Hey Rape her and Murder these people here" ... No... Mankind does that.

This is the insane part of religion. We make it up as we go along to suit our hate, and fears. We are not made in God's image, God is made in ours.

God is the entire range of all illogical human emotions. Hate, Fear, Unfounded Hope, A sincere belief that somehow God will fix everything with his magic wand. Surprise, god fixes nothing. We fix everything, We destroy everything, We are the source of every problem on earth. And we are the only solution. And we will choose to see this, or we will die by our own hands.

[sarahtasher]

Of course.

These are cowardly men who abandon their wives, sisters, children and others to flee to Europe to live on welfare. You would think they would want to protect their families and loved ones, but nope, they jump on the first train or boat and flee like cowards.

Ah, MAGAboys complaining that people don't use their inexistant home arsenal to fire manly at aircraft dropping chemical on them

BTW, there was aplently of people fighting foreign invaders in Iraq. You called them terrorists and killed them alongside thousands of civilians, then you complain that heroism is in short supply ?

It would be stupid to suggest here that the handful of time US territory was occupied by ''foreign'' powers (mostly the civil war), armed resistance to the occupant tended to be pretty low to say the least.

[Revik]

Totally at a loss why people are choosing to collapse their own culture, their own safety, and their own future for this madness.

[Jingoism]

Return to sender.

[Super Friendly Kitty Cat]

Ah, MAGAboys complaining that people don't use their inexistant home arsenal to fire manly at aircraft dropping chemical on them

BTW, there was aplently of people fighting foreign invaders in Iraq. You called them terrorists and killed them alongside thousands of civilians, then you complain that heroism is in short supply ?

It would be stupid to suggest here that the handful of time US territory was occupied by ''foreign'' powers (mostly the civil war), armed resistance to the occupant tended to be pretty low to say the least.

"You", how do you know my feelings on people who were fighting against foreign invasion from the US?

I am pretty isolationist in my stance, I am against most involvement in the affairs of other countries beyond trade. Our US political apparatus has been taken over and influenced by corporate interests and this collusion has caused a ton of unnecessary wars and conflicts that have lead to instability.

If you are a man, you don't abandon your wife, mother, children and other families to flee to Europe, purposely leaving them behind.

That is cowardice.

[Rennadrel]

Hope the perps are caught.

Among 62,000 people? Most likely not. And yet Europeans want people with these kind of values in their country. It's completely maddening.

[sarahtasher]

"You", how do you know my feelings on people who were fighting against foreign invasion from the US?

I am pretty isolationist in my stance, I am against most involvement in the affairs of other countries beyond trade. Our US political apparatus has been taken over and influenced by corporate interests and this collusion has caused a ton of unnecessary wars and conflicts that have lead to instability.

If you are a man, you don't abandon your wife, mother, children and other families to flee to Europe, purposely leaving them behind.

That is cowardice.

Yeah. Actually, everyone is supposed to do that, but virtually no one ever do that when resistance is pointless. French did not do it in 1940, Germans did not do it in 1945.

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Gee, I sure hope that the clients are not Greeks, cause that would be really embarassing for some.

[alexw]

Of course.

These are cowardly men who abandon their wives, sisters, children and others to flee to Europe to live on welfare. You would think they would want to protect their families and loved ones, but nope, they jump on the first train or boat and flee like cowards.

Except most refugees are women and children. No matter how often members of the alt-reich like you repeat otherwise it still doesn't make it true.

[Stelio Kontos]

Gee, I sure hope that the clients are not Greeks, cause that would be really embarassing for some.

The article is very clear if your English isn't shit-tier. The rapists are migrants as the victims are.

[Super Friendly Kitty Cat]

Except most refugees are women and children. No matter how often members of the alt-reich like you repeat otherwise it still doesn't make it true.

Hahahaha

That simply is not true.

[SFBayGamer]

This is a good example for the rest of mankind. When confronted with violent evil in your home and country, fight to death savagely. Being a refugee brings the same death, but far more humiliation and cultural destruction.

Stand, fight, die.

[shimerra]

Of course.

These are cowardly men who abandon their wives, sisters, children and others to flee to Europe to live on welfare. You would think they would want to protect their families and loved ones, but nope, they jump on the first train or boat and flee like cowards.

Internet tough guy who odds say would piss and shit his pants at the mere sound of an actual battle with subsequent life time of issues with ptsd.

You ever hear of the standford prison experiment? Normal, perfectly law abiding, god fearing people became such shit heads they had to shut it down in a couple days because it was getting so out of hand and it was supposed to last like 2 to 3 weeks. Another experiment where people were told to essentially press a button that would electrocute a person who some vague authority figure told them was bad. I forget how many participated but only 2 refused to push the button before a lethal amount of eletricity was indicated as the actor who wasn't really being electrocuted shrieked in agony. Most continued well past that threshold.

I'm too lazy to double check so some of the specifics may be off but not far enough to knock my point: Stop pretending you're some saint blessed with a superior magical culture or race or whatever dumbass nationalistic bullshit you want to spew. Odds are if you were thrown into a warzone you wouldn't be taking up arms you'd be pissing in the corner while the gun fire rained around you. People are people and when put in stressful situations people act differently. And based on how you think and feel after being born in the relatively privileged part of the world you were you'd be a pretty scummy person if you were born elsewhere.

The point of my post is not to excuse the misdeeds of others but to point out that humans are actually notiriously horrible predictors of how they'd actually act in most stressful/difficult situations. And cocky blow hards like you and @SFBayGamer are the worst.

[sarahtasher]

This is a good example for the rest of mankind. When confronted with violent evil in your home and country, fight to death savagely. Being a refugee brings the same death, but far more humiliation and cultural destruction.

Stand, fight, die.

Yeah. Even the actual Germans fled, you know.

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The article is very clear if your English isn't shit-tier. The rapists are migrants as the victims are.

I hate to tell you that, but ''rape'' and ''prostitution'' are not the same thing. (It's a sexual crime, this is a given)

[Deleted]

Except most refugees are women and children. No matter how often members of the alt-reich like you repeat otherwise it still doesn't make it true.

http://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/mediterranean

Not among those who come to europe at least.