NEW THREAT FOR VICTIMS

[Bangkokney]

Survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami are facing the terror of attacks from paedophiles and rapists, aid groups are warning.

The case of a 12-year old Swedish boy abducted from a hospital in Thailand and attacks on women in Sri Lankan refugee camps have fuelled fears.


Swedish newspaper Expressen said police from Sweden and Thai counterparts are looking for Kristian Walker, who had been in a hospital near the Khao Lak holiday resort.

A doctor told the paper: "Kristian was here in the hospital. He was taken away by a man."

The report comes a day after the Swedish branch of Save the Children warned that children who ended up alone after the natural disaster were potential targets for sexual abuse.

Managing director Charlotte Petri Gornitzka said: "The experience from other catastrophes is that children are particularly vulnerable."

Reports of sick opportunists preying on victims have also emerged in Sri Lanka.

The Women and Media Collective group said it had received reports of attacks on people in some poorly-guarded refugee camps.

A spokesman said: "We have received reports of incidents of rape, gang rape, molestation and physical abuse of women and girls in temporary shelters."

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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3 ... 42,00.html

[sekamu]

I read from some place that Kristian wasn't the little kid, they just tought he was. And the guy who presumably took him away was a German lad who actually rescued three kids. Thai officials explained the confusion by "all farang kids look alike".