Child sex abuse in Nepal
The spread of sex tourism in Nepal is now a well-established fact. Murkier is the trail of foreign tourists coming here in search of young boys and girls to satisfy their carnal needs. Anecdotal evidence suggests this trend is growing. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many posters in restrooms throughout Thamel cautioning foreigners against using underage children for sex.
The issue has been brought to the fore with the arrest of Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, a 71-year-old Canadian charged with luring a nine-year-old boy to his hotel room in Thamel for sex. Another high-profile arrest came in November 2010, when an Australian court in Sydney convicted Geoffrey John Prigge, popularly known as “man of charity” for setting up an orphanage in Kathmandu, on charges of “indecent touching” and “acts of indecency” involving three Nepali boys. (more...)
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