Nepal Fights Foreign Paedophiles

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Hunting western paedophiles is a priority for a new police unit tasked with safeguarding children in Nepal.

Mired in poverty and still recovering from a devastating earthquake in 2015, Nepal is increasingly being targeted by foreign paedophiles who recommend it as a destination when they share child abuse tips on the dark web.

In recent years a series of western men have been charged with raping or sexually assaulting Nepali boys.

Jill McGivering follows the under-resourced police unit, hears the stories of victims and perpetrators and examines what makes Nepal so vulnerable to abuse by western men.

This programme contains descriptions of child sexual abuse which some listeners may find distressing.

Producer: Caroline Finnigan

(Photo: Nepalese children play in Kathmandu. Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to assignment on the BBC World Service. I'm Jill McGivring and this week I'm investigating a surge in Western paedophiles in Nepal.
0:09.0	They carefully groom young boys before sexually assaulting them, then sell images of their crimes on underground
0:15.8	websites.
0:16.8	Nepal's investigators are stepping up their efforts to catch them, and a warning that some
0:21.7	listeners may find the content distressing.
0:24.0	We're just walking around this area of Tamil which is the main tourist area of
0:30.0	Kathmandu and I've come across a police van and there are a lot of kids inside.
0:35.2	Teenagers, oh there's a little boy coming out looks about four.
0:38.1	They're just bringing out now.
0:39.7	Bless him, it's tiny.
0:41.2	Looking in the back of the van now I can see a grills airy inside a sort of holding pen with a padlock on it.
0:47.5	They say they're here to round up street children and get them off the streets and take them off to shelters.
0:58.0	I'm Jill McGivering and in this week's edition of assignment I'm in Nepal to investigate a surge in international paedophiles
1:02.0	targeting the country's most vulnerable young boys.
1:06.1	It's impossible to know how many boys are affected, but the number of convicted pedophiles
1:10.8	has spiked dramatically, and a warning some listeners may find the
1:14.9	content distressing. Back on the street in Kepmandu I asked a police officer
1:21.4	about that little boy.
1:23.0	We find him standing on the state
1:26.0	and his mother did not know where he she.
1:30.0	When I saw him, just remember my my son. His face is also like my son.
1:37.0	If you leave him on the street this little six-year-old what do you think will happen to him?
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