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A paradise for pedophiles
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October 7, 2006
Australians continue to prey on children in Indonesia, despite the arrest of
a confessed offender, Mark Forbes reports.
They are "more beautiful than flowers" says Peter Smith of the Indonesian
boys whose photographs adorn the walls of his Jakarta home. As young as 11,
he lured them to his house with the promise of money and work, made them
pose, masturbate, then requested sex.
Dirt-poor children who scrabble for a living on Jakarta's streets, the faces
of the boys abused by Smith still look achingly young, but there is no
petal-softness left in their eyes.
According to police in Jakarta, more than 50 Indonesian boys have been
abused by Smith, who was convicted for molesting his Aboriginal pupils in a
remote Northern Territory school in 1994. On release from jail he changed
his name, received a new passport and came to Indonesia, where he was
employed as a teacher by the Australian Government-established and
supervised Indonesia Australia Language Foundation.
There, Smith struck up a friendship with a fellow teacher, Don Hancock, who
was also accused of pedophile offences while teaching in Australia.
An investigation by the Herald has confirmed Smith and Hancock had sex with
some of the same boys, producing explicit photographs and videos. Two
victims say that a third teacher who had been associated with the language
foundation was also involved.
Their activities are far from isolated. Because of incompetence, a lack of
interest or corruption, Indonesian authorities often turn a blind eye to
pedophile activity. Some cases may be prosecuted by under-resourced police,
but there are no co-ordinated investigations into wider pedophile rings.
Australian authorities have notified Indonesia that at least a dozen other
alleged pedophiles present a threat to Indonesian children - but no action
has been taken against them. Warnings have not been passed on to local
police, or the institutions employing them.
Increased public scrutiny and the recent arrests of Smith and a second
Australian, Don Storen, who was running a beach resort on Lombok, have made
the trade more surreptitious. But for Australians and other pedophiles who
prey on poverty and ignorance, children are easily available.
In Jakarta one phone call can summon a broker, who presents a photographic
menu of youngsters for delivery to homes or hotels for less than $50. On the
holiday islands of Bali and Lombok the Herald was offered boys and girls as
young as 13 by pimps working the streets of seaside resorts, and children
reeled off the names of several Australian "regulars". |
