[ May 3, 2024 ]
A top children’s rights campaigner at the United Nations was just arrested on charges of raping a boy.
Truly, is there any blunter reason that America shouldn’t belong to this evil international organization?
Peter Newell, who once wrote a manual on children’s rights that was published by UNICEF, was arrested and imprisoned for sexually assaulting a male who was just 12 years old when the abuse began.
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He’s admitted to five rape charges.
The Times has more:
A “child rights activist” convicted of abusing a 12-year-old boy managed a charity that received hundreds of thousand of pounds from the NSPCC, Barnardo’s, Save the Children and Unicef.
Peter Newell, who wrote a manual on children’s rights published by Unicef, was jailed for multiple counts of historical sexual assault on a child aged 12 when the abuse began.
Newell, 77, was listed as co-ordinator for Approach, a children’s charity active across Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia until the allegations arose in 2016.
He was jailed last month at Blackfriars crown court after admitting five charges relating to the rape and indecent assault of a boy under 16.
The Association for the Protection of All Children, or Approach, lobbies for the protection of children…
The Telegraph has more details:
Newell, from north London, wrote a manual on children’s rights for Unicef and was the co-ordinator of the Association for the Protection of All Children charity, known as Approach, until he resigned in 2016 when the allegations arose.
Approach operates through the Children Are Unbeatable! Alliance in the UK and lobbies for the protection of children from violence, including smacking by parents.
In 2015, the charity brought a complaint to the Council of Europe, the EU’s leading human rights organisation, against France and six other EU countries over their failure to explicitly ban smacking children.
The south London-based organisation said on Friday that until Newell resigned, it was “completely unaware of his actions” and insisted that an independent safe-guarding review had found that no children were at risk through his work there.
According to accounts published on the Charity Commission website, for the five years from 2012 to 2016, Approach received hundreds of thousands of pounds in income from the NSPCC, Barnardo’s, Save the Children and Unicef, as well as other organisations abroad and a private donor.
The latest accounts for 2017 show Approach only received funding for its overseas activities.
None of Approach’s funders are believed to have been aware of Newell’s actions and the charity said that since the allegations came to light they have kept funders and the Charity Commission consistently informed.
A 229-page document he co-wrote with his wife Rachel Hodgkin for Unicef, included sections on sex tourism and sexual consent.
It was launched in Geneva in January 1998 and provided a detailed reference of law, policy and practice aimed at promoting and protecting the rights of children.
It states: “Research now testifies to the potentially serious short- and long-term effects on development of all forms of violence, including sexual abuse and exploitation.”
News of Newell’s imprisonment comes as a sex abuse scandal engulfs the charity sector.
Mark Goldring, chief executive of Oxfam GB, and Caroline Thomson, trustees chairman, are to be questioned by MPs next week following revelations that several of its aid workers paid for sex with prostitutes.
Newell pleaded guilty on January 2 to two charges of serious sexual assault between May 1966 and May 1968 and three charges of indecent assault committed between May 1965 and May 1968. He was jailed for six years and eight months.
The Metropolitan Police said his offences were first reported in March 2016 by his victim, who was 12 when the offences began.
They took place between 1965 and 1968 at a number of addresses and locations in south and east England, including London.
The Charity Commission said it was informed by Approach about the allegation against Newell in 2016 and had been in touch with the organisation over safeguarding procedures.
“The charity has confirmed that it has safeguarding policies and procedures in place which are being kept under review and that the charity and the trustees have very limited contact with children and that there is no suggestion that the charity’s beneficiaries were or are at risk,” it said.
Barnardo’s said there was no evidence anyone at the charity was aware of the “terrible charges” against Newell and said they no longer funded the Alliance.
The NSPCC said that its funding for the Children Are Unbeatable campaign was stopped as soon as it heard of the accusations against Newell.
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51 Comments
6 years ago
May explain why these monsters are pushing islam down our throats, they can then commit these types of atrocities as BAU
6 years ago
Reply to
Chrissy T
Remember the U.N. vote on Israel? The MAJORITY voted against Israel and the U.S.. Most are MUSLIM countries.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The OIC is the largest voting bloc in the U.N. and Europe and 3rd world practically always vote with them .
6 years ago
Reply to
Chrissy T
Agree. The Left/liberal Loons even allow their women/Girls to be assaulted, molested, gang raped , murdered http://bit.ly/2tTQW4b
..and its all Halal (approved) as per allah !
So police in Left/liberal pro-islam countries/states do not even register case and mock the victims or let him off lightly if charged.
6 years ago
The U.N. is a corrupt vile organization that should be disbanded.
It serves no useful purpose. It is dominated by thugs and perverts.
Any funding should be STOPPED. it goes into the hands of the corrupt politicians instead of the people it is aimed at. How many BILLIONS have been poured into Haiti and LOOK at HAITI! It’s a mess. What they need is investment for jobs but that won’t happen because their country is corrupt. Endless charity keeps them a welfare state with the majority of the money not getting to the people. Who said being colonized was bad? Look at Africa after the “imperialists” left….
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The UN is and has been corrupt probably from the beginning and the US keeps funding it. Disband it. Most of the members hate us and don’t vote with us normally.
6 years ago
The U.N. is a corrupt vile organization that should be disbanded.
It serves no useful purpose. It is dominated by thugs and perverts.
Any funding should be STOPPED. it goes into the hands of the corrupt politicians instead of the people it is aimed at. How many BILLIONS have been poured into Haiti and LOOK at HAITI! It’s a mess. What they need is investment for jobs but that won’t happen because their country is corrupt. Endless charity keeps them a welfare state with the majority of the money not getting to the people. Who said being colonized was bad? Look at Africa after the “imperialists” left….
6 years ago
Betcha he is a card carrying member of Podesta’s Spirit Cooking Class
6 years ago
The useless abominations by word and action, prove that they are as corrupt and filthy an organization as possible. All decent nations should remove themselves from that islamic old boys club, that is playing the u.n as fools, using it to force islam on an unwilling world.
6 years ago
Another from a long line of English pederasts. Lawrence of Arabia was one of ’em.
6 years ago
He’s 77 years old? How long has he been raping? Certainly he didn’t just start with the one.
6 years ago
Reply to
Flayer
The article stated that he pleaded guilty to what he perpetrated between 1965 to 1968. What other child rapes did he perpetrate between than and now?
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
1965? How do they try such an old case? And, yes, if he was a pedo in 65, and I mean a true one, he’s likely repeated his behavior, although nothing came out since. Sometimes people plead just to make it go away, being 77 years old and not wanting to carry on with the publicity for the sake of his family. I must admit, though, that I didn’t read the sordid details.
6 years ago
Reply to
Flayer
The article was somewhat confusing. I believe due to translation(?). For example: “Newell pleaded guilty on January 2 to two charges of serious sexual assault between May 1966 and May 1968 and three charges of indecent assault committed between May 1965 and May 1968. He was jailed for six years and eight months.”
If someone was sentenced, this January past, how was it “jailed for six years and eight months”?
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
After he pleaded guilty (in January 2018) to historic charges concerning events of 1965-68 he was sentenced (in January 2018) to six and half years in prison.
6 years ago
The UN is full of political animals, who might be criminals as well.
Finnish TV news presenter Piia Pasanen
6 years ago
Complete list of people who are shocked that the people who clamor for Cultural Marxism 24 hours a day are sex criminals:
1.
6 years ago
The UN is a cesspool of atheism, communism, corruption and perversion. If the US pulled out completely I would applaud it in the streets. I hope this man gets swift, earthly judgement to the fullest. What awaits him after that…
6 years ago
If Our Republic (or what is left of it) had any political pragmatism, this organization would be sent packing asap. Let them build a new HQ anywhere in the world but not on US territory. The US can always, if it so chooses, be an observer but after the last 70-odd years, the organization has as much relevance as the League of Nations.
6 years ago
A UN person, surely you jest. !! The UN is a worthless scam and America should get out and evict the SOBs
6 years ago
What better way to get an endless supply of kids than as a kids’ rights campaigner?
Scum of the earth!
6 years ago
bacha bazi sexual slaves
6 years ago
KInda like the refugee racket where these NGOS, and ‘religious charities’ profess such concern but it’s all about money, power, and malevolent intent I.e.,destruction of the west).
6 years ago
Pamela Geller wouldn’t know the truth if it hit her in the face with a shovel.
6 years ago
I hear OXFAM is looking for a new chief fundraiser!
6 years ago
It looks like any sort of abuse is SOP in the UN
6 years ago
So much for the idea that priests should be married so perverts do not take over the positions of trust to get at children.
6 years ago
He was using the UN to SERVICE his sick pedophilia needs! Demoncraps get in politics to service their SICK communist needs. Sodomites get into the MSM to turn the world on to their sodomy! Moslems invade your country to practice their violent Jihad!
Gawd help us all……….
6 years ago
Who better to write such a book on the subject?
6 years ago
Is anyone surprised?
No. Not anyone here.
6 years ago
It”s getting so that I hate to read and watch the news. No one can be trusted, no one.
6 years ago
Seriously, it would be statistically impossible for any large organization to not turn out to employ some paedophiles. It’s not as if the fact was known before the person was hired and it certainly doesn’t incriminate the UN.
6 years ago
WELL DAMN … IMAGINE THAT !!!
6 years ago
An organization called “Approach” run by a pedophile! Are you kidding me?
6 years ago
if there was ONE ,, there is more of his friends , these people do not live in a bubble of isolation
6 years ago
and people question the validity of the UN hahahahahahahahahaha
6 years ago
This is horrible news, and the UN is a flawed, biased organization, but the way folks here are putting the two together as guilt-by-association stuns me. It’s nonsensical to use that as a basis for arguing we should withdraw from the UN. One might as well urge Catholics not to be Catholic because some priests abuse children. Or advise Jews not to be Jewish because a rabbi in Washington DC had set up a spycam to voyeur women using the ritual baths. Or advise Protestants to quit being Christian because some ministers molested little boys too. You can’t blame the institution for its leaders’ perversities unless the instution itself condones and approves such actions. (So don’t bother to write in about all the child-abusing Muslims – that’s not the issue, because their preachers do publicly condone it from their pulpits)
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Jacobs
“So don’t bother to write in about all the child-abusing Muslims”. Nice try shrub, but pederasty is entirely LEGAL in the muslum sh!ttystans of Pakistain, Afghanistain and Iranistain? Don’t believe me? Go there and find out for yourself and try wearing a kippah when you do, the muslums love that.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Sure it is! That’s exactly why I suggested it would be a distraction and off-topic to bring that up here, since everybody on this site presumably already knows that, and it’s not what we were talking about. Say, are you that same guy that used to call himself Mr. Tyranny? Your writing styles are very similar.
6 years ago
Where there are no statutes of limitations on criminal accusations NO ONE IS SAFE.
6 years ago
Absolutely.
6 years ago
Why is it that male pedophiles who molest and rape boys are not called homosexuals?
6 years ago
Correct facts, absolutely stupid conclusion. This is one man not the UN you dildo. Maybe let’s look at US politics re such people, do you then claim Republicans and Democrats should not be allowed to stand candidates for office? How about multiple boy rapist Jerry Sandusky, that doyen coach at Penn State? You’ll find such people at all levels in your country, Mr. Newell like Sandusky, until exposed, trusted. With Sandusky, there were signs, reports shelved, so how about you look closer to home? Were there concerns about Newell until the victim came forward? Doesn’t say in the reports. Don’t be a hypocrite this happens in the US as well as the UN, and amongst right wing conservatives.
