It’s for the kids: More UN sexual exploitation of children
posted at 11:20 am on January 21, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The uselessness of the UN gets displayed yet again as a “human rights worker” at Turtle Bay got arrested for carrying child pornography through an airport. The arrest of Clarence Dias provides only the latest example of the sexual exploitation of children by UN affiliates, although the first time such behavior has been caught in the US:
A high-ranking human rights worker with ties to the United Nations was nabbed at Kennedy Airport Tuesday with kiddie porn in his suitcase, officials said.
Clarence Dias, 65, president of the International Center for Law in Development, whose offices are located at the UN, had the smut in his carry-on bag as he passed through security on his way to a flight bound for Bangkok, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Transportation Security Administration officials doing a random bag check around 8:20a.m. allegedly found a DVD whose cover featured an apparently underage nude boy and an adult male in Dias’ handbag, prosecutors said.
The video’s title – “Winner Pub Pattaya” – apparently refers to a beach resort in Thailand, authorities said. There were also other lewd photographs in the bag, authorities said.
Dias – who holds a doctorate in law from Bombay University and Cornell Law School and has taught at Boston College of Law – claimed the porn was for research, authorities said.
Ah, yes … research! Perhaps Dias wanted to research the endemic sexual exploitation of children by UN peacekeeping troops in Africa. After all, we have had independent reports from several UN peacekeeping operations of troops and UN personnel using aid to force women and children into sexual acts for their survival, starting in 2004 in the Congo. By 2005, that list included Burundi, Liberia, and Haiti. As of yet, the UN has done nothing — at all — to keep its missions from acting as pimps for the pleasure of its troops.
And where was Dias heading? Not surprisingly, he was on his way to Thailand. The DVD apparently was Dias’ travelogue. Thailand has a big child prostitution industry, although they have tried getting tough with sex tourists. One hopes that they would have caught Dias, but perhaps his status as a UN-affiliated VIP would have given him some protection.
Under any other circumstances, this child-exploitation network would get dismantled. Since it’s the UN, I doubt that many people will even acknowledge its existence. One has to wonder how many more pedophiles use the UN for their evil compulsion, and why the voices that claim to speak for the children remain so silent about this organization’s repeated instances of their exploitation. (via Lawhawk and JWF)
Update: HA reader Dukeameye corrects me on Gary Glitter. He did time in Vietnam, not Thailand, but Thailand wouldn’t let him leave the airport when he traveled to Bangkok after leaving Vietnam.
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If only he were a priest, then it would get some attention.
Redhead Infidel on January 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Well, he’s a UN guy so the gay rights groups can revert to their default position, which is to lower the age of consent.
After all, who are we to judge?
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Go ahead. Try and locate accurate information about the “International Center for Law in Development”.
It looks like a one man operation founded in 1966.
gabriel sutherland on January 21, 2009 at 11:28 AM
yeah….let him be a Catholic Priest and the LA TIMES would run a special edition…..
UN Worker? Who cares then!
SDarchitect on January 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM
9 y/o brides in the middle east, the U.N ain’t gonna touch this.
christene on January 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Too bad for this guy… if only he had some bishop to protect him by shifting him around so nobody would catch on.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Or public school principal.
Teachers molest and then get their salary for sitting on their butts, surfing kiddie porn at home.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Oil for food, military failure everywhere, sexploitation, thuggery, dictators in leadership positions – it is amazing that the UN is allowed to exist, much less be referred to as an authority by anyone. Up is down and down is up. The world is full of stupid people who accept things like this.
Vashta.Nerada on January 21, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Please relocate the Useless Nothings into another country. They hate america anyway so gtfo
lexa on January 21, 2009 at 11:34 AM
The ol’ Pete Townshend defense.
Jim Treacher on January 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Guess which foundation supplies the funding for the “International center for Law in Development”?
The Ford Foundation
gabriel sutherland on January 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
They found an adult male in Dias’ handbag? That’s new.
BigD on January 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
It was a manpurse.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM
The U.N. troops were raping children for research also, keep that in mind.
I’ve been to Pattaya while serving in the Navy and it is indeed a den of thieves and iniquity; if you want it, Pattaya has it for sale somewhere.
Bishop on January 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Yeah, that’s too bad their car company is going bust.
Maybe if they refrain from funding pedophile field trips they can make another go of it.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Too bad for this guy… if only he had some bishop to protect him by shifting him around so nobody would catch on.
Easy there, buddy.
Bishop on January 21, 2009 at 11:38 AM
More sex crimes from the people who call us war criminals for taking out the genocidal terrorist dictator Saddam Hussein.
How much more money and support can be thrown away at such a failed and corrupt institution.
There is no women or child that this institution want rape and brutalize.
There is no terrorist or dictator that they want support.
Only an absolute idiot would call working through this corrupt group of sadist “Smart Power”.
Baxter Greene on January 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM
honestly, is anyone surprised?
Seven Seas on January 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Ya too bad for the real victims-not only are they abused by the perps but then they have to be used as a political statement to rationalize one side or another.
canditaylor68 on January 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM
This guy could be the next Bachelor.
Clarence Dias: UN Photo
gabriel sutherland on January 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Ed, you need to lock down the trackback and comment features on your old Captains Quarters site to prevent their abuse. You have a whole s**tload of spammers trying to drive up their search results — two of which are associated in trackbacks with the old post you cite.
I followed one of the “recent posts” and that has a comment which links to one of the Church of Scientology’s faux drug treatment sites.
unclesmrgol on January 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Exactly.
UN employees have no interests or talents beyond stealing with both hands and exploiting other people.
You’d get more action dealing with organized crime syndicates. At least with them, you know who they are and you might actually have a chance of getting something done.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM
And my “Reasons to Shut Down the U.N.” gets another tally.
It’s heartbreaking and disgusting. Thanks a bunch, Eleanor.
As a Protestant, I ask: are you really trying to pick a fight with the Catholics? ‘Cause they come ready to play. (And, by the way, wholly inappropriate and missing the point of the post you referenced.)
emailnuevo on January 21, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Can we please move the UN out of the US. It would clean the air and stench by getting rid of all that useless garbage, its environmentally friendly.
MDWNJ on January 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Once we accept gay marriage, what’s next? Man-boy marriages? Give them an inch.
By the way, can anyone imagine any of this stuff happening 30 years ago? Pedophiles would have been strung up, and man-man “marriages” would have been laughed out of the place. It’s like watching a building collapse in slow motion.
stonemeister on January 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Blue Helmet = Evil
White Armor = Evil
bullseye on January 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM
As a Catholic, I don’t give a rip about clowns like this.
Because the few cases of pedophilia really aren’t what riles any of them. They don’t care that the public schools that we are all forced to support through our taxes, are rife with pedophiles.
They don’t care that protestant religions have the same percentage of convicted pedophile clery.
What they hate is the Catholic Church’s stance against abortion and contraceptives. Always the core issue.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Sick critter … sick UN.
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No doubt the UN will go to bat for this individual and they just might find a friendly audience in the UN-loving Hussein Obama Administration
DavePa on January 21, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Not to mention Obama’s homosexual “lower the age of consent” supporters.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Do you think he’s doing this as Chief Justice (aka Commander in Chief) of our military court system, or in his other role as Chief Justice of our civilian court system?
Hopefully, he’s a quick study on the UCMJ, which is, under the Geneva Conventions, what is in use here.
unclesmrgol on January 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Actually, he is not a UN person, and his office is in a building of the Methodist Church.
exception on January 21, 2009 at 11:56 AM
what’s the Catholic church got to do with it? It’s the Episcopal church (you know, the one with the actively gay bishop) that’s pushing the UN Millenium Development Goals down the throats of its parishioners. Hell, their god is the UN.
sloopy on January 21, 2009 at 11:56 AM
I’m beginning to believe that sexual perversion is a job requirement at the UN.
MarkTheGreat on January 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM
What’s the primary goal, lower the age of consent to 2?
Imagine all the people, living life as one.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM
I have found that very little surprises me anymore.
sammypants on January 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Right, that’s what happened with the priests. No one ever found out what they did.
Esthier on January 21, 2009 at 12:04 PM
exception: The International Center for Law in Development IS credentialed as a not for profit organization with the United Nations. ICLD’s offices are in the 777 UN Plaza location which is across the street from the UN headquarters and is owned by the Methodist Church.
gabriel sutherland on January 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Well, you can find Dias’ resume on the UN website. He says he was a member of President Carter’s “International Human Rights Council”.
gabriel sutherland on January 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM
I wish we had a president with balls enough to withdraw us
& our funding from the UN.
What a disgusting, parasitic, tyrannical, over-bloated organization.
Useless.
Badger40 on January 21, 2009 at 12:12 PM
What a selling point!
Badger40 on January 21, 2009 at 12:12 PM
hmm.. same defense as that talk jock in SF last year.. “research”… yeah whatever.
I’m sure all his future cell-mates will be happy to help him “research”
gatorboy on January 21, 2009 at 12:14 PM
There is no other organization that would continue to be funded (and lauded) if it were guilty of the things that the UN is guilty of.
No one would say, “Hey! NAMBLA donated some money to help build a pre-school, so they aren’t all bad. We should keep sending taxpayer money to them.”
At what point do the scales tip for a place like the U.N? At what point have they finally gone so far that everyone is willing to say, “Regardless of what little good they do, they are responsible for too much evil to continue funding.”?
Politics aside, the UN should have been shut down a long time ago based on their record of exploiting the most vulnerable peoples in the world.
JadeNYU on January 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM
As a kid growing up,I remember seeing signs across America for us to get out of the UN. To bad we Americans didn’t get out.
Alex Martinez on January 21, 2009 at 12:39 PM
or a Republican
Western_Civ on January 21, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Ed,
He was caught and did time in Vietnam.
Bill C on January 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM
I was merely responding to the comment that somehow priests wouldn’t get away with something that a UN official would… they got away with abuse for years because their bishops shuffled them around to cover up their wicked crimes. Facts are facts.
That is something for Catholics to deal with. They can fight with me all they want… but I didn’t cover up any crimes based on the notion that my laws are superior to civil law. They need to talk with their bishops about that (particularly to one Cardinal who is now safely tucked away in the Vatican).
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Are you (a) denying that the dioceses/bishops tried to protect them or (b) arguing that the UN wasn’t caught?
If we discovered that the UN guy had been caught several times actually abusing children and the UN merely shuffled him off to some new country… I don’t think you’d be so sympathetic to his cause (or call him unduly “persecuted”).
Child sexual abuse AND hiding child sexual abuse are both crimes… trying to garner sympathy for either group is disgusting.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 1:32 PM
If public schools could be sued the way the Catholic Church has been, the victims and their lawyers would have bankrupt the government YEARS ago.
The vast majority of “victims” were liars cultivated by thieving trial lawyers and they were “victimized” by long dead priests.
Until public schools can be sued, pedophilia in public schools will be rampant.
Deal with that, jackass.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 1:33 PM
You’re right. That clearly justifies the actions of both the priests and the bishops who hid them. What was I thinking?
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 1:35 PM
You’re right again. I guess pedophilia is now OK everywhere it occurs. Clearly the failure to address pedophilia in the public schools justifies it everywhere else.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 1:38 PM
I’m doing neither. You’re the one acting as though the UN has never protected it’s own before.
When the Church did it, it was vile. When the UN does it, it’s still vile.
Esthier on January 21, 2009 at 1:38 PM
I agree 100%.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM
I just notice that the people who never fail to bring it up when it regards the Catholic Church (an organization no one is forced to contribute to or to attend, by the way), are curiously silent about it as it pertains to public schools, which we ARE required to fund and which most parents are forced to send their children to.
Admit it, you don’t care about pedophilia, what you care about it bashing the Catholic Church. Tell the truth.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM
The Cardinal responded from
prison,his office at the UN, his position in the Vatican.But don’t worry, he was duly punished:
Don’t blame me for dragging the RCC into this, the opening comment did that and then others took offense when I (correctly) pointed out that the bishops hid the perps in the same way the UN hides its perps.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 1:50 PM
OK-this public school thing has me confused-if a kid so much as sniffs your way as a teacher, you can get into big trouble as a molester.That means jail time etc.
Schools as far as I know do get sued for this & though I understand the problems often get swept under the rug, this is a govt agency we’re talking about here.
If it were a pvt school, things would be somewhat different.
In the end, if the community gets the balls to make a stink about it, you CAN do something. The problem is, no one ever wants to get involved. So pedophiles get a pass bcs people have other things to worry about than other people’s kids.
Apathy will be the death of us all.
Badger40 on January 21, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Nice attempt at diverting from the truth and starting an attack on my motives. As it is, I just spent the last 18 months seeking justice for two little girls who were abused by a Baptist deacon and a Plymouth Brethren elder and speaker. I also exposed those who hid the truth.
I’m against ALL crimes against children (including protecting the perps). I don’t take offense and try to divert attention from the real issue by attacking those who speak the truth or by helping the perps play the victim.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 1:53 PM
So why’d you bring up the Catholic Church?
Congratulations, although I have no way of verifying that. Perhaps you should spend more time on that and less time bashing the Catholic Church.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 1:57 PM
I didn’t… the opening comment did. I just pointed out that it might not have been such a good example.
Telling the truth is “bashing”? Where did I “bash”?
Are you then “bashing” the UN? Or “bashing” public school teachers?
Did I shuffle around and protect child molesters? Did I then protect and promote the man who did? I think your anger is misplaced. Why not write an angry note to the Vatican demanding that Law come back to the US and face justice?
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Back in the day, high UN officials were issued a special baby-blue UN passport, called a laissez-passer, which would guarantee that his bags were never searched. I guess everybody has to comply with the TSA regs, though.
gridlock2 on January 21, 2009 at 2:03 PM
This could be a consequence of the UN permitting the return of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA).
ILGA was instrumental, in pressuring the World Health Organization to drop homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
In 1993 ILGA was invited by the UN, and given a consultant organization status. ILGA became part of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), as a Non-Governmental-Organization, which is a huge worldwide organization.
In 1994, by a vote of 214-30, it was kicked out of the UN and this action, was supported by Bill Clinton. ILGA had a long and close relationship with North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), MARTJIN and Project Truth, etc., pedophile organizations, which they were accused of promoting. NAMBLA claims it was a steadfast member for decade.
ILGA’s status was reinstated about one year later, when it claimed to have disassociated itself from a German homosexual pedophile organization referred to, as the “Association for Sexual Equality”.
According to ILGA’s website, it didn’t know that the pedophile organizations they aligned with were pedophile organizations, in spite of the fact that NAMBLA has stated that it was a member of the ILGA for ten years:
In 1994, ILGA expelled NAMBLA and two other paedophile groups at its World Conference in New York. These groups had joined ILGA at an earlier stage of ILGA’s development, at a time when ILGA did not have in place administrative procedures to scrutinize the constitutions and policies of groups seeking membership. At no time, however, did ILGA support or endorse their positions, and these groups were expelled precisely because their aims were incompatible with those of ILGA.
sinsing on January 21, 2009 at 2:07 PM
You are attacking an organization that’s paid millions up millions and has done everything possible to stop a problem that was perpetrated by an infinitesimal fraction of its clergy.
You ignored the actual organization that was the topic of the post and then tried to turn it towards an organization that wasn’t even mentioned.
You want to bring up your (probably false) record of fighting pedophilia, have at it. But don’t take a cheap shot at the Catholic Church and expect to get a free pass.
NoDonkey on January 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Let’s kick the UN out of NY, stop paying billions in dues and use the space they take up in the city for something useful… like a parking garage.
redfoxbluestate on January 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Ugh. The United Nations is one of the most vile public criminal enterprises operating in the world today. It’s long past time for them to get out of
New YorkAmerica.I don’t care where they go (tho I wouldn’t be surprised if they wind up in Iraq). Kick them out, raze the buildings, burn the rubble, salt the earth.
Harpazo on January 21, 2009 at 6:16 PM
What do you expect from the state church of England?
Huh What!? I never knew that [the fact that it was listed as a mental illness]!
Chaz706 on January 21, 2009 at 6:52 PM
What about that loser from The Who? Or the I Believe I Can Fly dude?
jgapinoy on January 21, 2009 at 7:52 PM
..or that European film maker (Polanski?)
jgapinoy on January 21, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Good points, N D
Red State State of Mind on January 22, 2009 at 11:02 AM