In some cases, highly paid United Nations peacekeepers have done anything but keep the peace. One of these peacekeepers, 40-year-old Bourguet, was paid $7,000 a month and was in charge of transport and logistics at the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Goma. Bourguet was giving underage locals mone.
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A horrifying new research claims that since 1999, UN soldiers from 12 different nations have fathered and then abandoned thousands of children in the impoverished Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The study also says that troops and police working under a UN mandate in the war-torn country molested children, raped young women, and exchanged food for'survival sex.'
According to the research, one victim was just eleven years old when her aunt sold her to UN forces, who loaded her with alcohol, raped her, and got her pregnant.