14.03.2012
Three United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan have been found guilty of sexually abusing a young boy while on mission in Haiti.
According to the UN spokesman Martin Nesirky the three men are police officers.
Nesirky also said that they have been sent back Pakistan, where they will be dishonorably discharged and serve a jail sentence.
UN spokeswoman, Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg, who confirmed that the peacekeepers had been found guilty of sexual abuse and exploitation, and two of them were sentenced to a year in prison with hard labor.
She added that the men had been convicted by a Pakistani military court which had traveled to the Haitian port city of Gonaives.
No UN representatives or Haitian officials were present for the trial.
The victim was a 14-year-old Haitian boy and that the attacked happened in January.
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