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The Command Post - Global Recon: Indian Ocean Tsunami Archives

Now...I'm REALLY angry!

From the AFP via The Australian :

A 12-year-old Swedish boy injured in the tsunami that struck South-East Asia may have been kidnapped from a hospital in Thailand, a Swedish newspaper has reported.
Swedish and Thai police are cooperating to find the boy, Kristian Walker, the Expressen reported.

“Kristian was here in the hospital. He was taken away by a man,” the paper quoted Kampongsree Somprutthana, a hospital doctor, as saying.

Kristian’s father, Dan Walker, and his grandfather, Daniel Walker, found several witnesses who recognised the boy who mysteriously disappeared from the hospital 30km from Khao Lak, one of Thailand’s worst-hit holiday resorts.

The man he may have left with was described as “European-looking, with a moustache and a red shirt”. […]

The report comes a day after the Swedish branch of non-governmental organisation Save the Children, Raedda Barnen, warned that children who ended up alone after the natural disaster were potential targets for sexual abuse by pedophiles.
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There were already “indications” that surviving children had been sexually abused in Sri Lanka, one of the countries suffering worst from the tsunami, Ms Petri Gornitzka said.