… Child protection squads have been posted at the border with the Dominican Republic and at the airport in Port-au-Prince where some aid workers have reported seeing children dropped off by car and flown out by charter aircraft.
⢠Hospital staff have been asked to report any adults claiming to be related to injured children following reports of criminals posing as volunteers or even doctors.
⢠President Reve Preval has announced that any adoptions must receive his personal authorisation.
The potential for abuse is enormous. In one makeshift camp established on a Port-au-Prince football pitch, where 450 families have settled since the earthquake, a Times reporter found 38 children who were either orphaned by the January 12 quake or have lost contact with their parents.
“They’re in danger… They could fall into the hands of traffickers and pimps – especially the girls,” Blemurned Junior, the camp¹s senior social worker, told the Times.

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Among the 450 families living in makeshift shelters on a football pitch in the district of Delmas there are 37 other children like Eliassaint who were orphaned or lost contact with their parents on January 12. The camp is now their refuge — a place where they are cared for and protected.
On the streets, however, many thousands more children have been left to fend for themselves in a city where child-trafficking and abuse was rife even before the earthquake closed the country’s schools, destroyed its rudimentary welfare system, left its police force in disarray and sprang 4,000 criminals from prison.
“They’re in danger. They’re at risk of abuse and aggression. They could fall into the hands of traffickers and pimps — especially the girls,” Blemurned Junior, the camp’s senior social worker, said. His fears are shared by leading child protection agencies, which are racing to find those children before criminals do.

See the full article from “Times Online”

A Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued for Myles Tynes, 35. (Photo courtesy of Montreal police)
Police seek Lachine man accused of being a pimp
Paul CherryThe Gazette Friday, January 22, 2010
Two men from the Lachine borough are alleged to have manipulated at least two minors to work for them as prostitutes.
An investigation, conducted by the Montreal police child sexual exploitation unit, came to light yesterday after a Canada-wide arrest warrant was issued for Myles Tynes, 35.
According to court records, Tynes resided in Lachine as recently as September.
The warrant was issued two days after another Lachine man, Austin Wilson, 23, appeared in a Montreal courtroom, where he was charged with six counts of living on the avails of prostitution involving minors: two 17-year-old girls.
An indictment filed in Wilson’s case, which is related to Tynes’s, alleges the crimes took place between Nov. 15 and last week.

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The case of a 48-year-old carpenter accused of killing a Corrections Canada employee was back before the courts Friday.
And the crown is trying to see if new evidence can link him to other crimes.
“It’s DNA results, most of it,” crown prosecutor Eliane Perreault explained, saying that they turned over new evidence to the defence.  Claude Larouche’s new lawyer will now study it and determine their next step in late April. Larouche is charged in the first degree murder of 37-year-old Corrections Canada employee Natasha Cournoyer.
Perreault says they’re also waiting on other test results, explaining the investigation into Larouche is continuing and even expanding.
“We’re looking at other files also to see if there’s any other link we can do.”
Among those files: that of a prostitute who says Larouche may be the man who attacked her two weeks before Cournoyer’s murder.

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But as well as a frosty reception from the fans, David and Victoria, 35, would also have to brave freezing temperatures during the long, winter months in Montreal.[>
The record low is minus 37C. And on Friday, the temperature was -18C but the wind-chill made it feel like -30C.[>
They would be expected to buy a property in Old Montreal or the posh Westmount district, said Montreal tourism publicist Rachael Dumont. One possibility is a 37-room, 17,000 sq ft waterfront mansion currently listed at the bargain basement price of £2.6million.[>
Ms Dumont also warned that the vibrant city Canadas second largest had a free-wheeling attitude to sex and life.[>
She said: Women will throw themselves at David, so Victoria had best watch out! [>
We have more strip clubs here than anywhere else in the world.[>

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The crown is trying to see if they can link unresolved crimes to a Montreal man suspected of killing a Corrections Canada employee.
Claude Larouche was arrested in connection to the first degree murder of Natasha Cournoyer based on DNA evidence.
And now the crown is trying to see if new DNA evidence can connect the 48-year-old suspect to other cold cases.
Crown prosecutor Éliane Perreault says they handed over the new evidence to Larouche’s new lawyer and they’re waiting on other tests for other cases.
“The new DNA we’re waiting for is for this case but the investigation is wider than that,” Perreault told reporters.
One of the cases they’re looking at: a prostitute who was attacked by a client two weeks after Cournoyer’s death, the woman saying she thought she recognized Larouche.

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… Before the Internet, people would go out to bars,” she said, “and pick up women or prostitutes.”
With sex addicts, the sex isn’t the driving force, she said. It’s more complicated than that.
“It’s not so much to have sex as it is a challenge to get partners to say OK,” she said. “Sex addicts get a sense of, ‘Job well done.’ It’s the very same dynamic with each patient.
“People want to feel something other than what they’re feeling,” she said. “It’s the same as with alcohol, nicotine, drugs; they want to be something other than what they are.”
One problem seen by therapists is self diagnosis. People see a celebrity caught in a cheating scandal and then seeking sex addiction treatment and think they have the same thing, said Jo-Ann Bird, a sex therapist in Brandon.
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Gone untreated, sex addicts can have lives that spiral downward, leading to obsessions with pornography, prostitution, exhibitionism, voyeurism, child molesting, incest and rape, he wrote.

See the full article from “Behavioral Health Central (blog)”

For Jean-Baptiste, who shares an adoptive mother from Montreal with sister Manousheka but has a different father, that new life involves leaving his home country.
With the earthquake, I lost all of my belongings, said the young man, adding that he lost his passport and other documents when his house collapsed. I want to find my mother in Canada. She lives in Montreal. She works a lot. She is a Canadian citizen. I want her to help me get out of here. Im dying of hunger. And I dont want to leave my half-sister in this country. She has forms but she cant fill them out. Maybe my mother will see me in the media. She comes back to Haiti every two years.
Rapes and prostitution have Jean-Baptiste fearing the worst for his 20-year-old sister, who, unlike her brother, doesnt speak French.

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Sooo, proof that Susan Sarandon has been maybe having a bit of a tough time since her breakup? The fact that the 63 year old actress went onstage at “Of Montreal’s” Tuesday night show at the Highline Ballroom and spanked two performers dressed like pigs with a ruler.
One could make the argument that Sarandon has always been a little kooky, given that she starred in Rocky Horror Picture Show, and has gone to stripper classes with her daughter. Still, for those of us who grew up in the 90s, it’s hard to reconcile this bad-ass persona with the woman we identify as mother characters from Little Women and Stepmom.
*Since summer, we have been trying to come up with the correct generalized colloquial spelling for the abbreviated version of “the usual.” “The Yoojz” was the best we could come up with (after spending WAY too much time arguing). Well, do YOU have a better suggestion??? Let us know!

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While it might make sense that sex could be addictive – it’s fun, feels great and is a highly pleasurable escape from the daily grind – some experts are unconvinced of its legitimacy as a real disorder, viewing it as little more than a ‘get out of jail’ free card played by a cheating spouse who’s gotten caught. In other words, sexual addiction is the hot trend du jour.
“I would say some people deal with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but is it an addiction? No,” says Calgary-based human sexuality expert, Dr. Trina E. Read.
“There are people who wreck their lives and other peoples’ lives, but in my experience, it’s few and far between. I think it’s a very topical thing. In five or 10 years, it won’t be the flavour anymore. It will be replaced by the new thing. It sounds very sexy to say sex addiction.”
In Woods’ case, the repercussions have been steep, possibly causing irreparable damage to his marriage to Elin Nordegren, career and public image. The unsavory notoriety prompted a number of high-profile corporate partnerships to dump Woods quicker than a stripper ditching a customer after a lap dance.

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