** Please visit our website: http://www.africanassociation.org ** I think this man should register with INTERPOL as a sex offender. >From: Abu-Hassan Koroma <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: "AAM (African Association of Madison)" ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Fwd: Australian UN official charged >Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:27:48 -0700 > > > > >Australian UN official charged > > >From correspondents in Freetown > > >August 19, 2004 > > >SIERRA Leone formally charged an Australian police official today >with sex crimes against a minor, saying the alleged offence >occurred while he was employed as an investigator with the >UN-backed war-crimes court. > >Prosecutors charged Peter Halloran, 56, with three counts of >"unlawful carnal knowledge, indecent assault and procuring a girl >under 14 years" during court proceedings in the West African >nation's capital, Freetown. > >Judge Bankole Shyllon denied bond for Halloran, and set a next court >date for Tuesday. > >If convicted, Halloran faces 15 years imprisonment. > >Halloran's Australia-based lawyer earlier called the allegations >baseless, and said the girl's allegations in another case had been >proven false. > >Halloran, who has been in Sierra Leone since January, has >voluntarily handed his passport to local police, his lawyer said. > >He was suspended earlier this month from his work for the court. > >The UN tribunal is trying both rebels and government-allied fighters >for abuses committed after late 1996 in Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 >insurgency. Thousands of civilians were killed, raped, kidnapped >and hacked to pieces in the fight over Sierra Leone's rich diamond >fields. > > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Abu-Hassan Koroma >Founder, President & CEO > >21st Century African Youth Movement >P.O.Box 8582 >Madison, Wisconsin 53708-8582 _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, visit: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/aam.html AAM Website: http://www.africanassociation.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------