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Former head of Estonian parents’ union jailed for pedophilia
Published: 09 December, 2009, 14:35
Edited: 15 September, 2010, 11:30
TAGS: Children, Crime, Scandal, Europe, Sex
Former head of the Estonian Child Protection Committee, Kaur Hanson, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison over charges of pedophilia. Hanson pleaded guilty in court but did not comment on the sentence.
Russian and Estonian media report that Kaur Hanson was detained in March this year and was charged on several counts of raping minors after his wife reported to police that her husband had confessed to her that he was corrupting young boys.
The case was not reported in the media until the end of investigation and precise details have still not been disclosed, but Estonian newspapers write that Hanson abused children from all over the country. According to the press, one of the victims was a seven-year-old boy.
Forty-year-old Hanson held the post of secretary general in Estonia’s Parents’ Union and he also headed the Child Protection Committee. He worked in advertising and PR, and in late 1990s he organized the “Don’t hit a child” campaign. One of his colleagues from the advertising agency “Zoom” had earlier been sentenced to jail over pedophilia charges.
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There is more in Estonia parliament, he have lots of but-buddys there, how about his international friends and some missing children ? Marzipan, until there second class citizens "Aliens" who born and rise up there, there is nothing positive about this country.
This is a sad story, and needs to be reported. I commend RT that it has done so. However, I do point that when it comes to reporting on the Baltics generally, RT has a history of running overwhelmingly negative stories involving crime, zany nonsense such as fake meteorite craters, financial gloom and doom, and Moscow-oriented political accusations. Given that the Baltics are home to hundreds of thousands of Russians whose average standard of living there is higher than in Russia and who have no desire to leave, and given that further hundreds of thousands of Russian tourists visit the Baltics each year, there’s got to be something positive going on there that Russians like. Yet we never find out about it on RT. C’mon, RT, show us that your coverage is balanced. By all means report genuinely negative things that need reporting. But once in a very great while, how about also running a story about positive aspect of those countries.
If only pedophiles would stop hurting others and deal with the pain they have inside of themselves. Get psychotherapy and stop spreading your shame and pain to others.