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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 18:00:03 Posted By: Jan
By Rivonia Naidu
Children will be at risk from sexual predators during the 2010 soccer World Cup.
This was the warning sounded by Acting Film and Publications Board CEO Iyaver Chetty on Thursday, at the opening of the board’s Durban office.
He said not all those coming to South Africa in 2010 would be football enthusiasts. Among the fans would be paedophiles looking to target children.
Approached for comment, Childline national co-ordinator Joan van Niekerk agreed, saying they were extremely concerned about paedophiles entering the country during 2010.
And while there was a host of initiatives in the pipeline, they were not being well co-ordinated, she said.
Chetty said because the board was in the “business of protecting children”, it, with non-governmental organisations, was presently devising plans and strategies to assist the police in protecting children during that period.
“Our counterparts from overseas have already alerted us to the fact that child abusers and sex offenders from their countries would be here to prey on our young children because these offenders think there won’t be adequate policing,” he said.
The Film and Publications Board regulates the media environment for children through the classification of content.
“There are task teams in various provinces that are in the process of being set up and this is because during the World Cup our resources will be stretched and these offenders will be able to take advantage of our children, especially our street children and those who come from dysfunctional families,” he said.
The board, with Childline, has advised parents to exercise vigilance over their children during the World Cup.
“Parents must be aware of what their children are up to at all times, especially during that time, so they can provide adequate protection,” he said.
Van Niekerk said that all initiatives and safety campaigns were not well planned and thought out.
“Because of this, our children will fall through the cracks and we will lose them to sex offenders,” she said.
She said when the soccer World Cup was held in Germany, all stakeholders were concerned about paedophiles entering their country.
“But in the end they didn’t have any problems because Germany had a lot of well co-ordinated activities in place.
“It appears they pre-empted this problem by good planning, and that is what we lack. We need to look at the German experience and send out a stern message to these paedophiles that if they harm our children, they will be caught, punished and spend time in prison. We need to provide a comprehensive safety net for our children,” she said.
She also spoke about the dangers linked to the proposed school closures for the duration of the World Cup.
“Unfortunately, a lot of the focus of crime prevention has been devoted to tourist and player safety, and if the national department of education closes schools for six weeks, who is then going to look after our children? School is a safety haven for them, and if it’s closed, our children will become more vulnerable,” she said.
Provincial police spokesperson Superintendent Jay Naicker said there would be task teams set up in the province to focus on all crimes, including those involving the sexual exploitation of children.