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The modus-operandi of child sex abuse in Sri Lanka Net abuse - The silent cry
In 1998, Sri Lanka's local newspaper reported that Viktor Baumann, a Swiss national and Sri Lanka resident, had sexually molested nearly 250 Sri Lankan children, some as young as 12, during a 14-year period from 1984 to 1996. Baumann was sentenced to four and half-years in jail in a Zurich court. In 2004, the Indian Express and Women in Media, reported that from 1989, a Swiss couple, Wilhelm Marty (61) a general manager of a multinational Swiss pharmaceutical firm and wife Loshiar Lily Marty (58), a trained nurse, had travelled from Switzerland to Mumbai, and probably to the Philippines and Sri Lanka, trawling for children. The couple was caught red-handed in 2000, with six victims; girls aged between eight and nine years in a room at a five-star hotel. Their modus-operandi, according to police, was simple: They would lure poor children, and then force them to indulge in pornographic acts as they filmed them. They would then post the explicit footage on the web. The couple was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. However, they were freed after undergoing half their sentence, when the court allowed them to pay compensation to their victims' families. |
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Child care experts in Sri Lanka warned that child prostitution was being
promoted to foreigners on the internet. There were up to 600 internet
advertisements for Sri Lankan children, mainly boys, said an official. 
