A former prostitute claimed last night that the Oxfam boss at the centre of the sex scandal regularly paid to sleep with her. She said Roland van Hauwermeiren had sex with her twice a week for six months in Haiti β after the earthquake had destroyed her home and killed five members of her family. She claimed she was just 16 β under the Haitian age of sexual consent which is 18 β when they first had sex. A former Haitian prostitute pictured said Roland van Hauwermeiren had sex with her twice a week for six months in Haiti when she was Last night Mr van Hauwermeiren said he was 'not perfect' but insisted he never slept with prostitutes in Haiti.
Instead, the year-old said he slept with a 'mature' local woman but did not pay her. The former sex worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said she 'did not have the means to say no' because she needed money to feed her baby after the earthquake, which left , dead and 1.
Now 23, she did not realise Oxfam was supposed to be helping her country because of the way Mr van Hauwermeiren allegedly behaved towards her. I needed money for food and to feed my baby. He could have helped me without paying to have sex with me. We must have had sex hundreds of times when we were seeing each other. He was supposed to be helping but he made the situation worse. Mr van Hauwermeiren pictured in Haiti broke his silence and said he was 'not perfect' but insisted he never slept with prostitutes in Haiti.
However, last night Mr van Hauwermeiren, who lives near Ostend in Belgium, broke his silence to deny that he had ever slept with prostitutes when he led Oxfam's humanitarian response in Haiti for a year and a half.
Last week, The Times claimed that an Oxfam report said that Mr van Hauwermeiren had admitted using prostitutes at the villa rented by the charity. In an open letter to Belgian broadcaster VTM, he said: 'I am not perfect, I am not a saint β a man of flesh and blood, and have made mistakes not easy to admit , and I am deeply ashamed. I never gave them money. She lives in a poor neighbourhood above on the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in a small house.
