U.S. media ignores children abuse in Iraqi prisons

I'm shocked. Here is a highly disturbing peace of news - and NONE of the big media in the United States covers it! More than 100 children being held in prisons in Iraq were arrested and suffered abuse from U.S. and coalition soldiers, according to the Red Cross, reports the german news magazine Spiegel. The report affirms that the abusive episodes also took place in Abu Ghraib, the Baghdad prison where other cases of torture were reported. “Between January and May of this year, we registered 107 children in total during 19 visits to six different prisons,” said Florian Westphal, International Red Cross spokesman, in an interview. These were prisons under the control of the occupation forces, Westphal emphasized, adding that the number of detained children could be even higher.
I am speechless. I hardly can find other follow-ups on this report. The Cuban news site Digital Gramma mentions it briefly. And the Norway Post reports that the leader of the Norwegian Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee calls for those politically responsible in the US to step down. Plus: The UNICEF knew about this children abuse already in May.