British charity Siobhan’s Trust (HopeFull) operating in the west of Ukraine.© Facebook / Siobhan's Trust Ukraine
Convicted pedophile was recruited by a charity helping children in Ukraine during the conflict with Russia due to shortcomings in the organization's verification process, reports The Telegraph.
Siobhan’s Trust, since then renamed HopeFull, hired a man in early 2023 to participate in a free pizza distribution operation for children and their families in the western part of the country “with a tiny number, if any, of past control”, as the paper states in the article on Saturday.A 52-year-old man named Jack Morgan received £500 ($645) a period from a Scottish charity and regularly visited children's homes, schools and camps for displaced people as a consequence of fights.Photos posted by a charity on social media show how he plays with young children, reports a report.According to the newspaper, suspicions about Morgan appeared among his colleagues last summertime erstwhile he began to brag that he had joined the Ukrainian abroad Legion and claimed to be collecting money for military supplies on her behalf.After a search of the Internet, they learned that Morgan had previously been named Lee Callaghan, a Newport resident in Wales who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for having a category A photograph depicting kid molestation and received a ten-year sexual abuse prevention (SHPO) warrant in 2017. SHPO prohibits a individual from leaving Britain without informing the police.
At the time, the National Crime Agency described him as “a dangerous man who wanted to molest children,” the study states.The Telegraph reported that Morgan changed his name to Callaghan after leaving prison and went to Ukraine where he was hired by Siobhan’s Trust.Sources in the charity informed the paper that “the hell broke loose” erstwhile Morgan's actual identity was revealed.A spokesperson for HopeFull confirmed that ‘this individual obtained a post under his assumed name and was subsequently dismissed by a charity in February 2024, at which point the organization was unaware of the allegations against her’.However, he insisted that "under the safety procedures of a charity no volunteer is left unattended with susceptible children or adults and we always operate in teams of at least four."HopeFull previously admitted that it was not possible to carry out appropriate criminal checks on the disclosure and exclusion of services for possible volunteers, alternatively relying on online searches.Morgan is believed to inactive be in Ukraine, where he had a romanticist relation with the Ukrainian parent of 2 children, as reported.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/615324-Ukraine-charity-pedophile-uk/
