I was exploited, says prostitute at centre of claims
A FORMER prostitute who says she regularly slept with an Oxfam boss at the centre of the sex scandal waived her right to anonymity yesterday.
Speaking on ITV’s lunchtime news, Mikelange Gabou, 23, insisted that she repeatedly slept with 8-yearold Roland van Hauwermeiren in Haiti when she was only a teenager and mother of a young child.
Currently eight months pregnant with her second child, she told ITV News: ‘He took my phone number and asked me if he could help, I said yes. He was helping me but he was in a relationship with me ... sexually.
‘He gave me nappies, milk, and money for my child.’
Earlier she had told the Daily Mail: ‘He took advantage of me and he took advantage of the situation.
‘I feel like he exploited me. I needed money for food and to feed my baby. He could have helped me without paying to have sex with me.’
This week Mr van Hauwermeiren said he was ‘not perfect’ but insisted that he had never slept with prostitutes in Haiti.
Miss Gabou told ITV that she met the Belgian former aid worker when he drove past her in an Oxfam vehicle and stopped to ask for her number. They started a sexual relationship a month after she gave birth.
When asked how old she was when started having sex with him she replied: ‘Seventeen, because it was right after I had the child.’ The age of consent in Haiti is 18. Miss Gabou also alleged that Mr van Hauwermeiren ‘loves’ lesbians and orgies.
She claimed the former Oxfam boss ‘used to have a lot of girls. He drinks a lot of whisky and went clubbing a lot’.
When asked why their relationship ended, she said: ‘Because he was with too many girls! If girls are coming from left and right, lesbians, he’s receiving two girls at once ... It’s money that’s being spent, so maybe he no longer had money to give me.’
She claimed: ‘Roland is someone who loves orgies... he loves lesbians. In a week he may have five girls coming in and out of his place.’
Miss Gabou said she had not seen van Hauwermeiren in six years but was not sad at what happened because ‘when he was here, he took care of me’.