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UNICEF Exec Resigns Amid Sexual-Misconduct Allegations

Justin Forsyth has resigned after allegations from his former charity came to light.

The deputy executive director of UNICEF resigned Thursday over reports alleging that he sent three female staffers “unsuitable and thoughtless” text messages about how they looked or what they were wearing. The women told the BBC earlier this week that Justin Forsyth “sent them a ‘barrage’ of text messages which left them feeling deeply uncomfortable” while he was the chief executive at the Save the Children charity. The charity admitted that they should have looked further into the complaints against Forsyth and "matters should not have been left.” This comes after another former executive at Save the Children, Brendan Cox, resigned four months ago for separate sexual misconduct allegations and fallout from the Oxfam scandal as rocked the global charity community. A former senior staffer at Save the Children told the BBC, “The centre of this crisis was not in Haiti or in Chad, it was here in London and it went all the way to the top.”