The charity Oxfam admitted Friday that some of its employees engaged in sexual misconduct while doing disaster recovery work in Haiti, after an explosive report in a British newspaper detailed allegations that staff members were throwing “Caligula”-like parties with prostitutes at a guest house the charity had rented for them. The Times of London’s investigation, which was published Thursday, also detailed allegations that Oxfam’s country director used prostitutes, as part of the raft of misconduct alleged to have occurred while the organization deployed to help the reeling island nation recover after a devastating 2010 earthquake. Prostitution is illegal in Haiti; the age of consent is 18. “This behaviour was totally unacceptable, contrary to our values and the high standards we expect of our staff,” Oxfam, one of Britain’s largest charities, said in a statement on Friday. The Times’s report was based off sources familiar with the organization’s work in Haiti around that time as well as a report summarizing an internal Oxfam investigation into the allegations from the time. The organization’s country director admitted having prostitutes come to the villa that Oxfam had rented for him, according to the internal report as cited by the Times.

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