Stolen Youth: Child Prostitution Plagues German-Czech Border

[lowtech1]

"Young children less than six years old are offered to the sex tourists by women, whereas the older ones are usually accompanied by men or male teenagers," Schauer said. "But eight-year-olds come along on their own and do their own negotiations about payment and sexual practices."

The United Nations children's agency says child prostitution is rising across the German border in the Czech Republic. Even children under the age of six are sold to German sex tourists.

The children come from poor families, Schauer explained. Their mothers are often drug addicts or prostitutes themselves. But the kids don't necessarily come from the border region. Pimps bring them there from throughout Eastern Europe. Some children, including babies, are sold to the foreign customers to serve as prostitutes in western Europe.

The customers come in cars with German number plates, most from nearby Bavaria and Saxony. Some of them drive up in luxury limousines or small vans with darkened windows. They pay the children ?5-25 (around $6-30) for sexual favors. And the locals in the nearby towns and villages turn a blind eye.....

Czech authorities say the problem of child prostitution is exaggerated.

I'm not sure who I should believe, but it is never the less sad.

:brokenheart:

 

[jeremy806]

That's about the worst f-ing thing that I have read in some time.

No matter what you think of prostitution, at a certain point it is just wrong in so many ways...

jeremy806

 

[ReiAyanami]

but the free-market liberal left right wing pundits say as long as its consensual :|:|:|

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
but the free-market liberal left right wing pundits say as long as its consensual :|:|:|

Isnt free-market generally associated with right wing?

I thought Left-wing liberals were ones that avocated for government intervention (various extents) in the economy.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: dexvx

Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
but the free-market liberal left right wing pundits say as long as its consensual :|:|:|

Isnt free-market generally associated with right wing?

I thought Left-wing liberals were ones that avocated for government intervention (various extents) in the economy.

pawned

 

[freegeeks]

I hope that the german and Czech govt. act fast

 

[chess9]

This is a problem in many countries in Eastern Europe and Russia. Prostitution rates are up significantly. Those governments, like most governments, have neither the will nor the resources to do much about it. Perhaps the cure is for those governments to promote abstinence and/or masturbation, rather than the abuse of children?
-Robert