By: andres Penachino
sexual exploitation of children through prostitution is a former global problem. In some countries has existed for centuries, rooted in historical and cultural practices.
Among the most serious and detestable types of violence against children include exploitation sex, including prostitution. This type of aberrant practices is comparable to torture as the trauma caused to children and is one of the most serious violations of their rights.
This problem is increasing worldwide and provides a profitable industry that at the beginning of this century and benefits annually produced about 5,000 million U.S. dollars ...
Each year more children and young people enter the circuit of child prostitution . Argentina is one of the countries with higher rates in accordance with the UN.
Prostitution in general is traditionally defined as sexual union with a woman for pay or other consideration. This definition has undergone changes recently and is no longer limited to women, on the one hand, and sexual union with another.
Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, 1990, defines prostitution as performing, offering or accepting a sexual act for a price.
Using and applying the above criteria to child prostitution, is defined as "the act of engaging or offering the services of a child to perform sexual acts for money or other consideration with that person or another." It should be noted that under this definition, child prostitution is not "committed" by the child, but the person who hires or offers its services.
Although such abhorrent practices that were considered and punished by law, local demand has been and is now an important factor for both local and foreign. But the legal framework is not a complication ..
When an individual seeks to have sex with boys and girls and do not want to risk being denounced, has a second option, if you have enough money to afford to go to the prostitution of minors.
This voluntary prostitution is never accompanied by fear, hunger, drugs and a host of circumstances that can make the existence of both lower as an adult in a living hell that always exceed our imagination.
sexual Tour
Each year, more than 600 million international tourist trips. 20% of travelers recognizes seek sex in their movements, of which 3% confessed pedophile tendencies, this is more than 3 million people. In general, sex tours are arranged informally between friends or colleagues.
response to this demand, some countries offered "not so covertly" the child sex tour. There are two reasons for this.
The first is that the economic and social power of the foreign operator is much higher that the child (a), and therefore the abuse of power is accentuated. The sex tourists who engage with children from various walks. They may be married or single, male or female, heterosexual or homosexual, wealthy tourists or travelers with bloated budgets. The anonymity, the availability of children and being away from moral and social constraints that normally govern their behavior can lead to abuse in another country. They often justify their behavior by claiming that it is culturally accepted in that country or help the child (a) providing some money.
The second is that the foreigner can easily leave abusive the country where the abuse takes place and avoid prosecution. Child pornography
In Argentina, for a while now many of the efforts to combat child prostitution. In fact many people have fallen, some of them rich and famous.
investigations are aimed at discovering, individuals or organizations that facilitate such practices, since prostitution is hiding far more than in adult pornographic scenes. In almost daily operating especially made by Federal and National Gendarmerie forces or Argentina's Federal Police seized thousands of pictures and videos of children naked or having sex, to be sold by owners or by catalog and mostly in countries of origin other than to avoid possible identification.
One thing that impresses is that over 30% of consumers of child pornography end up putting into practice what they see in magazines and try to capture it in photos or video.
is believed that approximately 80% of children exploited in the commercial sex industry suffer from psychological or physical abuse within their families, and most have suffered some form of sexual assault by a family member or friend . In this context, domestic abuse and neglect of children also benefit those who attract less to be prostitutes.
Where does the child?
The economic hardships of the / small is a good source of seduction
basically obtained from: the ring roads and the marginal areas of large cities in poor countries, or the children escaped from their homes ..
Those engaged in recruiting children, offer them some work as a domestic or economic aid and removed from the field or sold to traffickers who take the country, an example is children who come from Paraguay. But the term "traffic" is much broader.
"Trafficking consists of all acts involving the recruitment or transportation of persons within or across borders, involving deception, coercion or force, debt bondage or fraud for the purpose of placing persons in situations of abuse or exploitation, such such as forced prostitution, slavery-like practices, battering or extreme cruelty, etc ....
Locally, in the slums, in railway stations and operate "search engines / as" dedicated to locate potential victims. Often these mafia networks using prostitutes or former prostitutes who often change to kids for drugs, or a comfortable place to sleep.
In all cases, once they can gain their trust, the move to distant places where they fall definitely in the networks of pimps ...
Once you have fallen into their clutches real ordeal begins. The girls are locked up, beaten and raped by their pimps for several days. Thus neither a virgin and have had several experiences before receiving their first customer, unless one of them is interested in a virgin girl. On the other hand the beatings and threats to ensure the silence of the children, many times even after being arrested pimps. At no time are no longer protected and can not go out. They are usually required to get high with cocaine to increase performance, make them make them drug addicts and thus dependent on pimps.
Children who fall into the hands of these networks have little chance of escape. If they are not released by police may end up being sold abroad and never return. Can be killed when no longer useful to die from an overdose. In 2000 more than 50,000 child prostitutes infected with AIDS died.
can become drug addicts or simply not return to its normal emotional state. A 15-year-old has been through it is very unlikely to fully recover from mental and physical trauma suffered at an age in which human beings is extremely vulnerable as he tries to mold his personality.
Unlike drugs or arms, women and children can be "sold" several times are commodities in a transnational business generated as we have indicated in previous paragraphs economic benefits of 5,000 million U.S. dollars.
not always use violence. In some cases, traffickers exploit the vulnerability of those caught in a situation where they have no choice or where they perceive they have no choice (eg people living illegally in a country).
Because not everything comes from poverty
emphasize only in poverty is to ignore that there are minors must have adult prostitutes that prostitution, customers "buy" and organizations to protect this trade prohibited. In many developed countries, young prostitute but "not as members of the lower class trying to escape grinding poverty, but as members of the middle class who want to increase their income. They become part of the sex industry because they like the idea of \u200b\u200bbig money in no time. Are tempted by peer pressure or advertising attractive, and also by the value that society gives branded or luxury goods and services.
What are the impacts on children?
commercial sexual exploitation of children brings serious consequences for life. Immediate harm faced by exploited children is physical violence by those who exploit them, including pimps, traffickers and customers.
exploited children are often not in a position to negotiate safe sex, in addition, many lack access to education about AIDS and safe sex practices.
Childhood is even more vulnerable to STDs than adults, including infection with HIV and AIDS, because their tissues are more easily damaged.
Impacts psychological sexual exploitation are more difficult to measure, but no less painful for children.
Many children who have been exploited report feelings of shame, guilt and low self-esteem, to the point that some children do not consider it worth rescuing.
Others create a different reality and believe that prostitution was their choice, they want to help support her family or her pimp is actually her boyfriend who loves you.
Some are due to stigmatization or knowledge that they were betrayed by someone they trusted. Others suffer from nightmares, insomnia, hopelessness and depression. People who work with girls and children exploited these feelings compared to those exhibited by victims of torture. To cope, some children attempt suicide or take refuge in drugs.
Unfortunately, many children who have been victims of sexual exploitation in the industry continue to work or returning to it in the future.
Children in numbers
Child prostitution is directly linked to child trafficking and international marketing of child pornography, another scourge, according to reports from abroad, has producing assets in the country.
figures are always cold and impersonal, but we can get a comprehensive idea that what we are facing.
100 million children are child prostitution network in the world.
1 million children each year enter the circuit. Prostitutes in Asia alone are about 1 million children.
In India, between 270,000 and 400,000 children are being prostituted in these times, and each year 3,000 Indian girls are forced into prostitution for the first time.
In Thailand the situation affects about 80,000 children, of which 60,000 are below the age of 13.
In Indonesia 20% of sexually exploited women are under edad.La reality is that most children and exploited girls ends up dying of AIDS, tuberculosis or other diseases as a result of relationships that are required to maintain.
residing in India between 100 and 150 000 girls from Nepal who were sent to be sexually exploited. In India alone, between 270,000 and 400,000 child prostitutes
Each year 3,000 Indian girls are forced into prostitution for the first time.
In Thailand the situation affects about 80,000 children, of which 60,000 are below the age of 13. In Indonesia 20% of women are sexually exploited minors. In Spain there are over 5000 children found in prostitution rings, 22% of prostitutes currently working in Spain began to sell their bodies before turning 18.
500 000 children are in prostitution in Brazil. 40 000 children per year are sold, women are forced into prostitution
In Nicaragua, a child disappears every three days.
And we could go a long list.
How many children are victims in our country?
The truth is that the statistics offered nationally are unreliable, therefore we do not know for certain the number of victims of such crimes. There are also no reliable mechanisms for determining the number of children exploited in the sex industry. Recall that form of exploitation can not be reported because of fear or shame ..
In 2002, UNICEF Argentina made a deep study in Puerto Madryn, detecting a complex network of child prostitution.
In Comodoro Rivadavia, child prostitution is a problem that takes time and has already cornered certain areas and streets. In certain areas of the city you can observe children 'working' on the street with no more than 15 years Organizations
traffickers were detected in Necochea and Tandil in the province of Buenos Aires.
The city of Goya, Corrientes, is designated by law enforcement sources one of the operators visited by sex. As Formosa and Buenos Aires. Although brothels were banned in 1935 still exist in inner cities. Undoubtedly, poverty can be an aggravating factor in case of mistreatment and abuse, but poverty itself alone is not sufficient cause of admission of children in prostitution circuit.
Pornography
Finally briefly address the issue of child pornography, according to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child defines as "... any representation, by whatever means, of a child ( a) engaged in explicit sexual activities or actual simulated or any representation of the sexual parts of a child (a) for primarily sexual purposes. "This can include photographs, negatives, slides, magazines, books, drawings, films, videotapes and computer disks or files.
Generally, there are two categories of pornography: soft, that is not sexually explicit but involves naked and seductive images of children, and the tough guy with images of children engaged in sexual activity.
The use of children in the production of pornography is sexual exploitation. New technologies have changed the nature of pornography. Digital cameras and video equipment have made it easier and cheaper production of videos, and there is less risk of detection because it does not require third parties to develop the images as in conventional photography. Can improve playback: scanned images are not as old or lost through copies.
The distribution of pornographic images has become easier, cheaper and faster through the Internet. As the Internet goes beyond national borders and laws, detection and prosecution becomes increasingly difficult.
The evolution of 'pseudo-porn' raises a set of completely new questions and issues.
How old is a virtual child, there may be a crime without an actual victim? , Occurs where a criminal act - where the image is produced, where the image is presented, or where is sight? Many
pornography laws are concerned only with real children and representations of events that actually occurred. Thus, defendants may argue that an image created by "morphing" is not real and therefore not illegal.
Child pornography, however, is not just about pictures of naked children. There is a clear link between pornography boys and girls - real or not, and sexual abuse in the real world.
The most obvious use of child pornography is to aid in sexual arousal and gratification. However, it is also used to validate a deviant sexual behavior, financial gain or other favors.
indifference and ignorance, the perpetuation of attitudes and values \u200b\u200bthat view children as commodities, lack of inadequate laws, corruption, and limited awareness of the enforcement of laws against this crime are some factors that lead directly or indirectly to commercial sexual exploitation of children. It is therefore assumed that "NO" There are kids who engage in prostitution ... ... but child prostitutes.
Statistics: Year 2008 / 2009
Source: Material Library
Franco Greco and others in his essay "child prostitution". Andres
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