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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Prostitutes as
young as 13 Bryan Littlely, Sam Riches, Joanna Vaughan, The Advertiser,
June 24, 2007 www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/prostitutes-as-young-as-13/story-e6freo8c-1111113816895 [accessed 31 March
2011] Children as young
as 13 are working as prostitutes on Business owners in
one notorious spot, along Hanson Rd in the western suburbs, have told The
Advertiser they have seen girls aged 14 and less soliciting outside their
shops. Police confirmed children are
involved in prostitution but would not specify their ages. They admit
policing underage prostitution in areas such as Hanson Rd is difficult. Organised State Child
Prostitution and Pornography in Hidden Mysteries,
Conspiracy Archive www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/coverups/aussiechildabuse3.html [accessed 31 March
2011] “Further, I hold
fears for the safety of my immediate family, and in the event of their or my
own death, disappearance or any unforeseen accident/s, I wish to make it very
clear that we were involved as child-victims and witnesses of an elite,
child-abusing network which includes senior police officers who have
threatened our lives in several instances if we were to ever disclose our
information to the media or authorities.” Pedophilia led boy
into prostitution, police say Geesche Jacobsen, The
Sydney Morning Herald, May 6, 2006 [accessed 31 March 2011] It was the month Arron Light turned 15 that he moved from Nowra to a youth refuge in Surry Hills. Within weeks the runaway teenager had met the man he later accused of sexually assaulting him. Police believe the alleged abuse ….. was the trigger that led the boy to sell his young body to middle-aged pedophiles. ***
ARCHIVES *** Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 30 March
2011] Here are the best
phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell
anyone about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or
you are in danger. They are open 24
Hours - it doesn't matter what time you call
In Australia, call 1800 55 1800 ECPAT Report- 2012 [PDF] Executive Summary,ECPAT International, 2012 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EXSUM_A4A_EAP_Australia.pdf [accessed 26 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in
Australia. The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive measures,
child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes recommendations for
action against SEC. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/australia/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits citizens and residents from
engaging in, facilitating, or benefiting from sexual activity with children
overseas who are younger than age 16 and provides for a maximum sentence of
17 years’ imprisonment for violations. The government continued its awareness
campaign to deter child sex tourism through distribution of pamphlets to
citizens and residents traveling overseas. The legal age for
consensual sex ranges from ages 16 to 18 by state. Penalties for statutory
rape vary across jurisdictions. Defenses include reasonable grounds for
believing the alleged victim was older than the legal age of consent and
situations in which the two persons are close in age. All states and
territories criminalize the possession, production, and distribution of child
pornography. Maximum penalties for these offenses range from four to 21
years’ imprisonment. Federal laws criminalize using a “carriage service” (for
example, the internet) for the purpose of possessing, producing, and
supplying child pornography. The maximum penalty for these offenses is 10
years’ imprisonment, a fine of A$275,000 ($186,000), or both. Under federal
law, suspected pedophiles can be tried in the country regardless of where the
crime was committed. The government
largely continued federal emergency intervention measures to combat child
sexual abuse in aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, following
findings of high levels of child sexual abuse and neglect in a 2007 inquiry.
These measures included emergency bans on sales of alcohol and pornography,
restrictions on the payment of welfare benefits in cash, linkage of support
payments to school attendance, and medical examinations for all indigenous
children younger than age 16 in the Northern Territory. While public
reaction to the interventions remained generally positive, some aboriginal
activists asserted there was inadequate consultation and that the measures
were racially discriminatory, since nonindigenous persons in the Northern
Territory were not initially subject to such restrictions. Tomorrow’s Children
- Australia’s National Plan of Action Against the Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children [PDF] Department of Family
and Community Services, ISBN 0 642 44906 6, Commonwealth of www.fahcsia.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/tomorrows_children.pdf [accessed 12
Aug 2013] BACKGROUND - In What follows is a
more detailed examination of Australia’s efforts in the four key areas of
child commercial sexual exploitation: • Prostitution and sex
for favours; • Pornography; • Trafficking; and • Sex tourism. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, September 30, 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/australia2005.html [accessed 19 January
2011] [65] While the Committee
welcomes the information that the State party is seriously considering the
issue of youth homelessness, including by means of the National Homelessness
Strategy and the “Reconnect” program, it wishes to express concern at the
situation of homeless children, who are also more likely to be affected by
educational and relational problems and are more exposed to substance abuse
and sexual exploitation. [67] While the
Committee welcomes some positive developments in the context of prevention of
trafficking and forced prostitution, such as the adoption of the National
Plan of Action to Eradicate Trafficking in Persons of October 2003 and the
changes to the Criminal Code in 2005 whereby, inter alia, trafficking in
persons and child pornography have been criminalized, the Committee is
concerned that Australia continues to be a destination country for trafficked
women and girls in the sex industry. Mum jailed for
prostituting 16yo daughter Nick McLaren, ABC
News, Oct 19, 2010 www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/19/3042250.htm?section=justin
[accessed 31 March
2011] A mother on the She earned up to
$4,000 per week. The teenager's
victim impact statement said she felt betrayed by her mother and had a
history of repeated self-harm. She
told the court she was forced to participate in illegal drug use and found
the work degrading. Teenager 'can't
trust anyone' after mum sent her to work in a brothel Amy Dale, The Daily
Telegraph, October 08, 2010 [accessed 31 March
2011] A teenage girl says
she is "heartbroken" by the actions of her mother, who helped her
get work at a brothel so they could earn enough money to start a clothing
business. The girl, then 16,
was put on a train from In a victim impact
statement tendered to the Wollongong District Court, the girl said: "It
has made me scared, honestly, scared that if my own mother can betray my
trust to this extent, what will other people do to me?" Parents sold
daughter for sex The Courier-Mail,
May 15, 2008 www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/parents-sold-child-into-prostitution/story-e6frf7l6-1111116348291 [accessed 31 March
2011] In what was
described as the "most horrific case of child prostitution in Australian
history'', the girl's mother was jailed for 13 years and her father for 10
years. The mother faced
that charge because she had posed the child for advertising photographs used
on the internet and had also aided in the rape of the girl by another
man. The father had helped pose the
child for the photographs and had lived off her earnings. The court heard the girl was aged 12 and 13
years at the time she had sex with various men during an eight months period
in 2004. Police 'knew about'
teen sex trade in NT news.theage.com.au/national/police-knew-about-teen-sex-trade-in-nt-20080404-23nc.html [accessed 31 March
2011] Trading young
Aboriginal girls for sex has been happening for at least 15 years in a Non-Aboriginal
people working there are believed to be exchanging cash, drugs, taxi rides
and alcohol for sex with teenagers, some as young as 13. Indigenous leader Galarrwuy
Yunupingu said the sex trade had been operating for the past 15 years and at
least 12 girls were currently engaged in the trade. "Everybody here knows what has been
going on Mullighan report reveals
decades of state care sex abuse Colin James, Legal
Affairs Editor from: The Advertiser April 01, 2008 www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/shocking-sex-abuse-revealed/story-e6frea83-1111115941363 [accessed 31 March
2011] The horrific extent of sex abuse against children in state care over
four decades has been revealed in the 600-page report of the Mullighan inquiry to State Parliament. Retired Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan, QC, yesterday issued a stark warning that
children in state care would remain vulnerable to sex abuse unless urgent action
was taken to overhaul a system in crisis. His $13.5 million inquiry
considered hundreds of allegations of widespread child abuse within
government and non-government institutions, spanning 40 years. Trucking group
horrified at sex claims Australian Associated
Press AAP, March 14, 2008 news.theage.com.au/national/trucking-group-horrified-at-sex-claims-20080314-1zbf.html [accessed 31 March
2011] The trucking
industry says it is horrified by allegations drivers have been involved in
child sex trade along highways in northern NSW. Truck drivers have reportedly paid for sex
with indigenous girls as young as eight in the NSW north-western towns of Boggabilla and Moree. In some cases, the girls have been drugged
and raped, ABC TV reported. There have
been no prosecutions because the girls refuse to testify, people aware of the
cases said. Indigenous children
beg police for help Tanya Chilcott, The Courier-Mail, December 20, 2007 www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/indigenous-kids-cry-for-help/story-e6freoof-1111115169804 [accessed 30 March
2011] The details of the
way some They tell of a
litany of abuse and neglect at the most basic levels – from rape and
malnutrition to homelessness and child prostitution. "In addition,
the review team was told that children as young as nine years of age are
sexually active. It was alleged that girls less than 16 years of age are
soliciting men for sex in return for money, alcohol and marijuana." Child prostitution
a sign of earlier abuse, expert says Australian
Broadcasting Corporation ABC News, Dec 11, 2007 www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/11/2115393.htm?section=justin [accessed 31 March
2011] A mental health
expert says instances of child prostitution, like those discovered in Broome
in north-west "Neglect or
child sexual abuse in early childhood increases the risk that children will
get involved in prostitution and various other problems like addiction." Broome men charged
over child prostitution ring Australian
Broadcasting Corporation ABC News, Dec 7, 2007 www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/07/2113149.htm?section=justin [accessed 31 March
2011] Police believe they
have uncovered a child prostitution ring in the Australian runaway
became 'sexual slave' United Press
International UPI, Sydney, Nov. 3, 2007 www.upi.com/Top_News/2007/11/03/Australian-runaway-became-sexual-slave/UPI-73761194125728/ [accessed 31 March
2011] An Australian
teenager who ran away from home eventually found herself in prostitution as
"a sort of sexual slave," a judge said. Judge Michael Finnane
said that shortly after leaving home because of a fight with her mother, the
unidentified girl met 24-year-old Antonio Salvatore who convinced her to
become a prostitute, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Saturday. "She was working for him, making
nothing. She was in reality a sort of sexual slave," the judge said. Prostitution: Legal
Work or Slavery? - A Failed Attempt at Defending Women’s Dignity Father John Flynn,
L.C., Zenit, www.zenit.org/article-20747?l=english [accessed 31 March
2011] VICTORIAN FAILURE - Countries
debating whether or not to legalize prostitution could learn from what
occurred in the Australian state of INTRINSIC VIOLENCE - The legalization
of prostitution in Victoria has not done anything to reduce illegal sex
trafficking, Sullivan argues. In addition, since legalization, child
prostitution continues to be a problem. Aborigines may ban
tourists from Ayers Rock The Associated Press
AP, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19431054/ [accessed 31 March
2011] One of the first
townships to be subject to the plan is Mutitjulu,
in the shadow of Ayers Rock, or Uluru, the red monolith in the central
Australian desert that draws some 500,000 visitors a year. Media reports last
year of child prostitution and of children trading sex for gasoline to sniff
prompted the recent government inquiry. Griffith child
prostitution claims yet to be verified Australian
Broadcasting Corporation ABC News, May 1, 2007 abc.com.au/news/stories/2007/05/01/1910983.htm?site=news [accessed 31 March
2011] Authorities say
they are yet to receive any specific allegations about child prostitution in Police say there
have been rumours about child prostitution in
Griffith for more than a year, but they need more information from the
public. Sex for smokes
claims
- Underage prostitution is rife in Brydie Flynn, Riverina Media Group, 30/04/2007 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13
September 2011] Another source told
The Area News the child prostitution racket had been operating in the city
for nearly 20 years. “This is
extremely widespread and the girls are as young as 11 or 12,” she said.
“There are a number of motels and caravans around town which they use and it
is extremely organised. “The girls are paid in either drugs,
cigarettes, alcohol, jewellery or food … it changes
each week. It’s a bigger problem than anyone realises.” Even the police admit there’s a problem,
however they have been unable to make any progress on the case due to an
absence of formal complaints. 300 street kids at
risk of abuse Craig Bildstien, The Advertiser, February 14, 2007 www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/street-kids-at-risk-of-abuse/story-e6freo8c-1111112999686 [accessed 30 March
2011] At least 300 street children in Roberts to testify
at inquest Australian
Associated Press AAP, May 1, 2006 www.smh.com.au/news/national/roberst-to-testify-at-inquest/2006/05/01/1146335658577.html [accessed 31 March
2011] Former rugby league
star Ian Roberts will give evidence at an inquest into the death of a
troubled Shame Of Children
For David Murray, The
Sunday Mail, 12 February 2006 www.scarletalliance.org.au/nm/australia/qld/Document.2006-04-05.2422/ [accessed 13
September 2011] Children are
selling sex for as little as $5 on Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – The Mayhem of
Prostitution Reform Bill ishaknatan.netfirms.com/prostitution_Bill.html [accessed 31 March
2011] MYTH
#4 DECRIMINALISATION WILL REDUCE CHILD PROSTITUTION FACT:
CHILD PROSTITUTION INCREASES IN A DECRIMINALIZED ENVIRONMENT - In Australia
over 3700 children under 18 are selling their bodies for sex. Child
prostitution on rise in Reuters, www.safoundation.com/educational_resources/a_global_perspective/australia [accessed 31 March
2011] Child prostitution
is on the rise in Alleged
Trafficking of Asian Sex Workers in Roberta Perkins,
Senior Research Officer, [accessed 31 March
2011] Child Prostitution
Anti-prostitution lobbyists such as ECPAT deliberately link the highly
emotive issue of "child" prostitution to their anti- trafficking
campaign because they know that it will create sympathy in all well-meaning
people. While a full discussion of
this complex issue is outside of the scope of this paper, our research and
experience in the sex industry in Children 'Handed
Over To Sex Ring' Jeremy Roberts, The
Australian, 24-5-2005 www.mako.org.au/ausnews391.html [accessed 19 January
2011] "The picture
is painted of young girls and boys who were frightened, unable to protect
themselves and make disclosure and who were abandoned by their carers [care givers]," says the report by Ted Mullighan, the commissioner of the inquiry into the sex
abuse of state wards. The report finds
that young boys from No. 156 Child
Sex Tourism
[PDF] Fiona David,
Australian Institute Of Criminology, Trends & Issues in Crime and
Criminal justice, June 2000, ISSN 0817-8542, ISBN 0 642 24163 5 www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Child_Sex_Tourism_Australia.pdf [accessed 31 March
2011] www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/141-160/tandi156.html [accessed 29 October
2016] CONCLUSION - It is not known
whether the child sex tourism legislation has any real deterrent effect on
Australians determined to have sex with children overseas. It may be that
these people are simply more careful in their activities as a result of the
laws. The success of the child sex tourism legislation is, however,
demonstrated by the fact that there have been several success-full
prosecutions for sexual offences committed against children overseas that
would previously have been beyond the reach of Australian law. Rather than
being a “paper tiger” as predicted, the legislation has resulted in a number
of substantial convictions for offences committed by Australians over-seas. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61601.htm [accessed 4 February
2020] CHILDREN - The Child Sex
Tourism Act prohibits child sex tourism and related offenses for the country's
residents and citizens overseas and provides for a maximum sentence of 17
years' imprisonment upon conviction. During the 12-month period ending June
30, the AFP began 24 investigations, and 4 persons were charged under the
act. Of these, one person pled guilty and was awaiting sentencing, two cases
were before the courts, and one case had not yet come to trial. During the
year the government continued its awareness campaign to deter child sex
tourism, through the distribution of materials to citizens and residents
traveling overseas. Child protection NGOs raised community awareness of child
trafficking. There were no reports of children being trafficked into the
country during the year. ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - AUSTRALIA [PDF] ECPAT 2005 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/EAP/Global_Monitoring_Report-AUSTRALIA.pdf [accessed 30 March
2011] Although A significant
number of indigenous children, in particular, have been victimised
by sexual abuse as a result of inadequate policies for their protection,
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