C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in the Bahamas. Some of these links
may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated,
misleading or even false. No attempt
has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of
particular interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and how
some succeed in leaving. Perhaps your
paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their leaving. Other factors of interest might be poverty,
rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
etc. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this
activity. There is a lot to the
subject of Child Prostitution. Scan
other countries as well as this one.
Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
regions. Meanwhile, check out some of
the Term-Paper
resources that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
ARCHIVES *** 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/bahamas/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The minimum age for consensual heterosexual sex is
16. The law considers any association or exposure of a child to prostitution
or a prostitution house as cruelty, neglect, or mistreatment. The offense of
having sex with a minor carries a penalty of up to life imprisonment. Child
pornography is against the law. A person who produces child pornography is
subject to life imprisonment; dissemination or possession of child
pornography calls for a penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment. The penalties for
rape of a minor are the same as those for rape of an adult. While a victim’s
consent is an insufficient defense against allegations of statutory rape, it
is a sufficient defense if the accused had “reasonable cause” to believe the
victim was older than age 16, provided the accused was younger than age 18. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 31 March 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bahamas2005.html [accessed 20 January
2011] [57] The Committee
notes the results of the Rapid Assessment, completed by ILO in 2002, of the situation
of children engaged in the worst forms of child labor in the State party and
expresses its concern at the number of children involved in prostitution and
child pornography. The Committee is also concerned at the lack of specific
data on this issue and of targeted measures to address it. The Protection
Project - Bahamas [DOC] The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),
The Johns Hopkins University www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/bahamas.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and girls
as young as 10 and 12 years of age are reportedly targets for sex tourism in
the Bahamas Trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation is a
growing concern in the entire Caribbean region. Children in the region are
victims of commercial sexual exploitation, sex tourism, pornography, underage
domestic labor, and trafficking. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61714.htm [accessed 6 February
2020] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] In June the Ministry of Labor and Immigration hosted a national
conference on child labor and hazardous occupations. While no current data
were available, the labor minister relied upon a 2002 ILO report to estimate
approximately 52 children involved in the worst forms of child labor: 4
related to slavery/bondage or the sexual exploitation of children through
incestuous relationships; 9 related to illicit or unlawful activities; 4 to
hazardous activities; and 35 to commercial sexual activities. The government
considered the 2002 ILO report an accurate reflection of conditions during
the year. All
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