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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Jen Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/24/MNG7U38LD81.DTL [accessed 28 April 2011] But behind these
high-profile figures are the thousands of youngsters who sell themselves
nightly on Chilean streets for $1 to $50 a trick. Across the nation, there
are 4,000 children working in the commercial sex trade, according to a recent
study by the National Youth Service (SENAME). Other surveys put the number as
high as 15,000. Francisco, 15, has
been a sex worker for half of his life. "I saw other kids doing
it," he said. "We did it out of need." Francisco said his mother died in
childbirth, and his father was shot to death in Colombia. He bounced from
orphanage to orphanage before escaping at age 7 to live on the streets of
this capital city of 5 million inhabitants. Jonathan, a
15-year-old transvestite, entered the sex trade by choice. "I wanted to
buy my own clothes," said the tube-top-clad youngster, who began selling
his body at 12. He recently left the streets after several of his colleagues
disappeared. He counts himself lucky that he escaped danger. He may be the exception. Francisco has been
beaten numerous times by pimps and clients. Maria San Martín, a former child
prostitute, says she was raped by a client and lost a good friend, who was
killed by her pimp. "Thank God I
lived to tell this," she said. "But so many girls have died." Child advocates say
the Spiniak case has prompted many Chileans, who
they say are conditioned to ignore child beggars, to finally see child
prostitution as a widespread social problem. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/chile.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are involved in prostitution in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61720.htm [accessed 28 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS -
A credible 2003 study concluded that more than 3,700 children and
adolescents--the vast majority of whom lived at home
or with close relatives--had been the victims of commercial sexual
exploitation in 2002-03. Anecdotal reports
suggested that young women were the primary targets for trafficking to other
countries. Traffickers reportedly used newspaper advertisements for models
and product promoters to lure girls, ages 11 to 17, into prostitution. Law
enforcement agencies indicated that traffickers looking for children also
targeted economically disadvantaged families, arguing to the parents that
they were giving the child an opportunity for a better life. SENAME, the
ministries of government and health, and other government agencies formed the
Protect Network, which conducted general public awareness and education
campaigns to prevent sexual violence and abuse, including the commercial
sexual exploitation of minors. Nearly 80 percent of SENAME's budget supported
NGO programs, particularly those that worked with street children. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1
February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/chile2002.html [accessed 28 January 2011] [51] The Committee,
while taking note of the establishment of a working group to prepare a plan
of action against commercial sexual exploitation of children, expresses its
concern that, with regard to the phenomenon of commercial sexual exploitation
of children, there are no data available, legislation is inadequate, cases
involving sexually exploited children are often not investigated and
prosecuted, child victims are registered and therefore may be subjected to
criminalization, and social reintegration programs are not available. It
further notes that prostitution of boys is on the rise. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social,
and Cultural Right, www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/chile2004.html [accessed 19 September 2011] [9] The Committee
welcomes the adoption in January 2004 of the Law on Crimes of Commercial
Sexual Exploitation. [47] The Committee
recommends that the State party strengthen measures to combat sexual abuse
and commercial sexual exploitation of children and provide victims of such
abuse with adequate care. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report by Special
Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and Social Council Commission
on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 28 April 2011] [35] The National
Service for Children has launched a sensibilization
campaign over the last two years and has developed a pilot project of
intervention and rehabilitation for victims of commercial sexual
exploitation. The Penal Code criminalizes the trafficking of
children for prostitution or adoption. The use of children under the age of
12 in pornography is illegal. If the child is aged between 12 and 18 it is
not illegal unless violence is used. Parliament is currently considering
modifying the Penal Code to protect all minors under the age of 18 and to
penalize the distribution, acquisition or storing of materials of child
pornography. Children do not incur any criminal liability for their
involvement in these offences. Child
Prostitution in World Vision Report www.worldvision.org/worldvision/radio.nsf/0/81686E593074954988256EF5007D142C?OpenDocument [accessed 28 April 2011] The child sex trade
is a problem in many developing countries. But in news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3182930.stm [accessed 28 April 2011] Three Chilean
politicians have been accused of links with a child prostitution ring that is
the subject of a criminal investigation.
A 15-year-old boy allegedly told police he had been invited to a party
by Mr Spiniak where young
boys were paid 30,000 pesos ($46) for sex. Jen Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/24/MNG7U38LD81.DTL [accessed 28 April 2011] But behind these
high-profile figures are the thousands of youngsters who sell themselves
nightly on Chilean streets for $1 to $50 a trick. Across the nation, there
are 4,000 children working in the commercial sex trade, according to a recent
study by the National Youth Service (SENAME). Other surveys put the number as
high as 15,000. Francisco, 15, has
been a sex worker for half of his life. "I saw other kids doing
it," he said. "We did it out of need." Francisco said his mother died in
childbirth, and his father was shot to death in Colombia. He bounced from
orphanage to orphanage before escaping at age 7 to live on the streets of
this capital city of 5 million inhabitants. Jonathan, a
15-year-old transvestite, entered the sex trade by choice. "I wanted to
buy my own clothes," said the tube-top-clad youngster, who began selling
his body at 12. He recently left the streets after several of his colleagues
disappeared. He counts himself lucky that he escaped danger. He may be the exception. Francisco has been
beaten numerous times by pimps and clients. Maria San Martín, a former child
prostitute, says she was raped by a client and lost a good friend, who was
killed by her pimp. "Thank God I
lived to tell this," she said. "But so many girls have died." Child advocates say
the Spiniak case has prompted many Chileans, who
they say are conditioned to ignore child beggars, to finally see child
prostitution as a widespread social problem. Jen Ross, The Christian Science Monitor, www.csmonitor.com/2004/0113/p06s01-woam.html [accessed 28 April 2011] It has taken a
scandal of this magnitude to open The Protection Project - Human Rights
Reports of The The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/chile.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - A recent study
estimates that 4,000 children work in the commercial sex industry in Report Of The Special Rapporteur On The UN Economic and Social Council Commission
on Human Rights, Fifty-fifth session, 29 January 1999 www.hri.ca/fortherecord1999/documentation/commission/e-cn4-1999-71.htm At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 April 2011] 106. Regarding
child prostitution and pornography, prostitution is legal in All
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