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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Stolen Youth: Child
Prostitution Plagues German-Czech Border Deutsche Welle
DW-WORLD.DE, 29.10.2003 www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1016270,00.html [accessed 1 April
2011] The children wait
by supermarkets, restaurants and gas stations along the Czech motorways just
across the border from "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." ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Alessia Altamura, ECPAT
International, 2012 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A_V2_EU_GERMANY.pdf [accessed 30 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Germany.
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/germany/ [accessed 30 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits commercial sexual exploitation,
sale, offering, or procuring children for prostitution and practices related
to child pornography, and authorities enforced the law. The minimum age for
consensual sex is 14 years unless the older partner is older than 18 and is
“exploiting a coercive situation” or offering compensation, and the younger
partner is under 16. It is also illegal for a person who is 21 or older to
have sex with a child younger than 16 if the older person “exploits the
victim’s lack of capacity for sexual self-determination.” The government’s
Independent Commissioner for Child Sex Abuse Issues offered a sexual abuse
help online portal and an anonymous telephone helpline free of charge. In January police
informed the public about a child abuse case on a campground in Luegde, NRW, involving more than 40 sexually abused
children aged between three and 14 years. The abuse took place over more than
a decade. Three suspects were detained and confessed to the crimes. In July,
one man was ordered to attend therapy and was sentenced to two years of
probation for taking part in the crime via webcam and for owning child
pornography. The public prosecutor appealed the sentence as overly lenient.
The other two men were sentenced in September to 13 and 12 years in prison,
followed by preventive detention. On July 12, a
parliamentary investigating committee opened an investigation into possible
failures, omissions, misjudgments, and misconduct of the NRW state government
in the child abuse case. Problems with the investigation included the
disappearance from the local police station of 155 USB drives containing
child pornography, the placement of a foster child with one of the main
perpetrators, and concerns that authorities did not follow up on an earlier
suspicion of child abuse. As of November the investigation was ongoing. The case led to the
creation of new resources for abuse victims and prosecutors. In March,
Cologne opened a new office to serve as a point of contact for children and
youth, and in May the first countrywide center for child protection went into
operation in Cologne. The office combines the expertise of forensic medical
specialists and child protection experts to examine suspected cases of child
abuse. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30
January 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/germany2004.html [accessed 28
February 2011] [56] The Committee
welcomes the adoption of the Plan of Action of the Federal Government for the
Protection of Children and Young People from Sexual Violence and Exploitation
(January 2003), but remains concerned at the various ages retained in the
Criminal Code depending on the offence committed by an adult against a child. Heavy petting could
leave teen couples at the mercy of child prostitution law Roger Boyes, The
Times, www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3037079.ece [accessed 16 May
2011] The new law reduces
the minimum age at which sexual offenders can be prosecuted from 18 to 14,
and raises the maximum age at which a victim is entitled to legal protection
from 16 to 18. The idea is to stop the recruitment of minors as prostitutes
by other minors — pimps in big cities are often 17 or younger — but the
initiative is a legal minefield. 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 – Children At Risk
Between Eastern And Western European Borders News item, 03 June 2005 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14
September 2011] A study supported
by UNICEF in the Publication:
Children in street prostitution. Report from the German-Czech border Cathrin Schauer,
ECPAT www.childcentre.info/projects/exploitation/germany/dbaFile11447.doc [accessed 16 May
2011] SUMMARY OF RESEARCH
RESULTS
- The ‘Children in Street Prostitution’ report is the result of years of
systematic observations, discussions and interviews. The author has an
in-depth insight into the prostitution and drug scene along the German-Czech border
through her work with the social project KARO. Her report gives, for the
first time, a detailed picture of the commercial sexual exploitation of
children in this region, heavily frequented by German tourists. It shows the
scale of the business and the conditions in which its victims live. The
conclusions are harrowing: In the German-Czech border region, a flourishing
commerce in child sexual exploitation has developed. Written
Statement Submitted By The International Federation Terre Des Hommes UN Economic and
Social Council, COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, Fiftieth session, 4 February 1994 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/e7eb1fe2fe6adc4e802567400053f7b1?Opendocument [accessed 16 May
2011] [5] In [6] No exact figures
can be given for sex tourism. In the
case of Trafficking in
Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International
Newsletters, Issue No : 33
1/December/2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 May
2011] EASTERN EUROPE - Hungary and
Poland are receiver, sender and transit countries for the trafficking of
children for sexual purposes. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - GERMANY [PDF] ECPAT International,
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-GERMANY.pdf [accessed 16 May
2011] Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61650.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
- Street children
frequently turned to prostitution
for income. The government amply funded
programs to combat the sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography,
trafficking of children, and child-sex tourism All
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