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 Iceland. 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/iceland/ [accessed 31 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the payment, or promise of payment
or consideration of another type, for the commercial sexual exploitation of a
child under the age of 18. Violation may be punished with fines or imprisonment
for up to two years. The law punishes child pornography by up to two years in
prison. The law criminalizes statutory rape with incarceration for one to 16
years. The government effectively enforced these laws. The minimum age for
consensual sex is 15. The penal code includes a requirement for explicit
consent for sexual acts, meaning that consent is not considered to be given
freely if obtained through violence or the threat of violence, any kind of
force, or the use of drugs or alcohol Police Investigate
Teenage Prostitution in Iceland www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/search/news/Default.asp?ew_0_a_id=320323 [accessed 24 May
2011] The case of two
teenage girls, 13 and 14-years-old, who are believed to have prostituted
themselves in exchange for drugs and alcohol, is currently under
investigation at the sexual offence department of Iceland’s Capital Region
Police. According to the
newspaper’s sources, the girls live in the capital region and know each other.
Allegedly, school authorities first noticed that something was wrong and
notified others of their suspicions. Fréttabladid recently covered
other similar cases; it seems to be increasingly common in Iceland that
teenagers prostitute themselves for drugs. All
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