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trafficking - 0800 107 7057 The NSPCC
today (8 October 2007) launches the first advice and information line to
protect children trafficked to the UK for sexual exploitation, forced labour, drugs transport, benefit fraud, and other
crimes. The NSPCC
Child Trafficking Advice and Information Line (CTAIL)
on 0800 107 7057 will help people working with children, such as immigration
officers, the police, social workers, teachers, and health workers, to better
identify and protect child victims. It will also shed light on the scale of
child trafficking in the UK. “Identifying trafficked children
can be very difficult, even for a professional working in social services or
immigration. These children are incredibly vulnerable – they might be
regularly beaten, raped, denied food and basic comforts, and have no access
to healthcare or an education.
Trafficked children have often lost their trust in adults because of
the abuse they have suffered. They are afraid to ask for help for fear of
retaliation from their trafficker or being treated as criminals by the UK
authorities. They may also be confused about what has happened to them, or
may not speak any English. The NSPCC’s new trafficking advice line will help break down
these barriers. Its success will depend on adults working with children being
vigilant, calling us when they need to know what to do, and intervening to
help protect the victims of child trafficking.” Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Some children were subjected to
forced labor or trafficked into the country for sexual exploitation (see section
5, Trafficking). In July the children's charity, Bernardo's, estimated that
at least one thousand children were sexually exploited in TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The law prohibits
trafficking in persons for the purposes of prostitution, sexual exploitation,
or forced labor. The law criminalizes trafficking offenses by citizens and
residents, whether committed domestically or abroad, and carries a maximum
sentence of 14 years' imprisonment. The law also prohibits such related acts
as keeping a brothel and causing, inciting, or controlling prostitution for
gain. There were severe penalties for such offenses as causing, inciting,
controlling, arranging, or facilitating the prostitution of a child. The law
also criminalizes paying for sexual services of a child. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2000 [53] The Committee notes with
concern the lack of information concerning the situation of commercial sexual
exploitation of children, including prostitution and pornography. The
Committee also notes that lack of programs for the physical and psychological
recovery and social reintegration of children victims of such abuse and
exploitation, particularly in Bermuda and some of the National
police campaign to target sex trafficking The government estimates that up
to 4,000 women and girls are forced into prostitution after being trafficked
from abroad. Last year Pentameter
rescued 88 women and girls, including some as young as 14, who had been
forced into the sex industry. The
Child Sex Scandal On The Streets Of Scotland A child prostitution ring which is
sexually exploiting immigrant Roma children as young as nine is operating in
Glasgow, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Police have been running undercover
surveillance operations in empty homes and unmarked cars in the Govanhill area in the southside
of Glasgow for months in the hope of catching those behind the ring and the
men paying to have sex with children. Street
children given a new life ANTOINE’S STORY - Hardcore hoodie
Antoine is 19 and has spent most of his life on the streets. He has sold
drugs and worked as a male prostitute to survive. When you read what the
young Londoner – now studying to be a barrister – has endured, you may
understand why. … CHELSEA’S STORY - Chelsea, 17, started selling
crack when she was 11 but with the help of tuition from Kids Co is now due to
take her GCSEs. … Woman
Who Pimped Underage Girls Jailed A female Fagin, who lured girls as
young as 12 into prostitution by getting them hooked on crack, was jailed for
ten years today (Wed). Fiona Walsh -
known as Foxy - plied the girls with highly addictive drug and then forced
them to have sex with 'punters' in alleyways and hotel rooms to fund their
addiction. Mother-of-two Walsh met the
victims through a mutual friend and gained their trust by taking them on
shopping trips and buying them designer clothes and handbags. Sex traffic:
Danielle was 15 when she was sold into slavery in the UK Danielle was excited at the
prospect of leaving her home in Lithuania for a summer job in Britain at the
age of 15. The work had been arranged through a friend who was unable to join
Danielle until later and so put her in touch with a man who would take her to
London. Danielle suspected nothing until
the stranger took her passport once they passed through customs and left her
with two Albanians and a Lithuanian woman. It turned out that she had been
sold for £3,500. The "holiday job" was working in a brothel in
Birmingham. Child prostitution:
the horrors of selling sex One month before her 14th birthday
Aliyah Ismail was found
dead in a grubby flat in Camden Town, London, in her 17-year-old
ex-boyfriend's bed. She had taken twice the amount of methadone needed to
kill her and had been working as a prostitute in nearby King's Cross. HOW DOES IT HAPPEN? - Children end up as prostitutes
as the result of a complex process involving manipulation, violence, sexual
abuse, drugs, alcohol and poverty. Barnardo's gives
an example of how it could happen: A girl, who has run away from home or is
being abused at home, meets a young man, probably aged between 18 and 25. He
gives her the love and affection she is missing. He pretends to be her
boyfriend, impressing her with his maturity and lifestyle, his money and car.
She falls in love with him and they start to have sex. Then he becomes possessive and demands
proof of the girl's love. Often this includes breaking off with friends and
family. If she is still living with her parents he may help her put herself
into care. Soon he controls her life – what she wears, what she eats, where
she goes. He becomes violent and she becomes frightened, but she still hopes
that one more proof of her love will restore their relationship. Once the man
totally dominates her he demands she has sex with one of his 'friends', and
then with other men. He uses violence and threats to control her. He has now
become not her boyfriend but her pimp. According to both the police and
child care agencies, hundreds of children around Britain are being lured into
the world of paid-sex. They admit they are unable to keep track of the number
of children involved, but both warn that sophisticated networks involving
children of both sexes are being set up by ruthless criminals. In Rotherham alone for example, 80 girls are said to be
working as prostitutes. And experts say prostitution is rife in every major
town and city. Foreign prostitutes, 12, for sale in Scotland McCormack said: "We can see
the trend is changing. We have intelligence that Chinese and Slovakian girls
from the age of 12 are being prostituted in the south side of Glasgow. "We have heard of a 12-year-old girl
being prostituted for £10. Others cost £20-£30. They are good looking. Half
of the local prostitutes are junkies charging £60. The punters are anyone -
people coming out of pubs are offered girls. There is a huge child
prostitution issue." McCormack said they had
intelligence Glasgow was being used as a dumping ground for trafficked girls.
Most were sold in London airports and put into London brothels, he said. But
they were moved on when the police started investigating. "The Albanians
have contacts in Scotland through the Albanian community. Glasgow is just a
place they come to," he said.
McCormack added: "There is evidence that children from Slovakia
are coming through the country with no problems, because there's no visa
needed. The traffickers can make millions from girls in brothels.” The situation is chilling - police
and council officials openly admit they are not yet in a position to be sure
of the scale of the problem in Scotland - but they have seen enough to know
that foreign girls as young as 12 are being prostituted north of the Border.
They warn that Glasgow could soon have a human trafficking problem to rival
that of London and Birmingham. The first signs of Scotland's
trafficking problem emerged earlier this year when a 14-year-old African girl
in Dumfries was one of six young females rescued from brothels as part of
Operation Pentameter, a nationwide crackdown. The African teenager is thought
to have been thrown out of the brothel and left homeless. What sickens those trying to
tackle the problem most is the age of the girls involved. Teenagers under the
age of 16 are, police are now certain, being held captive in private flats,
and their pimps are seeking punters from the local population. This is
something which sickens those trying to tackle the problem. Child
sex tourists exploit legal loopholes in Europe Ministers are preparing tough new
measures against sex tourism to close legal loopholes which British paedophiles are exploiting in order to abuse children
abroad. The crackdown is intended to
combat the growing trend of sexual predators travelling
to parts of Europe to prey on young people, rather than established centres of child prostitution such as south east Asia,
because they stand less chance of getting caught in Europe. Vulnerable children are to be
given greater protection from predatory men thanks to a new initiative set up
in the wake of the Lancashire Telegraph's Keep Them Safe campaign. The new Lancashire Safeguarding
Children Board (LSCB) aims to ensure that agencies
and children's services work closely together to safeguard any child from
falling victim to child prostitution. She was a teenage orphan living on
the streets of Nairobi when a man approached her and promised her work in the
United Kingdom. He told her she would be working as a house girl. True to his word, her
"savior" brought her into the U.K. -- but instead of placing her
with a family the man took her to a brothel, where she was systematically
raped, beaten, and forced to work as a prostitute. Three months later, when the
16-year-old Kenyan girl became pregnant, she was forced to continue sleeping
with a succession of men until she was almost due to give birth. The heavily
pregnant teenager was then removed from the brothel, driven out of the town
where she had been held, and dumped many miles away on the streets of
Sheffield. A support group for the parents of
sexually exploited children is to be launched by a mother whose daughter was
groomed into child prostitution. Jean (not her real name) said more
and more parents needed help and advice as the number of girls aged between
12 and 16 being lured into sexual exploitation by groups of predominantly
Asian men had risen to around 100 in East Lancashire. Help
plea over child prostitution Children's charity Barnardo's has called for a network of services to help
children who have been sexually exploited or groomed for prostitution. It identified several risk factors
associated with sexual exploitation, including poor relationships with
parents or carers, going missing, disengagement
from education and a lack of awareness of rights. Six jailed for
sex acts with girl Six men have been jailed for a
total of more than 17 years for sexual offences involving a girl aged
13. They took part in sex acts with
the girl on beaches, in a car and in a flat after they were introduced to
her. Men
who pay for sex are 'as bad as child abusers' Men who pay for sex are as bad as
child abusers, a senior government minister warned today, as she unveiled
radical plans to protect prostitutes by targeting their clients. Under the
proposals, schoolgirls will be taught about the dangers of selling sex, amid
evidence that more than half of streetwalkers start out as teenagers. Children's
Society: Prostitution proposals welcome The Children's Society has welcomed the government's proposals outlined in today's prostitution strategy. "A clear focus on tackling and preventing the abuse of teenagers caught up in prostitution is important not only for protecting children today, but also for reducing the scale of the problem in years to come," said policy director Kathy Evans. Sex-trade
children flown to region Global crime syndicates have begun
to use ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – UNITED KINGDOM – The Committee on the Rights of the Child has expressed
its concern at the lack of information on the situation of CSEC in the UK,
and on the lack of programs for the physical and psychological recovery and
social reintegration of CSEC victims. Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] [75] The United Kingdom is
carrying out a review of legislation concerning sexual offences with specific
proposals to tackle the involvement of children in prostitution and
pornography. There is currently no specific law criminalizing the
trafficking of human beings, but the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill
introduces a new offence of trafficking for the purposes of controlling
someone in prostitution. Concerning prostitution, the pimp,
client, or person benefiting from the prostitution is criminally liable, and
it is a criminal offence to solicit for the purpose of
prostitution. Since May 2000, the Government has instructed that
although children soliciting for prostitution are criminally liable, in
practice they are to be treated as victims of exploitation and
abuse. All steps are taken to divert them away from prostitution
without recourse to the criminal justice system. Alarming figures reveal there are
26 children and young people currently being exploited through prostitution
in the city. And a further 121 are at
significant risk of becoming involved in the seedy underworld. Fears are growing that the problem could be
much wider, with many youngsters who are being abused, or have been victims
in the past, too frightened to come forward. NI children 'used as prostitutes' Children as young as 13 are being
used as prostitutes in Northern Ireland, childcare specialists have told the
BBC. According to experts, while
paramilitaries are involved, families have also been selling their own
children for sex. A BBC Newsline investigation has unearthed a chilling picture
of what is going on in towns, cities and country areas across Northern
Ireland. Migration and Development: How to make migration work for poverty reduction [PDF] [14] The UK Government and governments of other
developed countries, need to address the issue of sex tourism which fuels the
exploitation of women and child in south-east Asia particularly, and ensure
that existing legislation protecting the rights of migrant workers is
vigorously enforced. (Paragraph 53) The UK Government is committed to
eradicating the sexual exploitation of children, including where British
citizens go abroad to abuse children. The Government has put in place
comprehensive legislation to deal with this problem. Life
Sentence Part Of New Child Prostitution Laws Any adult caught paying for sex
from a child under the age of 18 will face prosecution and a severe penalty -
up to life imprisonment, under a tightening of the prostitution laws.
In addition,
people who sexually exploit children for their own gain - irrespective of
whether they participate in any sexual activity with the child - are to be
held responsible for that abuse. Shock
Posters Break Taboo To Fight Child Prostitution One poster shows a little girl
sitting on a sofa, her face grotesquely old and worn. Behind her a man runs his fingers through her hair. On another poster, a young boy is shown
standing in a public toilet in front of an undressing man. The controversial images are part of a
campaign by Barnardo's to highlight the alarming
rise in the number of children being lured into prostitution. Child
Prostitution Plea From Charity Young boys and girls involved in
prostitution should be recognized as victims of child abuse, rather than
criminals, according to Barnardo's UK
A Hub For European Child Prostitution DRUG ABUSE - It has been described as a
revolving door situation - the police hand them over to social services, but
within hours they are often back on the street. Many are addicted to crack cocaine and they
will do anything to feed their habit. Campaign
To End Child Prostitution Samantha was just 14 when she
started working as a prostitute. Her
story is typical of many of the children who are forced to work in this
world. Sara Swann, who runs a Barnardo's project working with young prostitutes in Preying
On Children - The Number Of Kids Trafficked Into Virtual Slavery In Europe Is
On The Rise Over pasta in a Bloomsbury
pizzeria, "Maria" could pass for any urbane 21-year-old Londoner.
She's not. The Macedonia-born Maria was orphaned at 9, then
sent to stay with a family whose 19-year-old son, "Nuri,"
began sleeping with her. He bought her a new dress and a doll, and then trafficked her through southern Europe
to what was billed simply as "a better life" in Italy. On arrival, Nuri told Maria they needed money. "That's all
right," she responded. "I can make lace." But within a day of
her arrival Maria, then 10, was on the streets of Milan. For the next couple
of years she was sold as a virgin. "I used to put a chicken liver inside
me," she says. "Old prostitute's trick." At 15 she accompanied
Nuri and eight other pimps and their child
prostitutes and drove to England. She spent the next few years working the
length of the British Isles, servicing clients 18 hours a day, seven days a
week. "Whatever they wanted they got," she says. Factbook
on Global Sexual Exploitation - UK One hundred Brazilian women, aged
between 18 and 25, were promised work in All material used herein
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