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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Ingrid Bazinet, South African
Press Association, Sapa-AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/uk-a-hub-for-european-child-prostitution-1.78006 [accessed 4 August 2011] Britain has become a hub of a
growing trade in children. They come mainly from west Africa but
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launches the first advice and information line to protect children trafficked
to the UK for sexual exploitation, forced labour, drugs transport, benefit
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the “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 ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - UNITED KINGDOM [PDF] ECPAT International, 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-UK.pdf [accessed 4 August 2011] Much of the available information
on the prostitution of children comes from smallscale
studies, which suggest that it has increased in recent years. It has been
estimated that up to 5,000 young people may be involved at a time, with four
times more girls than boys. Research commissioned by the Department of Health
in 2002 showed that children are known to suffer from this form of abuse in
111 of the 146 Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC) districts - an average
of 19 girls and 3 boys in each area (this refers to the ACPCs
in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61683.htm [accessed 2 January 2011] 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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/uk2000b.html [accessed 2 January 2011] [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 Sexual Slavery in David J. Rusin, Islamist Watch Blog, Feb 28, 2011 www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2011/02/sexual-slavery-in-britain-and-its-pc-enablers [accessed 28 February 2011] Some branded Straw a bigot, but
sexual grooming by Schoolgirl earned £14,000 as a prostitute Rod Minchin, Press Association, 26 February 2009 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/schoolgirl-earned-pound14000-as-a-prostitute-1632818.html [accessed 4 August 2011] A schoolgirl earned about £14,000
in two months by working as a prostitute.
The 15-year-old, who cannot be named, is understood to have earned
more than £1,700 every weekend by working for an escort agency in Michele Elliott, from Kidscape, said: "Child prostitution is a hidden
problem that nobody wants to talk about.
"The reality is that there is a lot of children out there doing
what this child did." Hero's portrait goes under hammer The News [portsmouth.co.uk], 12 February 2009 www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-hampshire/hero_s_portrait_goes_under_hammer_1_1226991 [accessed 4 August 2011] In 1885, while editor of the Pall
Mall Gazette, Stead published a series of articles against child
prostitution, entitled The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon. To prove child prostitution was rife, he
bought 13 year-old Eliza Armstrong from her family for £5. As a result, he was jailed for three
months but not before the government introduced the Criminal Law Amendment
Act of 1885, which raised the age of consent to 16 and which Stead's expose
was credited with inspiring. Schoolgirls lured into prostitution, warns MP Hannah Wooderson, 24dash.com,
20th January 2009 www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2009-01-20-Schoolgirls-lured-into-prostitution-warns-MP [accessed 4 August 2011] The grooming of schoolgirls as
young as 12 into prostitution by gangs of men is a growing national problem,
a senior MP warned today. He warned the problem was being
made worse by the use of the "sophisticated techniques" and new
technology. He said young men were
initially targeting girls at school and acting as their boyfriends before
passing them on to older men who would become their pimps. The MP said he knew of cases in
his Baby P relative implicated in child sex ring Eileen Fairweather, The Sunday
Times, December 14, 2008 www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5337785.ece [accessed 4 August 2011] According to the report the child
was involved with three pimps suspected of being involved in child abuse.
These men telephoned or called at the children’s homes and persuaded him with
money, drugs and threats to bring other children to them. The disclosure raises further questions
about the failure of Haringey council to take Baby
P into care. Care experts say routine background checks on the family would
have uncovered the history of abuse in the family and should have raised
serious and immediate concerns. Liz
Davies, the former Islington social worker who blew the whistle on the 1990s
scandal, said the child was like a “Pied Piper” who led other children into
abuse. “But he was also a victim himself, who begged for help,” she said. 'Sex slavery' gang jailed in child prostitution case Rachel Williams and agencies, guardian.co.uk, 4 November
2008 www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/04/sex-slavery-gang [accessed 2 January 2011] A gang of human traffickers,
brothel keepers and pimps received substantial jail terms yesterday over the
ordeal of a teenage virgin tricked into travelling
to the Their Slovakian victim had cried
in the dock as she described spending nearly a year-and-a-half working as a
prostitute after being lured to Racial Tension, and Sexual Exploitation From the desk of A. Millar, brusselsjournal.com,
2008-03-30 www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4004 [accessed 4 August 2011] However, according to the BBC’s
investigative reporting program Panorama many British girls (some as young as
12) are “groomed” for prostitution by criminal gangs with networks that
extend across the country. Such girls are typically not the out-of-control
youths lacking parental guidance, such as we might assume. They are merely
teenagers, easily manipulated and easily controlled by ruthless, older men.
“Grooming” consists of an emotionally and mentally paralyzing mix of flattery
and gifts from boys only slightly older than their victims, introductions to
older men, drink, drugs, sexual abuse, and rape. According to Jane, who
talked on Panorama about being forced into prostitution at the age of 13 Helping children turn life around Paul McMillan, Evening Chronicle, Dec 10 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] It follows research by Barnardo’s in 2005 which revealed that 28 children and
young people were being sexually exploited through prostitution in Scarpa opened its doors in October and
hopes to have made contact with 40 young runaways and 15 young people who
have been sexually exploited in its first six months. National police campaign to target sex trafficking Matthew Weaver and agencies, The Guardian, 3 October 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/oct/03/ukcrime.prisonsandprobation [accessed 3 January 2011] 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 Neil Mackay, The Herald www.heraldscotland.com/the-child-sex-scandal-on-the-streets-of-scotland-1.827784 [accessed 4 August 2011] A child prostitution ring which is
sexually exploiting immigrant Roma children as young as nine is operating in Street children given a new life July 18, 2007 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 August 2011] 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. … Woman Who Pimped Underage Girls Jailed www.lifestyleextra.com/ShowStory.asp?story=DB937173V&news_headline=woman_who_pimped_underage_girls_jailed [Last access date unavailable] 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 Sophie Goodchild and Kurt Barling, The Independent, 25 February 2007 [accessed 3 January 2011] Danielle was excited at the
prospect of leaving her home in 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 Child prostitution: the horrors of selling sex www.channel4.com/health/microsites/F/family/problems/childprostitution.html [Last access date unavailable] One month before her 14th birthday
Aliyah Ismail was found
dead in a grubby flat in 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. Child prostitution crisis Angus Stickler, BBC News, 29 July, 2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1462628.stm [accessed 5 August 2011] According to both the police and
child care agencies, hundreds of children around 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. Foreign prostitutes, 12, for sale in Scotland Kate Foster, The Scotsman, www.global-sisterhood-network.org/content/view/1294/59/ [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 McCormack said they had
intelligence Caught in traffic Kate Foster with additional reporting by Arthur MacMillan, news.scotsman.com/prostitution/Caught-in-traffic.2813071.jp [accessed 3 January 2011] 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 The first signs of 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 Denis Campbell, The Observer, 9 April 2006 www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/apr/09/labour.immigrationpolicy [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 Action against sex predators Caroline Innes, The www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/857909.action_against_sex_predators/ [accessed 5 August 2011] 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. Child Trafficking in the Ambrose Musiyiwa (amusiyiwa), OhmyNews,
2006-07-25 english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=5&no=293231&rel_no=6 [accessed 3 January 2011] She was a teenage orphan living on
the streets of True to his word, her
"savior" brought her into the 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 Parents need not be alone The Lancashire Telegraph, LET newsdesk,
21st July 2006 www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/845512.parents_need_not_be_alone/ [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 Help plea over child prostitution BBC News, 14 June 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5078454.stm [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 BBC News, 28 February 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4759072.stm [accessed 5 August 2011] 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' Gaby Hinsliff, political editor,
The Observer, 15 January 2006 www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/jan/15/ukcrime.children [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 17 Jan 2006 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 Paul Jeeves, www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Sextrade-children-flown-to-region.1249308.jp [accessed 4 January 2011] Global crime syndicates have begun
to use 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 – 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] 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 5 August 2011] [75] The Prostitute at only 11 Craig Thompson, The Evening Chronicle, Apr 5 2005 [accessed 5 August 2011] 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' Shane Glynn, BBC News, 20 September, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3674256.stm [accessed 5 August 2011] Children as young as 13 are being
used as prostitutes in Migration and Development: How to make migration work for
poverty reduction [PDF] House of Commons International Development Committee, First
Special Report of Session 2004–05, HC 163, 20 December 2004 www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmintdev/163/163.pdf [accessed 5 August 2011] [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 Alan Travis, home affairs editor, The Guardian, 19
November 2002 www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/nov/19/ukcrime.childprotection [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 Tracy McVeigh and Ben Cooper, The Observer, 15 September
2002 www.guardian.co.uk/society/2002/sep/15/childrensservices.crime [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 BBC News, 16 September, 2002 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2258180.stm [accessed 5 August 2011] Young boys and girls involved in
prostitution should be recognized as victims of child abuse, rather than
criminals, according to Barnardo's Ingrid Bazinet, South African
Press Association, Sapa-AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/uk-a-hub-for-european-child-prostitution-1.78006 [accessed 4 August 2011] Children groomed for sex trafficking Madeleine Brindley, WalesOnline, Nov 9 2004 [accessed 4 January 2011] Children in Child sex tourism One At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 September 2011] CHILD SEX TOURISM - Campaign To End Child
Prostitution BBC News, July 16, 1998 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/133325.stm [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 Newsweek Magazine, Nov 16, 2003 www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2003/11/16/preying-on-children.html [accessed 5 August 2011] Over pasta in a Runaway Children To Get Help BBC News, 22 March, 2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1235441.stm [accessed 4 August 2011] Every year 77,000 British children
under 16 run away from home for at least one night. Many flee physical or mental abuse at home,
and a quarter end up sleeping on the streets with some
surviving through begging, stealing, drug dealing and prostitution. The consultation report was
launched on Thursday by Tony Blair, who said it was important to find out why
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