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Joanna Vaughan, The Advertiser, June 24, 2007 www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/prostitutes-as-young-as-13/story-e6freo8c-1111113816895 [accessed 31 March 2011] Children as young as 13 are
working as prostitutes on Business owners in one notorious
spot, along Hanson Rd in the western suburbs, have told The Advertiser they
have seen girls aged 14 and less soliciting outside their shops. Police confirmed children are involved in
prostitution but would not specify their ages. They admit policing underage
prostitution in areas such as Hanson Rd is difficult. Organised State Child Prostitution and
Pornography in Hidden Mysteries, Conspiracy Archive www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/coverups/aussiechildabuse3.html [accessed 31 March 2011] “Further, I hold fears for the
safety of my immediate family, and in the event of their or my own death,
disappearance or any unforeseen accident/s, I wish to make it very clear that
we were involved as child-victims and witnesses of an elite, child-abusing
network which includes senior police officers who have threatened our lives
in several instances if we were to ever disclose our information to the media
or authorities.” Pedophilia led boy into prostitution, police say Geesche Jacobsen, The Sydney Morning
Herald, May 6, 2006 [accessed 31 March 2011] It was the month Arron Light turned 15 that he moved from Nowra to a youth refuge in Surry Hills. Within weeks the runaway teenager had met the man he later accused of sexually assaulting him. Police believe the alleged abuse ….. was the trigger that led the boy to sell his young body to middle-aged pedophiles. ***
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- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 30 March 2011] Here are the best phone numbers to
call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell anyone about your
call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or you are in
danger. They are open 24 Hours - it
doesn't matter what time you call In
Australia, call 1800 55 1800 Tomorrow’s Children - Department of Family and Community Services, ISBN 0 642
44906 6, Commonwealth of www.ecpat-esp.org/documentacion/planes-nacionales/Australia.pdf [accessed 31 March 2011] BACKGROUND - In What follows is a more detailed
examination of Australia’s efforts in the four key areas of child commercial
sexual exploitation: • Prostitution and sex for favours; • Pornography; • Trafficking; and • Sex tourism. ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - AUSTRALIA [PDF] ECPAT 2005 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/EAP/Global_Monitoring_Report-AUSTRALIA.pdf [accessed 30 March 2011] Although A significant number of indigenous
children, in particular, have been victimised by
sexual abuse as a result of inadequate policies for their protection, which
also makes them vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation. - sccp Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61601.htm [accessed 19 January 2011] CHILDREN - The Child Sex Tourism Act
prohibits child sex tourism and related offenses for the country's residents
and citizens overseas and provides for a maximum sentence of 17 years'
imprisonment upon conviction. During the 12-month period ending June 30, the
AFP began 24 investigations, and 4 persons were charged under the act. Of these,
one person pled guilty and was awaiting sentencing, two cases were before the
courts, and one case had not yet come to trial. During the year the
government continued its awareness campaign to deter child sex tourism,
through the distribution of materials to citizens and residents traveling
overseas. Child protection NGOs raised community awareness of child
trafficking. There were no reports of children being trafficked into the
country during the year. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, September 30,
2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/australia2005.html [accessed 19 January 2011] [65] While the Committee welcomes
the information that the State party is seriously considering the issue of
youth homelessness, including by means of the National Homelessness Strategy
and the “Reconnect” program, it wishes to express concern at the situation of
homeless children, who are also more likely to be affected by educational and
relational problems and are more exposed to substance abuse and sexual
exploitation. [67] While the Committee welcomes
some positive developments in the context of prevention of trafficking and
forced prostitution, such as the adoption of the National Plan of Action to
Eradicate Trafficking in Persons of October 2003 and the changes to the
Criminal Code in 2005 whereby, inter alia,
trafficking in persons and child pornography have been criminalized, the
Committee is concerned that Australia continues to be a destination country
for trafficked women and girls in the sex industry. Mum jailed for prostituting 16yo daughter Nick McLaren,
ABC News, Oct 19, 2010 www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/19/3042250.htm?section=justin
[accessed 31 March 2011] A mother on the She earned up to $4,000 per
week. The teenager's victim impact
statement said she felt betrayed by her mother and had a history of repeated
self-harm. She told the court she was
forced to participate in illegal drug use and found the work degrading. Teenager 'can't trust anyone' after mum sent her to work
in a brothel Amy Dale, The Daily Telegraph, October 08, 2010 [accessed 31 March 2011] A teenage girl says she is
"heartbroken" by the actions of her mother, who helped her get work
at a brothel so they could earn enough money to start a clothing business. The girl, then 16, was put on a
train from In a victim impact statement
tendered to the Wollongong District Court, the girl said: "It has made
me scared, honestly, scared that if my own mother can betray my trust to this
extent, what will other people do to me?" Parents sold daughter for sex The Courier-Mail, May 15, 2008 www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/parents-sold-child-into-prostitution/story-e6frf7l6-1111116348291 [accessed 31 March 2011] In what was described as the
"most horrific case of child prostitution in Australian history'', the
girl's mother was jailed for 13 years and her father for 10 years. The mother faced that charge
because she had posed the child for advertising photographs used on the
internet and had also aided in the rape of the girl by another man. The father had helped pose the child for
the photographs and had lived off her earnings. The court heard the girl was aged 12 and 13
years at the time she had sex with various men during an eight months period
in 2004. Police 'knew about' teen sex trade in NT news.theage.com.au/national/police-knew-about-teen-sex-trade-in-nt-20080404-23nc.html [accessed 31 March 2011] Trading young Aboriginal girls for
sex has been happening for at least 15 years in a Non-Aboriginal people working
there are believed to be exchanging cash, drugs, taxi rides and alcohol for
sex with teenagers, some as young as 13.
Indigenous leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu said the sex trade had been operating for the
past 15 years and at least 12 girls were currently engaged in the trade. "Everybody here knows what has been
going on Mullighan report reveals decades of state
care sex abuse Colin James, Legal Affairs Editor from: The Advertiser
April 01, 2008 www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/shocking-sex-abuse-revealed/story-e6frea83-1111115941363 [accessed 31 March 2011] The
horrific extent of sex abuse against children in state care over four decades
has been revealed in the 600-page report of the Mullighan
inquiry to State Parliament. Retired Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan, QC, yesterday issued a stark warning that
children in state care would remain vulnerable to sex abuse unless urgent
action was taken to overhaul a system in crisis. His $13.5 million inquiry
considered hundreds of allegations of widespread child abuse within
government and non-government institutions, spanning 40 years. Trucking group horrified at sex claims Australian Associated Press AAP, March 14, 2008 news.theage.com.au/national/trucking-group-horrified-at-sex-claims-20080314-1zbf.html [accessed 31 March 2011] The trucking industry says it is horrified
by allegations drivers have been involved in child sex trade along highways
in northern NSW. Truck drivers have
reportedly paid for sex with indigenous girls as young as eight in the NSW
north-western towns of Boggabilla and Moree. In some
cases, the girls have been drugged and raped, ABC TV reported. There have been no prosecutions because the
girls refuse to testify, people aware of the cases said. Indigenous children beg police for help Tanya Chilcott, The
Courier-Mail, December 20, 2007 www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/indigenous-kids-cry-for-help/story-e6freoof-1111115169804 [accessed 30 March 2011] The details of the way some They tell of a litany of abuse and
neglect at the most basic levels – from rape and malnutrition to homelessness
and child prostitution. "In addition, the review team
was told that children as young as nine years of age are sexually active. It
was alleged that girls less than 16 years of age are soliciting men for sex
in return for money, alcohol and marijuana." Child prostitution a sign of earlier abuse, expert says Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC News, Dec 11, 2007 www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/11/2115393.htm?section=justin [accessed 31 March 2011] A mental health expert says
instances of child prostitution, like those discovered in Broome in
north-west "Neglect or child sexual
abuse in early childhood increases the risk that children will get involved
in prostitution and various other problems like addiction." Broome men charged over child prostitution ring Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC News, Dec 7, 2007 www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/07/2113149.htm?section=justin [accessed 31 March 2011] Police believe they have uncovered
a child prostitution ring in the Australian runaway became 'sexual slave' United Press International UPI, Sydney, Nov. 3, 2007 www.upi.com/Top_News/2007/11/03/Australian-runaway-became-sexual-slave/UPI-73761194125728/ [accessed 31 March 2011] An Australian teenager who ran
away from home eventually found herself in prostitution as "a sort of
sexual slave," a judge said.
Judge Michael Finnane said that shortly
after leaving home because of a fight with her mother, the unidentified girl
met 24-year-old Antonio Salvatore who convinced her to become a prostitute,
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Saturday.
"She was working for him, making nothing. She was in reality a
sort of sexual slave," the judge said. Prostitution: Legal Work or Slavery? - A Failed Attempt at
Defending Women’s Dignity Father John Flynn, L.C., Zenit, www.zenit.org/article-20747?l=english [accessed 31 March 2011] VICTORIAN FAILURE - Countries debating whether or
not to legalize prostitution could learn from what occurred in the Australian
state of INTRINSIC VIOLENCE - The legalization of
prostitution in Victoria has not done anything to reduce illegal sex
trafficking, Sullivan argues. In addition, since legalization, child
prostitution continues to be a problem. Aborigines may ban tourists from Ayers Rock The Associated Press AP, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19431054/ [accessed 31 March 2011] One of the first townships to be
subject to the plan is Mutitjulu, in the shadow of
Ayers Rock, or Uluru, the red monolith in the
central Australian desert that draws some 500,000 visitors a year. Media
reports last year of child prostitution and of children trading sex for
gasoline to sniff prompted the recent government inquiry. Prostitutes as young as 13 Bryan Littlely, Sam Riches,
Joanna Vaughan, The Advertiser, June 24, 2007 www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/prostitutes-as-young-as-13/story-e6freo8c-1111113816895 [accessed 31 March 2011] Children as young as 13 are
working as prostitutes on Business owners in one notorious
spot, along Hanson Rd in the western suburbs, have told The Advertiser they
have seen girls aged 14 and less soliciting outside their shops. Police confirmed children are involved in prostitution
but would not specify their ages. They admit policing underage prostitution
in areas such as Hanson Rd is difficult. Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC News, May 1, 2007 abc.com.au/news/stories/2007/05/01/1910983.htm?site=news [accessed 31 March 2011] Authorities say they are yet to
receive any specific allegations about child prostitution in Police say there have been rumours about child prostitution in Griffith for more
than a year, but they need more information from the public. Sex for smokes claims - Underage
prostitution is rife in Brydie Flynn, Riverina
Media Group, 30/04/2007 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] Another source told The Area News
the child prostitution racket had been operating in the city for nearly 20
years. “This is extremely widespread
and the girls are as young as 11 or 12,” she said. “There are a number of
motels and caravans around town which they use and it is extremely organised. “The
girls are paid in either drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, jewellery
or food … it changes each week. It’s a bigger problem than anyone realises.” Even
the police admit there’s a problem, however they have been unable to make any
progress on the case due to an absence of formal complaints. 300 street kids at risk of abuse Craig Bildstien, The Advertiser,
February 14, 2007 www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/street-kids-at-risk-of-abuse/story-e6freo8c-1111112999686 [accessed 30 March 2011] At least
300 street children in Pedophilia led boy into prostitution, police say Geesche Jacobsen, The Sydney Morning
Herald, May 6, 2006 [accessed 31 March 2011] It was the month Arron Light turned 15 that he moved from Nowra to a youth refuge in Surry Hills. Within weeks the
runaway teenager had met the man he later accused of sexually assaulting
him. Police believe the alleged abuse
….. was the trigger that led the boy to sell his young body to middle-aged
pedophiles. Roberts to testify at inquest Australian Associated Press AAP, May 1, 2006 www.smh.com.au/news/national/roberst-to-testify-at-inquest/2006/05/01/1146335658577.html [accessed 31 March 2011] Former rugby league star Ian
Roberts will give evidence at an inquest into the death of a troubled Shame Of Children For David Murray, The Sunday Mail, 12 February 2006 www.scarletalliance.org.au/nm/australia/qld/Document.2006-04-05.2422/ [accessed 13 September 2011] Children are selling sex for as
little as $5 on Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report on
implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – The Mayhem of Prostitution Reform Bill ishaknatan.netfirms.com/prostitution_Bill.html [accessed 31 March 2011] MYTH #4
DECRIMINALISATION WILL REDUCE CHILD PROSTITUTION FACT:
CHILD PROSTITUTION INCREASES IN A DECRIMINALIZED ENVIRONMENT - In Australia over 3700 children
under 18 are selling their bodies for sex.
Child prostitution on rise in Reuters, www.safoundation.com/educational_resources/a_global_perspective/australia [accessed 31 March 2011] Child prostitution is on the rise
in Alleged Trafficking of Asian Sex
Workers in Roberta Perkins, Senior Research Officer, [accessed 31 March 2011] Child Prostitution
Anti-prostitution lobbyists such as ECPAT deliberately link the highly
emotive issue of "child" prostitution to their anti- trafficking
campaign because they know that it will create sympathy in all well-meaning
people. While a full discussion of
this complex issue is outside of the scope of this paper, our research and
experience in the sex industry in Children 'Handed Over To Sex Ring' Jeremy Roberts, The Australian, 24-5-2005 www.mako.org.au/ausnews391.html [accessed 19 January 2011] "The picture is painted of
young girls and boys who were frightened, unable to protect themselves and
make disclosure and who were abandoned by their carers
[care givers]," says the report by Ted Mullighan,
the commissioner of the inquiry into the sex abuse of state wards. The report finds that young boys from Organised State Child Prostitution and
Pornography in Hidden Mysteries, Conspiracy Archive www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/coverups/aussiechildabuse3.html [accessed 31 March 2011] “Further, I hold fears for the
safety of my immediate family, and in the event of their or my own death, disappearance
or any unforeseen accident/s, I wish to make it very clear that we were
involved as child-victims and witnesses of an elite, child-abusing network
which includes senior police officers who have threatened our lives in
several instances if we were to ever disclose our information to the media or
authorities.” No. 156 Child Sex Tourism [PDF] Fiona David, Australian Institute
Of Criminology, Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal justice, June 2000,
ISSN 0817-8542, ISBN 0 642 24163 5 www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Child_Sex_Tourism_Australia.pdf [accessed 31 March 2011] CONCLUSION - It is not known whether the
child sex tourism legislation has any real deterrent effect on Australians
determined to have sex with children overseas. It may be that these people
are simply more careful in their activities as a result of the laws. The
success of the child sex tourism legislation is, however, demonstrated by the
fact that there have been several success-full prosecutions for sexual
offences committed against children overseas that would previously have been
beyond the reach of Australian law. Rather than being a “paper tiger” as
predicted, the legislation has resulted in a number of substantial
convictions for offences committed by Australians over-seas. All material used herein
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